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The lunch ride was comprised of folks from surrounding towns who had made contact on the Internet; six bikes and seven people made up our group.
The ride leader set the pace near the posted speed suggestion and we skinned it back for Luling, TX, watermelon capitol and home of great barbecue. We started and ended under a few clouds but the day averaged about 96°F, perfect for a ride in the country. The town of Luling and the restaurant where we ate were jammed, and I mean jammed, with people attending the watermelon festival. Seating was at a premium but this sweet thing offered to let me sit with her and her friend. Fine barbecue with two honeys
was tempting, but I already have more women than I deserve so I sent over one of the other men. Spread the wealth, I say. There were lots of bikes in town, mostly Harleys, but also a contingent of urban bikers from Houston with their tricked out sport bikes that drew a lot of attention. The ride leader and the Corpus bunch decided to return via the San Antonio area. I elected to follow the only woman rider (imagine that) since her route took would take her through a bit of the rolling prairie, with a stop to see her parents, before riding south and homeward.
Her folks were at a family reunion at their church so I went in to say howdy. I met her kin, ate delicious apple pie and talked with Uncle Floyd about the Matchless motorcycle he rode in 1950.I surely enjoyed our stop, and am pleased that such an unlikely side trip was part of my day's adventure. As we continued south the day cooled off, slightly, but we still made a couple of stops for water and fuel, giving us a chance to blow a little smoke before parting ways in Beeville. The sea breeze was blowing directly head-on and the big yella bike wanted to stretch her legs so I twisted the wick, a little, and rolled up to our four-way stop just as the Sexy Granny did. Instead of having to cook, she dined on barbecue imported from Luling while I regaled her with tales of my excursion. She is a very lucky woman.
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Kinfolk
Posted On 06/18/2008 01:59:22
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LOL! NO, you haven't!
Ripped off from an owners' forum:  The 2008 H-D XR1200 is only available in Europe, Africa and the Middle-East. Now how is an American motorcycle not available in America? That is the most retarded thing I have ever heard. Not that I'd buy one anyway but ?
With the "tax and spend" bunch in the Capitol considering more taxes on gasoline perhaps THIS TACTIC is something we might consider.
"Rosewood", the trio I play in, has been hard at work in Gilley's Recording Studio, here in Corpus town.
Dennis hadn't recorded an acoustic band before so he took some video of us to display on his website, and passed some still photos from it on to me.
The area we began recording in is almost like a waiting room. The board, that has all the sliders and knobs, is almost window dressing as modern recording is digital and lots of the engineer's work is done with a computer mouse. Every function of the actual board can be displayed on the computer monitor and operated from there.
 There are different ways to record a band. We recored live, that is, we played as if we were performing with the instruments plugged directly into the recording equipment, rather than amplifiers.
Each instrument has its own track (think of it as a file on a computer) that can be manipulated, over-dubbed or removed altogether without affecting the recorded sound of the other instruments.
The singing is recorded first on what is called a scratch track. Since the microphone picks up the sound of the instruments, another recording of the vocals is made in the sound-proof booth and the original discarded, or scratched.Some of the instruments were also re-recorded in the booth. Their rich sounds are captured better this way.
There is still some of the business of the music business to attend to, fees paid to comply with copyright law and we'll have to created art for the CD cover. Dennis will work his engineering magic on the recordings to make a master CD which we'll use to burn copies. When it all comes together, its a beautiful thing.
Motorcycle Cruiser Magazine writer: Art Friedman In a message entitled "Something We Never Want to Lose" on his company's website, Harley-Davidson Motor Company President and CEO Jim McCaslin tackles the issue of motorcycle noise and the increasing backlash motorcycling is experiencing as the result of loud pipes. (click the link to read the entire article).
I see that the latest gimick to entice yuppie "bikers" to the ROT rally is V.I.P. status. I recall a time when bikers wouldn't piss on a elitist dink if he was on fire. Has times changed, or maybe just definitions? An, otherwise, real rider invited me to ROT. Their Harley will be pulled behind the RV which will carry the golf cart and ATV they'll style in on the loop when they're not being a pain in the ass in the vendor area. I told them straight out that they were the reason that "ROT Productions" will never see another one of my dollars. Last time out, no one could even get close to the bike games but there was plenty of seating for Roller Derby girls. Maybe V.I.Ps will be able to get seating for bike games, if they have them, this year.
