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Hellmutts are in my purse. So, better his pocket than his wifes purse?

Be careful, magnets can wreak havoc on electronics.

Yeah, this whole thing with ICP is further proof that our government is run by fucking idiots.

touch'e

I'll be in BVH some time this week before Friday to pick up the pack & play from our "summer home."

Derek and crew FYI 56 is closed just after the 278 turn to Nelsonville. dont know when it will be open down to 691 also the construction traffic light is still set up at Coonville on 56. warn the guy that almost bowling pined you on the video. FWTW Some Detour Options Shorter: 56 to 278N to 685 to 78 Longer: 56 to 278s to 50E to 356 to 56 to 691 I am sure I will be down that way again before your ride to check. Brian

Someone has sand in his vagina.

Epically at the pace you ran.

eek! it was that bad? What tools did you have to buy? Buying new tools is a FUN thing!

Made it to the Monongahela National Forest area this weekend, mixed purpose trip, and far too short, but still made it FINALLY! We took the express route down since it was 5.5 hours google maps road time. We left a little later in the morning than we planned, but it was still quite brisk. It took us nearly 8 hours to get there with gas stops every 100 miles or less, and two of those being "I'm frozen solid and can't feel my fingers" breaks for 35-45 minutes. It was supposedly 62 degrees when we left (and all overcast). It didn't get much warmer until well over halfway into our trip, and then I believe we were both feeling comfortable enough when the sun came out and it was 65. Quilted lined leather jacket, hooded sweatshirt, double layer carhart jeans, boots, and some non-vented uninsulated gloves did me well enough, but I was having to make use of the air cooled engine's warm cooling fins on occasion as hand warmers. Coming in on 33 east (from 33E 69 miles, 50E 112.5 miles, I-79 19(?) miles) was the highlight of the arrival into the area. My nice refresher ride can tell you more than I had previously rambled about on just the best of the best. 33 from Buckhannon to Elkins is basically a divided highway, but still not a bad ride, lots of elevation changes, tons of long sweeping curves, great scenery. Elkins to Harmon was a nicer ride, down to mostly 2 lanes (maybe some truck lanes on the steep hills), and was full of great scenery and nice sweepers, etc. Nice ride. 33 from Harmon to Seneca Rocks... wow, this is where it starts to get really good. Steeper climbs, very necessary uphill "slow trucks use right lane" additions on the BIG hill climbs, some pretty good tighter curves, great scenery... As soon as you come around a right hand curve heading southbound and see a sign "entering Pendleton County," This is were it gets to be a world class road... 10 feet later, you will see the steep grade warning sign, and the "ALL TRUCKS MUST PULL OVER IN TRUCK LANE AND CHECK BRAKES" warning - a 250' long brake checking pull-out right at the top of a long long steep downhill (with INCREDIBLE VIEWS). Basically every time I came across a sign on any road in this area that read "entering Pendleton County," it meant that the already fantastic scenery is about to be double as spectacular in terms of mountain views and natural sights... After this US-33 East entrance into Pendleton County, you go down a very steep descent for quite a ways, and make a very nice hard left turn, then a short and steep descent to an incredibly nice hairpin turn (along some nice rock faces?), and then many really nice turns after that as well. Going westbound home on Sunday, that serious hairpin on the wider radius outer uphill lane was probably my most thrilling curve of the whole trip... Maybe the only time that I've ever gone to the very edges of my tread. I've been cornerning pretty low lean angles for my comfort zone for years, but usually still have the rubber mold nubs on the last 3/8" of my tread or so. Very exhilarating, and very pleasing that all my brake/suspension/wheels/chassis/weight-loss work on my vintage japanese sport bike has all paid off quite well. Beyond that, you are at Seneca Rocks where 28/55 head northeast. BRAND NEW PAVEMENT this way, but this is not terribly exhilarating, but is INCREDIBLY SCENIC looking up at the mountain that Seneca Rocks sits on, and also North Fork Mountain behind it that comes towards the road as you go north. Once we set up our campsite on some remote backcountry site along a beautiful stream, all I had time to ride was CR28/11 and CR2/3. Amazingly tight and twisty road, almost perfect pavement (was gravel not too long ago, just paved in recent years), but not a high speed road at all... barely wide enough for two cars to pass each other on. Many very tight blind outside turns that you have to come into fairly wide at a cautious pace (in case a car comes barelling at you and you need to brake and rapidly steer to the apex earlier than planned) and apex the very inside pretty early just to make sure to cars are coming at you. Still, VERY well worth it. That time I didn't see any other vehicles on the road other than my wife catching up to me on her 77 GS550 and our buddy in a 4X4 who could not keep up with us at all. The wider radius outside turns with a better line of sight you can take faster, as well as almost all of the very tight inside turns (a bunch of hairpins even!), as long as you can see through the trees or around the turn to judge. There were a few gravel pulloffs (3 of which are hiking/mountain bike trailheads) where there may be a bit of pea gravel in the road on the left hand turn southbound. This road takes quite some time to get through due to