432, and the Sky Wasn't Very Blue

The trusty WR-250FP after today's very good ride.
Those new M22/M23 tires are practically magic.


And that, folks, is just fine and dandy with me while I'm riding my dirt bike.  ;)

I just came back from yet another Sunday Pachaug endure loop ride on the ol' WR-250FP, and conditions were very, very good, indeed.
The sky was cloudy the whole time, which was 180 degrees away from the forecast I read this morning on weather.com that said sunny, sunny, sunny.
Well, that was funny, funny, funny because it was cloudy, cloudy, cloudy.
And I liked it, too.
On top of that, I had two brandy-new Bridgestone M22/M23 tires on the bike for this ride.
Yesindeedy.

Although there are leaves now covering some of the obstacles on the ground and making them harder to see and identify, the weather was very good and I woke up feeling fairly good, too, so I hoped for a good ride out there.
That's what I got as I had a good feeling with the bike and vision was about as good as it gets for me.
I included the southern-most part of the loop, again, something that is fast becoming the usual routine for me as of late, and total mileage on the day was 55.9 on the ol' odometer.

So, I had my cloudy sky, my stiffer fork springs holding my front fork up as I like it to be, good health, and good conditions all around.
The new tires could immediately be felt doing their thing, which is providing excellent traction.
Honestly, I don't know why guys go with soft-to-intermediate-terrain tires on their bike when riding the Pachaug loop, and I can only guess they're going by how big n' burly the tread pattern looks on those tires.
I'll take hard terrain tires, thanks, as these Bridgestones always feel very good.

About the only pesky thing on today's ride was meeting up with several people out taking a little stroll on the trails, and being a respectable type that I am, I slowed way down when I saw these pedestrians.
Too bad these meetings were on good parts of the trail where I wanted to keep my pace up.
I did see one guy who heard me coming down a fast hill while on my most favorite pine-needled-whoops-through-the-woods section, and I noticed him when I was just about past him because he got his butt off the trail when he heard a motor vehicle coming toward him.
Smart man, and this is exactly what I do on the rare occurrences I see dirt bike riders while I'm out taking a walk on those very trails.
See, you'd be surprised how many peeps will not get their butts off the trail in those situations.
Maybe they like getting run over by motor vehicles at speed, huh?
If I were these folks, I'd get a plated dirt bike and start going about it the right way instead of trying to get my rocks off by walking little Fluffy or Fido who needs to stop every 20 feet to piss or shit on a tree or sniff some other mutt's butt.

Gross, huh?
You bet it is - get yourselves a plated dirt bike, folks.

-John

431 More Drops of KYB 01 on the Floor

Yessirree, I did another Pachaug enduro loop ride on the ol' trusty WR-250FP this past Sunday.
Conditions were 50% to my liking:
The sky was cloudy (excellent), but the ground was wet all day (not excellent).
That means while my vision wasn't pestered by too bright light, I was cautious over much of the ride since the obstacles on the ground are more slippery when wet.

All in all, it was a decent ride, still, as I tried yet another change in the front fork setup.
Where on the ride the weekend before I tried the latest revalve change in effort to reduce high-speed fork movement spikes (harsh feeling from high-speed hits), this past weekend I added the next stiffer fork springs (stock spring = .44kg/mm, and new springs = .46 kg/mm).

Why would I want stiffer springs if I'm looking to alleviate high-speed spikes from all of those billions of rocks and roots on the ground?
Easy, Bucky.
With the reduced damping of the softer revlave a couple weeks ago, the front fork would settle a bit lower while just getting on the bike and riding, meaning the front of the bike wasn't being held up as high as it once was.
Apparently, the hydraulic damping of the fork has much to do with controlling the mass of the bike and is not simply all left up to the fork springs, and it seems very much that the springs and damping work together.
Amazing, eh?

So, with reduced compression damping in search of a more supple fork that will be more willing to move quickly over the sharp bumps, the front of the bike now rode lower, something that I don't favor as it effects the feeling of solid stability at speed, a feeling that the front of the bike was now a bit too low and reduced my confidence in opening the throttle and going fast.
I like the feeling of stability, and a too-low front end reduces that feel.
Adding the stiffer springs instantly brought the front back up to where I like it, and the bike felt very good in all situations as far as chassis balance and front-to-rear ride height and feeling of stability went.
Very good, I say, as rolling off the throttle, braking, braking on downhills, or anything else I rode this past Sunday gave me a good feeling with the balance of the bike.
This characteristic make the decision to go with the stiffer springs a winner, and I see myself keeping them in the bike for as long as I run the current damping setup.

