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In, traveled a couple hours north to the mountains near Riggins, too hot to car camp in Boise, plus its Boise sooo, nine more days till my job starts, wish I could some side work to keep my mind busy but there's been **** all for the past week.
 
figured out what the ****ing sticker plants in my yard are

****ing "burdock"
been hitting it with glyphosate and 2,4d and it seems to work pretty good
just seeing now that you gotta reapply it pretty much continuous for a few years because the seeds are in the dirt and waiting to come back
 
Fishbone333 said:
In. Sitting on the couch surfin. Going to buy a yamaha roadstar tomorrow, pretty ****ing stoked to get back on a bike after 20 yrs. Last bike I rode was a gs550. The road star is a 1700.:smokin:
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I’ve been debating picking up a street bike again. It’s been about 20 years for me too. My last bike was a 650 Kawasaki. If we get our house sold and move to a place on a highway I’ll probably pull the trigger and get one.
 
Tin Roof said:
I’ve been debating picking up a street bike again. It’s been about 20 years for me too. My last bike was a 650 Kawasaki. If we get our house sold and move to a place on a highway I’ll probably pull the trigger and get one.
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650 is such a great size. Fast enough to get around, but not stupid where you're in second gear all day.
 
[486] said:
figured out what the ****ing sticker plants in my yard are

****ing "burdock"
been hitting it with glyphosate and 2,4d and it seems to work pretty good
just seeing now that you gotta reapply it pretty much continuous for a few years because the seeds are in the dirt and waiting to come back
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That **** is relentless. The 2,4d is probably doing the most for you. There’s something my neighbor uses on multiflora rose that works really good. If I can find the label he gave me I’ll let you know what it is.
 
[486] said:
figured out what the ****ing sticker plants in my yard are

****ing "burdock"
been hitting it with glyphosate and 2,4d and it seems to work pretty good
just seeing now that you gotta reapply it pretty much continuous for a few years because the seeds are in the dirt and waiting to come back
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Find a pre-emerge that will work for it. Spray it when stuff starts to green up in the spring/summer but before it emerges.
 
[486] said:
figured out what the ****ing sticker plants in my yard are

****ing "burdock"
been hitting it with glyphosate and 2,4d and it seems to work pretty good
just seeing now that you gotta reapply it pretty much continuous for a few years because the seeds are in the dirt and waiting to come back
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This is what my neighbor uses.
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woods said:
650 is such a great size. Fast enough to get around, but not stupid where you're in second gear all day.
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It was a great cruising bike. The only thing I didn’t like was dealing with the multiple carbs. I put a lot of miles on it.
 
picloram seems a little... high-test for right next to my sand point well

I'll just keep on hitting it with the stuff I got
 
In, but I earned it

Mrs went up to Oregon to hangout with her dad for the weekend. This would have been her mom’s birthday weekend, but cancer had other plans two years ago :flipoff:

I got up right after Mrs left (I usually sleep in a little on Friday). Instead of my usual supply run to town, I decided today was the day I finished the inner gate project. I’ve been working on it for what felt like years due to “life” happening. I drug the generator down to the work site, then loaded up everything else in the truck. Finished up the welding when it was still cool, and the breeze was blowing away from the field of dry grass. (Welding blankets were deployed too)

I’ll run to town tomorrow morning to pick up a few things. Then I’ll fill in some gaps the man eater could fit through before the old gate comes out. I already have a spot picked out for it’s new home, but that’s for a later day.

Now… I’m hanging on the couch with Elliot. I pounded a couple beers when I finally came in the house, looking at switching to rum&coke. Food needs to be a priority at the moment.


Air quality SUCKED today 😝
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Came home from work and tried to figure out why my dirtbike is running like ****. Carb is clean, fresh plug, old one was sooty, so it was rich. Cleaned and dried air filter...still pops and farts, doesn't want to idle until the screw is about 1 5/8 turns out, and if I half choke it, idle goes to the moon, but full choke kills it. I'll buy more carb clean tomorrow and go at it again I guess.
 
Roc Doc said:
:beer:

I've got a 2015 EcoDiesel with 146k on it and I've been meticulous about the maintenance, all done at the dealer with FCA parts and that gucci oil it requires and it's been flawless other than an o-ring on the WP housing. Would like to have a travel van but finding one like you describe with all the service records might be near impossible.
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If you don't mind a Class B RV for a travel van, you will probably find an old person selling their low mile "Vista Cruiser" or Airstream on the T1N chassis, likely in the $40-60k range, with all dealer service records. IN that case, forget the above and just change everything on the list, sans injectors. All the rubber and plastic will fail in short order. The add a turbo resonator delete pipe to rid yourself of that possibility, too. Keep in mine that the model year range will be one year higher (05-07) for the best vans with the OM647. The earlier ones have the OM612, and its fuel system and diagnostics leave plenty to be desired from a maintenance standpoint (harder to diagnose, much harder to perform certain maintenance tasks).
 
