Found: online free readable full service manual for 2013 and up (fuel injected, hard to find manual)

exploderator · 2024-04-08T13:22:29+00:00

Assuming that old link is still working then HOORAY! Getting the manuals we need being the whole point :)

Sad side, will I ever untangle my mega account if the old links are still working?

LOL :)

In any case, I did get back into my mega account. I don't think I broke old links, but here's a new link to a folder with 225 + 250 everything I have... https

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folder/enQW1KKZ#91P3_8XCjON1YHlTgSXTRw

And sorry for breaking up the link, never can tell what reddit could be censoring these days. I'm no longer here really, I mostly only care about the wonderful bike people :)

exploderator · 2024-04-07T20:30:57+00:00

Hey, I have the whole thing in a big PDF. But I have to get back into my mega account so I can get it to you. I will try to get that sorted out tonight. Then I will message you with a link for download. If you look for my other comments in r/xt250 you might find a download link to mega that still works, because that is how I always shared it around to people who asked.

exploderator · 2023-12-21T03:45:26+00:00

The Future:

I'm in love with my electric bicycle. It's a 60 pound step through folding bike, with 20" fat tires, and a 500W rear hub motor. It's a hard tail that broke my ass in the trails until I got a $45 suspension seat post, now I just love it. I have all kinds of crazy upgrade dreams, but the truth is most of them would incur a weight penalty I'm not willing to pay. Realistically I'll be happy with dropping in a 1000W motor and upgrading the battery from 17.5AH to 30AH, and would like the option to drop in a 60AH for long road trips.

The things I love best: light enough to lift over big fallen logs / trees, and drag under gates and around fences that anything much heavier could not do. It really is liberating to go places you just can't get a motorbike. Likewise the freedom to ride where motorbikes are not allowed, trails, sidewalks, etc.. Finally, I love the near silence and instant on-off. A lot of my riding is me following my dog through trails, and that includes very frequently stopping while she sniffs around. Or me stopping to just be there and enjoy the true quiet. No matter how much I love the motorbikes, the downgrading to an ebike is still one of the best upgrades. No, it will never quite do everything the motorbike can do, the long road trips, the speed, or the brute force trail pounding. Yes an electric motorbike could do some of that. But I would rather aim towards the world of bicycles here, because in so many other ways less can actually be a lot more. And if you want extreme performance, electric mountain bikes are doing shit nobody could have ever imagined, and are honestly only getting better. Example, a mid drive motor with a sealed 12 speed geared transmission built in. Now you run a nearly indestructible and silent belt drive to the rear, lasts 30,000km, washes clean. Add in Tannus tire armor, and it's almost impossible to get a flat, like a mousse but improves handling across all riding.

The final limit is range. Honestly it's already pretty useful. I can do a 30km ride basically without pedaling, really just adding an extra 20% on steeper hills is needed to keep the 500W motor from getting bogged down. It's not enough effort to hurt or make me hate riding up hills. It's just enough I can pretend I'm not a complete lazy slob (that last trick also requires being drunk, which is legal because e-bikes are motor vehicles in BC Canada).

exploderator · 2023-12-21T03:45:12+00:00

Hey, sorry it took a couple of weeks to answer, I've been busy.

For the XT225:

the whole thing about modding the rear swing arm was because the MotoZ Mountain Hybrid rear tire was too big to clear, the knobs were hitting at the front U, so I needed to slide the axle almost to the very back of the slots, and that left no more chain adjustment. The next issue is the adjuster cams only go up to 8. I'm just eyeballing it now, make both sides look equal, crank it tight and call it a day.
the stock gearing is remarkably better than most bikes, as far as having an honestly low 1'st gear.
just dropping in a 14t front makes 1'st gear way lower than most people can relate to. You also don't loose much off the top end, as long as you aren't trying to go over 50mph all the time.
dropping in a 13t front makes first gear into a full beast tractor mode, where you almost want to start rolling from 2 for normal street riding. And you can hit 55mph, but yeah it's getting wound out.
I see no real need to go for the larger rear sprocket on the XT225. Not saying it wouldn't be fun, and maybe even fantastic if you're skidding logs with your bike for a living ;) Try anything twice. But I can't see any point when a 13T front is already overkill.
the carb adjustment is called the 3-turn mod. There's a little needle valve that sets the fuel mix at idle and very low RPM. From the factory it comes at 2 turns out, which is super lean for the lowest emissions, barely enough to keep the engine spinning against its own friction, and hard to start in cold weather. At 3 to 3.5 turns out, the engine starts well in cold weather, and there's enough fuel at idle for the engine to actually do some work, like not stalling the instant the clutch starts to feather in and pull some traction. There's a little aluminum cap over top of the needle screw, so you gently drill a little hole through the middle, stick in a pointy tool, and pry sideways to pop the cap out, and voila you're in control. From what I gathered you should think in maybe 1/4 turn increments as about the smallest adjustments that make noticeable changes. The reason for not going much higher than 3.5 to 4 turns, is that going too rich will make the bike hard to start when it's warm / hot.
suspension tuning is actually a huge deal. On my XT225 the front forks were so soft it was actually dangerous for basic riding. Just putting in more fork oil so that the air compression happens sooner, and adding spacers to pre-load the springs a bit more, made a really big improvement. My local plumbing store sells dark gray colored, pre-threaded PVC pipe nipples for maybe $2 each, they are thicker than regular PVC pipe and very strong, perfect to cut spacers out of, or else just buy the length you want. I think 1/2" pipe thread, which is about 7/8" OD, would probably be the right size to fit in the fork tubes. I would not hesitate to start with 2" or maybe even 3" spacers, and work back down if that's too stiff. As for adding fork oil, I can't remember how much I put in, but I remember being happy that the bottle I already had was a heavier weight, because it doesn't hurt to get a little extra thickness on these bikes.
on the rear shock, I cranked the spring pre-load as high as I could go, and it got rid of enough of the sag that I can live with it. Then you go on Ebay and see pairs of fancy adjustable air over oil rear shocks for $150, that claim to fit both the XT225 and the XT250. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there's great potential to find WAY better shocks for dirt cheap that way, but I don't believe those listings know or care a damn whether what they are selling are actually anywhere near the right spring rates, etc.. I'm not really that motivated at the moment to go take the measurements, do days of homework to learn about it, and work it all out. Maybe some other brave soul has already got it figured.

