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OK, guys. Now is the time for pix of your winter projects. Rebuilding the shocks. Prepping for spring's mud. You know, what we are SUPPOSED to be doing, apart from heading to the garage for a Moose Drool ale.

Bumper -- let's see your frilly lace you are going to embroider on your seat.
Harvey -- the log chain you use to drag your bull elk out of the woods with your bike.
Troy -- creative diaper recycling & muffler repacking? (How's the smell?)
Corvado -- a shot of the mung collection from your 125 that has never been cleaned.
David H -- how many empty beer cans can your pickup bed hold with the tailgate down?
XR-Nut -- Is it true you are installing a used Cabella engine in your Honda to get more power?
Motoracer13 -- Installing a hitch on your quad so you can haul serious tail gate "supplies" into the woods.
MacWildcat -- reprogramming your KXL400 so it will finally run with XR-Nut's Cabella?
And me? Well, there is Moose Drool for anyone who drops by to admire my pristine bikes.

Stu

Nah, I'm working on converting my KTM to a tracked cycle! Wish I still had a 3 wheeler, riding in snow is a ball.

Recovering from laparoscopic abdominal hernia surgery. I will spare you all and not post pictures. Surgery was Nov 30, I was back at work Dec 2. I don't lift my high school students.

Projects I should be working on:
- Installing a generation II FCR-MX carb on my 2002 RFS to replace the gen I. Not sure why except I have the gen II.
- Installing my super-secret recent purchase on my 2002 RFS. This one might wait until next winter.

My winter project this year is the same as last year-do just enough around the house to keep my wife from blowing a gasket........again.

No need to be bored and snowbound in February. All you guys near Wichita need to get to Jeeps;

Feb 8 - WJMC sanctioned Hare Scramble
38th Annual St Valentines Day Massacre ( 6 hour / 2 man)
Sign in 8:00am / Practice 9:00am / Race 10:00am

I'm not sure what they call it a Hare Scramble because the course is more like the old school outdoor Euopean natural terrain MX tracks, which is alot of fun to ride when you're used to bustin' bark off trees 18" apart. Last year it was dry and mid 40's temps, perfect. Two years prior to that it was 20 degrees, and the track was 33% frozen ground, 33% ice and 33% snow and it just got worse from there.

Grab yourself a teammate and have some fun, you'll never forget it.

-Harv

I have a nice motorcycle trip planned this winter. The only thing that would stop me would be snow or ice and maybe work. My plans:

Feb. 3 leave around noon. Ride south on Highway 71 until dark hopefully make it to Fort Smith.

Feb 4 and 5. Take gravel and back roads to Austin, TX. Along the way visit historic Nacogdoches, TX Dinner with daughter in Austin

Feb 6. Spend time with my daughter

Feb 7. Ride to San Antonio and visit my brothers farm

Feb. 8. Ride the hill country during the day. Go to Texas-KU basketball game with daughter that night!!!

Feb. 9 to when I get home. Ride gravel and back roads towards New Orleans. Ride to Venice LA and then up the Mississippi River to Memphis and then home.

A lot of that will depend on the weather. If it is crummy easy of Austin I'll play longer in the hill country. Work may also have me back sooner however it is always fun to plan and dream.

Stu: I can understand your interest in my SEAT as that was all you ever saw of me when we raced BLACK JACK.

Yea, it was usually on the ground splattered in mud with eveyone motoring by laughing.

stu

I might change my oil. I'm not going to overexert myself. Anyone who is up for some fun can come over and change the heater core in my grand prix. I still haven't done it.

STU: CAN TELL YOU ARE 70. YOUR RECALL IS ACCURATE. HOWEVER, IT IS NOT TOO UNCOMMON FOR ONE TO PASS PERSONAL EXPERIENCES TO OTHERS IN THE AUTUMN OF THEIR YEARS.

SURE WAS FUN THO!!!

Curado,

Change your oil? You up for that? Pretty challenging for an IS guy. You know, you have to take something REAL, not vaporware, and USE it, not write it and hope for the best (unless you can get a 14-year old boy to test it for you, that is). "Wrench" comes to mind as an object, and they are measured for your bike in real units, mm, not "system specs" which are as vacuous & insubstantial as unicorns.

If you stock up on Moose Drool you might talk me into coming over with objects needed for that job. Might.

Stu

I've refined an algorithm for changing my oil. After some refactoring with better use of interfaces and loose coupling, I was able to make it work for the general case of bike maintenance. Other procedures such as adjusting my chain are easily accommodated with this new system of my own streamlined design.

To avoid scope creep, I cordon off my cars in their own partition apart from my bikes, but in general I utilize a plethora of the same off the shelf tools. Reusable arrangements of a common genus are best implemented with minimal wasted efforts and personnel expenses, as recosting is avoided and duplication is nonexistant. But of course I knew this starting out when I selected a methodology.

Looking at your bike and merely calling it "done" will not yield tangible results, Stu.

Curado,

I "look" at my bike to compare its aesthetic appeal over the dreck you haul around that is only fit for comedy one liners. It looks anesthetized by monkeys or teen agers and is a parody of a dirt bike. No offbeat algorithm can address this.

Oil is to your bike as beer to you -- an essential, and letting it turn into tar awaiting your attention is something you expect of crude businessmen, neurasthenic house wives, malaise inducing politicians or prostitutes. Partitioning it is meaningless.

You should have known that.

Stu

Stu, the construction company called and they want their black and orange road block back. Told them I last saw you pushing it around out in the woods and you'd have it back soon!

Am I going to have to separate you two?!

Yep. We would like to have you right in between so we could mash you when we suck your number plates off when we blow by.

Stu

Hey, I never claimed to be fast! I'm the guy who cried "uncle" just trying to "trail ride" with you around Milford and Perry.

Curado,

Wal-Mart called. They are tired of you raiding their dumpster for your bikes & parts and would like you to return the one you are using since it is a cart after all. "Can't he just leave red stuff alone?" they whined.

Stu

Stu I know where you can trade that in if you ever want to get a reputable dirtbike. City scrap might give you 10 bucks for the aluminum!


Ok,ok. I'll play nice.

Stu I dont know why you been peeking in the garage but that contraption is for the back of my truck! You were close though. I'm taking a fourwheeler shipping crate bottom anding in some metal and expanded metal floor and a hitch for the receaver on my truck. The goal is to haul 2 quads in the back of my truck without standing a quad on end. I can already acomplish this using my meatl bifold ramp but is kind of a pain.

Now as far as all the trash talk....I thought I was the only one that started acting more inmature as I got older! I love it!