Along with the stiffer springs, I lowered the fork oil level to the minimum allowed in the WR-250FP Owner's Service Manual:
150mm.
I was using 145mm for the past year, and the original stock setting was 140mm.
The lower the oil level, the more air trapped inside the fork tubes, and with more air trapped in there, there is a noticeable reduction in what is called the "air spring".
When the fork is compressed, the trapped air acts like a spring, a spring that not only offers considerable resistance to being compressed, but is a progressive spring that goes up in effective spring rate the more it is compressed, unlike the steel coil fork springs that are linear in spring rate and keep the same spring rate all the time.
As when I lowered the oil level 5mm last year from 140mm to 145mm and felt the reduction of the air spring effect, something that improved the fork's ability to take square-edge hits out in the woods, lowering the oil level an additional 5mm down to 150mm seems to have been a good move as - and here's something that is quite something - even though I went to stiffer fork springs to hold the front of the softer-damped bike up to where I prefer it, the actual hydraulic damping and the fork's ability to take square-edge hits was not ruined.

Neat, huh?

So, the fork now has a firmer feel to it by being stiff enough to hold the front of the bike up high enough to give me the feeling of good stability and proper chassis attitude and balance (stiffer fork springs), but also having hydraulic damping and air spring soft enough to not make the square-edge hits worse.
It really was a good-feeling setup out on the Pachaug loop, and through the whole ride, I was enjoying the benefits of the higher-riding front end of the bike as this gave me a more confident feel.
Quite a bit more, actually, and is just the thing the doctor ordered in my book.

Now, the next thing to do on the next occasion I spend money on the fork is to try different base valve pistons with bigger oil flow ports in them as Tom from Nasin Machine recommends, AKA Race Tech Gold Valves.
If these Gold Valves are able to rid the fork of the high-speed spikes still present over the more severe high-speed hits, then I'll be Golden.
Hardy-harr-harr.  :)

Off to jerk,
-John

430 Drops of KYB 01 on the Floor

Yessirree, I'm experimenting with suspension settings on the ol' WR-250FP once again.
Although the setup I've been riding with for nearly a whole year worked pretty well and was a decent compromise between the firm feel I really like and plushness for sharp bump absorption, I felt compelled to mess with it, again, to see if it could be improved.

Tom from Nasin Machine was given the forks to try another modification to the valving, and this time I told him to go for mega-plushness without worrying too much about the results feeling too soft.
The results did, indeed, feel softer overall (along with the front of the bike riding a bit lower, as expected) and more plush over small to moderate bumps, but performance over sharp bumps seemed little changed, if at all.
Tom believes the base valve pistons are the limiting factor with them not flowing enough oil quickly enough when hitting a sharp bump and thinks new pistons that come with bigger holes in them would be the thing to try during the next revalve session.
That very well may be the case, although I'm going to try, before the next ride this coming weekend, installing the next stiffer fork springs to get the front of the bike back up where I like it along with dropping the oil level in the forks to the allowable minimum in order to reduce the natural air spring effect as the forks compress.
Hopefully, I'll get the chassis balance back that I like along with damping that will not feel any firmer than what I already have over the sharp bumps.
We shall see.

Otherwise, the bike is preforming well and holding-up just fine and dandy.

Yesterday's Sunday ride was just that:
A sun day with plenty of sunshine making me squint all over the place.
I rode my longer route which means I included what's known as the Southern Loop, and although I took much of it slow and easy due to vision, it felt pretty good, all-in-all.
Total mileage yesterday was 55 miles, so not too shabby.

Off to jerk,
-John

Gasoline for $4.29 a Gallon

I went for my latest Sunday Pachaug enduro loop ride today and it was done with the WR-250FP running the stock camshaft timing, the setup that gives more low-end torque at the expense of harder-hitting midrange and top-end power.
It was a good trade as far as I'm concerned because the terrain that makes up the Pachaug loop doesn't require (or allow, unless you are either very lucky or an expert rider with eyesight like a hawk) warp speed in most spots but does reward good low-end torque and tractability.
So, all is well again with the satisfaction regarding the engine's character.
At least this experiment showed me first hand how the bike runs in each specification.

Today's ride was decent, with partly cloudy skies and dry conditions, although there were the few minor water spots that seem to take forever to dry-up.
If I hadn't felt a bit down on mental energy, the ride could have been rated a solid "great", but since I seemed target fixate (stare at) on a few obstacles in the trail that weren't there the last ride instead of simply riding around them, I felt a bit clumsy a few times and had to come to a brief stop to regroup and then carry on.
Nothing bad happened, but it was a bit annoying at the same time.
At least I did have a good run through the pine-needled-whoops-through-the-woods section and at another shorter pine-needled section later in the ride - these did feel good and I rode well.

There was a pesky tree down across the trail mid-way through the first pine-needled section, right where you can jam across some whoops.
I was able to hop over it without taking a detour off the trail, but it is obvious that I have a tree-clearing project for this coming Saturday.  ;)

-John

428 Bullshit Stories

This past Labor Day weekend was a complete waste as far as riding my WR-250FP went, and it was a bummer because I could have salvaged a day of riding out of it, too.

