[dsn_klr650] digest number 272

[Sarah Barwig]

Hey Gino, Don't know about where you live, but here in SoCal, it's been so warm of late that my KLR keeps leaving little "hoofprints" in the blacktop as the bike settles in during mid-afternoon heat. I move it every afternoon so it doesn't settle so deep in that it tips over. But I'm pretty much scar-ifying the lot. You could point out to the CFO that it's cheaper for him to tell the CIO to park with the rest of the cattle in the regular lot, rather than having to repave the lot every year as unshaded motorcycle "hoofprints" take their toll... Or perhaps he can provide the motorcycles with even better cement parking... ---o&>o--- Sarah Barwig sarah@...

[k650dsn@aol.com]

In a message dated Tue, 20 Jun 2000 5:43:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Sarah Barwig writes: o--- Sarah Barwig sarah@...

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The current motorcycle parking area has these nice long metal strips so the side stands don't press in. They are going to pull them up and stripe the area so three more cars (all executive types) can park there, nice and close to the building. There seem to be no plans to re-install the strips anywhere. I've already started a campaign to get a motorcycle only location established someplace. I left notes on the other bikes in the parking lot directing constrcutive e-mails and visits to the building managers. Gino

[racing43rd@aol.com]

Sarah I always carry a small (4" by 6") piece of 1/4" plywood, works a treat at keeping the kickstand from digging in in hot weather. Ed Windsor Oh

[David Pumphrey]

One of my brothers did this to another of my brothers when "dressing" his car during his wedding. You run down to your local gourmet grocery store and pick a piece of limburger cheese, the kind that comes in a little wax covered triangle. Then you just pop the hood (in your situation this would require a "stealth" approach) and set the cheese on the manifold cover. Close the hood go inside and bask in the glow that comes with being an agent of Karma. After the engines starts and the CIO heads down the road the engine warms and the wax begins to melt, the cheese them begins to melt and Karma comes home to roost. The aroma gently wafts through the heating/air conditioner ducts. (my just married brother was driving to the East Coast from the Mid-West for his honeymoon, and the entire way was accompanied by the limburger smell which also got into all of their luggage and clothes, it has been about ten years and he still gets very pissed when we laugh about it on the holidays). By the time the CIO/jerk has a clue and pops the hood the evidence can never be traced to you as it has run down into every possible nook and cranny and baked in there. The overall smell kind of goes away after a few weeks, but whenever the car gets warmed up it comes back. Nothing, and I mean nothing will get rid of the smell, sorta like stinky wet feet/dirty diaper/old shoes/nursing home smell. Even steam cleaning the engine and the upholstery did not get the smell out of my brothers car, which he eventually sold after letting the buyer take only a very short test drive on a cold day with a cold engine. dave pumphrey p.s. as you may have guessed my family (three brothers and one sister) have a few stories to tell. p.s.s. can anyone recommend a good therapist?

[Rev. Chuck]

>One of my brothers did this to another of my brothers when "dressing" his car >during his wedding. You run down to your local gourmet grocery store and pick a >piece of limburger cheese, the kind that comes in a little wax covered >triangle. Then you just pop the hood (in your situation this would require a >"stealth" approach) and set the cheese on the manifold cover...

My youth days allowed me to be a little pain in the A$$. My wedding *present* was a bottle of, um... yellow hospital specimen... pee, in the heater intake vent, at the base of the windshield, back of the hood. I almost told him that I did it. 25 years and he still doesn't know it was me. --- Rev. Chuck :^)>+ A13 http://klr650.50megs.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Send FREE Greetings for Father's Day--or any day! Click here: http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/redirects/fathers_day.rdct

[Skip Faulkner]

> what i always do in these situation (or any other parking impoliteness) is > leave a note on the car that says "sorry about the scratch (or dent), but > you're not parked legally" , or something to that effect. of course i

never

> actually damage the person's car, but i hope it makes him worry enough

about

> it to look frantically at every corner of the car and worrry alot. as an > alternative, you could pester the building management to enforce the

parking

> rules. > mw

Sounds good to me. You might modify that by saying that so as to prevent damage to his/her vehicle by motorcycles trying to squeeze into their appropriate spot, he/she might be well advised to park in the legal parking area. Skip

[JSherlockHolmes@aol.com]

Amen