NickDG 23 #1251 November 11, 2010 That was pretty cool, thanks for posting it! Here's something else too. Every issue of American Motorcyclist is online from 1950 through 2000. I especially like looking at the older adverts . . . http://books.google.com/books?id=wfUDAAAAMBAJ&as_pt=MAGAZINES&source=gbs_all_issues_r&cad=1&atm_aiy=1950#all_issues_anchor NickD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #1252 November 12, 2010 Quote That was pretty cool, thanks for posting it! Here's something else too. Every issue of American Motorcyclist is online from 1950 through 2000. I especially like looking at the older adverts . . . http://books.google.com/books?id=wfUDAAAAMBAJ&as_pt=MAGAZINES&source=gbs_all_issues_r&cad=1&atm_aiy=1950#all_issues_anchor NickD There goes my next couple of days.....I love old magazines, I have a collection of Mechanix Illustrated dating back to the early 40's , one from 38....the ads and the how too's are great! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #1253 November 12, 2010 How fucking kewl is this? Out for a littel around town put last nioght, stopped at a watering hole and this is what I sa on my first check of my bike, My 1942 harley chopper, and Frank's customized 39 Auburn.(He won the lottery a few years back)..Even he had to break out his phone and get pictures...wish I'd had my camera instead of just my phone! Frank also has 4 Arlen Ness built bikes... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v400/onekick/Bikes/11-11-10_1621.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v400/onekick/Bikes/11-11-10_1645.jpg Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #1254 November 12, 2010 >>I have a collection of Mechanix IllustratedAnother thing we have in common! My parents bought an older home back in the late 60s and up in the attic were four or five boxes of old Mechanix Illustrated, Popular Mechanics, and Popular Science magazines. I'm sure I read every one of them. My favorite recurring article (in Popular Science) was "The Model Garage" with old Gus the mechanic. If I have any talent for turning a wrench today I'm sure "Gus" had something to do with it! All of those articles are online too, they're here: http://www.gus-stories.org/Stories/Indices/1930.htm BTW, I don't see Mechanix Illustrated anywhere but Google has all the Popular Mechanics magazines online here: http://books.google.com/books?id=BtEDAAAAMBAJ&as_pt=MAGAZINES&ei=wHXdTO_sKpuwkATI6-3iBQ&source=gbs_other_issues NickD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #1255 November 12, 2010 Quote >>I have a collection of Mechanix IllustratedAnother thing we have in common! My parents bought an older home back in the late 60s and up in the attic were four or five boxes of old Mechanix Illustrated, Popular Mechanics, and Popular Science magazines. I'm sure I read every one of them. My favorite recurring article (in Popular Science) was "The Model Garage" with old Gus the mechanic. If I have any talent for turning a wrench today I'm sure "Gus" had something to do with it! All of those articles are online too, they're here: http://www.gus-stories.org/Stories/Indices/1930.htm BTW, I don't see Mechanix Illustrated anywhere but Google has all the Popular Mechanics magazines online here: http://books.google.com/books?id=BtEDAAAAMBAJ&as_pt=MAGAZINES&ei=wHXdTO_sKpuwkATI6-3iBQ&source=gbs_other_issues NickD Yep, Gus's garage, rocks....thanks for the link, I'll share that one with the Neds bikers too! I love how they never thought about buying anything, they "made" it...and gave step by step instructions on how! Tell someone today you used to build mini bikes out of washing machine motors...and watch their face!BTW, I still have one of those step start motors! one from Maytag, and another that was used to power a pump...both exposed valves! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #1256 November 12, 2010 Inspired me to go search threw my closet...I have most of a 1918 issue of popular mechanics... That closet is almost as scarey as my garage...man I need to sell some shit.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
monkycndo 0 #1257 November 12, 2010 You got any cool hats you want to get rid of? 50 donations so far. Give it a try. You know you want to spank it Jump an Infinity Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #1258 November 12, 2010 Quote You got any cool hats you want to get rid of? Sorry, I am too attached to the one I have..But if ya need parts...take a look behind me...http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v400/onekick/002.jpg Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #1259 November 12, 2010 BTW, thanks for the hat... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