I rolled the dice and kept to my usual routine of going on Sunday, but, that turned out to be a rainy day.
Monday, Labor Day, was then hoped for, but that, too, was wet.
If I'd paid more attention to the weather forecast (put more faith into the prediction, actually), I would have gone Saturday afternoon and enjoyed dry conditions.
I didn't, so no riding for me this past weekend.
The bike is still waiting to go out for it's first ride since putting the exhaust cam timing back to stock specification, and it will be interesting to feel the comparison to how it was the ride before.

From here on out, I'll hope to remember that Saturday afternoon riding is better than no riding at all on the weekend.

What do you think about all of the blabbing about the US wanting to war it up with Syria?
I know what I think:
It's another bullshit cover story meant for the profane, and the real story is that the initiates, the illumined ones, the ones with the only truly mature minds on Earth, such as the rich and powerful men of the United Nations, continuing with knocking the shit out of those nations in order to get them completely on board with their plans of destroying all of the old-fashioned religions and old-school morality, getting on with their plans of a one-world government, and demolishing a country's own monetary set-up and getting them dependent on a one-world financial system.
All controlled by them, of course, the tight-knit secret society of those who secretly believe in and live by the Luciferian philosophy, the one which teaches that man, through the gift of intellect and the use of this intellect, shall evolve to the point that he, himself, is god.

Gift?
From who?
Well, why is it called the Luciferian philosophy?

-John

Valve Cover Off 427 times

Well, I took the WR-250FP out this past Sunday on the ol' Pachaug enduro loop with the exhaust cam retarded to YZ specs.
How did it go?
Fast.

On the trails that allow you to get going with a decent amount of speed, the bike ran strong, with the newfound power making it easier to go fast on fast trails.
Once the revs get into the lower part of the midrange, the bike simply takes off like a shot compared to how the bike runs with the stock cam setup.
If you keep the throttle open, it pulls through the revs with authority it did not have previously, launching you out of corners and leaping over whoops like never before.
On my favorite pine-needled-whoops-through-the-woods section, it was my fastest run through the whoops to date, I do believe - the bike was really in it's element here.

The trade-off to get that power increase was that torque and pulling power way down low in the revs was lost in the process, and quite frankly, it was torque that was missed out on the trails.
This is because 90% of the mileage on the Pachaug loop is not fast like a motocross track through the woods (if only, huh?), but more like...woods.
And rocks.
And woods and rocks going up hill and down.
So, During the past couple of mornings before jerk, I actually set the exhaust cam back to the stock WR-250FP setup in order to restore the power characteristics to how they once were - lacking the harder-hitting snap and rev that was fun (in the few places it made sense), but returning the bottom end torque that is, really, needed out on those trails much of the time.
It only makes sense to me.

-John

I've Got a 426

Yamaha once made YZ and WR models designated 426 from 2000-2002.
That's a nice, well-rounded figure, eh?
It is catchy-sounding, and is probably why it was used.

It's Saturn's Day morning, and this past week each morning before jerk, I spent time checking the WR-250FP valve clearances (they were just fine and dandy and, in fact, I believe measured at the same specs. as they were when I first checked them a year ago) as well as retarded the exhaust cam one tooth, giving the bike what guys on the In-Toe-Net call "YZ timing".

This means the WR comes with the exhaust camshaft advanced a tooth compared to the cam timing of the 2002 YZ-250FP, the bike my 2002 WR-250FP is based on.
Why?
Opinions vary a bit, but I believe (and nobody from the Yamaha factory in Japan is sitting me down to explain the whys) it's to do with reducing exhaust emissions by advancing the WR exhaust cam a tooth in order to have the exhaust valves close sooner, reduce valve overlap (when both intake and exhaust valves are slightly open at the same time), and reduce those exhaust nasties that are killing all the birds I ride past, no matter how far away they are.

The reason the WR gets subjected to tougher EPA regulations is because the bike is sold with intent of being used on public lands open to legal off-road riding, where the YZ is sold in a closed-course-use-only state (like a local motocross track that's privately owned).
The side effect of this EPA tuning is less power.
Now, that's not anything new, is it?

So, tomorrow's Pachaug enduro loop ride will be the real acid test to see just how I like this new setup.

I took the bike for a 2-mile putt up the street before jerk yesterday morning just to ensure that all was well after putting the bike back together, and I immediately could tell the bike does indeed have more power, pulls stronger, and pulls through the revs with more force.
Easily noticeable, so there's no question the bike runs stronger like this.
The experiment is to see if low-end torque (especially way down just above idle) is effected and to see how I get along with it in the tricky, ugly, tight sections of the rocky Pachaug loop, of which there are more than a few along the way.

Stay tuned.

-John

425 Well-Lit Rides

Went out for yet another Sunday Pachaug enduro loop ride on the WR-250FP this morning.
How was it?
Fair.
Not bad.
Not fantastic (like I would have liked it to be).
Just fair.
How come?
Two reasons:
I woke up feeling a bit down on energy and coordination, and the sun was out brightly, which screws with my vision.
Still, there were no crashes or other bad incidents, so, it could have been a worse one.
At least the rear tire, now two rides old, is still feeling pretty fresh, although that will gradually deteriorate with each coming time out there.
Typically, after the 4th ride, it's back to where the rear tire will get me by, but no longer feels as good as it does when fresh.

