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Offline Red01

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« Reply #15 on: December 13, 2005, 10:08:45 PM »
I would have went with, 'I meant to type 1320, but spaced and hit "7" instead of "2"' and no one would have been the wiser.  :wink:

Too late now though.   :stickpoke:
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« Reply #16 on: December 14, 2005, 12:24:30 AM »
Don't blame yourself, blame your measurement system. METRIC is way easier!  1/4 KM = 250 metres, 1/2 KM = 500 metres, 1 KM = 1000 metres.

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« Reply #17 on: December 14, 2005, 01:05:45 AM »
Quote from: "interfuse"
(insert metric sucks jokes here)


Not from me... I wish the US would get with the program and go metric. (We were supposed to back in the 80's - but the plan fell thru.) It's a more sensible system.
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« Reply #18 on: December 14, 2005, 02:58:17 AM »
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I would have went with, 'I meant to type 1320, but spaced and hit "7" instead of "2"' and no one would have been the wiser.  :wink:

Too late now though.   :stickpoke:


Nah, with the banner week I've been having, I'm surprise I even got close.

Besides, I have a laptop, physically impossible to screw it up that bad. And FWIW I own no inchical tools. Everything I have is metric, let me tell you how much of a pisser it was to find an allen key to fit the bolts for my flyscreen (Buell).

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« Reply #19 on: December 14, 2005, 09:53:23 PM »
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Besides, I have a laptop, physically impossible to screw it up that bad. And FWIW I own no inchical tools. Everything I have is metric, let me tell you how much of a pisser it was to find an allen key to fit the bolts for my flyscreen (Buell).


Find one that's close and wrap a piece of tape around it.

For sockets that are close, but not quite, a bit of rag over the bolt/nut will usually do the trick... that's what I did as a kid when I got my first bike (a Suzuki) and my dad only had SAE tools.
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« Reply #20 on: December 15, 2005, 08:57:26 AM »
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For sockets that are close, but not quite, a bit of rag over the bolt/nut will usually do the trick... that's what I did as a kid when I got my first bike (a Suzuki) and my dad only had SAE tools.


Or just vise-grip the shit out of it 'til its round like I've done to my oil plug!   :duh:
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