What did you do today?

[Hickory n Steel]

Replaced the pfister faucet in my bathtub when I got off work.

[Uncle Buck]

Beautiful place Rural. Warm temps and conditions down under is a treat. We're heading into late fall and cold winter, and it is not very comfortable for us "older" folks at times.

Not this old man! I welcome fall and winter, my favorite months! Spring is just the warmup for summer! Insane heat which cannot be dodged to cut grass, weeds, and shrubs, wasps and other stinging insects to endure plus mosquitoes, tics, spiders, snakes etc to deal with. None of that with the cold months.Snow and ice? Stay inside,  build a fire and drink coffee. Snow clearing? Jump on the garden tractor cozy in your Carhardts and blade it clean. Power loss? Hook the generator up and yer good to go.

I'll take the cold months any day, I hate the heat!

[j.a.f.e.]

I'm just the opposite the hotter the better. I can tolerate the cold but that doesn't mean I like it.

[goodfellow]

I'm just the opposite the hotter the better. I can tolerate the cold but that doesn't mean I like it.

Ditto Steve! Back in the day I was an avid skier and enjoyed it very much. Once I hit my mid-50s I couldn't stand the cold anymore. These days I can readily understand why so many upper mid-western folks enjoy the "snowbird" lifestyle.

Glad I have good heat in the garage, or nothing would get done during the season. -- ]

Mrs. Goodfellow on the other hand could sleep in a meat locker in her birthday suit and still complain about the heat. Like Herb, this time of year is her favorite season. You can imagine the "thermostat" wars that go on in our house --    

[Hickory n Steel]

Beautiful place Rural. Warm temps and conditions down under is a treat. We're heading into late fall and cold winter, and it is not very comfortable for us "older" folks at times.

Not this old man! I welcome fall and winter, my favorite months! Spring is just the warmup for summer! Insane heat which cannot be dodged to cut grass, weeds, and shrubs, wasps and other stinging insects to endure plus mosquitoes, tics, spiders, snakes etc to deal with. None of that with the cold months.Snow and ice? Stay inside,  build a fire and drink coffee. Snow clearing? Jump on the garden tractor cozy in your Carhardts and blade it clean. Power loss? Hook the generator up and yer good to go.

I'll take the cold months any day, I hate the heat!

I prefer fall and winter as well, partly because I have had a lifelong love of jackets which " collecting " has become a bit of a hobby for me, but most because there's only so many clothes you can take off before the cops are called.
It's so much easier to get warm than it is to cool off.

[Hickory n Steel]

Today I was working on my minibike.

A few months ago the clutch chain snapped on me which resulted in an absolutely miserable 3 hour push home, and I haven't ridden it since.

The other day I was visiting my uncle and he gave me a torque converter kit for it.
At a local overstock store where he buys appliances and other things he had bought a bunch of these kits at $40 a piece for his GO-Kart builds.

Today I started on installing it only to realize it fits a 3/4 shaft when the 196cc on my minibike has a 16mm shaft so I decided to go into the city and pick up a 212cc predator from HF.
I got my old engine removed and everything, got the T-C and all my aftermarket parts installed onto the new engine,only to realize that I needed an engine riser kit because the T-C interferes with the frame.

So now I've gotta wait a weak or two for that riser kit to arrive so I can mount the engine up and figure out whether or not I can use the original drive chain.
If not I'll have to order a new one and wait another week or two until I can hopefully ride it.

Then I should finally be able to take my Savage mk2 build out and sight it in.

[1965 Comet Caliente]

Interesting conversation about heat and cold extremes. I left Michigan because I didn't want to freeze my ass off my whole life. Considered Florida, but that's got its own set of issues. In North Georgia it's a good medium. Plenty warm in the summer and cool enough in the winter without being snowbound or dealing with below zero temps. I actually tend to look forward to Fall and Winter now if the summer was particularly hot. This last one actually wasn't.

[bmwrd0]

I too am a fall/winter type. Nice overcast days, a bit of rain or snow, hot fire at home.

Can't beat that.

[Muddy]

Saturday I cleaned out and reorganized the shed. Put the mower away and got the snowblower out to get ready.

[Uncle Buck]

A necessary, but eh kind of job. Been there done that.

[Hickory n Steel]

The engine riser kit for my minibike arrived and I got everything mounted up square and torqued down properly with no real trouble.
I had to cut off the bar that the chain guard mounts to which I had already suspected, and I had to modify the plastic cover that came with the torque converter to get it to fit.
With the Go Power Sports stage 1 upgrade kit ( performance exhaust and air filter / intake) that I had on the original engine it was running pretty lean, so I swapped in the jet out of the GPS carb supplied with that upgrade kit and it's running great now.

Originally it got about 18mph if I was lucky, that upgrade kit boosted it up to 21mph, and with the engine swap & CVT I guessed that it had to be up to about 30mph.
Well I used the free GPS app on my phone and was surprised to see that my average top speed was 36mph.
This thing will wheelie if you're not careful which is surprising for these hefty big tube Colemans because they're more of a utility bike that was built for durability over speed.

Now all that is left to do is figure out the headlight situation since there's no plug on these predator 212's, it'll probably need a battery now and in that case I might as well upgrade to something much brighter.

[goodfellow]

Finished up all the pieces needed to glue up this antenna line launcher (aka air cannon) for my HAM radio club. I've built several over the years, but this one will go into the club's inventory for members to borrow when the need arises to shoot new or repaired antenna lines over trees, towers, or buildings.

All the pieces are cut and now will have to be properly glued up and secured.