buells3rider

Spring is coming! Friday joke for the week... A man is stranded on a deserted island, all alone for ten years. One day, he sees a small speck in the horizon protruding from the waves. He thinks to himself, "It's too small to be a ship, maybe it's a boat!!" The speck gets a little closer and he thinks, "It's too small to be a boat, maybe it's a RAFT!!" But then it's almost to the shore and yet not big enough to be anything he can think of. As he's walking towards the incoming object, out of the surf comes a beautiful, curvy blonde woman wearing a wet suit with her scuba gear. Thinking he's hallucinating, he stands motionless as she approaches him up the beach. She walks right up to the man and in the sexiest, sultriest voice he's ever imagined asks, "How long has it been since you've had a cigarette?" A little confused, this being the frst thing he's heard anyone say for an entire decade, the man responds "ten VERY long years". The beauty reaches up, unzips a waterproof pocket on her left sleeve and pulls out a pack of fresh Marlboros and a Zippo, lighting one and putting it upon his lips. He takes a long, wistful drag on the filter. His eyes roll into the back of his head with pleasure, and he opens them again to look at her and says, "I'd forgotten how great this feeling is!" Then she asks, "How long has it been since you've had a drink of whiskey?" He replies, "Ten years for that, too." She reaches over and unzips a waterproof pocket on the right sleeve of her wetsuit and pulls out a sterling hip-flask, unscrews the cap, and hands the flask to him. He takes a long, deep drink and says, "It's been too long. This tastes like heaven to me. " Seeing how long the man has been without certan pleasures in life, she gets a smirk on her face and with the sunlight glistening off the shoreline and her deep blue eyes, she starts to slowly unzip the long zipper that runs down the front of her wet suit. In her sexiest and sultriest voice, she asks the man "And just exactly how long has it been since you've had some REAL fun?" The man's eyes light up like the 4th of July and he shouts "My God! You've got a motorcycle in there, too?!!"

I can't tell if it's going to be funny or hokey, but I think I could be coerced into it. Have to see closer to the time, tho.

pics of helmet, still looking for a jacket I like

Wondered about that, seemed like a pretty uneducated cop if it was real. Not saying there aren't some real pieces of work out there wearing blue, but still...

They close the ticket counter and start kicking all the drunks that actually lived through Saturday out about 5PM on Sunday afternoon.

My next bike will either be a Harley, or I'm going to pull the powerplant out of my Buell and build a bike (more likely). I love the feel of a sport, am just getting old and a little less Clark Kent in my age

In response to the Billy Lane thing? Here's a post from ClubChopper.com, another forum I belong to, and there's been more than a few people post on it (more than a few opinions, too!! ~haha~) http://www.clubchopper.com/forums/showt ... billy+lane And yeah, I've met Billy before. I can't say I care for him, but I respect what he does. A lot of builders are like that to me. If you want to meet some real quality ones? Pat at LedSled Customs in Dayton is a great guy, the whole crew from Sucker Punch Sally's are all awesome people, they still care about the little guys (i.e.- yeah, us!), and I don't remember names, but I talked to the guys at Brass Knuckle Choppers for about 2hrs last year - took the time with the whole crowd there, that means something... Look for a red and black Shovel chop they made, it's an awesome bike. Are you going on Saturday? I'll be there pretty much all day if you or anybody else wants to meet up.

Yup. Can't wait, actually - I love it, try to go every year, it's pretty insane.

...should try finding Buell riders sometime They all go fast enough to have fun on, right? Werd.