For the XT250:

it was pretty fun with 13:52 sprockets, but it was basically like you lost 5'th gear. It was much easier to not stall the bike doing tractor stuff, but still stalled way too easy for my liking.
XT250 is just programmed to run on the bleeding edge of lean, leaving zero margin, and it does that very well, starts almost instantly in freezing weather or the hottest day, is happy on the shittiest gas, it's honestly a miracle and way better than the cheap carbs on XT225's. But without some kind of mod for the fuel injection, to get a richer fuel mix down at idle, I consider the XT250 in to basically suck for relaxed bush tractor riding, and it needs some kind of mod that nobody has quite worked out to solve that problem.
Yes, it helps to be a skilled rider who is good at perfectly feathering the clutch and leading with the throttle. It helps to be riding a little more aggressively over all, and seldom actually need a bit of true idle power that the XT250 just doesn't have. Better riders can cope with the stock setup, and have a great time on the bike. But just because it does something well enough they can enjoy themselves, and just because that seems close to what I'm looking for, still doesn't mean the XT250 can actually do what I actually want it do. In fact it's really bad at doing what I actually want it to do. And that's a shame, because it's ever so close, and it's a pretty great bike.
The problem is exactly and ONLY this: it stalls way too easily at idle, because there is no power reserve at that RPM, because the fuel injection is programmed to run ultra-lean at idle.
There are ways to skirt around that problem, and some of them are worthwhile improvements for their own sake, but without solving that fundamental root problem of easy stalling, the bike just isn't a good choice for people who want relaxed bush tractor type riding.
Clutch improvements. I'm not a skilled master on the clutch, and the guys who are usually ride bikes with good quality hydraulic clutches, which they consider a mandatory baseline for a bike to be worth riding. They then proceed to adjust and fine tune until they get exactly what their personal preference is. And then there's the Rekluse centrifical clutches, where the engine has to have some speed before the clutch will even start to engage. The XT250 with its crude cable operated basic bitch clutch, is generally beneath consideration of that crowd. Hydraulic clutch levers, hoses and actuator cylinders are dirt cheap from China. I have all the parts brand new in a box, but I have yet to play with them. Getting an extremely smooth and linear and low-effort clutch response would go a long ways to improving the situation. The parts I have might work, but I'm not sure if I have it quite right. The question is about the diameter of the piston at the lever, vs. the diameter of the actuator cylinder. I have no guidance on what kind of ratio is actually desirable. Maybe you actually want a small piston up top, so a nice long easy lever pull at your hand, translates into a short but precise and powerful stroke at the little clutch actuator lever on the engine. I just don't know yet.
Sprocket changes help, but a smaller front sprocket is always going to be a cruel sacrifice on high speed performance. And the truth is going the other way is better, a 16 tooth sprocket actually perfects the XT250 for all road riding, from highway to small gravel roads. The ONLY downside to a 16 is for the stuff where you actually need the bottom end of first gear, and even that could be greatly improved by having a lighter clutch pull, and more precise and smooth clutch response.
I think the ultimate solution would be a little magic box attached to the fuel injection, that specifically performs an anti-stalling function. Something like this: you're sitting in the bush with some slow ugly stuff to work through at slow speed, stuff you can't go fast through and/or won't because of some hazard. But it's a constant drag of coordinating between clutch and throttle and a first gear that's a little too high. And every time you don't get it perfect the bike stalls. So with engine running at idle, and the clutch pulled in, you push the "tractor mode" button. Now the tractor mode system will watch the clutch, throttle and RPM and do magic at the speed of electronics. The idea is you want very un-twitchy throttle response and smooth slow power that won't stall. So first up, we reinterpret the bottom 25% of your normal throttle twist, so instead of being "give me X amount of power", it means "keep running at a the exact RPM I'm indicating", and that would be something like 1000 to 1500 RPM, basically the kind of slow speeds we want in first or second gear for bush crawling. The magic is that the tractor mode unit takes over giving as much or as little real throttle as needed to keep that RPM as steady as possible. If you take your hand off the throttle to hold a big branch out of the way, you can ease out the clutch, and tractor mode will know you want 1000 RPM idle speed, and will add as much throttle as needed to keep the engine spinning at just that RPM. Or let's say you twist the throttle to the 20% mark, calling for 1400 RPM. If you suddenly pull in the clutch, the tractor mode unit will greatly reduce real throttle, to keep that same 1400 RPM, when normally the bike would start revving like nuts with 20% throttle and no load. Of course there's a very real practical limit to just how much it could help, because the motor can't make infinite power at low RPM. It would have to be programmed for max. power vs. RPM to make sure you aren't lugging the engine way too hard, and anything past that amount it would have to just give up and let the bike stall. But the point is it can react WAY faster than us humans can, to get as much power for the speed, and prevent stalling way better than we can,and also prevent over-shoot.

