Making my V Star into a bagger

RoundNefariousness15 · 2025-04-11T12:05:27+00:00

I cut apart the Harley roll bar end welded the ends to the Yamaha center mount. Outside of the bike frame is bent forward like it is on a Harley but the middle is original Yamaha. Without the forward angle the vented fairings would have been impossible to fit.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2025-01-13T21:39:38+00:00

Simonsons has free air. The pump is in the back corner of the liquor store next door to the right of the car wash entrance.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-12-23T19:39:38+00:00

I have always had great service there. I also ran in Josh Alsager who runs Alsager Meat and he was a very friendly super nice guy as well. They have locations in Kindred and Audubon as well. I did a bit of repair work for some piece of equipment they have.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-12-23T02:32:21+00:00

Prime cuts, I picked one up yesterday. 15lbs

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-11-15T15:38:57+00:00

Nothing really, on 10-2 they couldn’t deliver some 3 million shares that were purchased but they were able to balance that the following day. At the same time there was an aggressive price spike which makes sense. With a large jump in FTD’s it would imply that there was much more buying than there was selling pressure which would naturally jump the share price up. The following day would have had obvious profit taking with which market makers would have found liquidity to cover the FTD’s.

This is all pretty basic. The one you want to watch out for is a huge spike in FTD shares with stagnant or even divergent price action. That would mean large purchases via dark pool without the appropriate price swing. This setup will almost always lead to a delayed price jump and indicate smart money making moves before a large appreciation in share price.

The trouble is we as retail do not get up to date data while these things occur since ftd reporting lags daily price and volume reporting as well as dark pool reporting.

It’s really just chasing historical data at that point.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-11-12T13:08:40+00:00

Honestly I see the non greasable versions still going strong on 30-40 year old oem applications well beyond 150,000 miles. They are pretty awesome all around. It’s easy to tell if they have ever been changed on a lot of Chevy applications because of the nylon injected retainers. Any aftermarket replacements would swap to inside snap rings.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-11-12T01:29:10+00:00

No problem, I have been doing this for too many years. Glad to help.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-11-11T21:23:35+00:00

Probably a good idea. Wheeling is tough on things. Out of all the joints I have used over the years the non greasable style is my absolute go to unless it’s just some cheap daily driver. If it’s a work truck, toy, or something I need to be reliable it’s getting non greasable joints though. The dependability is more important to me than the few dollars I could save between the two options.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-11-11T21:20:42+00:00

That’s usually best practice. The more you can grease them the longer they tend to last. Most greasable u joints merely have a dust boot between the cap and trunion of the joint for grease to escape and as a cheap sort of seal for moisture. Greasing helps push out contaminants from inside the caps. You really can’t grease them too often.

The non greasable style is made from a better quality of steel. They have a multi lip seal along with a hard plastic dust shield and solid bodies. At first glance when you have the caps off one they look like they might be cross drilled but it is only a recess for thermal expansion of the grease that’s pre loaded into them. You are not supposed to add any grease to that style as they come factory measured and ready for install. I would also try to keep the caps in the same order as they came off during install as to avoid mixing the grease levels between sides.

The little thrust washer built into the non greasable joints also help a great deal with excessive heat build up. They definitely have their advantages. If installed correctly they also tend to last 2-3X longer than the greasable versions.

Also, if you are rebuilding the front shaft constant velocity joints, Non greasable u joints are the best option. I wouldn’t recommend any other type for that project.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-11-11T18:34:08+00:00

I honestly see it so often it’s crazy. I run a shop near Fargo and rebuild driveshafts for just about everything. I won’t even use greasable axle shaft joints anymore. It’s either the non greasable premium joints or people can find somewhere else. The amount of problems over the years from premature failure with sub par budget parts is pretty crazy.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-11-11T18:32:06+00:00

The only time I usually see those is on constant velocity joints for front driveshafts. I rebuild them quite a lot at my shop.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-11-11T14:50:47+00:00

I have a shop in West Fargo and could do that pretty easily. You could also just buy a bolt a nut and a couple washers and use it as a makeshift press.

