For Old Guys Only
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LOL! I am begging you Steve, write a book! No matter what the circumstances, you have a story that doubles me over in laughter.Ya gotta do it. Millennia from now when they dig up the "intertube/web", you will be thought of as the Mark Twain of the "yrs b4 the war"
I'll be your agent. (insert jokes here)
Too funny KC, pretty much how it went and thanks!
Benny Hill; May he rest in 
and funny;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJC4HvpWewM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAiq1xKF38k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9I4nZx8UCs
Kinda a good bye to a classic routine, career and life. (last link) A very great Man who made us laugh.
He was the Charlie Chaplin of my time.....
(and I miss him and the humor dearly)
and funny;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJC4HvpWewM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAiq1xKF38k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9I4nZx8UCs
Kinda a good bye to a classic routine, career and life. (last link) A very great Man who made us laugh.
He was the Charlie Chaplin of my time.....
(and I miss him and the humor dearly)
I heard a doctor on the radio talking about something he called, age related masculine degeneration, anyone ever heard of that, and how do you know if you've got it???
Notice how they tell us to protect our eyes (etc) from UV, but the new thing in vehicle headlights has us sitting across the intersection at night from UV headlights? Something's not right there...
I don't know why but this song came to me today and it's stuck in my head. One of the great one-hit-wonders > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeRa3RtBiIU
Good riding music no matter what you're driving or riding.
Tom
Good riding music no matter what you're driving or riding.
Tom
I don't get it? I refuse to! Trying too keep my testicles from degeneration, but what else is new?
Today I look at these kids castrating themselves doing rail jumps on
skateboards and all the other extreme sports out there, and I think to
myself, these morons are bent on their own extinction.....But then I
think back to all the crazy things I did when I was a kid and marvel at
my own survival.
Back in '58 my dad brought home an old springer Monarch with 3" balloon
tires. We lived right at the base of Pike's Peak, and I had a network of
dozens of trails in my backyard. That bike was the original 'fat bike'. It
really sucked going uphill, but coming down it was better than any of the
80s hard tail mountain bikes. Of course those longhorn cruiser bars could
really mess you up in fall, but then any fall on a 45 degree slopecan mess
you up, especially when you don't have a helmet and body armor.
Up on the Gold Camp Road on Cheyenne Mtn. there were loads of really
steep slopes covered with a deep layer of fine granite gravel . We
used to get our kicks running down those slopes. In places one could hop
50,60 feet in a bound. Sometimes we'd even jump over small trees. Sometimes
you'd land in one. I know flat out I've run way faster than any Olympic
track star. Then again, it's not all that difficult when in a near vertical descent.
skateboards and all the other extreme sports out there, and I think to
myself, these morons are bent on their own extinction.....But then I
think back to all the crazy things I did when I was a kid and marvel at
my own survival.
Back in '58 my dad brought home an old springer Monarch with 3" balloon
tires. We lived right at the base of Pike's Peak, and I had a network of
dozens of trails in my backyard. That bike was the original 'fat bike'. It
really sucked going uphill, but coming down it was better than any of the
80s hard tail mountain bikes. Of course those longhorn cruiser bars could
really mess you up in fall, but then any fall on a 45 degree slopecan mess
you up, especially when you don't have a helmet and body armor.
Up on the Gold Camp Road on Cheyenne Mtn. there were loads of really
steep slopes covered with a deep layer of fine granite gravel . We
used to get our kicks running down those slopes. In places one could hop
50,60 feet in a bound. Sometimes we'd even jump over small trees. Sometimes
you'd land in one. I know flat out I've run way faster than any Olympic
track star. Then again, it's not all that difficult when in a near vertical descent.
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Yeah, I look back on some of the stuff that I did and just shake my head. Huge ramp jumps on bicycles before the X Games were ever thought of. Free climbing in Colorado with no protection (and nobody knew exactly where I was......PCP......pre-cell phone....lol). 1200 mile fuel stop only trips on a motorcycle. Sturgis Rally in the 80's on a Goldwing. And lots more things than I could possibly remember.....
If I could go back in time to prevent some of these things...........absolutely not!! I'm boring enough now. Can't imagine what I'd be like if I had never been 'larger than life itself'!!
If I could go back in time to prevent some of these things...........absolutely not!! I'm boring enough now. Can't imagine what I'd be like if I had never been 'larger than life itself'!!
Yep, I'm guilty too. Did some stuff that makes me shake my head today when I look back on them. Bike ramps, swinging across ravines on ropes, gokart racing in a kart that was capable of 90mph with just a helmet.
Probably the dumbest was flying a Beech Bonanza that was so out of balance because of 8 scuba tanks and gear stored aft of the CG that after we burned off some fuel, forward of the CG, when I landed I couldn't keep the nose wheel on the ground. We taxied in dragging the tail. Stupid, stupid, stupid. But, we thought it was funny at the time. That landing was a handful too. What made it even dumber was we flew from Miami 50 miles across the Atlantic to Bimini in a tail heavy single engine aircraft. You couldn't pay me enough today to do that again.
Tom
Probably the dumbest was flying a Beech Bonanza that was so out of balance because of 8 scuba tanks and gear stored aft of the CG that after we burned off some fuel, forward of the CG, when I landed I couldn't keep the nose wheel on the ground. We taxied in dragging the tail. Stupid, stupid, stupid. But, we thought it was funny at the time. That landing was a handful too. What made it even dumber was we flew from Miami 50 miles across the Atlantic to Bimini in a tail heavy single engine aircraft. You couldn't pay me enough today to do that again.
Tom
I'm beginning to think that there's folks on this forum that get less sleep than I do......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wShmbjqP3WU
This video may not be dignified for an 'old man', but for some reason I just really like it!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wShmbjqP3WU
This video may not be dignified for an 'old man', but for some reason I just really like it!!
As do I, fortunately as I too did such "PCP...pre-cell phone" or PDC (pre-digital cam) as the case may be - I'm at least spared any lasting evidence aside from some scar tissue lol
Speaking of, I thought some may enjoy a new series dedicated to exactly such shenanigans, the physics therein & the consequences resultant
http://natgeotv.com/uk/science-of-stupid/about