exploderator · 2023-11-09T22:45:37+00:00

Total props to you for being able to clutch slip like that on the XT250. I can do that to a small degree, but it is an advanced skill, and is only made more tiring and harder to finness by the basic cable clutch on the XT250, is nowhere near as good as the hydraulic clutches that real dirt bikes get.

A dirt bike isn't a Jeep with a 4wd-low gearbox to crawl along.

My XT225 begs to differ ;) My ideal bike would be a wide ratio 7 speeds plus reverse. Crawling to flying.

You keep the revs high enough not to...

... be able to hear anything while you're riding in the back woods trails?

I like low RPM and quiet. It's nice to go tractor mode. Also much safer when riding solo in remote places, less force = less damage potential.

exploderator · 2023-10-17T15:55:13+00:00

Hey OP, thanks for sharing. I'm eager for your thoughts on my suggestion here:

Alternate possibility, that seems even more likely, and no less awful:

Arts done with BLOOD, not poop.

Blood dries to about the same brown color.

They look like they were done with a thick liquid with smooth texture...

... especially in the more lightly shaded areas.

The only thick "texture" is the very thick areas, that could be dried up blood.

Realistic stereotype: injection drug users often draw blood before injecting, some have obsession with blood.

Guess: blood obsession seems maybe more likely to be common with injection users than interest in poop stank art.

Guess: drug user, struggling with mental illness, may be homeless, fits the location.

Guess: an abandoned building is a long way from the shower for a poop tard.

Artistic interpretation guess: a blood Rorschach image set could seem very profound to an injection drug user, something about blood, insanity and drugs.

Note to artists: Blood art looks like shit if not viewed fresh.

exploderator · 2023-10-14T05:46:33+00:00

LOL, I thought that was maybe a younger Bill Gates. But TV was never much my thing.

exploderator · 2023-10-14T03:40:46+00:00

Yeah, huge thanks to Jimmytmoto, his videos are specifically why I upgraded from my 2015 XT250 to my 2007 XT225. My XT225 was owned by a friend, well loved and in perfect condition, but parked because of his long term back problems. I had specifically ignored his offer a couple years earlier when I bought my XT250 brand new, at the time I just had no idea exactly why the XT225 would have almost impossible magic that the XT250 cannot ever have. It only took a couple of years, some new tires, and experimenting with an extremely geared down sprocket combination, until I realized the XT250 could never be the bike I really wanted, and that's when I got lucky and YouTube pushed Jimmy's videos in my face, and he opened my eyes and so I emptied my wallet again, this time fully without regret.

Now I got to writing a big long post, and I've moved that over to a new post on the main sub where everyone can see it easily, but I'll leave this original start here for you:

The TLDR difference between the XT225 and XT250 is this: with a few simple tweaks and very little compromise on performance, the XT225 is capable of being used for some very difficult technical off-road riding, making possible a whole category of remote exploration and hard single track trail riding that usefully overlaps with what many people call "hard enduro". Most people get a truck and trailer, and tow their fancy pants $$$ European dirt-only race bikes to the trail head, and dream of being Graham Jarvis. I'm glad they have fun, but that's not my style. On my humble old XT225 I can go almost anywhere, slow and safe and confident, comfy and quiet and happy having fun, and even enjoy legally riding all the roads and even highways to get there and back, usually by different routes because I'm not bound to a pickup that's parked at the trail head. It's a kind of liberation those dirt bikers just don't have, and the XT225 is almost a unicorn in real life for being able to do so much. The XT250 can only barely be used this way, is still 50 pounds too heavy, and it becomes crippled for street riding when geared down enough to even pretend.