Next Sunday's forecast (if you feel like holding your breath on a weather forecast for a week in advance) is for a cloudy day.
Here's hoping it comes true.

I did make a decent pass through my favorite pine-needled-whoops-through-the-woods section, so that was one of the several good points of the ride.

When I washed the bike after today's ride, I removed the fuel tank and cleaned the area above the cylinder head cover because I am thinking about checking the valve clearances before next Sunday's ride since I've now had the bike for a year, and the only time I've checked them was before I even rode the bike last August.
Even though they're probably just fine, I like to do this once a year.

I'm also thinking about, since the head cover will be off to do that job, retarding the exhaust camshaft one tooth to put the cam timing as that of a YZ-250FP, Yamaha's motocross bike that my WR-250FP is based on.
Guys that have done it say it's a win/win situation because you get more power everywhere, from the bottom to the top, and they don't understand why the WR comes with cam timing that it does.
Myself, I don't feel the need of requiring more power, but, I am curious about the results, too.
We will see what I decide to do.

I wonder how the latest bullshit news story in the Middle East is going, the one where those sneaky 911-esque terrorists that just seem to thrive all on their own and pop up where and when you least expect them to all by themselves and without any help from any nation's Federal Government are supposedly wreaking more havoc.
I'd imagine this havoc is going to have to be dealt with by hurting some people over there as well as hurting some people over here.

The Great Work steamrolls on, Holmes.

-John

424 NSA Agents Reading My Stuff on the Internet

In the past month since my last post, there's been lots o' talk and news stories ("news" stories, perhaps?) about Edward Snowden and his ratting-out the NSA with their spying on what people write on the Internet and other spying stuff like that.
My take on it?
I basically feel that if you think this is news, buddy, you need to wake up and smell the coffee.

Just what would make somebody think there would not be somebody from some super-secret Federal government agency snooping around and listening-in on what every-day people write and talk about?
Shit, if I remember correctly, William Cooper, on his Hour of the Time radio broadcast from back in the mid-1990s (yes, folks, twenty years ago) reported that the purpose of the National Security Agency was to make and break coded communications, which meant that in order to do that, the NSA must be able to intercept and monitor (spy on, in other words) ALL communications WORLDWIDE.
Or, more plainly, the NSA is allowed to spy on all communications for the reason of protecting the security of the USA.

So, what in blue blazes should make somebody be surprised if some (probably bogus and made-up, or at least exaggerated in order to get people all riled-up) late-breaking, shit bag of a "news" story reports that government spook works are spying on the communications of the people of the USA?
Huh?
Why should you be surprised at that in this day and age, especially?
It should be more like the people of the USA say a great big, "I knew it all the time, you lying scumbags."

It should also surprise nobody that if congressmen can be bought and paid for by the NWO secret societies Mystery Babylon secrets of the ages Banksters and allow the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, if big shots in this country would take part in the giant scam known as 911 and the equally giant scam of Homeland Security, if United Nations legislation threatening to take people's guns away can be written and promoted and cheer leaded by those in United States of America public office, what on God's Green Earth would prevent people from suspecting that ALL communications from them, their families, friends and coworkers/employers are being intercepted, monitored, recorded, and saved for who-knows what?

It's for your protection from terrorists, don't you know?

Shifting gears:

I have been going out on my Sunday Pachaug enduro loop rides, as usual, and the one today was good because I just mounted up a brandy-new Bridgestone M22 rear tire.
Mmmmm-mmmm, traction today felt very good, indeed.
Things could have even better if it were cloudy and if I hadn't tweaked my bum wrist last Sunday, but, I backed it down a notch at times to baby it and all went well enough.
The bike performed well, as usual, and I basically enjoyed it.

Time for bed.
Got that, NSA (and who knows who else) spooks?

-John

423 Religious Fanatics and Rock Agents

Have I offended anyone?
There is a Frank Zappa album with a similar title to it, you know, which is an interesting topic in itself.

In short, I believe that Zappa, along with numerous well-known rock musicians and singers and performers, were part of (and still are to this very day) a covert operation to undermine the morality of this country, damage the solidity of the Constitution of the Unites States of America, corrupt the minds of young people (much to the disapproval of any parents who cared for their children), and to pave the way of throwing the old-school morality of this country out with the trash and to bring in the NWO, the new way of doing things.
That is:
A one-world government, headed by the United Nations, that satisfies the big wigs who are really calling the shots, not our puppet president and his homo cohorts - they are just sell-out players much like Frank Zappa.
And why would they be sell-out participants in such a thing?
Because, I believe, they felt they were part of a superior class of people that had the right to do such things.
Why else?

