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right on thank you. I really didn't want to have to lift the bike at this stage, I was in high altitude and couldn't breath very well, but I had to get down off this trail because it was starting to rain. Right after I got down to the bottom and started heading home I was hit with a down pour...

yes it is especially since I am 57 and have never had a ticket or anything in my entire life.

she is never going any where till the end of her days that is.

it has lap belts, but not the shoulder belts.

Yeah the seats are pretty hard.

this thing is always screwing me up one way or another..lol

I do the same thing, I think of all the things I can do with it and how nice it will be once it's all fixed up but we will have to see what happens. I hate having dreams shattered so I try not to get ahead of myself to far...lol

Right on. If you have any questions about it let me know I have been using them for a very long time and they are awesome. I can help you with set up if needed or what ever. the hardest part is getting the lens set straight once you mount it on the helmet you will have to do some short rides and then put the video on the computer and see if you need to adjust the lens one way or the other just a touch. Let me know how you like it and if you need any advice I am here. By the way, if you got this exact camera, 4K will not be stabilized, but 2.7K will be, so don't shoot in 4K if you want the video to be stable.

I am very happy for you that you are gearing up and being safe, and as for me, I have been riding for 38 years and just recently started wearing a helmet...lol I am always aware that something can happen and does happen, but you also have to remember that I have to get on and off my bike about 30 times a day since I am using my bike for the business. If you don't know I repair windshield chips. So in that it would be very difficult for me to be all geared up and wearing all that armor jacket pants and gloves and such. But I think it's a great idea for someone that is going on a long ride. I am on and off the bike so much that for me it don't make any sense. Now with all that being said, when I go out to play in the dirt I am fully protected, helmet, gloves, pants, jacket, the whole nine yards as it were.

thank you very much.

I believe I am a little of both...lol

Not yet it's not that cold yet...lol

I have rebuilt engines before but there is no room in the garage my brother has it so full of stuff I can't even work on the bike in there really. And I don't want to tear an engine apart outside either because with all the wind here it will get full of dirt. It's better if I can take it somewhere and have it done, but we will see what happens in the near future. I may decide to go another way but we will see.

This is an old video back when I first bought the bike, and being at higher elevation the bike needed to time to learn, but as of today I am getting between 48-51 Miles per gallon pretty consistently.

that is very true, they could never understand.

I'm not giving specifics on the exercise till I know every thing is working for me the way it should. I have been bitching about the google maps on the phone taking me the wrong way and all sorts of things on the bike, every time I ride but now every time I drive the car it works perfectly...weird as hell for sure.

this one came with the car...lol

right on good luck and thank you.

don't think I know who that is.

Lol cool ,Bill might be our Walter W in disguise

yup we live in a disposable world for sure, buy it use it and dispose of it...lol

Yup we all get old for sure...lol But it sounds like you may have had a great first date any way. Those old wagons ran pretty good..

right on we will have to see where things go with it but that is the plan at this point in the game.

hopefully it will work out, it's a really nice little car for sure. and I do like it. but we will have to see what happens.

I do like the little car for sure, we will have to see what happens and if I can get it to pass emissions and keep it for a while.

it was a good day for sure.

you know I did think about that at one point, we will have to see what happens.

the weather is the main concern for sure, I can pretty get anything I want on the bike...lol

yes it is. They want you to pay almost the same price to not own a vehicle as if you do own a vehicle, and for what? it's not like they would ever have to pay anything out for you now owning a car...I mean it's sort of hard to have a claim on a non existent vehicle...lol

The oil is actually pretty clean, but I am thinking that with as much power as this little car has it has to just be a valve seal gone bad or something and that is why the smoke is coming out the tail pipe, it's not coming from the engine bay at all. it's blows out some pretty good smoke when I really get on it but once I am up to speed I don't see any smoke at all. so I will just see what I can do with it and go from there.

You know I never thought of that but it does have a lot of miles on it, so they had to have driven it a lot as well.

right on thank you. I might leave them there but they will get covered with the head liner..lol

I know right? lol

very true....

right on well I'm glad you wasted that three minutes with me instead of doing something else. Now If you would have watched the entire video, you would have seen that every shop I had gone to around here is only carrying the expensive helmets, that is what I was bitching about , I wanted to be able to just buy a helmet and not have to order one on line, but that is what I am going to have to do. Also I have a HJC full face helmet right now that I paid a lot less money for two years ago, but I wanted something different.

