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I can drop down after work on Friday and Saturday. Holiday weekends are difficult times to get off work. Sign me up for that, weather permitting. Donations at the gate? Sounds like this is going to cost you something. .

Try to get a list of Ohio law makers that have a current motorcycle endorsement on their driver's license. Educating them and getting them on board with the idea may be a good first step to getting some favorable action. If that doesn't work, we could do what other groups do to get their way. For example, check out what happened in France when the Transport Ministry started talking about citing bikers for filtering. Like everyone else that whines, cries, and raises hell to get their way, where are the Jesse Jackson's and Al Sharpton's of motorcycling? .

I'm real sorry to hear about your spill. That stuff happens fast, before you can even blink. It might be a good idea to just lay there and catch your breath for a moment to see if anything starts to hurt, as long as you are not likely to get run over. I don't know how much more damage could be done by jumping up too quickly, but just in case, I want to know what body parts are going to need sewn back together before I trust getting back on my feet. I'm glad it wasn't worse. .

A quick ride after getting off work today sounded like a real good idea. I haven't ridden much this year. There was that spill I took, back in April, on the 555, just before the Epic ride out of Logan, with Doc and many of you folks. A pair of bent handle bars kept me from joining in on all the fun that weekend. With rainy weather, heat, and things needing done at home, my time on the road this season has been much less than what is required to keep me happy. Today, on the way home from work, I decided that I was going riding, even if it was only a trip down and around Buckeye Lake and back up to Newark. That was the plan. When I got home, I got a bite to eat, geared up, saddled up, and headed out. I'd gassed up at the end of my last ride, so after checking my tires all I had to do was hit the road. It was six o'clock when I pulled out of the driveway. Sharon Valley Road is a fast way to get out into the country, from where I live in town. That's the way I went. I took it to it's end, in Welsh Hills, and hung a right. The plan was to skim across the top of Newark, on Price Rd, and over to Cedar Run, north on Fallsburg Road to Dayton Road, and then drop back down on the east side of Newark, near the "Basket." From there, I planned on hitting Staddens Bridge Road to Rt 668 south, 204 west, through Thornville and Millersport, then up 37, and head home through the back door into Newark from West Main Street. Well, that was the plan. I hit Fallsburg Road, somehow missed Dayton Road, and kept going. It was a nice day to ride, and I didn't care. I ended up in Fallsburg and decided rather than getting too much farther away from home, since I have to work tomorrow, I'll just hang a right onto 586 and drop down into Zanesville. So, 586 to 146, and into Zanesville I went. I don't know my way around Zanesville. I fumbled around a little and finally got my bearings. I figured I would go south of the freeway and probably take 22 into Somerset. Well, that was the plan, revised. Have you ever headed out, didn't really know where you were going, just picked a direction and went? Those seem to turn out to be the best rides. I was enjoying this one. It was evolving as I rode. I remembered that the mouth of the dreaded 555 was somewhere south of I-70. After a couple wrong turns, a quick check of Google Maps put me on the right track. I couldn't resist. I hit the 555 and headed south. I must have missed a rain shower because the road was wet. There was a sign saying something about the road being closed on weekdays, but I didn't pay any attention to it. I just kept going. The temperature was just right and I was enjoying myself. I was also being careful. That road is a tricky one and I didn't want to limp my bike back home a second time. Shadows were getting longer as the sun was slowly falling out of the sky. It was time to find a route back home. The map showed that in Deavertown, instead of turning left and following 555 south, I could just go straight and take 669 west, and then north, into Crooksville. That's what I did. 669 heads west out of Crooksville, on Ridge Avenue. I made a left and headed west. Once I connected with SR 13, went through Somerset, and turned north, it was smooth sailing back to Newark. I didn't want to take 13. Up here, above New Lexington, it's straight and it's boring. But, like I said, shadows were getting long, and I have to get up early in the morning. I saw several groups of riders and some solo riders, like myself. I wonder which of you I passed today, out on the road. I pulled into my driveway just before dark, with 102 miles on the clock. It was not my intent to ride half as far as I did, but once you are out there, and it's feeling good, it's hard to not keep going. Heaven help me if I ever start riding towards California. Monday and Tuesday are my days off work. The weather for both days is looking good, so far. Who's up for a ride? Monday - 74 degrees with no rain. Tuesday - 80 degrees with 20% chance. .

Lot's of riders out this way. Watch the postings for weekend rides. SE Ohio and the Coshocton area are some of the areas for rides.

