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Thanks for all the replies! I'm looking into more of these things over the next week. The lady said she's going to get me a garage close to the apartment, I just don't trust people. I have good insurance, I just don't want to go through the hassles of insurance. I'd rather just have peace of mind first-and-foremost and worry about insurance if someone was to ultimately decide against all adversity, they needed my things more than I do. I’ve read about people putting in a game-hunting-camera too to get photos of anyone stealing their things. I think that’s kind of funny, even more so if they steal your camera. I honestly don’t worry about people stealing the bike so much as I worry about all my tools, bicycles, and that jazz. Again, thanks for the ideas and help! If I buy any items I’ll stick to local vendors here.

I'm moving to an apartment here soon and of course they have the detached garage. I have things I need to protect, can someone help me with some ideas? I've found the DeWalt Mobilelock, seems like a gimmick though.

I don't know how this will all play out, but "FTR" Magley64, Fuck you.

I avoid any animal that's nickname can be associated with Death Adder.

I rode mohican a little in the winter time. It was cold, it was fun, it was cold.

JJ has a pretty interesting history if you go back to it's true 'beginning' before it was a martial art and worked it's way up into street fighting and then into the pro-circuits where a lot of it's moves were either outlawed or modified. Pretty neat stuff!

I heard this on Friday, instantly loved it.

I actually laughed out loud at this.

I kind of knew this was gonna happen. I know how it 'sounds' in text format, I just don't have any way to make it sound better. My problem isn't necessarily with people having the right to carry a firearm, it's that the people who have the right don't necessarily have the training. They're taught the legal aspects of it, which is important, but they're not taught things of a different type of importance. I'm NOT against civilians having guns (it's been proven time and time again to be more of an asset than a problem) I just WISH there was solid training for those who qualify to carry them that goes beyond operation, safety, and when you're allowed to shoot people (legislative). I served on a team where one of the biggest eye openers for me was in the training when they said 'it's like paintball, but with consequences' 15 minutes into the training you've killed four civilians, a hostage, out right murdered two people who were compliant in their own way, and escalated a drunk from a point of passive-non-compliance to were deadly force was a need to protect your life --- In all cases we were wrong and we were serving on teams of six. Our instructors were a F.B.I. trainer, two U.S. Marshal's, and a former Marine recon sniper, all impressive histories, all with impressive scenarios and sea-stories of what-if scenario's. MY favorite quote from it all is: "When it goes down and you've been put into a position of you or them has to die, get out of the situation, don't turn your back, if they lock you into a position where you absolutely can not get away from them and de-escalate ... It's time to get to work, your family is waiting for you at home." --- Not for the drastic twist at the end but I always thought it exemplified the right mind-set you need to be in. The most important thing I learned through all of it is all you can do is train and train and train and be prepared to use it and hope you don't have to, because when it comes down to it, who is going to push the furthest, and if you're prepared to go the whole distance, you had better be justified (as was mentioned). I had to apply more of the training than I ever cared for, but without the training, I'd be dead many times over, or worse, other people would have been. But the ideal scenario will never present itself and (some) people think they're going to hear a noise in their house late at night, it'll wake them from their slumber and they'll be in a mindset to 'protect' their family with the loaded gun they keep next to their bed at night. Their going to sneak down stairs and be in a mindset where they can make the right choices given their scenario. It's just not realistic to think that a situation will present itself and you're going to have all this time to think, analyze, decide if you need to draw or not to shoot and/or kill someone. I literally feel heart-ache for anyone who has HAD to use their firearm to defend themselves or others because that's absolutely not a easy decision to make in this world, and I respect everyone who has civilian or military, just wish you all had more training (civilian and military). Sorry these posts are so long haha, this is a hard thing for me to communicate over the internetz.

I know there are a lot in Pickerington because they just lowered the speed limit on Hill Rd/256 from 50 mph to 45 and the cops have been eating people up.

