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Discussion in 'Pull up a chair and sit for a spell' started by joshbob, Aug 1, 2012.

  1. joshbob

    joshbob Well-Known Member

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    Rode to Tattoo's shop as he was leaving for Rocky mount, so we saddled up - me on my shovel and him on one of the newer 100ci Indians. Owner told him to ride it and check some things out.
    We rode maybe 40 miles to pick up a special order bearing for his hopped up shovel. Discovered some great new roads along the way and the weather couldn't have been more perfect - upper 80s and partly cloudy with hardly no wind. I rode an additional 30 miles solo after that just burnin' gas 'cause it was one of those days.:D
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    Sounds great Wrong Way! Wish I could have been there too.
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    Josh, that sounds like yea had a great day and sound as the bike is running good. :)
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    Yeah, the sickle is runnin' pretty good. This morning we had some showers, so have been out in the shop checking nuts 'n' bolts. Tattoo had a guy's Twinkie engine on the stand. The owner never checked his motor mount bolts and two came loose and busted the motor case up pretty bad.

    Been thinking of taking a cruise to the beach area soon, maybe next week. Lots of rubbernecking tourists over there this time of year. But there are the Outer Banks, Kill Devil Hills, and the Wright Brother's museum to see, and all kinds of great seafood restaurants all up and down the coast I'm told.
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    FLHTbiker Moderator Staff Member

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    Josh, best time to go to the beach is when the kiddies are back in school.:)
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    Good advice FLHT, and it'll be cooler riding, too, if I go in September. Fall here is great for riding, about what you have right now in Oregon.
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    FLHTbiker Moderator Staff Member

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    :D Temps are going up here as well. Going to be 96 on Saturday but the humidity is only going to be 45%
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    Glad to hear somebody is riding in some good weather having a good time.
    Enjoy yer ride.
    I would sure like to be riding in some 80* weather right now.
    The 100* temps is wearing me out.
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    I'am with ole cardboard on this darn 105 heat index today , heck just wish toe ole evo was ridable , broke the clutch cable & the nut on the clutch basket striped out ,& I've been to darn busy to go get new parts :banghead:
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    I'm off today. Slept till 7 man did that feel good.
    Think I'm going to the Tackle store today. Gonna look at some slip corks and split shot and some strings or beads to stop the cord and might look at some Hooks & jigs .
    Won't be long before the croppie start bittin good. Might slip off during the week seing I'm only workin till Oct and start Croppie Fishing.
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    FLHTbiker Moderator Staff Member

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    Croppie fish here are considered junk fish.
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    FLHTbiker Moderator Staff Member

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    Going to be 70 and sunny here today and Maddog and I are riding the bikes and going shooting.:D. CB, You see my thread about riding in the MT Hood national forest this week, the weather was in the high 70's you would have really enjoyed the ride.
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    Sorry but Croppie are good eatin fish.

    Croppie are not bottom dwellers.
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    That's way down on the border - coupla hundred miles from here and too much for a one day ride for me. There's some nice places east of here, like Edenton and the north section of the Outer Banks. The locals who live there still speak a form of early English like the original settlers.
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    FLHTbiker Moderator Staff Member

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    Try these on for size all pics are from Oregon,
    Croppies :rolleyes:

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    Didn't know croppies got that big.
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    FLHTbiker Moderator Staff Member

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    Not croppies Josh, those are Steelhead Trout caught in the rivers in Oregon. ;)
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    :gah::rolleyes::D
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    Croppies,

    Just doesn't look like it would put up quite the fight that a steelehead does.

    [​IMG]

    then again in TX you don't have to get an environmental boot permit to
    wade into the water where you might disturb the mud dwelling creek lizard
    or move a pebble that has sat there for 100,000,000,000 years//
    hotroadking, Aug 6, 2012
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