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One of my kids friends got wiped out by a turkey buzzard a couple years back, he was saved by his gear but it hit the steering head and handle bars bending the frame of he Ducati.

If you were standing here right now I could show you. I bought my youngest boy one about six years back and he has probably only shot 200 long rifles out of it and maybe 20 magnums. I could hand it to you and pull the barrel out of it. The frames are some sort of cast and the steel barrel is knurled and pressed into place, it will work loose over time and start coming out. Some people have had them actually fall out. What's the fix, hard setting locktite and shove it back into place. One of these days I will locktite it and cross drill it for a roll pin, after all some rifles have barrels pinned in place. Like MidgetTodd says, as long as you understand you aren't buying a top quality piece and it may come apart on you you should be ok. Also my cousin bought one and it wouldn't shoot two holes because the cylinder was chambered evenly spaced, luckily they wouldn't fire as bad as they were misaligned with the forcing cone/barrel. It had to be sent back twice for the same problem. When they work they are swell but be warned.

Prayers sent for full recovery, Hang Tough Jerry!

Praise God and continued prayers for John and his family.

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I've been watching the Isle of Man TT on tv and just wondering if you track guys can answer a couple questions about the handlebar controls of a couple bikes, not a good pic but hope you can figure it out. A few of the bikes have what looks to be a twist knob adjuster above the clutch side handlebar, as seen in the yellow circle. Is this for the steering damper or something else? Also, some of the bikes have a rocker switch on the handlebars is the area of the white circle, what would that be seeing that it is on the side facing away from the rider. I'm guessing that the yellow button in the pic is the same thing but different type and location.

I know this was an old post but here is some input for 1/2 percenters, things have probably changed a lot since the 80's but a friend of mine had a Honda Express which was the same type of bike. He was required to have motorcycle plates and endorsement back then because they said it didn't have pedals so it wasn't a moped.

Hang tough Tim, hope you get fully healed and quick. Have to agree with you on Riverside, they were great people to me and my wife on my stay over there, six days worth.

http://www.timesreporter.com/news/20161106/busted-motorcyclist-admits-going-167-mph-trapped-at-closed-road Busted: Motorcyclist admits going 167 mph, trapped at closed road Sunday Posted Nov 6, 2016 at 5:53 PM Updated Nov 6, 2016 at 6:07 PM Share By Nancy Molnar Times-Reporter staff writer DOVER A motorcyclist who admitted traveling faster than 167 mph was cited for speeding Saturday afternoon by the Ohio Highway Patrol after being trapped by a road closure. The Cleveland-area man was among a pack of four riders who reportedly were traveling in excess of 140 mph on Interstate 77 in the northern half of Tuscarawas County at 12:44 p.m. A trooper first spotted the southbound motorcyclists on I-77 just south of the Bolivar exit, according to highway patrol Sgt. Christ Wood. "One of our troopers clocked the motorcycles in excess of 100 mph," Wood said. "He ended up calling off the pursuit of them. He started to go after them, but he could not keep up with them." Sheriff's Sgt. Bruce Lowery picked up the chase near Dover. According to his account, the bikes left I-77 at state Route 39 when they saw him pull his patrol car into the lane of travel. The deputy followed the bikes as they headed west on Route 39. He said they turned onto Red Hill Road and accelerated. At the top of Red Hill Road, three turned east and one went west onto Dummermuth Road. "Knowing that Dummermuth (Road) was a closed road, I followed the direction of the single motorcycle and found him sitting at the point were the roadway is closed," Lowery wrote. The cyclist claimed that he was riding by himself until being confronted with the facts, according to the deputy. He further claimed that he did not know his fellow travelers. The trooper who initially saw the speeding motorcyclists ticketed the one who was caught. "The rider eventually did admit to a speed in excess of 167 mph," Lowery wrote. The speeding motorcyclists were a hazard to themselves and others, Wood said. "People don't understand the dangers that they are creating not only for themselves but other people because they could easily become involved in a crash. 'You never know when traffic is going to come to a sudden stop, especially right now during the fall, with deer in mating season and so forth. You never know when that deer is going to jump out in front of that motorist. "And then, when you go an excessive speed, obviously you don't have the stopping distance. You're going to need a greater stopping distance. "And if you're a motorcyclist, you only have two wheels. So if you try to brake suddenly, you basically will go into a skid and then more than likely you're going to be thrown off the bike and it's going to overturn. "Unfortunately, it's not just motorcycles," Wood said. "We've had regular automobiles going that fast also. "We definitely discourage excessive speeds by any type of motor vehicle, not only just motorcycles. The greater your speed ...

I was no expert but I will say the zero vis dives will mess with you, I learned to use the force so to speak. Just close your eyes and relax or you will start seeing things because you are concentrating so hard on a certain object.

