TommyT-Bone wrote:
I can only hope that it's only been leaking for a couple of days not a couple of weeks or months. My regular bill is about $60. With leaks, people have got bills for $500 up to a couple thousand dollars. I'll check back in later with a damage report.

CentralCoaster wrote:
That's the trouble with 2-month billing cycles. I've worked on a few commercial jobs where they lost close to $10 grand for a leak that went unnoticed several weeks. Heck, just blowing a sprinkler head off for a week is $50 worth of water.



I survived another motorcycle ride yesterday through the canyons. I led this one but we had 3 really new riders, one crashed, and a 2nd one almost did several times. It's kinda fun being out in the middle of nowhere with no phone reception trying to patch together a smashed up bike to make it rideable. (When it's not your bike!) You start wandering around looking for anything that will come in handy, sticks, rocks, pieces of barbed wire, other broken bike parts. I used a headphone cord and a hair-band from my g/f to get his bike rideable, and had to pry the pretzeled shift lever back out.

Kinda ruins the mojo for the ride though.

I'm going bike camping this weekend, I'm going to finally pack a road side kit with maybe some bailing wire, zip ties, and of course my bike's toolkit.

red_johnny wrote:
They can try to catch up in the straight-a-ways then SLOW down going into the corners.

TommyT-Bone wrote:
Plumber paid. Total leak approx expense will be about $720. Seeing that I have a house that is 50 years old and built with galvanized pipe that is showing obvious signs of wear, the suggested repair was to replumb the house. I'll save that till the next leak. I'm sure there will be a next leak. Repair guestimate of about $3000 for a basic replumb.



Let's see......... what will be next? Ahh! Home ownership ...

CentralCoaster wrote:

Group riding definitely pushes people to ride harder, whether they realize it or not. I'm guilty of the same.

BillH wrote:
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CentralCoaster wrote:

Group riding definitely pushes people to ride harder, whether they realize it or not. I'm guilty of the same.

Sorry, my take is different. What I see is sportbike riders using the public roads as racetracks. Ate these guys crashing because they're taking corners somewhere around the speedlimit? Bet not.
Last summer one of these riders "drifted over the double yellow" and ran a minivan full of kids off the road and into a ditch.

BillH wrote:

Sorry, my take is different. What I see is sportbike riders using the public roads as racetracks. Ate these guys crashing because they're taking corners somewhere around the speedlimit? Bet not.
Last summer one of these riders "drifted over the double yellow" and ran a minivan full of kids off the road and into a ditch.

TommyT-Bone wrote:
I was thinking of using CPVC and that's pretty much what the're using here today. The plumber was telling me they've been having some issues with some copper tubing with pinhole leaks. Claims that they're mixing the copper with another metal to cut costs and it breaks down in some cases. I'm going to hold off till it becomes a necessity. I'll look into the PEX though. Right now my plumbing is a hodge podge mix of galvanized, copper and pvc tubing. Some of it lies under the slab. The last temporary fix we did has lasted for 17 years.

CentralCoaster wrote:

This guy that crashed was doing maybe 20 mph at the time, overbraked into a tight corner, and went into the dirt. This is exactly what most of the crashes in our group are. The only serious crash I recall on a ride was when an oncoming van crossed the double yellow line in front of a rider on a blind corner to get to an overlook on the other side of the road.

I don't doubt that for every responsible rider, there's at least 1 reckless rider (and at least two more driving minivans on a cell phone completely oblivious to everything around them).

red_johnny wrote:
Yes we can take corners faster that a car (alot faster) .

BillH wrote:

But the above dosen't happen on a racetrack. The bikes are slower in the corners.
Please note, I raced bikes for over 15 years including roadrace and 750's on the mile flattracks.

CentralCoaster wrote:
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BillH wrote:

But the above dosen't happen on a racetrack. The bikes are slower in the corners.
Please note, I raced bikes for over 15 years including roadrace and 750's on the mile flattracks.

I was going to disagree with johnny on that one too. I think it take a helluva rider to outpace even a decent driver in a Corvette in the turns. On the straights of course, the bike will prevail. I followed plenty of bikers through Mullholland in my slow poke vette.