battery tenders & chargers

That is all good news! I saw you had ordered the charger (HB is excellent at finding stuff eh?) and I also saw Milton's offers of a loan (how did he go too with the voltage difference, did you share a few beers yet?) but was wondering about the battery; obviously it just needed a good long bath in resuscitating electricity.

Do you think the back tyre (note the correct spelling lol) really slipped because of wear? Even my worn knobbies stick well most of the time on dry tarmac, but seem to slide a little for no reason at other times. It is either road markings which can be bloody slippery even when dry or it is a layer of dust I find, fine dust and a bit of gravel that you can hardly see. There is one spot near me always does that. Anyway, good luck with finding tyres.

Something that gave me a lot of confidence years ago after a crash was some engine guards, the sort that are usually chromed and stick sideways out from the front frame. Not so much for shoulders but I got my leg pinned under the bike one day and it was only when the machine hit the curb of the roundabout and hopped up again that I got free. My leathers were torn right through - another few feet and I would have been ripped up myself. Next time I slid (front wheel lost it on a manhole cover) the new guards kept everything lifted from the road and the bike swept away from me and slowed in a shower of sparks and it and I were OK, just scratched the chrome. It doesn't directly save the shoulder but means you can twist onto your back and slide to a happy halt if there is nowt else in the way! All the 'Tour de France' cyclists seem to have smashed their collar bones a few times so I am surprised no-one has invented anything for protecting that if it is so vulnerable. Maybe those new-fangled air-bag suits!

And the shank should be turned into a real 'shank' perhaps, not a keyring, with a collar-bone handle of course? I am sure you can pick up human body bits in China. Because of your Hippocratic Oath and peaceable nature, you needn't use it as a weapon, could be a letter opener ...

I am so pathetic ...

Mr. Euph buys a JH600 ... so do I
Mr. Euph gets Tourfella bags ... so do I
Mr. Euph gets a Canon G11 ... so do I
Mr. Euph gets a Contour cam ... so do I

Mr. Euph gets a NFA charger off taobao ... so do I

Dear Mr Euph ... please do not buy a pink Lambo!

Sincerely, your pathetic shadow

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I am so pathetic ...

Mr. Euph buys a JH600 ... so do I
Mr. Euph gets Tourfella bags ... so do I
Mr. Euph gets a Canon G11 ... so do I
Mr. Euph gets a Contour cam ... so do I

Mr. Euph gets a NFA charger off taobao ... so do I

Dear Mr Euph ... please do not buy a pink Lambo!

Sincerely, your pathetic shadow

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Mr. Euph will be getting a set of hand guards for his JH600 soon, which is in my care currently. I am pretty sure you can afford that with your doctor's income. PM me for the spec.
By the way, Mr. Euph is a Apple/Mac guy. Make sure you give up your Wintel if not yet done that.
Cheers.

Don't listen to him, go Linux! Express your individuality just like so many thousands of others ...

Perhaps you two are one and the same individual, depending on the drugs drifting in the air in the operating theatre on any particular day? I bet you too have a scar on the shoulder?

Which one is Mr. Jekyll and which one is Mr. Hyde, that is the real question ...

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...Dear Mr Euph ... please do not buy a pink Lambo!

Sincerely, your pathetic shadow

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Dear Lao Jia Huo,

Don't feel bad. What goes around comes around. I've just ordered one of these:

http://www.mychinamoto.com/forums/at...870677&thumb=1

I have only you to thank!

cheers

which, the vehicle, the ballet-dancer in boots or the teddy bear? Or all three?

I'll leave that to your imagination.

I would like to know where Lao Jia Huo got those two pictures. Pink Lambos are a dime a dozen. But I've never seen anything like those two pink riders. Please tell me this was not a photoshopping trick.

cheers

I can't see any pictures in his post. You joshing me? Don't tell me they only show on macs!