I was a diver for the local VFD and most everything was zero visibility in rivers. I did a lot of diving in a couple local lakes that were fairly clear but the most fun I had was at Portage Quarry in Bowling Green. Needless to say I was never deeper than 50-60 feet. Never could swing it but always was interested in the Cozumel trips or just a trip to Florida, about ten years back I gave all my equipment to a young guy making his way thru the ranks at the same fire dept. BTW, nice pics and vids.

My oldest son just had it done three or four weeks ago and on the way home he said it was awesome. He had it done at Roholt in North Canton and as we was leaving Canton headed south he said " wow, I can read all wheel drive on the back of that car ". That car was like six to eight car lengths ahead of us and he was shooting his bow two days later. My brother in law had his done probably twenty years back and also said it was a great help.

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Wow, busy isn't the word for it. Hope everything slows down a bit and you can enjoy the little one with the wife. A friend of ours had a bout with bells palsy and was really worried but she completely recovered with no side effects at all. Good luck to you and yours and God Bless.

The runners are circled in this picture, some buildings are inset a few inches to a foot and some are built right to the edge of the building.

I believe Parks is still doing holsters, give him a call. His number is in this link http://www.nuosuconcealment.com/contact/

If you wish to get your carry permit, do it ASAP. Ohio has adopted the new NRA blended course and the state's AG has agreed to it as the new course standard. My understanding is that you will have to register online with the NRA and pay $60 to take an on line course, if you pass that you will get a certificate to then go to a licensed firearms instructor to take the hands-on firearms part of the class. This means more of a wait to get the course completed and you will have to pay the firearms instructor on top of the NRA and then pay the gov. agency to get the permit. The general attitude in this area is that the firearms instructors didn't teach you the book work so they aren't going to be teaching the hands on. If I have been told wrong or misunderstood what I was told then I stand to be corrected but I talked to three current instructors and they said they are done. One even told me that the current NRA Instructors Certificate he holds will no longer be good and he will have to take a new course and pay $125 to get the new license to just teach the hands on part. https://www.nrablog.com/articles/2015/12/the-truth-about-nra-blended-learning/ https://onlinetraining.nra.org/online-courses/nra-basics-of-pistol-shooting-course/

