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Recent content by bwringer

  1. bwringer

    What's up with tires?

    Avon is long dead and indecently buried. The owner, Goodyear (Cooper owned the Avon and Dunlop brands, then Goodyear bought Cooper, then sold Dunlop to Sumitomo), closed the English factory in December 2023. Since then, they've made noises about reviving the corpse of the Avon brand in various...
  2. bwringer

    What's up with tires?

    Avon went out of business a few years back, then came back under new ownership making tires outside of England (France, I think?). So supplies of Avons have been shaky for the last three or four years at least. The last year or so before the old factory in England was closed saw a lot of quality...
  3. bwringer

    Save the Date: 2026 Brown County Indiana Rally - June 11-14, 2026

    The osprey nest at Patoka lake was an unexpected bonus of that little rest stop! I have no idea how or why this nesting platform is just right there at a busy picnic spot (Jackson SRA, off Cuzco Road), but the birds were too busy caring for their chicks to pay any attention to gawkers.
  4. bwringer

    I found NOS points cover and emblem and gasket

    Most folks use the regular ol' silver Permatex antiseize found in every auto and hardware store. It's based on graphite, aluminum, and copper, and history has proven it to be a good all-purpose unguent for metallic interfaces. This stuff...
  5. bwringer

    The left turn

    This may be purely anecdotal, but working with a sample size of all the bikes I've ever seen in person, I'm pretty convinced that left side damage is FAR more common than right side. I know my KLR650 has a lot more damage on the left from assorted off-road oopsies. I would not be surprised to...
  6. bwringer

    I found NOS points cover and emblem and gasket

    That is exactly the way to do it. SS in aluminum WILL seize and cause all sorts of mayhem after a year or so. For that matter, stainless steel bolts used with stainless steel nuts also just LOVE to gall, so these also need antiseize. Stainless is also not quite as tough as the steel used in...
  7. bwringer

    Save the Date: 2026 Brown County Indiana Rally - June 11-14, 2026

    Home about noon. I was planning some prime horsing around on the way home, but then I contemplated the ominous cloud patterns and the dry, dusty state of my mojo glands, and just blatted home on the highway. It started raining as I was unloading, so I guess that turned out pretty well. Thanks...
  8. bwringer

    Save the Date: 2026 Brown County Indiana Rally - June 11-14, 2026

    Greetings, all! Rally day dawns with rain in the area that is quickly moving away, and what looks like a very friendly forecast with a high of 90 today, but highs in the mid-80s for Friday and Saturday. I'm having lunch at the Mayberry Cafe in Danville, Indiana (just west of Indy) at 1:00 EDT...
  9. bwringer

    Fuel cap gasket

    Nice! You must be one of those people I've heard of... I knew I had seen a report somewhere.
  10. bwringer

    Fuel cap gasket

    I have heard of people buying one of those cheap aftermarket gas caps and extracting the gasket for use with their original. No clue whether this would work with the particular one in the link. The other tactic might be to change the lock cylinder with your original, or swap or file the wafers...
  11. bwringer

    Save the Date: 2026 Brown County Indiana Rally - June 11-14, 2026

    Thanks for letting me know, @LeonAlistar. I'm not sure what happened, but I've removed the bad links. That Twisted Overload track had a lot of errors, so I'll work on a revised version.
  12. bwringer

    Save the Date: 2026 Brown County Indiana Rally - June 11-14, 2026

    OK, last rally-related post for the day: As is something resembling tradition, or more likely just plain inertia, some number of us will just happen to show up at the Mayberry Cafe in Danville, IN at 1:00 EDT on Thursday, June 11, 2026 for lunch, afterwards proceeding southward and twistyward...
  13. bwringer

    Save the Date: 2026 Brown County Indiana Rally - June 11-14, 2026

    Copy/paste from last year -- many details in these tracks are WRONG in some weird ways, but I don't have time or energy to create corrected versions just now. So beware. Keep yer wits about you. Ask me if you have questions. -=-=-=-=- The following GPX tracks follow roads that are flawed...
  14. bwringer

    Please help with 1982 GS1000G

    You can also get oil down there (and in a lot of other places besides) from a leaky cam chain tensioner. It happens to every GS, but resealing this is fairly easy. https://www.bwringer.com/gs/camchaintens.html And yes, the o-ring on that switch should be replaced too. It's a trivial job.
  15. bwringer

    DIY Damping Rod Tool for my 79 GS850G

    Yup. I have a piece of 1/2"-13 all-thread with a standard 3/4" across the flats nut spot-welded in place on one end for GS forks, and a "heavy duty" nut that's 7/8" (22mm) across the flats spot-welded to the other end that fits other bikes. (exactly which ones, I don't remember... KLRs? Older...
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