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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: LowRyter on February 18, 2018, 05:50:03 PM
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it's coming back............... .. :shocked:
:popcorn:
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So is Flat Track season, Sammy is riding on Factory XG(new & Improved)
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Heard their wives wanted new houses :shocked:
Dusty
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Oh boy...
Can't hardly wait to watch them " push the envelope" with "innovative" new chopper designs.
Seriously though, I thought the whole chopper thing was over. Maybe they will be building innovative café racers on a whole 'nother level ?
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Heard their wives wanted new houses :shocked:
Dusty
and divorces with alimonyz
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The good news is that riding season is also returning. So those of us not rooted to the sofa watching idiots swoon over shipping container houses and cookie-cutter "choppers" will have something interesting to do. A better title for their crap would be "Assholes and Acetylene" on account of their stories are more about that.
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just when you thought things couldn't get much worse........
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Proof that a little bad taste goes a looooong way!
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Tools!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q6IFMPEdrQ&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVfeTE8SdcM
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And; what is wrong with container houses????????
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And; what is wrong with container houses????????
Nothing at all Joe :laugh:
Dusty
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Gotta be better than watching professional sports or the walking dead..
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Gotta be better than watching professional sports or the walking dead..
so long as you don't dis Flat Track to Dusty.
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so long as you don't dis Flat Track to Dusty.
Like anybody thinks flat track is a professional sport :tongue:
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And; what is wrong with container houses????????
I just threw out the packing crate houses as a poster child for "reality" television. I could have mentioned ducks, garbage, catatonic models, or any of the other "staged reality".
If the house itself meets code. Therefore nothing "wrong", although I'd question the shit-for-brains that makes a family of 4 think they're going to live in a 20' shipping container without producing one or more psychopaths. What I don't like is the hours of life people waste as they sink into a couch hole watching the stuff.
I know a guy who watches hours of the stuff and then thinks he knows something about building choppers, Alaska, finding good junk, or whatever. He used to berate me for working on projects and riding and stuff instead of "educating" myself by melting my brain on shows like "Alaska Poachers" and "Violently Abusive Chef". Anyone over the age of four who "educates" themselves with reality TV is in my opinion, mentally deficient. If it's not that drivel, this guy I know watches exclusively golf, racing, or conspiracy TV. And goddess help them if the wifey, dogs, or lack of the cheapest beer interrupts his endless education in any way! The part that I laugh my ass off about is that he tries to come across as a brethren biker. Brethren to the thread topic, I think, but a reality apart from being the real deal.
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Like anybody thinks flat track is a professional sport :tongue:
truthfully, it's a professional sport for about a half dozen competitors.
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truthfully, it's a professional sport for about a half dozen competitors.
Castle Rock, WA used to host some flat-track nationals. It would attract over 100k spectators. The Truimph/BSA shop I worked for in the 70s sponsored a 500 Trophy flattracker, so I got to attend for free. Mt. St. Helens killt Castle Rock because the fairgrounds and track was the only place to dump the ash they dredged from the Toutle River and scooped from the roads. It's a huge man-made mountain of ash now, slowly getting covered in vegetation.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG1ggy4rz2M&index=4&list=PLOLnZ6V2196MvsjNbum9O-KcPIHcCe2Id
This guy has little subscribers on youtube... but one of a very few people I saw/met that knows what he is doing and doing it right and... well... bloody awesome!
(v9 with a turbo and stuff if you are too lazy to check it out)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG1ggy4rz2M&index=4&list=PLOLnZ6V2196MvsjNbum9O-KcPIHcCe2Id
This guy has little subscribers on youtube... but one of a very few people I saw/met that knows what he is doing and doing it right and... well... bloody awesome!
(v9 with a turbo and stuff if you are too lazy to check it out)
Same with this guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdVR6T0cxXg
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fun fact.
Those frames that were on the shelf to build OCC Choppers....
Many of them were made here in Okla City at Sam Wills Racing Innovations. They also build top fuel drag bikes. That's most of the design and engineering.
http://www.dragbike.com/top-fuel-motorcycle-legend-sam-wills/
http://newsok.com/article/3106863
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Paul SR can't be all bad , his efforts rescuing animals are well known . Isn't he some muckity muck with the ASPCA ?
Dusty
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Wait, is anything that appears only on YouTube actually considered TV?!?
Discuss...
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I went to thier shop in ny state one time. It was entertaining.
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I went to thier shop in ny state one time. It was entertaining.
I stopped between the time they became a Ducati dealer and attempted to have actual motorcycle gear/accessories amongst the TV trinkets and t-shirts, and the very end.
