Helmutt

Yup, my quick wit has been on point lately. Didn't mean to completely derail the thread Brent, but I couldn't pass up this easy opportunity. You sir, not only left the door wide open, you virtually held it open and screamed for my comedic input

Aww damn, well we may have to resort to shitty cel phone pics then

I hope to see Joe & Marty at this trackday to snap some killer shots. Hopefully a couple of the best photogs in the biz can make us look half as good as the other threads boast around here!

Cool article, and nice shots Joe! As pro as it gets right there

I can empathize through a similar incident ( the helpless part, but much less life threatening ) when my daughter was 3 and bitten in the face by a dog. It splayed her nose and upper lip wide open. The doctor had a pissy attitude at best, and had the nurses holding her down while he forcefully tried to inject her face with the local. She was struggling and crying so hard she wet her pants and vomited from all the stress/trauma THEY were causing her. The injury itself didn't bug her that much by the time we got to the hospital, just had to keep her hands away from it....but that doctor was determined to win 1st place on my shit list with how he was practicing pediatrics. I was inches from breaking the docs jaw and throwing him across the room by his smock, but I maintained composure ( somehow ) and told him how done he was with this bullshit so they'd better leave asap so we could calm her ( and me ) down, and they best be finding a more humane method to put my daughter's face back together. They brought in a different anesthesiologist and decided to gas her out, he was calm and sweet to my kid, and she took right to him. It just tears you down to see your child in situations like this and that you cant just fix it, or make the pain go away. Glad she is on the up, and sounds like the worst is over. Dont feel shitty over venting here, you know this place can be like a free therapy session sometimes. Thinking about your little one and all of you and yours as well

Oh, I'm sure it is. Probably happy enough just having an "outtie". As long as it makes YOU happy Apparently the ladies in your life haven't broken the bad news to you, so I wont either Or.....are you insinuating your personal limit for meatloaf in your breadbox?

Wynn's Powercharger injector cleaner once a year or so. Lucas Fuel treat for an over the winter storage stabilizer, I usually pick up 2-3 mile/gallon in my truck with this stuff too. Our shop is a Lucas product dealer so I've been using it for almost a decade with nothing but good results.

Congratulations! Fatherhood is definitely an awesome feeling and the best experience of a lifetime.

Damn, wish I was your brother.....good on ya for the huge gift, he must deserve it! I dont know of a good car that cheap either, but I'll kick in some rep too

I use the 4 strap method on ours. But I strap it to where most of the compressed load is taken at the passenger pegs so I only need to lightly draw on the forks. Learned the hard way only strapping bikes at the forks with a blown seal. Got our straps at Home Depot. Pretty stout build and have worked great, 500lb load rate each and cost around $40/set. I'd love to have a pair of Condors or TRS on the trailer, but funding that is a different story

that was great

Be safe and use the force young padawan

Me too......but karma caught him before the cops he eluded. Stupid to flee

We'll be there Friday-Sunday. Caging it though

I definitely dont want to go......not my type of crowd. I prefer gothed out, pierced up, tattooed metalheads that shoot meth. See ya at Xfest

We have 6 mil nitrile at work and they suck for longevity. Most go through 3-5 pair on a diesel teardown. Fuels/oils still make them soft and the finger tips tear easily once they've been doused. Best to wear them under a pair of leather work gloves, but good luck starting small fasteners with cowhides on.your fingers Had some 10 mil that were better but we still went through them quickly. Hands get dirty/greasy, plain and simple.....and if it weren't for the safety regulations at work we'd probably save the company a cool thousand or 2 a year since everybody hates the gloves. But I dont mind junkmail, gives me something different to send other junkmail companies in those handy postage paid envelopes.....May as well have fun and give Readers Digest's mailboys something to read other than blank magazine subscription forms I keep sending, plus I'm supporting my local post office!

Never heard of it. But with a wet-tshirt and best ass competition, you can safely bet there wont be any real riding going on. I foresee some crap rock bands, a ton of burly beards, patch laden leather vests, shitty tattoos, drunken puke puddles, leatherback ladies with wrinkled ziplock-bag-like tits, and 2 dumptrucks full of cheap American beer cans Ah, fuck it.....wanna go?

Yes! I love seeing 18 wheeler carnage. I work at a truck dealership, so I'm assuming the joy I take in seeing class 8 trucks die is most likely stemmed from my hatred in having to help repair these things so there are that many more on the road to piss me off in my travels! Depends on it's load. An empty 53ft trailer and tractor easily takes approximately 1-1/2 times the distance as it takes to stop a typical passenger car. The DOT raised the braking standard on new production class 8's ( phase 1 for all 3-axle up to 59k lbs ) 2 years ago and made it effective for all axle variations this month ( phase 2 ). The old standard was within 355ft no matter the load/gvwr. The new standards limit distances by # of axles & gvwr. New shoe/pad lining materials and larger diameter surface and/or width increase was the only change needed to meet the new law. Air disc brakes can currently outperform the new standard by a small margin, but they are quirpy devices and very expensive to maintain. Until some better caliper designs are produced, these wont be popular at all. Here's some more details http://www.meritor.com/products/brakes/rsd.aspx

Ah, there ya have it.....must be the rut for cloud cover around North Dayton

Did it touch down at all? Never heard anything about it earlier, but it was clear here. Too bad you didn't have a telephoto lens and HD vid cam handy

Congrats! I love the XDM trigger pull/break, so I'm sure most all SA XD series are of similar quality. It fires nicely and cycles fine with ammo of all sorts so far. Let me know when you go to the range, if I'm available I'd love to tag along

Think Coot was joking since he lives on the other side of the continent

Rap? Nope.....just a shitty poet