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You need to be onsite immediately when the gates open to get on the demo ride list. It fills up within the first hour usually.

I will be up there the entire weekend. My Ducati will probably be in the Cafe Racer magazine tent all day Saturday.

Leave it at home. If you really need to ride for a day go rent one. http://www.beachhousehd.com/ Only 12 miles from Holden Beach. A sportster is like $50 for 7 hours. I'm not a Harley guy myself but I can ride anything for one day.

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I had thought of that being I have my old HTC thunderbolt just sitting in a drawer. Problem is I can't see the screen in daylight and if it sat in the sun while riding it would overheat and shut down.

I have oldschool gear. Garmin streetpilot III. When the maps are preloaded it doesn't work so bad. Directions are good and the screen is easy to see. First gen color, sorry but not touchscreen yet. If the mapping fails (10% of the time) you might as well have a paper map. On the fly mapping will get you back to a destination but being the data card for the maps is from 2008 some of the waypoints and places listed can be out of date. I have a "Ram" mount bolted into the bar riser. I think I have $80-90 into it.

So for the folks with no Google-Fooo. It started life as a 2001 Hayabusa, built by Destroyer Customs. Bunch of links with video's. It's supercharged and is pushing 240hp. http://americaloveshorsepower.com/destroyer-customs-supercharged-motorcycle-drifting/ http://www.blackratcustom.com/brc/2716 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Destroyer-Custom/190039034370311

My latest riding pants are the Fieldsheer Mercury pants. They are a pull over textile overpants with armor in the knees and hips. The legs unzip on the outside edge from your feet clear up to the top of your legs so you can get in and out of them while leaving your shoes and pants on underneath. I wear them to work in an office environment and can take them on and off quickly so I don't have to wear them all day. They have vents to unzipper on the thighs and you can unzip the legs some for cooling but they don't vent as well as I would like on the hottest days. You will know your wearing protective gear, I prefer having the better protection of a good set of pants though.

My first street crash was back in 1997. Wrecked a 1977 Honda CB750. High sided it after washing out the front end on a huge pile of stones mid corner. I hit the street face first and was unconscious in the middle of the road for close to a minute. It was also my first ride in an ambulance when people truly looked concerned. Lucky to have had a full face helmet and although not the greatest but at least some gear. Came out of it with a bad concussion and whiplash in my neck/shoulders, minor rash on my knees. Bike was totaled as it tumbled several times. Wish I still had the helmet, it broke the chin bar and visor and cracked the forehead back to almost the center of the top of the helmet. They cut it off me after they had me in the neck brace and strapped on the board. Been wearing high end full face lids ever since. I'm ugly enough as nature made me. Took about 2 years to get another bike and get back in the game. I've had several bikes since then but can't imagine giving up on riding at this point.

I wear the Timberland Pro Pit Boss boots in a 6inch. They make them in both steel toe and non. Got my first pair back in 1999 or 2000 and have been wearing this model shoe ever since. I used to work on aircraft so I would spend huge amounts of time standing on concrete floors and constantly up and down steps and ladders. I get about 2 years from a pair before I wear the soles smooth. Never had problems with the leather.

Its a 4" x4" x2" magnet that pulls with over 1200lbs of force.

One of these should do it. You wouldn't have to worry about it falling off and it will also act to pull any metal particles in your oil to the bottom of the cases. https://www.kjmagnetics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=BZX0ZX0Y0-N52&cat=168 I also doubles to help hold your bike to the earth when it get windy out.

I hate to bash pony because it is super awesome to have a store like that in town. I will say that with the caveat that you really need to be an informed consumer before you step foot in there. Some of their prices for things are really out of line. Boots, Helmets, Gear I have to search really hard to find any better deals than what they normally have. Fluids, oils and cleaning supplies buyer beware. Take Mobile 1 Racing 4t in 10w-40 (what my bikes use) Pony is asking $16.99 a quart. Both Advance Auto and AutoZone are selling it for less than $12 a quart and most times is on sale for $9.99. Why so much of a price hike? Heck even Walmart shows they carry it for $9.97.

Tonik, watch your one route(http://goo.gl/maps/XW75H) The middle section of RT197 (N Fork Rd) is not paved for looks like around a mile or more. If you zoom in and drop the google man just East of Dodd rd or at the intersection of N Fork and Ogle Meadows Rd you can see where the google car stopped when it turned to a dirt road and didn't map that section.

And then wrap that in a pancake and you are a god.

Don't bother try to teach him anything. Magley likes to drag people down to his level and beat them with his superior stupidity.

