Wilsons Sandbox

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Ms Fran wrote:

> > Again many thanks > > After hearing so much about this doo hicky thingy, and while

doing my first Oil change on my P/O 99... I decided to see for myself what this thing is... Took the side cover off and using a borescope light, it was obvious it was broken....

> > 1st Amazment - Fred Hinks.... A two day turnaround from order to

receive date is unheard of this day and age.... Fred will continue to get any business I can give him....

> > 2nd Amazement - Russ Coley of Kissimee FL... I inquired of the

list if anyone would lend me the tools.... A couple of days later, a brand new, never been used set of Doo tools showed up and all he wanted was postage..... A complete stranger..... Then he called and offerred to assist me in changing it....Now he wants to meet 1/2 way between the Fl West Coast and h is place.... He'll get his postage, his tools and dinner....

> > 3rd Amazement - Changing the doo is pretty much straight forward

and being careful, can be done by anyone.... BUT only after reading/studyiing Eagle Mike's explanation and the explanation and pictures of several others on other forums.

> > The Green Thing and I will head to Alaska, the very end of May

for about a month. Then we'll return to our place on the Blue Ridge Parkway in NC for a month. Then it and I are headed back to my home town in the Adirondacks where I'm going back and ride dirt roads out in the puckerbrush that I hiked/camped and fished along as a kid.

> > If there are any on the list that I can help in any way... Do not

hesitate to call... If the majority of folks who ride Klr's are like the few I've already come into contact with, then I'll be a happy camper for a long time.

> > Again, many thanks to all > > Wayne Barcomb > 352-597-5854 Home (Fl West Coast in Winter) (Who knows in Summer) > 352-428-0100 Cell (on the road) > > > --------------------------------- > No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go > with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >

Thank You for posting that Wayne!. I can not speak for anyone but myself, so here I go...Your experince is what motorcycling should be, a Fellowship/Brotherhood&Sisterhood. Whiteheadian, rather than Newtonion. I would like to think that the H-D riders who passed by me when my Triumph quit running are in the minority. However, there IS hope...A young women went WAY out of her way to turn around and come back to pick me up. She could not stop talking about her trip to Sturgis. While it is not unusual for a young person to be impressed by an event that size, it is encourging to learn that she took away an "old school" lesson that stuck with her. After going on for quite some time about her experience, she explained to me that she turned around to pick me up because... "My boy friend and I stopped and helped anyone who was broke down, all the way there and all the way back. My boy friend said that his Dad rode a bike and he told him that you NEVER EVER pass by a broken motorcycle without offering help." Upon arriving at a gas station, I was able to contact my wife. As I opened the door after making the phone call, the young lady asked if I needed anything else. I replied that my wife would be along shortly and I would be fine. At this point, she insisted that I sit in her car, where it was cool. I took that oppertunity to try and give her all the cash I had with me, and as you can imagine...she refused. My wife arrived in minutes, as I opened the door, I shoved the cash into her glove box and told her to take her boy friend out to a nice dinner. My Dad rode as well, and he instilled in me this same type of kindness and caring. I stop, do you?. More importantly...will your son or daughter stop, as long as it is safe to do so?. F.Y.I. The young lady and her boy friend rode two up from central Illinois to Stugis South Dakota on a Sportster...solo. Since they didn't have much money, they camped. She told me that they... "Made it to Sturgis in two days. Then rode every where to see the sites everyday". Because they needed to get back home, they rode home in two days as well. Ohhhh...To be that young again!......... Tom, Central IL.