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Get your relays here ==> Digikey | Picker Relays Beautiful guitar btw!

I play Jazz guitar professionally (that is I make money doing it) and have been doing that for several decades. My main working guitar is a 1990 Benedetto Cremona as seen in my avatar. I've learned from experience on gigs certain tools and spares to take along just like motorcycle riding-duct tape being one. I'm planning to swap out the relays today and hopefully solve the starting issue. I did order one Picker relay off Amazon there weren't many left in stock. I figured if that's the issue and I need to replace all of them I can buy the other 4 from MG Cycle. Thank for the help!

You’ll notice @SierraTango didn’t say guitar strings nor did he say guitar chords . . .

I've never been. That's insightful. And yes, this ability would make me go faster!

I retired at 58, but 401k savings isn't accessible until 59 1/2.

I thought this a really nice tribute to the Royal Enfield Bullet, and much of the sentiment crosses over all older brands.

The thing about California (in particular, nevermind the rest of the West) is that there is *so much more* territory than in the East. I rode the entire PCH, through the Redwoods, back and forth to Lake Tahoe...days on end of fabulous riding. It's a long term plan to spend a month or so riding the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain roads.

I'd like to do some west coast rides. Chuck posts quite a few N of LA. I'l like to do all of them and PCH up the coast. I've done a good portion of the PCH in a rented Mini Turbo Stick, but would love to ride it all. So far as the Dragon. I think what makes it so special are the sight lines. And I'm guessing that is an enticement to the hooligans: The riders have good vision rounding those tight corners.

Aren't you a business writer? I bet you know retirement rules.

Certainly the most legitimate use of WD (Water Displacement)-40 I have ever seen. It gets suggested for a lot of uses it was not designed for . . .

Assuming you mean long-term like 'empty on the shelf for a couple years' I would empty and blow-dry the tank, or air dry in the sun (which you don't have) then throw in a quart of WD40. Splash it around with the cap on to cover all surfaces, and shelve it. Take it down once or twice a year for another slosh to comfort yourself on how long it's taking. When you fill the tank with gas, what WD remains clinging is insignificant.

Your intelligent replies lend an honorable significance to my snotty rant.

I was of the same mind, until I spent enough time interacting with a few to realize that there is no remaining space where a person of average IQ could tel with certainty that their interaction was not with a real human being of average IQ. That was near the same time when I realized that an average IQ is insufficient for independent survival, and thus the reason why the majority of humanity lives in bug hives. So in it's effect, AI meets all the criteria for Intelligent, if not sentient. The Turing Test does not demand a genius IQ.

Now you have to explain the guitar part.

I am a Unicorn who was honored to be a SME and trainer to Marines at Camp Bastion (Leatherneck) in 2009. I spent most of my 3 years over there with Army. I was disheartened to find that the Army fell short of the professionalism I expected to see, and humbled to find by how much the USMC exceeded it. I was in the unique position to experience most of the things civilians hear about but can't understand. Semper Fi. Enjoy the evening knowing how special that camaraderie is.

Tail of the Dragon isn't the craziest road in the country, it just lends itself to hooliganery better than most, and surrounded by great roads and scenery. The riding is comparable to California but wetter. Craziest road I've ever been on is CA 130 between the Lick observatory and San Jose. Handstanding in neutral to make the turns down, the air full of burned brake smell from the cars, what few dared. More like a hiking trail that got paved. https://www.google.com/maps/search/observatory/@37.3371791,-121.6615309,3558m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTEwMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

No military service here, beyond my father fighting in WW2. I was not cut from that cloth. But full respect and gratitude for your service. Have a good time.

Sounds like a good toy to have !

The Moto Guzzi charging system consists of two states : Havin' trouble or fixin' to have trouble !

Is this for future reference ?

I get the downside but very few things are 100% bad. As usual you select the decent benign stuff and avoid the rest just like the internet in general. Mass instant communication as we are engaging in right now has brought great benefits but also some very, very serious problems. Light and dark, good and bad, smart and dumb, life affirming and life threatening and we get to chose what we want it to be. Phil

That statement is a poetic, and poignant, expression that informs our lives (whatever we have experienced and endured). Semper Fidelis, indeed, @Sempervee1

Oh, so, a DTP (Digital Tool Package). Very useful, indeed. Just (really) neither "artificial" nor "intelligent." Sorry about the soapbox. Calling these (even impressively useful) program structures "AI" just trips my intelligence trigger. Call them that if you want, but just know what you are buying into.

Wow. EICMA 2025. Snuck up on me without my realizing. More videos, please . . .