why do football players do power cleans?

Andrzej Rosa wrote:
> Dnia 2006-12-04 Curt napisa³(a):
> > Andrzej Rosa wrote:
> >> Dnia 2006-12-04 Curt napisa³(a):
> [...]
> >> > There was water at our destination, but I'm happy
> >> > to say that we did not dump the bike into it. )
> >>
> >> If you managed to wet something other, you wouldn't
> >> post her pictures on the net.
> >
> > Iirc, I believe the Andrzej response would be "What?"
>
> Do you want to read about all the possible details? I can
> relate, I think.

yes

> > But I may be misattributing that. Certainly, i LOVE my
> Sportster.
>
> Sure. If you took her for a ride in a car, she wouldn't press
> her tits against you during every braking.

Absolutely. )

> You may consider brake upgrade, though, for even higher
> end feel. I think I could find a set of Nissins lying around.

Let me know! Ha!

> Andrzej Rosa 1127R

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Dnia 2006-12-04 Bully napisa³(a):
> Andrzej Rosa wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> True. But around here riding cruisers or choppers takes quite a lot
>> of sacrifice.
>
> We have too many nice curvy roads in the UK for anyone with any sense to
> want to ride anything other than a Sports Bike. Apart from those weirdos in
> the Gold Wing Owners club, with their trailers !!!

Well, our Bandit with Busa front and high end shock would fare OK, I
think. And you do not have to fold yourself into swiss army knife to
ride it, too. One of the reasons I still prefer my gix.

>> They do not have much suspension and we are in EU only
>> for several years, so we didn't manage to fix all our roads using
>> Pete's money just yet. Dual sports are great, of course.
>
> Hey, that's my money as well !!!

Thanks. They are yummy.

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Dnia 2006-12-04 Curt napisa³(a):
> Andrzej Rosa wrote:
>> Dnia 2006-12-04 Curt napisa³(a):
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>> > There was water at our destination, but I'm happy to say that we did
>> > not dump the bike into it. )
>>
>> If you managed to wet something other, you wouldn't post her pictures
>> on the net.
>
> Iirc, I believe the Andrzej response would be "What?"

Do you want to read about all the possible details? I can relate,
I think.

> But I may be
> misattributing that. Certainly, i LOVE my Sportster.

Sure. If you took her for a ride in a car, she wouldn't press her tits
against you during every braking. You may consider brake upgrade,
though, for even higher end feel. I think I could find a set of Nissins
lying around.

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Andrzej Rosa wrote:

> > TWO Urals?? Okay, now I'm really jealous.
>
> Well, typical. If you want to ride one, you need the other as a spare
> parts magazine.

I was wondering how well they held up. I remember an old timer in Maine
had an old one, rode it on the frozen lakes to go ice fishing. Put
spikes in the bike tires. I was always impressed with that.
Saw several new ones at the Int. Motorcycle Show a few weeks ago and
was smitten with camo 'Adventure' model. I can see riding and using it
on the trails and canyon roads

One of our forum members is traveling the country right now with his
BMW1200GS with BMW sidecar (with dog). Really cool setup, but his rig
has broken down often. Wondering if that's a function of the sidecar
addition or just the bikes themselves.


> > But it took HD how long to add FI?
>
> I don't care for FI. Actually I'm quite conservative when it comes to
> bikes. I like to work on them myself, so I prefer low tech solutions.
> I wouldn't change my Mikunis for FI. I doesn't make much sense, beyond
> memories and other stuff which makes you attached to a machine.

Personally, having had both, I much prefer the FI to carbs. I
understand your reasoning but I'm willing to trade shop time for the
increased power and fuel economy. I don't think I'll ever go back to
carbs for my primary road bike, but I am looking for a KL250-G6 Super
Sherpa for more off-road fun. I expect I'll learn how to work on carbs
with that. But for the Wee-strom, I let the expert racing mechanic I go
to fine tune that. I trust his expertise and concede that part of the
engine to him. I just do the basic stuff and electrics.
And I'm very attached to my machine


> > And no matter, most of them are still clumsy. After riding a sport/dual
> > sport bike after a cruiser, I'll never go back. Only a few of the new
> > 'hybrids' (or the old 'naked' "Sportster) are appealing any longer (to
> > me). If it's speed you're after, the cruisers won't cut it. Too much
> > chrome
>
> True. But around here riding cruisers or choppers takes quite a lot of
> sacrifice. They do not have much suspension and we are in EU only for
> several years, so we didn't manage to fix all our roads using Pete's
> money just yet. Dual sports are great, of course.

