Posts by SaltyClownNY

@gearhead - the Mickey Thompson ET Street-R 325/35R18 you have... I went to the site and it gives no numbers on OD. I was curious as you are the second person who has spoken about this tire on an 18" wheel. They have the OD listed as TBD. Know the approximate size?
I don't really use my SS when it's raining, but if you hit any wet roads, how does it hold up with that tire?

... OK, I see on the site it's around 27X13.50R18, but this is an estimate.... so around 27".

How does it do with water on the roads?

@SlingLow... put me in for interested. Just need final info and price. Would be good to see it on the sling. Wife and I would like to travel a bit in 2018. Maybe hit Georgia, NC, Tennessee area in the spring... who knows. Want to be in Florida too for a bit this summer. Let me know! Nice job!

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There seems to be a misunderstanding as to what weatherproof/marine grade means.

It doesn't mean they won't soak water but that with repeated exposure they won't develop mold(*).

Marine certified also adds a coating to protect against saline/sulfur.

So unless you are planning to let you SS sit in the rain all the time, a good leather/vinyl/pleather seat is all you need.

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I haven't had an issue, but the wife and I are fairly easy going and just laugh at ourselves walking around with "wet ass". Probably wouldn't hurt to put a layer of scotch guard on them, but on the flip side, the seats were designed as @Neosolidus noted and I wouldn't want to keep the seat from breathing by using scotch guard.

Anyway...

Anyone have Sparco seats? I'm looking at the R333. Sharp looking seats, but I've spend a lot of money to keep the waterproofing of the unit and now contemplating seats that are not. I'd say stop being cheap and just fork over the money for the sling seats, but on the flip side, I like the Sparko R333 seats. They are a little heavy though at almost 40 lbs. Not sure what the stock seats weigh in comparison. Would rather go lighter, but not spending $4K on carbon fiber seats.

Hey all. Anyone know the seat weight of the stock seats? I understand they will change depending on model. I have the quilted seats and they are comfortable, but I was hoping to get a seat with the harness straps.

Also, anyone try the Sparko R333 seats? Cost wise, they are inexpensive in comparison. Realize I may have to get seat covers for rain as they don't look waterproof, but don't believe the quilted stock seats are too waterproof either as you can wipe them down and then sit on them and you butt is soaked. The Sparko R333 certainly look nice, but I'd like something for long trips too.

Thoughts?

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Isn't that a song??? You're seriously getting a phone named after a song???

It comes with a stick and ball like a “xylophone” has. That for you techies is called a stick and ball.

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Correct, he acquired another restaurant and is literally gutting it as we speak.

Oh what the hell here is the picture of the new vehicle that he is testing.

I do NOT see ride command on that new ride!

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Not sure where Alpha has been...

Well, I know Polaris was out of the Ride Command and OR making a new version of it. Maybe they are waiting on that. I do know that ride command is back in stock next week with Polaris (or according to my dealer). It's a lot of $'s, but it gives me what I was looking for with an additional nicety of being water proof. They have it listed that it also monitors tire presser and I believe this is something new (possibly), so we'll see.

@Turbosling When is that wiring harness going to be ready for prime time? I keep looking out for info on it but don't see anything.

Kind of cool to see what people do. LOL.

