cowpuc

AWESOME RAND!! Congrats to the both of you on finally getting out for a much deserved vacation.. Looks like you love birds had a really fun time! So whats with the Pirate Ship? Glad you were in your Miata my friend - that trout stream you were driving down looks to deep for a Venture.. We watched the eclipse too, was cool once it got covered - looked like an space ship full of orange pop-ups hanging in the sky - waited over two hours for the moon to lite back up but gave up so you probably didnt miss much.. Congrats on the selling of Linda's house!! Welcome home. Puc

Here is a more extensive read on where things stand.. http://www.fltimes.com/news/article_64371cfe-6200-11e5-8617-e3ca8302a3d9.html Also, here is a clip from the above read about the scum bag who committed the crimes.. In here it says that no bail is allowed in the case.. Also notice some of his background,, looks like this guy was more than just a drunk driver,, should have never been let out of prison in the first place ZZzzz.. What a shame... """"""Town Judge Joseph Sapio declined to set bail, citing Wilson’s criminal history. Wilson is being held in the Seneca County Jail without bail. According to the state Department of Corrections website, Wilson spent time in state prison for forgery and felony DWI convictions in Steuben County."""""

Thems not tainters,, thems well earned beauty marks Beach,, repairable by stickers - tie wraps and super glue!!! The kinda of beauty marks that turn an everyday normal scoot and activity into a best friend full of great memories of going thru life with you!

:photographing::photographing::photographing::photographing::photographing::photographing::photographing: :photographing::photographing::photographing::photographing::photographing::photographing::photographing: BEFORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mugshot::mugshot::mugshot::mugshot::mugshot::mugshot::mugshot::mugshot::mugshot:

See F-L,, THAT is exactly why I woke ya up brother,, I KNEW I was doing something wrong.. So,, what do you suggest,,, I have a hard enough time watching where I am going - much less watching all those gauges and meters.. Maybe I need a co-pilot to help me like you get to have? Wonder if I mounted a set of Moose horns on the bars of Crud (kinda like Tweeks Antelope horns),, wonder if I could use them for Al-eeee-Ronners to assist in the touch downs.. Is that what I need @flyday58? :lightbulb:This could work out really well cause I got buddies all over the trail leading up to Alaska! If Tip n I gotta go up there to find a Moose willing to donate some horns I think some of them may even let us camp in their driveways on the way up and back.. I know for sure a couple of them would cause they already told me so - Canucks can be such trusting people I bet some of them are wondering why on earth Don ever took my 12 dollars though:big-grin-emoticon:

Wow Steamer,, what an extreme tragedy!! Somewhere out there are a group of people (family members and friends) who are now in one of lifes hardest grieving moments - my heart is broken too for them - Prayers Up who ever and where ever you are at this time, you have my deepest heartfelt condolences. Prayers Up also for the person who committed this thoughtless criminal act against his fellow man. I truly hope and pray that thru the many years of time being spent behind bars you are facing you find the spiritual and psychological help that you need to afford you the ability to cope with what you have done. May the two riders, Steven G. Lester, 49, of Manchester, and Patricia Perryman, 47, of Canandaigua find peace at the throne of God, indeed - RIP our biking friends! Steamer,, I think I found the story you are referring to here: http://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/public-safety/2015/09/17/man-killed-2-motorcycle-while-driving-drunk-police-say/32555967/ I wonder if it would be wise to maybe start a campaign within the comment area of a newspaper section similar to that link? There are many questions that I think should be brought up in this incident. Things like: Condolences to the family/friends of the deceased of course.. Why wasn't this person at least on a tether? Should the public require an investigation of his probationary history to see how closely monitored he actually had been? The article said it was "his truck". Should a person with his background even be allowed to own a vehicle? We could start a campaign in the "comment section" of almost any of the news papers that carry the story online Steamer.. If you think that is a good idea, select the one you think would get the most exposure and let me/us know. Be more than happy to participate my friend!! What do think gang? Good idea? Bad idea? Bossman?

I was born with ride weather monitors protruding from my chest muscles.. When the weather is right for riding the monitors are soft, when not they get hard like two little frozen peas.. They will soften up if it's cold and I put a shirt on, which I have had to do in the past to get home to the safety of my warm garage.

Few years ago my neighbor bought a brand new Ultra Limited. He and his new scoot, Tweeks and I went for a ride up north. On the way back we slid onto the passenger seats - he set his cruise and I locked Tweeks throttle. We were cruising down the hi-way like we were passengers with invisible drivers (my neighbor is a little "touched").. Seeing Ecks post makes me think of something.. I would LOVE to take that boney feller on Eck's bike, attach his hands to Tweeks grips, turn on his eyeballs and go cruising with me on the back taking pictures. Would sure put a whole new spin on picture taking - I would actually be able to use both hands on the for once:thumbsup:

If your gonna work with Crud and dont wanna get dirty, ya best spend some time practicing..

