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kdxquebec · Post by **kdxquebec** » 05:41 pm Apr 13 2008

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Indawoods wrote:Oh ****...they are neekid! KDXQUEBEC.... jealous?

Jealous? no! I feel destroyed...There is 4 places in the SPA and they are only 3

Life is so injust. Why oregon is so far?

Post by **Mr. Wibbens** » 06:25 pm Apr 13 2008

Good video of Jerry showing off for the camera

http://wibby.smugmug.com/gallery/470245 ... d3G/Medium

skipro3 · Post by **skipro3** » 07:06 pm Apr 13 2008

I'm home!!
Great trip guys! Thanks for all the GREAT riding and partying!! Sushi girl is hot!! Blond girl smells good, or stinks; depends on who you ask, Wib or CC. Hot tub too hot, clove cigarettes, listerine, tequila, vodka, strange brews....

Awesome roasted pig, instant potatoes and I LIKE CORN!!!!!

See y'all real soon!!

BTW, CC wasn't tazed, HE WAS BEAR PEPPER SPRAYED!!!!

Post by **Mr. Wibbens** » 08:06 pm Apr 13 2008

Forgot to tell ya earlier!

Thanks for BREAKFAST!

We had a good street ride, rode around 100 miles, all the way around the Quartz Creek area on pavement

I'm pooped!

kdxquebec · Post by **kdxquebec** » 09:35 am Apr 14 2008

What's up with this one? The ranger seems to be a funny guy. C.C. did you stole his sunglasses?

Anyway, sounds like you guys had a blast.Thanks for the vids and the pics!

canyncarvr · Post by **canyncarvr** » 10:29 am Apr 14 2008

There is no 'up' to it.

I'm minding my own business..had nothing to say..intent on indeed saying nothing..just waiting for him to go away.

I was legal..so were Mr. Wibbens and ski.

midlifemoto · Post by **midlifemoto** » 11:41 am Apr 14 2008

I'll definately try harder to hook up with you guys next time...it just wasn't possible....had to shop for supplies and pack for my son for Outdoor School this week, take the dog to soccer practice, ran out of gas, got a flat tire......decided since it was 80 out I better mow the foot tall lawn, clean house and take the girlfriend out on the Harley for the day....

it was a close one tho...she wanted me to take her to the Tulip Festival in Woodburn...geesh...told her I heard there was a 10 mile traffic jam and she said we didn't have to go....so we hooked up with some buddies and cruised from bar to bar to bar all over the place...and no, I didn't tell my Harley buddies we were considering the Tulip Festival

canyncarvr · Post by **canyncarvr** » 12:03 pm Apr 14 2008

I see a lot of excuse-making...but don't see any reasons.........

Seeing (well, hearing) ski on what is now named 'Autoclutch' hill would've been worth the price of admission. That and his 'I'm So Happy' look the next morning.......

I had more'n my share of 'Can't Get There From Here!'s myself........which, of course, led to my own 'I'm So Happy' visage I'm sure.

I was glad the radio had an 'off' switch!! Saved a lot of, 'SHUT THE HELL UP!!s. (that's the sanitized version)

Yep. A bunch of nice guys!!

Post by **fuzzy** » 02:46 pm Apr 14 2008

Nice documentation. Ski I like that auto-clutch.

canyncarvr · Post by **canyncarvr** » 02:58 pm Apr 14 2008

I wanted to try it....but ski wouldn't let me near it.........

It's the funniest sounding thing! At the bottom of one climb (Screwed by a Tree...which screwed me...again), Wibby went first. I heard the normal RRrrr-RRrrr-RRrrr of a throttle controlled ascent. Then ski took off.

Ha! It was a constant RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR that didn't change except in volume when he went around a corner. Sounded like a leaf-blower or something.

He sure found some conditions that it flat don't work! If you need an 'average' amount of clutch control, it's fine. But, when you need a LOT..steep uphill, wet clay base..nothing beats the feedback loop between your left hand and your brain. When there is a hair trigger difference between traction and spin, the autoclutch is too unforgiving..resulting in either too much force or not enough.

Good grief...if I would've had to put as much effort into going up a hill as ski did, I would've quit LONG before he did!!

Come to think of it....I DID!

Another thing it's not going to do: Bulldogging your bike downhill. Steep enough that braking a few inches of travel gets the back wheel off the ground, so you have your arm slung over the seat to keep it down. The bike needs to be IN gear...and NOT RUNNING to get you a BIT of tracking control with the back wheel under compression.

No compression in that circumstance with an autoclutch.

I was in neutral (a mistake I couldn't reach to fix), my back wheel as free as it would be with an autoclutch. It didn't work for diddle. I crashed.

Of course..if you bump it hard enough to start in that situation...you are screw-ed!

skipro3 · Post by **skipro3** » 06:18 pm Apr 14 2008

Awesome ride, but even better was the Après-dirtbiking(French: after dirtbikeing) refers to going out, having drinks, and generally socializing after dirtbiking. Grass Pants is certainly a wild place after sundown on a Friday night!! Saw a boy with black lipstick and mascara.... I think....

****EDIT****
midlife; you were a topic of discussion. If you wish to avoid that in the future, then show up and we can talk about someone else. Your gender is now in question.

kdxquebec · Post by **kdxquebec** » 08:04 pm Apr 14 2008

skipro3 wrote:è

How you do this?

midlifemoto · Post by **midlifemoto** » 12:57 pm Apr 15 2008

"midlife; you were a topic of discussion. If you wish to avoid that in the future, then show up and we can talk about someone else. Your gender is now in question".

yeah, and I'm sure you guys felt like subject matter experts on my mother's origin, etc...I definately should not have mentioned Tulip Festival...but in my defense, when my girlfriend brought it up I thought it meant something else, turned out to be about flowers :-)

GS · Post by GS » 02:54 pm Apr 15 2008

Tulip Festival....thought it meant something else.

HA HA!! Did you tell HER that?
haw!

Post by **Indawoods** » 02:55 pm Apr 15 2008

How about a Clam Bake?

midlifemoto · Post by **midlifemoto** » 04:58 pm Apr 15 2008

if this sale on May 3rd proves fruitful (ok, bad choice of word considering my current reputation) I'll have no excuses to not just pack up and going riding

http://www.amnorthwest.tv/display.cfm?CID=850

http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.s ... ectionNo=2

skipro3 · Post by **skipro3** » 07:41 pm Apr 15 2008

Wow!!

Where was that interview taken, your bathroom or at a Home Depot or something? So, it's in your garage, eh? Hmmmmm

Also, nice little slip of owning dirt bikes into the interview!

Let me know when and we'll set up a ride! You better be ready though, it will be a weekend you will NEVER forget!! Ha!! Or one you won't remember....

wasting away again.............

midlifemoto · Post by **midlifemoto** » 08:51 pm Apr 15 2008

AM NW shoots at different locations while their studio is being redone, so this episode happened to be at a bathroom restoration place "Linens and Sh$t and Stuff" or something like that

actually the bike is in SF right now at the showroom ready for transport to the auction at Half Moon Bay....

skipro3 · Post by **skipro3** » 09:25 pm Apr 15 2008

Well good luck!! Want maybe I should shill bid and help get 'er up there?

midlifemoto · Post by **midlifemoto** » 09:10 am Apr 16 2008

sure, what the heck....the 'estimate' they have is meant as a starting point for the bidding

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