Using the "Real thing" got too expensive. You should be happy that people are shooting paper targets these days. There are only so many prisoners, criminals and political dissidents to go around and they would eventually work their way down to gun hatting internet trolls to use for target practice. Oh and another firearm that is used to save peoples lives, Flare guns. So suck it misinformed troll. Yes but what your missing the point is that all of those items started out as real firearms and they have been converted to serve a function that is no longer deadly. Well other than the nail gun because a bunch of asshats die from those things every year. You asked for examples of firearms than are deadly and destructive and I gave you a full list and I find joy in watching you stick you head back in the sand and ignore the fact that I presented you evidence contrary to your beliefs. I mean shit dude, according to the CDC there where 28,600 people injured by nail guns in 2005. Why don't you dirrect your hatred to something much more dangerous than real firearms. http://www.cdc.gov/DataStatistics/2007/NailGun/

Come on, no witty retort for line throwing guns, starter pistols, signal canons or tennis ball launchers. You wanted examples of uses for firearms that didn't damage things. What about those uses? Do you feel like maybe we got you.

Lets see, they have nail guns that are powered by blank pistol cartridges. The have line throwing guns that are designed to shoot ropes between two ships. The previously mentioned starter pistols. Signal canons have been used almost since the beginning of firearms. You also have adapters for guns so they serve non-lethal uses. You can get a tennis ball launcher, a golf ball launcher and even one that will shoot marshmallows. You say target shooting counts as destroying things and I think that truly is BS. Just because a sheet of paper has holes in it doesn't mean it's destroyed. You can still recycle that back into a whole sheet of paper. The papers function did not get altered by having holes placed in it and it can be returned to it's original form.

I don't have kids so I can't say I would ever be asking for compensation as it has no weight in my life. How is being an NRA member going to have any bearing on how compensation is determined and why even mention it, is there a point to that statement or was it just to take a jab? What I am asking in this entire deal is that the death have never even happened in the first place. Let me flip your comment right back around at you and ask you a question. Would you prefer 5 or even 15 million dollars in a wrongful death payout or would you prefer your child to still be alive and uninjured? This whole friggin country is too worried about how much money they are going to make from the lawsuit after something bad happens and not nearly concerned enough about saving that life in the first place. Why continue to spend 100's of millions to Billions of dollars in payouts to lawyers and the wronged individuals every single year and continue to ignore the fact that it's never going to bring the dead back to life. Stop throwing good money on top of bad. Fix the root cause of the issue and you will never need compensation to ease "the pain". Our kids will go back to outliving their parents and life can get back to those good old days that everyone seems to remember but can't seem to figure out how it got lost. Lets say negligence/crime/accident happens and you successfully sue an entire family into the poor house, how does this educate anybody else in this country so that they won't make the same mistake. Are you going to take your winnings and spend the rest of your life educating the rest of the population to be sure that it doesn't happen to anybody else. Do you truly think that making one family destitute will cause the whole of the country to stand up and notice. I think the reality is that the country is going to go about it's business being ignorant and dangerous regardless of the payout because they truly don't give a flying "F" about the situation. These huge payouts happen daily in this country and it hasn't fixed a darn thing so far, the media rarely even gives it airtime because even those fact twisting glory hounds realize that regardless of the crime and regardless of who got rich, the average person is too complacent to care. We as a society are tired of hearing the "what about me" generation. How about we give up on the status quo and try something new for a change. As for the issue of punishments. That's a whole different thread that would require the thickest pair of fireproof undies you would have ever seen. I would love to get into that argument because I truly feel that it is at the core of this discussion but for me that conversation will only go in a bad direction very quickly so I will leave my true feelings for that issue on the back burner.

When has anybodies rates ever gone down after a "Safety Study"? I figure that once you get the government involved to waste hundreds of millions of tax dollars in studies and research. The insurance companies spend hundred of millions in lobbying the government to get their way. The price that every single person gets to pay out will increase a fair amount and the unsafe people that own guns will not be any safer than before the studies. Everybody from the lawyers to congress to the research and insurance companies get rich but little Johny still gets shot because some uneducated buffoon left his gun unlocked and in reach. All the bar graphs, pie charts and talking heads on CNN will not have saved a single persons life. If we could take that 200 million dollars and put it into gun safety, education and reducing the criminal element, wouldn't that actually make the country safer? You wouldn't need lawyers and insurance payouts and studies about how dangerous life can be if the event was prevented in the first place and the kid was still breathing.

