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Mid-South ride, eat, and meet
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Polar Bear Ride 1-1-2022
New Years Day Ride, all welcome. Meet at Shell Station/Circle K. Highway 64 and Germantown Road, Memphis. Meet at 9:30AM leave at 10:00AM. Ride to Shelby Forest General Store. Short visit then ride into Shelby Forest then to the Mississippi River Ramp for a photo opportunity. I plan to ride if the weather cooperates. My ride will start at my house to the General Store to meet the group ride, around 10:30.
New Years Day Ride, all welcome. Meet at Shell Station/Circle K. Highway 64 and Germantown Road, Memphis. Meet at 9:30AM leave at 10:00AM. Ride to Shelby Forest General Store. Short visit then ride into Shelby Forest then to the Mississippi River Ramp for a photo opportunity. I plan to ride if the weather cooperates. My ride will start at my house to the General Store to meet the group ride, around 10:30.
Polar Bear Ride- Not
Planned on doing the ride. I really wanted to be part of a group ride. Rain, wind, storm fronts; I couldn’t pull the trigger on the ride. I ain’t the rider I use to be. Planned to ride today.
Again, not to be. But it would be good for a real polar bear.
Planned on doing the ride. I really wanted to be part of a group ride. Rain, wind, storm fronts; I couldn’t pull the trigger on the ride. I ain’t the rider I use to be. Planned to ride today.
Again, not to be. But it would be good for a real polar bear.
Not the rider I was 30 years ago.Riding to York, Pa.
Sitting around the house bored to death. Ran across this old packet of photo’s from back in the day. Riding to York, Pa. to the MOA National.
Riding with my partner at that time, Greg Parrish. He started me riding in the early 80’s.
Collecting fire wood on way. To save money, we camped free behind old buildings and barns anywhere we wanted or needed. Loved it, we was riding gypsies. Young and stupid. Now I’m old and still stupid, glad I still get to ride.
Sitting around the house bored to death. Ran across this old packet of photo’s from back in the day. Riding to York, Pa. to the MOA National.
Riding with my partner at that time, Greg Parrish. He started me riding in the early 80’s.
Collecting fire wood on way. To save money, we camped free behind old buildings and barns anywhere we wanted or needed. Loved it, we was riding gypsies. Young and stupid. Now I’m old and still stupid, glad I still get to ride.
R100gs
Saw a few of these at the national; I was intrigued. My idea was to move up to a modern K100. But, seeing these GS’s caught my interest. Riding with Greg; we were always taking our street oriented /6’s down rough
dirt and gravel roads and primitive camping. Greg had grown up riding both dirt bikes and street bikes. In a lot of ways Greg was one of the best riders I ever met. Being a good off road rider made U a better street rider. Well, at this time I was in a steep learning curve.
Saw a few of these at the national; I was intrigued. My idea was to move up to a modern K100. But, seeing these GS’s caught my interest. Riding with Greg; we were always taking our street oriented /6’s down rough
dirt and gravel roads and primitive camping. Greg had grown up riding both dirt bikes and street bikes. In a lot of ways Greg was one of the best riders I ever met. Being a good off road rider made U a better street rider. Well, at this time I was in a steep learning curve.
My Motorcycle Passion
Riding to and attending the York, Pa. MOA National was quite the experience for me. I started to see the size of the club. Seeing 1,000’s of fellow BMW there, let me know that I wasn’t the only one with this motorcycle passion/addiction. Riding to the National, I was a newbie, after the rally I was an old veteran. My focus was the next ride, run, rally. Riding my motorcycle, was it for me.
Riding to and attending the York, Pa. MOA National was quite the experience for me. I started to see the size of the club. Seeing 1,000’s of fellow BMW there, let me know that I wasn’t the only one with this motorcycle passion/addiction. Riding to the National, I was a newbie, after the rally I was an old veteran. My focus was the next ride, run, rally. Riding my motorcycle, was it for me.
Making The Jump
Made the jump from local day rides to cross country rides. I liked commuting, day rides, hitting the local bars, hanging with the bikers. Hearing talk of group overnight rides outa town. Riding and seeing the USA from the seat of my motorcycle hit the spot. Had to get my gear together to camp out with those crazy Beemer rider. My geometric riding circle kept expanding getting larger. My bike became my travel partner. Getting back home, people were asking; where have U been? Wished I could do that. I had the right bike, rode with the right people and went to the cool places. I got plans for more rides coming up. The Naturally Beemer Rally and the MOA National in Springfield, Mo.are on the list. I’m getting my gear together.
Made the jump from local day rides to cross country rides. I liked commuting, day rides, hitting the local bars, hanging with the bikers. Hearing talk of group overnight rides outa town. Riding and seeing the USA from the seat of my motorcycle hit the spot. Had to get my gear together to camp out with those crazy Beemer rider. My geometric riding circle kept expanding getting larger. My bike became my travel partner. Getting back home, people were asking; where have U been? Wished I could do that. I had the right bike, rode with the right people and went to the cool places. I got plans for more rides coming up. The Naturally Beemer Rally and the MOA National in Springfield, Mo.are on the list. I’m getting my gear together.
Back to School Part II
I’m back at Ark. State Mid-South Junior College taking general machine shop. I’m here as basically a Adjunct full time student. A year and half ago I was here taking the CNC machining course. Some at the college consider that one of the hardest courses here. 19 credit hours of work. I passed, but it kinda kicked my butt. Now I’m here to freshen up my general machine shop skills working with the old school conventional lathes, mills, surface grinders, etc.. I did this work for 20 years back in the 70’s and 80’s. Rick the instructor asked what I wanted to start on. The lathe, which is the machine I started on back in the mid 70’s. I’m basically a 69 year old retread intern. Watch the movie ‘The Intern’, that pretty much sums it up. Robert DeNiro plays the 70 year old intern, I’m turning 69 this year.
I’m back at Ark. State Mid-South Junior College taking general machine shop. I’m here as basically a Adjunct full time student. A year and half ago I was here taking the CNC machining course. Some at the college consider that one of the hardest courses here. 19 credit hours of work. I passed, but it kinda kicked my butt. Now I’m here to freshen up my general machine shop skills working with the old school conventional lathes, mills, surface grinders, etc.. I did this work for 20 years back in the 70’s and 80’s. Rick the instructor asked what I wanted to start on. The lathe, which is the machine I started on back in the mid 70’s. I’m basically a 69 year old retread intern. Watch the movie ‘The Intern’, that pretty much sums it up. Robert DeNiro plays the 70 year old intern, I’m turning 69 this year.
Simple Old School Machining
Took my smallest machinist tool box to class, easier to work out of than the loaner tool boxes. Making parts to fix some the lathes, in this case a simple pin that helps drive the lead screw.
Chips a flyin. Just like the old days, when I was a young machinist. I think I still got it.
Took my smallest machinist tool box to class, easier to work out of than the loaner tool boxes. Making parts to fix some the lathes, in this case a simple pin that helps drive the lead screw.
Chips a flyin. Just like the old days, when I was a young machinist. I think I still got it.
