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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Touring rider in from NY state with a bald tire and enough brains to get it fixed before he heads home. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFhy...

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This came into the shop today. Awesomeness.

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New safety vest. National safety.

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Visited the boyhood home of one of the world's great Antifa leaders today.

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My family settled in Oklahoma on land stolen from survivors of the southern Trail of Tears. Tribes lost 75% of their land when they were stripped of their treaty (and natural) right of self rule by USA and plunged into poverty. Guthrie, built on the spoils of that theft, is dying unrepentant.

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I am so confused. Bike makers spend hundreds of millions to design a bike and put it into production. A new rider believes he can "upgrade" it with a $50 muffler (hell, a $500 muffler). WTF?!.

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Shark attack. "Poppa! Pretend you are having a nice day at the beach...but then you hear the JAWS music!"

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Want to turn a 1 hour coolant change into a 3 hour slog? Add crash bars to block the way.

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

'16 FZ07. Starter runs. No pwr @ coils & pump. Switches, relays & wires test good. Find brief power up @ key turn but spontaneously off! Remove tank. Test Pump. DOA. Remove Pump. Test Pump via internal wires. RUNS! Corroded internal pump connection. (ECU knew & killed the system, hence no spark)

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Purple Martins roosting briefly (4-6 weeks) near Austin on their way to Brazil. Thousands of them attempting to spend the night in the same tree.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Southwest was complicit. They helped ICE every step of the way. Boycott Southwest Air

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

'21 Piaggio Liberty 150 scooter. Oil drain / screen directly behind the pipe. OMG. UNREACHABLE! Too low to wrench (ok, could jack it up). Crazy tool combo to get there! (Glad I bought the chain-drive socket wrench extension a few months ago.)

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Meet Fuzzy Bear. He has been with me 70 years; now hanging out in my first rocking chair (a couple of years younger), with my wife's first cuddle buddy (whose music box still plays). Fuzzy has endured a lot, including a bad haircut at my hand, had a few repairs, and survived it all. Well done.

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Here's the plan: (1) Win midterms by landslides, then (2) defund/dissolve ICE, then impeach AND prosecute (3) the corrupt Supreme Court Justices (4) Cabnet incompetents/criminals (5) Trump, THEN send Trump & Hegseth to The Hague for war crimes trials by our allies to restore our dignity and cred.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A 3-year-old girl watched ICE murder her father yesterday. We all watched Sebastian Guerrero’s final moments through our phones. We can scroll away — but Sebastian’s 3-year-old daughter cannot.

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

New Rider: Had a wreck, totaled my first bike, but it wasn't my fault. WM: It was your fault. NR: No, he pulled out in front of me. WM: You didn't avoid the crash. Your fault. All bike crashes are the rider's fault. Blame others, you die. NR: Hmm, maybe I need to adjust my attitude. WM: Good start.

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Unexpected benefit of running a motorcycle repair shop: You get invited to a customer's Bossa Nova music performance at a house concert (where you are three decades older than the next oldest audience member). Too sweet.

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

There may be nothing quite so inglorious as a West Texas graveyard, except perhaps an unmarked grave in it. The sweetest friend of my youth has laid there abandoned for 11 years. Finally she at least has a stone. How can we not hope aganst all reason our loved ones find peace and beauty beyond.

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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Something to think about today.

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Goldwing GL1800 2012-2017. Least accessible clutch bleed screw ever.

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Damn Wrench Gorillas %$@&!!! How can you install an o-ring cover port so tight than an impact gun is needed to break it free!

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The invention of this device will go down in history as the peak event in the course of human evolution.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The Death of Tyrin Johnson at the Hands of the National Guard… By Brent Molnar: A Voice of Reason A twenty-year-old man is dead in downtown Memphis, shot by the soldiers his own government sent to keep the city safe. Tyrin Johnson was killed just before 4 a.m. on Sunday, July 5,

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Aj Rez 🗿 @aj.reznor.com · 15/05/2026

SUPCO wants you to believe they are not political activists. Don't go believing that bullshit for a single second.

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Hell's Bells! Got Big Red up on the lift and can't find anything to fix! Pads & rotors are fine. Tread on both ends > 50%. DOT4 and coolant @ 12 months. All I could do is change the oil. So disappointing!

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Cartoon by Jeff Stahler

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Heartbreaking 💔

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A 5-year-old girl was killed and 7 other children were injured in a Russian strike on Sumy. The girl's 34-year-old mother was also killed in the attack, while her older daughter has been hospitalized with moderate injuries. A 61-year-old man also lost his life.

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I have got to say, Trump and his pack of Nazis are making it very difficult to feel celebratory for the 4th of July. When the king of England has to come to the US Congress to explain how democracy works, we are in real trouble.

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

New outriggers for the lift. Now loading big bikes with no anxiety. Still need my pre-ramp or the Wing bottoms out at the edge of the platform. Way better than standing alongside and walking it up at idle! Front wheel still invisible from the saddle so a mirror is needed to hit the wheel vice.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Cartoon by Nick Anderson. (Follow him on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com)

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José Orta @orta69.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Vaccines work.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When we win, the first bill I’m filing is a comprehensive anti-corruption package: Overturn Citizens United Ban corporate PACs and super PACs Ban members of Congress from trading stocks Once we defeat the most corrupt politician in America, we can defeat this entire corrupt system.

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Dave Chapman @wrenchmonster.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Out making an 8 hour loop from Austin to Mertzon and back. Air temp heading into Brady at 103F and climbing. Thank God for my evaporative vest under my perforated jacket! www.mycoolingstore.com/products/hyp...

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