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This may very well cost her triple around here.

Then it gets expensive. Fat chicks need love too. But they gotta pay.

pics of said sister, then appraisal.

Update: We got everything home and assembled, so he's waiting for the first good riding day (maybe this thursday) and he'll be out blazing his new paint job (pun intended). Thanks again to Reimbrandt for his excellent work, and his top-notch customer service! Some pics of the final product:

an 80-year old hits a 5" group at 1000yds.... I'm gonna stop shooting now, there's no point.

This was my question the whole time.

look at jbot laying down the stay-on-topic-law with this thread. That's the brazen asian we know and love. But yea, I've done a few tracks, and as long as this won't throw me for a loop from what I've learned so far, I'll look into the scheduling. If I can make any it's probably this May date more than the April, so I'll keep you posted on my status. Thanks for the advice, and thanks for the PM, jbot. As an aside, are any of those people going from either Cinci or Dayton (in terms of figuring carpooling potential)?

I did it myself in my driveway one Saurday when I did my Yoshi RS-5. Turbo easy. A couple metric allen wrenches and sockets are all you need. Odaho is right, you need to remove the rear tail fairing, but it's really not hard on the RR. Do it once, and you'll be able to do it again in a couple minutes. It seriously isn't hard, even for the novice wrencher, so don't let it scare you off. Take the advice, and buy some pizza and beer and have someone come down and help for a couple hours. Save the $140 for more bike parts.

How eloquent.

I would really like to do this, but I really concerned about what I hear about the quality of the track. Jbot's seen my setup and my riding prowess (read: lack thereof), and I'm nervous about heading out there and laying it down at the start of my season becuse I was no good at the squirrely track surface. I need an honest assessment of the track quality, and how you guys think my novice ass would fare on it, before i use up a track day this year on a course I might kill my bike on.

I'm really curious about the accuracy of these rifles. I've been intrigued by them with their very appealing price point, but I'm not gonna lie, there seems to be a lot of stuff out there about how inaccurate they are past 100yds, and people on both sides really disagreeing on the issue. I'm curious to hear what kind of results you get, or if any current owners could shed some light on this for me. Either way, it's a good lookin' rifle with a very good lookin' price tag.

Brad, I just took a look at your friend's bike in the pic Reimbrandt put up, and that's a nice unique color for a sport bike, it looks sweet. Yea, I never would've guessed we'd be crossing paths with bike parts, but I guess that just speaks to idea that we all know who to go to in the Dayton for paint. I didn't get a chance to check out the truck, so I'll have to take a look when I go pick up the parts later. He said he's got some stuff that came up he has to attend to, so it'll probably take him a few days to get things back going at the shop. I'll post up more pics when we pick them up, and when we start putting things together, but aside from that, I haven't had a chrome fix in quite a while, so we'll have to get out on a Sunday or something with the old Dayton group this spring.

That's exactly how I've been looking at it. Would I have gone after this for my sportbike? Probably not, but can I appreciate the workmanship in it? Absolutely.

Ok, so my dad is the one who got me into riding when I was about 5, when he took me on his old Honda Cub (that he still had from college) up and down the street. He's always had a bike, and when I was finally able to, so did I. It's all his fault. So, when he said he's always wanted a unique flame job on his bike, but never got around to getting one, my step-mother and I said we were gonna find someone to do it, and get it done for him. I told her that there's quite a pool of assorted talent on this site, and one in particular stood out... It turns out our boy Reimbrandt has quite the skill set. Seriously. I met up with him in north Dayton a couple weeks ago and brought him my father's M109R tank and a rear cowling, along with a terrible sketch, and a horrible description of what we wanted to see put on these tins. His work was cut out for him, but I'd seen his art gallery on his site, and I thought he'd be able to handle it. For the tank, I told him color faded flames, but that my dad couldn't decide between classic hot-rod style flames and that realistic stuff you see from time to time. This was admittedly a horrible description, but Reimbrandt came up with this piece of sheer awesomeness: Holy shit. Gorgeous. I've never seen such a cool combination of the two distinct styles of flames before. This is one-of-a-kind for sure. Now, my old man is like anyone's old man, and he likes what he likes, and that's it. He's too old to give a shit what anyone else thinks anymore. He loves playing volleyball, and he's played and coached for longer than I've been on this planet, so he wanted something volleyball-related, even if it wasn't the most bad-ass thing people normally get. I can respect him for that, and it turns out so did our man in question, because he took that idea and made it as good as I think you could possibly get, given the unique subject matter: Hey, it's not my taste, but damn, I can really appreciate how good it turned out. And this one isn't even done yet! My old man is freakin' over this stuff, and I don't blame him one bit. It's really really impressive work. So, boys and girls of OR, Reimbrandt is certainly the real deal. And let me tell you something about customer service. This guy answers all of my staggeringly annoying texts every single day, as soon as I text him. Call him? He answers right away, and talks to you about whatever question you have. This guy is definitely getting my business again if I ever have anything to paint, and I can't say enough positive things about him. I'll be keeping this thread updated when we get pics of the finished skull cowl, and when we put the whole thing together. Stay tuned, this in how to start the season off right...

wow. do you get the impression this is a directed/malicious attack on that site specifically, or just people snooping around for any viable targets?

But seriously, I'm glad the whole son-of-God thing turned out for him. Carpentry wasn't really working out...

how'd this happen, and how did you find out?

The romans killed Jesus. We sold him out. I consider my hands clean.

mostly this. I was being facetious. I haz sarcasm fail. I haz sorry.

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you guys are funny. you write your own material?

I love lamp

In 2008, I just got my 600RR, and I remember getting on the throttle for the first time, heading west on 35, and I couldn't freaking believe how big the jump was from the SV650. I had a friend from Philadelphia, and he said he had the same thing out there, where he cracked it open and he was born again when he hit it the first time. I actually got pulled over not knowing my speed at all, and the cop even told me "you gotta watch these things, they get away from ya." Hand raised to God, it's a new world when you get your first real RR ride in. Love these bikes. that one's for you Cheech...

we need a double secret club for people who support the supporters.