Civilians that have no idea of a fight-or-flight situation where they -think- they're prepared to take another persons life simply because they own a gun and went through a safety course and know some laws, are the exact reason I have a problem with the conceal-carry programs. Your mind changes when you're put into a situation of necessity. This has been the on going battle for law enforcement officers since the beginning. "They have to make a decision in seconds that a court gets to pour over and analyze for years if they want to." --- Like anything else you can be trained on what to do in what situation, but you're not trained by reading a book on how to do it, watching some movies, or going over in-home techniques. If I'm in a situation where I feel threatened, and 'brandishing a weapon' makes me feel safer and protects those in my area from initial harm. Then let the perpetrator make the case of: 'I was walking up to the guy asking for money, he told me to get away from him, I didn't listen and kept moving towards him and he pulled out a weapon' --- of course the outcome is extreme and has probably an infinite number of variables. Put looking at pulling a firearm as the reason to use it, or not pulling it because you feel you have to start squeezing off rounds if you pull your gun out is a horrible mentality to keep. You need to be TRAINED for your instance, ALERT to your surroundings and options, FLEXIBLE to situations as they develop. Most encounters are not: You pull out weapon --> Person flees for their life/you have to shoot them nine times/person drags you through judicial systems. You carry to protect you and your surroundings, so long as your mindset is in the protection of you and your surroundings without the preemptive thought of hurting people. I wouldn't stand by and watch a woman/man be raped anymore than I would draw on a guy/girl getting loud with wife/husband.

Oregon is beautiful!

Truth.

I only half-heartedly agree with this. Drawing your weapon still leaves you at the second stage of escalation which for you non-military folks is presence. If I tell someone to "Stop, move back." and they move forward again, I'll draw on them and let them know they need to "Stop, and move back." I'm not naive to believe that this does not escalate the situation and that you -should- be prepared to use it if you're drawing it. But at the same time, drawing a weapon does two things: 1. It lets them know you're armed and 2. It lets them know you're prepared to go the next step if situation is going to fully escalate and the first round most likely won't be flung to the side, cause you're already on target. Like many of you (but not all) I've done my time, and I would much prefer no situation than a bad one. But simply because I draw a firearm doesn't mean I need to unload the clip into them and be prepared for reload just-in-case ...

This is similiar to how me and my friends started learning the stock market years ago only we all decided to go in with $500 for real, it came pretty apparent, pretty quick who knew what things like M.O.S.S. and Dividend pay out schedules were. Do your research and you can make good money, just don't ever mistake it for things like "Well this company makes money so they'll have great returns." JPM recent had their whole 'scandal' in the news and their stock dropped like $8 over a week, nothing changed but Jamie Dimon had to fire some people, but people sold off stock like the bank was going under out of a few bad apples. Always invest in good management/leadership. Stick to things like products you use and things that interest you too so you don't have a problem reading the dry Wall Street Journal articles. AND if you want to get on the mathematic side of it, study balance sheets and financial statements, that's your true picture of historic performance of a company: Strong bottom line, good management, and a market leader, good company.

Managing the stock market and investing is much more of a lesson in history and psychology than math. I know, it bought me my motorcycle . I would be the absolutely most boring at this because I growth invest I don't value invest enough to make quick cash. Good money now is doing things like forex if you can manage it. Watch for companies like JPM who are such heavy hitters they can control the swing of the market when they decide to invest in something (which is contradictory to a free market due to their ties in with the federal reserve (as a bank not necessarily JPM specifically)). Read anything by Benjamin Graham . If you follow the news you'll be much better at investing than those who are great at mathematics.

Investopedia.com has a game similiar to this and you can track your progress and don't need to know math!!

Any good sales person understands that people can be sold on things. If someone told me $13K out the door and I could make $0.37, and my other option was standing around waiting on the deal of the century, I'm selling it. I've bought most my things dealing with great sales people, who were willing to work with me up front. Anyone who gives me a shitty attitude, I can buy your products somewhere else, kick rocks .

I rode into rain/hail and a speed in excess of the speed limit. Other than the cool 'clunk' sounds the hail made on the helmet, not much else bothered me so long as I was tucked in. I slowed down 'quick' though and had to maintain a very miserable sub-speed limit speed. As for hydroplaning, I don't know. Follow me on this, a car tire hydroplanes because water can literally create a cushion of fluid underneath the surface of the tire. It's not practical for a car on slicks to operate in the rain because it would always have a cushion of water under it, and no 'scooping' action removing the water from underneath the tire surface. As you increase width of rubber, the more sipping/tread you need to remove water from the center most part of the tire to the outermost area (ideally throwing water away from the tire). Because bike tires are more narrow and curved not as much of the tire is in contact with the road at one time along with the high pressure of a bike tire and weight of the bike it's less likely to allow for water to be under it, especially if moving forward. It's more likely to 'cut' through water puddles and surfaces. --- The trade off here is a bike is way more susceptable to things like wet painted surfaces and the tar-snakes in the road when wet, due to them being slippery, but not hydroplaning. My logic in this comes from when I used to race bicycles, we were always told we never had to worry about hydroplaning, go as fast as we want. But it doesn't make the road any less slick, just won't hydroplane as it's defined. I would say at a high enough speed it is more likely he would be producing more power to the rear wheel than the tire could effectively put down to the wet road surface before it would do things like free-spin. Thought?

