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DETAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know you got pics!

I had to take care of some serious plumbing issues this week, but I did get photos up on Flickr and Midwest Motorlife.

Not as great a turnout as last year, but it was still a good time. You would have enjoyed it!

And as of now I'm out again. Called into work. Hope its a big hit Matt!

We'll miss you Brent, don't work to hard today!

Not surprised -- great looking bike.

Should have asked for more money!

Thanks, I was getting a little discouraged wading through the craigslist trolls, that compliment means a lot to me.

Interested... couple questions first.

Where did the frame crack, and who fixed it?

What does it need fixed yet? just the battery and fork seals?

Actually the bike sold yesterday evening.

After having to repeatedly push back the delivery date, I gave the original owner his money back and a little extra to cover his expenses when I realized it would take longer than he should have to wait.

It's a ninja 500, with ZX600 front and rear suspension, and modified body work. including a GSX brakelight. The frame was cracked, but it's been repaired and reinforced.

I just want this bike out of my garage. It runs, but it needs a new battery. The fork seals will need replaced soon, I've got the replacements, and they'll come with the sale.

It's a rebuilt title, so it's been through the inspection process. It just needs some odds and ends together, shouldn't be more than a weekend of work.

I have ridden the bike, but only up and down the block. I have shifted it through all the gears on it's stand though.

I've got it on craigslist for $1000. $700 to OR members.

Ride the Quetzalcoatl!!! 2012 is on! We'll see you all on the 30th!

I love that bike!

ALSO THE DATE HAS CHANGED TO JUNE 30th!!! Our beer sponsor has another event on the 16th, and he doesn't want to short change us, so we're moving the date of the show to make sure we get plenty beer!

For anyone who would need ulterior motives: The roads around Mount Vernon and Gambier are absolutely spectacular to drive!

Updates:

We've got our location!

It's at Venturi Moto, 1300 Norton Ave, Suite C, Grandview Ohio

Posters will be ready to go by the end of the week!

Hello all,

My name is Moin (like "mowin' the lawn...haha). I am 23, and I moved from Maryland right outside of Washington DC a year and a half ago. I have been riding for about two years now. I ride a 2008 Suzuki GSX R-600 Yellow and Silver. I live in Howard, Ohio which most people have probably never heard of but I spend most of my time in Columbus because I work there.

Safe Riding,

Moin

Welcome! There used to be a great bridge for bridge jumping in Howard, Ohio! I spent a few afternoons there in college.

Welcome neighbor..fredericktown here, i work in vernon

Ha! I went to school in Mt Vernon!

Indeed true. The fish I ate when I was a kid, are long gone. Perhaps never to return. Same goes for most every other species of fish pulled from the oceans to replace the supply. Multiple times this has happened to where we now eat modified fish that would have been considered trash "back-in-the-day". It has progressed to the point where fishing fleets are starting to sit idle. No fish to fish.

I used to think dwindling supplies of fresh water would trump the shortages of fuel and oil. But in our lifetimes we will very likely see a nearly total collapse of the ocean ecosystems. As always, nature takes it's hand, and the oceans will change. But not necessarily for the better as humans might be concerned.

What's so damned frustrating about all of it is that we have the capabilities to work with the world around us in such a way that it's better for everything involved. Look at how we've been able to bring back species from extinction, how healthy well-managed areas of land are, how large and consistent crop yields are when sound farming practices are used. This is a situation where we can have our cake AND eat it!

Easy solution to our oil crisis? Double the MPG requirements for vehicles now. Provide subsidies for people to buy cars that have an MPG rating that is double their current (and not just new cars. Cash For Clunkers was a debacle. 80s toyotas, BMWs and Hondas have ridiculously efficient engines) MPG. Or allow that subsidy to be used to upgrade the motor and gear box in a car. Push for 6 or even 8 speed gear boxes to be standard. And place a tax on trucks and SUVs that don't or can't meet those mileage requirements (With a subsidy for work, farm and ranch vehicles). You want a F-350 Ranch King Super Cab to compensate? Go for it. But you've got to pay.

Offer subsidies or tax breaks for people buying diesels as well. And allow several European car companies to fast track their super efficient diesel vehicles as well. Audi, BMW and Seat all have great cars that aren't available over here for no reason whatsoever. If it's allowed on the Autobahn it can handle the US roadways.

After that's in place, raise taxes on gasoline. The reason roads in Europe are so nice, and health care is so free, is because they pay $6.00 in tax per litre. If I get 70 to 100 mpg from my car, free health care, and the roads I drive make glass feel like a teenagers acne:

I don't care if gas is $10 a gallon.

The gulf oil spill wasn't as bad as the media played it up to be. I understand we don't need to be dumping oil into the ocean but the oceans are huge. The best explanation i heard was the spill was about as equivalent to filling the super dome with water to the very top and setting a 24oz beer in the middle.

I'm going to take some heat for this...

An individual spill is probably similar to that analogy, except it doesn't take into account how interconnected the oceans are. If it was just an individual spill, it wouldn't be an issue. Just like if only one person littered, and no one else did, or if there was only one bad driver on the road ever.

Damaging one area has consequences all over the world, and combined with everything else we do, it all starts to add up.