monkycndo 0 #1260 November 12, 2010 Quote BTW, thanks for the hat... I don't know, you might be one of those posers that buys HD gear and never actually sits on a bike.50 donations so far. Give it a try. You know you want to spank it Jump an Infinity Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #1261 November 12, 2010 It's all Photo shopped...http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v400/onekick/DSCN2071a.jpg Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #1262 November 12, 2010 Naw, Gypsy's the real deal. When I first met him many years ago I wasn't too sure, but when I saw his reserve handle was connected to his reserve pin with a chain all my doubts were erased . . . NickD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #1263 November 12, 2010 Quote Naw, Gypsy's the real deal. When I first met him many years ago I wasn't too sure, but when I saw his reserve handle was connected to his reserve pin with a chain all my doubts were erased . . . NickD ROFLMAO..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #1264 November 13, 2010 My replacement "Big Boar" battery came in today. I'll shove it in tomorrow. And hopefully it works better than the bad one they sent me the first time. This one looks new though and I did the poor boy's load test on it and it tested out all right. Also, got my new seat. Not sure I like the looks, but my bum will be happy. Everything in life is a compromise . . . NickD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #1265 November 15, 2010 Bikers ride to show support for flag waving kid....(school made him remove it, then changed their minds) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U2hB-Pz4zs&feature=player_embedded Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #1266 November 22, 2010 I thought I already posted this, if it is a repeat..sue me...A true Hadcore biker, Gypsylady is one of our Bikers at Ned's , She lost an arm in a car/bike crash a while bck, (Hit by an off duty drunk cop, long story) But she has caught a bit of national attention..Be sure to click on "see other photos" http://www.barnettharley.com/eventsshows/item/3131-daytona-underground-part-2-gypsy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #1267 November 22, 2010 Kind of reminds me of Larry Yohn riding minus the one leg. On another front, I hear there is an outfit buying up all the stock exhausts people take off their store bought stockers in anticipation of more and more states passing the EPA laws concerning modified exhaust and cops beginning to look for the EPA stamp on your pipes. (This just became law in California, but only applies to bikes built in 2013 and later. For now anyway.) So they'll give you $75 dollars for any stock exhaust (which most people just threw into a dumpster) with the idea that down the road they can start selling them back to people at a profit. Pretty smart. But I got a better idea . . . I'm tooling up a clamp device with an engraving die on one side and once you tighten it down over your soon to be illegal pipes it leaves this behind! NickD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #1268 November 22, 2010 LOL, you read my mind, I was going to make a die!Mine being 42 doesn't come under the new laws!Harley here has been saving them for many years, knowing it would happen! (plus restoration parts in the future) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #1269 November 22, 2010 The Dark side of that law, is riders like you and me, can then be pulled over , "just to check compliance" to laws we are not breaking! I had to put up with that during the ape hanger laws years....My biek was legal, but Barely... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #1270 November 22, 2010 Yeah, but the upside to that is when they pull you over for something bogus, like I get pulled over my vertical plate, which is legal, there goes their probable cause. And if you then get into it with cop with an attitude, as long as you don't consent to a search, and they do it anyway, when they find the Glock and the bag of weed, you're still off the hook in court, LOL . . . NickD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #1271 November 22, 2010 Quote Yeah, but the upside to that is when they pull you over for something bogus, like I get pulled over my vertical plate, which is legal, there goes their probable cause. And if you then get into it with cop with an attitude, as long as you don't consent to a search, and they do it anyway, when they find the Glock and the bag of weed, you're still off the hook in court, LOL . . . NickD LOL, with witnesses , How do you prove bogus search? I was pulled over by the biker hating female cop here in Hellcajon , she wrote me up for high bars, and open pipes, plus wanted to search my bike, I said "No" she said "fine , I'll impound your bike, then search it" So I gave in, NOT consented My saddle bag was full of childrens books, of my sons, as I had already told her I was on my way to give some books to a friend for their kid.....She a PISSED...she thought for sure she had me carrying! Who da fuck holds (in thier saddlebag) when riding a chopper...I beet the tickets in court, by bringing my bike, and the Judge actually came out to see and hear it..He repremanded the officer for wasting court time! I was in shock when he started chewing her out.,,,,but seem she hadd a history of writing up harley riders! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #1272 November 23, 2010 >>A true Hadcore biker, GypsyladyShe also posts over here: http://www.hdforums.com/forum/general-harley-davidson-chat/584675-i-made-the-funny-papers.html NickD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #1273 November 23, 2010 Quote >>A true Hadcore biker, GypsyladyShe also posts over here: http://www.hdforums.com/forum/general-harley-davidson-chat/584675-i-made-the-funny-papers.html NickD I think the Aussie biker forum too! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #1274 November 23, 2010 Holy fuck, I tried to join over there , and my screen went ape shit...kept on strecthing! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #1275 November 23, 2010 Grab a Cold one, sit back and watch some great Motorcycle History, thanks to a find by Mopho, over at Ned's! [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aVuu0-q8dQ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