AND not all 250's are created equal, for example: The bike I learned to ride on was a GZ250 and this thing is a pig haha, it takes a tail wind to get it up to 80 mph, and if you hit those rolling 'hills' on 270, you need to downshift to maintain speed, a real hassel (sometimes shifting to second gear to get through an intersection). My brother had a ninja250 and said it could do highway fine, with a passenger and it just felt really light and he didn't like it. EDIT: Buying a 250, 600, 750, 1000 to me is like saying you want an economy, sport compact (VW GTI/Honda S2000), 2-door sport sedan (think Ariel Atom), or two door sports car (Ferrari, Ford GT, ect.). There is something to be said for rider skill/comfort in relation to CC's/HP too though. I don't put any faith in those people who say "I've rode over 65,000,000 miles and 1000cc is too much" or "I've been riding for 30 years and you don't need xyz cc's". To each their own, it'll be your bike, ya gotta be comfortable and happy with it.

Sport bikes have a pretty aggressive position to them, meaning (to me at least) I'm more comfortable being laid out on the bike than I am sitting up on it. Sport bikes also require a little more flexibility and core strength to maintain proper position for extended periods of time (bending/leaning with the hamstrings at the waist, and not with your back). I personally like both but have taken advantage of my youth and physical conditioning to buy sport bikes first. I have a few guys at work that have some choppers and cruisers and even some touring bikes, I like them all but think the choppers are the most impractical if you're going on all day rides. A lot of the bikes you'll find are personal preference. I sit and lay out on the GSXR1000 and feel fine, when I do the same on a GSXR600/750 I feel scrunched, if you look at the specs of the bikes and do the measurements it's 90% in my head. But what I think, is what matters, when it's me riding a steal toy at highway speeds. The rider course has a bunch of different bikes you can sit and ride on too, I would do the course and sit on all their bikes (since you can ride them too and not worry about dropping them) and build an idea.

Not entirely true unless it's been changed in the last seven years. I was pulled over in a car for around 135-ish in a 25mph zone, the judge tacked on reckless operations to the ticket as it was suggested in the officer's notes. So I had heard rumor back then that in Ohio 35 mph over -or- double the limit was 'reckless operations' although all speeding is considered reckless in Ohio ... Don't know how much of that is true but I had Reckless Op, that the judge added, sit on my record for the entire length of that speeding ticket. --- I was younger and dumber and didn't try to fight the ticket either. EDIT: Actually if I really think back (and I know how fallable memory is) Judge Kelly in Muskingum county, also told me that he could put me in jail for 90 days over this when they read off the max sentence.

I think I just had my first "AH HA" moment here. Now I understand why people ride with no helmet but lock one on their bike. JUST IN CASE they get pulled over that way their bike doesn't get towed! Genius idea!!!

This is awesome! I used to do the Seattle-toPortland every year when I road there, and the Kitsap centuray ride. Ohio doen't have hills! Haha. Congrats on stopping and I'll be looking to volunteer I think, I've got so much going on with the new job and college, and I wish I could get back into cycling heh I'll find a routine here eventually and we should all ride that really long Alum Creek type trail some day. OR if anyone is up for it I have a Jeep that'll carry three mountain bikes into any mountain biking area you can find around here in central Ohio.

If this is the case I rescind my previous post. Except if you're posting for an event, proofread your posts or have a friend do it. I know a lot of people get on this, "it doesn't matter if I can spell or not" kick and you're partially right. You and a lot of your friends probably gave up on learning anymore than you had to about the language, fine. When you come to a place that the medium of communication is written/read. If you're not paying attention you can communicate the wrong ideas, emotions, or state-of-mind if you don't use the medium (internet forums) correctly. i.e. I'm a horrible speaker, I suffered through speech therapy when I was young and speech classes in college. I'm bad at it with no desire to get better. I don't publicly speak.