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Spam, Spam, Spam

They must find victims, otherwise they wouldn’t send them out I guess. The gullible and greedy get done I suppose.

The following is the first paragraph or two or sometimes the entire message from a bunch of scam spam email. Some of these email’s I’ve received a bunch of times. They’ll either try and get some money out of you or get you to give enough information to for identity theft.

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General Tyre / Tire Information

Tyre / Tire size

Metric Sizing

I will only list the metric sizing as it is most applicable to sport bike wheels

190/50 17 means the tire is 190mm wide on a 17-inch rim with an aspect ratio of 50. This method is called “metric,” even though the rim size is in inches. The aspect ratio is the height of the side wall and it is a percentage of the width. i.e. 190/50 is 190mm wide and has a height of 95mm (190mm X 50%). A 190/55 tyre is 190mm wide with a height of 104.5mm (190mm X 55%).

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Tags: 190/50, 190/55, profile, rating, speed, tire, tyre

Chain dimensions

The numbers used in chain sizing are all in 5/8ths on an inch. The first number is the pitch (the spacing between the pin centres) and the other two are for the width of the chain.

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Tags: 530, chain, dimensions, xring

Gorge Walk 18 July 2010

Werribee Gorge Short Circuit walk on the 18th July 2010.

The screen shot shows we took an hour and thirtyfive minutes to do 6.69km at an average speed of 4.2km/h. I’ve put the elevation changes graph up too.

Short circuit walk data

You can click the satellite view for a better idea of the gully we started following and then doubled back to stay on the correct path.

Here’s some of Allison’s wrist GPS data:

Werribee Gorge

Elevation

Spark plug condition chart

Spark Plug Condition Chart

The following is a spark plug colour and condition chart showing the symptoms and explaining the cause of various spark plug conditions.

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