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My point exactly... Try being the employER paying an extra $7 per hour to the UNION, for every employee you have. Two things get sacrificed in this scenario since consumers demand inexpensive product/work. Quality of work, or quality of material. I belonged to the Teamsters and the UFCW back in the day, and more recently the LAPPL (Los Angeles Police Protective League)... Both of which were complete jokes. I am currently a member for the NAR (National Association of Realtors). Why? Because I HAVE to, to do business. I am FORCED to pay this group of people an ungodly amount of money to do... um... nothing, really. Our local Realtor office has 90 employees. 90 GODDAMN EMPLOYEES. You know how many brokerages are under this realtor office? 186. Why do we need ONE employee for every two offices? I call the association maybe... once every three months? But, I'm paying upwards of $5,000 a year just so I can be a member of this "club". Without the "club" I can't do business. My fathers union, the IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) is also a joke. The $7/hr per employee "fee" that this union charges is goddamn outrageous. If my dad wants to hire an employee at $20/hr for basic electrical work, not only does he have to stroke the shaft of the union leaders, he also has to charge MUCH more for his work, because without being union, you can't work with ANY utility company, or ANY governmental organization. How fucked is that? In order to get ANY work, you have to pay a UNION? Here's the reason why. These union lobbyists are the biggest scumbags known to mankind. They literally bribe (with money, sex, money, or sex) every politician they can to enforce their union agenda. Take for example, teachers unions, police unions (former member), prison workers union... Our goddamn BUS DRIVERS have a union... It's getting out of hand. EVERYONE wants to be in a union as an EMPLOYEE... It's the absolute worst case scenario for an employer. In California, we have a chain of grocery stores called "Stater Bros." (They might be in other states, not sure.) Stater bros. is NOT a union grocery store. I choose to shop at the NON union grocery store, because I worked for the grocery store unions... they suck. I loved the unions when I worked UNDER them, but once I became an employER, and not an employEE, I really saw what unions do. They threaten employers with strikes, walkouts, picket lines, all kinds of other childish bullshit, if you don't want to pay the extra 12 cents towards your employees healthcare. I also don't believe that you are immediately GRANTED healthcare when you get a job. Just like any kind of insurance, you should have to pay for it on your own. Forcing your employer to cover you and your sickly kids, all the while forcing them to pay you X amount of dollars per hour/week/month, whether you suck at your job or not is bullshit. When I worked in the unions, 9x out of 10, my fellow employees were complete lazy fucks knowing that they had the "union" to fight for them. I personally have fired people with just cause, and had the Realtor Association come to me and threaten me with "fines" and all kinds of other bullshit because the moron I fired went and complained. The most recent person I fired was a Realtor who's ONLY job was to oversee the renovations on a multi-family dwelling that we were flipping. If someone needed a key, or needed to be met at the property, meet them there. It was a two week commitment, with a payout of roughly $6500. Not bad money for doing nothing for two weeks. This numbnuts went and disappeared for two days, and I had a flooring contractor that couldn't get into the lock box to get the key. I had to send another one of my brokers over there to let these people into the building and replace the lockbox. I fired her on the spot, as soon as I saw her again. Her job was simple, and she thought somehow that the Realtor Association could somehow squeeze some money out of me for her not doing her job. This is EXACTLY how unions work. They bully their way into companies, and then demand that the company make ridiculous investments in lazy ass employees. I know for a fact that unions have "recruiters" who do nothing but try to get employees to "round up the troops" at their workplace and all assemble for a secret meeting with a union hack. Why? Because there's money to be made. Pockets to be lined, and employers to fuck. It's GREAT to be a union employee, but try being a union employER who cannot conduct business in a certain trade, without buying into these jackasses.

Alright, you got me at the dog treats. NO ONE FUCKS WITH MY DOGS! Boycott China, and every other industrialized nation in the world. Buy 'murrican! Only 'murrican! 'murrica fuck yeah!

We're building a home theater in the near future, and one of the many things we're doing is a HD projector, obviously. What are some things I should be looking for? I know lumens, contrast ratio, etc. If you own a projector, what do you like about yours, or wish it had? There are so many damn options out there, that it's getting overwhelming, and everyone I talk to is trying to tell me why one "brand" is better over the other when their specs are exactly the same. Typical sales pitches.

Haha I know... buncha jerks!!!

zilla (for once) is right. a 55w bulb will actually be dimmer than a 35w bulb. The stock stator puts out roughly 75-77 watts total on the lighting circuit. Stock replacement bulbs are h6m, btw

I dunno how to tell if your motor is bored, but this is how to tell if the owner is bored. edit: photo credit to phelps.

