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From: Aham Brahmasmi on 9 Apr 2010 13:31
On Apr 9, 10:13 am, "David T. Ashley" <dash...(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm quite a catch, you know ... I hope he showed off some pictures ...

If you've decided to become a "bottom," visit masterwoof's dungeon...

I'm sure that you and Michael will get along famously...
From: Road Glidin' Don on 9 Apr 2010 13:31
On Apr 9, 11:26 am, "David T. Ashley" <dash...(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Next time I'm in the dealership I'll run the same questions by the service
> techs who have done collision repairs.

I'm guessing they have to stifle their laughter whenever they see you
approach.



From: David T. Ashley on 9 Apr 2010 13:38
"Road Glidin' Don" <d.langkd(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>A good effort and well-written, but it won't do a bit of good, Bob.
>David will continue to engage in any degree of rationalization
>necessary to avoid seeing that his biggest problems are the ones he
>creates for himself in his imagination. I'd bet a hundred bucks this
>obsessive tendency of his finds expression in (and has ruined) many
>other aspects of his life as well (and he probably knows it at some
>level) - so it's really senseless attempting to reason with him.
>
>He's probably going to get himself killed soon anyway; wondering about
>if his swingarm will fall off, instead of paying attention to what's
>happening on the road. As I recall, when he first started posting
>here as a beginner, people were telling him then already that he
>shouldn't be riding a motorcycle (based on the already-frequent series
>of accidents he had).
>
>In short, it's totally idiotic for a guy like him to worry about the
>*motorcycle's* condition being a danger to his safety. It's his own
>condition that he should attend to.

Hi Don,

I'm very sensitive to the points you made.

However, ...

What I look at primarily are single points of failure with severe results.
So, I don't dwell on everything ... just things that could happen without
warning that are severe. I study up on those a bit.

I actually went through the same conversation with an airplane mechanic
once. I noticed on a Cessna 172 that there were bolts in the struts that
would cause wing foldup if they failed. I asked him if they inspected those
at every annual inspection, etc.

His response was that they inspect those only if there is an airworthiness
directive or similar that applies. However, he also pointed out that the
joint is a zero-movement area, and normally if a bolt is doing bad things
there will be warning signs like iron oxide coming out of the joints, etc.
He indicated that if a mechanic ever sees that, the joint is definitely
coming apart for a closer look.

I was very satisfied with his explanation.

Same for motorcycles.

As a new rider, I had a lot of questions, like "do rear axles ever fail", or
"how soon could corrosion cause a swingarm pivot bolt failure". For the
most part, you guys and the dealership answer my questions. The fact that
the dealership has never seen an axle failure other than stripping the
threads off gives me a lot of information.

The point of view you provided above is interesting, but there probably
isn't quite enough information to conjecture that "I'd bet a hundred bucks
this obsessive tendency of his finds expression in (and has ruined) many
other aspects of his life as well (and he probably knows it at some level) -
so it's really senseless attempting to reason with him".

I won't collect on that bet (you can keep your hundred bucks), but there are
a large number of bosses, dealership motorcycle mechanics, airplane
mechanics, and posters here who have successfully reasoned with me.

Take care, Dave.

From: David T. Ashley on 9 Apr 2010 13:42
"Road Glidin' Don" <d.langkd(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Apr 9, 11:26 am, "David T. Ashley" <dash...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Next time I'm in the dealership I'll run the same questions by the service
> techs who have done collision repairs.
>
>I'm guessing they have to stifle their laughter whenever they see you
>approach.

To the best of my knowledge, that only happened once. That was when I rode
in for an oil change with a new rear axle and indicated to the mechanic that
he should replace it and give me the old one.

He is a young man (around 25, I think), and I could see the wheels turning
in his head as he struggled to phrase it delicately. When he handed the old
rear axle to me, he said something like "I'm pretty sure that you didn't
need to replace the rear axle".

The same axle is still in the motorcycle, by the way. I'm only on my second
rear axle.

: )

But yeah, it definitely happened once.

Dave.



From: Outback Jon on 9 Apr 2010 17:13
On 4/9/2010 1:19 PM, David T. Ashley wrote:
> My
> litte Honda Shadow might go 95 MPH with a tailwind on a good day, and
> that is more than fast enough for me!

It might, but I'm not going to try and figure out the terminal velocity
if dropped from an airplane. But I agree, it *might* be 95MPH. :)

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