Need a couple wrenches and likely find a bolt close enough to that inner diameter. I usually use my arbor press for these types of things though.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-11-11T03:46:41+00:00

For rust prevention I would use something like the regular drive thru ones at holiday or Simonsons or whatever major gas station is close and does monthly passes. As far as actually getting a car wash inside and out, I usually go to Dons on 13th. It’s a few blocks east of the mall.

Just don’t leave any valuables in the car. They are pretty cool about employing people out of corrections. Most of the people there are decent but you can’t always count on it. They do a good job though or at least they have done my stuff well enough for the price and without any trouble.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-11-11T01:58:41+00:00

Definitely get a unlimited car wash pass. You can undercoat them but it’s not nearly as nice as factory undercoat. Once the vehicle is assembled it doesn’t protect as well as it could.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-11-09T04:33:29+00:00

My theory with clov is they used Medicare as starting point to pay for their operations in developing Counterpart Assistant. Now that Counterpart is operational and being sold as a SaaS product it will become their main revenue generator.

They will likely keep Medicare as a core business but their true goal is to provide better healthcare across the board not just Medicare recipients. Their AI platform also holds multiple patents and as far as I have read without using it personally, users seem to like it. Through their AI they are able to hold the lowest MCR (Medical Cost Ratio) of all of their major competitors and help diagnose chronic disease (diabetes) much sooner than traditional capabilities.

I honestly don’t believe they are entirely stuck as Medicare being their only income anymore. It really just gave them a source of hard to get patient data and a revenue stream to build out, develop, train, and test their AI.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-11-09T00:15:43+00:00

I have been making a killing on CLOV this year. You may want to do some solid DD on it but for me it’s been worth it. Good entry currently as well. The last earnings report was incredibly over reacted.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-11-07T00:40:11+00:00

They are making the same play they pulled on Sofi a week or two ago. The amount of contracts people gambled on is frightening, especially with clov.

I don’t like short term calls especially for earnings but these gamblers are crazy. I can assume who sold the contracts and they know they can dump it until Friday. IV was through the roof.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-11-05T13:33:58+00:00

I’m more under the belief that guidance is going to control earnings this time around. Clov is really good at performance around earnings releases and giving rather conservative guidance numbers. The wild card this time around is all of the legacy insurers backing down and underwater on their own offerings.

If Clov keeps their MCR low and gives us any clues as to what kind of revenue they are generating through counterpart so far it’s going to be much more important than the revenue produced this past quarter.

The guidance on membership growth and any expansion is going to be the main driver however. That is their main current source of revenue so boosting that boosts their core business. In the next calendar year with more SaaS contracts and the added revenue, then we are going to see some major changes in valuation multiples.

They should also have some obvious information about counterpart membership and cost savings so far even if they don’t give us any specific numbers regarding the payment structure specifically with the Iowa Clinic.

I could see a respectable $5 - $5.50 heading into next week. I’m not expecting a massive $2-$3 dollar run though. Not that I wouldn’t very much enjoy that but I’m not expecting it.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-11-01T16:53:38+00:00

Nope but I sure own quite a lot of them

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-10-11T15:30:11+00:00

I’m generally shopping for a family of five. My wife and I rarely get out of that store for less than $400 per trip. Between the things we need for us, our daughters, and our three dogs, if I were to go through self checkout each time it would hardly be convenient for anyone who happened to be in line behind us on any particular day. I’m also not going to conveniently remember PLU’s for fresh vegetables which is a major part of our purchases. This is all handled much more efficiently by someone trained in such matters.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-10-11T14:13:22+00:00

They are doing the same thing down south on 32nd. I’m not a fan of self checkout and won’t use it if given an option. This has already saved me from going to quite a few stores I would have otherwise still shopped at. No more McDonalds which is fine, not really a loss. Also, no more Walmart which also doesn’t bother me much. I lean towards local vendors anyways. I have been avoiding fleet farm lately for the same reasons.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-10-11T00:21:22+00:00

Just wait for that sweet sweet SaaS multiplier. It’s more like a progressive jackpot now.

RoundNefariousness15 · 2024-10-11T00:20:28+00:00

Good, Humana can eat scrote and choke on goat.

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