(09-14/21/28-23)
Welcome to the Event Page ... our New England ThumperCafe #61 is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Hope YOU can be at Tozier's Restaurant in Bethel, VT. for our 11AM lunch! If YOU plan to be there, text 620-663-1869, our club phone, and confirm your plans to attend ... that way, should any last minute changes occur, IF we have your phone number, we will attempt to update you with said changes.
Wear a big smile and your FSSNOC club shirt so we can spot you in the crowd ... arrive by any conveyance convenient for you. - #000
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(from last week's photo) SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS PHOTOGRAPH MR. JIGGS, #5466, DOING THE HERKY-JERKY WHILE LISTENING THROUGH HIS EAR BUDS ... local store owner declines to press charges. Last seen, Mr. Jiggs was riding his trusty Honda Dominator 650 Single, #88, toward the eastern horizon, ear buds intact...
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NEW ENGLAND, here we come, and I'm hoping that you will be there, too!
But first, we have to get ready ... it begins now!
This is tire #3 that we mounted in my shed last night and then again late this afternoon. As you can see, Woodrow (from our traveling road show, the Lonesome Dove look-alike scenario ...Jay Stade, #5420-ThumperVille) is working up a sweat and loving it!
When I showed this photo to Carrie, she said, "Ohhhh, that is so CUTE!"
Earlier in the day, we had a run to Smitty's in Kingman for a hamburger and onion rings ... wow, so nice, in the 80s, no wind, sunny with shade aplenty to cover our outside eating tables, a steady stream of traffic going by on their way to who knows where, trucks, cars, motorcycles, even a bicycle or two ... it's like a free road show ... we arrived from all directions, about 11:30 TT time (t able t ime) - didn't leave until 2:00PM - I bet I drank 5 tall cups of sweet tea ... whatta day, and to top it off, got to ride the Royal Enfield 350 classic for an 81 mile lunch loop. Got home just in time to welcome Woodrow and the "work" began in the shed.
The tire you see on the work area is from Jay's 2018 KLR650, the one we call "Chuck" or "Chuckwagon" or "Chuck the Food Truck" 'cause it's a 3/4 ton and Jay is a big lad, so he gets to carry the food ... the benefit is that we never try to lose him!.
The other two tires were on and for my own KLR650 model "s", a 2023 model, now with a bit over 5000 miles ... the rear tire is toast!
I purchased a set of adventure-type (80% road-20% dirt) tires from Bridgerock, had to hock the farm to pay for them (!), but they are really nice looking and they were a struggle to install. The extra miles that they are said to run is likely the result of a stiffer sidewall thereby not flexing as much as a regular tire, thus giving a lower running temperature and longer tread life due to less heat in the tire (whew - make sense?)
Oh yeah, they, the ones I got, are called AT41 - AX41 is the "more off-road" version, and lastly, the A41 is a 90%-10% ratio tire ... I was torn on how to balance them, my options being beads or spin balance at a dealership somewhere ... what I did was use a T-handle long screwdriver, run it through the axle hole, then I supported the tire on top of two car jacks ... and gave it a spin (talking of the front one now), sure enough, it stopped with the valve stem at the bottom, even had to reverse the rotation direction a bit to get the heavy spot down, which makes sense, eh?
I drug out a plastic bags of 40 years of saving weights, picked out a couple of small ones, put one opposite the stem ... and rotated the tire. It stopped at a different spot but still reversed itself to arrive there, I added the second weight, picking a spoke kinda opposite the other now two ... spun it again. It stopped a third place, I'm marking each spot with chalk as we go. Another spin, another spot, no reverse this time. Hmmmmm...
Three more spins, total of five, never stopped the same spot and did not reverse ... AM I GOOD TO GO?
IS THE TIRE BALANCED? I've yet to ride it so still an unknown factor, do you have a view? They, both front and rear, stayed up all night, unlike me, I was pooped!
UPDATE: YES! IT READ " O " ON THE ELECTRONIC SPIN BALANCER ... WWOOWW!!
Anyway, a fun day, hope you had twice as much fun! See you up the road, if you have tire balancing knowledge or wisdom to impart, please do so at: FSSNOCthumpers@yahoo.com
See the update from last week for details of the upcoming ThumperCafe in New England ... if YOU are coming, let US know so we can know how many chairs we need at our meal ... Meet-Greet-Eat, it's what we do and we been doing it for 37 years. I hope you've been to them all, or some, or at least one or two ... you can't go wrong with good food and good company, can ya?