And, when it comes to the Talmud-believing Jews who go to their synagogues to listen to the Big Daddy Rabbi preaching such superiority over non Jews, they already have a head start in the I'm-Better-Than-You sweepstakes.
I'm not talking about Joseph Average who's just trying to get by like Christian Joe Average, but I do mean that's why there are Much-Better-Than-Joseph-Average Jews in high places that have sold this country down the river in order to usher in the NWO:
They were raised believing they're King Shit.

Shifting gears...

I've been on a few Pachaug enduro loop rides since the last post, the most recent one just yesterday (Sunday, as usual).
I had high expectations for yesterday's ride since it was gray and cloudy (excellent visual conditions for me), but, wouldn't you know it, the sun started peaking out from behind the clouds about two miles into the ride.
It did stay cloudy for most of the ride, but by the two-thirds mark, the sun was staying out much of the time, and that was a bummer.
A bummer because those good conditions were washed away just like that, making me squint in order to cut the brightness down.

So, the ride was, overall, decent, but not great as I initially felt it was going to be.
The WR-250FP, I'm happy to report, felt very good for the 43 miles out there, and the single time I shut the engine off was to stop and take a restroom break, a side-effect of drinking lots of water this time of year.

I've recently communicated with two other people about the possibility of going out on the Pachaug loop for a ride - one a guy who I've known since the mid-1990s, and one guy from an Internet message board who I've never met I person.
We'll see if anything materializes.

-John

 

422: Ol' Blue

 

The WR-250FP after yet another Sunday Pachaug enduro loop ride.

Squeaky-clean, and quite blue.

 

Today, I went out a bit earlier than usual, getting onto the trails by 9:00am.

This was because I went with two other riders, one who I'd ridden with on the Pachaug loop twice last year, and another guy who I'd not met before today.

 

How'd it go?

Not bad at all.

Nobody died that I know of, no crashes that I heard about, and I had a decent ride out there today.

Although the sky was clear and the sun was out brightly, I still managed to ride well enough to get a good feeling from the bike and pull-off some decent riding.

The other guys were still breathing at the end of the 45-mile ride, so I'm assuming they enjoyed it, too.  :)

 

Gear change:

 

Here's a question:

Does anybody know what the difference is between Jews and Christians (such as Roman Catholics)?

I mean besides the big noses.

Answer:

Jews do not and did not accept Jesus Christ.

And why is that?

They didn't like how Christ laid it out for them in plain language that they were no longer towing the line in morality and doing unto others as you want done unto you.

In other words, the elder Jews were doing stupid shit like conducting money-making business inside of God's temple, which was a place of worship, not money and profit.

The Jews also didn't like how this guy Jesus Christ was thought to be the messiah that was foretold to be coming one day and liberate the Jews from all of their oppressors with violence and force and place them above all others, but instead, Jesus was a man of peace and reason, and one of the rare times he did get violent and used force was when he tossed the Jewish businessmen, themselves, out of the temple on their asses.

As they deserved.

In spades.

 

So, since Jesus pointed the finger at the head Jews and told them they were fucking-up, and because Jesus proved not to be the much-anticipated Jew-championing warlord that they wanted but a man of peace who spread the Word of God instead, the head Jews decided to conspire and petition to have him killed.

 

So, there you have it in a nutshell:

Christians accepted Jesus for what he was - a bringer of peace and life - while the Jews rejected him because that's not what they wanted in their kind of new guy in town, which was supposed to be somebody to be pro-Jew and anti-everybody else.

Much how it is to this very day, by the way.

Don't agree?

Bucky, you must have your head in the sand and have been hoodwinked by the bullshit lies and propaganda on TV.

Why don't you quit having a puff on that joint and go find out what the Jewish Talmud teaches.

Because, you see, I was born and raised in a Roman Catholic household and went to a Roman Catholic church every Sunday (as well as Roman Catholic Sunday school immediately afterwards) for years while growing-up in the 1970s.

It was taught to me from as far back as I can remember what Jews like and don't like, and folks, they don't like Jesus Christ.

In fact, they not only don't like Christ, but don't like you or anybody else they don't recognize as being a real, true-to-life, full-blood Jew.

In fact, they don't view being Jewish as a religion, but a race of superior people.

Truly disgusting in my book.

This is what they are taught from a young age:

They are superior and you are a stupid, inferior idiot worthy of being tricked and cheated by them, something that they call Goyim.

They also don't like minorities, especially blacks, who they call Schwartzas.

I can only imagine the choice words they have for Obama behind closed doors.

You think the KKK is a racist organization?

Hardcore Jews are at least as racist.

 

Did you know any of this?

What does this have to do with anything today?

More on this later.

 

-John

421: Payback is Fun - There's Nothing New Under the Sun

Bill Gates, Microsoft bigshot, and, according to magazines that are about money and greed (acquiring more and more money), one of the wealthiest guys in the world.
Since he was born in 1955, that non-gray hair on his head has either been colored-in, or this is based on an older pic.
That snake on his shirt is the ages-old symbol of wisdom and intellect.
Who's got this wisdom?
Ask the serpent in the Garden of Eden.

