Howdy. I'm Tony. I live in the eastern panhandle of West Virginny, right near the VA and MD borders, in a little town called Fort Ashby (pop. around 1300 and change according to a 2000 census). Pretty nice place to live really. I'm a bit out of "town", and it's still the kind of area where my keys stay in the ignition of my truck, and I wouldn't have a clue where a house key would be. My family does residential building/contracting for a living, and we have since back in the '70's. I went to college too, but for some reason I prefer physical work, and I like to be able to look at the end of the day and see where i've accomplished something that I can take pride in. Other than that, in my free time, I like to run, go to the gym, eat right, fish (river smallmouths), play traditional acoustic music (fiddle tunes/ bluegrass) on one of my guitars, do a little courtin', and have a good beer or 3 once a week or so. I guess that's about all there is to know. I've never been married. Been w/ one girl for 10 years, and the current one for 8 or so. I can't get myself to do it deed I can't.
I see it go bad so often it seems like a no brainer to run temporary tags on their butts. I don't have any kids either so far. I'm 36 btw.Bikes: Started out on a Honda Mini-Trail 50 in the 3rd grade. Boy was that thing a hunk a junk. It was broke down a lot. Then I got a new Bazooki RM 80 in '82. I was cool. First year for the Full Floater single shock rear-end. I rode the snot out of that thing for years and the only problem I ever had w/ it was it eventually fouled a plug. Then I got a Suzuki TS 185. I think it was an '81, but i'm not sure. It was blue. It handled about like an apartment building in a mudslide, but it's still running the last account I had of it. Next was an '88 Yamaha FZ600. A deer hit me in the side one night, so I traded it on a '89 KDX200. Nice bike. The kickstart quit engaging, so I took it back to the dealer to have it fixed under warranty, he called me and said someone wanted to buy it, so I sold it. Didn't have a bike from then until 2004. Got a new KTM 200 exc. Sweet ride. Got to hanging w/ some fellas w/ streetbikes, so I wanted to ride w/ them, sold the Katoom, and got an '04 Honda 599 (Hornet). Rode it 2000 miles the summer I got it, and 3 this last summer. Ended up riding most of the time solo, which turns out to be not much fun on the street. Sold it, and here I am pestering you guys.
There's my life story. Here's a photo link of me fishing, which won't look anything at'all like how ya'll picture me:
http://groups.msn.com/flatpickin/shoebo ... PhotoID=45
That's it. Thanks for all the help you guys have given me so far, and see you on the forum.
I think Brad just wants some new victims to roost. 