the tightness, even with twisting the throttle quite a lot whenever I could safely do so... the most curve packed section was about 5+ miles and 50+ significant turns and hairpins, with a dozen or two more over the rest of the 11 mile duration. Mostly heavy tree canopy and hills, some hilly farmland. Great ride either direction and into the gorge to the south (mostly all very scenic long sweepers). My buddy who hauled our mountain bikes (bicycles) in his truck was driving us up Pub Rd 79 (forest road/4x4 path to some very remote homesteads and the North Fork Mountain hiking/mtb ridgetop trail - talk about EPIC!), and I really really had to keep yelling at him on 28/11 (dropping off shuttle vehicle for after a day long one way mountain bike ride) to not take the turns the way he was - in the middle of the road, or sometimes apexing on the shoulder on the other lane on the left turns... It was a very lucky reminder for me that if someone was doing that and I was coming, that I had better have my eyes and ears alert, and always on narrow roads take the turn cautiously and with a tight radius apex, as cars may be very likely to be coming head on towards you in YOUR lane on blind turns!!!! Saturday was mostly a mountain bike adventure on the North Fork Mtn trail. Absolutely phenomenal... sad to see near Pub Rd 79, what I thought was black fungus on a lot of the tree trunks was actually charred bark on the tree once we got up to the trail. Apparently there was a minor forest fire at the ridge near the backpacking campsite locations. a small portion of scattered trees and downed logs were charred a lot, for about 1/2 mile, but many were still growing strong. They need some Smokey the Bear signs up that way... The mtb trail ride north was absolutely breathtaking in more than one way. The most technical and boulder/rock garden filled trail I have ever seen or ridden, but a quick 30 to 150' climb to the ridge from almost anywhere had you sitting on rock formations at the tops of 40 to 150'+ cliffs overlooking the western side of the mountain, with Chimney Top to the far north being the absolute pinnacle spectacle. Such amazing views of all the mountains and hills to the west from almost 3000' above the south branch potomac rivers on their side (north and south forks). There were tons of climbs on the trail, but the downhill cruises were well worth it, as the mountain peaks up and down nonstop along the ridge. The 4 of us had many many bicycle wrecks, including my buddy almost breaking his ribs, and getting gashed up on 2 or 3 others, my wife getting her legs all scraped and bruised up, and me getting launched over the bars on a fast boulder-path downhill with my bike flying straight down on top of me... wrist pain is luckily all I had to suffer with... Well worth the thrill and amazing views Sunday on the way home, we took 220 south from CR2, which was a lot more enjoyable than I remembered it, and was a nice sweepers/valley warmup with some good turns and some decent hills and rock faces. Mountains in the background 360 degrees makes it even better. No real intense cornering, but a good route. 33 east of there is the amazing Shenandoah Mountain climb and then descent across the VA border... So many thrilling and incredible curves (many with very steep banks to them) and views that I can't even keep track them... take my word for it, this is a MUST RIDE. Really from Harmon, WV to Hinton, VA is all an absolute MUST RIDE on US-33, and must do in both directions,as so much of it is quite a bit better from one direction than the other. Very nice high mountain peak (4000+ feet I believe), amazing views the whole time... West of 220 are some pretty nice curves and smaller hills leading to the next mountain (North Fork Mountain). This mountain pass is like the little brother to the Shenandoah pass, but still has quite a lot of thrills to offer. slow truck lanes for passing the slow vehicles, great curves, nice bank so the curves. Towards the end of the mountain, there is one rock formation on the north side of the road (as the road goes around a long sweeper) that was very similar to Seneca Rocks but on a smaller scale, but more impressive due to the up close view from the side, where you see these massive rock outcroppings are merely just several feel thick but very very toweringly tall and quite wide. After Seneca Rocks westward, you get some still quite fun curves and climbs, the 2nd to last curve (the great hairpin) in Pendleton County - the uphill hairpin, wow... Great skill tester/thrill seeker... Sunday was quite brisk at 60 degrees in the towns, but much cooler at higher elevations. The afternoon got very nice and warm and sunny luckily. Even moving at a very fast pace, it still took us 6.5 hours to get home to Columbus from the backwoods Seneca Rocks/North Fork campsite with gas/restroom/food stops every 75-130 miles... Only saw one person pulled over the whole trip, with zero law enforcement presence the rest of the time other than a Pendleton Sherrif cruising around the little towns. Hope more of you can get out to enjoy this region. Unfortunately I didn't get to try out the Reddish Knob/Moyers Gap ride at all, and did not make it to US-250 over Shenandoah Mtn at all. Next time. With the colder temps at higher elevations (we're talking 15-30 degrees cooler and much more wind than at the base of the mountains), and fall coming, unless you want to wear winter gear, there are only about 4-5 weeks left this year to experience these roads on a long road trip from Ohio... Best of luck everyone, be safe. I tried posting photos, but the 1.96K max file size basically means only thumbnail sized pictures can be attached...bummer.

