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34°F at ride out this morning at 6:15 - sunrise not until 7:49.
Broke out the Japanese heat shirt and the Froggtogg rain overpants.
Charged the 7V Gerbing heated glove liners last night.
Monsooned Malabar coffee bean at Dino's this morning. He makes every brew very strong - every morning - so I don't notice much difference between the 7 or 8 different beans he uses. But I ain't telling him that!

Not too bad on the Group W bench today. Little wind - and brick wall at my back.



Some shops keep the decorative lights on all night....gives you a warm feeling


Odd man out. Been there!


up all night with a colored pencil....


anyone else run into one of these things?! At Krogers, grocery. Came beeping politely up behind me....waiting.
Told me it was checking the inventory.

Stig

Your friend is wrong and not a friend for $500,- for such a minor thing!

It can be done without removing the gearcase from the scooter. Of course needs some wits.

Doing:
- plug out
- drain oil
- put/push a long cut of fabric into gearcase (2cm wide and 200cm long)
- go with a thin wire from the drainhole to catch the fabric, pull it out a few cm
- make sure you can fish it out with a hook afterwards (drainhole is possible too)
- drill required hole (grease on the drill)
- use strong vacuum cleaner now
- tap the thread (grease on the tap)
- use strong vacuum cleaner again
- set the helicoil or similar insert
- pull the long fabric out with a thin wire hook (99% of shavings are out now)
- take a liter of diesel, rinse the gear two times
- fill oil
The few small alu shavings remaining there will not harm anything, my word for it.
- put a new or cleaned plug in.
Labor = half an hour
Material = €3,-

Even removing the gearcase would not take more than one hour.
-muffler, wheelcarrier, wheel off, open gearbox, cut thread, fine festa!

This method with teflon or silicon is done only by ignorants and backyard tinkerers.

If you're still looking I have a massive screen specifically for the S200.  A bit less sure on the hardware since it's been a few years, but definitely have the screen.

I recently purchased an old rav4 for my youngest daughter. In very good shape for a 26 year old car but it did have a lot of paint chips on the hood and on various places around the car. That drives me nuts.

I wanted to touch them up so I purchased a kit from Dr Color Chip. For $62 USD you get 1 oz color matched paint, a few oz of a solvent, cloths, silicon squeegee and 3 touch up paint brushes (small, smaller and tiny).

The idea is that you put a little blob of paint next to the chip and then squeegee it over the chip, filling it in and leaving extra paint smeared around the chip (kind of like buttering a piece of toast). You let the paint dry for a few minutes and then rub the solvent soaked cloth gently over the chip and the excess paint will slowly dissolve, leaving only the paint inside the chip. It works very well. Sometimes you do remove the paint in the chip so you just do it again.

I hit most of the spots twice, with a few of them a 3rd time with the tiny paint brush. It is a much better way to fill multiple chips compared to the old way with the bottle and little paint brush. Is it perfect? Far from it, but it looks so much better.

touched up leading edge of hood plus metal (yes, metal) trim piece that goes around grille and under headlights. (very surprised that is metal, although this is a 2001...)

The same type of paint chip repair could be done on a scoot or motorcycle. Attached a before and after pic.

While $62 seems like a lot for touch up paint the end result seems worth a few hundred dollars!

Ooops, sorry Hawk.

Figured it involved a situation requiring car transport. It’s the case for you and a couple hundred million others in this country.  Think that’s going to cause financial trouble for a lot of people in the coming years. Wouldn’t be surprised if vehicles become used more for shelter and less for transportation.