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Offline newday777

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Re: The Happy-ish Thread. Share your small wins and mixed blessings.
« Reply #1775 on: February 02, 2026, 04:45:55 PM »
Happy Birthday Alan!
Stu
Honda Parts manager in the mid 1970s Nashua Honda
My current rides
1975 K5 Planet Blue my summer ride, it was a friend's bike I worked with at the Honda shop in 76, lots of fun to be on it again
1976 K6 Anteres Red rebuilding project, was originally my brother's that I set up from the crate, it'll breath again soon!
Project 750s, 1 K2, 4 K6, 1 K8, 1 F1, 1 F3
2008 GL1800 my daily ride and cross country runner

Prior bikes....
1972 Suzuki GT380 I had charge of it for a year in 1973 while my friend was deployed and learned to love street riding....
New CB450 K7 after my friend returned...
New CB750 K5 Planet Blue, demise by ex cousin in law at 9,000 miles...
New CB750 K6 Anteres Red, to replace the totaled K5, I sold this K6 at 45k in 1983, I had heavily modified it, many great memories on it and have missed it greatly.....
1983 GL1100A, 1999 GL1500 SE, 1999 GL1500A

Offline Alan F.

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Re: The Happy-ish Thread. Share your small wins and mixed blessings.
« Reply #1776 on: February 02, 2026, 04:54:24 PM »
Thanks Stu!

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Re: The Happy-ish Thread. Share your small wins and mixed blessings.
« Reply #1777 on: February 04, 2026, 04:20:54 AM »
+1 Alan
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Re: The Happy-ish Thread. Share your small wins and mixed blessings.
« Reply #1780 on: February 04, 2026, 09:30:04 AM »
Alan, you share a birthday with my grandpa.
If he was here he would have been 144…
And that’s exactly double my age.
71 CB750 K1
108,000 miles
Original Owner
———past———
70 SL100/125/150
70 Candy BlueGreen CB 750 K0
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Former Honda parts kid/counter kid/do all
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Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right
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Re: The Happy-ish Thread. Share your small wins and mixed blessings.
« Reply #1781 on: February 04, 2026, 03:24:28 PM »
Thank you Gentlemen.

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Re: The Happy-ish Thread. Share your small wins and mixed blessings.
« Reply #1782 on: February 06, 2026, 11:52:19 PM »
As always, I'm a bit late coming to the party, but Happy (belated) Birthday Alan. I hope you had a good one. ;D
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Re: The Happy-ish Thread. Share your small wins and mixed blessings.
« Reply #1783 on: February 07, 2026, 05:58:03 AM »
Thanks Terry, not half bad this year.

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Re: The Happy-ish Thread. Share your small wins and mixed blessings.
« Reply #1784 on: February 22, 2026, 07:00:37 PM »
   My wife had a clapper switch on a floor lamp, somehow it stopped working. She asked me to fix it or get another one. Testing showed there was a two and a three-clap outlet,  it was plugged into the three-clap outlet, we didn't know there was one. Solved.
   Next up, was my back-up camera for the trailer, it had fallen off and dropped a few feet so something broken seemed obvious. It needed a solder joint under its battery connection.
  Since I was getting cocky, I tied into my old Craftsman C3 flashlight that had been dropped. I had bought a new LED bulb for it but no dice. While looking under the bulb socket there was a melted connection, I robbed the springs out of two ink pens and made a replacement part, after assembling it 3 or 4 times it's working, not as bright as before but hey it's working.
 Last up was one of those as seen on TV three panel LED lights in the front garage, I took it apart and didn't find anything that I could repair so I tossed it, got a one to two-bulb adapter and screwed in two old LED bulbs that were too bright for in the house.
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