It starts and ends with the consumer. The majority of consumers demand inexpensive product. You are not going to manufacture inexpensive product with what unions and employees demand of manufacturers. Unions will forever be the demise of industry in the US until something is done about them. (For the record, I have belonged to two unions in my day, and my father has been a member of the IBEW for the last 30+ years. Unions fucking suck as a consumer. Sure, sometimes they work in your favor as an employee, but in my experience they've done nothing but feed their own hungry fucking mouths, and shovel cash into their deep pockets at the expense of employees and employers. But making a blanket statement such as "all product from overseas is junk" is probably one of the stupidest, and most ignorant things I've ever heard in my entire life. Let's face it, you get what you pay for. If you want to have a product manufactured in China to YOUR specifications, with materials that YOU demand, that's what will get done. Consumers don't care about that shit until they're not getting a $500 part for $100 that fails to perform like that $500 part. No shit Sherlock. Americans are lazy asses. We all know it, but not very many of us will admit it. The chinese/taiwanese/japanese etc will work for pennies on the dollar for what American employees NEED to survive here. Our whole system is fucked beyond belief. It costs more to live, so we charge more for product, which in-turn, you need to make more to pay for said product that costs more. Prices continue to skyrocket, and in order for manufacturers to stay in business, they must sell a more inexpensive product. ie, have shit made in China/Taiwan/Japan. It's the American way. The fact is, American made products are not ALWAYS superior to foreign products. I know some pretty fuckin' lazy people who work in the manufacturing industry. I'm pretty sure I'd trust a 12 year old kid who actually WANTS to work, than some sweaty overweight 35 year old who is getting paid $30 bucks an hour to milk a clock and slap a fender on a Ford. At least that 12 year old kid knows that if he fucks up, his job is on the line. American Unions have the manufacturers scared. MFR's are scared to fire anyone for their shit performance, due to the fear of these big bad asshole unions coming after them for wrongful termination. /rant I'm going to bed. Buy Chinese. Support the Chinese economy. Soon, it'll be OUR economy. There's not turning back now.

LOL, EVERYTHING is made overseas... Almost NOTHING originates from the US. Even though shit is assembled here, 9x's out of 10 the raw materials came from overseas... Deal with it...

Haha, start a thread, stir up fake drama, ignore questions... Great troll. 8/10

Damn, sounds like one of those damn new yorkers swooped in on your linkage from the guy you bought your shocks from...

Pweezy is accurate. Stock Banshee shocks are 14.75" eye to eye. YFZ 450 shocks are 15.75". They will be tight getting in there, but as long as you clearance the lower arm and eyelet, they will fit.

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Holy shitballs... My guess would be a seizure on that side, but could have been a casting flaw on the rod... What brand crank was it? I know you said it was from Kevin, but I didn't see a brand. If you say your plugs were a chocolate brown, that would indicate that you were not running lean.

Ron, STFU about the conversion kit. Seriously, I'm sick of getting PM's about it. Nick, I'm not sure if that was a compliment, or sarcasm. Either way I'll respond. I graduated from UCSD with a dual bachelors in Corporate Management, and Cognitive Psychology. I am currently taking classes at the University of Maryland to complete my Masters in Real Estate Development. It'll be a long while before that is done, but it's a goal of mine.

I agree with this 100%. I personally have never run YFZ shocks on a stock banshee. I am just relaying feedback I have gotten from the customers that I have done re-spring and re-valves for. Granted, almost all of them run the ENTIRE YFZ front end, not just the shocks on stock a-arms. I've never had someone come to me and say their YFZ450 shocks were too stiff. To me, a stiff stock front end with YFZ shocks, would indicate a binding issue. Either lower eyelets binding on the lower a-arm, or a-arm pivot bolts being too tight. Banshees are front heavy. In stock trim, they weigh in at roughly 380lbs. A YFZ450 in stock trim, weighs 340lbs. It's safe to say, that the majority of the extra weight on a banshee is towards the front end of the bike. This is one of the several reasons that triple or quad rate springs are not advisable with aftermarket shocks. Aside from shock angle, the rest of the suspension geometry is pretty much the same on the banshee and YFZ when all YFZ parts are swapped onto the banshee. Essentially, you have stock YFZ suspension, with an extra 40lbs strapped to the front of it; hence the reason that the majority of complaints regarding the shocks are geared toward the softer side. For the record, I am not totally against running a shock designed for another vehicle. On my own personal bike, I ran Fox snowmobile shocks that I set up for myself...

The last two years have been absolute flops... Is this year ACTUALLY going to be halfway decent????

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I had the same thing happen with a stock rear shock. Ever since then, I will only ship via UPS or FedEx The buyer has to pay brokerage fees once the shipment arrives, but it's the only way I will ship internationally anymore. At least with FedEx and UPS, it will be tracked the entire way.

I ran the shifter one tooth higher. It made it easier to get my toe under the shifter.

I guess from what we've gathered, it's just an overlay on top of stock plastics. My guess is it would just add weight to the stock plastics. I doubt it would last very long either with the plastics trying to flex underneath the rigid CF... Since it's purely cosmetic, go with JD's hydro dip stuff. It lasts, it's proven, and it looks bitchen.

You did? Where?

Worked with them before? That's where all of your pictures on your facebook came from, and the quote "2x2 Twill Carbon Fiber Fabric/Cloth 50" 3k 5.7oz . The Fabric is AS4 Aerospace 644ksi" came from. You just copied it from this page: http://compositeenvisions.com/raw-fabric-cloth-2/carbon-fiber-97/carbon-fiber-fabric-2x2-twill-50-3k-5-7oz-as4-aerospace-grade-586.html

http://compositeenvisions.com/carbon-fiber-part-wrapping-kits-143/carbon-fiber-part-wrapping-kit-w-clear-epoxy-plain-weave-726.html

I understand you're trying to get your name out there, but blindly sending messages to people who aren't even asking about your "product" isn't going to work. So do you have any info or pictures of the process? Is this something that you do as a hobby or for a living? Do you have a shop or is this something that you do in your living room?

"Fill" free to give us some prices. People have asked, and you keep avoiding it. Price on front and rear fenders, rad cover, and tank cover for a banshee. GO.