I don't believe for a second that guys like Bill Gates got to be one of the world's richest men without a pull-up from other bigshots that are above him on the rich man totem pole.
No way.
I do believe he got there by guys more senior than him allowing his company to get as big as it did because they saw a use for him.
Basically, he had help in getting to the spot he got in by other guys who got to the top before he did, himself.

So, what do you think happens when the guys who helped get you there see a need to get something done, and they feel you ARE going to be involved in it?
No-brainer, Lenny:
They'll tell Bill Gates, "Hey, Gates. Time for some payback. Don't forget who helped get you where you are today. Don't disappoint us. Wink-wink. Nudge-nudge."

Hogwash?
You think Bill Gates will bite the hand that feeds him and tell them to f-off?
I doubt it, as that seems perfectly logical to me.
What's more, I feel that's exactly what a wealthy psycho would say to one of their juniors:
I got you here, now pay-up, pal.

So, now Mr. Microsoft is a guy who is part of these TED seminars brainwashing people that we have to stick needles in folks living in these 3rd world countries in order to "help" them.
You know - the places full of people that these guys want rid of because they're useless eaters who are clogging-up the world's population and standing on ground containing the resources that these fat cats say they own.
That's because they claim to own the whole world, you know, even land which you supposedly own and pay your property taxes to your local town hall every year.
That's your rental fee.
And if they actually lay claim to the whole planet, you can bet your ass they'll do as they see fit, and those people over there just ain't fit to live in their vision of what the world should and will some day be like.

I don't think Bill Gates is reluctantly doing this stuff, which I believe is a scam and a lie and rooted in deceit (lies, in other words), because, by now, he's one of these guys and part of the club of wealthy men who have taken on oath or two to keep secrets, protect their brothers, and strive to complete The Great Work as they give each other those funny handshakes, say their code words, and laugh up their sleeves at the profane idiots below them.
After all, if you were as smart as they are, you'd be right up there with them.

Because, you see, governments of countries answer to organizations of these guys, an example being the United Nations.
Just who do you think started or even dreamt-up the idea of the UN?
Some dirt-poor guy wearing a white toga who wanted peace and love in the world?
You're nuts if you believe that stuff.
No, more like the UN is the front organization for these Godless, psychotic bigshots who fear no punishment from God, who believe what they say goes, and who have their fingers and influence on where the world shall be 5, 10, or 50 years from now.


Changing gears:

I went out to a different riding spot yesterday, a place I'd been to once last year.
It's a plot of (so I am told) private property off of what's known as a "rail trail", a path through the woods where railroad tracks used to be.
The steel rails and wooden rail ties are long gone (the New Haven Railroad quit using this rail line in 1968, if I remember), but the path, or railroad bed, is still there, and since there are people living out there, there are plots of private property all along this old railroad bed.
So, what do you do with this wooded land out along this abandoned rail bed?
Ride dirt bikes, goddammit!

I made plans to meet with a couple I've known for about 7 years and spend part of Sunday (yesterday) farting around on the trails and small sand pit on this property.
It was OK, but I only did 7.9 miles according to my odometer.
That's not much riding for a day's dirt biking, so the guy came up with a good idea:
Next time we go out there, we'll connect the trails together into a makeshift loop and ride laps around the loop.
Makes sense to me, as that's exactly what I'd do for myself if I lived there and had unlimited use of it.
We'll see.

Today is Monday, Memorial Day, so there's no jerk today.
I still feel like I haven't ridden enough this weekend, so I plan on going out to the usual Pachaug enduro loop sometime today on the ol' WR-250FP.

-John

420 People Sneezing Due to Pollen

There's probably a lot more than that.

 

Here's a pic (that's the thing above) of one of the Central Cycle Club Pachaug Rock Ride arrows that were used to mark the trails.

What's the CCC Rock Ride?

It's pretty much an organized trail ride that uses the same trail loop in and around the Pachaug forest that I ride on Sundays.

Once a year, the local motocross track (CCC) promotes this ride out on the ol' Pachaug enduro loop, and for the riders not familiar with the lay of the land, these florescent orange arrows point the way around the trails.

NETRA, by the way, is the New England Trail Riders Association, the organization that I'm a member of and also the organization (if I understand what I've read correctly) that went to bat against people (or, one guy in particular, so I was told) in the state of Connecticut bureaucracy waaaaaay back around the years of 1970 - 1974 in order to get dirt bikes un-kicked-out-of the Pachaug forest.

The agreement that was struck is the Pachaug loop I ride on.

Why were dirt bikes kicked out of the Pachaug forest back in the years just after the hippie-dippie movement?