I always get a kick out of this story, Biker vs. Squirrel I never dreamed slowly cruising on motorcycle through a residential neighborhood could be so incredibly dangerous! Little did I suspect.... I was on Brice Street - a very nice neighborhood with perfect lawns and slow traffic. As I passed an on coming car a brown furry missile shot out from under it and tumbled to a stop immediately in front of me. It was a squirrel and it must have been trying to run across the road when it encountered the car. I really was not going very fast but there was no time to brake or avoid it -- it was that close. I hate to run over animals and I really hate it on a motorcycle but a squirrel should pose no danger to me. I barely had time to brace for the impact. Animal lovers never fear. Squirrels I discovered can take care of themselves. Inches before impact the squirrel flipped to his feet. He was standing on his hind legs and facing my oncoming Victory Cross Country Tour with steadfast resolve in his beady little eyes. His mouth opened and at the last possible second he screamed and leaped! I was pretty sure the scream was Squirrel for "Banzai!" or maybe "Die you gravy sucking heathen scum!" The leap was nothing short of spectacular... He shot straight up, flew over my windshield and impacted me squarely in the chest. Instantly he set upon me. If I did not know better I would have sworn he brought 20 of his little buddies along for the attack. Snarling, hissing, and tearing at my clothes, he was a frenzy of activity. As I was dressed only in a light T-shirt, summer riding gloves and jeans, this was a bit of a cause for concern. This furry little tornado was doing some damage! Picture a large man on a huge Sunset Red touring bike, dressed in jeans, a T-shirt and leather gloves, puttering at maybe 25 MPH down a quiet residential street and in the fight of his life with a squirrel. And losing... I grabbed for him with my left hand. After a few misses I finally managed to snag his tail. With all my strength I flung the evil rodent off to the left of the bike, almost running into the right curb as I recoiled from the throw. That should have done it. The matter should have ended right there. It really should have. The squirrel could have sailed into one of the pristine kept yards and gone on about his business and I could have headed home. No one would have been the wiser. But this was no ordinary squirrel. This was not even an ordinary angry squirrel. This was an EVIL MUTANT ATTACK SQUIRREL OF DEATH! Twisted Evil. Some how he caught my gloved finger with one of his little paws and with the force of my throw, swung around and with a resounding thump and an amazing impact, landed squarely on my BACK and resumed his rather antisocial and extremely distracting activities. He also managed to take my left glove with him! The situation was not improved, not improved at all. His attacks were continuing and now I could not reach him. I was startled to say the least. The combination of the force of the throw, only having one hand (the throttle hand) on the handle bars, and my jerking back unfortunately put a healthy twist through my right hand and into the throttle. A healthy twist on the throttle of a Victory Cross Country Tour can only have one result. Torque. That is what the Victory Cross Country Tour is made for, and she is very, very good at it. The engine roared and the front wheel left the pavement. The squirrel screamed in anger. The Victory Cross Country Tour screamed in ecstasy. I screamed in ... well ... I just plain screamed. Now picture a man on the huge Sunset Red touring bike, dressed in jeans, a slightly squirrel torn T-shirt, wearing only one leather glove and roaring at maybe 50 MPH and rapidly accelerating down a quiet residential street on one wheel with a demonic squirrel of death on his back. The man and the squirrel are both screaming bloody murder. With the sudden acceleration, I was forced to put my other hand back on the handlebars and try to get control of the bike. This was leaving the mutant squirrel to his own devices, but I really did not want to crash into somebodies tree, house or parked car. Also, I had not yet figured out how to release the throttle ... my brain was just simply overloaded. I did manage to mash the back brake, but it had little effect against the massive power the the big touring bike. About this time the squirrel decided I was not paying sufficient attention to this very serious battle (maybe he was an evil mutant NAZI attack squirrel of death), and he came around my neck and INSIDE my full-face helmet with me. As the face shield closed part way, he began hissing in my face. I am quite sure my screaming changed intensity. It had little effect on the squirrel however. The RPM's on the Freedom 106 maxed out (since I was not bothering with shifting at the moment), so her front end started to drop. Now picture a large man on a huge Sunset Red touring bike, dressed in jeans, a very raggedly torn T-shirt, wearing only one leather glove, roaring at probably 80 MPH, still on one wheel, with a large puffy squirrel's tail sticking out of the mostly closed full-face helmet. By now the screams are probably getting a little horse. Finally I got the upper hand ... I managed to grab his tail again, pulled him out of my helmet and slung him to the left as hard as I could. This time it worked ... sort of. Spectacularly sort-of, so to speak. Picture a new scene. You are a cop. You and your partner have pulled off on a quiet residential street and parked with your windows down to do some paperwork. Suddenly a large man on a huge Sunset Red touring bike, dressed in jeans, a torn T-shirt flapping in the breeze, and wearing only one leather glove, moving at probably 80 MPH on one wheel and screaming bloody murder roars by and with all his strength throws a live mutant squirrel into your police car. I heard screams. This time they weren't mine... I managed to get the big motorcycle under control and dropped the front wheel to the ground. I then used maximum braking and skidded to a stop in a cloud of tire smoke at the stop sign of a busy cross street. I would have returned to fess up (and to get my glove back), I really would have. Really ... Except for two things. First, the cops did not seem interested or the slightest bit concerned about me at the moment. When I looked back, the doors on both sides of the patrol car were flung open. The cop from the passenger side was on his back doing a crab walk into some body's front yard quickly moving away from the car. The cop who had been in the driver's seat was standing in the street aiming a riot gun at his own police car. So, the cops were not interested in me. They often insist to "let the professionals handle it" anyway. That was one thing. The other? Well, I could clearly see shredded and flying pieces of foam and upholstery from the back seat. But I could also swear I saw the squirrel in the back window, shaking his little fist at me. That is one dangerous squirrel. And now has a patrol car. A somewhat shredded patrol car ... but it was all his. I took a deep breath, turned on my turn signal, made a gentle right turn off of Brice Street and sedately left the neighborhood. I decided it was best to just buy myself a new pair of gloves. And a whole lot of Band-Aids.

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Instead of buying and paying me for this we will give 100% to GixxerTravis. So if you or someone you know needs a nice jacket, get ahold of me here and I will have you send the payment to GixxerTravis' Go Fund Me found below. Joe Rocket mesh riding jacket with a rain liner, it is the Velocity model with elbow and spine pads. The jacket I believe is size 5x, it was baggy enough on me that I could wear a warmer jacket or hoodie under it. I got it from Harding Park and it is in like new condition. I think I had $140 or so in it but would like $75.

Our local True Value hardware store carries this stuff and it's great for your problem. I worked at a factory that had a heat and carpet fuzz problem on the fans and this stuff worked great there also. I have a friend in HVAC that also swears by the stuff. http://www.laco.com/lubricants/zoom-spout-oiler/

LOL, Maybe he will trade me an electric guitar than needs strings and an arrowhead collection. Doubt he contacts me though.

Hey everyone, is this priced too high or just too big for everyone. Surely someone knows a larger guy that needs a jacket.

Looking good, a friend of mine had one of those Indians back prior to 1982 because I was still in school. Same color scheme as your's started as but I thought his was a four stroke. The street leading to the local park was a hill and I'm fairly sure that at the time his was the only moped in town that would climb that hill without helping it along. The Yamaha shop in Dover sold them back then. Edit, then again his might have been white, you know that has been a few years back.

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