I agree with this too, the idea of a service is usually to pay your respects to the family not just to view the body.

I think its kind of dumb and low class, but then again i think all funerals are all a waste of time and money. I told my family that when i go just cremate me and throw a party. Or use the money that would have been wasted on my funeral and take a nice vacation. This body is just a vessel once i die ill be done with it, it wont be me and i could care less what happens to it. But everyone handles death in different ways, some need a viewing and some need a service for religious reasons, just not for me.

I think it's equally likely that the fucking idiots are the ones making music while dressed as clowns. Strike that, those guys are rich. The idiots are the morons dressing up as clowns because a band tells them to, then thinking that they're the shit.

Your link sets new standards for inaccuracy.

Awesome, hope you can make it out! This club is a great group of people to ride with! Just watch out for that #522 guy!!

Love you too Pauly

Nothing was achieved there but them plotting to get even knowing where you live and you knowing nothing about them. Additionally you started the confrontation so if they were armed and fired on you because you threatened them with a gun you would have a tough road defending that. Next time call police 1st. Then go out back door to come around behind them for a plate number and description, phone in hand on camera mode to get Picts of perps and plate if they return prior to Leo arrival. Much more accomplished that way and they do not know which house is yours. Sorry that was a very dumb move IMO

The Otterbox Defender case I have protecting my Samsung Galaxy S3 phone held up perfectly when my phone fell out of my pocket while riding my motorcycle, going around 40 mph. Not a scratch. Best 33 bucks on Amazon I ever spent.

As long as you can get SOA and learn how to be a real biker.

http://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh564/bjones541/F6D2103F-6166-4EDC-86D2-8932140CEDDC_zps6qaxjpmo.jpg

Well I finally bought a drill. Went to home depot and they had Ridgid 18v 2ah hammer drill, two batteries and charger for $249. Almost got that until I saw a combo kit: the above plus 1/4 impact with 4ah batteries for $20 more. Kind of a no brainer. Salesman said on the displays you can use to screw screws into a board, the Makita he charges every week, another brand, can't remember which, every two weeks. But the 4ah be can't remember, it's been weeks and weeks. The other selling point is the point is the lifetime warranty on everything, including batteries. I'm quite happy. http://m.homedepot.com/p/RIDGID-X4-18-Volt-Hyper-Lithium-Ion-Cordless-Hammer-Drill-Driver-and-Impact-Driver-Combo-Kit-R9200/205141594/

Had a nekkid woman sit on the track bike

Or you can just buy a key chain remote also. Just a thought.

Wouldn't that put Caspers weiner really close to your chin?

They are an army and you don't fuck with an army.

OK, got it. Does sound a little ridiculous. Sounds like THEY need THEIR ass kicked by a bunch of good ol' boys…. ….altho life usually ends up dealing with fucktards like these way more harshly than just an old fashioned ass-kickin'.

I wasn't referring to the music choice defensive dipshit. I was referring to labeling yourself for life with a tattoo of a band that you'll lose interest in and yet be stuck with on your skin. = poor life choice. Tattoos should have a deeper meaning as they are part of your body for life, not a dumb ass clown with a hatchet that's linked to two grown ass men that walk around in makeup and have followers that for the most part are addicts, junkies and delinquent gypsies. So if that makes me a discriminating asshole for pointing out that poor life choice, well go me!

you have over 15000 post on this forum. Looks like you know all about making good life choices. notsrs