I don't think that's the point he is trying to make. He wants gun owners to pay extra insurance money to cover the cost of criminals and undereducated people that let their 8 year old kids play with loaded guns. He is using the examples that pool owners paying extra insurance money due to the risk of injury, muscle car owners pay extra due to the increased cost of repairs and that owners of heathen devil Rotties pay extra because they scare people (never met a Rottie I didn't like). Only make sense to have law abiding gun owns foot the bill for criminals. Kinda funny because I figure we already do from all the asshats in prison that I support with my tax dollars. Something that had me thinking after my first rant was about the concept of a gun being inherently bad. If in some twisted corner of reality came to bear and the inanimate object that is a firearm could somehow infect it's owner and make a normal person more likely to commit a crime, be less responsible, or possibly do something to harm another with a firearm, I would be screwed. I currently own over 20 guns, most of which are vintage military firearms. I would assume many of them when still in military service have killed people. Take this rifle for example. Lee Enfield No1MkIII, manufactured in 1911. Most likely saw service in WWI, WWII, and several other smaller battles Britain could have been involved with between 1911 and the late 1940's. This gun could possible have a body count attached to it that may reach into the hundreds, who knows the full history it could tell. Is this firearm somehow more evil than a brand new one that has never been fired? Will owning and using this firearm somehow turn me into a criminal or a murderer? Does owning a firearm that has very likely been used to kill in the past make me want to go knock over a convenience store? I would freaking think not! At some point starting very early in my life, I had parents that gave a shit about my well being and my education and they taught me not to be a criminal. I have no want to go to jail and make best friends with Bubba. I keep my guns out of the hands of children, out of the hands of crazy people and I obey the laws already in place. I do the job that a responsible gun owner should do and I resent the idea that I should have to pay money out of my pocket to support somebody less responsible. Educate the misinformed and uninvolved, educate the youngsters, reduce the need for people to turn to crime. These are the quick and successful ways to make guns safer. Not taxing and forcing insurance policies to empty the pockets of the people who already have these upstanding attributes and value for life. Edit; MattM, you posted while I was typing. I apologize if I have misconstrued your post as well, I will leave my original reply intact to promote discussion.

For the OP's story. Boom, badguy gets just deserts. Nothing better than hearing a CCW holder vindicated for reducing the number of violent asshats on the planet. For Mattm, not totally sure how to reply to your post. You claim to not be anti-gun but the rest of it sounds as if you are or at the very least misinformed about the issue. You compare gun ownership to owning dogs. When was the last time a handgun jumped a fence and mauled a child. Never. Having a gun in the house does not automatically make that household less safe. I have two firearms in my house that have been fully loaded with ammo in the chamber. They have sat in this condition for emergency use for almost 7 years now and there has never been an elevated risk to anybody that has ever been welcome in my home. The problem with the logic I seen in your post is that you are blaming the shortcomings of "people" with the damages that a gun creates in the hands of said "people". In this reality (as far as i know) when an inanimate object like a firearm is used, it always takes a person to commit a crime against another person. Why is the firearm now given a face and called a criminal as if it had a choice or a say in the actions of the person holding it. A child, tween, teen, adult, psycho, depressed, enraged, moron with no respect for another humans life will find a way to harm another person with no regards to the tools they are provided. It could be a knife, a rope, a baseball bat, skateboard or a firearm and it would not stop them. A child, tween, teen, adult, psycho, depressed, enraged, moron with no understanding of the consequences of their actions may harm another person with no regards to the tool they use due to the fact that they have never been taught better. If all of you concerned citizens really want to prevent crime and reduce the violence in society, how about you turn to your children and teach them not to be criminals. Take your head out of your ass and teach this generation what not to do. Stop looking towards the government to pass the end all law that will force criminals to obey the system and do something proactive like raise less children to be criminals. I bet since they are old enough to stand you teach your kids that knives are dangerous, why have you ignored guns. If you teach them about dangerous things in their lives like sharp objects, poison, tripping hazards, deadly animals, why would you leave something out as important as firearms. The current crop that has reached their teen years is probably already lost. Turn to the young ones that you have a chance of fixing, and teach them not to be purse snatching, carjacking, child shooting prison fodder and maybe the issue of gun control will be turned into an issue of criminal control.

May want to check the date in the title of you post. Wish I could join but I'm working.

I used to shoot cylinder bore or skeet tubes and #9 shot when shooting skeet. It a fairly close game compared to other clay sports and you don't need the long distance hitting power of larger shot. Where did you go that they have it, a buddy of mine wants to give it a try?