gjhdiver

I submit it does not. Monday October 5th, The Warfield, San Francisco, CA Motorhead plus Reverend Horton Heat Two of my favorite bands on the same night. I'm there. Anyone else want to get retarded ?

Because I couldn't find a Vincent Series C Black Shadow over here at the right price. I do like a good V twin, though there's always room in my garage for a '68 Bonneville or a DBD34 Gold Star.

Seriously. How do you do this ? There's no way to get that belt over the mainshaft, unless we're talking about different things here. Feel free to reply with a PM if this is getting off topic here. I've built and restored dozens of big twins, so if there's a magic way to pass an aramid belt through a case hardened mainshaft, I'd like to know about it, because it's a PITA taking the primary off to do it. You could do the trick you are suggesting with a special right side drive transmission for large rear wheel applications, but not for the standard big twins that I work on, namely those made from 1936 to 2000. BTW, I run big O rings because after I've finished with the motors, they snap the damn belts on take off. I've only thrown one chain so far, and like shropshire says, it took out a lot of stuff on it's way to the road. It actually caused the clutch hub to break free of the mainshaft and spin so fast that it friction welded itself to it. I had to remove the tranny and primary as one unit and use a plasma torch to cut the mainshaft in half to get everything apart. Mind you, that was an excuse to polish the tranny and get a close ratio heavy duty gear set in there. It also trashed my rear fender on the way out and ripped a hole in the back pack I was wearing. Ahh, good times. Here's the culprit, currently having a new bigger dual plugged top end built.

Er, then tell me how you get the new belt over the front drive sprocket Einstein The front sprocket is mounted on the transmission mainshaft which passes through the back of the primary, and onto which the clutch is mounted. You can get a chain over the front sprocket without a primary removal, but you ain't getting an endless belt there without removing it. That's why I run big O-ring chains these days.

Missed the point by a mile there old chap I'm afraid. Skydiving is real and immediate. A belief in an imaginary being is not. If I said you were stupid for believing in unicorns, I doubt you would use the same analogy. Also, I'm allowed to judge them in the same way that they judge me as an atheist. It's not hypocritical in any way. I personally could care less what they think of me actually, any more than I care what a passing dog thinks of the color of my car. It's irrelevant. My only concern is when some loon decides that their belief in supernatural entities gives them the right to interfere with my rights and laws. Other than that, They are nothing more than passing amusements AFAIK. However, we should enjoy it while we can. Atheists are now the fastest growing segment of the US secular society. When I moved here 18 years ago, it was 4%. Now it's 11% and growing.

Exactly like his followers then.

Well at least it's a Sporty so it's a quick and relatively cheap fix. If it was a big twin, you'd have to take the entire primary system and clutch out to replace the belt. I've done it, and it's a pain in the arse. If you're going to do a lot of stop start riding in the city, a chain and sprocket conversion is a good idea. You can fix a broken chain with a O-link at the side of the road if you know what you're doing....

[reply Matthew 18:3 and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. Well, I certainly would have to reduce my intellect to that of an infant to sign on to that superstitious bullshit that's for sure, so there's one thing we can agree on.

I did, that's why it's laughable. Watching people arguing about religion is like watching two five year olds arguing about who has the best imaginary friend.

That is interesting because the StratoStar is what brought the ram-air canopy to the masses. It opened very reliably and soft, was easy to pack, flew great and landed even greater. Well, I remember them getting better, but the one I had access to had no deployment bag, and a pilot chute reefing system. We coiled the lines in the pack and rolled the canopy into a cigar shape and S-folded it on top them. The openings were a little interesting to say the least. However, most of the landings were probably caused by us working out how to flare a square

Yup. It was essentially a round canopy with the corners cut off

Incorrect. I have been a professional musician as well as a skydiver for over 30 years, and I make a good portion of income from publishing. Happy Birthday has long since moved into the public domain. Feel free to sing it as much as you want. Your purchased ringtone includes a fee for performance rights. All music attached to tandems that you do not own publishing rights, or have directly licensed is copyright theft for the most part. People just aren't chased for it because there is no real chance of collection of royalties and the end user isn't selling them on. However, I've seen a lot of commercially produced skydiving videos where the music is clearly not licensed. It was probably done unintentionally, but if they made any real cash, they could expect attention from the copyright owners.

