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Pancho - Bet that made one heckuva thud. Crows are 'bout raven-sized; just with yellow feet and beaks - which means, absolutely, nothing when one gets whacked in the chest with one, at 60mph.

Hope to pass on the experience, given my druthers.
 
It died. You didn't. Sounds fair enough.

Used to have a black 750 Norton Commando. Came in a big, wooden crate. Friend, in Brimfield, Ohio, helped me put it together. Loved the bike - hated the Lucas electrics.

Have been riding a BMW K-100-RT, since the Air Force days, in Berlin. Bought that one, new, from Pevec Motors, Berlin, in 1984 . Says so on the German birth certificate. Even got to see it (or, one like it), built, at the factory.

It's the only Lava Red '84 BMW RT in the states, that I know of. Went through hell to get it titled. Twice. Once, in Ohio (home of record), and once, in California (was younger, then, fifty pounds ago, and managed to flatter the crap out of the lady at the window).

Would love to try that V-Rod. Can't buy one, though. The red-head would get jealous.
 
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Am a po' folk. Never have even mounted a V-Rod.That one's on the list, though.

Actually liked the looks of the Commando. Sleek, in an angular sort of way. Had a nice, rumbling sound, and shook just right. Know what you mean, though. Sure was a mellow bike.

The red-head is a bit like black powder, too. The cylinder head is on the left side. Leave the bike parked, on its side stand, for a while and crankcase oil seeps past the rings, into the cylinders. When you go to fire it up, blue smoke pumps out of the pipe. Done that, ever since it was new. All the earlier ones, of that model, do the same thing.

Does NOT impress the ladies.
 
Well we had some 4 feet of snow on the level before that last 18" hit, which was wet and real heavy. Many places have since collapsed.

18" is nuthin to me too, but not when the 1/2 mile drive into this woodsy place is already tight. The barn is built like the long and low barns in the west.

It has wings, and the north side never sheds snow well, with a 5/12 pitch. Digging the snow off there is WORK. Then after that I drove the Bob cat to push back as much from the road to get out, in 3 days as i could. I am no Spring Chicken and to my knees that was WORK.

I had no idea my knee caps could hurt like this, but there is solace in knowing Joe Atlas will envy my knee cap muscels this summer :D

I didn't know we were talkin' bikes! As a lad i hit a june bug at 60mph, and had no shirt on. That hurt. I looked down at my chest, and saw dark red and though I had been shot! I really did, and so i stopped asap, and then saw the bullet hole had legs!

I still ride and toured the USA for 40 states in 05 into 06 for 10 months on the road, just to see America. I wasn't going to fast, as I only did 15,000 miles over all in these 10 months, but I saw alot of places I had never been before.
 
Im283 , Well next time I will call and you can fly up here and dig all that bloody snow off the roof. Did I mention at the end, the snow slid with me on it and I went right off the edge, to fall 6 inches up hill!

It sure is tuff havin all this much fun alone.. Ho Ho Ho
 
Macmac – Didn’t mean to infer that the snow you guys were getting was not an amount to consider. Must have mis-spoken myself. I was tryin’ to say that what we got, here in SoCali the other day, was nothing compared to what ‘D seen during winters, in Ohio.

Used to go out plowing the stuff, with me father, back in the day. Not recommended as a sport, or even a hobby. Over a period of time, it became hard work. But, it got downright boring, too. After a couple of days of good plowing weather, a feller could get sore in places one mightn’t expect. That, without ever having to leave the cab of the truck. And, I was young, then.

‘Course, after 500 miles of good riding, a feller can get pretty sore in places, too. But, there doesn’t tend to be as much complaint over the matter.

Believe my best bee attack came on the way to work, one day. One of the little fellers managed to get between the bridge of my sunglasses and right between my eyes. That’s where it decided it had enough and proceeded to sting me.

Was late getting to work, that day, though not because of the bee sting. However, when my foreman came over to read me the riot act, I just took off my glasses and showed him how my nose went all the way up to my forehead. He got to laughing so much, that he forgot all about yelling at me.
 
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