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Congrats on your retirement buddy!!!! As God blesses you with moments of retirement family fun (cant let this cancer thing rob you of daily living and God knows that) enjoy it fully!! Tippy and I WILL be keeping a weathered eye out for those little blonde hair pieces flying in the breeze with Dan trying to catch ya - cheapest therapy there is!!! Praying for you all!! Scott

Still praying for you guys Jeff!!

So how do you get your bikes to come to you when you call em??

Wellll,, this is a little different in that its "Family Democracy"... For example,,, I dont get to name my "junk" either,,, Tippy gets to do that..

3:15 news flash, the AP announced today that Voting Polls will remain open an extra 4 days due to inclement weather covering most of the USA and Canada. In other news, A West Virginia man made a desperate attempt at closing the polls by turning a VR thread political. :rotf:

Democracy in action!!!

2:45 news,,, Voter turn out was light this morning but seemed to improve around noon.. Kinda shocking cause history has shown that VR folks usually see eating lunch as top priority..

GO get em StormRaven!!!! Nock em dead buddy!!! Hey Mike, got a tip for ya, dont be a Chameleon during the interview - just relax and be you.. Wishing you guys the best in your future house hunting plans too Kat,,, maybe find one that comes with a trike as part of the deal!!!!! Never thought I would live to see the day a person could earn more working for a lizard than on the farm, my oh my how times have changed.. Praying for you two! Puc

This is our final group of names submitted to vote on.. In a week or so I will tally em up and have a run off of the 3 winners of these 3 polls!! Thanks to all who submitted names!! Dont worry you gorgeous RSV,, we got a good name for you,, your loved by all of us:backinmyday:

Here are 10 more names to choose from in playing the name that bike game!!! Feel free to vote in the other Polls too

THANKS TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED we ended up with lots of names for YammerDan's new bike so, its gonna take a couple sets of Poll's and than a final Poll to decide one.. I have tried and tried to trick him into posting a picture of it but he just wont budge (Being Freebird's old bike - I know lots of you know what it looks like but some of us have never seen it).. I was gonna post a pic of it with this thread but that aint gonna happen so we gotta fly by feel here... Let the naming game begin!!!:cool10: Oh yea, you will be able to vote once in each Poll thread.. __________________ Keeping and Bearing is like riding and sharing, an endless endeavor... Puc

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Lots of us out here fighting that age factor my man,,, it makes covering all those miles that much more interesting!!! :cool10:

Oh yea,,,,, havent read anything about laws against shipping HD parts via aircraft:stirthepot:

Its been 4 hours Joe,, I cant believe you pulled that off

Looks can be very deceiving Dj,, absolutely NO flex in those GrassHopper forks - solid tubing and very little flex area in the forks (cause the bottom spring clamps on the tube used up flex area) - even being 10 over it didnt matter.. Now the 18 over on the 69 Honda,,, it was so flexibly soft it would put ya to sleep...

Always wondered what happened to parts falling off aircraft,,,, sure am glad it didnt land on someones head!!

Way to go VentureFar!!! THAT is outstanding my biker friend!! Please post pics when you get your shirt!!! Puc

That was my "biker name" back in the day... Still lots of folks in our area that call me loner.. My Grandpa actually nicknamed me that when I was young, all the other boys were into sports and I was a lone grease monkey... It looks wayyy cool Bumble Bee but I am telling ya,, it rode like it had NO suspention at all!! Far better off with an actual springer that flex's as well as allows for full rocker action!! Spent many hours on that old right side shift and didnt mind it a bit, always said it was my main security device One of the 59's huge problems was the clutch (ok, and the brakes, getting the mag in the spot for starting and keeping the push rods tight).. I tried everything to keep plates in it (both wet and dry systems) but that old 900 would just eat em up...

Thanks a lot Dingy,,, now I am not only snowed in and DIEING FOR SPRING , I am also hungry

Outstanding Pete!! Those Bonnies were gorgeous bikes and were runners too!! Its amazing what those old Bonnies are worth now,, maybe I should say were worth a few years ago when $$'s were easier to come by.. Got any old pics? I bet you also spun a few wrenches back then too.. Those old British bikes were fun but, just the old HD's you either wrenched or waited (and paid) for the shop to do it... I got into building the pre 79 Honda 750's cause I got tired of rebuilding motors:rotf:

Most folks cave to the darkside at least once in their lives, some many times,,, and just like chickens,,, WHY is still a mystery unsolved...

Bring back any memories Dan? Its a Grass Hopper front end, only made em a couple years (I landed this front end at a swap meet years ago) back in the late 60's.. Motors was a 59 XLCH (first year of the XLCH), mag ignition,, these came stock with a lousy kick start mechanism that liked to disengage and hyper extend the knee... I have a hunch the reason they only made this forks for a short time was they were down right dangerous (like we cared back then), the solid tubes had no flex and there was very little travel in the rockers.. The sideways bounce of a hardtail under throttle over bumps became x2!!

Highly doubtful Bernie,, to much methane, I am sure the EPA's sniffer would go right off the chart.. Looks like a high compression type, probably a pretty good tone..