I have a degree in photography actually, and threw that, I started teaching fortune 500 companies digital photography back in the 1990's when the cheapest digital camera was $24,000. Probably was maybe 4.5megapixels back then when my cell phone is now 12 LOL. I'd go in and set their computers up and teach the software and how to use the equipment. My clients started using more and more non-apple products and wanted to learn more about problem solving computer systems. Ended up putting myself threw night school 3 times for different versions of the MCSE certification classes while raising my 3 kids... and no, the school didn't coincide with each birth. Ended up spending a bit of time using that knowledge building custom reporting software for some major banks and then moved in to breaking things and doing analysis on different financial platforms as a load and performance testing engineer. I'm the one who tells the banks under what situation their applications may fall over and fail along with where the week points are. Spent 8 years on the back end of the stock market, a year doing retail and government applications and now back in the banks leading an entire team of engineers. They let me work from my home and I can go out for a SS ride for lunch... can't complain. Still do my photography on the side and have a 2000 square foot photo studio in the house. Keeps me busy. Finishing the home we started to build 5 years ago. I didn't like something our bank told us about the value of our house and went out and purchased all the manuals for doing electric all the way to the metal roofs and such and started building an addition to the house with the help of our 3 kids. Got sick for a bit, so just took a bit longer than the 3 years I planned for, but just have a bit of siding and the hardwood floors on the inside to go! SlingShot has put a bit of a damper on the house work, but what the hell, it's warm inside in the winter and the roof doesn't leak, so having some fun outside riding around when I can.

@AllIn5450... hey, sorry, I did not mean to imply you brought up race, sex, etc. What I was saying is that it's hard to say you can't have another kid then NOT provide birth control. That's like telling a piro that you can't start fires and then give them some match books.... really NOT, but you get my point. But then everyone starts yelling that we are supplying people with birth control and the government shouldn't be sponsoring it. I guess what I'm saying is you can't have it both ways... that's all. I agree with you, and if you tell someone they can't have additional kids... so be it. But you can't then say they aren't allowed access to birth control and that has been an argument ever sense the ACA went into law.

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You are 100% right.BUT also, if we go healthcare for all, then ALL must pay into it. Rich, Middle class, Poor and destitute.
IF you choose not to work to earn money to pay for your health care, then you go to the free clinics for your health care.
We do not have a health care crisis in this country. I can see any doctor when ever i want to.
It is called "paying for services rendered", either you do it with health insurance or you do it in CASH, or you go to a free clinic, college teaching hospital or where ever.
The crisis we have is the people that only want to pay for a bronze plan but expect to get the services and treatment of a Platinum, Titanium or a unobtanium plan.
The other problem we have is the social security boondoggle.
If you did not pay into it, you are not entitled to anything out of it....PERIOD. end of discussion.
IF you are too stupid to realize that you can't work till the day you die and then plan for it, so sorry, it is called personal responsibility.
Welfare? 26 week limit, then you are gone off the roll, get a job, education, or pick up trash on the side of the road for 8 hours a day to pay your way.
SNAP and child welfare? Who the daddy? Name him or no bennies, already have a child on welfare and get preggers again? tough shit, no free medical or bennies for 2nd child. get a job.
If you can not tell, I am tired of the whiners and crybabies saying gimmie, gimmie, gimmie, i DESERVE it or you OWE me.
I don't owe you shit and you deserve shit if you didn't plan you life out.
DAMMIT, now i am going to have to go see a doctor about my high blood pressure, should i use insurance or cash?

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True, but do realize it's not a black or white issue. Can we say if you are on welfare and get preggers and too bad? Sure we can. Can we say if you are on welfare and you have to be on birth control to prevent that... sure... are we? No, because then we're stepping on religion. I'm so tired of that argument. How many catholics go to church and are on birth control... many. How can we say to someone you aren't allowed to get pregnant and yet you also aren't allowed on birth control. I'm not going to step on toes and say it should be one way or another as it's a personal thing, but I can and will point out the hypocrisy of a decision like that. All I'm saying is there are social issues around it... right or wrong.

All I'm saying is what do we DO about it. We all see the end is coming. There WILL be a time in which we can't afford it. I'm doing my thing and protecting my family by making sure I'm on the top of the pile. That sounds terrible, but what options do I have really? Until we are ready to stop just throwing up our hands and saying health care isn't in the constitution, it's NOT going to get fixed as the powers that be don't have any incentive to fix it. On the contrary, they have incentives to NOT fix it. What I'm saying is look at other countries... learn from them, see what doesn't work and what works and DO something about it. All the infighting and politicizing of the issue won't get us anywhere. I'll guarantee our forefathers in 1787 had no clue this would be an issue and no, I'll guarantee it's not in the constitution. But none the less... it's an issue that needs a fix and I'd prefer not to stick my head in my ass and hope for the best. Maybe I can avoid colon cancer that way, but it's not going to do much else.

