blue-yamaR6s

Sorry to hear Brian.  Thoughts and prayers for you and your family at this time.

I think I would stop and fight the state if needed...why the pot holes anyway?  Could fight it on negligence of the state if the pot hole is that big.  If he weren't speeding it would be a different story for sure.

He may not be in custody right now, but he will be soon....not too smart, actually.

Cool, and very nice bike!!!

Welcome to the forum.  Nice bike with lots o'power.

Double check the spark plugs and wires....sometimes that can mimic transmission troubles at various rpms.  I had a bad wire one time and it seemed like transmission troubles.  At least it's easy to check.

Welcome to the forum.

http://www.weather.com/news/weather-winter/great-lakes-ice-cover-largest-century-20140207

 

Be sure to check out the frozen lighthouse slideshow at the bottom.

I have been to that lighthouse and walked on the cement pier in the summertime.  Amazing pics!!!

Congrats!!!  It does go by quick. Enjoy them while they are small and non-mobile.  You will find yourself saying where did the time go?  Good way to start the year off.

I forget which exact model he has, but I spent quite a while looking for it online and had no luck.  It was a model that was not made very much and I even emailed one place and they couldn't get it.

Congrats!!!  That is a great saw...I have the same one as well.  I have had it about 10 years now come to think of it.  I did have my local dealer put the better chain on it to make it a meat eater!!!  I have not had any real trouble with it.  I cut a lot of wood every year to burn in the wood stove.  I sometimes wish it had a bigger bar on it.

My Dad has a McCullough and cannot get carburator parts for it.  Runs like a dog without it.  Actually cannot use it at all. 

will this work on an R6?

Nice pics!!!  Was there in June.  Brings back the good memories.  I recently read an article that Magic Kingdom had to turn away park goers on New Years day b/c the park was at capacity.  They gave them free meal vouchers and they could go to another one of the less crowded parks.  The crowds are large during the holidays b/c the kids are all out of school.  I heard that some of the lines were 5 hours wait that day!!!  I love WDW but not the crowds.  The best rides are test track and Soar'n.  Those lines get extremely long.  Glad you had a great time.  Hope you didn't have to wait in any of those long lines!

I got the bike out, started it up and let it run a bit. Doesn't count but it made me happy to hear the vroom vroom

Too much salt on the roads for me

Me too!!!  Wanted to ride but just a bit too much salt where I live.  Started it up and let her run a bit to wet my palette and make me want to ride...

Check it out...would be fun to get a ride on this one.  No shifting, smooth and fast ride with more torque?

What do you think?

Live 20 minutes away and it's sad to see it waste away to nothing.  The Sea World side is now Wild Water Kingdom and they only use less than half the original park.  The Wave pool is where the Shamoo Stadium used to be.  I had many friends who used to work at both parks during the summer.  Took a girl on a date there too in high school.  I think Cedar Fair (Cedar Point) bought it and the eventually closed it.  That's one way to do it.

I got out this evening for a short errand run and to snarf down appetizers with coworkers. 45-50 degrees was not bad at all with insulated gear, a full helmet and a balaclava.

Ha, I am not the only one...yeah...got out this evening before the sun went down for a quick 10 mile run around the neighborhood.  42* when I got back home and all bundled up but not as cold as I thought I'd be.  I use a neck warmer that I have when I go skiing with full leathers, under armor gear and even a tight skin head cap under the helmet and double gloves.  Weather looks bad the next couple weeks.  Might be the last run for me.  Would not want to do too many miles like this w/o heated gear b/c hands usually get cold first, but nice ride.

After doing yard work and getting ready for company later, it was a quick 25 miles for me but it was too windy to enjoy it very much.  Don't like those cross breezes and head winds when they are that strong.  Otherwise, perfect ride.

Do love my 50" Samsung plasma. No distortion on fast moving sports pics when the camera pans at fast speeds.

My brother is terrible with money. He's always fucking broke and he makes more money than I do. After repeated installments of good intention, he came to us one more time for money. I told him I would not loan him another dime, but would sit down with him and draw up a budget that he could live with. It involved selling his car and limiting a plethora of other non-essentials. He told me, in no uncertain words, to go fuck myself. We rarely speak to this day.

 

"If you loan a friend $20, and you never see that person again.... it was a good investment."

Interesting topic...My brother has been doing this to me and my family for a very long time now.  All the money that I have ever given to him I never got back. He has never paid anyone in my family back that I know of.  It's kind of made bad blood in the family.  My parents have enabled and let him get away with it because they beleive his BS stories of everything under the sun and why he needs it.  One place he recently worked "couldn't pay him for months because they couldn't make payroll," so he needed money.  When he came to me for money I set up a budget for him to follow and he basically said F-you like others have had happen.  He always has money for his cigarretts, beer and spending money for his girl friends but has no intentions of paying anyone back.  I won't do it anymore.  He knows not to ask me for money.

I say, if it's family be prepared to never get it back.  Family always thinks they can keep a running tab.  It's one thing to help someone but to enable them to keep making bad decisions is another.

Glad to hear you are ok. Glad to hear you are ATGATT as this really saved your skin no doubt. Still sucks though about your bike.

Yep, great afternoon for riding today!!!  Got 50 miles in.  Smaller ride in last Sunday when it was in the upper 40's towards evening.  That's getting a little too cold to enjoy.  Days like today make the ride so much more enjoyable.  Early in my ride, I did see 3 small deer ahead of me cross the road so I drove with that on my mind the whole time looking for deer.

Each rider passes individually when it's safe to do so on a double yellow with good visibility.  It's common sense really.  I agree that double yellows are usually distance marked for cars and bikes can safely pass in some areas.  That doesn't make it legal.  To each their own.  It's your safety.

It's a long shot, but write letters to the cable company and get hold of a regional manager to listen to your request for service.  This worked for me but we had cable internet running all around us but the cable company to service us thought we were Amish and they would not reap the benefits of spending 250K on running fiber optic to the Township to light it up.  They were wrong.  We had people stopping the installers in the field to get hooked up when they finally ran the lines and couldn't keep up with the installations.  Grant it to them, there are Amish neighbors (communities) to our north that they spent a lot of money to install the infrastructure and they did loose money on that one but we don't have hardly any Amish in our Township.  ideally, they want so many houses to recoup the cost for installation.

Until then, I used a Virgin Mobile hotspot and paid $40 per month but it finally got really slow and frustrating to use that service since they were upgrading the network hardware.

he makes a very good point...and neither party wants to fix it b/c it has too many implications for each.