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Thanks for the reminder! +1 for you, sir!

No, but it's not a huge selling factor for me anyway. Chase, Huntington, and U.S. Bank have been sending me shit for months now offering $100 to open an account and they can keep it. It's not enough for me to want to deal with them and their practices. It's good to hear that you have a good deal with Huntington, as that sounds like the way banks should treat customers with regard to fees. But it's not the standard nowadays by any stretch. On the debit/credit transactions...I can't recall the last time I used it as a debit card. I had heard a few years back that some banks were charging businesses fees for transactions where customers were making debit purchases because it was more akin to an ATM transaction, and those fees came out being more than the 2.5% or so Visa was charging. Plus, why punch in my PIN every time I want to buy something? Swipe, go, and balance the checkbook. Pretty simple.

I have all that with accounts at two separate credit unions. Plain and simple. Banks are a for profit business, and fees are their revenue stream. They can do whatever they feel is justified to enrich their coffers, and are entitled to do so. Credit unions are non-profit and are better oriented to serve their members first. Some banks do a very nice job for their customers, but don't be fooled to think they aren't making damn sure they are taken care of first. And I have been all over the world with my CU atm/debit card and never had a problem getting my funds.

Experience has its value. Don't hate.

This is why I pefer ladies without the teeth. They don't bitch about the short and curlies getting caught between them.

Someone tell Black Tod his nemisis is back.

I will be so happy when riding season starts and threads like this are no more.

I've tucked out of the cold. If the dude was riding today, he gets a pass in my book.

This x1k. Ask JRMMiii abour my RC w/the CF Two Bros glasspacks on them. I rode my twin like that for two seasons and had nary a second look from any town steward, and North Ridgetucky has some (allegedly) fun sucking LEOs. (Personally, my bike experience with them has been the exact opposite. They did me well when I had my accident.) But welcome to the world of loud n' proud twins. Muffling that superchicken is aking to getting your wife a tit job then asking her to wear a choir robe all the time. No, you wanna see her in babydoll tops and tanks.

Here's a thought....maybe we can get Charile and his two godesses to come out and do the stunts for Independent Motorsports show. They could reinact a little Human Centepede for us or daisy chain eachother around a mound of blow. He wouldn't be bi-winning, we'd all be tri-winning seeing the human circus that those fuckers must be. That will get some folks out to buy some motorsickle thingys.

Congrats on the new ride, and sounds like it was a fair deal. Another ORDN monkey anxiously awaiting spring to bust the cherry on new wheels! It's good to be alive, folks!

Kudos to both of you. I am sure she's just as anxious to get back after it as much as her unit wants her back.

you guys are gonna make me pick this goddamn game up this weekend. bastids. gamer tag = ORDN name

Congrats, man!!! Welcome to the twin fraternity. Spring can't get here fast enough for any of us, let alone someone with a new toy. And I wouldn't worry about it falling apart anytime soon. Bikes fall apart at 40k because they are not take care of. I don't foresee that being an issue here.

Are the trees rooted on your property, or within the right-of-way or easement?

Yep, x1,000. Of all the folks that thank me (and humbly I have gotten a lot of thanks) I tell them all that the best way to thank a vet is to do something good with your freedom. Exercise your rights that we live and die for. Sure some folks out there exercise them in ways that sometimes fly in the face of those of us that fought for them, but if we take that away from them then we take it away from everyone, and those that gave the ultimate sacrafice have done so in vain. Like a lot of Marines, I talk my fair share of junk, and all in fun. I am fortunate to have not had to serve in combat, and found my time to be bookended by the two Gulf Wars. I have lost friends there, and have a step brother (also a Marine) who is battling mental issues following his two trips to Iraq. I thank my Lord each day for those that went before me, and hope that the ones that followed found that what little piece of our fraternity of brothers and sisters in arms I maintained to be in worthy condition to carry on. Though it sounds contradictory, I am humbly proud to have served in the same fraterinty of some of the finest men and women I have ever met, be it while on the same watch, or places like here with folks who now simply have Vet on their resume.

I will say the AF does have some shit hot secret squirrel jobs that would be cool to have. Then again, you would think the AF was unionized, since everyone had such a specialized job, almost to the point of overkill. Case in point, when I was in Okinawa in '93, we were on a det to Kadena Air Base. I was an F/A-18 airframes mech, and had gone to school primarily as a hydraulics specialist. So one afternoon we're out of 1 gallon cans of hyd fluid so I went with my SNCOIC over to an F-15 squadron to see if they minded loaning us a can for our bowser for jet launches. They were happy to oblige and we got to BSing about our jobs. Now as a Marine mech, when I had to replace a hydraulic actuator on a jet, I would take my toolbox, go out to the bird, yank the panel, the part, and replace the part myself (or with a fellow mech depending on the size of the actuator). The AF mechs...one guy pulls the panel, a second swaps out parts, a 3rd runs the maintenance test for it, then the first goes back an puts the panel back on. And no one does the other guys job. My SSgt and I are calling BS, figuring the AF guys are just giving us a hard time. But their TSgt is overwhelingly serious about that. Said it was part of their concepts of QA. We said it sounded like the AF really wanted to be GM. Still, the AF always had the nicest barracks, chow facilities, and gyms. They also had the hottest chicks, who we found fancied Marines more than anyone.

True. Besides, who wants to see someone alseep in the belly of a C-141 anyway, or guarding the static displays at the front gate. (I keeeed, I keeeed!) This is me and my boy Greg (on the left) on a small det to Nyutaburu Air Base in Nyutaburu, Japan. This was a cool det, as we were the only Yanks on the island, and the base for that matter, as it was a Japanese installation. They were incredibly gracious hosts, and I made sure that no matter how drunk I got, not to throw up their expensive Japanese liquor. And my bud Greg here, well he now owns and operates www.sportbikes4hire.com. Just saw him at the IMS for the first time in about 15 years. Good times! [ATTACH]2217[/ATTACH]

Adult owned = 'I only cracked the occasional wheelie, and never ran from the cops. Wanted to, but didn't.'

Get two!!

The chickenhawk is a great ride, and as JRMMiii said, once you go there, you'll never go back (or at least without). One problem though that is rampant with Superhawks is the RR getting cooked. Then again it's a Honda, so electrical issues are assumed with ownership. That aside, I would just be regurgitating the stuff from JRMM and madcat. If I had disposable cash I'd pick one up just to have for running around town. Good luck with the decision!

Sorry to hear bro. The one thing about us lovers of big breeds. We don't have them long.

Glad she is home, bro. And regardless if a 14 y.o. is a banger or bystander, a dead 14 y.o. is sad and unfortunate.