Uncle Punk

Listen to the "Get to the track" advice. When I stated earlier it looked like you didn't need any help it was because you were riding within your limits and not making mistakes. There are a few things that we could have worked on to make you safer but you didn't seem like you wanted to go faster than the pace you had picked for yourself. It's hard to help coach people on the street because sometimes they need to slow down to get faster while working on getting some fundamental basics correct. Most people don't want to go slower once they are around guys going fast. Not only were you riding mistake free but you also made a sound statement that you didn't want to ride with the faster guys because you thought it might get you into trouble. I regret being the peer pressure that led you to abandon your logic but these things led me to believe you weren’t going to get into trouble. With some more experience I don't doubt that you will be a good rider and as you just lived through this event you now know that you don't need a faster bike to get into trouble. The bike you currently have is capable of keeping up with the front of the fast group at any normal street ride given the right rider. Get to the track and become the right rider.

I do feel really badly about talking him into staying with us instead of going back with the other riders. We live a few miles from each other and I was going to bring him home the back roads instead of getting on the highway. Dave and I split up putting him in the middle so we wouldn't ramp up the pace together up front. Dave was doing an excellent job with a great pace all day long and we should have kept it that way. When we got to 148 we switched spots, I went up front and Dave went to the back. In a previous life between motorcycles I spent quite a bit of time on 148 and have easily been on it well over 100 times, I really wasn't going at a great pace but I did know the turns so I might have been going too fast for the new guy. I followed him all day up to that point and he didn't need any help so I thought he would be okay. The guy that helped pick the bike up before I got back to them figured the bike was not going to make it out of there because the clutch side clip on was broken completely off. My Ventura bag not only carries gear but I have tools, duct tape, electrical tape, zip ties, etc... In it so we put that bitch back together, rode out to the highway and all the way home one handed. Damn do I hate highway riding. Glad you are alright and hope you can ride with us next year. Fuck you guys this is my first O.R. ride this year that Jinx wasn't on that involved a crash. http://maps.google.com/?ll=39.90439,-80.964286&spn=0.000002,0.001974&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=39.90439,-80.964286&panoid=Klhzx-pZk5RiKh6oVqMiDw&cbp=12,270.44,,0,7.34

We met the biggest leprechaun in the history of the world and he could ride a motorcycle very well. I got to decorate a motorcycle like a christmas present. Got to see a car burn to the ground on the side of the highway which meant we didn't get home until after dark. The new guy gets mad props for riding three hours with only half of his handle bars attached.

Home with the most amount of highway miles on this bike since I bought it all in one day.

I'm thinking about it.

We had a 50cc Ruckus on the scooterific river run last year stuffed with a 150cc motor. The damn thing is too fast for the steering geometry so it's scary as hell to ride. Just about the most fun on two wheels ever.

CBR, the other guy lives in Grafton & I work there.

I met you last weekend & you're out riding with the Doc already, way to jump right in. Do not believe anything bad he has to say about me. Oh yeah, motorcycle riding is dangerous.

SP2022 > Sigma hands down not even close. Everyone has different experiences though. 100% of the Sigmas I have shot or been around have had some sort of failure, none of the SPs have. (Own a SP2022) I'm not a huge hammer fire fan but like the Sigs best in that realm of options. I hate 1911s & I've carried one for four years, I don't like the M9 much either. I've stated all that to say this, you're the important one in the decision not our opinions. There will be plenty of people who will have different opinions & experiences than mine, just like we don't all ride the same bike. That covers what you asked for now for what you didn’t. Buy a Glock, any Glock & if you can’t bring yourself to do that buy an M&P & fix the trigger.

Taxes, taxes, taxes, pay them first. I was once fined $2,000 for a $0.69 State sales tax quarterly bill.

Give anyone a ten minute head start & you're going to have a hard time catching them, actually we turned off on 604 just south of Lodi so you wouldn't have caught us anyway. The other bike was Aprilia Falco but there was a BMW K1300, ZX10 & KTM Super Duke at the gas station. It was nice to bump into you & maybe we can ride together next year.

These other bikes you caught up with were they riding really slowly or were you riding really fast?

I'm not positive but I doubt it, I never wear a helmet on the scooter.

I'm going with the lazy route here and not getting into the depth this could lead to. None of the explosions happened while the cans were used as intended or as 99.9% of people use them. If the cans had leaked or split apart without an impact with damages I guarantee the company would have settled and not fought lawsuits. I have knocked over my gas cans and nothing happened because the lid was on it, that seven year old had a user problem that he unfortunately paid a price for but the can didn't cause the accident it was stored improperly. You find where this companies cans failed when used as is common for typical gas can use and we would agree that the company should do something. I contend that they would stand behind their product in such cases. Correct, shipping air is expensive.

I still laugh about this whenever I think about it. It was a perfectly acceptable reaction to a road that road certainly isn't for everyone. I really don't like it being compared to Deal's Gap either, blind rises and driveways make this road much more dangerous. It surely couldn't be considered as a destination road for people out of the area.

Did you guys see the guy in back put his bike down too? That is carnage; I've only been on a ride with two bikes down.

I don't know what it is about that road but we like each other. You guys know I'm kidding about not shifting out of 1st; I do make it into 2nd two possibly three times at the most and if I had to wouldn't have any problem staying in first. Going toward the river and it’s a whole other animal, with three jumps and one that's almost impossible to stay on the road in your lane. I really like 260 now and it's safer because it doesn't have the blind rises. It has relentless curves and is kind of hard to ride with a group because on most roads after a set of curves you have a chance to slow down for the group to reform before the next set of curves. Not on 260 I'm usually fighting with me, here is a straight slow down and get everyone back together, OMG another curve sign that has multiple curves on it, should I wait for the group to get back together? But I'm going to miss this set of curves, fuck it I'll wait on the next straight that never happens, repeat over and over.

Sold, thanks for playing.

I.P. with his fancy Italian tractor and it's premium suspension likes to make fun of us older AARP types with our I4s motors. It's okay I'm not mad at him. Here is what not to do when riding with others. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh4VX6OgwXA&feature=related

I is scared and will not go out of 1st gear and you loony bins can't make me.

I take people on it if they ask but it's been a long time. After much fanfare and celebration about the road a few years ago I took one of our resident fast guys on it with a few others. "Get me the FUCK off this road" is an exact quote, he would not turn around and go the other way, I blame fear & common sense. Now when I'm in the area I do 255 then try to get to 260.

255 one of my two favorite roads in Ohio, I ride the whole thing in 1st gear it's so scary. You can keep that crazy mean & nasty 536. http://www.ohioriders.net/showthread.php?t=29234 ^one of many threads about the road.