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mkparker · March 14th, 2009, 06:31 AM

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my back can't take the sudden surprise of a pot hole

Me too....so let's add some spring.....

ThrasherBill · March 14th, 2009, 09:57 AM

Took a stress relief day yesterday

1slo3 · March 14th, 2009, 10:47 AM

i'm hoping to have run all new fuel lines and such on my YX600 this weekend.

btw, my first GL 1000 because a stripped, dropped, coffee bike. see, i didn't say c@fe either!

mkparker · March 18th, 2009, 12:16 PM

I have no words.....

**V8Transporter** · March 18th, 2009, 02:35 PM

Woof. If it were any more minumal there wouldn't be a tank or tires.

JiI · March 18th, 2009, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by mkparker

I have no words.....

That looks fun as hell with a cherry on top!!!!!

I need to get my 1981 Hondamatic going!
Jeff

JiI · March 18th, 2009, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by ThrasherBill

Took a stress relief day yesterday

Nice view. What is the sculpture in the back? (Got my Masters in sculpture so I see things differently...

)
Jeff
P.S. My seats turned out great!

Bobsmyuncle · March 19th, 2009, 04:26 AM

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Originally Posted by JiI

Nice view. What is the sculpture in the back? (Got my Masters in sculpture so I see things differently...

)
Jeff
P.S. My seats turned out great!

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It's an Inukshuk.

JiI · March 19th, 2009, 07:36 AM

Very cool. My wife and I made a few cairns in our travels, marking trails or adding to fallen ones. I teach my students about similar things as a part of culture and language while also being a form of art. I love that kind of stuff.

Jeff

ThrasherBill · March 19th, 2009, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by JiI

Nice view. What is the sculpture in the back? (Got my Masters in sculpture so I see things differently...

)
Jeff
P.S. My seats turned out great!

http://www.seethewestend.com/inukshuk/inukshuk.htm

Cool deal on the seats!

JiI · March 19th, 2009, 02:45 PM

Nice link. I'll show my students that. Reminds me a little bit of Henry Moore and his abstract reclining figures.
Jeff
P.S. I'll post pics of the seats soon. Had to test fit the pass. seat today to clear the electrical and fuel lines.

Turbo Punk · March 20th, 2009, 04:41 PM

Suzuki BiPlane

JiI · March 20th, 2009, 04:45 PM

Okay, I WANT!!!!!!!!

Jeff

ThrasherBill · March 22nd, 2009, 09:10 PM

Saturday afternoon I rode about an hour of super slab out to a friend's place out in the valley for dinner and a hockey game. He lives up on the side of a mountain overlooking the valley.

When it came time to leave I followed another friend in his truck down the hill because I had only been there once before and wasn't sure of where I was going. He took a wrong turn and we ended up turning around and heading back up the hill. Just as we got back to where we made the wrong turn a full size deer ran out behing the truck and in front of me. We were only going about 25-30mph and the deer stopped and looked at me just before the center of the road. I had already got on the brakes and it looked like the deer was going to turn back when it bolted right in front of me. I tagged it in the hind quarters and went down on my right side and slid under it's back end. It must have been pretty close to right on top of me because I could smell it! As I skidded to a stop the deer stumbled up dragging it's hind legs and bounced off the curb into a full run down the hill. I got up and did the quick physical check and everything seemed ok other than a pain in my hip. A car stopped and turned out to be an off duty cop and he helped me get the bike up and off the road. It held up pretty good with only a cracked and scratched up fairing, a broken front brake lever and the muffler separated from the end cap. I got it going and rode it up the hill back to my friend's house and it seemed to be ok but I left it there overnight and got a ride home because I didn't want to get back on the slab for an hour without going over the bike first. Went back with a trailer and picked it up today.

It's all fixable and I'll be getting started on it after work tomorrow. It sounded like there was plastic bouncing around in the airbox so that will be coming apart for sure and I'll have to straighten a couple of the fairing brackets.
As for me, I've got a pretty good bruise on my hip and it hurts to lift my right arm anywhere near horizontal so I'll be booking a physio appointment tomorrow.

Ryan · March 23rd, 2009, 04:05 AM

glad you are alright bro

mkparker · March 23rd, 2009, 05:19 AM

Yeah man, glad you weren't really rollin'! It also helped a lot that you always seemed to be dressed well! Glad it wasn't worse.

hotrodhenry · March 24th, 2009, 01:41 PM

damn, i hate when some crazy animal jumps out. glad your okay.

**V8Transporter** · March 24th, 2009, 03:23 PM

If you think you hate it when a crazy animal leaps out in front of you, try a crazy lady in a Volvo. And then she sneers, "Motorcycles shouldn't be allowed on the road, they're too dangerous." This is why they banned assault rifles in California.

Glad you're okay, a few hunderd pounds of venison is nothing to take on with a plastic fairing.

hotrodhenry · March 25th, 2009, 09:42 PM

because of crazy ladys?

Scott H · March 26th, 2009, 03:30 AM

Way too much chrome for me but still a cool bike:

tequilla · March 26th, 2009, 02:51 PM

Sorry for the Hi-jack but........... is it just me or does that pic of Bill wearing the Volksrod beannie look a little like Tom Green

Steve White · March 26th, 2009, 03:41 PM

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It must have been pretty close to right on top of me because I could smell it!

lol, thats pretty damn close now isn't it? Glad your alright and now you have another great story to tell when your shitfaced :)

to answer tequilla, yes Bill does look quite a bit like Tom Green in that pic.

max16v · March 28th, 2009, 03:41 PM

Well, got good news and bad news related to motorcycles. I'll start off with the good.

Picked up a 1958 or 1959 Indian/Royal Enfield "chopper" project for $600. Engine turns and has compression. Single Amal carb and Bullet forks. Lucas mag that needs a rebuild. It's got Z handle bars and 15"over fork tubes (gotta go!) on a stock frame.

Since I work for Mitch, he's offering to help build a custom frame of my choice. Since i'm into Cafe bikes and not choppers, the motor will be sitting in a custom made Norton Featherbed, and will re-badge the Indian tag on the motor to a Royal Enfield (which it IS a R/E motor anyway).

Both Mitch and I are really stoked about the new project, and for Mitch, something other than a chopper. I'll post pics when I find my goddamn camera.

For the bad news....
2 nights ago, I went riding with a local crotch-rocket m/c out to Palm Springs and had a blast. Decided to call it a night and take the 10 freeway home. One guy decided to pull a couple wheelies down the on-ramp and lost control of his bike and wrecked.... with my girlfriend on the back. Long story short, she's fine with some road rash, but just pretty pissed about the EMTs cutting up her favorite pair of jeans.
The d-bag rider decided to pick his bike up without asking how she was and high tailed it out of the scene. Apparently he had some warrants out that NOBODY knew about. He got nabbed and got extra charges including reckless endangerment, and leaving the scene of an accident. He's behind bars now.

So, any of you riders don't do anything stupid ESPECIALLY with someone else on the back. (Counts double for somebody else's girl)

That's all.

Ryan · March 28th, 2009, 06:31 PM

holy shit dude.... i am glad she didnt get hurt much!

hope she had more on than this girl did
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LVqVAW6XCs

ThrasherBill · March 28th, 2009, 07:34 PM

Wow, glad she made it relatively ok. If I was in your shoes I'd be waiting outside the jailhouse with a pipewrench when that fucktard gets released. Doing stupid shit on bike when it's just you on the bike is one thing (not that I condone it at all) but doing stupid shit with a passenger on board is just plain irresponsible.