My guess is due to a few retards ruining it for the rest of the responsible, intelligent riders with a brain in their heads, as well as some stupid environmentalist going ape shit at the sight of a knobby tire track on the ground, and that's assuming he got off his ass to go take a walk out in the woods to begin with.

This idiot probably cringes at the though of digging a hole in the ground, yet drives a gas-guzzling Rolls or 20,000-pound SUV that costs $3.2 million, but that's not being a hypocrite.

That is, if the fool is still alive today and healthy enough to drive.

 

Today's Pachaug loop ride was one for the record books.

I felt very good on the bike today - it was cloudy (yes!), there was great traction, low dust, minimal water, and I rode the sections of the loop that I reserve for the days where conditions are good enough and I'm feeling good enough.

Total mileage for the day was 57.7 , which is about 13 more than I've been doing so far this year.

 

Today was one of those great days, I'm happy to say, as I rode well and felt good doing it.

The balance of the bike felt good, the tires worked well, and the bike ran strongly.

All-in-all, it was the kind of ride that makes me wish I had $3.2 million of my own tucked under the mattress so I wouldn't have to go to jerk tomorrow and could do some more riding, instead.

My profession would be riding and wrenching my WR-250FP.

 

I am feeling well and truly tired after having such a good ride today (and a good walk out on the trails yesterday where I picked up that arrow shown above), so, I'll have to save my thoughts on life, liberty, and how we're being scammed by rotten guys in high places for another time.

 

-John

419 Days Since the Last Post

Well, not quite, but it has been a couple of months.
Why the big time gap?
Basically, I became annoyed by how this site would unpredictably alternate between my not needing or my needing the password to gain access to this bloggy kingdom and all of the wealth riches that go along with it.
So, I often felt like not even bothering to conjure-up yet another new password since I'd forgotten the last one.
So, of course, when I felt in a rare mood and decided to roll the dice and try to access this account to blog away, I wasn't even asked for the password.

Word, homie.

First, about riding on the Pachaug loop on the WR-250FP:

I started my weekend habit back up a month ago, and so far, ground conditions and the weather have been quite good.
Two of the rides were cloudy (good) and two were sunny (bad for me), but all-in-all, the rides were anywhere from good to great, so I'm not complaining.
I need a new rear tire badly, and I'll probably mount-up a new M22 before the next ride on Sunday.
The front sprocket teeth are getting thin, and I'll probably change that at the same time as well as disassemble the rear suspension linkage and swingarm pivot for another greasing of those parts.
Important stuff that you can't neglect, lest you go in there to not maintain a high level of lubrication and cleanliness, but to actually remove and replace damaged parts your lazy ass failed to maintain in the first place.
That's not my style.

Overall, the bike is feeling good.
New tires (or, at least a new rear, although the front is worn, too) will only make it better.

Now, a couple points having to do with other big things in life:

The recent gun control political scam.
That's right:
SCAM.
That's all today's politics boils down to:
One big scam.
We're supposed to believe that we are electing people to go to Washington DC to do things for the benefit of the people of the USA (good), where in reality, it's more about these guys being self-serving, crooked, corrupt, dishonest, and not caring what happens to you and me as long as their lofty lifestyle is not compromised.
They've sold out, in other words, and have traded honesty and doing the right thing according to the Constitution of the United Stated of America for wealth, a position of lofty status among their also-lofty peers, and, pretty much, a sense of being better than the people they see as being below them.
What applies to you and me doesn't apply to them, in other words.
They're special.
Who says?
They do.

The shit they're pulling is using these intentionally-done events like the Sandy Hook shooting and the Boston Marathon bombing to be able to point their fingers at what happened and say:
"See? We need more gun control laws and everyone is a suspect terrorist."
It's all a scam, and the goal is the complete disarming of the people of the United States of America, as per the treaties these guys have signed to be on board with their bosses, the guys who run the United Nation, the front group for the wealthy and powerful men of the world who REALLY believe they're a lot better than you are.
These guys are into the Luciferian philosophy, after all, where the belief is that man, through the use of his superior intellect, shall evolve to the point that he, himself, conquers the Earth, conquers nature, and becomes god (and that's god with a lower case g).
You can't get any more conceited and big-headed than that, and that's the caliber of characters we're dealing with on this stuff.
They see themselves as being superior to all others on the planet, feel they have the right to do such things because it suits them, and if it hurts you...oh, well.
They believe in no God like you read about in the Bible or learn about in church - they, themselves, are god as far as they're concerned.
So, with no belief in God, they fear no retribution or punishment from God if they pull bad shit on you in order to make things better for them.
There's nothing keeping them in check.
There's nothing stopping them.
They're Godless.

So, if our Washington DC politicians have sold out for money and status, take orders from their bosses at the UN who aim to bring the whole world under their brand of a one world government and economy, plan on using conjured-up shootings and bombings to use as a cheap excuse (no matter who gets killed in the process, as long as it's not them) to push their lies, take your weapons away to remove your ability to defend against what they want to bring down upon you, throw the Constitution for the United States of America in the trash, and want to bring the world under their vision of some utopia that suits them, what does that mean for us?

