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Many of them appear to advocate heavy calorie intake.

Yep. It's tough to let 'em go. I'm probably going to get a CB1100 this spring but also most likely hanging onto the VFR. It'll be my "guest bike" and probably the shipper bike for riding out west.

Cool pics. Tinian? Is that here the B-29s carrying the A-bombs launched from?

DID x-ring? Also, what chainbreaker broke and which one didja get? Oh, and happy birthday! Sorry to threadjack.

Did Andy take Barney's bullet?

Just what I heard. It was also five years ago. Chase is a business but they took the money hoping that by so doing, the whole system would survive. Turned out okay even though they paid through the nose when all was said and done. Last post in this one. Back to motorcycle stuff.

Yeah. I was at an assembly for my kid of some sort years back during the crisis and the guy in front of me was talking about his severance from Chase that was something like 65 weeks pay. About the bailout, I don't blame these guys in particular. Chase took the money because they were more or less forced to so the other banks didn't have a "stigma". Once Chase paid the money back, the Treasury had made something like a 40% return on their "investment" in Chase.

We rode 250 to Fairmont and then 19, 119/33, 16, 47 back to Ohio. Next time we'll do more stuff further to the east.

Sounds like you had an great trip. My brother and I had a great time in WV earlier this month. I'll have to check out where some of those are.

The quirky throttle would worry me more. Can a different map handle that?

Sad. Hate to see this. My daughter is just a little older than she was.

Truth. Bitch all ya want, but I see at least one red light run per day. Saw a guy almost get flattened in a crosswalk a couple weeks back by a dimwit in a panel van that was IN A BIG HURRY. Cost? Are you kidding? How much does a union cop in a cruiser cost for the same result? I don't run red lights now, won't in the future. One and only exception is when the bike won't set off the sensor, which I think there is a legal exception for anyway. As a side note, the wife and MIL went to London on vaca about a month ago. Not a cop in sight. All cameras. FWIW.

R1200RT I think.

Repair complete.

I'll trade you even up for a stock '03 VFR with worn out tires that needs a new chain. Lemme know.

RIP rider.

I agree - I can see some really good rides on that one if it was kept up better. Steep hillsides though - understably hard to keep them from eroding. Incidentally, we rode 555 and then 78 from McConnelsville (BTW, Blue Bell Diner there is great for lunch) all the way to the river and it was great. On the way back we did 550 and 93 - easier than 555/78 but the pavement was pristine (with 56 inbetween, which is okay). So if you're tired after a full day (or two) of twisties, and want to step it down to fast sweepers, this is a nice ride back home.

So we made it down into WV over the last two days. Was supposed to rain but we went anyway and it was fine. Didn't get wet until just east of Coonville on 56 on the return trip. We stayed in the western part of WV for this trip, will go further out some other time. WV has Good roads in general but the houses seem to crowd the road more than here. And there's more of them and they don't step the speed limit down for the "towns" as much. This is sort of nerve wracking when you are taking a corner and seeing these driveways with some guy's porch 3 feet off the road and his pickup even closer. Wouldn't want to have him take off on a grocery run while I'm rounding the curve. 250 from Moundsville to Fairmont would be a great road but it's in terrible shape. The outsides are crumbling, sometimes three inches down from the rest of the lane. Forces you into the left tire track which makes left turns interesting when there is oncoming traffic. My brother thought it was a riot but he's kinda nuts. Overall fun trip but we had just as much fun on the Ohio roads on the way there and back. My brother lives in Seattle and was amazed at the quality of roads Ohio has. Our scenery certainly can't compete with the Cascades, but the roads are twistier here and more challenging. Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

Go read the trend in the table you cite please. Debt increasing ~$550billion/yr pre-2008. Then $1 trillion in 2008 and almost $2 trillion in 2009. But hey, thanks for proving my point.

More pot stirring. You may remember that the "can't afford it" part came after we were several years into the wars. That was due to a recession that was precipitated by a housing bubble pricked by a huge spike in oil prices. The housing bubble came from idiots lending money to people to buy houses they couldn't afford. Funny how that keeps coming up.

I am with this contingent, which somewhat slightly scares me. I'm not a Gary Johnson flag waver, just thought he was the best choice of three (and I gave myself three, which is one more than the media did.) Ron Paul seems kinda goofy to me. The rest are a bunch of nice-hair-beauty-pageant-staff-writes-my-talking-points airheads. If I could genetically engineer a Lincoln/TR/Ike hybrid, I might have something I could be enthused about. Evidently, those species died out some time ago.

It's wintertime again already. Kinda sneaks up on ya, don't it?

I dunno. I give platelets about 8 times a year. They take three units and it takes about 2.5 hours with all the paperwork and stuff. I'll probably still keep doing it even if I am being a chump, I guess. And hey, free cookies!

Very poetic. What's the old saying? You only rent corn.

Maybe 'cause Ohio roads are build over clay on top of a fragmented limestone base? Nah. It's Obamallama's fault.