SpecialEd

Very sorry for your loss, and happy this thoughtful person's kind, respectful gesture lifted your spirits.

Welcome! I was totally unaware that GE Aviation manufactures UFOs . . . 👽

Her attorney called me at work the next day and offered me a settlement of $600 😤

I'm 63, and am often amazed I made it through high school (and even college) without accidentally killing myself driving or riding. Things change quickly as we age!

Possession of (and riding) a criminal tool 😅

Yup, this is my bike, and the builder is a freak about gentle break-in, along with very frequent oil and filter changes within the first 200 miles. The engine alone for this project cost me just about half the total price, so I'm erring on the side of caution.

Absolutely delicious! The chef there is a creative genius; most people just dont understand his cuisine.

The new Honda Monkey is pretty damn cool, and there are several Honda dealerships near where I live, but I've not seen even ONE on the road yet. Maybe these bikes are not as big a hit as Honda imagined they would be. I'd certainly rather own one of those than a Grom. Anyone else seen 'em? What a perfect commuter bike . . .

Recon, someone else earlier in this thread raised a similar point to the one you make here, and this is something important that every new owner should pay attention to. Great advice. It's almost as if the universe is telling us to go easy for both our and our bikes' sake.

I'm sure your Medal of Freedom has left the Amazon warehouse, and should be on your front doorstep by tomorrow afternoon.

Ha! After doing some very informal research on Wicki, it seems Tonik is correct. There are many, many recipients of this "award," and it is not at all what I originally thought it was. It's basically a medal for greatness in pretty much any area of human endeavor--and a quasi-status symbol given out at the president's whim. Funny, I actually thought it had something to do with freedom . . .

Yup, this makes perfect sense. I'm in no hurry. My bike will be a commuter, and will be kept for a very long time.

Well, this is certainly convincing evidence. I'm not going to chance it either. Slow and easy can't hurt for those first few months, and that's what I'm going to do. Frequent oil changes are cheap insurance, too. I've put a lot of money into the bike I'm having built--and about half the cost was a custom-built engine.

Key bump: dipping a key into a container of cocaine and snorting it off the key. Where the hell were ya' in the 1980s???

Okay, so which day is the ride, then?

Scuba: "I love the points you made about OSHA vs OH law and the BMV recommendations vs law." Scuba, I loved that Jim mentioned that, too! It was genius to suggest that hearing protection is so important that the law is regularly "broken" in the face of common sense. A brilliant rhetorical move; perhaps unintentional, but brilliant nonetheless 😆

The fact that there were zero negative comments and few questions from the representatives in today's video suggests to me that this WILL, as Jim said, likely sail on through the Senate.

. . . which means that the answer to Pauly's question is a clear and unequivocal "hell, no!"

Democracy in action. Kinda cool! I think a lot of us (myself included) sometimes forget that WE elect these folks, and that they represent US and OUR wishes.

If they did, they probably don't now

Jim, I just watched the video. You did a great job. Do you know if the Senate is generally opposed/hostile toward the idea of hearing protection for us? What is your sense as to whether or not this might pass through the Senate successfully?

Wow, Tpoppa, true enough. It IS sad. Wow, Tpoppa, it IS sad.

Ugh. That's ridiculous. If the award had a moral clause, Woods would have been miles away from receiving it. I'll never forget that photo of him that ran on the front cover of Vanity Fair during his "whoring around" phase a few years ago. The man hits balls with a stick for a living, and suddenly he is an exemplar of American freedom; an icon to be worshipped. His having received this medal is a mockery of those who genuinely deserved it.