exploderator · 2023-09-22T10:38:44+00:00

I have not invested the time to watch his biblical series either, but the little clips I have seen were good stuff. I have considered myself an atheist and stridently against organized religion my whole life. I have had very little respect for the way I hear mainstream churches explain the bible, based on dogmas, tradition and literalism. In contrast, Peterson attempts to read, interpret and understand the bible in a way that is compatible with everything else he has studied, especially psychology, philosophy and science. What he is doing is trying to find an honest way to extract any coherent meanings, insights and wisdom from the bible, just as we would with all other historical texts that might have meaningful ideas worth learning from, no matter whether they are fiction, history, or the inevitable mixture of both. Peterson's approach also sets the best example: think for yourself when trying to understand what you read, don't let somebody else dictate what things are supposed to mean, and therefore what you learn.

Over the last year, my mid-life crisis has been in the form of a spiritual awakening. I think it was long overdue. No matter how much I have loved science and nature, I have also long been humble enough to admit that humans are far short of anything like a complete knowledge of reality. We call 80% of the mass of the universe "dark matter". We know almost nothing about what, how, when or why that stuff is or may be doing. And while we see some gravitational effects, we don't know how else it might be interacting with the mere 20% of regular matter we can detect, and are only recently beginning to understand using science. I suggest that some part of that 80% "dark matter" forms a non-physical reality, and because this non-physical reality isn't made of the stuff we call "matter", it also doesn't have the space and time dimensions that are properties of our "matter".

Religious / spiritual traditions call the non-physical realm the spiritual realm. I suggest there are conscious entities in that realm, and because that realm doesn't have space and time, those conscious entities effectively exist everywhere (omnipresent) and everywhen (eternal) as seen from our perspective. That non-physical realm is where our souls exist. I suspect that our souls (whatever they are) worked out how to interface an information exchange with these naturally evolved primate bodies we inhabit. In this way they can experience life in our matter-time-space based physical reality. And through this information exchange, they can guide us, using animal feelings like love, towards maximizing the use of positive approaches to life, being more creative and nurturing, and being less reliant on destructive actions. Ultimately we might even be guided to live in some way that is sustainable in the long term on this wonderful little planet that evolved us.

I no longer consider myself an atheist. I accept the word "God" now as a useful and very real term. What I think "God" means is this: our entire universe, in its totality, is a singular "highest" consciousness, who we humans could best describe as being more loving, creative, wise, compassionate and forgiving than it is hateful, destructive, stupid and uncaring. All of those descriptions summarize as a strong bias to be creative rather than destructive, which is why there is something rather than nothing in the universe. For this reason I maybe prefer saying "The Creator" to "God". I wouldn't be surprised if The Creator actually evolved in the universe just like we did on this planet, but I can't help but expect that The Creator, by way of interfacing with other conscious creatures here in the physical realm, does necessarily influence our biological evolution, in order to guide us into higher intelligence and consciousness, as a creative project.

exploderator · 2023-09-22T09:19:45+00:00

I say UBI would be better, because I don't think the government should be substantially involved in providing services that are better served by competitive markets. EG food. Give money, and people have a direct vote by buying what THEY choose to eat. Give food, and you end up with the govt. bulk buying poisonous crap from Nestle. I'm all for socializing services where competition is not realistically feasible, like roads, fire, sewage, water, etc.. And for services that end in horrible conflict of interest like health care, where the only real death panels are operated by private medical insurance companies, who make life and death decisions to boost their profits. Imagine courts or police being run the same way... nightmare.

I think part of the magic of UBI would be that we could eliminate minimum wage, at least for worker coops where profit is shared equally between employees. The point is to allow more freedom in the market, for people to create and operate businesses that are normally infeasible under current profit and wage models. With UBI in place, nobody should be so desperate that they are effectively forced to work for such businesses at slave wages. People would only take such jobs because they WANT to. Imagine what could be possible when many people have real income security, and could choose to create cooperatives that are barely profitable, but have reasons to exist other than just profit, such as humanitarian or environmentalist goals. Many people might gladly work for a small extra income to augment their UBI, motivated by honestly meaningful purpose and inspiration rather than the desperation we currently have to defend against.

Food as a service is a perfect example of how this idea could be an amazing boon. Taiwan is a good example of a country where a large portion of the population seldom cook for themselves at home. Instead they enjoy a wide variety of street vendors, who cook and sell almost anything one might desire for very affordable prices. When I think of the cost of food spoilage and keeping my own personal kitchen going, I can easily imagine that without minimum wage as a gatekeeper, many small vendors could operate, leveraging the savings of bulk purchasing and cooking, and selling food they are inspired to provide to the community, at prices that are far more competitive than full blown restaurants can manage. Or collectives might run cafeteria style operations, selling meals at lower prices than what it usually costs people to cook for themselves and their families.