It was like a liquidation, I bought a t-shirt for a friend for $5.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180220/9f00b92a1028fa2b065f1f6e866b6efc.jpg)
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I went to thier shop in ny state one time. It was entertaining.
:1: but not with any intent
We fell over it while we were lost trying to go ... somewhere
It was early in the morning so not open and I couldn't be bothered to hang around for a couple of hours ........ that's a pretty pants anecdote come to think of it :wink:
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I was in pine island for some training. It was more fun than the hotel room
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Seriously though, I thought the whole chopper thing was over.
No, the 2000s chopper as pop-culture fad is over, for sure. But choppers? Hell no.
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I stopped between the time they became a Ducati dealer and attempted to have actual motorcycle gear/accessories amongst the TV trinkets and t-shirts, and the very end.
It was like a liquidation, I bought a t-shirt for a friend for $5.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180220/9f00b92a1028fa2b065f1f6e866b6efc.jpg)
"I bought a t shirt for a friend for $5". Sure you did, for a friend!!
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"I bought a t shirt for a friend for $5". Sure you did, for a friend!!
Ha ha, they only had XXL and XXXL sizes left and though I've grown from an L to an XL in the 30 years since college, I've managed to hold it there.
I actually delivered the shirt to my Gilroy Indian riding buddy who I was meeting at the Heath MA Damn Yankee rally as we had a few years in a row.
The previous year here:
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180221/dea282704c6f28dd8ff766f3fb5687b4.jpg)
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If I really felt the need to buy a chopper, this would be the first bike on my list.
(https://www.motorcyclistonline.com/sites/motorcyclistonline.com/files/styles/655_1x_/public/import/page_element_images/122_0908_11_z%2Bhonda_fury%2Bleft_side_view.jpg?itok=Ym11ZVKN)
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truthfully, it's a professional sport for about a half dozen competitors.
Ironically it is on the rise over here in the UK. Following on the back of fun events like Dirt Quake (although Carl Fogarty suffered broken bones and a punctured lung at the last one!!!), there is a proper meet arranged at Kings Lynn speedway track in April (Flat Track has been an one series amateur event up to now in the UK).
Speedway and Grasstrack rule the roost in the UK, although ironically not necessarily with the motorcycle crowd. Speedway fans are often not even bikers.
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Ironically it is on the rise over here in the UK. Following on the back of fun events like Dirt Quake (although Carl Fogarty suffered broken bones and a punctured lung at the last one!!!), there is a proper meet arranged at Kings Lynn speedway track in April (Flat Track has been an one series amateur event up to now in the UK).
Speedway and Grasstrack rule the roost in the UK, although ironically not necessarily with the motorcycle crowd. Speedway fans are often not even bikers.
Speedway fans are often more like soccer fans , correct ? Something more like supporting a local team , or on a larger stage a national team ?
Grasstrack is cool :thumb:
Dusty
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Ironically it is on the rise over here in the UK. Following on the back of fun events like Dirt Quake (although Carl Fogarty suffered broken bones and a punctured lung at the last one!!!), there is a proper meet arranged at Kings Lynn speedway track in April (Flat Track has been an one series amateur event up to now in the UK).
Speedway and Grasstrack rule the roost in the UK, although ironically not necessarily with the motorcycle crowd. Speedway fans are often not even bikers.
So how many pro flat trackers are in the UK? I would guess zero.
However, I would bet that you have triple the number of pro BSB riders vs pro MotoAmerica riders.
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A pic of our aprilia Futura...looking out past a OCC bike back in 2007?? We were on a trip to the New England area and I think we were staying in Newburg. Hotel desk person asked if we were there to see the OCC shop. Erm... They said it was a couple miles up the road, so we stopped in and bought a bandana (for Kev's friend).
(https://image.ibb.co/eukoHc/ne_DSCNocc_3.jpg)
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They said it was a couple miles up the road, so we stopped in and bought a bandana (for Kev's friend).
(https://image.ibb.co/eukoHc/ne_DSCNocc_3.jpg)
Ha ha, his name is Hank.
Ask anyone who went to the Heath Damn Yankee rally about the guy in the Gilroy Indian. I got the distinct impression the last time we were there that we weren't popular... Cause we kinda stayed up till dawn drinking around the camp fire and being well, we thought we were quiet.
On a positive note, as the evening wore on, more and more people brought us the beer they realized they weren't going to drink that last night. [emoji56]
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so long as you don't dis Flat Track to Dusty.
BTW. I went to the "motorcycle show" at the State Fair today. I sold a few raffle tickets for Seaba Station and saw this.
This is the customer Indian Flat Track racer ($50k). It's being sponsored by the OKC Indian Shop for rider #49.
(https://g2.img-dpreview.com/01174E5BE1FC49A5A0BF42E09BB7295A.jpg)