Back to lurker status

Been a while so I thought I better check my post count before the server quietly put me out of my misery for being a non-active user

Happy Holidays everyone

(p.s. don't think I'm not watching your post count Inspector, 888 today, impressive)

seems like alot of people have gone back to just lurking, not me, i live my life threw the internet in the winter. winter fooking sucks. glad to see you are still here

I don't understand.. why are you guys lurking? knee surgery or something?? I've been riding a lot..

n16ht5 wrote:

I don't understand.. why are you guys lurking? knee surgery or something?? I've been riding a lot..

Mind you, I'm not complaining

But its a bit of a challenge to take the DualSport for a spin through the woods when the woods are minus 11 degrees on Turkey day

Winter doesn't start until December 21st and I've already got over twenty inches of settled hardpack due to the nice freezing rain storm last week


Had a doug fir unload onto my favorite tinkering shed, somewhere under the collapsed structure is my trusty 1985 Craftsman II lawn tractor and snow thrower. It'll be spring before I want to deal with it.

n16ht5 wrote:

I don't understand.. why are you guys lurking? knee surgery or something?? I've been riding a lot..

ahh POO ! its cold and my balls look small enough with out sitting on a frozen seat.

just to squirlly on the roads around here to go out and ride. i hit snow as soon as i open my door ! wish i could just load up and go over to the wet side on the weekends.

bummer about the tree though...

when it snows on the road here I just put screws in my tires. wimps

n16ht5 wrote:

when it snows on the road here I just put screws in my tires. wimps

can you tell i am flipping you off !

We had a few weeks of heavy, wet nasty, slush filled snow. It kicked my butt but now the temps are back down into dry dusty snow.

Your post made me go out to the garage to see if my bike was still there, it is... In all her North Fork dusty glory, right where I left it last time I rode. I guess a hot bath, oil, filter and valve adjustment will keep me busy into January.

Funny thing if I dig it out, I'd bet a buck she'd fire on kick two or three after sitting for the past two months. I've been tempted to put sheet metal screws in what's left of my tires and go chase the snow-sleds up the street! That'd be a fun way to neener neener some of the local yippies.

Hard to believe my bike is going to be ten years old this year and I've had her for four. By the way, the suburu is still running like a champ after all the initial timing belt/water pump stuff I did. I had replaced the right front CV when I got it, ended up doing the front left too.

Have a good week

griz

n16ht5 wrote:

bummer about the tree though...

when it snows on the road here I just put screws in my tires. wimps

Dang, I thought I felt a little hot air blowing through while I made my post.... LOL

GRIZZ is that a geo metro ! bought a 96 metro for $300.00 as a comuter in 2005. it only had like 90k on it. in 2008 i gave it to my brother in law in spokane and he drove it till this year, then he gave it back to a guy here in wenatchee. that thing was the funnest POS ever to drive. got like 35 mpg, and drifted around corrners in the winter time. if it wasnt for the wife holding me at gun point, i never would have gotten rid of it. it was like three diffrent colors and every panel was dented. it was a repo and the original owner dented every pannel on it before the bank came and got it. they are rattle cans but they have there place in this world !

Yup that's the infamous "Geo-mobile"

I've owned it since new in late 1994. Last year I've had some issues with it and that's why I bought that Suburu last year. Well, partly because my daughter needed a simple, reliable car and partly out of not knowing how much longer the Geo would last.

Original owner, 160,000 miles, still gets 45 mpg. Two winters ago it blew the cam seal out on the timing belt side. When I replaced the seal I put everything back together about two or three belt teeth off. Ended up pushing the distributor all the way over just to get it to run half way decent. I didn't put a timing light on it, just kept giving her throttle on/off and turning the distributor until I found a sweet spot. I'm pretty sure the timing is so retarded is why I've got no power right now (as if those three little cylinders make anything).

Drove it like that for a year but seemed to run out of oil over the course of a month, so I never got around to fixing the timing belt and putting a new ECR and SCR into it. I've read in several places it can pump oil into the air filter box at a rate of one quart a week. Not enough to run really bad, but enough to run it out of oil in a month.

I just havn't had the heart to fix it because it would mean I would be the family member getting stuck driving the little POS!

Once I get my new job settled in, I hope to go through it and get it back on the road. My current commute is exactly five miles so I think I can handle driving it that far whether it runs good or not.

• abused, four wheel trailed it from Forest Hill Ca. to Soda Springs Ca. before they fixed the road in spring.
  

• one alternator after I cross connected a 1965 Cadillac and caught the cables on fire. Melted the alternator in the Cadi and the Geo was smart enough to turn itself off

• water pump

• clutch

• a whole bunch of tires

• a set of brakes

yada yada yada

Fifteen years and 160,000 miles at 45mph - Priceless!

ha ha , mine was the high out put 4 cylinder (automatic). they even had a option for high out put spark plugs from the factory ! yea i put them in.

n16ht5 wrote:

I don't understand.. why are you guys lurking? knee surgery or something?? I've been riding a lot..

actually ya i just had knee surgery.

My daily driver is a 93 Suzuki Swift which is basically a Metro with the 1.3L 4 cylinder 5 speed. A tin can on a skate board but it gets 40 mpg city and 50 highway, better than my old Goldwing, and it has a heater! Easy to work on and drives like a go-kart. Not only does it fit my cheap ass life style but it's a real chick magnet.

Shane wrote:

ha ha , mine was the high out put 4 cylinder (automatic). they even had a option for high out put spark plugs from the factory ! yea i put them in.

hugemoth wrote:

My daily driver is a 93 Suzuki Swift which is basically a Metro with the 1.3L 4 cylinder 5 speed. A tin can on a skate board but it gets 40 mpg city and 50 highway, better than my old Goldwing, and it has a heater! Easy to work on and drives like a go-kart. Not only does it fit my cheap ass life style but it's a real chick magnet.

Shane wrote:

ha ha , mine was the high out put 4 cylinder (automatic). they even had a option for high out put spark plugs from the factory ! yea i put them in.

"chick magnet"

he he, must be getting tired.

Romantically Apocalyptic

good night...