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» Welcome to TLZone |
In 1997 Suzuki released the TL1000S motorcycle (often referred to as the TLS), since then the japanese twin has developed an almost cult like movement amongst riders. A year later, Suzuki added another horse to the stable, this time the race oriented TL1000R (TLR). Originally designed to be the "duc killer" the bike boasted more horsepower than its italian rival, and a price tag that made it affordable to the daily rider. Since their inception the TL series has been turning heads on the pavement, so it just seemed logical to have a place to talk about them when summer days have gone, and the next trackday is still a few days away. Thus, TLZone was created, and is now the largest and most popular online bulletin board to discuss all things TL related. Not only is TLZone the place to come to talk about bikes, but has also become a strong community of bikers who share interests outside of riding. Whether you're new to riding, or a seasoned racer, there is something for everyone in the Zone. Come on in and scrub the tires.
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» votty is our FP Racing Billet Levers raffle winner! |
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Jan 04, 2010 - 6:49 PM - by crashtd
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Congratulations to votty for winning the FP Racing Billet Levers raffle sponsored by Speedking MotoWerx.
We had over 150 members enter the raffle, with over 330,000 tickets generated! 
For the 149 unlucky entrants, better luck next time!
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» What the Frak Happened this Weekend? AKA Why is everything wonky on the Zone? |
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Jan 04, 2010 - 3:21 PM - by crashtd
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For starters Happy New Year everyone, and welcome back to your 9-5 work grind. For me, today was especially hard not only because San Francisco is swapped with fog and chilly weather, but because of the events of this weekend.
So I'm sitting in Santa Barbara this weekend, celebrating the new year. It's 70F and sunny...basically paradise. I'm about to go get dinner, and hit the town when I get a txt from our server guy (dlloyd).
"The Zones are down" my cell phone says. The bandwidth charts have plummeted, and the power reader went from it's usual 2 amp reading to basically nothing.
Fuck, the server bit it. What could it be...a power supply maybe? I hope so, those are easy to get and cheap, but it could be a mother board...much harder to find, let alone get quickly. That'd be a few hundred for sure.
The Zone's server shares space with a couple other projects of mine, a long with the servers of a couple friends. I knew one of my buddies was moving his sever into his house, and would likely be doing that during the holidays. Maybe he nicked a cable or something on the way out?
It's easy enough to do, since the space is so crowded. He's server was showing down as well, so this seemed like the likely possibility.
So I give him a call, "Hey...random question...were you in the server house tonight?"
He replies, "Yeah how did you know?" I'm pumped, because this means its not the server dying, and probably just a loose wire that finally got banged out of place.
"My alarms show both our servers down, what did you do"
He replies, "I grabbed my server, and I'm driving home....which server of yours is down" I rattle off some specs and model numbers....and there's just silence.
"Uhh...yeah...that's the server I have right here in my car"
Great...he took my server and not his. Fair enough they all look pretty similar, but seriously!??! Fuck. Easy fix though, he's 10 minutes away, and can pop it back in no problem. Total down time an hour, and on Saturday night at 9pm that's not a big deal.
I get a call an hour later. "Dude, my key isn't working on the doors, can you call someone to let us in."
The short version of this part of the story is no I can't. Without telling me, the company that hosts the servers closed its VIP calling number. The regular office is 9am-5pm, so everything goes to voicemail. They have a 24/7 trouble ticket system, so I fill it out and tag it as "Emergency". That was Saturday night, I have yet to receive a call back nearly 36 hours later.
So we try another key that another server guy has...no luck. None of these keys are letting us in (RFID keys). So he drops the server off at a friend's house, and I drive up from Santa Barbara late last night.
Grabbed the server, went to the server house...my ket still works for some reason. And 30 minutes later, the Zones are up again.
Apparently the hard-pull closed the clock to lose it's time, and some other wonkines...but by the time you read this, the site should be functioning normally.
Hopefully this is the last of our outages for the year, but I already had plans to move out of that server house and into a new one (likely to cause some slowiness or TLZ down time).
So that's the crazy story of why the Zone was down for 2 days, and then acting weird. The big take away from this is...IT'S ALL STEVE'S FAULT! 
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» FP Racing Billet Levers Raffle Sponsored by Speedking MotoWerx |
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Dec 25, 2009 - 1:37 AM - by crashtd
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For starters, Merry Christmas everyone. To make it a special holiday season we have ANOTHER raffle courtesy of Speedking MotoWerx.
Up for grabs this time is a pair of FP Racing billet aluminum bi-folding racing levers, which can also be engraved (see the TL1000R logo!) with words or a logo (we recommend the TLZone logo).
Since Sean is such an awesome guy, he is also going to throw in a pair of his CNC'd MotoWizard pre-load adjusters as well, making this an extra awesome raffle to win.
Both the levers and the pre-load adjusters can be had in a variety of colors that the winner can choose from. This raffle is set to end around New Years day.
Both of the items are also currently available in group buys sponsored by Speedking MotoWerx, so if you don't win you can still get your hands on them here: FP Racing Lever group buy ---- MotoWizard Pre-load adjuster group buy.
Good luck everyone!!!
Enter the raffle here.
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» glennyb is Our Gilles Chain Adjuster Raffle Winner!! |
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Dec 23, 2009 - 1:46 PM - by crashtd
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Big ups to glennyb for winning our latest raffle of Gilles Chain adjusters w/ lift kit, which was sponsored by Speedking MotoWerx. 
Please PM me with your address so we can send you your prize!
For everyone else, never fear. Another raffle is due to go up very very soon!
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» Please Welcome Our Latest Site Vendor Trible Performance! |
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Dec 17, 2009 - 12:23 AM - by crashtd
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Please allow me to welcome our latest Official TLZone vendor, Trible Performance to the site. Based out of the Czech Republic, Trible Performance is a little company with a lot of technical experience.
With longtime roots in the automotive industry (building race engines, fuel-injection conversions, programming stand-alone ECUs and piggybacks, etc), the company two years ago began making affordable, yet high-quality steering dampers for motorcycles.
Seen on many of the amateur and professional riders' bikes in the Czech Republic, Trible Performance is helping support our little site here, and is offer dampers to you, our great TLZone members.
They should have postings up in their forum soon, where you can learn more about their products. Be sure to stop by and check them out. Also check their site, tribleperformance.com/
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