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My wife just bought a lifted jeep. After my first night ride with her and seeing how many people flashed her, I had her park it in the back yard facing the house and adjusted them properly. It took all of three minutes to not be an asshole. The old safety lane yearly vehicle inspections is one of the few government functions I think we were better off with.

I've wanted to do this since the first time I heard of it. I'll have to see if I can find any riding buds who will go up from here.

Trunk Monkey.

Wait one light cycle then run it. Call the city/county to complain and they are supposed to come out and recalibrate it.

I wish I would have read that before I posted my last post. It would have gone in well with my teaching kids about guns part.

Ok Mags, I may be the only one, but I'll give you credit that when I first started reading your posts, I thought you were an ignorant dumbass like some of these other guys. But, after the fiftieth time of you trying to make your point, I see what you are saying and can understand it. I think it was the driving/vacation thing that did it for me. The only problem is, the world isn't a disney movie, and no matter how much we could hope and pray for all guns to disappear, it ain't gonna happen. Time to move on to what to do now. Another very good point. You are correct. We have gone overboard with the make everything idiot proof and safe for all to use with no training. Some shit is just inherently dangerous to use. Either learn what the hell you are doing, or you might get fucked up. Guns fall in to that classification. You want to decrease the odds of your kids/nieces/nephews whatever of getting hurt by guns? Teach them about them. Let them see them, touch them, use them. Start them young. Don't make the first time they ever see or find a gun to be a scary situation. I have yet to meet a kid who didn't think the first trip to the range to be fun as hell.

I'm glad you're confident in it. I've seen lasermax guide rod lasers on many different makes of guns, but that doesn't mean they all use the exact same one. Just curious as to why lasermax has two different part numbers for them listed on their website if they are identical. There also appears to be a slight variation in them pictured side by side.

There is a different part number for the one for the lcp. I don't think this will fit both models.

He was riding in a timed rally. First time I saw it, I had no idea, and thought he was a jackass for riding the way he was, and for quickly hopping up and taking off without giving at least a brief look over of his bike first. Being a timed event, it makes sense(a little), but I can see someone watching just that 30 second clip and thinking he's an idiot.

Yes it will. Do this, and try to get a printout showing the vin comes back as not stolen. Keep a copy of it and the bill of sale with you when taking the bike to the track. I can't remember how many years ago it was, but since I remember reading it in roadracing world, it had to have been 10-15 years ago, there was an article about the police coming to a race and inspecting and impounding a large number of bikes due to missing vins or them coming back as stolen. Me personally, when I buy a track bike, it will have to have a title, and it will be put in my name. Being it will be a cheap bike, the total cost involved won't be much for the piece of mind I'll get from having the vin come back in my name.

Tell me this, is every motorcycle purposely designed with the sole intention of racing?

This is why I will be ditching my S2 for an Iphone 5 when it comes out. We have three android devices in the house, and every single one of them turned to crap when they updated to ICS. The recommended solution was to do a factory rest and start over. But for those of us who don't have that new device ADD, I want a phone that will go three-four years without having to be continuously messed with to stay working. Too many people get to stick their bits in to android updates before it gets sent to me as the end user, and I have yet to have one get to me in good working order. I felt that same way, and is why when we started down the smartphone/tablet path we avoided apple as well, but now look at it differently. I think this is a case of less is more. If you want to do all the stuff you posted, then yeah, apple ain't gonna work for you and you should buy android. But, for the majority of people, none of that stuff matters, so the simplicity and ease of the apple devices makes sense. Some of the stuff you posted were the same points I quoted to make fun of family members who had bought iphones, but in the year I have had my S2, I have yet to take the battery out of it, never put a card in it, never added memory, or any of the other things I said I needed to be able to do that apple wouldn't let me. Apple is geared to the open the box and use it as is folks. Android is better for the geeks and nerds who want to tweak and mess with things. As much as I want to pretend to be one of those people who mess with things and customize it how I want, in reality, I would rather have something I don't have to mess with and just use it. Which is why I'm working on a deal to trade the Buell for a VFR.