Squamch said:
Came home from work and tried to figure out why my dirtbike is running like ****. Carb is clean, fresh plug, old one was sooty, so it was rich. Cleaned and dried air filter...still pops and farts, doesn't want to idle until the screw is about 1 5/8 turns out, and if I half choke it, idle goes to the moon, but full choke kills it. I'll buy more carb clean tomorrow and go at it again I guess.
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Yamaha?

Check the diaphragm in the carb. Weird **** happens when they start to disintegrate
 
Squamch said:
Came home from work and tried to figure out why my dirtbike is running like ****. Carb is clean, fresh plug, old one was sooty, so it was rich. Cleaned and dried air filter...still pops and farts, doesn't want to idle until the screw is about 1 5/8 turns out, and if I half choke it, idle goes to the moon, but full choke kills it. I'll buy more carb clean tomorrow and go at it again I guess.
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Sounds like when my Warrior 350s stator went bad. Ebay 45 bucks boom good to go. I did troubleshoot using a service manuals steps to determine it was the most likely cause.
 
Squamch said:
Yes. Bw200. Because old, weird, and broken are my weaknesses. Carb was rebuilt 2 rides ago. First ride was fine and dandy. Second one it became a ****.
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You lucky bastard. I almost scored a covid bw200 from a local guy for $1k and he got cold feet and bailed at the last minute.
 
Harry Johnson said:
You lucky bastard. I almost scored a covid bw200 from a local guy for $1k and he got cold feet and bailed at the last minute.
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Long story ahead!

I was a motorcycle obsessed kid. From age 4 onward, every Christmas, I asked for a minibike. Finally got one when I was 8, and I rode it around the neighbourhood NON STOP.
I dressed up several years in a row as a "heck's angel" for Halloween, mum made me a proper Levi's cut with a 3 piece patch and everything.

Our neighbour across the road ran a program for at risk youth, where they took kids out and showed them how awesome stealing dirtbike...I mean, riding dirtbikes is.
He would park a flatbed trailer with bikes from z50s up to a pair of BW200s, and everything in between on it, on the road in front of his house before a ride day. You can imagine the effect this would have on me, at 5 years old...1991.
Eventually, the program ended, and all the bikes went back to the manufacturers who had donated them...except the 2 bw200s. Yamaha Canada didn't have records of them going out, and didn't want them back.
So they got stuffed into his shed, and sat there.
When he moved away, he called my dad, and asked if he wanted one. I was...9, maybe 10? I walked down the road to pick it up with him, and we picked the one that still had a chain.
He pumped up the tires, put fresh gas in it, and that was that. He had a tank of a hunting bike. Then his knees got really bad, and his back...and it sat in our shed.
My friends and I would occasionally get it out and try to get it running on the old stale gas, and then give up and push it back to the shed.
My parents sold that house, and, he dragged it along. I asked him one day if I could tinker with it and get it going again, and he agreed. That was the spring of 2018.
I brought it home, got a NOS carb from ebay, and got it running.
Our son was about 8 months in these pics...
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He is also motorcycle obsessed now, at almost 4.
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So anyway...thats the story on it. I left out pushing it 12km with a flat rear tire, breaking the Kickstart lever off...smashing my face with a shotgun barrel, and finding out that it will float on 2' of snow...until I spin the rear tire and find myself extra turbo super stuck.
I lusted over it for over 25 years...and now it's in my shed!
 
woods said:
That looks like an absolute **** show. :laughing:

I'm in. Playing a little bit of Guild Wars 2. Wife says she's going to take the kid kayaking tomorrow so I can go for a motorcycle ride. So I'll be cruising New England on the street bike. That'll be nice.
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It was.

The donor engine looked like it came out of a van that was parked in the ocean due to the amount of rust on everything. I convinced the guy to let me order a complete cooling system kit for it before I installed the replacement engine. I saw the MOPAR reman tag on the turbo, so didn't even check into that further... well, it failed the first test drive because it couldn't build any boost. After further diagnosis, I discovered the turbo actuator linkage (wastegate controller) was completely seized at its two end links, so I had to carefully get the top one broken free in order to remove the entire actuator assembly from below the van and get the other end broken free in my bench vise. I took it for a final test-drive at 9:30 last night, where it ran like a raped ape.

The owner is coming by between 9-10 this morning to give me a stack of cash and drive his van for the first time in 15 months.:smokin:
 
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