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Direction Finding Tool for Nimrods
« on: May 12, 2009, 08:04:39 PM »
I could conceivably post this in the Tips and Tricks forum, but it's a pretty lame tip.

Mebbe everyone does this, but I just figgured it out last season. While I'm riding about, and I'm wondering which direction I'm going, I just look for a Dish or Directv dish. They face relatively south, so from there I have a decent bearing.
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Re: Direction Finding Tool for Nimrods
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2009, 08:07:56 PM »
Quote from: burmashave on May 12, 2009, 08:04:39 PM
I could conceivably post this in the Tips and Tricks forum, but it's a pretty lame tip.

Mebbe everyone does this, but I just figgured it out last season. While I'm riding about, and I'm wondering which direction I'm going, I just look for a Dish or Directv dish. They face relatively south, so from there I have a decent bearing.

Or I look for the sun's position based on time of day.... :D
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Re: Direction Finding Tool for Nimrods
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2009, 08:16:08 PM »
Quote from: mkramer1121 on May 12, 2009, 08:07:56 PM
Quote from: burmashave on May 12, 2009, 08:04:39 PM
I could conceivably post this in the Tips and Tricks forum, but it's a pretty lame tip.

Mebbe everyone does this, but I just figgured it out last season. While I'm riding about, and I'm wondering which direction I'm going, I just look for a Dish or Directv dish. They face relatively south, so from there I have a decent bearing.

Or I look for the sun's position based on time of day.... :D

The dish trick will come in Handy up here in Northern Michigan. I would like to just look at the sun, but up here it only shines about one week out of the year!
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Re: Direction Finding Tool for Nimrods
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2009, 08:18:10 PM »
Quote from: mkramer1121 on May 12, 2009, 08:07:56 PM
Or I look for the sun's position based on time of day.... :D

Yup, that could work. I find looking for moss a pain while riding. ;-)
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Re: Direction Finding Tool for Nimrods
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2009, 08:48:01 PM »
Texas has even and odd Road signs......

Example..........

20 is a highway that runs east-west
10 same

77, 35, 37 all run north - south

Even the FM (farm to Market) are that way

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Re: Direction Finding Tool for Nimrods
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2009, 07:45:47 AM »
LOLing @ Nimrod..... ;D

 What is this dish you speak of.. ???.. is she nice?

I use this big paper thing, called a map and the sun.
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Re: Direction Finding Tool for Nimrods
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2009, 07:49:03 AM »
Just stick one of those suction cup compasses to your tank. ;D
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Re: Direction Finding Tool for Nimrods
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2009, 08:15:52 AM »
Quote from: 754 on May 13, 2009, 07:45:47 AM
LOLing @ Nimrod..... ;D

 What is this dish you speak of.. ???.. is she nice?

I use this big paper thing, called a map and the sun.

She's pretty nice, but she tells me where to go. To be honest, it's easier than following the sun, at least for me it is. I'm too lame to put a compass on my bike. After all, a compass is not standard Honda equipment if it has an after market fuel filter on it.
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Re: Direction Finding Tool for Nimrods
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2009, 01:37:57 PM »
"Tips and Tricks" (as I understand it) is for mechanical things, so this doesn't count.  This is the perfect place for it.

And no, I don't think Honda ever has offered a compass.  But in the early days of fairings, they offered an altimeter.  Apparently it's important to know how high one is.




Although, I don't think an altimeter is quite the correct toll for some of us.
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Re: Direction Finding Tool for Nimrods
« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2009, 06:48:09 PM »
the dish is my best buddy when i'm sick or immobilized by injuries :)
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Re: Direction Finding Tool for Nimrods
« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2009, 04:55:18 AM »
i never thought of the dishes
good idea
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