Want to work a bicycle race event on your motorcycle? Have you ever wondered who the riders are that get to ride alongside the racers, with a cameraman on the back of his bike? I was reading a motorcycle blog and came upon this website: http://www.thepurplewing.com/about.htm The High-Vis bike: The Blog: http://blog.jafrum.com/page/2/ .

Nice little pink bike. When do you get the training wheels off?

Their biggest mistake was in spraying him with the whole container. She should have sprayed him with half of it, let him recover, and then sprayed him again with the rest of it. .

We'll see you on the road again. Sooner or later, the fever will hit you and you'll want back out there with us. .

Good memories will keep her in your heart. .

Finally, YouTube has a few things about this bike. http://youtu.be/MLjMBwHIYVU

Good for you. Glad you upgraded. Hope to see you on the road. .

Power to the people. I was rooting for the citizens. My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From ev'ry mountainside Let freedom ring! .

...New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work... The real reason is that they don't want people as officiers with the mental capacity to think for themselves, as it's become increasingly common knowledge that the courts and government agencies are corrupt and simply want mindless robots in positions of enforcement. .

Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that prohibits women from driving. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia Men there never say, "Stupid women drivers." .

I'll do my part. And now, you need one post less.

>> A judge in Oklahoma City awarded custody of a child to 55-year-old Nicholas Elizondo. >> The child is Elizondo's 6-year-old daughter. >> Elizondo was convicted in 1995 of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age. >> As for his conviction in 1995, Elizondo said he merely took a plea bargain given what he was facing. Elizondo was facing 11 felony charges of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14, but 10 of those were dismissed in exchange for Elizondo pleading no contest to one charge. >> The incident happened a few years after Kern County prosecutors tried and juries convicted numerous people on child sex abuse charges, known as the "Witch Hunt" trials (a string of child molestation cases during the 1980s in which 34 people from Bakersfield were falsely convicted to hundreds of years in prison. People were given long prison sentences.) Many of those same convictions were later tossed out after an appellate court found the accused had been wrongly convicted. Allegedly, Kern County prosecutors used coercive techniques to get children to testify against their own parents, and... every conviction was ultimately overturned. "We were forced to say that a gentleman named John Stoll had molested us. I was one of the children that convicted him," said Victor Monge. Monge says the allegations against Stoll were false. Monge now an adult, says he was coerced by investigators to tell them what they wanted to hear. >> During a court hearing in Oklahoma City regarding visitation, the victim, who authorities say was molested by Elizondo, testified that she was never molested. >> Knight fabricat(ed) a story recently in order to keep her daughter from being awarded to Elizondo. ======= Malpractice cases During the late 1990s, there were multiple lawsuits in the United States in which psychiatrists and psychologists were successfully sued, or settled out of court, on the charge of propagating iatrogenic memories of childhood sexual abuse, incest and satanic ritual abuse. Some of these suits were brought by individuals who later deemed their recovered memories of incest and/or satanic ritual abuse to be false. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory_syndrome False allegation of child sexual abuse A false allegation of child sexual abuse is an accusation that a person committed one or more acts of child sexual abuse when in reality there was no perpetration of abuse by the accused person as alleged. Such accusations can be brought by the alleged victim, or by another person on the alleged victim's behalf. Of the allegations determined to be false, only a small portion originated with the child, the studies showed; most false allegations originated with an adult bringing the accusations on behalf of a child, and of those, a large majority occurred in the context of divorce and child-custody battles. They may also have occurred when someone was getting back at someone else, if they get rejected for a promotion (for example) or to cover up an affair in cultures that frown on extramarital sex. There is also indication as with other alleged sex offences that the UK system of paying compensation, (quite substantial), can provide a motive for allegations being made. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_allegation_of_child_sexual_abuse It seems the mother has no problem lying. There is evidence to support that the father was falsely convicted. False memories being implanted in children in order to convict someone of sexual abuse is nothing new. I don't know why the mother should have custody, over the father. I would suggest the father have custody and let the mother do the visiting. Women want equal rights. Well, here it is. . .

It's stupid to stop for a funeral going in the opposite direction. This is the kind of crap that can happen. .

I was going to mention about the Ninja 500 weighing 440 lbs. with a full tank. Don't get a bike you can't pick up by yourself when you are alone in the middle of nowhere, with darkness and rain clouds rapidly approaching. .

I get: "Your device isn't compatible with this version." The version is June 18 Public Beta4 (4,0,12). I'm on a Droid X2 with Android 2.3.5. .

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