Restaurant down the road from me has one. I don't think it's the best idea, and would never allow one to be put up at a business I own. There's too much down side potential, and nearly zero upside for putting up a sign like this. Businesses typically don't put up the no weapons allowed signs because they are anti CCW. They do it because of the legal bullshit involved with it. A sign encouraging it would instantly be used against you as a business owner if anything ever did happen there. Better to just post nothing, or go the PC way and post the sign to keep the legal and insurance departments happy and just never question if someone is carrying or not.

and also - 2007 CBR 1000

A little more info.....

So I take it you will be buying your kids a carton of cigarettes for their 18th birthday, and a case of Jack for their 21st. Heck, they're legal, they must not be bad, right? Good does not = legal. Illegal does not = bad.

Yep. The $3mil in weed growing is figured as if every plant was full grown, ready to harvest, weighed wet, and priced at full street value. The $20k/mo he was supposedly making was gross sale price at end user street value, yet he surely was dealing to his end level sellers for much less. I don't believe he was a "kingpin". He was no more than a high school age middle dealer. I'm sure most ex potheads knew a guy just like him. The $6k in cash was every bit of money had had made from it over a year that didn't get blown on twinkies and taco bell. He doesn't have a hundreds of thousands stashed away somewhere. Credit goes to the older guys who ran the grow operations for pinning it all back on him. He has the least risk of any kind of long term jail sentence. Let him take the fall.

:confused:How fucking wide are the roads you ride on? Even if I rode directly on top of the white line, there is no way a car could pass me giving the required three feet of clearance and not be across the centerline. This is the reason I ride a couple of feet out in the lane. I want any car that's going to overtake me to know well in advance that they are going to have to make sure there is nothing coming the other way when they pass me because they aren't going to squeeze by just sharing my lane. I guess if I was on roads that have twelve foot wide lanes I would change my riding style, but as it is, last thing I want to do is encourage someone to think they can pass me while there is oncoming traffic.

Funny. Try really riding a road bike for exercise on one of those "bike" trails(most are designated multi-purpose). You will hear endless people bitching about you riding too fast and passing without enough warning(tough to do when they have ear phones in), kids and dogs completely out of control, and people generally saying go ride on the street, this trail isn't for that kind of riding. Road riding is easier to do as in, hop on bike and go, no putting bike on car and taking it somewhere. I live in a near perfect place for it. Most of my rides are 25-40 miles, and I usually only have ten cars or so have to pass me on any one ride. Yes, when I first started, it managed to help me drop all the weight I wanted, but I have somehow figured out how to still ride 60-100 miles a week and get fat.

it's a cut throat business, and unless you are willing to run illegal and off the books, your chances of success are near zero. thank uship.com for that.

I'll go with some amount of horseplay, accidental shooting, but not from a hug induced holstered weapon.

There has to be more to this story......

This is why my family is about to go full on apple. Kids have had ipod touches for years. When they wanted tablets, i wouldn't go for ipads and bought a couple acer iconias. I finally bought a personal smartphone last year, and got the galaxy s2. These things require constant messing with to keep running. Both acer tablets are next to useless since the update to ics. The now four year old ipods still work and have never had issues that required a full default restart(until my daughter dropped hers in the toilet last week) while my phone has twice, and the acers have multiple times as well. It seems everyone touts the ability to root/hack/mess with android as a positive. I just want something that works. I've got another year to go on my plan with sprint, which i will run from as fast as I can, but that's another rant. Iphone 5 on verizon is what I'll have next.

I know verizon does. That's why even with the cheapest data package it adds $30/mo per smartphone to our current plan. I looked in to doing that when she first brought it up.

she has access via wifi with her ipod already, and is fine with the agreement that cellular data would be turned off and she would have to use an iphone the same way. wife is wishy washy on if she wants a smart phone or is fine with her current one. that's what the daughter is working on, convincing her she wants one so she can get one for only $10 more a month. and college? who sets such lofty goals these days? I'm just hoping she can get a job at a club that doesn't go full nude or supply happy endings.......