One of the largest collection of garbage is floating in the Pacific Ccean.

We've successfully over fished large swaths of it. In the 1880s English fishing fleets brought in 300,000 tons of fish, as of 2010, English fleets netted 150,000 tons of fish. Telegraph

There's a corollary between international fishing fleets of the coast of Africa and the rise in poaching and bush meat sale in African villages.

Some of the species in the oceans traverse thousands of miles, and we know almost nothing about them.

Fishing grounds on the eastern coast of Canada have collapsed, and international fleets sweep the coasts of Africa every year.

Whole tracts of the ocean floor in the Gulf of Mexico are barren. And there are whole zones of the Gulf that are dead due to algae blooms from fertilizers coming in from the Mississippi.

The Exxon Valdez spill STILL hasn't been cleaned up.

Most of our oxygen comes from sea algae. The whole planet depends on a healthy ocean, but we want to barge in like a bull in a china shop, without even a decent grasp of what's occurring?

We're like children who've found daddy's loaded gun, and don't have Scruit's cameras to catch us before we do something stupid. Or we're like Donnie from The Big Lebowski. Take your pick.

What do you consider donated? I was originally planning on doing this. My cousin gave me a '79 CX500, and my wife bought a lot of parts for Christmas. If this still meets the criteria, I may be able to meet the deadline. If not, I will continue with my build for personal satisfaction. Maybe I can still get it done and ride it just to check out the show. Is there a location yet?

Edit: sorry missed "location to be determined. "

I think this year we'll relax the donation rule. Build away and we'll see your bike at the show!

Also if you get a flyer made up i can post it up a few places.

Working on that as we speak! Looking forward to what you bring this year!

As long as its SNELL and DOT certified you're good to go. I had good luck with my Vega Mach 1. Of course I haven't had to use it to save my life.

We're doing the Econo Bike Build Off Again.

June, 30th

2:00pm

Location: Venturi Moto, 1300 Norton Ave, Suite C.

Here's the basic run down:

Build a bike for $500, bring it to the show, show off, drink beer, enjoy your afternoon!

Here are the rules, and PM me if you want to enter!

It's been a while since I've had a psychology course so I had to dig deep for that one. I suppose you have a point if you're dealing with a child's developing mind, as Piaget focused on.

Piaget's theory, while he developed it studying children, is a theory of learning. When it comes to handling new information, the brain is always engaged in assimilation or accommodation.

The tendency is that adults are more likely to reject contrary information. Which your dismissal so elegantly proved.

I know, right? History and reality have SUCH a liberal bias. Oh well, haters gonna hate.

A liberal will interpret certain events with a liberal bias and vice versa. And as Piaget found, instead of accommodating contrary information, the mind is more likely to reject contrary information outright as false.

I asked if it was available and when can I get it he said yes and that today (yesterday) works. If there was a line he could have said "ill let you know if the others fall through" I thought they did seeing as he gave me address to come get it.

Like I said, I can't be mad I've done it myself. No hard feelings on this end.

and all the democrats are assholes.

Cheech is doing a great job dispelling THAT myth...

I currently have the .38 in my possession lol Thanks!!

Some one didn't pay attention the day they talked about cutting in line, that was a dick move.

I can't be too mad though; I've swooped my share of eBay auctions.

If nobody gets the .38, I'd be interested in it.

Deep water extraction of oil wasn't possible till late in the last century.

And there is a lot of deep water oil to extract.

True, but does the danger of another Deep Water Horizon warrant the risk? These things aren't really being built to a level of quality I feel comfortable with.

We will always need oil to produce plastics and other polymers.

We do need to get over using oil as fuel.

Exactly! That's not going to happen if we don't start weening ourselves off of oil.

I just opened 2 savings accounts with Chase and the banker I dealt with was doing everything he could to get me around their fees. Basically, I'd rather pay a few $ a month for a savings account linked to my checking account to avoid overdraft fees, which is $34 each hit. I know about overdraft fees. I'm glad I have that taken care of!

Yeah, but then they hit you with a transfer fee, and if I remember correctly when I had "over draft" protection: It ended up costing me more than the overdraft fee.

See, that's the thing. When you start compromising like that, that's when the nickel and diming starts incrementally getting worse and worse. Why would you voluntarily pay someone to automatically transfer a little bit of your own money from one account to another if you go negative when there are so many institutions who will do it for free?

Personally, I don't want to have to keep banging on doors to continually get around the fees, I just want there to be no fees. I understand that online banking and ATM's cost money, however there are no shortage of traditional income streams that banks already have between loan interest and interest on depositor money. I don't want to do business with a place that I constantly have to remind them that I'm a customer, not a new potential fee income stream.

I think we just agreed on something...

Let's not forget the USS Cole...

There is a lot of boat traffic, both big and small, in the waters around Iran. A half dozen fishing boats could move relatively close enough to one of our boats, do it with the same boats for a few days and people stop paying attention to them.

Day three dawns, and right at a change of shifts, two boats (with big motors) dart towards one of our ships and... Hopefully we're ready.

Our Navy is geared up for deep sea activity, in shallower waters with less room to maneuver, our power is decreased significantly.