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Old Jul 8, 2024 | 04:09 AM
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Good morning WA...hope y'all had a great weekend!!! Gonna be another Tropical Day here...temps in the mid 90s with humidity in the low 70% range. Hope MA Nature is treating you better!!!

Tim...interesting segment on 60 Minutes last night...a guy had a company that 3D prints houses!!! They are working on a project for NASA to build stuff on the moon. Check it out if you can!!!
 
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Old Jul 8, 2024 | 03:05 PM
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@TheGreatPumpkin The Bikes look fun, which one is yours? What is your name? I can't remember if you told me or not.
Nikolas, The Indian is mine, the Honda is a friends, the Triumph is the wife's old bike she sold to another of our friends, her new Triumph missed the photos cause she likes to park by herself.
 
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Old Jul 8, 2024 | 07:20 PM
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Nice Nikolas, The Indian looks great. It's been years since I have had a road bike, my last true road bike was a BMW K100. Prior to that I had a 1983 Honda VRF 750 Interceptor. I've only been a couple years with out a bike of some sort, my last bike was a Hot Rodded DRZ400, I put a 450 big bore kit on it, Edelbrock 42 mm carburetor, full Yoshimura race exhaust, Hot cams and a Rekluse auto clutch. It was a fun dual sport bike, fast and comfortable but not a race bike.

Ken, Thanks for the info on the 60 minute show, I'll have to see if I can find it online.
 
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Old Jul 8, 2024 | 07:47 PM
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Evening Tim and Nikolas. Things warming up here as well. Takes more effort to do stuff. Had to put a next row of twine on the tomatoes. they like the heat; glad I got them mulched!
 
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Old Jul 8, 2024 | 08:21 PM
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Evening Tim and Nikolas. Things warming up here as well. Takes more effort to do stuff. Had to put a next row of twine on the tomatoes. they like the heat; glad I got them mulched!
Yessir another warm one, its tryin to cool down now. My neighbor guerilla gardens and is tryin to grow tomatoes in the marina landscaping.

Is that the BMW that has the big brick sideways motor Tim? I'm hoping the next bike will be a Yamaha TW200.
 
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Old Jul 8, 2024 | 09:46 PM
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Oh my goodness it was a hot one today!
I stayed in the a/c all day and out of the heat!

Once the sun goes down I'll head down to the barn and chip away on some projects.
 
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Old Jul 9, 2024 | 06:27 AM
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Good morning WA...Happy Saturday #2!!! Another scorcher here...mid 90s...70% RH...just the way I like it!!! Hope MA Nature is giving you a break!!!
 
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Old Jul 9, 2024 | 10:29 AM
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The heat has definitely settled in here. 100 on Sunday and 17% humidity, 102 yesterday and 14%. Today is supposed to be the hottest of the week, looking for 100 by noon and 110 at 5pm. Tomorrow is forecast for more of the same, but with a 30mph wind kicking up creating a fire danger. Everybody be careful out there.
 
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Old Jul 9, 2024 | 11:13 AM
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Good morning Ford fans!

Well, it's hot here as well, imagen that! We bought another window A/C yesterday for the back room in our house, I got installed last night and well it's working.
 
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Old Jul 9, 2024 | 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by TheGreatPumpkin
Yessir another warm one, its tryin to cool down now. My neighbor guerilla gardens and is tryin to grow tomatoes in the marina landscaping.

Is that the BMW that has the big brick sideways motor Tim? I'm hoping the next bike will be a Yamaha TW200.
Yes, the big brick. I know a couple people that have had the TW200, I can't really say to much about it. It's not a real good dual sport bike, and it's not a real good trail bike but it will do both. The good thing is it will do both and it is short. On my DRZ I could only touch the ground with my toes. I think a lot of the KTMs are even taller.
 
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Old Jul 9, 2024 | 12:34 PM
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Ktms are too tall and expensive for me. There are a handful of those TWs that cruise around Anacortes. I want the TW for toolin around the San Juans.
 
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Old Jul 9, 2024 | 02:35 PM
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The TW sounds like a great bike for that.
 
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Old Jul 9, 2024 | 04:15 PM
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Yeah buddy street legal, easy on off ferries, good mpg and can still do the trails round the islands.

My buddy has a KTM and 4 wheelers over at his cabin in Mazama for when wana get squirrley.
 
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Evening Washington. Could you please keep the heat out there or send it back where it came from and not towards the East! Good to hear you guys talk about bikes. Maybe I will get mine out if it cools down a bit. When I was working, I would ride it a good share of the year. Now every time I have to run somewhere I usually need more cargo space than my bike can give as it now stands. Dual sports are nice to have. I have a '73 TX500 that I used to try to use as a dual sport, but it liked it better on the street as it was intended.
 
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Old Jul 10, 2024 | 04:06 AM
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Good morning WA...Happy Hump Saturday!!! Another scorcher here...kind of getting sick of it!!!

Hope y'all have a great day!!!
 
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