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Which "eats" these:
(That's AF Chief Master Sergeant Tanya Breed doing the honors with the Barrett)
Posted on 06/18/2009 6:05:15 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Oh I am so looking forward to breaking this law with my brothers in California!!!!!
Taking one of your bikes, at least? Good luck there. I share your misgivings about visiting CA at this time for any number of reasons.
Yes. I put a hitch on the Mercury Mariner Hybrid this morning. I have a single rail carrier coming into the Yamaha shop at noon tomorrow. It can carry 400 lbs. While I would love to have the DR650SE, it's a lot of bike to load by myself at 324 lbs dry. I'm going to take the Yamaha XT250 at 280 lbs. I can nearly lift the bike off the ground without ramp. I'm disappointed that I have to leave just as the weather is warming up. I'll really miss the Roadliner. No touring this year. The snow will be falling before I can get home to enjoy it. The Roadliner is 750 lbs. It would take a real trailer and I would have to take the F150 4x4 in place of the Mariner due to the 1000 lb towing limit of the Hybrid drive train. That's a non-starter due to the 60 mile round trip to work. That will be done in the Mariner. The F150 only gets 18 MPG vs 27+ in the Mariner.
Are things drying out enough in your area to do some off road riding? We've had thunderstorms every day for weeks. The snow is gone, but the soil is still too muddy. There's no way I'm going to risk riding a ridge top with cloud to ground lightning. The ridges have been quite a light show for weeks. I also wanted to take the bikes up to the sand dunes in St. Anthony this summer. That will have to be deferred as well.
Something more like this:
Which "eats" these:
(That's AF Chief Master Sergeant Tanya Breed doing the honors with the Barrett)
Actually that's a replacement image. :)
Coming to your state soon bump.
You’re getting to the fun parts!
It’s been dry here. The rains seemed to start right about at the Idaho stateline. Someone I know about 55 miles north of Boise previously owned some alpine land. Now it is more like swamp.
Don’t buy any property while in California — too early yet.
Somebody want to explain to me again how ONLY a little part of Kali is blue and the rest red but this kind of horsesh*t can pass.
My aim is to avoid have ANY assets in CA. I don't trust the politicians.
OK . . . The thing that bothers me most about this is they’re going to LICENSE/(read CONTROL!) all ammunition vendors. “TRACK” EVERY ROUND SOLD! REQUIRE A “THUMBPRINT”(to be submitted to the Dept. of Justice) TO BUY A ROUND OF AMMO . . . ?!!! And NO MORE INTERNET SALES! Then they’ll have us over the barrel for future legislation to impose taxes, fees, INSPECTIONS, and more restrictions! . . . read BAN!
AB 962 still has to pass the Senate, and the Goobernator . . . but that doesn’t give me any warm and fuzzies . . .
(and people wonder why some of us are wanting to stock up on a little extra ammo these days . . .)
Note: The “Shot Heard ‘Round The World”, April 19, 1775, happened because they came for our ammo. Make no mistake about it, they’re trying again . . .
California, the ammo free zone.
The Second Amendment’s Achilles Heel.
Ammo. They won’t ban guns, but just make it impossible to use them.
Kinda like tobacco, a legal product you can barely use anywhere.
Guns will be legal, but ammo, well, that’s another story.
I don’t want you to be right either. But, as you say, right now what we know doesn’t look very good.
Those little parts contain the bulk of the population. All crowded together like rats in a maze.
It's a common effect in many states. Even the Nebraska Unicameral is dominated by Omaha and some parts of Lincoln.
To some degree, other than in Nebraska, it's an effect of 'one man, one vote'. It's what the US government would be, if Senators were apportioned like Representatives on the basis of population. The Rat infested fever swamps would dominate.
I found out what Idaho riders meant by "very slow speeds" when I attended the Idaho Desert 100 about 20 years ago. Essentially it meant WFO in 3rd or 4th LOL.
Good you got the carrier installed. I had one like that as a kid, went in the receiver of our 1965 Ford F-250, and my dad had it professionally fabricated for a fair chunk of change at the time. I've seen the new ones, with fancy hydraulic lifts and all that. Think you could heft an Electra-Glide on one if the hitch had the capacity!
I have had a couple of mini-incidents putting bikes on the trailer over all these years, especially when the bed is wet and I rode the bike up the ramp (wouldn't stop at the end!). It is hard for me to push the bikes up now, so I have had the motors running and walked it up with the clutch. Of course, it would be bad news if I lost control of the clutch, but it hasn't happened yet. This year, I'll try a wider ramp which I can walk up also and that might help.
Are you staying with relatives down there?
My 3 rail trailer + the Roadliner is probably just at the limit of the Mariner Hybrid's 1,000 lb limit. I'm content to get the DR650SE down to San Diego.
This whole exercise would be non-starter if I didn't have an inexpensive place to hang my hat. My mom still lives in El Cajon. That makes a 30 mile commute to the office. I'll have some in-kind exchanges of help with shopping, dining and household chores as well as covering all the costs of my food and utilities. My sister and her family live about 1/2 mile away, so I'll see her as well. I'll take care of some of the shopping runs she has covered for my mom.
We had an early Father's Day celebration this evening as I'll be driving all day on Sunday.
I've watched some of the folks at the Pocatello Motocross track at the end of last season. They do some amazing stuff there. Riding their bikes up the ramp into the back of a pickup is pretty common. They make it look easy. I also see lots of folks in town with big v-twins of all types that are taking a ride in the bed of a pickup. Many of them are taking a long drive to a place to do some touring. Distances that are much longer than they would be comfortable handling entirely on two wheels.
BTW, the TW200 and XT250 pull like tractors. They may be "slow", but that's just fine when you're navigating mountain trails from 5,000 to 9,000 ft elevation. When the air gets thin, you really notice trying to heft a bike around a difficult section. Being "fit" at 4600 ft is still not good enough when running around at 8,000.
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