I don’t have first hand knowledge. I’ve heard the printed manuals are not great but that their online versions are good.
I’ve generally preferred buying the manufacturer’s manual even though they’re relatively expensive. Honda’s manuals and their Common Service manual in particular were excellent. KTM’s is just okay, disappointing after coming from Honda’s and BMW’s manuals, at least it gets the wiring diagram and torque specs right.
I’ve had mixed experience with Haynes and Clymer. They’re better than nothing but the photos are not so good, they rarely cover differences between years, and make a lot of assumptions.
I just read the specs and there is an SD slot.
Whoops, that’s what I get for posting while sick… https://unfinished.bike/bmw-ce-04-the-suit-and-tie-rocket-ship
I hear you. Taking the course again isn’t a bad idea, skills you don’t practice don’t get ingrained and those that are get rusty.
As far as confidence, I’ll let you in on a secret… I feel a little anxious before almost every ride and I’ve been riding since the 1980’s. I have a routine of safety checking the bike and my gear before each ride that settles me, it doesn’t take long. More than once I’ve cut short a solo ride or bailed out on a group because I wasn’t focused or feeling it (rule #1, ride your own ride). I wouldn’t worry about it.
Good on you for taking the course, you’ll do fine.
I took what was at the time the MSF BRC, basic rider course, after getting my license and riding for a year. I still do annual parking lot practice (turns, emergency braking) on my own to keep my skills fresh.
I took a 100+ mile loop hitting some easy backroads in the Mid-Hudson Valley. How about you?
DE:MD was great, I really hoped for them to finish the story. With all the horse-trading of the companies and IP, who knows if we’ll ever see one.
I briefly used the OpenFirmware that shipped on Apple PowerPC-based Macs, CMD+OPT+O+F at boot would get you to it.
I had no idea. I’m still on 7.0.x, I didn’t even realize they were sold. It only has permissions for media and files.
My OnePlus 6t swelled and split in a year. OnePlus said it was unrepairable (it still worked) and offered me $50 toward an upgrade.
Replaced it with a Pixel.
I’ll be honest, I like the Fox Creeks I have but you can find gloves for less. I rode with a pair of deerskin ropers from a Western store for years. Any good pair of goat, deer, or elk skin gloves will last a long time and give good abrasion protection (as long as they stay on, look for a strap, I’ve crash tested what was at the time a $50 pair and they and I survived).
Gloves like these:
Have you looked at Fox Creek Leather? I have a pair of their (discontinued, it was designed like the cuffed Maverick but had a velcro strap around the wrist for extra retention) gloves and they still look good after twelve years, though a seam is starting to open after a get off a few years ago.
Diamond Camo on sniper rifles, assault rifles, submachine guns, shotguns, heavy weapons, and pistols in COD: AW. Couldn’t do it on the launchers and special weapons.
I stopped playing after that.
First was a Novation CAT 110/300 baud with acoustic coupler. Later I got a Practical Peripherals 1200, then a Zoom Telephonics 2400/9600. Then I bought a US Robotics Courier HST, it cost a ridiculous amount at the time. A few years later was working and I mailed it and an actual check to USR and they swapped it for a Courier vEverything (with the 20Mhz DSP). I still have that modem and a newer vEverything I salvaged.
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I don’t back up anything I can rebuild. I have multiple half-assed methods in use together for the rest of it:
That bike has, what, 2.1 gallon tank? So 80-100 mile range depending on right wrist.
Hit up a camping store for an MSR bottle?
Givi makes a bottle that doesn’t look like you’re headed to the KOA.
Admittedly pricey but convenient Giant Loop sells Armadillo Bags.
Great, glad it helped.
So in that budget, maybe look at closeouts:
Another angle is to get an inexpensive jacket with no, unrated, or minimal armor. Consider it just better than disposable and priced that way (Joe Rocket is in this category but their stuff is sport and urban styled). Then get an armored sleeve or shirt. Basically pick parts. I used to do this, wearing a motocross pressure shirt (like this one, this or this ) under a cordura jacket.
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I was wondering the same.