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Health care is and has always been "privatized". The only difference now is that the government makes you buy it and doesn't allow you to pick your coverage.
The ACA has not done anything it was promised to do. It just made the problems occur faster than free market.

Not sure I agree with that Red, but it's just an opinion. I think the ACA has just become a political pin cushion for the republicans to say "see". I personally have only seen increases before and after. Draw a line in the increases and it's basically a straight line FOR ME. I think our politics are terrible where you don't have political parties that can get along and get things done and all it is is a them v/ us. Sad really.

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I have seen the report @SaltyClownNY and agree we need to look at it for guidance. The bigger issue is not all of the components are clear. (IMO) the WHO is a very liberal body and the report is skewed in that direction.
Second-the rankings don't take into account how the health care is funded. IMO that drives a lot of what/will be US healthcare in the future.

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Thoughts

There are a LOT of things that would need to get hashed out, but if you even pay 10% of your salary to medical, would you not pay 10% in taxes to help pay for it? I think what happens is you talk about increasing taxes and everyone freaks out... understandably. This is a complex issue and the solution will not be simple. If I had all the answers, I wouldn't be doing what I do for a living LOL.

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It would be cheaper if it didn't have things I don't need like maternity care. But I'm forced to pay more to pay for other people's free coverage.

Hey, I'm not saying anything about that. You're 100% correct. It all has to balance out somehow and the system IS BROKE. But what do we do, just go back to before the ACA and keep paying our 10-15% more each year or do we just scrap it all and just say F' it? I'm not saying a blanket medical is for us even, I'm saying what we have now doesn't work and it needs to change and the ONLY thing I see thus far is a blanket medical that is NOT privatized as then you just have 10-15% more each year... how do you do that though? Government sponsored is only thing I know of. Someone please come up with an alternative so I can shut up LOL. I don't have the answers, but what I do know is that @Bill Martin is 100% right that it's screwed up and needs to be fixed, but just throwing our arms up saying it's not in the constitution is stupid and 100% not a solution. My thing is not loosing my home and it's a very real situation where everything I've worked for can be just gone.

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$698 per month the first $2000 is out of pocket before they pay anything. That's just for me, last cycle it was $627.

Thanks Red. That's about right... $698 + wife at $698, then as the ACA doesn't have "family" medical, you are paying per kid (or at least in NY you are...), so that's another $698 for both kids as the kids were half I believe.... so that's $2094 per month = $25,128/ year... that is WITHOUT deductible, so add the $2K... or $5K for what they call "family"... so now we are at $30,128 / year. But most families can afford that... shu....

I would also ask to see how much you are all spending on health insurance, but not sure everyone would be honest about it. I know that in 2010, before the ACA, my family was paying something in or around $10K / year with my employer paying about $11K / year, a total around $21K/year for medical. In 2016, as I was on the ACA, I paid out of pocket around $25K for the year for myself, wife and two kids. Not a huge increase in totals, but if you take 10% each year for 6 years, it's probably correct. Issue is, it was all on me now. Question is, if we keep adding 10% and at times, you are lucky to get a 5% increase in salary, at what point are you NOT able to have insurance and as Bill put it, you will have a "catastrophic event". So conservatives just want to keep going with this from what I've seen. are we really going to drive that much of a wedge between the "upper" class and basically get rid of the middle class? At what point does that have an impact on everyone as the driver for the economy just vanished? Explain that to me or maybe show me in the constitution where it says I'm not allowed to have medical. If you make it too expensive to afford, then it's not allowed, no? So what then? Only answer I can come up with is make sure I'm on the top in the upper class which I have no problems with mind you...

