The DFWM say anything thread

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I'm having "issues" loading pix but let's just say Cher now has a bike worthy of the jacket 

Thing is with that bike you're going to need to embellish your jacket just a little.



 That just means you'll fit in well at next year's MvR. 

One sweet bike. Can't wait to see it! 

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Here ya go CJ!

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/mcy/1710239482.html

[caffeinejunkee]

Here ya go CJ!

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/mcy/1710239482.html

Ha! Nice, but mine's an '04 (Gen I)....

[fastwin]

Hmmmmm.... 

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Did I hear Scrat say that Luis is the man what can when it comes to 'custom'? If so can I hear from ya Mr. luis? Talkin frames here. As in Rickman/Bimota replicas?

[muskrat]

Luis?  I was talking about fixing exhaust but I'm sure he can frame something up should you have the money.  Oh, his name is Louis from where else but LG Motorsports

[muskrat]

Folks folly steakhouse in Memphis is the tits, I mean boobies

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http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/mcy/1716806965.html

[junior varsity]

i have spare SS axle adjusters, by the way. 3 (Three) of them.

[fastwin]

Lucky, lucky, lucky...

Brought my Gixxer 750 back from the farm yesterday on the trailer. It's been in the barn for a couple of years (locked, covered, Battery Tender, etc) but I don't get to ride it much when I'm there. Too busy with farm work. Got home late so I left it on the trailer in my Dad's garage a few miles away.

Went back over there today to unload it. Backed the pickup in the garage, hooked up the trailer and pulled it onto the driveway. Off go the straps, got my aluminum tri-fold ramp set up, throw a leg over the saddle and start to tippy toe it backwards. Right about now I either have a lightbulb moment or a feeling of dread in my gut. Still not sure which it was but it saved my ass! Something out of no where makes me feel funny about the trailer hitch connection. 99 times out of 100 I would have blown the feeling off but something made stop and get off the bike and check it. Bingo!!! Being on auto pilot when I hooked up the trailer I hadn't noticed that the hitch was not fully on the ball, it was resting on top. It looked like it was connected so I had locked it down and pulled the trailer out of the garage.

Had I continued backing the bike off the trailer it would have passed over the center balance point and the unhooked trailer tongue would have gone skyward like a bottle rocket! The ultimate trailer wheelie!! The ramp would have gone flying off. My now startled and off balance ass would have surely tumbled off the bike and over the side of the trailer and my poor helpless Gixxer would have sustained big money garage drop damage!! To say nothing of the personal damage to my aging body and with my already screwed up back and shoulder I probably wouldn't have been able to even pick the bike up!


I have no idea where that sense of doubt came from but I'm damn sure glad it appeared and thankfully my normal lazy ass didn't blow it off. The whole way home all I could keep thinking was what a lucky SOB!! Dodged a HUGE f#@k up and would have been pissed off at myself for days!! From now on I'll be checking that hitch connection about 4-5 times... maybe more!!

[Cher]

Man, that was lucky!  Glad it was no big deal 

[fastwin]

Yeah, just wanted to pass that story along as a "be careful" reminder if you trailer a lot. My Dad had a great line: no one is completely worthless, they can always serve as an example of what not to be like! That's my point here, the story is a good example of checking little things... like trailer attachment.

[TresGatos]

Glad you're ok. Funny how the little things can be big
and big things little.

[muskrat]

So close to my inheritance of back in black and the 996

[fastwin]

So now it's the 996S too huh, wishful thinking 'skrat. Folks in my family are hard to kill, we don't go that easy.