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General Banter / Spare tire
« on: June 02, 2023, 08:08:26 AM »
My wife's new Volvo does not come with a spare tire, not even a donut. I don't know what to say. Apparently that's a thing now.

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General Banter / You folks
« on: November 04, 2022, 07:00:22 PM »
After 2 full seasons, I have not found riders that hold a candle to the best of you guys.

Salute.

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General Banter / Data Breach?
« on: October 01, 2020, 01:37:57 PM »
anyone else receiving warnings from chrome when signing in stating that there was a data breach here?

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General Banter / Maxwrist
« on: April 23, 2020, 08:58:36 AM »
I'd never heard of this joker until he was mentioned in a recent thread. Thankfully I only spent 3 minutes watching his YouTube nonsense.
90% of MSTA riders are better than him. He's a straight line speed freak. Not impressed.

Though how does he get the camera angle shots? He must use a drone?

I was taking my morning constitutional while watching his clip, so at least the time wasn't wasted.   :-p

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General Banter / Ride your own ride
« on: October 21, 2019, 09:42:35 PM »

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General Banter / Heterodoxy
« on: October 13, 2019, 06:29:46 AM »
I learned a new word this morning.
More later....

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General Banter / Do not go gentle into that good night ......
« on: August 21, 2019, 07:49:58 AM »
From a fellow motorcyclists FB page. Good stuff.

Go Fast Don't Die


"He who becomes the slave of habit,
who follows the same routes every day,
who never changes pace,
who does not risk and change the color of his clothes,
who does not speak and does not experience,
dies slowly.


He or she who shuns passion,
who prefers black on white,
dotting ones "i’s" rather than a bundle of emotions, the kind that make your eyes glimmer,
that turn a yawn into a smile,
that make the heart pound in the face of mistakes and feelings,
dies slowly.

He or she who does not turn things topsy-turvy,
who is unhappy at work,
who does not risk certainty for uncertainty,
to thus follow a dream,
those who do not forego sound advice at least once in their lives,
die slowly.

He who does not travel, who does not read,
who does not listen to music,
who does not find grace in himself,
she who does not find grace in herself,
dies slowly.

He who slowly destroys his own self-esteem,
who does not allow himself to be helped,
who spends days on end complaining about his own bad luck, about the rain that never stops,
dies slowly.

He or she who abandons a project before starting it, who fails to ask questions on subjects he doesn't know, he or she who don't reply when they are asked something they do know,
die slowly.

Let's try and avoid death in small doses,
reminding oneself that being alive requires an effort far greater than the simple fact of breathing.

Only a burning patience will lead
to the attainment of a splendid happiness."

— Martha Medeiros

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General Banter / The Pickle Factory
« on: August 20, 2019, 08:16:57 PM »
In all my years riding just a stone's throw from this joint, I've never been. Per the pictures on Yelp I'm not real impressed, though the setting looks great. Is it better than the normal bar food fare?

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General Banter / Tour de France / Yamaha Nikens
« on: July 15, 2019, 06:41:17 PM »
File this under FWIW. Julia and I enjoy watching the Tour de France which is taking place right now. We are both bicyclists, so it's fun watching the top riders do their thing, as well as all the wonderful views of France. The tour officials, as swell as some of the camera crews are riding Yamaha Nikens. Kind of cool seeing them in a real environment. (They look sluggish, heavy and awkward to me  :P)

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General Banter / Random bytes, worth what you paid to read them.
« on: June 17, 2019, 01:30:37 PM »
Hello Fellow Riders. I thought I’d drop in, say hello and broach a few topics.

On a person note, I’m going to mention this. As I discussed in this thread, http://mn-msta.com/index.php/topic,1960.0.html, I fulfilled my promise (mostly) last year with 3 open forum rides, and one large private ride. If others don’t step up and post a ride, this forum is effective dead regarding group rides. Organizing a ride takes a lot of work and it does open you up for slings and arrows thrown by those in the peanut gallery that never post rides. A few of the complaints will be deserved, most will not. 

Ray and I have organized more open forum rides, via this group and the 3 other dominant groups over the last 17 years, than any other person. Others have posted rides, some more than others, but none more than Ray and I. This isn’t boasting (lol, believe me!), just stating fact. These opinions I’m about to write about are worth what you paid to read them.  Zip, nada, the big goose egg. :)

The national MSTA FB group had a recent post that caught my attention. The fellow mentioned that we are a very diverse group of people, sometimes with nothing else in common other than our shared love of motorcycles / motorcycling. And even with my previous sentence, you see some of these differences. Some of us love the motorcycle more, and some love motorcycling more. (Neither is better than the other, just different).

That fact that we are a VERY diverse group of people in our personality makeup, in addition to our differences in what constitutes a “group ride”, mandates that what makes a “group ride” effective is INFORMATION. 
If a person were to post on a skiing forum, “Hey, let’s get together and go skiing”, most would show up at the resort, and then splinter off into subgroups. The black diamond skiers, the blue square and green circle (expert, average, and beginner) skiers will rarely ski together. This is an example of why I feel it’s important to lay out what exactly your posted ride is going to be.

These examples are presented only to show the vast differences of rides and I’m not applying worth to any of them over the other.
1.   Iron butt ride! Let’s get out and do a 1000 mile day!
2.   Twisties all day: Let’s get out and do 75 miles legs, few short gas stops, one hour lunch. Speeds reasonable in the straights, “do your own thing” in the corners
3.   Flying kites! Let’s get out, listen to some Peter, Paul and Mary, smell some flowers and enjoy the day.
4.   Kickstands and kicking tires: Let’s get together for lunch on our motorcycles and swap riding stories.

Just as a beginner skier doesn’t want to ski the mogul hill and the black diamond skier doesn’t want to ski bunny slopes, riders of different tastes as described above will not want to ride the other styles of rides. (AGAIN, I’m not assigning worth to these styles)
Given all of us have various commitments outside riding, the days we DO get off to ride should be as we hoped them to be. Hence: Information.

I’ve learned 2 important things from RR and RK (abbreviations to protect the guilty, but you know who these folks are) regarding group riding over the past 17 years. The importance of stressing the “ride your own ride” philosophy as well as the fact that people like to ride WITH others. BOTH can be accomplished via the methods I laid out above.




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General Banter / Work / Fun
« on: May 26, 2019, 06:21:14 AM »
There is a LOT of work involved in our version of fun. But it is worth it.  :)

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General Banter / Huh? What?
« on: February 15, 2019, 07:48:22 AM »
Recently had a hearing test, 40% hearing loss in my right ear. Most likely due to a lot of loud music, both live and recorded throughout my life. I'm sure motorcycling played a part in it as well.

Good things have a price. I wouldn't change a thing. :)


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General Banter / Curious Thread
« on: November 15, 2018, 07:16:35 AM »
Curious thread over at the national MSTA Facebook page of posting a picture of yourself and referencing your age. A person finally posted a counter thought on the trend, which has provoked a lively debate. I see both sides of the argument.

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General Banter / Various Ozark Bliss
« on: October 24, 2018, 10:06:34 AM »

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General Banter / If
« on: October 16, 2018, 08:11:51 AM »
If this website falls off the face of the earth without warning, remember the parent MSTA can be found here.

http://www.ridemsta.com/mstaforums/index.php

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