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

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TripleBull said:
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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I roadraced with WERA for about 20 years. On the Suzuki GSXR1000 it would do about 170 with my big ass on it. To old now and brain can only process up to about 140 before time starts to compress. God I loved it.
 
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MtnCreek said:
If the media had a clue, they'd fear the guy with 1 Remington, 1000 rds of ammo and 2 scopes more than most of the junk 'stockpiles' they show in these news stories.
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“Fear not the man with many guns, but fear the man with only one gun. For he knows it well...” my grand father use to tell me this all the time. Good thing I build my rifles kind of similar so they all feel and shoot just as well lol
 
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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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My great grandfather staked our homestead in the Land Run of 1893. We still have brace post that he set. My boys are fifth generation and the post are still doing there job.
 
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Springfield Armory Cuts Dick’s Off Completely
May 3, 2018 By David Bronson

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Springfield Armory
May 3 at 2:22pm ·
Springfield Armory® Severs Ties with Dick’s Sporting Goods
Springfield Armory announces its decision in response to Dick’s Sporting Goods’ attempts to deny Second Amendment freedoms
GENESEO, IL, (05/03/18) – Springfield Armory is severing ties with Dick’s Sporting Goods and its subsidiary, Field & Stream, in response to their hiring a group for anti-Second Amendment lobbying.
This latest action follows Dick’s Sporting Goods’ decision to remove and destroy all modern sporting rifles (MSR) from their inventory. In addition, they have denied Second Amendment rights to Americans under the age of 21. We at Springfield Armory believe that all law abiding American citizens of adult age are guaranteed this sacred right under our Constitution.
It is clear where Dick’s Sporting Goods and its subsidiary, Field & Stream, stand on the Second Amendment, and we want to be clear about our message in response. Their position runs counter to what we stand for as a company. At Springfield Armory, we believe in the rights and principles fought for and secured by American patriots and our founding forefathers, without question. We will not accept Dick’s Sporting Goods’ continued attempts to deny Second Amendment freedoms to our fellow Americans.
 
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