Uncle Punk

I am completely onboard with this completely unnecessary engineering feat. I admit that I couldn't see the whole Delorean purchase vision but this makes it perfectly clear. 

The folks I know that have an I3 love them and talk about them so much that I'm going to have to ride one.

We bought a used travel van for dog show trips a couple weeks ago. Now I'm spending all my free time making stuff to turn it into a Mutt Hutt dog transportation vehicle. I'm also fixing all the things that fall off and rattle enough to be extremely annoying. Good thing I'm not working and can get right on these things on my schedule only thing is the boss is very demanding. 

You fuckers will never be banning me for such an offense. They don't even make Goldwings with inline four engines so therefore inferior. Why would one want a motorcycle that slow? I hear they are equivalent to an Accord and just about as much fun.  

Nope, nope, nope! Sale is not approved unless replacement bike is assured and vetted.

On 3/19/2025 at 7:04 PM, Pauly said:

If I was on Tod's bike and he was on a dirtbike.... he's still faster. 😆 

I appreciate that vote of confidence but know it's not true.

Add 100 pounds to my bike, take away about 75 horsepower, change my sport bike tires to sport touring tires and we would be riding side by side at least until my bike ran out of gas way before yours.

On 3/3/2025 at 9:53 AM, Tpoppa said:

I informed my company on Friday that I am leaving effective 3/14.

I did give them an option to pay to retain me as a (very) part time consultant for 90 days to ease the transition.  50/50 if I want to stay on as a consultant or just be done.  Wheels are in motion.    

Congratulations, wish I could have retired at your age. Have fun picking out a new bike. 

I retired last year and bought a retirement bike too, it's been a blast.

Time marches on and with time bikes keep getting better and better. I can buy a better bike today than any bike I've ever owned.

12 hours ago, Tpoppa said:

 Amazon store maybe?  

Selling these on Amazon and still selling stethoscope holders wholesale but at a greatly diminished volume.

https://holdsmithgear.com/

https://www.amazon.com/stores/HOLDSMITHGEAR/page/3C0FD68F-CB0C-4D0A-9B07-001DC24260AE?ref_=ast_bln&store_ref=bl_ast_dp_brandLogo_sto

I quit working a year ago in February. I had a fun year doing motorcycle trips with a day or two notice depending on what the weather looked like where I wanted to go. Was getting fairly bored at times but not enough to get a job because I would need a completely free work schedule with the ability to not work for weeks at a time.

I'm old enough for S.S. but my income keeps me from taking it because I would just have to give it back. We are lucky with healthcare as that's covered by her employer which she is retired from. If it wasn't for healthcare coverage I wouldn't be retired. Three years age I was paying $1,740 a month for single coverage as an only employee.

Now I can't work if I wanted to because I'm getting a hip replacement on the 10th and intend to get the second hip replaced in November.

Infamy

14 hours ago, Tonik said:

Deb melted down today. Not something she usually does on trips but the rain, a long day, lack of food and the front desk refusing to give her Canadian quarters for American dollars so she could dry her riding pants was too much.

I would suggest she learns to curse in French to give those losers a piece of her mind. It's a form of meditation

It's been years since I've been to Arkansas an Missouri, when I was there I was following so I don't remember the routes well. I do remember really liking the Eureka Springs area in Arkansas and riding around in the Mark Twain National Forest.

Hope you two enjoyed yourselves.

Looks like another fun trip just like your last one. You guys have some great ideas for road trips.

19 hours ago, Tonik said:

Anytime you want to race met me know. Starting line is the service plaza on the turnpike just west of you.

Finish line is the parking lot of Mt. Rushmore.

I apparently don't have big baller money like the Goldwing crowd does. The trip to Mount Rushmore is a set of tires each way. Extremely cost prohibitive, how about a nice little 500 mile loop in southern Ohio of backroads so the center of my tire don't bore themselves to death riding along the highways. 

On 7/11/2024 at 7:39 AM, Tonik said:

You can rent a Goldwing in Pigeon Forge and then get soup.

https://wolfcreekrentals.us/motorcycle-rentals/

 

 

I don't have that kind of time in a day to ride something that slow. I have many miles to cover and couldn't get that accomplished poking around on something so slow.

I was going to send you to a great restaurant in Bennington, Vermont but they closed last March. I haven't been there since 2019, really surprised it shut down. It was one of those places that you didn't mind at all paying a little extra for a great meal.

Have fun!

I know nothing about soup since it's "No soup for you" but I will be in that area September 11-15

Staying in Robbinsville.

My guess is that it came from a former Goldwing rider that has settled into a vastly superior mode of motorcycle riding straight out of the soup Nazi region. 

Is this some sort of secret Goldwing society thing?

Fun video with predictable results given the rules of the game. Start racing in the same gear at the same speed.

Way different results were achieved when the MXR was able to pick it's own gear at the given speed. The MXR has the same torque as the RS with more redline, horsepower and less weight.

17 hours ago, Bubba said:

Brought to you by guys who don't use their own money for bikes or tires...now get off my grass. 

I so wish that someone else bought my tires! This bike is a tire eating monster.

You are correct about 650ib getting tires supplied. He does get an extremely deep discount on most of his bikes with the exception of one given to him by a manufacturer. Those discounts come at a cost to him though, of his time producing videos for those manufacturers.

I don't have the talent or the eye for making videos. I think everyone else is a raving lunatic madman for riding so fast when I see others and when I see myself in videos I think that I might as well be riding a bicycle.  

Squids doing squid shit.

As a side note do not pick random fun looking roads on a map in the North Carolina area.

FUCK the road to the Wesser Bald Fire tower!

That is all.

On 6/18/2024 at 12:09 PM, Tonik said:

FTFY

Have you been introduced to our lord and savior the BMW Rt! It's the most special premium bike available to any motorcycle enthusiast. Don't fight the force.