Motorcycle safety

[IEDmagnet]

Though I have assured her I am not nearly as stupid as I used to be.

AND you're lucky as fuck to boot.

A trend that seemed to carry over to my deployments.


(Ie...I got my nickname and I'm still upright and lucid to a degree.)

[KW Driver]

we have a member of the board here who put his 1000 into a field (couldn't hold the corner) at 160 I think, and walked away.

[RangerX]

[hijack]

Do any of you know the details of the story of the guy in 3/75 in the late 80s that got busted for doing some serious police evasion. In Minnesota I think?

[/hijack]

[KW Driver]

I remember hearing a lot of stories about bikes on 27 and elsewhere, running around from locals and MPs and getting inside the fence when Bn was on Harmony Church.

and when I was there, there was some jackass CPT that ran his vette down 185 and Dixie but missed the right at the airfield.

[K.Ingraham]

I have assured her I am not nearly as stupid as I used to be.

Oh nonsense. Between your accumulated IED hits, your attempted amphibious assault landing with a Harley and your customer base; I reckon you've blown at least 8.5 of your nine lives.
Have you considered dishwashing in a convent? Oh right, never mind. You'd be handling knives and they're sharp and pointy.

[IEDmagnet]

I have assured her I am not nearly as stupid as I used to be.

Oh nonsense. Between your accumulated IED hits, your attempted amphibious assault landing with a Harley and your customer base; I reckon you've blown at least 8.5 of your nine lives.
Have you considered dishwashing in a convent? Oh right, never mind. You'd be handling knives and they're sharp and pointy.

Yeah, you're right... I'm an idiot.

Oh yeah, you just made my wife piss herself cause she heard me laugh and looked at the computer. She also has decided you are right, and is refusing to ever consider anything else dangerous.

[Lefty]

"safe motorcycling" is a contradiction in terms.

[merlyn]

"safe motorcycling" is a contradiction in terms.

oxymoron comes to mind :o

[Black 6]

The reporter runs like a girl. I can't tell if the video is real or not, but it sure was funny.

AHHH... She is a girl.... that kind of observation I would expect from some on in 1st or 3rd, but come on.. your killing me here.

[RangerX]

The reporter runs like a girl. I can't tell if the video is real or not, but it sure was funny.

AHHH... She is a girl.... that kind of observation I would expect from some on in 1st or 3rd, but come on.. your killing me here.

Look, we all know you West Coast Rangers are used to seeing girls that make Sasquatch look hot.

[K.Ingraham]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/0 ... fires.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

On a different subject altogether, this link from the link is a photo gallery from the Russian wildfires. Some awesome work in there. Great photography & a cruel, dramatic subject.
and a little light comedy as well; President Putin pretending to be at the controls of a Beriev200 firefighting jet on a water drop run. Even better than Bush II landing an S-3 on a carrier. Politico Rule #3: When ya go nuthin', try to look good.

[K.Ingraham]

The Russian equivalent of FEMA/Forest Service/BLM etc - the "Ministry for Emergency Situations" (МЧС), is as squared away as any anywhere, insofar as wildland firefighting skill goes; but they, like most other ministries in the Russian Federation, are seriously underfunded and command/control/coordination above the regional level was gutted 3-4 years ago during one of Putin/Medvedev's "reforms".
Still, they have a lot of resources, but there is little unity of command to apply those resources. Besides, this year's fires and temperatures are at a level unknown in recorded Russian history. The area that's affected is as large as the continental USA. We'd be severely challenged to deal with just the distances involved, to say nothing of the scale of the fires.

And to de-hijack and relate this back to the original topic of motorcycles, see Photo #30 in the link.

[GoldCoast]

The reporter runs like a girl. I can't tell if the video is real or not, but it sure was funny.

AHHH... She is a girl.... that kind of observation I would expect from some on in 1st or 3rd, but come on.. your killing me here.

At 11 months into a deployment I am just happy to see a girl at all. Even on the computer. I'm gonna go watch the video again. :)