Someone gave me a little Samsung netbook loaded with Win7 in Chinese. :bs: I was thinking I'd redo it with some Linux distro so I could be a cool hacker-geek independent of any commercial master. :pirate3:

But if I can't see girls riding pink motorbikes, I think I'll pass! :dirtbike:

Ah FFS! Now I don't know if you are taking the P or not! which probably serves me right for always being a smartarse ...
I cannot see anything pictorial in Lao Jia Huo's last post, number 32, ( I can see the lass in yours as I answered about that.)

removed some nonsense

if i ever get a decent antenna arrangement set up for wireless BB at home, I will get a cheap chinese android pad as soon as they get a proper tablet O/S and forget desktop and laptop computers for ever. i only browse, download music and play with photos and write stories these days

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Ah FFS! Now I don't know if you are taking the P or not! which probably serves me right for always being a smartarse ...
I cannot see anything pictorial in Lao Jia Huo's last post, number 32, ( I can see the lass in yours as I answered about that.)

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Didn't mean to bust your chops! Point your linux box to Lao Jia Huo's pretty in pink post. Would indeed be regrettable if you missed that post!

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linux on a netbook, why? just check the rom and cpu, root it using instructions from http://androidforums.com/ and go Android 2.2, it is a sort of Linux and does all you would want

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Actually, what I want is "anything but windows" on the netbook. I spent so many years having to learn arch tricks to keep a wintel rig running, i felt like pavlov's dog. imagine if you had to work that hard to run your microwave or car or air conditioner. then again, i get the feeling that linux is not unlike windows in that it requires a lot of mental and technical overhead to use. if linux were fun and easy, i could see loading it up on this otherwise useless netbook and giving it a spin. if android is available for this, or google chrome OS (or are these the same?), I'd be game for that too. Just don't want to spend to much time mastering an OS just for the sake of mastering an OS. I'd rather reread Ulysses. :deal:

My little never-been-used Samsung is the N128, with Intel's atop cpu.

cheers

thanks for letting me off the hook, i could indeed see them there but had missed them before despite i try not to miss much, had thought you meant here.

Will look up that cpu etc with my tech hat on tomorrow, had enough of computers for today. Spent an hour or 2 trying to get a simple 'mouse-over' dictionary set up in a text editor and finally failed (although I got it to work in chinese). i am writing memoirs and stuff while i cannot walk well. Bored quite shitless as they say. Changed the engine oil on the bike, will endeavour to do a lap of the local lanes as it turns to dusk (the cops are on shift change then), just for the fresh air and so i don't shoot myself or the bloody cat or throw the computer at the TV or vice versa.

Linux is not user friendly enough yet in any version if you don't want to have to think and learn a lot. Sorry to all the afficionados but it is true. i use it because I am reasonably techniwhatever and I finally grew to despise wintel after many years sorting it out constantly and getting it to work as I wished, still too bloody insecure though, but I hated it just as it got good, too late for me.

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Go Linux! Express your individuality just like so many thousands of others

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Jape this forum would not be same without you...

It has been suggested that without me it might thrive ... but I cannot leave, I love it (and you lot) almost as much as I love the sound of my own voice and appreciate my own smart-arse remarks.

My charger arrived and I promptly set about using this fancy-dancy defibrillator on my JH600 patient (btw, I'm a paper-doc, not the MD variety, but hey - TIC - so I'll happily perform surgery).

I'll get around to describing R&R'ing the JH600 battery in another post (not as straight forward as one assumes, and I wish someone had covered the topic to prevent the numerous vernaculars I used getting it in/out).

The battery was totally brain dead ... but the charger worked its magic and brought it back to life. (I wonder if batteries see the long tunnel with a bright light at the end?)

As a sidenote, my sweety just redid our kitchen in stainless - including stainless countertops. Note to self (and others) - do NOT recharge a battery on stainless countertops, as tiny droplets of battery acid pop out of the cells and create little black dots on brand new stainless countertops - this most certainly will be followed by our sweeties teaching us several new Chinese vernaculars, in a somewhat raised voice.

Took about 12 hours to fully recharge - seems good as new.

I then recharged the XTR's tiny battery (almost wrist watch sized) in a mere 2 hours, but it was only in a coma, not completely dead. BTW, the XTR has the dumbest seat removal system I've ever seen.

Thanks again Mr Euph - I can always count on ya! Here's a pink treat, California-style ... as you may be a little homesick ...

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If you can't read it ... the script says "Hollywood" and I think those are Baywatch people (although, as a real biker, I've never watched the series)

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BTW, the XTR has the dumbest seat removal system I've ever seen.

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Please explain. Can you show us the underside of the seat, mounting points.

