Wallrat

I don't think you want to wire it into the ignition power. Try wiring it into the lighting wires coming from the voltage regulator.

Dude where's the pics? Thanks to the invention of the camera phone, I snap pics of all my injuries pre-ER

You offset tire diameter with gearing. So he could easily run a 22" tire, he just might end up at 12/43 gearing or something to compensate (not neccesarily at that gearing, I didn't do the calculations). My point of going with a smaller tire is to gain the better handling. You won't get as much elongation as you would with the larger diameter tire but if the drags are really short, that's not going to cost you much, if any. Along the same lines, you might prefer to go with a 10" wheel vs. an 8".

Are you guys using the Euro? Cuz if so at today's conversion rate it works out to $8.84 per gallon. Don't worry tit. Ol' W is working on it!

8 paddle non-extremes are about all you need for stock stroke/bore bikes unless your doing <100 foot drags. If your drags are that short, then the little bit of added traction out of the hole will help you more than the speed loss will hinder you. At most I'd say some 8 paddle extremes or 9 paddle haulers. Also for that short of a drag, I doubt its even neccesary to run a 22" tire. You're not going to see a whole lot of elongation. Might as well go with a more dune-able 20", or at least a 21".

faith n. 1. Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing. 2. Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence. See Synonyms at belief. See Synonyms at trust. 3. Loyalty to a person or thing; allegiance: keeping faith with one's supporters. 4. often Faith Christianity. The theological virtue defined as secure belief in God and a trusting acceptance of God's will. 5. The body of dogma of a religion: the Muslim faith. 6. A set of principles or beliefs. Unless you have definative proof to cover every argument posed by the believers, then you have to take some things on faith. I don't know how the universe was born, I wasn't here. Maybe it was a big bang, maybe it was something different, but I BELIEVE that it had nothing to do with a supreme being. I'm happy with that. Knowing the end-all answer really wouldn't change my life one bit. Take a look at the above definition and tell me that at least the first one doesn't describe your own personal atheism. Neither side has concrete evidence proving the other side wrong. People put their faith where it makes the most sense to them.

My neighbors are a bunch of deeply religious folks. They won't even kiss until marriage (I shit you not)! Anyway they're always asking me how it is I can go through life denying god and what I tell them is: I honestly don't think about religion. Atheists don't get together once a week to discuss our lack of beliefs. We don't have a common book that we all read and quote from. We don't have a social circle of other atheists. We don't study atheism. We don't have holidays to remind us of our faith (and yes, atheism is a faith). The only time I really think about my beliefs are when I'm arguing my viewpoint with somebody that disagrees with me.

Haha...come on man. This is the HQ! You can't post something religious or political and not expect a turnout!

It doesn't take a fucking genius to figure out that Moses was full of shit when he recieved the 10 commandments on top of a mountain with NO ONE AROUND. I've been pretty much staying out of this thread since its kinda lacking intelligent arguments, but I gotta ask Rocketboy...exactly how many keyboards are you typing with simultaneously?

Especially with porting. That's the biggest mod you can do to really tailor the engine to your own riding style. Its not all about power, its about making the power you have more useable.

$34 for a +2 tusk stainless braided, $38 for a +2 galfer. RMATV

Is your timing advanced? What's your compression at (the actual amount, not just the ratio). You should be fine on 91 up to about 155 psi-ish and maybe a couple degrees of advance.

Ya man...bummer you broke those $800 bars.

