Lets see some bikes! (WARNING...Photo heavy!)

[CDNRatMan]

  very nice ride, love the seat looks really cool, and thanks for that cool shot of the Maple leaf, very nice......

[pcarrell]

Makes me ALMOST wish I had a blackout ride!

[ChilliDrift]

Just my 1500 and a local ride.

[pcarrell]

I wasn't around either, but it's still a cool ride!

[CDNRatMan]

http://big-diesel.blogspot.ca/2010/06/fastest-man-on-erth-with-curtiss-v8.html

fastest bike from 1907 to 1930 according to this article.......this would be a wonderful ride if you had the chance...136.3mph back in the day some of you were young lads...I was not born back then pcarrell....lol....

thanks troll for the chance to read about it .

[pcarrell]

That would be an interesting ride!

[Troll]

    I'm on vacation in Washington DC right now. We took an old people's bus tour. We went o the Smithsonian today, and I found this little gem in the air and space museum. It's a Curtiss V-8 from around 1907......

[49Reo]

They need more than glasses....if you get my drift.

Regards and such,
49Reo

[CDNRatMan]

 Sad to hear about Dumb A$$ people. but at least you both came out alive for the better part of it. I have a firend in your town from another forum ....have to ask her why she did it to you....

But also with your moniker and I'll bet you are not a little person, and such a nice machine and they did not see you...they need glasses.

[49Reo]

Tough break all around. No pun intended. I don't suppose the clown in the cage stuck around?

Regards and such,
49Reo

[BigUgly]

I ride with a group called the Desert Dawgs. We are about 40 strong with every bike above 600cc excepted to ride with us. The bike has already been stripped down and just waiting for J&P Cycles to deliver all the new parts.  It should be rid-able within two weeks, to bad the bone Doc said it will be six to twelve months before I'll be able to ride.

[pcarrell]

Man, that's a pretty bike......and what a story!  We ought to start calling you Superman with a flight like that!   

So, repairs are in order for this winter I take it.......probably not riding with that shoulder.

[BigUgly]

Here are a couple of pictures of my 2001, 1500 before I had to lay her down two weeks ago. I had a cager cut me off and try to do a right hand turn from the left lane while I was in the right side lane about 15 feet behind him. For about a second or so I thought I was going to t-bone him at 30mph. But as I hit the brakes my ass end slide out from under me and the bike started to slide on it's right side. The tires caught on a large crack in the asphalt and high sided me and threw me off the  left side of the bike. The lady at the gas pump that witnessed the whole thing side I missed the rear of the cage by about two feet. She said as soon as I went airborne, I curled up in a ball. (thank god for 10 years of jumping out of airplanes when I was in the Army) Did one complete flip in the air and landed on my right shoulder. (Shattering my shoulder) Then I finished with two more asphalt rolls covering about twenty feet, rolled up onto my feet and walked back and started checking out my bike. Once all the adrenaline was gone I sat down by a light pole and asked her to call 911 cause me right arm was killing me.
The front highway/road guard and the apes saved my bike. They absorbed all the damage other then scratching the chrome on my floorboards, passenger pegs and muffler.
I know for a fact I will never own a bike in the future that doesn't have highway/road guard on it. It saved my bike from being totaled.

[pcarrell]

I like it....it suits the bike.

[jmbo]

That's a black powder coated solid billet aluminum piece.  Came with the bike.

[pcarrell]

Nice!  Is that paint on the air cleaner, or some sort of custom cover?

Gotta dig the gooseberry!

[jmbo]

Here's mine:

[pcarrell]

CDN, I used to do fish too, and those are beauties!  Love both the parrot's (had 1 once, but smaller) and those African cichlids.

Marshall, that is one righteous ride you have there!

[CDNRatMan]

 Very nice ride, like all the rails and things, very nice.

[marshalldoll]

Another shot!!
Dan

[marshalldoll]

Not to change the thread so here is a picture of my Drifter.
Dan

[CDNRatMan]

  ok pcarrell seeing as this is your thread I'll not feel like I am hijacking it. As I said before we are even on the bikes, and you have me on the SO issue. Seeing as I am tone deaf and my hearing is going due to my work enviroment playing guitar is not on my list of things to do. Mind I am working with a band part time as a driver and roadie, couple of guys from work ( another story), anyway my other big passion after my bike is a hooby I have been involved with since I was about 8 years old and have been doing since. But being in the military for over 40 years it is hard to maintain the quality of the hobby. So when I retired here I decided it was time I was never moving again other in a pine box. So I indulged into my hobby.

First pic is my 110 gal diamond Corner tank, with 5 Blood parrots, they are all about 6 years old now and huge.
Second is my 150 gal Burundi Frontosa tank the fish are from Lake Tanganyika in Africa, you can see the alpha male in the lower right side he is 14" long and over 1.5 lbs, and he likes to breed.....

so that is my other hobby.....

[CDNRatMan]

Saw a 1945 truck this weekend out for the final drive of the summer he said. It was not a local truck , I am sure he trailered it here for some reason, anyway, the paint job was awesome and were was my camera...at home. The guy told me it was from House of Colours, and called Burnt Orange, and he had used the same paint but in a flat or something like that for the ghost flames in it. He then said it had 5 coats of clear over top to get the shine into it, and a coupl of coats of wax. That was one awesome paint job to be sure.

[pcarrell]

Cool thing is, they sell all the chopper parts in black too.  You could keep your blacked out bike blacked out, and chop the snot out of it at the same time!  Then paint it red, of course! 

[ChilliDrift]

YEa that Drifter chopper pic that was in that post you had was really suprising. I liked it alot. I just need a newer chromed out package to chop. I just really like the blacked out version on my 99 too much to change it much.  One of these days....