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I just did and it's a 2004 Suzuki DL1000 V-Strom. It's been well sorted and the seller has owned it since 2010 and has put most of the miles on it with service records. It's well cared for and runs great.

Why the captain of a US Navy aircraft carrier fighting in the Red Sea is always posting about things like Taco Tuesday and cookies https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-captain-us-navy-aircraft-113001509.html The best part to me was that he let the enlisted sailors sit in the captain's chair and eat a...

My wife and I have twin grandsons that will be three in a few months and we just bought a pair of Razor MX350s for them to get an introduction into motorbiking. The twins live in Florida and we will take the Razors down there for their birthday. For those of you who aren't familiar with these...

My wife and I have been getting along with our old reliable Honda EU2000i just fine for years. Then we had a three day outage last winter which taxed our (wifey's) ability to get by. The main issue was that our home has a well and our little Honda can't run the pump. So I recently relented...

My 2014 Subaru Crosstrek has been occasionally experiencing a momentary grinding of gears when shifting into 5th (top) gear. It doesn't happen all the time but it does seem to slowly be getting worse. Pausing in neutral before upshifting into 5th seems to help. The car has 158000 miles on it and...

I'm using my three chainsaws a lot more on our property up here in Vermont than I ever did back in Florida. The ambient temperature tends to be lower here too so I usually let them idle about 2-3 minutes before I start cutting. Is that enough?

Several months ago I went for a ride on my motorcycle with my phone on top of my saddlebag and it ended badly. My phone fell off and was run over and the screen was crushed. Amazingly, the guy at my local Batteries Plus store was able to replace the screen and it works fine. Of course my wife...

This is the most recent UOA on my 100,000 mile GS. No surprises but the comment from Blackstone that there was no water in the oil was mildly amusing.

My old '63 Chevy C10 pickup originally came with a 230ci straight six but had a later 250 in it when I bought it. The 250 still runs good but is showing signs of possible head gasket failure or worse with foamy oil at times. This truck will never be a matching numbers vehicle but I came across...

I have three chainsaws. An old Stihl 025 from the 90's that has served me well and still runs great. I recently bought an Echo CS-271T top handle limbing saw that I keep in a sheath on my Kubota tractor. It is super handy and light and I love it. My third saw is a Stihl MS311 that I want to ask...

I've been riding motorcycles since 1977. My first bike was a 1973 Suzuki TS185 that I bought from Suzuki of Tampa on Waters Ave for $450. Since then I've had dozens of bikes and I loved them all. A few of them tried to kill me so maybe "love" isn't quite right but my affection for all two wheel...

There was a thread here a while back that mentioned the Darwin Grip and it made me aware of this product. I have a bad back that limits my weed whacking sessions to about 15 minutes and the reviews look promising. Both of my string trimmers have the bicycle handles and are not compatible with...

I changed the transaxle and rearend fluid in my MT '14 Crosstrek at 50,000 and 100,000 miles. The throwout bearing went out at 130,000 miles and I had a local independent shop do the clutch. The owners manual specs GL-5 fluid and that's what I used but I have experienced notchy shifting ever...

My youngest son is now 28 and he's been driving the '03 Camry that we helped him buy eleven years ago when he was still in high school. It was not in great shape when he got it and I figured that he would trash it but here he is over a decade later with the same car. So Junior was in the...

I have a small Sportsman inverter/generator that I use as a backup for my Honda EU2000i. It's a Chinese made 1000 watt unit and I've had it for probably close to a decade and I like it because it's handy and light. Last week I fired it up after our long winter to exercise it for an hour or so...

I've been going through old family photos and slides and I recently ran across one that intrigued me. It's a shot of my Dad from around 1955 with what appear to be porcupines that were destined to become the evening meal. Pops is still alive but he's pushing 90 now and he doesn't remember the...

Our Crosstrek is a manual and I'll drive it as long as I can. The fact that it's port injected and lacking a big iPad in the middle of the dash makes it feel like I'm driving a prehistoric dinosaur sometimes. What are you driving?

After the late winter storm here we have been without power for about 56 hours now. Our little Honda EU2000i has been running the whole time non-stop providing power for our pellet stove, lighting, refrigerator, tv, internet and (thank goodness) coffee! The generator was bought new in '07 and...

Most couples have two vehicles and we have on several occasions had a third beater car. But for us it was not sustainable. Insuring a third car that was rarely used can be expensive due to maintenance, registration, parking, and a host of other things that go along with it. At one time we had...

I've got a '63 Chevy C10 pickup truck that I bought earlier this year. It was restored about 20 years ago but it was an amateur job and there are obvious flaws but it looks good from 20 feet away and is a good driver and great for exploring Vermont's back roads in the summer. I believe that it...