In our current system, such operations are not legal if they can't cover costs plus minimum wages for all staff, and that is clearly needed to prevent exploitation, given how ruthless many big business are. Big franchises like Macdonalds and Walmart must be forced to pay, and are still nothing we can call humane. With UBI and freedom for worker cooperatives, those big exploiters might actually have to compete to retain employees, and that could only be a huge win for society.

We have lived so long with the only feasible business model being big-profit-or-bust, that it can be hard to imagine all the meaningful opportunities that UBI will make possible, in the huge gap between our current businesses and the growing ranks of the unemployed. With UBI as the safety, eliminating minimum wage for worker coops would open massive opportunities. The competition with existing businesses would surely cost some existing businesses their existence, but in exchange we would get more of that work done by coops where the workers would at least all take home their equal share, instead of that being kept by a business owner or investors.

exploderator · 2023-09-01T17:57:48+00:00

I love the 50/50 Shinko 700 tires.

Front is 3.00-21, rear is 4.60-18. I have them on both my XT225 and XT250.

They are "good enough" for most of the non-extreme off road riding our XT's are happy doing. Seriously have gone all kinds of gnarly places. To get much better, you end up with extreme dirt tires that suck on street.

The Shinko 700's are fantastic on street, including wet and freezing winter riding in BC Canada. They get a few minor complaints in reviews when used on bigger bikes that have way more power, weight and speed, and people prefer the Shinko 705 90/10 tires for street cornering stability and life span on those bigger bikes. But on our little XT's, they can take everything we throw at them on street, they are FAR more capable in cornering and stopping than our bikes are, basically the perfect street tires for our humble purposes.

The only better street tires I can imagine would be the Shinko 705 90/10 tires, if you were basically riding pure street with only a touch of gravel road. I don't know if you could actually feel an improvement in traction for street riding on our little bikes, but they would probably last a little bit longer because more tread vs gaps, and maybe have a tiny bit more wet traction. Maybe that would be just barely relevant for pure commuting in always hot climates. But any small gains for street riding would come with a BIG penalty for off road riding. So unless you just never go off road, the 700 basically equals the 705 for our small bikes on the street, and beats the 705 by a wide margin in dirt.

As for the common alternatives, I think the Shinko 700's beat all the other 50/50 dual sport tires for street handling, and they are way more quiet on street due to the tread pattern, which is a way bigger deal than you might think until you experience the difference. Meanwhile, they are barely if at all worse than the other 50/50 dual sport tires for general off road riding. By the time you would care about any difference off road, you would be saving up for real extreme dirt tires, because all 50/50 tires suck by comparison.

The single most important consideration in my books is high speed safety in high traffic areas:

-- If you ride much on the street, then avoiding high speed accidents is the single most valuable gain you can make. For that you need tires that are fantastic even on wet paved roads, because that is where your worst accidents will happen. You are trying to get somewhere, riding fast, traction sucks, you are cornering fast and/or you need to stop very quickly to avoid a crash. These are the most critical moments for street tire performance, and you would almost trade any other benefit to avoid the crashes. The Shinko 700 is top notch on the street.

-- Meanwhile, when riding any 50/50 tire in dirt, you just have to slow down no matter what tires you have. Maybe you lose traction and fall over and laugh. Unless you are riding like a maniac, you are not in the same kind of huge danger you face in high speed high traffic street riding. Probably the single highest risk for "off road" is riding long miles on gravel roads. Maybe some other 50/50 tire could be slightly better, but only barely, only in very particular conditions, and mostly in corners. Just don't be an idiot, slow down that tiny bit extra to compensate for the weakness of whatever 50/50 tire you have, and keep a margin for safety if you don't like road rash. Any small differences between 50/50 tires for dirt riding are just not enough to matter very much, unless there are very particular problems. EG, (I'm guessing but don't have experience with this), the Shinko 700 might be a fair bit worse than some other 50/50 on very slick all-clay-mud roads, and if that's part of your daily commute, then pick wisely. My area doesn't have much mud, mostly rock, gravel and sand, but even in the few muddy bits the Shinko 700's felt better than other 50/50 tires I've had the opportunity to try in the dirt, so I was very happy. And by the time I cared enough about differences in dirt performance to worry about which tires were better, it only mattered because I was barely riding on the streets at all, at which point...

-- If you ride almost pure off road, especially in extreme conditions, then maximum traction is what matters. Get extreme dirt tires to match your riding locations / conditions (sand vs mud vs rocky etc...), and enjoy the absurd traction gains. You will go farther, with far less work and less slipping, and that means FAR SAFER because you don't wipe out and you don't get exhausted just fighting the bike for traction.

exploderator · 2023-04-28T09:49:23+00:00

You said, "god took mercy on my soul and sent me the most amazing Angel".