I gotta good friend named Flied Lice ( @flyday58 ) who lives in New Mexico now.. Flied Lice has a little experience with landing the big ones, full blown airliners as it were. Was actually thinking of hitting him up for some landing lessons from him:big-grin-emoticon: Just figuring out exact timing for chopping the thrusters on Crud is no small undertaking:big-grin-emoticon:

Honestly Dan,, mine do that ALL the time!! Its a good sign that Silvr has been accepted into the Yammer Dan family bro!! When I first got the Helix I would get up in the morning and find it cowering in the corner of the garage like a little coward.. Couple years went by and I would find the little thing snuggled right next to Tweeks.. Now I got this V-Max,, totally square with ya bro,, went into the garage this morning and both Tweeks and the Helix had moved into the corner where the Helix used to run and hide, both backed in - looked like they were staring at Crud with total distrust. And, get this,, there was a little burn out mark under Crud's rear wheel that I KNOW I didnt do.. Bikes are strange critters when it comes to understanding there internal feelings, wants and needs... There is house for sale down the street GW,, we could have soooooooooooooo much fun:guitarist 2::guitarist 2: Taking all of our adVentures to the Max:witch_brew::banana: Oh, by the way GW, its funny you mention the second gear thingy,, been SOOOO long since I had one - taking my a few days to get use to riding a bike with a 5 speed tranny again - had Crud at 132 yesterday in forth gear, thought to myself - this one does have a little more on top then Tweeks does - then I remembered I had another gear left to play with:big-grin-emoticon:

I LOVE it Don.. Would love to haul butt on that puppy up to the snowmobile trails and two tracks in Baldwin Michigan .. Slide some corners, float the rear end out on some sweepers, hit Dublin for some Jerky and a pop and then go right back at it.. Same token though,, I too miss those early years of riding my 250 Enduro to Cedar Point and out to Waterloo Iowa,, yep,, would pass on the street ride from Florida to Georgia on it too my friend... COOL SCOOT THOUGH!!

I had one of mine get so loose (had well over 200k on it) that it would rattle like your talking about while sitting on the kickstand, stand it up and it would quite down, pull the clutch in just a little and it would quite right down.. Did a make shift clutch swap on it (used clutch and springs) - found it helped a lot.. Almost sounded like forward gear noise.. Hey Vern, you get up this way on that puppy, stop in - I gotta good set of Gauges and between the two of us we can probably get those carbs pretty close to perfection..

Oh yea,, how well I know brother!!

Not sure on 109 but I think the Vrod is like 20 pounds heavier than the Max.. If I can ever convince my neighbor to put down his tools (was down there helping him rebuild the turbo on his Semi Truck a little bit ago) maybe I can convince him to take both bikes down to the scales and find out exactly how they compare. Spent some time down at our local Harley shop given em the (it's all good,, we're all friends).. Come to find out that VRod was a 2011 Night Rod Special. Those are sharp scoots,, missing a couple cylinders but still sharp:witch_brew:

That would be my TERMINATOR look @KIC,, just my way of sayin I'll be back ... I always wear em (and look like that) when I leave the desert's that I LOVE touring!! Looks like the Ecksters putting up his Christmas lights already,, my kinda people that Eckster is!! Nice piece of work there brother!

Tell you one thing @turtle,, THAT ride looks like a MUST DO! :banana::banana: If you folks do end up doing it - PLEASE DONT FORGET THE PICS FOR YOUR BUDDIES!!!!!

Proves my comment above perfectly!!! It's like you suthners got some kind of secret language when it comes to puter repair - I mentioned some of the stuff Eck told me to look at to the service tech who was here - he just shook his head, laughed and said "you hang out with very interesting people".. Glad I didnt mention something to him about needing some nuts tightened - probably would have:buttkick:me and then my whole system.. Bunch of lop eared varmints,,,, ALL OF YOU!!

Absolutely NOTHING to be sorry about @Hummingbird,, always remember that the Pucster LOVES two way .. Keeps me my friend!! Just keep walking thru those open doors when ya see em brother and all will be well!!

Went for a 15 minute ride on Crud the VMax to get a cigar, turned into a 2 hour trip.. Bumped into a guy on a V-Rod at the gas station,, not sure - may have been one of the early models with the smaller engines, it was black with orangeish red racing stripes on the tank and the same color stripe on the rims (that kinda reminded me of the Harley Sturgis). Had two long pipes - kind of brushed stainless look with black tips.. Anyway, got yacking with the owner, said he ran with a group of guys from Rockford (@Mirider's stomping grounds) - nice guy.. Said he runs with the Suzy m109 (according to him, both their bikes are bone stock - his V-Rod will put a pretty good whoopin on his buddies 109) and they have had many encounters with bikes like Crud and said the old Vmax's always give em a hard time.. Unlike my neighbor with the new V-Rod who I cant convince to race :stickpoke:me (neighbors is solid black) - this guy gladly gave me shot at the title.. Crud did AWESOME - pretty much a steady pull away till the old beater hit 5th - then real bye bye time... This keeps up I will have to change his name from Crud to King Crud.. This thing is a HOOT!!!!! P.S.,, if I were younger and could use my hands again - I really do think I would strip Tweeks of her glass (gotta keep those stickers on the road) and find a way to hide Crud under it:thumbsup: PS, PS,, ol Pucster could really get into trouble playing with Crud:mugshot: PS, PS, PS - thinking about an R1 if Crud stops having positive effects on my adrenal system, nothing wrong with changing my RX if I need too:big-grin-emoticon:

Actually your pretty dog gone close there Jake,, that would be one of 6 of the equalizers Yamaha produced for each 1st Gen to make the race between the 1st n 2nd Gens fair.. They are Yamaha Part # XVZ12-slowemdown. They weight 25 pounds each with the idea of adding 150 pounds to the 1st Gen, with these weights in place it almost becomes a race Jack, I honestly think you do have some kind of an Indian artifact there brother - COOL!!!!

Funny you say that, take a listen to my first words in this vid of it,,, it did "follow me home

It's not nice to pickin on defenseless old bikers ya know I know a Photo Chop Shop job when I see one brother!!!! You guys are gonna get in trouble for :hijacked:ing Stans thread ya know...

So what,,, still got a :witch_brew: rise out of Raggy this morning,, my job is done Morning Jay, come over and ride this beater Vmax,, it freakin rips

I didnt even know you had a Trike,, never even did see no picture of it or nuttin,,,, heyyyyy,,, wait a minute here,,, is this one of those - sounds to good to be true so it isnt thingys?