Use your head.
Believe in your instinct and gut feeling that, yes, there ARE people in high places that will do you wrong.
Do you wrong because it suits them as they see themselves as being much better than you are and what really matters is what they want.

Knowing is half the battle.

-John

418 Days Until Warm Weather Comes

Actually, we're over half way through winter according to the calendar (this week will be two-thirds, in fact), but that's what it sometime feels like.
Winter sucks when it's cold.
I need to move to a part of the country where winter doesn't feel like winter.

I haven't posted in about six weeks, mainly because I hate how this stupid blog/google/who-ever-the-hell-actually-owns-and-runs-the-place keeps asking me to log in with a password that I can't remember.
You might think I'm joking, but I'm not because it wasn't like that until a few months ago.
I used to be able to enter my friggin' password once, and then I could set it to automatically remember me whenever I came back for more bloggy fun.
Not now, though.
So, since I got sick of having to make yet ANOTHER new password, I decided to hold off on posting until I some day decided I wasn't too sick of it.
Today is that day.

See how such a dumb and insignificant thing can be made into such a big deal when put into printed words?
See how it can take-up space?
I bet there are people working for the bad guys that make a career out of doing just that.
I should get a job writing stuff for some political movement.
Not a political bowel movement, though - I mean working for the good guys that want to abide by the Constitution of the United States of America.
Remember that thing?
The thing that, when followed, allows you the freedom to do whatever you want, as long as you're not bothering anybody else while doing it and not doing anything unlawful according to the Constitution of the United States of America.

The WR-250FP has been sitting here since the last ride on December 23, 2012 - nearly two months ago.
At least it's all cleaned and well-lubricated (I wouldn't have it any other way), and it's literally ready for the next ride, whenever that is.
Next month?
We'll have to wait and see.
I expect a period of having to allow the frozen ground to thaw and go from soggy mud to reasonably firm ground, something that usually takes two or three weeks of warm-enough weather.
In past years where we have a normal winter (and that means it gets cold enough long enough to freeze the ground), we have ground still in the process of going from frozen to soft-'n-gooey mud to normal in the first half of April.
Bummer just thinking about it.
But, with each day the sun sets a minute later than the last (it's up to 5:25pm, now), and as each day ticks off the calendar, we inch a bit close to decent weather.

See?
Another paragraph blabbering about stuff that is so ordinary, it should make your teeth bleed.
Imagine how many words could be covered with some sneaky bureaucratic type typing propaganda intended to intimidate you about paying your income tax, lest you end-up like Al Capone did for tax evasion.
All my life, I heard that Capone landed in jail from income tax evasion.
Being more specific, it was actually from not paying a tax on booze he brought in from Canada, which was a lawful tax.
Did you know this?
Funny how you don't read that so easily.

My shoulder is coming along pretty well, although I can still feel the effects of falling on it on the last ride nearly two months ago.
I have about 99% of my normal range of motion and some minor pain at the extremes of it, but it's miles better than it was a day after it happened.
By the time the first ride of the season comes, I believe I'll be able to ride the bike in a reasonable fashion, although I'll be cautious because it still feels like it's on the mend.
Maybe by July, it will be back to normal, eh?

Still going on motorcycle forums and message boards, as usual, and still reading a lot of stuff that I simply cannot agree with, as well as the usual questions and comments coming from somebody that makes it sound like they either started riding yesterday, or haven't learned anything after supposedly years of doing it.
Great.
Go ahead and wreck your bike.
It gives me something to read while winter passes.  :)

Today it's windy with a temperature of about 25-ish degrees.
I think I'll go out for a walk along part of the ol' Pachaug enduro loop for a bit of exercise and to just get out of the house.
I did my chores for the day of laundry and sewing a button back onto one of my work pants.
Actually, they're work-or-whatever-else pants.  ;)

-John

417 Feet of Snow

 

 

It's Wednesday morning, and it appears that I've survived the Mayan 2012 disaster (that I'd been hearing on occasion since the mid-1970s) and my trip into the year 2013 in one piece.
I'm now wondering what the next great prophecy is supposed to be.
Hopefully, it has a lot to do with some good dirt bike riding, goddammit.

So far, it looks like this winter ain't gonna' be an above-normal one, temperature- and weather-wise, like last year's was.
We got about 8 inches of snow Saturday evening, and the temps outside for today and the next two days is for below normal.
I don't care for snow and cold weather, and I don't like my main interaction with the ol' WR-250FP to be my walking by, stopping, and squeezing the clutch lever as the bike sits parked on a stand.

If I had about $500 to spare and didn't need to buy another barrel of overpriced fuel oil for heat inside the house, I'd like to try a set of winter tires that come with those carbide-tipped friction spikes sticking out of them.
That is very tempting, indeed.

My tender shoulder is healing well and feels much better than it did 10 days ago.

 

 

-John