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It’s 7:30 a.m., UTC, and you need to brush your teeth. You switch on the bathroom light. The ceramic tiles are cool on your bare feet. You squeeze a little toothpaste onto the brush, then slide it between your lips and against your teeth. Brush. Brush, brush. Brush. (This bit takes a while.) Brush. Spit. Swill some water around in your mouth. Rinse. You splash a little tap water into the sink. Toothbrush down. You leave the room, switching the lights off as you go. It’s 7:33 a.m., UTC.

A: The MXA test riders are split down the middle on the 250SX’s brutal midrange kit. Some love it and some hate it. For those who think it hits too hard, we have solutions.

Whenever critics dare venture outside their lane, they’re shot down and told to mind their own business.

They come in a variety of shapes and sizes with some specialized for heavy-duty work like fence-building and frame construction which tend to have more robust rectangular cross-section blades.

The Cyclone kit I started with was one designed for a 100mm bottom bracket. I took the mounting bolts apart and set them up with the standard 68mm mounting thickness which allows the unit to be slightly wider than the steel handles on the Home Depot True Temper wheelbarrow we used for this build. Whatever wheelbarrow you use for your conversion I recommend one with a flat free tire and steel handles. We have several of the cheap $40 wheelbarrows kicking around but they don’t usually last more than a few years of continuous use. When lining up the cyclone kit to drill holes in the handles I used wooden wedges and clamps to line it up properly with the front wheel. After the build is complete and you’ve tested it you will want to take the bolts out and replace your wooden wedges with steel washers. You will need to use the wooded wedges on opposite sides of the steel handles to get the drive unit to line up with the front wheel when you first mount the motor.

So the future of mounting solar on roofs might be bolt-less. Or it might be solar roofs. Or it might not be either. It’s too early to tell, and it’s almost always better to start saving money on energy today.

These letters are known to you as P.I.A.; Independently, they are the name of our national airline. Inter-dependently, they spell Pia. Which is to say: ‘She, who is beloved’. These letters. Three letters. Our letters.

In 1952, Pakistan unveiled its newly-formed cricket team in a test match against India. The captain of the team was the tall, aristocratic-looking Abdul Hafeez Kardar. Known as The Skipper, he had five years earlier played for the team he was now facing. A brilliant strategist and a gifted all-rounder, Kardar was, in every way Imran Khan’s predecessor.

“The lifetime expectancy of the optimized tooling is also key,” adds Peregi. “Tooling for ultrasonically welded toys is typically made out of hardened steel, such as aluminum or titanium, with special coating that ensures long durability and complex contours.”

Frame guards. Some test riders think the plastic frame guards on both the Husky and KTM are too far outboard over their feet. They replace them with grip tape. KTM uses orange frame guards to protect its orange frames, but Husqvarna uses black frame guards, which negate a large portion of the white motif. White frame guards are available.

His final book, written with his son, Stuart, was the memoir "Junior Bonner: The Making of a Classic with Steve McQueen and Sam Peckinpah in the Summer of 1971." The book was published this year. 

Dirk Wacker lives in Germany and has been a guitar addict since age 5. He’s also a hardcore DIY-er for guitars, amps, and stompboxes and runs a website on the subject (singlecoil.com). When not working at his guitar workbench, he plays country, rockabilly, surf, and flamenco. Contact him at info@singlecoil.com.