Dead Sea Scrolls - you forgot to mention that the biggest buyer of the scrolls was none other than the catholic church. They currently have most of the scrolls. Certain scrolls were released but the others were in "too bad of condition". Translators were used but they were only given small snips of a scroll - unless of course the scroll seemed like it was ordinary stuff (laws and whatnot), in that case, a single translator could be trusted to see the entire scroll. One such scroll, which appeared to cover law, actually discussed the different titles given to VIP's, like calling the king: Jesus (nope, not his name, just a title). Whoops! Milo, I hear what you're saying man. I really do! I can argue religion all day and realize that nobody is going to change their opinion. Doesn't matter I guess, although some might be bummed that they couldn't "save" me. It makes more sense to you that a higher power created everything, just as it makes more sense to me that shit happenned chaotically. I'm betting on extremely rare occurances forming a perfect system by accident, and you're betting on an invisible man. Putting it that way, we both sound crazy! I think Helldriver kinda hit on the meat and potatos of the issue earlier when he said that people throughout history have justified that which they didn't understand as being Holy. If you took your banshee back 200 years, you can bet ur ass that the people of that time would think either you were a god, or your engine was some kind of miracle. We know its not a miracle, its just good science. But people 200 years ago hadn't grasped the concept of the internal combustion engine. All religions are fraught with attempts to explain what seemed unexplainable. Even today, we use the creation myth to tell us how we got here. Shit pick a story...basically the whole use of religion to explain unanswered questions is alive and well in today's society. As people become more educated they understand why things are and don't need to take the easy answer of "god's will" anymore. Luckily there will always be questions. I don't think science will ever prove all the questions of the universe so there will always be a place for some type of religious belief. But I'm still voting for a godless religion...

I guess you could just run her WOT and then turn the fuel off. If there's enough fuel flowing then there should be enough in the bowls to keep you going for a little bit.

So how old is the earth? Like 4.5 BILLION years old? And recorded history? Maybe 32,000 years (if you're counting cave drawings). So lets see, we've got a human record for about 0.0007% of the life of the planet. I doubt cavemen were very in-tune to noticing evolutionary changes, so really we've only been looking for evidence of evolution for about 0.000003% of that time. Damn, we must have missed it! If you wanna do the math, that'd be like spending 0.93 seconds of a 90 year life span looking for something. I can't even find my car keys ONCE in 0.93 seconds, so I guess my car keys don't exsist either! Actually, science has created something from nothing. I'll spare the details, but basically this russian dude finds these weird volcanic rocks. Well they're weird cuz they cooled back when the earth's atmosphere was very similar to that of Venus, so all the elements in the atmosphere got trapped in the rocks as they cooled (BTW first time it rained it was raining ammonia). So this other dude is kinda curious so he takes all these normal elements and puts em in a big chamber and starts zapping it w/ electrodes to simulate lightning. Ends up with some goo in the bottom of the chamber. This goo turns out to be poly-peptides - the building block of proteins. Experiment has been repeated many times, larger volume and longer durations with more frequent lightning blasts, and they've been able to create dead single cell organisms in this way. Now getting life into em has been the challenge. They can hook up electrodes and the little buggers dance, but turn off the power, and you've just got a pile of goo. This all was the birth of modern genetics actually - well part of it anyway. So maybe there is a God that put that devine spark of life into every creature, but I doubt it. My money says that eventually they'll figure it out.

Eh?

Okay so you have spark on both cyls? If you do, then it really sounds like you're rich on both sides, but worse on the left due to float height. You said you've had this problem the whole time since you bought it - so what size jets are you running?

My buddy at work says the same thing about Allah. So which one of you is right? I've read more of the bible than most christians I've also enjoyed other mythologies as well (Norse is prolly my favorite) I'd have to say that my favorite religions are the god-less ones. The whole "supreme being" thing tends to further warp those that were already pretty unstable. That's where you get your "God told me to kill those children" types. I mean, it works still, but you don't find alot of homicidal Taoists.

Yeah I hear ya. I'm not one to tell people their beliefs are wrong. I'll disagree, but that's as far as it goes. Well...I take that back. Soon as somebody starts telling me that I'm going to hell then I'll have a little fun. Truth be told, I've actually secured myself a position in upper management. But really when it comes down to it, we each have our own beliefs, and no matter what the other guy says its not going to shake our faith.

...taking you awhile to respond. Hope you aren't typing up one of your usual novels. I tend to just skip over any word longer than 3 letters when you do that.

Sorry Stan...guess I'll stop calling.

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Hey religion is a wonderful tool for keeping the herd in line. I never said it wasn't. I'm just saying that the pagan holidays were way fucking cooler.