A day in the life in the North

[Stumpy]

New trail and a bit throttle engaging the clutch cutting around the mountain.

[BLD]

I enjoyed that vid stumpy. You really do have a great location to indulge your lifestyle. Crack on

[taxexile]

New trail and a bit throttle engaging the clutch cutting around the mountain.

Must be a wonderful feeling spoiling the peace and tranquility of nature with that noisy and fume belching gangsta mobility scooter you ponce around in. Arent there any dedicated playgrounds where you can indulge your habit or must nature be disturbed every time you decide to go full redneck.

[Stumpy]

I enjoyed that vid stumpy. You really do have a great location to indulge your lifestyle. Crack on

Cheers BLD. Life is easy peezy this way and lot of open land





Did a little wash up having Beerlao IPA while listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd "One more from the road"

[taxexile]

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Lynyrd Skynyrd [QUOTE]

Just as I thought. Full redneck

[Stumpy]

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Lynyrd Skynyrd

Just as I thought. Full redneck

Yep. Southern, Blues country rock. Great music. Lots of meaning in it. Sweet Home Alabama, Tuesday's Gone, Gimme Three steps, T for Texas, The needle and the Spoon.

[taxexile]

Saw them at Knebworth in the 70s. With Todd Rungren , 10CC and the Stones.

[Stumpy]

Saw them at Knebworth in the 70s. With Todd Rungren , 10CC and the Stones.

All good bands. Saw many of them as well. In California, it was called Day on the Green. Moly Hatchet, Allman Brothers. Lynyrd Skynyrd.

[BLD]

Beerlao and lynard skynard at full volume while swirling frostys by the pool should be mandatory behavior

[Stumpy]

Beerlao and lynard skyward at full volume while swirling frostys by the pool should be mandatory behavior

Life is good BLD. Nothing better then a 25 c day, an ice cold beer, Music on, washing up my ATV after a nice ride in the mountains.

Of course after I grilled up some chicken wings for lunch.

[DrWilly]

Looks like you take some of those corners fairly wide. Is the steering heavy or is that a trick of the camera?

[Stumpy]

Last few days been quite busy. With rainy season not to far off, we decided to nix the wood posts to hold up trees around our place and add galvanized steel. Most is because my wife wants to hang various plants on them.



Got out my trust metal cutoff saw and off I went



Cut up all the long lengths I need as I pretty much know how deep I need to drive them into the ground.



First one done, but the easiest, 4 more to go. This particular tree is my wife's favorite and extremely hard to grow. It produces these really unique yellow hanging flower buds. She removed all the rotten wood stands.



Took a little ride up into the mountains and dropped by one of my fav lakes. Simply beautiful.



This time of year while the temps are perfect, The trails are like riding through a dusty desert. I turned my GoPro around for a different view.




Got back and washed the dust off and our yellow lab is such a funny girl. She loves to drink water off the hose, but with it being high pressure she has to stand back 10ft or so. I laugh every time. She knows exactly the angle and walks into it.

[Mendip]

^ I'm glad you clarified you were using a hose.

I was getting jealous... it took me back a few years!

[Stumpy]

^ I'm glad you clarified you were using a hose.

I was getting jealous... it took me back a few years!

[Stumpy]

ATV hobby has been extremely busy ( but quite fun) the last 2 or 3 weeks. As I mentioned, I have partnered with a few guys in the US and we are developing and testing ATV performance parts.

I just reprogrammed the ECU using MyGenius programmer changing the AFR and a few other parameters. Also changed to a longer belt developed by Mitsubishi to improve Tq and mid range and am changing weights in the clutch arms on the primary to dial in RPM.

Next up is larger tire diameter which are in transit now. Nice thing is I am doing the labor and install and the guys I have partnered with are shipping me the parts or paying me for them if I buy here.



Secondary clutch removed to install a new spring and a custom Helix



Testing a new Helix for the secondary

[Stumpy]

Been awhile. Been busy. Now that I have transferred all operations off to Japan and US, I am free to work on some aftermarket ATV testing for a few companies for fun





Along with other stuff, I have been working with a few aftermarket ATV companies testing their performance products. Gathered a bunch of data for a drive belt company, clutch company and in a few days will be testing some shocks.

Today was a beautiful view riding

[DrWilly]

What a brilliant day out! How do I get on that program?

[DrWilly]

I trust you had some hydration with you?

[Edmond]

^^^ beautiful weather. A bit of sky-cleaning rain at this time of year really makes the weather glorious up north.

[Stumpy]

Back in the saddle as they say.





Few years later now the place is taking shape.



Palms taking off now. They were slow growing but are happy now.



Pool about 84. perfect. I swim every day.



Oh yeah. what would be a swim day with out a good Whiskey sour. I am drying my own fruit now, Oranges, Limes and Lemons.



Little pool lunch while I watch the Giants. they got whooped today







Heading down south for a meet up with some riders in Tak.



Change Preload and dampening on the shocks The ride will be a bit more technical climbing hills.

[Edmond]

Manufacture some pieces at the front of the trailer to stop numbskulls on scooters from pulling in between the trailer and pickup.

The fear of using trailers in Thailand is the lil clueless dipshizses getting caught in the gap, whether at a traffic light, in a traffic jam, overtaking on a busy road or driving in the wrong direction and avoiding another scooter riding the correct way.

[bsnub]

Back in the saddle as they say.

Nice to see it, living the good life.

[Stumpy]

Manufacture some pieces at the front of the trailer to stop numbskulls on scooters from pulling in between the trailer and pickup.

The fear of using trailers in Thailand is the lil clueless dipshizses getting caught in the gap, whether at a traffic light, in a traffic jam, overtaking on a busy road or driving in the wrong direction and avoiding another scooter riding the correct way.

Gee Take that from Edtard, Mr. Trailer things. The gap between the tongue and tail of my truck is about 3.5 feet max. Stick with things you know, like cruising around high schools.

[Stumpy]

Nice to see it, living the good life.

Cheers Snubs. As they say "busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest..

My TFX competition shocks just showed up 15 minutes ago from FedEx, but I wont have enough time to install and set the ride height before I head out in the morning.



Look forward to swapping these in. Longer travel, bigger piston and reservoir for cooling.

[bsnub]

My TFX competition shocks just showed up 15 minutes ago from FedEx

*drools*

That looks like a proper set of adjustable coilovers. If you were back in Cali you could fly through the desert on those.