Just for discussion as this is the second time this has come up... can someone also point out where it says in the constitution where it says I need to pay for medical for other people? Can you also point out where it says I have a right to ANY medical insurance... or for that matter where it says how to breath and if it doesn't say how to breath, how do you know you need to do it?

What I do know is under the ACA, I'm paying a LOT of money for other people to have medical. I also know that before the ACA, I was paying a LOT of money for people that had NO insurance. So are you saying then we should just say fend for yourself? @Bill Martin... you stated the following:

"It ain’t doin nuthin but gettin worse - just got a letter today from Blue Cross/Blue Shield basically tellin me to grab my ankles they are going in deep in 2018 but don’t know how much yet. You cannot be without major medical because one catastrophic event could wipe you out financially. Even more so if all of your assets are paid for so they can come after you for being successful. Healthcare is a complete mess with no quick fix I can see."

So where do we go from there? I mean, it's not my constitutional obligation to do crap for you... why should I care... right?

I'll see if I can find it again. I think it's done by the W.H.O., but have to look it up. You do need to go to the source as most sites and reports site this one, but usually twist it in a way that make a point. I was surprised at some of the countries on it. I'm NOT well traveled and only have reports, but do have friends in the UK, Canada, and Ireland. Seems like there are Canadians that hate their medical that the republican party bring out and say "see"... but everyone I know that live around Toronto all like it. I am NOT saying everyone likes it... I'm saying the people I know all like it. They all say if you don't like that you have to wait for a test or service, they just pay a bit more and get right in. I've also herd about people being sent home to "die" in Ireland, but then when you look into it and ask if they have the recommended secondary insurance, they don't. There is always going to be a personal responsibility involved and there will ALWAYS be someone that doesn't like it or someone it didn't help. Just a fact. Nothing is going to be 100%.

Update: I "think" this is it, but don't recognize it right off. I think there is a newer one as this is back at 2000... but has how they base their reporting. WHO | The world health report 2000 - Health systems: improving performance

@AllIn5450... I think you have some good talking points in here, but you also make reference to a lot of items I never said, so you are making me think that even if this struck up a good conversation, it would fall on deff ears as you are only going to want to hear what you want to hear an make up the rest. (Trump may be hiring for his Twitter team.) Sorry, don't want to be short about it, but yes, as of right now, unless you live in a shoe, everyone on both side of the political sides make reference to the world ranking of health care. There is a standard that all counties were scored on. The word "better" I think can be debated, but there is a ranking none the less. If you haven't read the entire report, I'd suggest it. You MUST take the politics out of things to make anything better. The whole doctors, drugs and "cleaner hospitals"... I'd like to have whatever you are smoking, but not sure where you got that. I'll have to go read the postings again, but I'm fairly sure I didn't say this... no? As far as waiting 8-9 months for things that will kill you in 6... you haven't been sick in the last 15 years... like REALLY sick, have you? I speak with utmost certainty that the insurance companies WILL kill you TODAY with the ACA and BEFORE the ACA, all while driving your rates up 10-15% more each year. The system didn't work before ACA, doesn't work with the ACA, and shore in hell isn't going to work after the current administration gets done playing politics with it all. I also pay 20% of my entire salary NOW for medical. If you pay less, you are either taking benefits that other people are paying for or you have company sponsored insurance which probably totals a good bit of what I'm speaking to. If it's none of those, then you don't have health insurance and when you get sick, the American tax payer will pay for it or it gets distributed across all Americans in fees because no matter what, it will be paid for even if you choose not to. I can address the good talking points you have if you wish, but we need to keep it factual and about what was stated. To borrow a phrase, it's just "Fake News" if we start making it up. Can I expand on this theory?... yes, I can, but it's not a theory, it's based on a report everyone uses. What do I consider "better healthcare"... one I can use and not bankrupt me or have them take my home because I used it. "Access.... what?"... yes in deed... what? where did this even come from? I did a search for "cleaner hospitals" in the posts and I only see yours... please do tell.