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Pictures I just took. Shutter speed way too slow on this one.

You were all like 'and then I grabbed his dick like this...' lmfao

Guys never mature. We just learn to filter better as we age.

This weekend over....out Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Ride to dinner, breakfast, lunch things, 200 miles each outing. Weather was to be great....Friday evening, run south to old Canal Era village, restored and eateries there. Layered up as expected it to be coolish after sun goes down....wife on her new cruiser. Surprisingly, well maybe not so, the old Shadow has been sold. I barely got it pushed into back of garage and buried when someone called wife about it. Turns out several wanted to know about it. I voted for the blond, blue eyed soccer mom ; >)...itza winner. Hubby showed up on his big Beemer, and was impressed with bike...so itz gone. Thanks 2Tall for the "wholesale" price to begin with.... Friday we cruised along....momma adjusting to the new dynamic 750cc Shadow as I tooled along behind in 3rd gear on the Blackbird (60 or so). Pleasant meal and wandered back home in the twilight, ever aware of moving deer....I only saw all the dead ones....traffic has taken itz toll. Coupla roads closed due to high water, but nothing new here...what do you expect living in the low lands and having beaver building lodges. Momma likes her lites. Bike has a Harley-ish lite bar on it...side lamps to the central regular light. I just entertained myself by dropping back and zooming thru corners when gap presented itself. Can't strafe her anymore as the helmet radio is voice activated and mic picks up the motor noise and she hears me coming...maybe tole y'all about that before. Saturday, a group outing was set, we were gonna try and catch them at the top of their loop. Never did find them, but enjoyed riding thru the state forest. Noticed I need to pay more attention. I come into turns at a steady pace and ferget she is cruiser....dutifully slowing down entering corner and picking her way thru it...so rapid closing in mid turn. Smile as I think, oooo, what if she was Rossi and I was catching him like this in turns on a race track....wish on. Saturday the state forest and scenery...lunch at a quaint town, more leisurely riding and desert at another quaint town...then cruise on with another stop for coffee. Momma enjoying her new bike with 3 and 1/2 gallon tank. The other one had a peanut tank on it. Looked nice size wise to rest of bike, but 94 miles and you would be pushing it to a driveway, or gas station. Not much range. So the new one with an easy 150 miles and still no reserve light shining. Great! Roads we travelled in good shape. Found the occasional spring running across the pavement and some evidence of farmers being in and out of fields. Very nice weather and layers not really needed. The one small town got to chit chat with various bikers. Everyone out riding. One group was all family, the son was on the ... I bought it new in 1985, said dad .... Honda Sabre. Very clean bike. Not sure why they stood up in the restaurant to watch us leave....town had lotsa and lotsa bikes. Saturday was a good day riding, 1PM 'til around 7PM. Never did find the group I was looking for. Sunday, late rising, out on the road at 10AM, thinking breakfast run. Wife says where? Looks like clouds that way, go away from them. So about 30 miles later, breakfast. We had to cope with gusting winds, clear skies, but i got pushed all around? Lean in a turn and gust straightened me right up....riding in a straight section and leaning while going straight. Wife mentioned she saw me leaning way over on the straight. Yeah, it'd be like I was up on the roof with a 4X8 sheet of plywood and the wind was blowing. I just planned on wind direction and stayed over in lane for when gust pushed me sideways. After breakfast pointed bikes home and looked for the sheltered roads to return home on...low under hills and lotsa trees between us and wind. Arriving home...did some chores and....noticed...not so much gusty blowing...."let's go!" Off in yet another direction and warm with gear on. Road closed sign was a lie, water had gone down. Back home again (after an hour or so) and roasting in the gear....looked at thermometer and it said 84*....well no wonder! More household duties, and then back out on the road...with less layers. Great, great weekend. I'm gonna hate it in the summer, when the lawn needs to be mowed...I'd rather be riding. Curious phenom....the aforementioned family standing up to watch us leave...and I noticed too, every bike group we went by....like several sitting in gas station all stared as we went by. One guy on the road, turned completely around to look at us.....huh? Wife said itz suppose to snow Monday, don't ride to work.......

I just wanted to thank everyone on here for being part of this great community. I have not been able to participate recently as much as I would have liked to, but I have had a lot of good experiences and made some good friends as well. To Casper and CBRgirl, thank you for creating and maintaining such a great site. We delivered the bike on Saturday to a great girl from CA that hopefully will be joining soon, I know the Honda will be well taken care of by her and I hope she has as much fun on it as I had. I will still be around, ever lurking in the shadows waiting to make the next dumb comment.

Got to love Ohio weather

If it's not riding season now,when does it start? I'm in the camp that it's always riding season.If you ride as much as you can year around your skills won't get as rusty and you know how to deal with dirty roads.

Track will get him on pace, and let us know if he can ride properly with others around Him or not! :-)

Get some leathers and lets hit the track! That will teach you to ride that v rod!! :-) Welcome to the mix!

TTT GLWS Looks even better in person!

Yea good idea, I don't know much at all about electrical. Hell I'm using harbor freight magnetic tail light kit on my new trailer, cause the lights went out all but running lights!!

I have a feeling I will soon be coming into work in my track suit and helmet...after all, sitting at a computer all day is still dangerous. ATGATT

Heart attack on a plate!!! Three major food groups of my food pyramid: sodium, alcohol and grease.

Aw you guys are gonna make a bearded dude blush. Thanks for the kind words. T-one, I will respond back to your PM this evening when I have a little more time.

Someone buy a nice VFR, that's nothing as far as mileage goes on these babies!

Yeah - but the NSA's too lazy to get out and ride.

I'll attest to he other comments about this bike. I say it at Hoblick's as well. This is a clean, very nice looking bike. GLWS

GLWS DAC! Saw it at Hoblick's Sunday... Beautiful bike.

I saw DAC's Viffer on Sunday and it's a looker. I bet that Sargent seat makes a heck of a difference for touring.

and nothing beats down a midlife crisis like a hypersport

+1 to Brian and Hollywood. Most tracks you need to be getting into supercar territory before turning better times than the 600s. In the tracks I ran most frequently in autos, VIR and NJMP, my lap times were 2-5 seconds behind the fast 600s. This is in everything from a well sorted GT mustang, 400 whp Sti, and Carrera. M5s and Z06s are probably the least expensive autos that start to pull away from 600s on the track. Assuming apples to apples skill level between pilots.

Not sure if he'll accept being hired, but Oldschoolsdime92 can make a peanutty turd shine like a diamond.

Sounds like a good M.O....oh yea almost forgot LBTS GLWS

Thanks for all who showed up and made the event a success. Was nice meeting all of you that i haven't before, and great seeing folks i haven't seen in a while. Sorry if i was not the social butterfly, as most probably saw i was working my ass off from 10 a.m. and didn't close the shop doors till around 7. Thanks to JackFlash for manning the grill.

Sorry to disagree. I have been riding since beginning of the year. I don't bother winterizing my bike. You definitely make some good points. But just like a bitch is gonna bitch, a squid is gonna squid. There are responsible people, and there are irresponsible people. The season is a secondary factor at best. I have been cut off at the same rate in July as the rate in January. RIP Rider.