When I say “I paid full price”, the reality is, my sister paid full price. “I spent meh hard’erned muhnie!” Old habit during left/right brain conflict haha! My sister, she wanted get it, at random, after telling her how awesome these motorized bikes are and the things you guys do with them. She said she hadn’t seen me so excited about something in many years. Didn’t want me to get my self strapping a two strokes to my Huffy Cranbrook so she surprised me with it. As you can imagine, not only is it my first motorized bike but precious to me due to the gesture alone. But to answer your question Curt, indeed. PayPal was used. PayPal credit I would imagine. She’s not rich by any means but she has things figured out. I didn’t even want to tell her about the tribulations but….
[email protected] sent her an email instead of me, Her love is only matched by her wrath. Ain’t my problem now, they done poked the bear and it ain’t me, that’s for sure Curt!
As for the conversation, yes, chain line did indeed enter the conversation. You must understand though, the guy was not wanting to hear about it. He would say over and over “what about a spacer for the clutch, did you think of that? Did you think that maybe the bearing need a spacer, huh? Huuuuuhhhh?! I said yeah, but I already have the motor shoved as far left as it can go, the bolt holes will not line up if I moved the motor any further. His reply you ask? “ Then maybe don’t Shuuuuve the engine all the way left, did you even think of that?”. Making fun of my southern draw without any regard for subtlety rofl. He would say “you said your self the shaft is fine, the frame is fine, the clutch is fine, what Do YOU MEAN? Then no sooner as he heard me say the word misaligned, bent, angled, distorted, any synonym (and believe me I tried finding a word that wouldn’t…. Hmmm “trigger” him), he would immediately cut me off and threaten to hang up. Did you think of that?… man, you know, the suggestions he was making weren’t bad suggestions and I have said over and over that I a, willing to try any work around. Sad part is, the decent suggestions didn’t come until he had lost his resolve and delivered them in sarcastic and degrading ways. He couldn’t have suggested these, a week ago, when I first brought it up to their attention? Look, we all have moments we aren’t proud of. We are all human, I’m not going to stew on him. I just wished the phrase “angular dislocation of the jack shaft weldment” was in my vernacular before I called him.
@Tom from Rubicon!
By trade, I am a black hat certified Coal Miner, Did surveying underground until politicians Forced most of them down. We would go into the many mines, measure the the cuts, plot them on a map, use AutoCAD to make the most accurate maps and predictions possible to maximize coal yield and to prevent the miner from cutting into old flooded mines or gas pockets among other geological hazards. I loved that job. Wouldn’t take long to finish a site, but the trek into and out of the mines, guys… miles and miles underground. It’s a whole other world literally and figuratively. It would be a dreamscape that not even todays brightest paleobotanists could imagine. One could spend an entire lifetime in one shaft and be lost in a wilderness of trees, ferns, moss, grasses, molds, Lycans, shrubs. Things that have no name, completely unknown to science. A world seen by my very own eyes that no living being has ever seen nor explored and never to be seen again, day in and day out. I would sometimes be surrounded by fresh cut coal exposing fossils so pure and pristine that color, smell, and texture was perfectly preserved only to watch these unappreciated monuments to glorious life be caked in thick white rock dust and left to crumble as the continuous miner inched forward all day In an never ending cycle of destroying one precious resource for a bounty of another. Then a fail attempt at starting an electronics repair business (not really in high demand around here) and got “the cancer”, most likely from the very job that brought me most joy and stability I had ever known. Currently, unemployed, sitting in my leaky apartment plotting my revenge against my new arch enemy, He who has no name, hence forth now known as Truffle-Nuts. Apologies for yet another long post. I wanted to address all 3 of you guys and share a bit about myself before I hit the sack and hey, I’m having a blast getting to know you all. Tomorrow, one way or another, I am going to gas that bike up for the first time. I will rig something up. It will not be safe or smart but I have ideas! I am also open to suggestion!
I ain't no English Major.