A young guy from Minnesota moved to Florida and goes to a big "everything under one roof" sporting goods store, asking who to see about a job. He's told to wait and a manager will speak to him. After a few minutes, an older guy in a suit walks out. The Manager asks "Do you have any sales experience?" The kid says, "Yeah. I was a salesman back in Minnesota." "What did you sell?" "All kinds of stuff." "Stuff?!" "Yeah... stuff." They talk for a little while, and the boss likes the looks of the kid and figures he's personable but is a little concerned about his ambiguous job experience, so he decides to give him a job on a short-trial basis and says "You start tomorrow, and I'll come down after we close and see how you do. No promises, though, Ok?" The kid agrees, picks up a store shirt, and goes home. His first day on the job was rough, but he got through it, and after the store was locked up, the boss came down. "How many customers bought something from you on your first day?" "One". The boss clammers, "ONE?! You know our sales people at this location average on a SLOW day 20 to 30 customers, but you had "JUST ONE". And how much was your JUST ONE sale for?" The kid replies, "$101,237.65." Agast, the boss asks, "What the fuck?! $101,237.65? What did you sell?'' "Well, first, I sold him a small fishhook. Then I sold him a medium fishhook. Then I sold him a larger fishhook. Then I sold him a large treblehook. Then I asked him what he was fishing for, and he said 'Marlins'. I told him his Zebco wouldn't reel a fish that big in, so I sold him a new deep-sea rod and reel. Then I asked him where he was going fishing for Marlins, and he said 'down the coast'. I told him in those ocean currents he was going to need a boat, so we went down to the boat department and I sold him a twin engine Chris Craft. Then he said he didn't think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to the automotive department and sold him that 4X4 Eddie Bauer Expedition in the middle of the store." Shocked, and fearful that his customers were being taken advantage of, the boss says in a sarcastic tone, "So a guy came in here to buy a fish hook, and you sold him FOUR hooks, a new rod and reel, a BOAT, and our FLOOR MODEL SUV?!" "No," replies the kid, "the guy came in to buy Tampons for his wife, and I told him 'Dude, your weekend's shot - you might as well go fishing'."

Basically you're paying $1k an hour. You can drive from LA to Vegas in 5-6hrs of moderate traffic, and that's going the speed limit (which no one in California ever does). That's a pretty good day's wages for whoever is putting that on, two big parties and swanky hotel rooms or not. I think I'm going to start one that goes from Columbus to Windsor and charge $5k per entry, then hit Cheetahs and the casino with whoever wins. Dig it.

yeah, I bet you're really missing these negative temps and the snow storms right about now, aren't 'cha? HAHA

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I also just bought a set of the polished PM wheels, and am working on customizing a set of fairings I bought off a guy who had crashed his Buell. Working with fiberglass sux, in case you were wondering ~haha~

Hopefully this is only slightly more entertaining than the "MidWest Biker Rally" they had last summer... a handful of retired Marines sitting on the ground eating bbq in the parking lot out back... was thrilled I paid $100 for tickets

I kind of agree with Flounder... if you're going to do something like that, leaving from Columbus? Do something like 33 down to Parkersburg, then over to Cincy, then up to Dayton and back one day, then do the top half another day. Then do the PIB overnighter in one ride, too, so that if people did want to ferry their bikes over and then raise cain up there, there'd be enough time that everyone could play. Otherwise it's a little too rigid and structured - what if someone breaks down and a few have to stop? Just some random input. Great idea, though!

the corporate gladiator CareerBuilder.com one took the cake in my book. Funny as all hell!!

I think another thing to take into account here is how much vibration your bike produces. If I were to mount that screen anywhere on mine? I'd be willing to bet good money there's nowhere I could put that where it could actually be useable, no matter what custom mount I could fab up.

Been gone a few years so don't hold me to it, but I hear Quaker Steak and Lube up on Polaris is pretty big, too - not sure which night, but I think Wednesdays...

$25 beats their price like Tyson did Robin Givens - I'll look into it, thanks for the good gouge.

Hey all. 31yr old guy with less than 3wks riding experience... I bought a Buell S3 in late 2004 when I was living in San Diego, first bike, rode it for a couple of weeks, then it sat in storage all of last year while I was in Boston. Now I'm living back here in Columbus and have it back. Pretty sure I have to learn all over again Looking into the rider's course at A.D. Farrow where I'm having the bike tuned up after sitting for a little over a year straight, so if you see some fool out there in a couple of months trying to act like he knows what he's doing? Stop and say hi - it's probably me LOL