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I'm in if it dries out. Looks like there's one more line of weather about to go through.

HELOC doesn't need to be repaid, either. If you have other income that covers day to day, you don't need to withdraw from the HELOC unless you want to. If the HELOC is at a lower interest rate, that even furthers that choice over a structured reverse mortgage. My sister and brother-in-law are...

I reported to Waze, another new one that's sure to be a money-printer: Creditview Road (major 4-lane) southbound south of Wanless Drive.

Historically, Ducati hasn't supported Irish road racing much, but that may be beginning to change. Michael Dunlop's Supersport-winning bike is Adrian Huertas' World Supersport championship winning bike from last year.

Racers have been reporting something wacky about the full-drive-by-wire throttle used on the ZX10R and ZX4R (same part). It's something like only allowing a quick-downshift if the throttle is being forcibly closed. I'm not sure how much of a real-world issue it is, or whether it's just a...

The OEM implementations that I've used, are pretty good. A lot of these trick features become almost free once the manufacturer has made the jump to drive-by-wire throttle control, ABS, and on-board network communication between control modules. Quickshifter adds one strain-gauge sensor on the...

Quickshift-down has sometimes been called an auto-blipper, because it has to rev-match in order to do this smoothly. I have an aftermarket QS, upshift only, on my race bike, because that's the only way to do it on that bike. All it does is cut spark for a preset number of milliseconds. It works...

I'm planning to be at Superburger for lunch, probably a slightly late lunch, in case anyone is wandering around in that area.

Weather radar has showers in the area. Grrr. I'm going to do a longer ride tomorrow instead. edit: aaand, it's raining. Out.

I'm in if it stays clear ... and that could go either way. (Already got rained on this morning)

I dunno about that. Speed cameras are universally despised ... except for the one you want them to put on "your" street.

Factory race bikes can have situations like this at the end of the bike's racing career. NVIS paperwork, "a little damage" ... there may be a whole lot of history, with lots of parts swapping involved. Ask questions ... lots of them. That bike may have seen a lot of hard use, and may have been...

The street sweeper needs a street sweeper. Trail of oil on FOTC Road near the village, both directions, ending at the broken street sweeper stopped at the side of the road, as of late this morning. The trail of hydraulic oil is highly visible and not too hard to avoid, although westbound you'll...

Weather delays

Google AI: 1 ChatGPT: 0 ChatGPT probably googled how to tell you the video wasn't fake.

Manufacturer who kicks the bucket completely after building a small number of half baked vehicles is a whole different situation.

My 1990 (model introduced in 1986) Yamaha FZR has the turn signal flash function built into a relay module with a bunch of other stuff. My 2004 Kawasaki has a simple dumb flasher relay. Fancier newer models are likely to have the lighting done through a multifunction control module.

25 000 per year manufacturing capacity in Canada. (Not sales!) Probably this is from last year, and that capacity is accounted for almost entirely by the GM Brightdrop commercial van. Now, this year, the Charger Daytona should account for a manufacturing capacity increase ... except that the...

House internet relies on Bell hardware. It's still down. Cell is with Rogers; that still works. Do they take turns breaking?

Breaker-points ignition? Points good? Condenser good? With key on, is there power to both sets of points? Rotate crankshaft -> do the points successfully interrupt power to the coil side of the circuit? With points open, what's the resistance of the primary side of the coil all the way...