The voice you are hearing is a voice over, not audio from the head set. Like I said in the video, the mic for the camera is on the bottom of the device so all you will get is wind noise, I had to do a voice over to explain every thing and yes I hate doing voice overs because they never sound good at all...lol

@@mymotorcyclelifestyle Oh okay. I didn't pay that close attention to you saying that lol

it's all good, I could have taken a little more time on the video and recorded a better voice over with my recorder, but instead I just used the mic on the computer and it really does sound like shit. lol

that would be very expensive I can assure you.

the mark up really is insane for sure.

you know I picked these up the motorcycle chops, just asked them for them and they showed me where they were and I just tried on a few till I found the ones that fit correctly, they were not cheap but they will protect my legs if I crash out here in the rocks and dirt...lol

right on thanks for the advice.

if you seen my other video where I had an incident for the fist time nearly 40 years of riding you will see that the 150 dollar helmet did its job just fine, I'm sorry but I can't see spending 600 or more on a helmet.

@@mymotorcyclelifestyle Ya its does its job. But you get what you pay for and I want a lightweight carbon fiber helmet for long trips. Enjoy your head weight.

Well maybe one day I will be able to afford a 2000 dollar helmet but to be honest I would most likely still never pay that much for a helmet...lol

I have an open face helmet already but they are not very good when it's 20 degrees F outside and you are doing 70 MPH on the interstate...lol

Well that sucks for sure.

If your looking for oval; Arai helmets are known to be VERY oval so much so that some people avoid them, on the other hand they are known to be of the highest quality AND on the high lvl of cost. Shoei are also known to be very oval, usually described as being semi oval, also on the higher end of the price scale. From what i have found most helmet company's offer budget/entry lvl versions, well you could start out with one of those and decide if a brand works and later on down the road move up to a higher price range. Best of luck, -Cheers

In my opinion they are all getting out of control for sure.

Entry lvl Shoei is 399 /cycle gear , but shure you could find cheaper on the net. Yep Arai are costly , watch a few vids on youtube about the company and how there made (hand made individually done) company mission etc. Not saying there worth all that much but how much is your head worth? you only have one and there are no go backs (aka video game respawn) I agree prices are outa hand but a sandwitch cost 7$ a few years back now walking out a store 13$ yep not so fun 🤣. If you wondering, i myself went with a 350$ HJC it works for me. Best of luck, -Cheers

You have to remember that I rode nearly 40 years without ever wearing a helmet, It's only been a little bit since I started wearing helmets and to be honest I don't like them enough to spend that kind of money on one, since I have been riding my entire life without one and I am still here, I don't like the idea of some costing as much as they are charging for them.

And how will $1000 helmet protect you more than a $100 helmet? They both must pass the ECE or DOT test. You are forgeting that your neck is the weakest chain link in head-body relation.

Thanks for the Arai salesman's opinion.

Arai helmets are hand made, whole dif ball game, people here comparing apples and oranges. You have to watch a couple of videos on how , why and what, company mission etc to understand it. I dont have one myself/maybe someday (im just fine for the time being with a HJC🤣). Production line Ford Bronco compared to a hand made Shelby Cobra 427 very different animals, just throwing it out there. Best of luck, -Cheers

@@mikein60fps30 Comparing two helmets which do the exact same job is like comparing apples to oranges? It's just as applicable to compare a production line F-22 to a homebuilt African junkyard airplane.

I won't be falling for the marketing scam at all. I just know that all the stores around here only carry the expensive stuff not any of the cheaper ones. They make it sound like this is your only choice, and some people may fall for that crap but I know better, and I will be looking on line to see what I can find.

Oh If you watched the video you would know that I can find them, but not in the shops around here. Sure I can buy them all day long on line, but I was hoping to just pick one up and that didn't happen because every where I went they only carry the most expensive ones now.

good stuff thank you.

to me it seems more like price gouging, because a helmet is not something you buy weekly or monthly, so the price should not really be affected that much by inflation.