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Thanks again Mr Euph - I can always count on ya! Here's a pink treat, California-style ... as you may be a little homesick ...

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If you can't read it ... the script says "Hollywood" and I think those are Baywatch people (although, as a real biker, I've never watched the series)

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Nice! My guess would have been the San Francisco North Bay chapter of Dykes on Bykes...

cheers

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Please explain. Can you show us the underside of the seat, mounting points.

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A request for seat mounting points....bored are we?

Here's how you remove the seat. :eek2:

http://www.contactdi.com/2011/1010956.jpg

But seriously, this is where it mounts.

http://www.contactdi.com/2011/1000338.jpg

Which has this hollow screw assembly that runs through the black plastic section, then through the rear fender and then through the frame. The assembly is made from a rare blend of Chinese aluminum that is one part aluminum and one part cow butter. You will basically cross and strip the threads by looking at it or mentioning it by name. Don't ever remove it, it's not necessary to get the seat off, only to remove the rear fender.

http://www.contactdi.com/2011/1000809.jpg

Another screw runs through this assembly and actually holds the seat on. It looks like it should be simple, but you can't see it when you put the seat on, so it's easy to cross thread.

http://www.contactdi.com/2011/1000786.jpg

The further you thread the screw in, the further it pokes up your ass, which is why I added an extra long bolt to Felix's bike when I put it back together.:naughty: Once you do it about 26 times, it's a piece of cake. Another thoughtful piece of engineering is the plastic seat pan sitting directly on the aluminum frame rails, thus making sure all motor vibration is directly transferred to you colon.

Cheers!
ChinaV

Give me some more ideas what you want to use the Samsung for please Euphonius. The Android netbook mods I thought of for Atom are not ready yet, been delayed, and the existing Android stuff is mainly touchscreen based so irrelevant. But you can try the Chromium (a bit different to but associated with Chrome) O/S, or small Linux distro like Meego.

I think you may get problems with some hardware, that has been my continuous (continuing, continual?) problem with Linux and why i use Ubuntu. Ubuntu is bloated compared to many Linux distros but that is partly because it has more compatibility out of the box or rather 'off the disc'.

Ubuntu Netbook Remix may in fact be the best test bed. You won't be relying on the Samsung so you can take risks, whereas my continuing problem has been keeping net connections after i try different flavours. You need the 'net to get the answers to problems about the 'net, so often! So I dual booted for months, playing wiht Linux in the way we used to with Windows. Netbooks don't have dvd players usually so you will also have to explore using a USB thumb drive to load (or try) any O/S.

i have had problems with booting netbooks from any USB port with an external DVD drive, some ports work, some don't, some drives work, some don't, but I am sure your relatively modern netbook boot system will allow for a change to 'boot from USB flash drive' or similar.

Finally I got i (they got it) stable. Now I am just Ubuntu and looking at the next essay being into hardware rather than software. Might get a tablet computer and try and merge all the functions I need, including phone and GPS.

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Actually, what I want is "anything but windows" on the netbook.
My little never-been-used Samsung is the N128, with Intel's atop cpu.

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How about OSX? A couple hours on a rainy afternoon and you could probably get it running.

Cheers!
ChinaV

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Here's how you remove the seat. :eek2:

http://www.contactdi.com/2011/1010956.jpg

Cheers!
ChinaV

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I forgot to mention that a couple of weeks ago, I had to send a private message to ChinaV for his help in removing the seat, to which he immediately replied, else I'd probably have proceeded to also remove the forks!

And a complimentary suggestion for ChinaV's next mod to his V-Strom ...

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Black is sooooo yesterday!

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Someone gave me a little Samsung netbook loaded with Win7 in Chinese. :bs: I was thinking I'd redo it with some Linux distro so I could be a cool hacker-geek independent of any commercial master. :pirate3:

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jkp,
Easypeasy work fine on my ASUS netbook.
http://www.geteasypeasy.com/

G'Day,

Shanghai SPIDI shop (Pubei Road) carries the CTEK Battery Chargers now, bought one a couple of days ago and installed tonight, works brilliant.

http://smartercharger.com
http://www.ctek.nu

So LJH, JKP, NFS charger works good as advertise? I'm looking for a charger for sometime, NFA brand seems highend to me.