Hilarious. Finally, religion fulfilling it's one true promise. Low comedy.

Yup. Like I said, you're going to pay for it anyway, so you might as well enjoy it. (I'm enjoying it immensely it has to be said.) You also seem to conveniently forget that I'll be paying for it too, not just you. I'd rather my taxes went to health care than military adventurism. As for calling Obama a chimp, as far as I'm concerned, you can call him a grilled cheese sandwich. It doesn't affect the outcome of the legislation, and I tend to throw my loyalties behind principles, not people anyway. Our job on the left is to keep up pressure on him the way the right did on the simpering moron that proceeded him. Anyway, I shall allow you all to have the last word, as it's really not going to change anything.

Oh give it up. You've lost this one, mainly on the grounds that it's bullshit.

Nice respect for others opinions. Seems more like an arrogant bully saying "YOU HAD BETTER GIVE ME YOUR MONEY, AND GET USED TO IT." For eight years under the chimp, I had to listen to smug conservatives grinning at me and telling me to "get used to it". They don't like it when the shoe is on the other foot, and suddenly I have to care about their poor little hurt opinions. For eight years, they had full control of the legislative, executive and judicial branch. Did they care about my opinions ? Did they fuck. Well, the left is in control now. You've had your turn. For the next four years, and probably even the next eight, sit back and enjoy the ride. This socialist sure is. You're going to get health care in one form or another, so you might as well get your money's worth. As for the NHS shortage of dentists. Buggered if I know skippy. I've lived in the USA for the last 20 odd years. I've been a voting citizen here since 2001.

I grew up in a country with free and accessible health care (Great Britain). If you got ill, you went to see a doctor and there was no charge. If you wanted to pay for it, you could go private. That got you a private room and TV in the same place you could have gone for free. It's great. You should try it. You're going to get it anyway, so stop whining.

Who cares ? Nationalism is a disease anyway.

I'm an AFF examiner and my experience is that about 95% of people repeat a level. Don't regard it as a fail. Regard it as an opportunity to learn. There are NO failures when I do AFF. There are just more opportunities to get it right. If it was easy, it wouldn't be worth doing.

That lazy SOB has never packed a rig in his fat life. His lovely wife Judy Redvers does them for him. I never use packjobs as a rule, because I'm a cheap bastard, but whenever I'm in Z Hills, I ask Judy to pack for me. The best openings ever.

Um, bit of a sticky point there old chap. These posts are essentially made in a public forum, therefore you have no more right to be paid for their usage than you would if you were overheard saying them in the street. Fair use and all that. (Any lawyers feel free to disagree.) You just have to look at the all the dopes who have sunk themselves on Myspace to realise that nothing you post online is privileged or protected by copyright. There's a way more lucrative angle to this in that people like yourself could be contacted to act as expert witnesses in a suit based on posts made here. Quite a few jumpers have gone that route, with varying results. The most common of these is the destruction of their reputation in the skydiving community. I hear the money is quite good though.

I have logged every single jump I've ever done in longhand, with date, DZ, aircraft, altitude, delay, total delay, type of jump and canopy used. Anyone who doesn't believe me is welcome to come round my house and pore through logbook after logbook, from my first static line jump in 1986 to my 10,036th yesterday until they weep with boredom

He has one tandem cutaway.

Well I got 10,000 jump award no 91 a week ago if that helps.

Don't. Just don't. By the time you made the thing truly freefly friendly, it probably won't be able to open. I did one freefly type jump on my old Vector II, and I had to cut away when the toggles came out and wrapped up in the canopy on opening. The Vector II was a great rig for the day when FS was all there was. By the time you've spent enough on it to try to make it work, it still won't be safe, and you could have bought a more modern, safer alternative.