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    Thinking about buying a motorcycle.

    When storing mine for the winter I fill the tank with gas, add a couple ounces of Stabil and unhook the battery. It's fired right up after sitting for a few months each of the two winters I've stored it that way.
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    Thinking about buying a motorcycle.

    And so many more are caused by the infamous "car makes a left hand turn in front of an oncomming bike"
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    What sorts of milage do motorcycles get?

    You most deffinately will not get more than 40 on a 600cc super sport. Not sure of you experience level, but they can be pretty unforgiving to an unexperienced rider. The local Suzuki dealer has a sign on their GS500Fs that say they get over 50mpg. Not sure it it's true or not.
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    What sorts of milage do motorcycles get?

    I have an '05 CBR600RR. If I exercise a little self control I'm lucky to get about 35 miles per gallon.
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    Is a HD tuner required to display HD from the XBox 360?

    The 360 outputs in HD. Assuming your monitor is, in fact, HD Ready and has component imputs it will display the 360 output in HD. No need for a tuner.
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    *** Official *** XBox 360 Hardware DISCUSSION Thread

    12 Hours in line at Walmart (My wife came and releived me for an hour twice). The decision to wait was a snap decision. I happened to have the day off and was in the store and saw the line forming. We had preordered a system from Gamestop back in June and were told last week not to expect one...
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    Treo 650 anyone use one ?

    I've got one. It's great that I don't have to carry several devices. I can connect to my Exchange server at work for email. As a phone, it sucks. The volume is very low at it's lowest setting. Bluetooth support is pretty poor as well.
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    Cold weather and engine detonation?

    May have been bad gas. I ran it dry and filled up with 93 Octane from a different station and all seems to be well. The engine has a fairly high compression ratio (13.5:1) but Honda says it'll run fine on 87. I'll stick to the super to be on the safe side.
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    Cold weather and engine detonation?

    Can anyone tell me if cold weather is more or less likely to affect engine knock? I use 87 octane (as prescribed by the owners manual) in my '05 Honda CBR600RR (motorcycle) and noticed a lot of knocking on the way to work this morning. I've been using the 87 octane for months and have never...
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    Motorcycles - How long does it take to learn to ride and get my license?

    Had that happen too. Had to pull over and take the helmet off to get rid of it. Luckily it didn't sting me.
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    Motorcycles - How long does it take to learn to ride and get my license?

    I swear, if I get hit with one more cigarette butt, I'm going to go friggin postal. ;)
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    Thinking about buying a motorcycle...

    Congrats! I'd love to see pics. Ride Safe.
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    scorching hot computer deal of a lifetime

    Drats! "The AMD/Microsoft Tech Tour 2005 Desktop and Server Promotional Bundles are now sold out and no longer available."
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    Car needs a paint job ...

    http://www.kustomrides.com/chromepaint.htm At $85 a pint it aint cheap.
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