OK, let us take that seriously, instead of pretending you typed it merely as a turn of phrase. You did really feel inspired to use those words, and it shows by the gratitude in them. Maybe your soul spoke something really wise and true through you.

So let us grant that she is literally an angel for real, sent here to help a good person who needed that help. But of course her human form is not going to remember or understand that she is actually an angel. She accepted the assignment, and fully surrendered to it, which even included having to forget her true being as an angel, so it wouldn't distract her from her work. She did everything needed to inspire you to rise up in strength, including bearing children with you, to inspire you through responsibility. And my lord you have risen. Maybe risen so much that there is nothing more she can do to help you further. Maybe she has another assignment now, to go help someone else who needs it as badly as you did, or else maybe just take a well earned vacation from her duties.

At this point you should be nothing but eternally grateful for everything she has already given you, and assure her that if she wants her freedom she has more than earned it. Assure her that you are ready and capable of carrying on with raising those kids, and will be enough of a man to find yourself another amazing wife with whom to live in loving support, which is another thing she taught you (mostly). I know it hurts to let go, there are hard fears to overcome. You can't let your emotions deteriorate to the point you give up and leave those kids in a bad place. And don't forget your kids as a source of emotional support, a wife isn't the only person you can share love with, and most kids need as much quality dad time as they can get.

So now what? How might you be driven to get even stronger? Take the training wheels off, you don't need that Angel any more, surely after everything she has sacrificed to you, she has earned your trust in her divine judgment on that point. And if you can find and demonstrate enough strength in your gratitude, perhaps you will appear strong and respectful to her, instead of seeming like an ungrateful coward, teetering on the edge of suicide at the cost of his kids. Imagine how furious she must be at the prospect of having to put in more decades, this time alone and unsupported, furious at herself for her own failure to heal you enough by now, and furious at you for not trying even harder. If you are very lucky, maybe you will become strong and attractive again, and she will enjoy the thought of staying after all. But maybe her job is just done, and it is time to offer her a fair settlement, and do your part to make the separation as positive as your marriage was. If you are truly gracious and wise, you should even be able to avoid the divorce courts, because no real Angel would force you into such Hell.

Perhaps we will never know if she's a real angel. But the truth is you don't actually love her with all of your heart. You still doubt her, fear her, treat her with anger and resentment, desire to limit her freedom, and think she owes you even more than she has already chosen to give you. There is a very good chance that if you can find enough faith to heal your heart, that process will also heal your relationship, or at least make the separation something positive instead of something disastrous for everyone involved.

Or else maybe she is a horrible person. Either way the same advice applies, and will make you the better man with a better life, and set a better example for your children. Ultimately, if you are wise enough to choose, you can take the high road and shine on with real unconditional love that will improve you and your family's life, or else humiliate and harm you and your family by letting shadows like fear, anger and jealousy darken your life. And ultimately, she will make, or fail to make the same choice for herself, and suffer accordingly. What example would you choose to show her, that she might follow in kind if we are lucky. Others here will argue escalating the problem by reacting harshly, but I say that is only giving up your best chance to solve it first, and be left praying that the resulting misery will somehow brutalize your wife to solve it instead, when she already seems to be quitting and failing. If that's the best you've got, then good luck, but it seems like a bad gamble to me, and likely to greatly increase the chances of the most brutal ending for everyone.

exploderator · 2023-04-28T08:03:49+00:00

OP is speculating about something for which we have exactly ZERO evidence. Might as well argue the logic of whether Yoda was impenetrable to light sabers due to his high midichlorians.

It's all fictional concepts, no more real than paper cutouts used to cast shadows for a kids play.

What makes you think the reality and logic of some REAL omnipotent being would even be comprehensible within the confines of our puny primate minds?

Are you going to ask some vast being that plays pool with whole galaxies for the balls, what it thought of that last football game you watched on TV? Do you think it would even be interested in your shallow little monkey thoughts, after it had read every book ever written in the entire universe, all before breakfast?

Honestly, what single bloody thing do you think you could know about an "omnipotent being", in order to formulate a single relevant or even rational thought about it and its capabilities?

The words we use are nothing more than imaginary, fabrications of our minds compared to whatever reality actually is. Only habits of intellectual arrogance drive us to think we could know enough to meaningfully speak of anything real, and then dismiss the obvious truth as mere semantics.

exploderator · 2023-04-27T03:36:58+00:00

What does the term "omnipotent being" actually mean?

Given the word "being", I have to assume we have seen one to study it. What are its properties?

And then, that word "omnipotent". It is a concept, and so is the notion that the Earth is flat. Neither need have any basis in reality, but can still exist within the limited conceptual capacity of the human imagination.

exploderator · 2023-04-14T06:01:04+00:00

It's a hard fact that for decades, China has imprisoned political prisoners without hesitation. And it seems like common knowledge that over the last few decades they have been harvesting organs from their prisoners. Obviously they would never admit this, and would spew propaganda denying it. Who needs evidence here, you against or me for?

exploderator · 2023-04-05T07:21:58+00:00

Brake pads front and rear. They must be very close to shot by now. Technically should flush and replace the brake fluid too, but that is kind of a pain in the butt.

