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8月17日 Bike MaintenanceWell the old CB250N is struggling more and more these days. OK so the engine has only done about 12k miles, but the carbs have seen 52. Hmmm, every time I opened the throttle at lights, the first thing it tried to do was die.
So I bought a pair of carbs from ebay (not a chance of buying them new.....) and bought two repair kits from David Silver Spares. It only took me a month to get the carbs and the kits together in one place and do the work, but I did in the end.
Now I don't know how old the carbs I bought are, but I can say that the jet sizes were *visibly* different when I checked them side by side. So much so that I tried to fit the wrong jet twice until I looked at the other one and compared them.
So anyway, 1 hour on the bench to fit the kits. 30 minutes of swearing and hurting my hands to take the old pair out and put the refurb pair in. Seemed to go better but I couldn't really check it as by that time it was 01:40 Ooops, hope the neighbors have forgiven me.
So the Acid test was the run into Poitiers to get the train. Well cold it baulked as usual, but didn't seem quite so bad. But the real test was when I got to Poitiers. The idle was rock solid at 1,300 rmp. No racing or messing about. Pull away was great, no dying, strangling itself or just refusing to go.
Fantastic. Makes me realise just how painful it all was.
Now all I have to do is replace the plugs and work out why it's trying to strangle itself at higher revs.
Then I can get a 400n and sell it.......
Glutton for punishment. 8月16日 Finally the scientists start to talk about the melt in the Arctic and what do we hear?Well we hear what I've been seeing for the last 9 months. The melt is unprecedented and huge. The Ice is not growing back in Winter and is melting faster and faster in the Summer.
So why do the scientists state that this is a combination of issues which are "unlikely to recur next year". Did they get that much ridicule last year when the August temp cooled?
Was it not these same scientists who told us that the affect would be cumulative and that it would go in jumps which became self reinforcing?
So why, when we see a clear jump, is it put down to coincidence?
Do these scientists want to be taken seriously or not? Just because this didn't happen to IPCC timescales, doesn't mean it's not happening.
So what has to happen now? Does the Ice have to fail to grow back in the winter in the same scale as it is melting in summer before we hear that it is pattern? Does the entie polar cap have to melt *Before* the scientists "predict" it happening?
I dispair..... Decision process part 2So it occurs to me that the guy in the movie is trying to sell us a bill of goods. Then why does he miss out all of the good bits?
After all, if we dol all that we need to do for GW to protect ourselves, then column A will also contain the wollowing Even IF GW isn't going to flood us out:
And that's all before we start talking about the effect of being able to grow our society with almost unlimited energy use. Seems to me that they did their argument a disservice. |
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