Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

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The joke used to be when you bought your first HD bike you had to follow it in a pick up truck. When it breaks down put it in the back of the pick up.

 

And the 'must have' Triumph 'Tiger 100'.

 

Neat bike. I had Norton Apache Matchless. Sure wish I had it now.

Taken in my 20's at a lake in Western NE. The young lady is my mother sitting on my dad's bike. I never saw the bike as he got rid of it before I was born. Dad also rode a Harley in WWII when he was with the engineers and tank destroyer section. The bike he had in the war was a gear shift on the floor and he practiced doing figure 8's with it in the dirt.

My bike was a 1949 Harley Panhead. Springer front end and supermax belt drive. The Supermax open belt drive was safe as there wasn't a chain. In fact way better than a chain drive because you didn't need the oiler turned for it. That was what always caused all the oil you would see around the old Harley's. I later put a stroked shovel motor in it with a shortened Girder front end which shortened it a lot. Kept the Supermax belt drive and used a side-draft Weber carb off an Austin Healy. Tuned headers sort of rounded it out. Took the king and queen seat off and replaced with a bicycle style seat meant for the big bikes. The girls got to ride on the fender. It had a really nice hand painted tank with a naked girl sporting wings. Seemed everyone always painted skulls, dragons, and such. I thought why would I want to stare at those as I drove mile after mile.

There wasn't a rice burner in town that could beat it. Never did figure out how fast it would go as my eyes vibrated so much at 150 mph that I had to slow down. And the bike would still be pulling strong.

I put a beautiful burgundy wine paint over silver paint job on it and was to enter it in the car show. Sort of lost interest before I got there after having a head-on collision on the highway. After bouncing off the car and ending up in the middle of the highway, I figured the bike wouldn't do that good at the show.

 

I have a neighbor like that - I counted once, and he sat at the end of his driveway and revved the **** out of it 14 times before taking off. All his idiot biker buddies do the same thing, too. This is a nice, quiet, residential 25 MPH neighborhood (well, it used to be quiet). And he's got no license. And he's a drunk. And he's had four DUIs without consequence and keeps on biking, because the local cops are his buddies.

Three weeks ago it caught up with him. Naturally, he's way too cool to wear a helmet, which nobody cares about, but he put his teen daughter on the back without a helmet, too...and almost killed both of them. She's home now, using a walker, but she was in a coma for three days...broken neck, broken leg, broken arm, broken hand, etc. He's still in the hospital, busted up from the neck down. The whole neighborhood is hoping he loses the use of his throttle hand.

I had an older Honda motorcycle years ago, and always felt guilty for starting it up at around 6:15 in the morning to go to work, and it wasn't even loud. It had the stock muffler setup. I never revved it, and I always got out of the driveway as quickly and quietly as I could. I'll never understand how anyone over the age of 12 thinks it's so cool to sit and rev a motorcycle.

 

Very nice bike. Thanks for the description. So sorry about the wreck. My brother has talked me out of buying another bike. He rightly claims bike riding is much more dangerous now mainly because of cell phone distraction.

 

That's what we keep waiting to happen. I know you're not supposed to wish ill on others, but for me and this toad for a neighbor......

 

It is much more dangerous here. Like you say, too many people that are distracted. I'm constantly having people drift into my lane because they are looking at their phone. Even had a semi run me into the third lane on the interstate. And I was driving my big white suburban. You'd think it would sort of stand out.

With that said, even though it's been many years, I sure do miss the sound.

 

On the bright side, you're probably still able to hear other sounds.

 

Some place I saw advertised a vibrating cushion for old folks circulation that could be put into a 3 wheeled handicap scooter. Vroom, Vroom!! Jim

 

The bike didn't get me but a friend shooting did. Still. Hearing isn't too bad for an old guy.

 

That left me chuckling.

 

Yeah, my right ear's had all the bad luck. A backfiring vehicle knocked it back when I was in college, and a hard collision knocked it back further a couple of years ago. Still works okay, but I can definitely tell that it's not as sensitive as the left, and it sings me to sleep at night.

 

Had a good night at my other favorite hobby last night. Had to show it off!

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I like tools. I'm not sure if I'd consider it a hobby since I need them for work but it's always a thrill buying new ones. I think ancients may be cheaper.
Here's a couple of my newest buys. Not my pics though


Still haven't taken the snap on air hammer out of the box. Hopefully it's as good as the mac one.

 

Good bowling. I've been in a slump lately, but this past Wednesday I got my head above water with a 665 series.

 

Thought I would post an update with some 'real' pictures. Picked up the new bike a week ago today. It's a real dream! I think I picked a good one, its first class in its category and blows away all others in nearly all aspects. Anyway, its a bit frustrating that due to the break in period I cant take it above 4,000 rpm for 600 miles.

 

I make original music. Ska reggae/rock similar to Sublime and more conventional Coldplay-esque type stuff. I don't play out because I'm past the stage of life where I want to be a rockstar. I just like making music (giving CDs to friends and family). I know when people say they make original music and you listen it's typically terrible...But I promise my stuff isn't! Tell me what you think - it's kind of bass driven music so will sound best in a car or coming out of something that has a little bass

https://soundcloud.com/bigsaltytears

 

Thanks for making my hour commute a nice one - listened to the whole set list.

-d

 

Thanks, man, really appreciate it!