Pretty frickin quiet if you ask me...

[VirginiaJim]

I don't think so.  There are two spring systems that I know of.   Torsion, where the spring rides above the door and its length is the width of the doorway.  I have two doors with that system.  And the other that has a spring on each side.  Those springs can break and launch themselves into the garage and anything parked there.  DIYer can work with those.  I leave the Torsion springs to the pros.

[Boomer]

The specialist is here right now to fix it.
There is one spring that is horizontal above the door when it is closed.
A cable either side links to the Torsion bar. Both of those cables have snapped.
The repair requires 2 new cables, 2 new cones, and a re-tensioning of the Torsion bar.
About $360 in total fitted and working with a 1 year warranty. 

[Big Red]

There's a dyno guy down the street from my house. Thinking about taking my bike down there to get numbers. Said he'd do a HP# pull for $75.

[Big Red]

Still pretty quiet.

[VirginiaJim]

Yeah...

[Boomer]

What? Sorry, I can't hear you for all the noise on here 

[DC Concours]

Pick a topic and talk about it. I am sure there are may topics in the news that may be of interest.

After all this is a virtual camp fire as you say.

[tweeter55]

Topic of the day… weird factoid.

Most American car horns honk in the key of F,
which is also the same key as a telephone dial tone.

[DC Concours]

Interesting!

Topic of the day… weird factoid.

Most American car horns honk in the key of F,
which is also the same key as a telephone dial tone.

[Boomer]

Here in the UK we are currently at US$9.50 per US Gallon for our cheapest gas (95RON = 91PON).
I get that not buying Russian oil has pushed the price up, but somehow I have a feeling that the other oil producers (and I do include the UK & USA in that) are deliberately not increasing their output because why should they when they are making more profit from selling less oil.
I have heard so many different excuses for the high prices that I now suspect that sheer unmitigated greed is the primary cause.

[turbojoe78]

Boomer, that seems spot on to me.

Then there's the "climate change" factor.  Are "they" trying to price us out of fuel powered vehicles?

How will we charge all those electric cars?  Coal burning power plants?

[Big Red]

Just paid $6.10 a gallon for 91 octane this morning. Feckin' nuts. With gas and violence on the rise, I honestly worry a little about what the next few years look like.

[m in sc]

Sold 2 bikes in the past month, 14 was just sort of ridiculous, one being the naked 2000 C10 i had. (pretty redundant to the CB1100 i also have) the neighbor now rides it every day. Going to probably move 2 more, but have a deal pending on a 'Marlboro' TZR250 3MA.  Otherwise been enjoying the spring and the summer which included a week long trip to deals gap for th e2 stroke meet, towing 2 bikes behind my 66 Galaxie.

As far as garage doors, I have a dual torsion spring setup on mine, one broke last fall due to age. the trick to setting them is to do it with the door UP. I replaced both springs and now, halfway up it is neutral in weight, will just hang there when unlatched from the garage door opener.  with door up, just wind each spring 2 full turns on mine and it was golden. .02

[DC Concours]

How do you ride so many bikes? I can barely ride one. You are a lucky man.

Sold 2 bikes in the past month, 14 was just sort of ridiculous, one being the naked 2000 C10 i had. (pretty redundant to the CB1100 i also have) the neighbor now rides it every day. Going to probably move 2 more, but have a deal pending on a 'Marlboro' TZR250 3MA.  Otherwise been enjoying the spring and the summer which included a week long trip to deals gap for th e2 stroke meet, towing 2 bikes behind my 66 Galaxie.

As far as garage doors, I have a dual torsion spring setup on mine, one broke last fall due to age. the trick to setting them is to do it with the door UP. I replaced both springs and now, halfway up it is neutral in weight, will just hang there when unlatched from the garage door opener.  with door up, just wind each spring 2 full turns on mine and it was golden. .02

[Big Red]

Anyone around here also build rockets?

[m in sc]

How do you ride so many bikes? I can barely ride one. You are a lucky man.

I am. i rotate them around and ride them all. And, my wife is also supportive, even has her own, 1st bike (a new supercub).

Here's the garage, last week. there's 3 stored at work, and 2 at a friends garage. the one to the far right was sold the day after this pic was taken.

the supercub is far end, cant see it behind the 72 R5. (i don't count hers in the 12).

 also note the garage springs. the left one has always when wound (closed) gone 'wavy'    its really weird and have no explanation for it. . But works fine. 

[tweeter55]

Years and years ago built the most basic one.
Also about the same time flew u-control (think on a string) airplanes with that tiny Cox .049 engine on it.

There is some very interesting videos of amazing RC aircraft on YouTube.

[Strawboss]

I still have some control line planes. Last one I bought was the P-40 Warhawk. Everybody in the neighborhood had a COX 049 plane.

I still have ESTES model rocket kits built and unbuilt.

I still build plastic scales model planes/cars/armor  1/48 planes   1/25 cars  1/35 armor, more in the winter than summer

[Big Red]

I do some static modeling, but far more rocketry. I've recently gotten into lighting my static models now, too.

Current largest rocket is 11.5 feet tall and 55 pounds loaded for flight without motors.

[Strawboss]

Oh jeez, I'm still stuck in 1970, nowhere near that serious. think "Big Bertha"