All for now, see you here next week and bring a friend, okay? Thump On! --- Jack, #000
************************************************************************ HOPE TO SEE YOU IN OCTOBER! - #000
Welcome to the Event Page ... our New England ThumperCafe #61 is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Hope YOU can be at Tozier's Restaurant in Bethel, VT. for our 11AM lunch! If YOU plan to be there, text 620-663-1869, our club phone, and confirm your plans to attend ... that way, should any last minute changes occur, IF we have your phone number, we will attempt to update you with said changes.
Wear a big smile and your FSSNOC club shirt so we can spot you in the crowd ... arrive by any conveyance convenient for you. - #000
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(from last week's photo) SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS PHOTOGRAPH MR. JIGGS, #5466, DOING THE HERKY-JERKY WHILE LISTENING THROUGH HIS EAR BUDS ... local store owner declines to press charges. Last seen, Mr. Jiggs was riding his trusty Honda Dominator 650 Single, #88, toward the eastern horizon, ear buds intact...
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NEW ENGLAND, here we come, and I'm hoping that you will be there, too!
But first, we have to get ready ... it begins now!
This is tire #3 that we mounted in my shed last night and then again late this afternoon. As you can see, Woodrow (from our traveling road show, the Lonesome Dove look-alike scenario ...Jay Stade, #5420-ThumperVille) is working up a sweat and loving it!
When I showed this photo to Carrie, she said, "Ohhhh, that is so CUTE!"
Earlier in the day, we had a run to Smitty's in Kingman for a hamburger and onion rings ... wow, so nice, in the 80s, no wind, sunny with shade aplenty to cover our outside eating tables, a steady stream of traffic going by on their way to who knows where, trucks, cars, motorcycles, even a bicycle or two ... it's like a free road show ... we arrived from all directions, about 11:30 TT time (t able t ime) - didn't leave until 2:00PM - I bet I drank 5 tall cups of sweet tea ... whatta day, and to top it off, got to ride the Royal Enfield 350 classic for an 81 mile lunch loop. Got home just in time to welcome Woodrow and the "work" began in the shed.
The tire you see on the work area is from Jay's 2018 KLR650, the one we call "Chuck" or "Chuckwagon" or "Chuck the Food Truck" 'cause it's a 3/4 ton and Jay is a big lad, so he gets to carry the food ... the benefit is that we never try to lose him!.
The other two tires were on and for my own KLR650 model "s", a 2023 model, now with a bit over 5000 miles ... the rear tire is toast!
I purchased a set of adventure-type (80% road-20% dirt) tires from Bridgerock, had to hock the farm to pay for them (!), but they are really nice looking and they were a struggle to install. The extra miles that they are said to run is likely the result of a stiffer sidewall thereby not flexing as much as a regular tire, thus giving a lower running temperature and longer tread life due to less heat in the tire (whew - make sense?)
Oh yeah, they, the ones I got, are called AT41 - AX41 is the "more off-road" version, and lastly, the A41 is a 90%-10% ratio tire ... I was torn on how to balance them, my options being beads or spin balance at a dealership somewhere ... what I did was use a T-handle long screwdriver, run it through the axle hole, then I supported the tire on top of two car jacks ... and gave it a spin (talking of the front one now), sure enough, it stopped with the valve stem at the bottom, even had to reverse the rotation direction a bit to get the heavy spot down, which makes sense, eh?
I drug out a plastic bags of 40 years of saving weights, picked out a couple of small ones, put one opposite the stem ... and rotated the tire. It stopped at a different spot but still reversed itself to arrive there, I added the second weight, picking a spoke kinda opposite the other now two ... spun it again. It stopped a third place, I'm marking each spot with chalk as we go. Another spin, another spot, no reverse this time. Hmmmmm...
Three more spins, total of five, never stopped the same spot and did not reverse ... AM I GOOD TO GO?
IS THE TIRE BALANCED? I've yet to ride it so still an unknown factor, do you have a view? They, both front and rear, stayed up all night, unlike me, I was pooped!
UPDATE: YES! IT READ " O " ON THE ELECTRONIC SPIN BALANCER ... WWOOWW!!
Anyway, a fun day, hope you had twice as much fun! See you up the road, if you have tire balancing knowledge or wisdom to impart, please do so at: FSSNOCthumpers@yahoo.com
See the update from last week for details of the upcoming ThumperCafe in New England ... if YOU are coming, let US know so we can know how many chairs we need at our meal ... Meet-Greet-Eat, it's what we do and we been doing it for 37 years. I hope you've been to them all, or some, or at least one or two ... you can't go wrong with good food and good company, can ya?
All for now, see you here next week and bring a friend, okay? Thump On! --- Jack, #000
************************************************************************ HOPE TO SEE YOU IN OCTOBER! - #000