My own "get on the road, you slugs" thread

[Baatfam]

Thanks for the tip. I wondered how to do that without going into my Word program to get the special characters. Currently 27 * F (must not work with Vista, I just tried it, still have to get my special characters map out).

Should work...I use it in both Win 7 and XP...you need to use the right side Num pad for the 167, not the numbers on top of the key board...

[DanTheMan]

Should work...I use it in both Win 7 and XP...you need to use the right side Num pad for the 167, not the numbers on top of the key board...

Oh, OK. I don't have a right side number pad on my Toshiba satellite laptop....

[cowboyup3371]

You should have a set of blue numbers on your left side (asdfqwerzxcv) alphabetic keys that if you push the FN button you can access. This gives you the number keypad option.

Course I don't have your model laptop around so I'm going off what I know from the Dells I worked with.

[deathpunch]

Just let the poor guy use his asterisk.

[DanTheMan]

You should have a set of blue numbers on your left side (asdfqwerzxcv) alphabetic keys that if you push the FN button you can access. This gives you the number keypad option.

Course I don't have your model laptop around so I'm going off what I know from the Dells I worked with.

OK, my gray numbers 1-9 are on j,k,l then, u, i, o and 7, 8, 9. Lets see what that does....It's all the way up to 27* F.
I don't know what I just did, but I screwed up my keyboard messing with the FN key. I've got to figure out how to undo what I've done to it now.

OK, got the keyboard back to normal now, but I still can't get the deg. sign. Oh, well, another hour and I can go for a ride.

[tkent02]

70º at home, I'm in Anchorage with no bike watching it snow... Sucks.

The degree thing doesn't work on my laptop either.

[Baatfam]

OK, my gray numbers 1-9 are on j,k,l then, u, i, o and 7, 8, 9. Lets see what that does....It's all the way up to 27* F.
I don't know what I just did, but I screwed up my keyboard messing with the FN key. I've got to figure out how to undo what I've done to it now.

OK, got the keyboard back to normal now, but I still can't get the deg. sign. Oh, well, another hour and I can go for a ride.

70º at home, I'm in Anchorage with no bike watching it snow... Sucks.

The degree thing doesn't work on my laptop either.

Nope...doesn't work on laptops...

[cowboyup3371]

Now he says it...

[Gssheller]

Bought mine on Monday. Rode it home 45 miles in 50 degree rain. 1 more ride yesterday in 38 degree weather with LOTS more rain and I'm up to 100 miles so far. Now its time to disassemble, check out, tune up and start again. I think it will be much warmer and drier (never can tell in Oregon) the next time she gets out, but I was happy to break the century mark!

[DanTheMan]

Bought mine on Monday. Rode it home 45 miles in 50 degree rain. 1 more ride yesterday in 38 degree weather with LOTS more rain and I'm up to 100 miles so far. Now its time to disassemble, check out, tune up and start again. I think it will be much warmer and drier (never can tell in Oregon) the next time she gets out, but I was happy to break the century mark!

Yeah, you can get some really strange looks from people when you ride in something less than ideal conditons. My wife says I'm certifiably nuts anyway, and the way I start riding this early in the season she says that proves it among other things.....

[Eli69]

first nice day with no snow on roads here yesterday. here's a pic of my bike at a snowmobile crossing and trail that i was riding the sled on less than two weeks ago:

[DanTheMan]

Looks pretty good. Snow on the ground and riding the bike.

[Gssheller]

Another 100 miles today. Really pleased with the newly sealed air box. Tons of power.
Actually killed some bugs!
Now its back to the rain for at least another week

[GS ace]

I managed to get about 70 miles put on the 1100E today. It got up to 88 degrees today with low humidity, so after a fine lunch of a carne guisada taco and a fajita gordita made from scratch at a local Shamrock station, I hit the Hill Country roads.

[Eli69]

got a foot of snow today. wtf?