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All is good now. Pulled the tank dump the gas, wiped out as much as we could. Gave it a quick rinse. Fresh gas and seafoam and she's running like a dream again.

2 hours ago, Tonik said:

Any particular reason he tried that?

Aftermarket gas cap with failed o-rings due to them not being ethanol compatible and 10years old. Parked under the eve of the building to where basically a waterfall was on the tank of my bike for hours in a monsoon. Equals probably a half a gallon of water in the gas tank.

4 hours ago, Tonik said:

It's official. I have informed the company I am retiring the end of April.

 

33 minutes ago, Tpoppa said:

Congratulations!

I plan to inform my company next Friday.

Tomorrow I'm going to look at a potential retirement gift for myself.

Congratulations Fellas!!!!

Maybe I'll jump in this conversation. So I'm at the point where I "could" retire early. Way different circumstances from most of you all. My situation is I am debt free, have almost five times my annual salary in my 401k, almost 29 years of pension build up, and I have a sugar mama that is about to get promoted. That last one is the key for me. I've worked my entire life at a bullshit corporate industrial job to raise my family and put food on the table. Many you probably remember me posting in the past about working all weekends and barely be able to get away and do things. Years ago my wife wanted to go back to school and so I worked so much overtime and weekends to make that happen. The agreement was that I could retire early and she would take care of me in the future. So then last year she went back to school again to get her master's degree in healthcare administration. And in the very near future the manager of her office is retiring and my wife should be a shoe end to take her place which also comes with a substantial pay increase and benefits.

And while the thought of retiring early is enticing I'm just happy that I'm at a point to where I could just walk away and say fuck it at any time. I mean that peace of mind is paying dividends as we My work is so slow right now and they're actually talks of layoffs. and it doesn't bother me in the least a little bit. I'll stick around as long as I can or as long as I feel like. I mean let's face it, every year I work is more pension dollars and 401K savings(which I'm currently stashing 30% of my paychecks into my 401k) At this point my income is the play money, and we like to play. So that's where I'm at, debt free, a nice nest egg, empty nesters and a spouse that loves what she does and doesn't mind doing it. 

Now when I actually do pull the trigger and retire, I don't think I would retire completely either. Would absolutely want to pick up a gig that I like or love. Maybe bounce around different jobs like motorcycle shop or parts counter or even just turn wrenches in my own garage.

There are a few of us going down next week to Deals Gap and staying at the GDMR. Originally it was just me going down by myself but now a few others have decided to join me. So I thought I would open the invite to anyone else that can make last minute plans. As of the time of this post they still have a couple available rooms. Link will be below.

I will be down 7/21-7/26

A couple other guys will be joining me in my room 7/22-7/26

And one other got his own room from 7/23-7-26

So the more the merrier if you want to come down and hang with some bubbys. This is not an official organized trip or endrorced in anyway by anyone. It's show up on your own do your own thing or put together your own group rides or just hang out. 

Here is a link to room availability.

https://secure.webrez.com/Bookings105/transaction-calendar.html?&hotel_id=1914&date_from=20210515&mode=&newrelease_redirect=1

I too will be riding for some forbiden soup in a couple of weeks. Mmmmmm

On 3/30/2024 at 9:35 PM, Danimal said:

Can you do the same for the other two?

i got you

Oh yeah the Ninja got the diesel treatment yesterday too 

FYI you can go back to your @Danimalaccount if you want. It's been unlocked for a while now.

Cheers to a cool dude. RIP Brother.

13 hours ago, Pauly said:

That looks fast. Congrats!

Thanks....she's a mean Mamba Jamba...for a old mans bike that is.. 😉

Oh yeah did I failed to mention I bought a new bike.... 😆

So I've been busy. Updated the Givi hard bags and top case. Installed some Brembo Italian goodness in the form of master cylinder and levers to go with the rest of the Brembo set up. Installed all the Trex crash protection. Knights Designs lowered foot pegs. Spec tech tank pads. Finished installing the braided brake lines the previous owner didn't get to. Still to come heated grips, vortex V3 gas cap and throttle lock 

The Connies are a young mans game. I get it. Good thing I'm never growing up.  

16 hours ago, Tonik said:

197 is a shit show now. They just tar snaked the hell out of it. Really bad.

Yeah did I forget to mention that? Me @max power and @Dre found that out memorial weekend. By far the absolute worst tar snakes ive ever ridden on in my life. Three very seasoned riders and we all about bit the tarmac that day. Damn thing must have a 1/4" rise of the road surface. 

5 minutes ago, Wahoo said:

Looks like a great trip.   Where was the Bucky’s?  Amazing place 

New one just opened in Richmond Kentucky 

Here's my photo dump....

4 hours ago, Howabusa said:

Him and his buddy are both on C-14s.

Yup that was them "old man Kent" as they referred to you as...lol

On 5/26/2022 at 4:21 PM, Howabusa said:

Looks like Ron Durst will be down there with another C-14 guy. They left today for 2 weeks.

Think I met him down there Saturday night. 

On 5/16/2022 at 10:41 PM, max power said:

It’s ridiculous what you have to do to reach the air cleaner on these things.

Have you checked the valves yet? 

Please...change one on a Connie and compare. Only try if you have at least 2 hours of your time. A clue is, it's in the frame behind the steering neck. 

Got some proper meats on the dirty bike finally. Ditched those shit stock tires it came with. Now she actually looks like she can go places no man is supposed to go.