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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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HillBilly_Sniper said:
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Well, at least it's not on fire.......yet......

I Bet anyone I could down at least one double Johnnie Walker Black before anyone saw a rosebud........Once that sparkler is lit, I'm hoofin' it in the opposite direction :cool:, leftover sweat off bulls balls, or otherwise......
 
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sirhrmechanic said:
Also looks like it has a hollow tip?

That said, it could easily have been hit while in a belt or a magazine, driven out of the case... and there it is. The tip... rotted away? There is more than one explanation for no rifling and a hollow point. Could also be a total fake. Not hard to do. Looks like it's in a museum display, though. So probably real.

Though the firing at Gallipoli was nothing like at, say, Gettysburg where a lot of fused bullets were found. Or the Somme. It was a nasty campaign with lots of dead... and Anzac Beach was a killing field. But the 'volume' of fire at Gallipoli wasn't what occurred in some places. In many cases, in the early stages of the landings, the Turks didn't even have weapons. Those that did... had not been issued ammo as their commanders did not trust them. Only the arrival of Kamal Attaturk, the brilliant German-trained commander on the Ottoman side... did the Turks really get leadership and weapons. Much of the rest... was British War Cabinet and execution errors. Stupid campaign that should never have happened, despite the bravery of the boots on the ground.

Sirhr
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Your last line sums up the entire Great War in a nutshell. Well said.
 
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sirhrmechanic said:
Dexter need not stay in the realm of TV fantasy fiction... if every town had a Dexter.... America would be a better place!!!

Cheers,

Sirhr
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I think "the Dexter" needs to be a hunting tag that you can buy - 48 hours / municipality of your choosing / no bag limit / “you break it, you buy it” on all collateral damage. Sanctioned hits, and as long you are clean and tidy on the COF / no muss, no fuss while you’re guest in town ..... win / win.
 
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Mike_Honcho said:
I think "the Dexter" needs to be a hunting tag that you can buy - 48 hours / municipality of your choosing / no bag limit / “you break it, you buy it” on all collateral damage. Sanctioned hits, and as long you are clean and tidy on the COF / no muss, no fuss while you’re guest in town ..... win / win.
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Don't go advertising your Dexter tags to my wife. I could not afford the stack she'd buy.

Sure would clean out the trash around here though...
 
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Jefe's Dope said:
And got passed, quickly, by a four door wagon! It looks like the bike is limited to 299 KMH. And is that a turbo I hear?

152 MPH(300 KPH=186.4 MPH) indicated on a CBR600 is my top speed on a bike. 166 MPH indicated in my 12' Corvette GS is my top speed in any car.

Things get squirrelly in both around 150 MPH. Car less so but shit gets very real at 200. There's a HUGE difference between 199 vs. 200. Or so I've been told.
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I must be a pussy,, back in `86 the Honda V65 Magna at top speed scared the crap out of me,,it seems like it would peg the 150 mph speedo ,,,I do know it would do right at 60 mph in first gear and it would jump 20 mph ever gear,,60-80-100-120-140-160,,..I dont want to ever go any faster than that ole V65,,
 
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vh20 said:
We build barbed wire fences with posts made from the limbs down here. You better put a staple in it when it's green, because after it dries it's like iron and you won't do it. The posts never rot, they outlast treated posts by a long shot.
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Never is not correct. On my place, my east fence was toast. It was all bois d' arc posts for 1400'. Half were snapped off at ground level. So the fence must have been 100 years old, literally. You are correct, a staple will not go into dried out bois d' arc. And a chainsaw will throw sparks. In September I cleared brush, tore out all that old fence, and replaced it with steel braces, t-posts, and 6 strand barb wire 5' tall. 100 years from now, hopefully one my family members will appreciate the fence that'll still be standing.
 
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hermosabeach said:
That is more than fast enough for me on a bike
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OK, another story from the days shortly after dinosaurs went extinct. AKA: my youth.

I raced motocross, half mile and TT as a kid with the occasional hill climb thrown in after each time I forgot how bad the previous one went. I also raced Daytona once. Bob Kolmer ran a Suzuki/Kawasaki shop in my home town and he gave me a little sponsorship help and led me down the path of throwing every penny I could scrounge into modifying a mediocre TM250 into something apparently designed to kill the pilot more quickly.

Bob's true passion was fast road bikes and road racing. In 1972, Kawasaki introduced the Z1, which was a 900cc 4 cylinder. Stock, it was good for about 130mph, but right off the bat, Bob put a header and Weber carbs on it and it would hit 140. He was always making is personal fleet of road bikes available to me, so I confirmed 140, which on that suspension, was a little freaky, even on a smooth Interstate highway.

Some months later, Yoshimura started selling 1000cc jugs and pistons, so Bob put that kit on and he found some performance camshafts from RC. I don't know what kind of horsepower the modded engine had, but it was WAY more than the stock 81HP engine, and the modded engine had a powerband sort of like a 125CC race bike. Off/on/bam. So I was running down the Interstate at about 100mph, getting a feel for it when an LT-1 Vette pulled up and wanted to race. I downshifted and cranked the throttle. Bad move. The bike stood up and torque steered. I nearly went off the back of the bike before I got it shut down. The dude in the Vette pulled off at the same exit I used to turn around and he told me I hit 165 but there's no way he could have known since I blew his doors off and his car probably topped out at ~140 - it was a stock LT-1. I puttered back to Kolmer's shop at the speed limit, knees knocking.
 
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Back in '89, I rode a '86 Ninja 900 with a 1000 top end. 240 km/h, tach was at 7G and it redlines at 10.5G.

Ran out of road and had no choice but to slow down. Fastest I've ever been on a bike, right thee. I liked it so much, I've never sat on a sport bike again. Cruisers only, for me. I know I'll kill myself on one of them, and chances are I'd take someone else with me (unintendedly, of course) so I know better than to ever do that again.

It was just way too fun.
 
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