JackFlash

Anyone crossing through or from the surrounding area of Toledo want to meet up and ride to Newark together?

Probably be better for you to meetup with the group in Columbus.

Though we would be happy to have you ride with us, there

is a group meeting up, at Iron Pony in Westerville.

Meeting up with them will save you some miles.

Here's a link on how to get there:

http://goo.gl/maps/iWlml

And here's a link to their thread:

http://www.ohioriders.net/showthread.php?t=102893

And the main thread, if you want to see the big picture

of the Epic Ride 2013.

http://www.ohioriders.net/showthread.php?t=102404

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:welcome:

and fight with lions over food.

his little dog, too.

purely "medicinal purposes", and hippy friends.

Okay, point G to H is all Rt 555 up to 37.

We went on 377, 78, 37, to New Lexington.

with a leftist mentality

Weather permitting, and all that, I'm planning on riding back down on Sunday, but from Newark, if anyone is interested in joining.

PM me if interested and we can work out a time and all.

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My wife being the expert that she is, says time

in has allot to do with the location and the

wound channel being stitched up.

That's why I suggested the butterfly closures,

to keep it supported for another 4 days or so.

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Thx for the update jack, just like last year good report

Great report, Jack.

Lack of seat time so far this year, the frequent oopsies I'm seeing on the

site and my lack of familiarity with that lower portion of 555 has me thinking

I'm in for one of easy groups as well.

Looking to have a good ride and meet some folks.

Thank you, gentlemen. The route turns off of 555 at Chesterhill. Zanesville, down to

Chesterhill on 555 is not in as good of condition as the lower part that we will be

riding on. Uncle Punk was familiar enough with 555 to route us appropriately.

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or you can come down and fix it for me and i'll make you sammiches!!!

I wouldn't make a move towards Hilliard without the promise of a sketti dinner

with hot garlic bread, and a fresh salad.

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Do you notice your phone getting flaky just before your

two-year contract is up and you are eligible for an upgrade?

I think they are programmed to go sour in two years so they

can make you dissatisfied and sell you a new hot model of phone.

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Hold an umbrella behind you and just pop

it open when you need to slow down.

Yep! They wanted them dumbed down. And now,

the dumbed down run the school systems.

John Taylor Gatto presented speeches and essays, including "The

Psychopathic School", his acceptance speech for the 1990 New

York City Teacher of the Year award, and "The Seven-Lesson

Schoolteacher", his acceptance speech for the 1991 New York

State Teacher of the Year. Gatto speculated:

"Was it possible, I had been hired not to enlarge children's

power, but to diminish it? That seemed crazy, on the face of it,

but slowly, I began to realize that the bells and confinement,

the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of

privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the

national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if

someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to

think, and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent

behavior."

Gatto concludes that: ". . . all of these lessons are prime

training for permanent underclasses, people deprived forever

of finding the center of their own special genius. . . ." That

"School is a twelve-year jail sentence, where bad habits are

the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school, and win

awards doing it. I should know."

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holding a bottle of ranch dressing

Yesterday, I rode the entire route for the Epic Ride. This was my second time

riding the "555".It was reinforced in my mind that Rt 555 can teach you to slow

it down, the easy way, or the hard way. I prefer the easy way.

This road is not marked in the usual way. Other roads with a curve marked for

35 mph can be usually be enjoyed at 45 or 50 mph, but not this one. If it says

20 mph, approach it as if it really means 15 mph. The curves are sharp,

very sharp, 90° in many places.

Many curves will catch you off guard. You will find yourself topping a hill, with

a good bit of speed, only to discover that in the very instant it comes into

view, a curve, demanding immediate response, will suddenly make you an

offer you can't refuse.

Don't be caught off guard. Tone down your speed and your ego on the 555.

Nice cornering skills should be used with a much lower speed than what you

like to ride through Hocking Hills. I came into a few curves a little hotter than

I should have, and this is the experience I am speaking with now. I found

myself reacting quickly to surprises that came uninvited. I want you to come

away unscratched, also.

As for gravel.....I saw it mostly at intersections with side roads. I never saw

any that I thought would be a problem, unless you were riding right on the

very edge and came upon it at an intersection.

~ JackFlash

:biker:

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And speaking of Chinese...

So are you an EMT, ER Nurse, Doctor, PA.....

or have you just stayed in a Holiday Inn Express a few times?

It was a Motel 6, thank you very much.

I've seen stiches left in for ten days. They had to painfully

be scrubbed to get them out. But, it's not my booger

picker that's all sewn back into something that looks sort

of like a finger.

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I think we could have done it in four hours

if we hadn't lingered at the fuel stop for

a while. But with many more bikes, I'm not

so sure about it. Let's call it five hours.

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I pulled into the driveway at 7:15. I'm all tuckered out. It was a good day,

but it was a long day. I'm stiff in places where I didn't know I had places.

Thanks for coming with me, Dan and Will. It was good to ride with you again.

It will be an early night for me. I'm going to sleep like a log.

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The flesh will start to adhere to the stiches if you don't

take them out soon enough.

I wouldn't wait to take the stiches out. It's not going to split open, but

if you think it still needs tied together, get some of these:

http://www.soap.com/p/red-cross-butterfly-closures-medium-54484?site=CA&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=cpc_S&utm_term=JJ-572&utm_campaign=GoogleAW&CAWELAID=1323137128&utm_content=pla&adtype=pla&cagpspn=pla

If you wait too long to take them out, it's going to hurt.

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Can someone post the actual address of the meetup location? I'm going to be leaving Saturday morning from Dayton and have zero clue where I'm going.

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