"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Bob I don't know a lot about motorbikes, just had a few Japanese commuter type bikes when teen-ager, but a lot of fun (when it's warm ) Your bike looks very sleek and understated, elegant, not weird or overdone like some custom bikes can look. I reckon you should give her a turn around the block you know!:cool:

Jolipapa Glad to see you are haunting the highways and carrying some nice knives with you.;)

Gary That's a nice Fox! Used to get them at the country place, including cubs that would come righ up to the door and look at you. Unfortunately, the farmers around here are obsessive clean up types, they just knock down all old barns and sheds to tidy up the place. It's idiotic and un environmental as birds and animals all thrive on disused buildings, derelict barns etc give and show character to the landscape too.
 
Nice bikes guys!
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Here's my ride these days. It doesn't have much soul like the Harley and the Norton, but it sure is fun!
 
You know I had a Yamaha 700 I think when I was 12, not sure why but 700 pops into my head. It cost 50 bucks, and was never going to run again :D. I tore it apart and learned how everything worked. Scrapped the metal for about 70 bucks. 40% profit isn't bad for something you completely destroy :D.


Connor
 
silenthunterstudios said:
Life is good. It is Friday. I owe everyone and their brother money, but tomorrow morning I set out for the mountains, or hills as some of you in the Rockies would call them, of western Maryland for a knife show. I am teaching a class at work, and while they are looking out the window too, even on a dreary day like today, they are doing well with the examples we're going over. My dogs are doing well, although my old man is feeling his age in this nasty foggy drizzly weather (as am I, my back is horrible). I've gotten my truck back this week, paid over $2000 to get the front end fixed and new tires. I'm not done yet fixing it up. Nope, it's not a show truck, it's my daily driver, a 2003 Silverado. But it's good to have my truck back.

Listening to the comedian Joey Diaz's podcast, the Church of What's Happening Now (definitely rated R, maybe worse, for any interested), he said the following:

"I've got one foot in the grave and one foot on a banana peel."

I've got so much on my plate, as do many others, and my burden is nowhere near as bad as others burdens, but I am happy today. Thankful to be employed, thankful to have two great pups and thankful to be able to go to a knife show (window shopping for knives might be torture to some, not me).

Have a good one fellers and ladies.
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I love this post. It feels very raw and honest. It's like a snapshot of my daily thoughts. Life is good. There's plenty of bad going down at any one time, but overall I'm very blessed and I can't remember the last time there wasn't any good to focus on and help me forget about the bad. Have a good trip and a great time at the show, Steve. Thank you for sharing a little of your life and reminding me that despite my own burdens the grass is green and the flowers are starting to bloom.
 
The last bike my wife (Cindy) and I had. A Honda Gold Wing Aspencade. Nice heavy touring bike. It's the last bike we took on an extended road trip from coast to coast (San Diego to Augusta, GA to Charleston, SC) and up through the Dakotas. We put about 20 thousand miles on it during that trip.

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Yeah, Yeah, I know - it's a rice burner but a very good bike. In my defense I gotta say my first bike was a Harley that I rode back in the late 1950s early 1960s. Can't remember the name/model.
 
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Nice shot, Gary, we have a pair of them behind our house as well, and sometimes they come up into the yard.

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Yep, he saw me through the window!

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Thanks guys!

Great bikes everyone - ALL my mates have or had Bikes, I know myself well and never got into it as I probably would have killed myself as a youngster.

A couple of my mates still have Harleys, one of them I painted in Red Candy, and a few of them are heavily into dirt bikes/ off road Bikes - awesome to watch!

Gary and Jeff....Wow what a privilege to see Foxes - their numbers are dropping - but a beautiful animal - I would on the other hand fear for my cats if I had any around there though?
 
In my yout' I had a string of bikes culminating in a Suzuki GS-750 I owned at college into my mid-20s. Got to where I wasn't riding it much and seeing as how I also had a car but lived in an apartment complex and didn't have anywhere to store it out of the weather, I ended up selling it.
 
My guess was a carved walnut shell. Whatever, it's some fancy whittling! :eek:

- GT
 
Nice bikes guys.:thumbup: I've been trying to find a picture of my chopped Panhead I had in my youth but so far to no avail.
 
clutchcarter said:
Nice bikes guys!




Here's my ride these days. It doesn't have much soul like the Harley and the Norton, but it sure is fun!
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The Dr650SE is my favorite 650-class dual sport bike, the bike I picked for three trips to Mexico. Big enough for a road trip, nimble enough (barely) for a little bit of single track, and brilliant on the rocky roads of Copper Canyon.

Not as much class as the Norton but better as an everyday ride.
 
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