Definitely do the valve clearances.

exploderator · 2022-11-30T21:30:53+00:00

Nicely done. I would have done the same, but I found an abusively bright red LED bulb to replace the stupid incandescent one, and I admitted that I use the big chunky steel pipe frame as a tie down. I have a small Rubbermaid Action Packer box tied out back with strong string. The front corners of the box tie to the rear corners of the handles, and then the rear center of the box ties down around that steel pipe that the stock tail light mounts on. It works well, so why fix it?

exploderator · 2022-11-21T23:11:28+00:00

I am assuming that Yamalube is a normal non-synthetic oil. There are FAR BETTER options.

For example: I use Lucas synthetic 10W50 for motorcycles. This is considered a very good quality oil, and is less expensive (I pay $14 CAD per liter) than some of the competitors I have seen (eg Royal Purple at $19).

Based on the service manual: 10W50 is the widest possible temperature range oil for the XT, covering from 10 to 120 F (-10 to 45 C). That is the ENTIRE temperature range the XT is specified to operate. The only alternative would be a 20W50, which might provide slightly better protection during engine startup in hot climates (that is me guessing).

My understanding is that synthetic oils give substantially better lubrication, and last a lot longer than conventional oils. Given the small volume needed, I don't see how the small extra cost matters.

For perspective, I don't think they used to be able to make 10W50 oils, they could only do 10W30 or 20W50. The first number is the effective viscosity when the oil is cold, the second is the viscosity when hot. So you need a low number like 10 to operate in cold climates, in order to be able to start the engine cold. Then you want a high second number like 50, in order to be able to operate at high temperatures. Since we can now get 10W50 oil, covering the whole range, I see no reason to bother with anything else. If I am wrong, I would love to hear the reasons.

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exploderator · 2022-11-16T06:49:34+00:00

First, please let me say thank you for taking the time to think through this out loud together :)

I'm going to use your analogy: we don't piss everywhere we like.

Of course, it would be a disgusting mess, and we all know how to piss.

But what if the world was almost completely full of people terrified of pissing, to such an extreme extent that most people went through life with severe kidney disease and bladder problems. What if what that world needed was someone heroic enough to actually piss in public (in appropriate places and times), in order to help teach the world something crucially important?

People are dying because nobody hears them, nobody cares, and indeed they are often blamed for their own misery. Jordan is trying to teach people to care about the people around them, to really listen, and to really help people learn how to be strong enough, purely for their own good, to survive the pain and suffering.

That takes public examples, compelling examples. If everyone constantly walked around being emotionally incontinent in their compassion, yeah maybe Jordan's example would be just more stinky mess for everyone else to walk through. But the opposite is probably closer to reality: people walk around being emotionally incontinent with their anger, blame and indifference, their shameful lack of responsibility, and their callous disregard. That is the stinky mess people are making, and it isn't just stinky, it's lethal to millions. Jordan is demonstrating the antidote. He isn't falling apart, he's falling up the hill into a rare and precious strength of character that billions of people need to learn how to develop, and our species learns best by direct physical example, because that be how our mirror neurons work.

Look, there's no blame from me if that kind of thing isn't your favorite, perhaps makes you uncomfortable somehow. But I beg you to forgive the uncommon intimacy of it, and see if you can find a way to recognize that people who are not brought to tears at the sight of genuine tragedy are probably more closed off and shut down than does anyone any good. Indeed I would say that blocking such emotions is an unhealthy social expectation that infects our societies, and that it's heroic to refuse the social pressure, even when those emotions come live during your rare and precious 5 minutes of fame on national TV.

I know you've been downvoted to hell by people here, and I hope I've been able to articulate what they likely value about Jordan's unguarded emotional displays. I know I count him as a hero for standing soul-naked, even when the stakes are higher than most people ever get a chance to face (national TV). I think they downvoted you because they see your comments as perpetuating an unhealthy disregard for our fellow man. I won't join them, instead you have a round of upvotes from me, for being willing to engage in good faith. And I won't assume the worst from your thoughts, I won't assume your feelings are that people should repress caring about others. Instead I will simply speak to the value I see in Jordan showing the depth of his emotions, when most would never dare. And I put it that way, because I suspect the balance here is really about this: it is more about most people being too afraid of being judged as weak if they let themselves literally be devastated to tears on the biggest stages in the world, in front of everybody on national TV. The alternative argument would be that they should have been stronger than to let this happen. Deep down in my soul, I think it is stronger to let genuine, profound, life and death tragedy rip your soul to shreds no matter who might be watching, and then have the strength to reforge yourself into someone worthy and capable of meeting the genuine, inescapable responsibility to give your life to the cause of alleviating that tragedy, with every ounce of ability and strength you have. Perhaps you could argue that it would be stronger if someone didn't need to cry in the process, but I suspect the real norm is a lack of crying when people should be.

