Got to meet Brad this weekend in Hot Springs and he is a real person. Not sure what the hair thing was all about, must be a west coast thing. He is taller than I thought and doesn't wear glasses. He didn't say anything about still living with his Mom and Dad. And he didn't even talk funny. He wore normal duds and didn't have a lap top straped to his back. He was even nice enough to let his wife beat him at the auto cross. What a guy. It was a plessure though talking to him about 914 stuff. He knows a lot about the 914 and is a true 914er at heart.

Are you talking about Brad the Asshole?
Are you sure you're not confusing two people

cheers,

Jeroen

Must be two Brad's out there.

Oh yeah, the one we know and love, and an imposter trying to destroy his reputation.



M

914gem, did I get to meet you there?

BTW, I beat Brad at the tech quiz, and I don't think he LET his wife (or Andy, who won) beat him at the autocross.

Brad's hair? Did you see Andy's hair? Brad is tall, though...

914 gem, I know I met you, but what were you driving?

Brad has blown his cover! After several hours, several rounds, and lots of talk, he's not an asshole, but is a motivator. Like most of us, he is dedicated to the preservation of the 914.

About Andy, maybe he was out of character on this weekend, but the only thing "weird" about him was the hair! He's also a very good ax driver.

John Leto. Don't forget to shutup once in a while

Lyressa did a great job in the ax. Her times were much improved on each run.

They all drove the silver car in the ax. Brad did the last three runs, and car didn't want to run.

You guys are figuring it all out.

Brad-Normal Guy
Andy-Looks like he's not, but is a very nice guy (probably doesn't like to admit it)

the hair color and rep is just to throw people off

Here's what I noticed....Brad cheered EVERY ax driver that crossed the finish line that I saw.

Andy did a good job of finessing Lyressa's car around that course. The reason I say this is there was very little traction on that surface. It was VERY rough, EXTREMELY marbley (lots of small crap - ideally it should have been swept), damp from the rain, and lots of off-camber turns.

Joseph,

I have the solution to your missing carb top wingnuts.

send me your address and I'll send it to you.
It's cheap and simple and very effective.
My CB stuff came with it.

-sean

Seanery,

Thanks for the offer. I'll PM you.

Once you have my email address, could I ask you to send a jpg file of the sticker? I'd really like to replace my magnetic ones that were stolen. Someone....somewhere....is driving around with a 914.com sticker on their pickup truck.

I trust your drive home went okay? Carbs starting to clean themselves? My one minute demo of how to remove & clean the idle and mains pretty much exhausted my knowledge of webers.

Rich Johnson was so kind, without being asked, to come over and just start tweaking mine. I learned a lot just watching him.

It was a great weekend for 914 owners.

Well.. I had a lengthy (thank you written up and the computer died).

I'll revisit the thread when I figure out why the computer rebooted on its own.



B

considering that it was my very first AX ever plus i had never driven that car before, i am very pleased with the results

brad should have gotten bonus points for coasting and pushing the car over the finish line on his second run

Andy

The site was down for a few days when you were gone and then it was just magically working again ... maybe this auto re-booting is a good thing?

Rain and marbles didnt bother us.. we where on sticky street tires. Had we been on race tires.. it would have been a mess. The rain never bothers me.. just adjust.


B

Via cell phone Andy had a person restart the web server Tuesday during the day.

We had little to NO web access at the resort we stayed at. Somebody told me late Friday night that the site was down.. nothing much we could do from 2400 miles away from the server with dialup.


Our cell phones didnt work in the mountains of Arkansas (not enough to make calls longer than 3 minutes)


I'm sure the group survived.


B

Just barely

cheers,

Jeroen

Words cant express how pissed I get when I hear the site is down..


B

and guess why it went down ...

php crashed causing IIS to hang up causing the whole box to go into schnooze mode. grrrrrr ....

Andy

Yep.. I knew you/me knew the reason. I knew it wasnt any of your clients or the box.

Now to figure out how to solve it and get some people back on the BBS.



B

get the BBS on a dedicated box and run a watchdog on port 80 that'll call yer cell phone when it's down. (haha, yeah right, as if you check your messages) ...

Andy

We need to know BEFORE it fails 100%. There should be some PHP logging somewhere that shows us what is failing.

I'll get another HD for this old computer at my house and make it a dedicated server.


B

nope. all i get is a entry in the event log after it crashed ...

see below:

I keep trying to click 'close' and it doesn't..

Is that a problem on my end?


M

i think you need a "top end" rebuild

(Sung to the tune of "Mary had a Little Lamb")

Don't be a dick.




M

Those that witnessed a Brad-like creature this weekend might have seen the Brad-o-tronic 2000 android device.

Brad-o-tronic? I thought that was the name of the world's largest vibrating 'marital aid'.

Whatever that is, I saw it at www.bigdildos.com...


M

What they saw was a worn the F-out Brad-like person. Scramble to get two cars together and then scramble to keep 3 vehicles moving in the same direction with people who dont typically travel. Truelly a test I barely passed. I get to do it all over again next week.

B

It's great to have you back, now go to frikken sleep, your spelling shows signs of waning brain pressure.




M

Its only 9:30 pm here. I just finished all my email.

Trying to detemine whether or not I want to "fight" to keep this site alive.


B

It's nice for us, I know it's hell on you guys, and no amount of money would ever change that.



M

now that i disagree with

give me enough scrilla and i hire someone just to keep it up & running 24/7 ...
Andy