Archive for March, 2007
Week has been incredibly busy. Looking forward to a good weekend. Here is a great looking chopper chick to help get things off to a good start.
She is a little shy and doesn’t want to show her face, but the rest of her is right on!
Have a GREAT weekend!
Take Care - Ride FREE
Biker Stickers @ ChopperStickers.com
This tip comes to you from The Harley Chat Group.
You may also download this checklist direct from the Motorcycle Safety Foundation at the below link to print out & save. You will need Adobe Acrobat to view it
http://www.msf-usa.org/downloads/T-CLOCSInspectionChecklist.pdf
With spring upon us for lots of riders it’s time to dig out & get back on the road. We wanted to pass on to you the T-CLOCS Spring Motorcycle Inspection Check list to get you started on a safe riding season.
If you are a winter-weary motorcycle enthusiast, good news! Motorcycle season will soon be upon us and you’ll soon be hitting the open roads on your favorite two-wheeler. After a long winter in extended storage, your bike will likely need some TLC.
Start the riding season right with the T-CLOCS inspection created by the Motorcycle Safety Foundation. The following is a summary of their pre-ride inspection checklist that will help you get your bike ready to ride after a long few months of extreme cold and harsh conditions.
T – Tires and Wheels
* Check the air pressure of your tires and inflate to the pressure specified in your owner’s manual. Look for wear-and-tear on the treads, cracks, bulges or embedded objects.
* Check your wheels for roundness, cracks and dents, and bent, broken or missing spokes.
C - Controls
* Review the levers and pedals to make sure they’re still lubricated, and adjusted and fitted properly. They should not be broken, bent, or cracked.
* Inspect cables to make sure they are not frayed, kinked, or folded into sharp angles. Also, test to make sure your bike’s cables at no time interfere with your ability to steer.
* Check hoses for cuts, cracks, leaks, bulges, chafing or deterioration. Like cables, hoses should not interfere with your steering or suspension, and should not be folded into sharp angles.
* Test that the throttle moves freely, does not stick and snaps closed when released.
L – Lights
* If you removed your battery over the winter, install it—your owner’s manual should tell you how. Check the battery to make sure the terminals are clean and tight, it’s properly charged and secured. Check the vent tube to confirm it is not kinked or plugged, and is routed properly.
* Look over the lenses on the bike to make sure they are not cracked or broken, are securely mounted and do not have excessive condensation trapped within.
* Make sure the reflectors are not cracked, broken and are securely mounted.
* Review the bike’s headlamp for cracks. Confirm it points at the right height and direction. Test the operation of the high beam and low beam options.
* Test the tail lamp and brake lights to make sure they work when they should, and they are not cracked. Clean and ensure they are properly secured.
* Test both of the turn signals – left and right!
O- Oil and other fluids
* Check the levels and quality of the engine oil, hypoid gear oil, shaft drive, hydraulic fluid, coolant and fuel. Replace or top-up fluids that need it.
* Check for leaks of these same fluids.
C – Chassis
* Review the condition of the frame, looking for lifting paint, cracks, or dents.
* Make sure the front forks and rear shocks are properly adjusted.
* Check the tension of the belt or chain. Lubricate the chain if needed, and inspect the teeth of the sprockets confirming they are not hooked and are properly mounted.
* Replace broken or missing fasteners and tighten if loosened.
S- Stands
* For both centre stands and side stands, make sure they are not cracked or bent and that it springs into place and has the required tension to hold the bike in position.
For more spring-ready tips, check your owner’s manual. It’s sure to have a checklist for getting your particular make and model of bike ready for a summer of riding after a long winter of inactivity. Also, don’t be shy to take it into a professional for a spring tune-up if you are at all unsure or uncertain. It will be money well spent.
Now that you, or a professional, has inspected the bike to make sure it’s ready for the coming riding season, let’s not forget that your riding skills have not been practised in quite a few months. In fact, it’s likely you’re down right rusty (it’s been a long winter after all.) Make your first ride a short one at low speeds. A test ride in a parking lot or around the block will give you an opportunity to get a feel again for the skills required to brake and manoeuvre a bike safely. You can even take a refresher course. After all if your bike needs a tune-up, wouldn’t also the rider? There are courses designed specifically for the experienced rider that builds upon existing rider skills.
Hope you had a great weekend. Now get back to work!
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An old Biker walks into a confessional. The following conversation ensues:
Biker: “I am 92 years old, have a wonderful wife of 70 years, many children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Yesterday, I picked up two college girls, hitchhiking. We went to a motel, where I had sex with each of them three times.”
Priest: “Are you sorry for your sins?”
Man: “What sins?”
Priest: “What kind of a Catholic are you?”
Man: “I’m Jewish.”
Priest: “Why are you telling me all this?”
Man: “I’m 92 years old …. I’m telling everybody.”
