Recent content by Rider/Writer

We will be attending the WSB at Laguna and managed to score RV parking with hookups. While we have been to Laguna many times, this will be our first camping experience at the track. Is ice available for purchase at the track, or must one travel off the facility for it?

:staRang I will be attending the WSB race at Miller Motorpark in Utah in late May. Having never been there, I need to find out what the beer situation is out there. Is beer readily available in area stores? Is beer for sale at the track? Should I bring in a few extra cases in the RV? This is...

:wtf My wife and I have been attending the M/C races at Laguna Seca for the past 20 years or more, and we always stay in Carmel. We dine at several of our favorite places there, and while it can be pricy we like to splurge once in a while. On this latest trip over the 4th of July weekend we...

Fellow Barfers; I am a soon to retire Technical Writer and I am in the market for a laptop. My company has a hiring freeze on right now, and since they have a history of hiring retirees back as contractors I fully expect to be asked to continue on part time as a contractor. I will be traveling...

I have written several short CMM's in word and converted them to pdf. files. Our customer has requested that the pdf. files be "bookmarked", and I am unfamilliar with this process. I assume that it is a form of indexing the various sections of the manual, however I have no experience in...

I have some questions regarding the Cannon Rebel XTi Digital SLR camera. I have a favorite old lens that I have been using for years on my Cannon film camera. It is a 28-105 mm EF zoom lens which I use for 90% of my photography. I took the lens to RITZ Camera at the local mall to see if it would...

According to the shop manual, the chain length for my bike is 108 links including the master link. Does this mean I can use a 106 link chain right out of the box with a master chain to achieve 108 links? If I use a 108 length chain will I have to remove a link before adding the master link to...

Hello to all here at BARF. After discovering this site some time ago, I finally decided to stop lurking and register. I am an old guy, 63 yrs old, a former MSF Instructor, and except for the two years I spent in Nam I have been riding various motorcycles on a daily basis since my eighteenth...