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sorry to go off topic...but Neil - looking at your signature line and all the great bikes you've had, I can't help but think you would be the perfect target audience for the one print magazine I subscribe to, Classic Motorcycle Mechanics! It is based in your backyard (so to speak) and covers classic bikes from the 70's, 80's, 90's and 2000's. Your entire list of past bikes seems to fit the profile!!

https://www.classicmechanics.com/

haha..ask me again when I'm into replacing the cam chain tensioner spring on my Nighthawk 650...after I have the valve cover off, oil feed pipes, cam 'caps', intake camshaft and timing chain pulled, along with little dowel pins and clips...and AAAAAHHHHHH! What was the question again?

the removal of safety equipment - reflectors and mirrors - amazes me. Many do it on motorcycles, too...

Your description of the pickiness of Vespa owners reminds me of new Honda (car) owners...we've been thinking about a new vehicle and I've browsed a few owner's forums...and the Honda Pilot forum has to be filled with the pickiest people in the world...their 'complaints' are so ridiculous that I wouldn't want to be associated with any of them!! I feel sorry for the people in the Honda service departments

I bet that wasn't inexpensive!...but anything is better than raking leaves! I usually just mulch them all but with the rain we've had, my backyard leaves are wet and matted down. The mulching doesn't seem to work.

I also have a Bald Cypress and 2 Dawn Redwoods that drop needles/twigs that aren't picked up by a mower, either....I've ended up raking the debris under each offending tree and using it as mulch.

Riding > lawn work

looks like a fun ride!

beautiful day for a ride!

thanks, Ruffus! I haven't seen that method used, before. It looks easy and effective if done carefully.

I buy bird seed soaked in hot sauce.  The birds don't mind (they have no sense of taste), but the squirrels hate the flavor.  Regardless, I'm not a squirrel-lover.  They're carnivorous little rodentsthat eat birds.  I wish I could still shoot them like in the old days!

I grew up in a big, old house that had squirrels chew their way into the attic and I clearly remember scratching sounds in the 2nd floor walls as a kid. To this day I 'may' aim the car at the little tree rats when I see them in the street...