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[Frank Conley]

My apologies to Millerized and Zach for not posting my thanks to them sooner. The wrenchfest hosted by Zach was a great success for my bike. The miserable and wet ride from 70 to 29, to 100, to 295, to Zach's house, with typically awful D.C. a-hole drivers throwing roadspray all over my ~300 mile old KLR was quickly forgotten when I arrived at Zach's place. Zach, Jim, and Hans greeted me warmly and were eager to deflower my stock KLR. Zach's garage is great, if slightly chaotic from use, and if Zach couldn't instantly place his hand on a needed tool, Miller was able to get it from his incredibly complete toolkit. I arrived just before lunch, so work didn't begin on my bike until after a great meal at Armand's. Kick-ass lunch buffet, as promised. Once we got back, Zach continued to assist Hans while Jim tore into my bike. The process was a learning one for me, as my mechanical skills are minimal generally, and exactly none on the KLR. Jim is a great teacher, however, and answered every question I could come up with patience and detail. I learned more about that bike watching and listening to Jim for a couple of hours than I could have learned in a month on my own with the Clymer. A great many thanks for that, Jim. In a very short time, Jim was able to do quite a bit of work on my bike (as he detailed in an earlier post). The new front brakes work great and got a good test on the 120 mile trip back to Philly on 95N. Plenty of panic stops along that route (whether in a car or on a bike). The big test for the electrical work and t-vent carb mod comes in a mere four weeks at this year's NOAB, where I will no doubt dump the bike in the river repeatedly. (Per Zach and Jim, I'm practicing hitting the kill switch just for that inevitability--don't want to hold everyone up too long!) Guys, thanks again for your help! See ya at NOAB! --Frank __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

[Mark St.Hilaire, Sr]

> on the list. Not to knock my own profession, but I think I'd trust a > torque value developed by an experienced mechanic as much if not more > than one developed by analysis.

Yeah, I know what you mean... stinkin' engineers. (Laughing) I have no "worries" about saying this because my Big Cee order has already been delivered. Mark --------------------------------------- KLR650 Motorcycle Website: http://klr6500.tripod.com/