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Take Care - Ride FREE
Biker Stickers @ ChopperStickers.com
HAPPY FRIDAY! It is SPRING! And it is even starting to feel like it here in South Eastern Virginia. Hope you had a good week.
Check out this hot babe from Darwin Motorcycles aka Brass Ball Bobbers. Her name is Maigan and she is one hot babe. You can see more of her at Darwin Motorcycles
We will be adding some more great new biker sticker designs tonight so be sure to swing in and check them out.
Hope you have a great weekend. Now I am going for a ride.
Take Care - Ride FREE
Biker Stickers @ ChopperStickers.com
Just added a few more stickers to the ChopperStickers.com. Check them out!
Here are just a couple of the new stickers designs that we just added.
 My Inner Child Is A Mean Little Fucker! |
 I Still Miss My Ex But My Aim Is Improving! |
We have added over a dozen new stickers over the past week and we still have more new stickers on the way.
The ChopperStickers.com PDF Catalog has also been updated to include all the latest stickers. We did have a bug in our site search that was not returning the proper products when you tried to search by product SKU from the catalog. This has been fixed.
Take Care - Ride FREE
Biker Stickers @ ChopperStickers.com
A Biker walks into a bar, he takes a seat at the bar and growls:”Bartender! Get me a drink!” The bartender obliges, and the biker scarfs down the drink. Slamming the glass down on the bar, he growls:
“Bartender! Get me another!” The bartender pours him another drink. After a few more rounds, the bartender attempts some conversation:
“Sir, he says, it seems that you’re visibly upset. What’s the problem?” The biker looks at him and snorts:
“I just went home and caught my ol’ lady screwing my best friend!”
“Oh man,” says the bartender, that’s rough… “What did you do?” The biker says:
“Well, I grabbed her by the hair, threw her out nekkid, threw her clothes out after her, and told her never EVER to come back.”
“Wow,” says the bartender in awe: “That’s tough man, what did you do to your friend?”
“Well,” says the biker, “I marched right back upstairs, I grabbed HIM by the scruff of the neck, and I said: BAD DOG.”
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Hope you had a great weekend! Did you check out our new stickers?
Take Care - Ride FREE
Biker Stickers @ ChopperStickers.com
Even though the weather has taken a bit of a turn here in the Eastern US, hopefully this will be the last blast of winter for awhile, spring is just around the corner and ChopperStickers.com is stocking up.
Check out our new sticker designs that have just been added. Eight new stickers were added lastnight and we have a bunch more that will be added this weekend.
Here are just a few of the new stickers:
Check out all of our new sticker designs here!
Also with spring comes poker runs and other biker events. If your club or organization is having a run, bike show, or other motorcycle event and you are looking for door prizes - let us know we would love to help out.
Also don’t forget we still have our Bike Week Coupon until the end of the month. Just add the stickers you want to your cart and enter the coupon code BIKEWEEK07 to save 5% on your order of $5 or more.
Have a great weekend!
Take Care - Ride FREE
Biker Stickers @ ChopperStickers.com
I did not get on the scale this morning. I hurt my foot earlier in the week and I have not been able to do an actual workout all week. My foot is healing so I hope to be back in the routine early next week.
I have still done pretty good this week with watching what I have been eating. Been having a couple bowls of fruit a day and drinking a lot of water. I feel pretty good. I have had some slips with my smoking but I am determined to quit and not slip, will keep working on that.
I do not think I did to bad this week, even with not being able to workout but I just couldn’t get on the scale this morning, was worried that I might have slipped too much and that would be pretty discouraging. Hopefully everything will be back to normal next week.
We have been having some great weather here in South Eastern VA, nice warm and sunny. Looks like that has ended this morning with a pretty steady rain and the temp is a little better than half what it was yesterday and it looks like the cold is going to be hear through the weekend.
Here is a great looking babe to help keep things warmed up a bit. Very nice!
Hope everyone has a great weekend despite the late winter storm that is getting ready to plow through the northeast. Becareful out there, just remember spring is just a few days away.
Take Care - Ride FREE
Biker Stickers @ ChopperStickers.com
Was looking for a way to generate a PDF catalog for ChopperStickers.com so that visitors could download and print out a catalog of all the stickers we have available on the site. Doing some searching around I came across RustyParts HTML_ToPDF PHP class.
Took some tweaking around and I had to install GhostScript and the GhostScript fonts but I got it working and I think it came out pretty nice.
I created a php script to generate a catalog of all the stickers I currently have available, then I pass that to a php script that generates the my pdf catalog. It can be done on the fly but that takes a bit and uses up quite a bit of server resources so I have a cron script that generates an updated catalog once a week.
If you are looking for away to convert other documents to PDF check out this handy online tool. It has a filesize limit of 2MB but other than that it is pretty nice. I have used it to convert the VFR Newsletter from MS Publisher to PDF and it works great.
