Then Sunday we rode through Virginia City and into Carson for an 80 mile round trip. The curves were cool. I think I’m going to like this biking thing. Can’t wait to start riding to work.

I’m going to try and get my clutch sorted out tonight/tomorrow night. Then I’m going to ride into Reno on Wednesday for work.

Made it to my first 100 miles on my chopper yesterday. Everything is running great.

I’m going to wire in the blinkers this weekend and ride into town. I think I have everything I need to wire up the blinkers now. I need to take the rear fender off and weld in some steel brake line that I bought then run the wires in it to protect them from the wheel. It should work out good. 

I still have a few small things like blinkers and tail pipe mount to finish, but its pretty much done. I have the paint for it and when it’s nice out I’m going to clean it up and paint it. I want to relocate the filler and petcock on the tank before I paint though.

I’m going to finish it up this weekend.  Here it is as it looks right now.

I still can’t get used to having to double click on files to open them. You can single click to “preview” them, but when you toggle to another tab the preview goes away. This is very annoying.

But editing is really great. I love some of the things that they include like the token matching. If I’ve typed something var name above, then I just start typing it and hit tab to complete it. This is super nice. (I set mine to tab completion in my config)

I’m actually thinking about buying a license for it.

Hugh’s Handbuilt announced a new hydraulic clutch that fixes the problem with finding neutral. So I jumped on it. Got it last week and installed it over the weekend. I still could not get the clutch adjusted to find neutral. Randy said there could be something wrong with the clutch pack or clutch basket.

We cracked open the right side case to check it out. Yep, the clutch pack was screwed. Two out of the six were the wrong size and binding in the basket. Well, there’s the problem. I was able to put my single piece clutch rod on at the same time. Now I’m waiting for my new clutch pack and screws to hold the basket in. The screws were all stripped out and bent.

I hope to be on the road this weekend now…

Lately I’ve been wasting their time by talking to them and giving them fake info. I talk about the weather and Florida (where they are based). I don’t know what else to do. I’m already on the do-no-call list. I’ve also reported them to the FTC many times.

Aaron from Card Member Services was pretty cool guy. I was on the treadmill when he called.  I sounded like a total idiot. Finally I told him to call me back, but he never did.

The latest guy caught on pretty quick after dropping the line and putting them on hold a lot.  Finally Ethan hung up on me after I told him my credit card — that had 123456789 in it.

Update:

I changed my ATT phone number and relinked my Google Voice number to it. I got them to do it for free too. What’s nice about my Google Voice number is that it’s free and I can block numbers for free too.

So I purchased the Pamco electronic ignition system from MikesXS. Got the high power coil, advancing rod, ATU, and all the parts to swap my bike over. Install was simple. I think it only took me an hour but it should have only taken 15 minutes. It’s pretty simple.

After getting it all installed I could not get the bike started. So back to the computer for more research. From what I could gather, I had a ground problem. Then today I finally found a tasty tid bid. The coil mounting surface is a ground for the coil and how I mounted it to the bike it was not grounded. I took the coil off and filed the paint off where I mounted it then put it all back on.

Now my bike makes vroom vroom noises again!  I quickly checked the timing and it’s right on the mark.

I should be riding this weekend!  I just need to clean up the wiring a bit and then I’m off to the streets. 

Things went downhill pretty fast with it. After fighting it for years I finally signed up with the other internet provider that moved in shortly after I build my ISP. It’s been pretty solid. I still had my account with the first ISP so I build myself a pfSense router and hooked up both ISPs to it. Now I have a multi-wan configuration.

Here is the current speeds for each network I have access to:

The HSN network is the most unreliable right now. Sometimes it’s ok speed at 1.5Mbps down, but usually it’s under a Mb. AT&T recently moved 3G into our area and it has really good speed. I’m thinking about hooking that up to my router as a backup to my two networks.

The only thing that still irks me is that I still can’t watch a YouTube video without pauses. But things are looking up business wise and soon I’ll be moved into the city where I can get 30Mbps down for less than I pay now. It will be nice.

Well, I was pinging the other side of my ISP’s network connection. The Tel-Co side. I thought that if anything would go down it would be the connection between my ISP and theirs. Nope. Pings were just fine.

Now I’m pinging the DNS servers. Now when my ISP goes down, it just drops that gateway and uses my other ISP.

I haven’t had to use my third option. Connecting to any random open WiFi.