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03-03-21, 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
I need to get one of those on the Schwinn Tempo. It has a rattle that sounds like it's up front, but the brake caliper doesn't rattle, headset is tight, bar, stems, brake levers, front hub, DT shifters all seem good.
I eventually noticed the BB is a little loose, but doesn't seem loose enough to make so much racket. I should look for ye olde BB hook spanner and cinch it down today (I hope it's not in storage in Vancouver, WA).
Of course I really need to set aside half a day, strip it down to a bare frame, repack all the bearings, lube all the threads, and put it back together.
I eventually noticed the BB is a little loose, but doesn't seem loose enough to make so much racket. I should look for ye olde BB hook spanner and cinch it down today (I hope it's not in storage in Vancouver, WA).
Of course I really need to set aside half a day, strip it down to a bare frame, repack all the bearings, lube all the threads, and put it back together.
03-03-21, 11:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
No sunroof, sadly.
03-03-21, 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by abshipp
Bottle cages?
I'll report back soon if I have a hook spanner in the garage.
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03-03-21, 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by genejockey
At the time when people were flocking to beaches in Florida, there was no reason to believe it was any safer than congregating indoors. We were only about a month into people paying any attention to the disease at all.
The biggest problem I've seen vis a vis expert advice, the media, and the public is that experts have been playing catchup since last January, the media have been trying to convey hard-and-fast rules from recommendations, and the public are - honestly - too dumb to understand that when you learn new things you change your recommendations based on them. People want hard-and-fast answers, and are unwilling to accept that you don't get them, and so they treat changing recommendations based on new data as "Science keeps changing its mind", or "It's too complicated, so I'm gonna give up and just do whatever I want".
Add to this the media's inability to explain, and the public's to understand, how science actually works, that our job is to come up with our best estimate based on everything we know, and then try to prove that wrong, and if we fail, we STILL don't know that we're right. Most people don't get probability or statistics, hence Las Vegas.
The biggest problem I've seen vis a vis expert advice, the media, and the public is that experts have been playing catchup since last January, the media have been trying to convey hard-and-fast rules from recommendations, and the public are - honestly - too dumb to understand that when you learn new things you change your recommendations based on them. People want hard-and-fast answers, and are unwilling to accept that you don't get them, and so they treat changing recommendations based on new data as "Science keeps changing its mind", or "It's too complicated, so I'm gonna give up and just do whatever I want".
Add to this the media's inability to explain, and the public's to understand, how science actually works, that our job is to come up with our best estimate based on everything we know, and then try to prove that wrong, and if we fail, we STILL don't know that we're right. Most people don't get probability or statistics, hence Las Vegas.
Get out of your sterile lab, away from your 0s and 1s computer, and see what it's like in the real-world trenches fighting human ailments. We've got mutant strains, witch doctors who can't diagnose diseases, drugs that don't work, people getting their backs lasered--it's chaos out in the streets.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
LOL. So much dodging and dancing rather than concede there's a lot Big Science doesn't know.
Get out of your sterile lab, away from your 0s and 1s computer, and see what it's like in the real-world trenches fighting human ailments. We've got mutant strains, witch doctors who can't diagnose diseases, drugs that don't work, people getting their backs lasered--it's chaos out in the streets.
Get out of your sterile lab, away from your 0s and 1s computer, and see what it's like in the real-world trenches fighting human ailments. We've got mutant strains, witch doctors who can't diagnose diseases, drugs that don't work, people getting their backs lasered--it's chaos out in the streets.
03-03-21, 11:19 AM
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
That is sad. The only Honda I ever owned (1988 Prelude) had a sunroof, so I often assume all Hondas have sunroofs.
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03-03-21, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Can't hear those things with the top off. 
03-03-21, 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I wish I had one. It's much better than disassembling your vehicle.
03-03-21, 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Speaking of which, the operation to move my saddle forward was a 10+ minute ordeal. 
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03-03-21, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Sounds like a big hassle.
Originally Posted by rjones28
Doesn't take any longer than shaving. 
Once off, it hangs above the car until I decide to put it back on.
I had the roof off several months straight last year, but then the weather turned. Often have it off for 2 to 3 days at a time, but since I drive it to work it goes on and off depending on the weather and where I have to go with it.
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03-03-21, 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by phrantic09
You disassemble your Honda?
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
I need to get one of those on the Schwinn Tempo. It has a rattle that sounds like it's up front, but the brake caliper doesn't rattle, headset is tight, bar, stems, brake levers, front hub, DT shifters all seem good.
I eventually noticed the BB is a little loose, but doesn't seem loose enough to make so much racket. I should look for ye olde BB hook spanner and cinch it down today (I hope it's not in storage in Vancouver, WA).
Of course I really need to set aside half a day, strip it down to a bare frame, repack all the bearings, lube all the threads, and put it back together.
I eventually noticed the BB is a little loose, but doesn't seem loose enough to make so much racket. I should look for ye olde BB hook spanner and cinch it down today (I hope it's not in storage in Vancouver, WA).
Of course I really need to set aside half a day, strip it down to a bare frame, repack all the bearings, lube all the threads, and put it back together.
03-03-21, 11:55 AM
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Originally Posted by phrantic09
You disassemble your Honda?
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03-03-21, 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
Not a hassle at all. I have an electric hoist on the garage ceiling that makes it an easy, one person job.
Once off, it hangs above the car until I decide to put it back on.
I had the roof off several months straight last year, but then the weather turned. Often have it off for 2 to 3 days at a time, but since I drive it to work it goes on and off depending on the weather and where I have to go with it.
Once off, it hangs above the car until I decide to put it back on.
I had the roof off several months straight last year, but then the weather turned. Often have it off for 2 to 3 days at a time, but since I drive it to work it goes on and off depending on the weather and where I have to go with it.
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03-03-21, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
See post #8334
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03-03-21, 12:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
Not a hassle at all. I have an electric hoist on the garage ceiling that makes it an easy, one person job.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Oh, a hardtop. That's fancy.
Had a '12 JK with both tops. Kind of a PITA switching. Give me one or the other.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Robots are taking over disassembly, too. #2021
03-03-21, 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Well, yeah. If you're going to disassemble the top, you might as well disassemble the doors.
I just don't have a naked picture.
03-03-21, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
Agreed. Sometimes we do, sometimes we don't. Those things are heavy!
I just don't have a naked picture.
I just don't have a naked picture.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
I have a Bestop Trektop (frameless). In the summer, I remove the windows and leave the top in place (bikini-style). It has the sunrider feature, when we want more sun up front.
03-03-21, 12:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
No, I still have to disassemble things and attach the hoist. It just does the lifting for this old man.
Originally Posted by rjones28
In the summer, I remove the windows and leave the top in place (bikini-style).
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03-03-21, 12:55 PM
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Good ride today. There were plenty of slushy wet patches from frozen runoff but only two real icy patches that required a stop/foot down. The sun was bright and my spirits are lifted.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Manual-wind windows?
#durable
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I am old enough to recall when a stick shift was also called a “standard” transmission. 
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