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Maybe it’s a sign I just need to go ahead use mine myself

I’ve got one. $157.50 is what I paid and I’d sell it for the same if you want it.

New Martinsville is 3hrs. No different than New Concord, so that could work. What’s the farthest north eastern corner of your Hocking route?

Maybe next Friday you can give me a guided tour of your Hocking Hills route.

Pre-calculus and Algebra 2. Sophomores-Seniors. Are you available this week at all?

Thanks for the laughs on the video. The other part on my lunch choices is the fact that I’m cheap. Gustatory, parenthetically- Ed remember I’m a math teacher that lives in Ashtabula county, on a farm, with a construction background = smaller words. August 28th is my first day back. The kids don’t start until after Labor Day. We are building new elementary schools and they want to have as much time as possible to finish.

I know my cbr clutch fluid is to be inspected every 4K and changed every 12k. I have never had trouble with it going into gear. I flush it every 12k. The bike now has 50k. I feel for you every time you post about your bike giving you issues. You and Andy are really hurting my Honda love.

Come on now Brian, Arby’s is good stuff. I can’t eat like a hog and then go out and tear up 26.

If rides were never posted I for sure would have missed out. It’s how I met every single one of you on here. Most guys outside this forum I talk to about riding for over an hour think I’m crazy. I would say we are a rare breed and all of the posted rides I have been on only bring out experienced mature riders. Obviously excluding the epic rides but that has multiple groups and if you go with med-fast to fast group I have never experienced any problems. If someone complains about the way a person organizes a ride, the road that led them to that ride also can lead them home. Jacob organized a ride a couple years ago and the group was a bit large, but we had a blast as multiple guys swapped lead. Doc bottom line is do as you please. There are times when I don’t post anything because I just want to ride solo. My experience has been when I post I only see experienced, quality riders show up. And as far as all this butt hurt crap people talk about, this isn’t Girl Scouts. Save the drama for your mama.

Andy you can’t be talking about a Honda burning oil, especially in a public forum. It ruins the whole shoulda bought a Honda vibe I tend to like. 🤫

You can actually get steaks from dairy breeds- Holstein, Brown Swiss. The animal needs to be fed properly so you do get marbling. It does often seem to take longer to feed out a dairy animal. I’m talking a bull/steer not an old milk cow. The problem often with a dairy breed is the waste. What I mean by that is we recently slaughtered a beef steer that weighed 1180lbs live weight. After he was slaughtered and ready to be butchered he weighed 799lbs. That is about 68% of his live weight which is above average. In talking to a local farmer that raises dairy steers to sell for beef he is typically getting 58%.

Also most dairy farmers either raise the bulls born on the farm to be slaughtered for meat or take them to auction to be sold for beef animals. They are still good eating. There just tends to be more waste with a dairy breed (ex: Holstein as pictured in CFA ad). We primarily raise beef animals on our farm and in my wife’s research she found a lot of beef being sold is coming from dairy breeds. We can pick a dairy bull much cheaper than a beef bull for sure, so I can believe her research.

She often references that as one of her best memories during her JO Volleyball stays somewhere. Thanks buddy now she basically tells me my Maxima is not as impressive as the wagon. She no longer has the bike. She wasn’t riding it much, so I sold it.

I’ve done 2 at Mid-Ohio. I currently have a certificate for another. I like the trackday thing, but it’s expensive and scheduled events don’t work well with my schedule. I have a wife, 2 girls, and a farm so there always seems to be something going on. Most of my rides happen when a day just pops up that I’m free. Also I don’t think I’m fast at all on the track. I believe you’ve posted more than once about how being fast on the track is a whole different ball game. I would agree from my 2 track days. I rode novice both times with the faster group and was bumped to Intermediate last year. I could hang with the novice group no problem, but got passed like I was a car on the street a time or 2 as I was being evaluated for Intermediate.

Gotcha. Scenery is low on my rating scale, but I have to admit there is something about BRP that totally puts me in a relaxed mood. I did slow down up there and actually take in the sights. The rest of your ratings are of high importance to me. I can understand why the dragon is low on your list due to traffic, but I have ran it multiple times on weekdays during non-peak hours (early morning/later evening) and have had some great runs through it, so it makes my top 10.

So Tim what is the order you’d list the roads you’ve traveled? I know you’ve rode more than I have.

How in the world are you so thin? I’d be 500lbs if I ate like this.

She’s 16. She’ll be 17 in November.

At one point she had interest in getting her own, but fizzled after I got her a dirt bike. Probably best she doesn’t. No matter how much I tell her not to drive like her dad and slow down she doesn’t. I know, do as I say not as I do rarely works.

No problems with my back or hers. Knees are what bother both of us. My hips, butt, and neck get sore at times. We usually have to stop about every hour, so occasionally just take a little longer break. I’ve thought about the handles in the past, but don’t see it helping my issues. Someday I’ll get wise and buy a sport tourer. Maybe once both girls are through college and I can afford it.

Rode close to 300 miles today with my oldest daughter. We both had a blast.

Do you use the clutch every time you shift?

B-Mac I would love to ride with you, but I’m going to take my daughter for a ride on Tuesday. She has not rode with me all summer and we are both free then. I plan to ride again next week before fair week wrecks all of my plans the first week of August.

Thanks B-Mac.

How many miles is this ride? I keep wanting to make a week run through Hocking, but I’m unfamiliar with the area. I want to make the ride worth my time.