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**dogfood** · 06-23-2008, 06:32 AM

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Originally Posted by jthomas1600

So I know your a race fan and I don't know if you caught this. There was an indy race yesterday in Iowa and several of the racers donated their winnings to flood victims. Pretty cool.

yeah i think scott dixon was one of those.
as a fellow kiwi, we are quite proud of him back here in new zealand

**jump5fan** · 06-23-2008, 06:33 AM

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Originally Posted by jthomas1600

So I know your a race fan and I don't know if you caught this. There was an indy race yesterday in Iowa and several of the racers donated their winnings to flood victims. Pretty cool.

I didn't know there was a Indy race yesterday, that's cool. I am into Indy racing but i am more into NASCAR right now.

**jump5fan** · 06-24-2008, 07:25 AM

well yesterday was kind of slow. my brother and sister and i when bike riding which was fun. while i was riding our dad's bike i noticed the left crank arm was coming loose so i checked it and found that i could pull it right off the bike, luckly it didn't come off while i was pedling real hard. i walked the bike about half way home and then i was able to coast the rest of the way home. i rode a couple other bikes too, including one of the three speed bikes that we have. i had never really ridin a three speed bike before (exsept in our driveway) so that was fun. later on i was about to fix the crank arm on our dad's bike. i was going to go to bed early yesterday but John and Kate Plus 8 was on til 11:00PM, i need to go to bed earlier but all the good TV shoes same to be on between 8:00 and 11:00, i think i just need to work on deciting that i need to get to bed realier and that that is more inportened that TV. Well got to go, see ya'll later!

**jump5fan** · 06-25-2008, 04:47 PM

Well yesterday was cool. I did a little driving when we went out to get Chinese food and the latest Paper Shopper. After we came home and ate we did some stuff around the house. In the paper shopper there were two cars for sale so we called about the fist one which was a 1992 dodge shadow for around $1000 but it had already been sold. We called about the second car which is a 1989 Honda accord for $700 and after talking with the guy on the phone we decided to go look at it. It was around 8:00pm or 9:00pm when we left to look at the car and we didn't get back home until almost midnight. we took the car for a test drive and decided to get it. I had seen Honda accords like this one before so I already knew what the car looked like but the car turned out to be in pretty nice shape. the we are buying the car from is the second owner of the car but he and the girl that he bought it from took very good care of the car. The interior is very clean and so is the outside. The only things wrong with the car a cracked driver side mirror, a thermostat that might need to be replaced, air conditioning that doesn't seam to work (might just need to be recharged), and the valve cover gasket needs to be replaced but other than that and a few other small things everything seems to be fine. the car is that is a automatic and I was hoping we would be able to find a car that had a manual transmission but that's ok. I think we are going to be going to pickup the car and do the title transfer and stuff on Saturday. our church is having a VBS meeting this evening and we are going to be going to that. Well got to go, bye!

**jump5fan** · 07-03-2008, 05:51 AM

boy i need to work on updating this thing more often. well we took the car to be inspected but it didn't pass because of a couple bulbs being out, some springs need the rear brakes that needed to be replaced and the front ball joints need to be replaced. we replaced everything but the ball joints. we are going to take the car somewhere else to be inspected again because we think the first place might not have been complaty honest. they said that the horn wasn't working but when we left we tried the horn and it worked and our mom remined our dad that we had stopped going to that place because of similer stuff. i was chacking the car last night and the one bulb that we replaced was burned out so i am going to go out and try to find one of the old bulbs that still work and put it back in. our dad and my brother and i drove it a little bit the other day and it is a fun car. my brother and i have been riding a lot lately, the day before yesterday i taped our one GPS recever on our dad's bike which i am using and when i was done riding it said i had rode 16 miles and i rode some more a little later so i think i rode a little more then 17 miles. the nut that holds the left crankarm on our dad's bike keeps coming loose (infact it fell off while i was riding the other day but i found it) because the crankarm is aluminum so i need to ask our dad if he thinks we can fix it and if we can't i am going to but new crankarms. well got to go, see y'all later!

**jump5fan** · 07-06-2008, 06:04 AM

well our dad took the honda to work the other day on it overheated on him. i was looking at it the next day and found the fan for the A/C system was damaged. it was bent in such a way that the fan blades were hitting the radietor and the fan itself would not spin. i was working on removing the fan and ended up damaging the radietor and most of the coolent leaked out. we bought a new radietor on ebay yesterday and we are also going to be buying a replacement A/C fan. on the 4th my brother and i were riding around and stopped to watch some people setting off a smoke bomb thing and they invited us back later that evening to watch them set off fireworks which was a lot of fun. well got to go get ready for church, bye!

jthomas1600 · 07-06-2008, 06:15 AM

[QUOTE=Jump5fan;3266476] , the day before yesterday i taped our one GPS recever on our dad's bike QUOTE]

That's cool. I've never heard of any one doing that. Does your GPS reciever also keep track of speeds? 17 miles is a pretty good ride.

**jump5fan** · 07-06-2008, 06:38 AM

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, the day before yesterday i taped our one GPS recever on our dad's bike QUOTE]

That's cool. I've never heard of any one doing that. Does your GPS reciever also keep track of speeds? 17 miles is a pretty good ride.

the gps that i was using doesn't but the unit that my brother uses does, it is really handy.

jthomas1600 · 07-06-2008, 06:48 AM

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the gps that i was using doesn't but the unit that my brother uses does, it is really handy.

So how fast can you go? Do you have any big hills by your house? I live in S E Texas and it's realy flat. But I used to live on the Oregon coast and I love bombing down hills as fast as I can.

**jump5fan** · 07-06-2008, 06:53 AM

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So how fast can you go? Do you have any big hills by your house? I live in S E Texas and it's realy flat. But I used to live on the Oregon coast and I love bombing down hills as fast as I can.

we have some flat areas and some hills (we live at the bottom of a small mauntin). i have hit 37mph on a muatin bike and my brother ahs hit 47 which i think i can beat if i go down the same hill with my road bike.

edit_ those speeds can get a little scary sometimes on a bike.

jthomas1600 · 07-06-2008, 06:57 AM

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we have some flat areas and some hills (we live at the bottom of a small mauntin). i have hit 37mph on a muatin bike and my brother ahs hit 47 which i think i can beat if i go down the same hill with my road bike.

Man at those speeds you need to make sure and keep the wheels on the ground -- a wipe out would be nasty. Crashing at 47 mph would be like jumping out of the car as you're driving down the free way.

**jump5fan** · 07-06-2008, 05:14 PM

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Man at those speeds you need to make sure and keep the wheels on the ground -- a wipe out would be nasty. Crashing at 47 mph would be like jumping out of the car as you're driving down the free way.

we are carefull. riding that fast on a bike can get a little hair rising sometimes.

**jump5fan** · 07-08-2008, 05:59 AM

i am exicted because we are going to be going to Harry's U Pull It in a little bit. we need a couple parts for the Honda. well got to go get ready, see ya'll!

jthomas1600 · 07-08-2008, 06:02 AM

I thought "harry's u pull????" It took me a minute but I'm guessing it's a junk yard. They are pretty cool. Good luck finding what you need.

**jump5fan** · 07-08-2008, 06:05 AM

http://www.wegotused.com/index.htm

yep, pretty cool place.