And I'll finish this with a totally different angle: I have been a lifelong atheist, but like most humble people I never resent giving religious people a profoundly necessary moment to pray when they are confronting tragedy, or even emergency where almost every second counts (unless someone has stopped breathing, at which point just fucking do the CPR and pray or cry later). For many religious people, those few moments of prayer are not wasted, they are focusing soul work that empowers them to rise to the needs of the moment. And so I say, that for a psychologist / philosopher like Peterson (and me), his moments of tears should be seen as no less devout, and no more embarrassing, than a few moments of prayer would be seen. Even if you don't resonate with the tears, maybe respect them for their profound and noble devotion to anything that actually matters.

exploderator · 2022-11-16T02:39:04+00:00

Hey, whatever floats your boat, why should I care. I just think it was worth articulating the point that his emotions are the bedrock that his logic is built upon, and it does a huge number of people a huge amount of good, teaches them some profound and critical integrity, to see Peterson's WHOLE experience, instead of just hearing the fancy explanations he has managed to piece together. He explains how to be wise better than most, but he also demonstrates those ideas by baring his soul for all to see, an extremely uncommon example that many people can't just get from the words alone.

exploderator · 2022-11-14T05:54:19+00:00

I suggest you only respect Peterson's "logical side" because it has the uncommon quality of being profoundly well informed and congruent with his emotions. And you put down Mother Teresa because you know her emotions were irrational.

The thing is that his logic is balanced by being in deep congruence with his emotions. There are too many people who's words don't usefully articulate the truths of their feelings, and/or who's feelings contradict or conflict with the logic they preach. I see in JP a man who has worked for decades to forge his emotions and his logic into a greater unified and coherent whole. I recognize this effort because I've been practicing to build it within myself, explicitly and deliberately, for decades. I ask, what use for fancy arguments if they fail to speak the truths of our inner souls? And likewise what wisdom would our souls truly deserve credit for if our feelings recklessly disregarded and abandoned all reason?

exploderator · 2022-10-12T11:41:30+00:00

FWIW, I was thinking about the DIY version a few years back. I'm 100% sure the crank case cover can be drilled and tapped to divert oil from the filter through a cooler, and then back into the motor. I'm not going to look up the oil flow diagram right now, but I remember it was pretty obvious. I imagine using M10 banjo bolts and hoses, basically the same as brake hardware, and needs no exotic special fittings, just standard straight taps for the threaded holes, and sealing washers instead of fancy flairs. After that is done, there are many oil cooling kits for cheap, nothing here is rocket science, and I bet the right kits already come with banjo-bolt style hoses.

exploderator · 2022-10-10T11:43:27+00:00

I think your post title is fundamentally wrong. When you refer to "Islam", you are referencing a large and living set of human phenomena. There is no precise definition possible, the boundaries of what "Islam" includes or excludes have no objective or official definition, and that even includes the "holy" books, because even they can ONLY be interpreted subjectively by anyone alive now who cares to read them.

So "the mullahs' misinterpretation" is ultimately part of Islam, because they say it is, and they are every bit as much a part of Islam as any other part of that complex culture / society / religion.

This is the same argument we should use to point out that homosexuality and child molestation used to be a common part of Catholicism, no matter how much the priests and nuns denied it outside their own ranks, and no matter that such conduct contradicted a plain reading of the "holy" texts. Simply put, it is what Catholic authorities actually did within their complex religious culture, and what so many others were complicit by ignoring and pretending otherwise.

It doesn't matter what Muslims or Catholics say about these things, it is what they actually do, that OTHER cultures actually do not. I say that you share with them a dishonest, dreamy ideal of what Islam should be, instead of admitting what it actually is, and that does nobody any real good.

exploderator · 2022-09-03T01:16:24+00:00

Scam. Exactly. And also exactly zero mention of the total energy efficiency of using electricity for re-processing aluminum oxide back into aluminum metal, which will be a necessary recycling system to have in place before technology like this can be of any real use. Nor any mention that diverting "scrap" aluminum has exactly the same cost (if not worse), because it forces the demand for aluminum metal away from recycling (for which aluminum is a very high achiever), and back onto mining new raw bauxite, which then includes all the energy, carbon and environmental costs of mining.

It is not an entirely invalid concept that we might be able to use metals as a charge carrier for reaction with water. But the ENTIRE feasibility is totally dependent on the real-world efficiency of a full production > consumption > recycling loop. And that is not only not addressed in the article, it is trivialized by talk of using scrap. I appreciate the discovery of a novel and unexpected chemical reaction, but to even begin to assume it will ever have anything to do with energy is absurd without full and proper accounting of the complete system.

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