Ah, didn't now you were in the EU.
Cruisers are rare there compared to the sport and enduro bikes.
It's interesting to see the mix of bikes on the roads here varying with
demographics. Texas is a gold mine because the riding season is nearly
year-round. For some, a bike is their sole transportation.
Which I can see having two or three bikes: the Wee, a Ural and the
Sherpa
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DZ wrote:
> canyonrun DeleteThis @direcway.com wrote:
> > DZ wrote:
> >> > I'll leave the Sport bikes to you, though.
> >
> > Mine is a dual sport bike. Does that count?
> > And not all bikers have love handles.
>
> Okay, okay!
>
> Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I think your bike is more of a metal horse
> to you. That makes you a technogeek redneck, rather than a biker.

Ah, so you read my blog site
Yes, the Whee is my silver-blue horse with wings and we like to fly,
but my neck is only red in the summer (damned hot, too).


> > How's the genetics going?
>
> I'm more into crayon abstract paintings now
>
> http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1474029&rend...ype=fig

So we call you DZ-casso now?
heheh.
Nice picture; paint by numbers?

I'm playing Drosophila Goddess these days, making mutant flies. I hate
the damn things.
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DZ wrote:
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re http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v108/curt_james/PGF2004/

> As far as I can tell, she's hugging you, not the motorcycle,

I certainly wasn't complaining. )

> which is not even present in the pictures...

Parked safely away from the lake, but definitely present in pictures!

http://www.geocities.com/curt_james/sportster.html

Sadly, absent the girl.

> It would make a much more suspicious story, if
> you replaced your bike with one of those big white
> fridge-looking van!

With a sofa inside à la Silence of the Lambs?

re my scribbled "So, DZ, the ride into the river put you off
motorcycles for good?"

> It wasn't a traumatic experience. I just haven't had
> much of a motorcycle exposure I guess. The official
> with the hots said to me that when we (young men)
> grow older and wiser, we will learn to appreciate "a
> young body" for just that. While I was thinking what
> to say to that,

You'll know the correct response when you're older and wiser.

> my friend told him that he's just an old fart.

And, yes, not an old fart like me (and that official, apparently). ;o)

> The official didn't reply and only made a bored and
> tired-of-life face.

Sad story. The girl spun things the right way, though, if, yes, into
the river. Glad neither of you was hurt. No loss on the official's
attitude, too.

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David Cohen wrote:
> <canyonrun.TakeThisOut@direcway.com> wrote
>
> > One of our forum members is traveling the country right now with his
> > BMW1200GS with BMW sidecar (with dog).
>
> Pooch is wearing Doggles, I hope.
>
> www.doggles.com/images/doggles_3.jpg
>
> All the rage with skydiving dogs, too.

He is! Ping me and I'll email you a pic or two. They're great. He's in
San Antonio now on the way to Big Bend and thinking about having an
electric vest made for the dog
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<canyonrun RemoveThis @direcway.com> wrote

> One of our forum members is traveling the country right now with his
> BMW1200GS with BMW sidecar (with dog).

Pooch is wearing Doggles, I hope.

www.doggles.com/images/doggles_3.jpg

All the rage with skydiving dogs, too.

David
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DZ <28923 DeleteThis @2852012706.224397466.17499.27314.572> wrote:

>Curt <curtjames DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>> DZ wrote:
>>> I rode a motorcycle only once. Actually a girl was driving it, with me
>>> on the back seat. It was during a summer USSR student work on a state
>>> farm, aka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovkhoz (I liked going to
>>> those, although it was a kind of slavery). A high-up farm official
>>> owned the bike. He was at least twice our age, and had the hots for
>>> that girl.
>>
>> Similar story. Girl half my age, and had the hots for my *motorcycle*.
>> (Not a bad thing.)
>>
>>> So, as a girl would do, she asked him to give her his bike for an
>>> evening, to ride it with ME. We drove around, and then on our way back
>>> she decided to show off her skills by driving through a narrow bridge
>>> over a small, chin-deep river. The bridge was shaky, made for walking
>>> only. I knew that it couldn't possibly end well, and indeed we fell
>>> from the middle of the bridge into the river. I was happy to find out
>>> that we didn't break our necks. As we were dragging the motorcycle
>>> through the mud, the paedo official-with-the-hots appeared on the
>>> river bank with a flash light. I felt kind of sorry for him.
>>
>> Ouch.
>>
>> There was water at our destination, but I'm happy to say that we did
>> not dump the bike into it. )
>>
>> http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v108/curt_james/PGF2004/
>
>As far as I can tell, she's hugging you, not the motorcycle, which is
>not even present in the pictures...

She was very grateful to him for helping her run away from the group
home.
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