Category Archives: Around The Garage

Mountain bike worth. Advice

Looking to get a inexpensive bike so I can ride trails with my kids. They have bikes I do not. I found one on Craigslist for 100 and did some research. Bike is not worth what person is asking and it’s a discounted model. It looks decent. Person asked me what I’m willing to offer. Any ideas. I was going to offer $50. Any input on if that’s fair or to low to much?

idles up and down in neutral

I am working on a 08 400ex just did a top end on it cleaned the carb put it all back together and now it revs up and down just sitting there throddle cable has play in it looked all around the carb to see if anything was moving to make it rev and nothing is I never had a bike do this please help

caterpillars

OK so went for a ride today, and WOW its sure seems like its going to be a very bad yr for caterpillars
I can see tons of half eaten leaves all over the trails and thousands of the sucker hanging/dropping down
My atv front was covered by them when I got back, had them all over me too LOL

I’m guessing the dry weather has been helping them hatch a large population this spring or??
SO anyone else having a lot of them this yr in there area??

roundup

Hey guys, was spraying some roundup on fence rows and I always mix 2 Oz per 10 gal of water. Someone told me they always double the amount of chemical to " get a good kill". I said your wasting chemical because if you burn the plant or weed it won’t absorb and kill the root. And besides that there’s a point where the chemical is as strong as it will be in your mixture. So am I right about this? What’s y’all’s opinion and what’s your mix ratio if you use this product?

Did something different yesterday!

Yes, as the title says…I did something different yesterday. Something I have always wanted to do. Me and and friend rode Wave Runners in the swollen creeks here in the Houston area. As you may know there has been severe flooding for several days. Some areas not so bad. We rode Cypress Creek up and down for hours. We went up small tributaries into a golf course, sub divisions etc.. Went around tree tops, logs under bridges, around pipe lines ,helped a stranded girl that was dumb enough to get in a cheap raft with some other teenage boys. We had a ball! I can’t wait to do it again. We are already talking about our next adventure. Houston is known as the Bayou City because many small bayous traverse across towards the bay. Several more to choose from!

Did something different yesterday!

Yes, as the title says…I did something different yesterday. Something I have always wanted to do. Me and and friend rode Wave Runners in the swollen creeks here in the Houston area. As you may know there has been severe flooding for several days. Some areas not so bad. We rode Cypress Creek up and down for hours. We went up small tributaries into a golf course, sub divisions etc.. Went around tree tops, logs under bridges, around pipe lines ,helped a stranded girl that was dumb enough to get in a cheap raft with some other teenage boys. We had a ball! I can’t wait to do it again. We are already talking about our next adventure. Houston is known as the Bayou City because many small bayous traverse across towards the bay. Several more to choose from!

garden hose’s?

OK< so,. last yr I needed a new garden hose, I bought a SO called never kink hose, 125 fter, 75 bucks or so, JUNK< then bought another so callede never kink deal, almost a 100 bucks
and its the worst dam hose I have ever owned, its HEAVY< stiff as a board, like bending PVC at time LOL
cannot wind it back up to save yourself, just holds all sorts of shapes, and unwinds itself, frustrating for sure!
and the dam thing kinks like mad, spend more time walking back and forth that using it I think !!
I have owned several cheap hoses I bought back in the 90’s, that lasted till now and never had any issue’s, remember buying the last one for under 20 bucks at a Kmart! nothing special, just worked??

what’s up with the modern hose’s all say never kink on them too!
like to stick this one I have now, someplace the sun doesn’t shine on who ever put the label on this one!! claiming never kink!
Load of crap!

are the all crap like this or??
can anyone recommend one they have had a while that doesn’t kink up and is flexible?
NOT looking for a expanding hose either, this hose will be left outside yr round too, just like all my old one

any suggestions