We escaped Corpitos. RIDES AND TALES details our ride to Riverside Ranch, near San Antonio, TX. 
We encounter idiocy at the beginning of a road trip.
RIDES AND TALES has the details.
Local Police Thwart Bad Bikers
Local law enforcement agencies teamed up Saturday in a county-wide effort to discourage what Litchfield Police Chief BJ Wilkinson called "criminal intent from coming to Litchfield and the surrounding villages and towns."
The Sons of Silence motorcycle club had promoted its intention to sponsor a run with stops in Montgomery and Macoupin counties, Chief Wilkinson said.
"This particular organization is on law enforcement watch lists with a reputation for promoting violent behavior and domestic terrorism," the police chief said.
Because May is motorcycle awareness month, local law enforcement took the opportunity to set up roadside check sites on Interstate 55, Route 66, Route 16, Route 127, and Route 185.
Local Police Thwart Bad Bikers Now, do you realize the implications of the heat targeting a motorcycle club by using Homeland Security terms like, "domestic terroism"? This is a loophole for them to deny these people (for now) their Civil Rights including the right of Habeas Corpus, through which a person can seek relief from unlawful detention of himself or another person. The writ of habeas corpus has historically been an important instrument for the safeguarding of individual freedom against arbitrary state action (wikipedia). You might find this link interesting as well.
The regulator/rectifier from Bike Bandit, that was delivered and installed moments before leaving on a ride, cratered 200 miles away from home (on Sunday, of course) and boiled two batteries before we could get back.
Leaving the unit installed, I exchanged a few emails with Bike Bandit and they authorized a return, shipping included.
Afterwards, we discovered that the leads from the alternator were too long and had laid on the rear tire. I contacted Bike Bandit, again, and told them that the alternator may not have been faulty except for the leads and connectors.
Bottom line is: Bike Bandit had a replacement regulator in the wind just about the same time I shipped the return. Their email read:
Here at BikeBandit.com, we strive to provide the best customer support possible.
I believe them and would trade with them again. 
Saturday afternoon, I rode the 24 miles out to Port Aransas to meet with the sexy granny. She'd enticed me with a promised dinner and a show, the show being the Texas Sandfest. People come from all over to see and participate in this contest. Just off-hand, I saw the state flags of Oregon, Washington, Montana, Kansas, Alabama and Florida. We noticed that one of the sculptures was by a Ukrainian. The "sand" in these parts, including Mustang Island, is actually "silt", silt being finer than sand. The quartz silt also has clay mixed in, giving it some adhesion and making for excellent sand sculpting material, which is one reason this event is so popular. We parked our bikes off the beach and had to walk a ways but the weather was perfect and we ain't no sissies. After, we dined on fish sandwich and oyster po'boy at the Island Cafe' before saddling up and scootering back to the big Bluff, a fiery sunset on our right, and the rising moon on our left.
Life is good on the Third Coast.
The "Gathering of the Fools" is an annual event at a friend's, in East Texas. His friends ride in from all over. Read about it at :
RIDES AND TALES.
A local dealership hosted a metric bike show benefiting PALS. Words and pics at --> Rides And Tales <--
A sure sign of spring must be the and car shows in parking lots. Cyclone Riders MC had one such and I took a few pictures, there. FOLLOW THE LINK to read about my exciting day in Corpitos
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Legacy
Posted On 03/04/2008 00:18:59
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So, there I was, there I was, all cozy in Rancho Delux with the "no soliciting" sign on the board fence, when there comes a pecking at my door. Some goofy old shit kicker is looking for Owen, 'Am I Owen, or does he live here?'
Needless to say, I wasn't impressed by his being too lazy to read the "L" in, "Olwen", my daughter's name. I mean, its a white girl's name, from the old country. Not everyone is named Esther, Leticia or Shaniqua .
In any case, we'd long since tired of listening to telemarketed pleas for support from the spouses of Democrat candidates when this old jackass turns up on my porch on a Saturday afternoon intending to hand my kid a slick little brochure courtesy of candidate Obama. The brochure reads, simply, "Barack Obama, Committed Christian".
Later, I showed it to the Hot Granny. She told me they radio ads have really been "playing that up". I wondered aloud, why it was, then, that I thought Obama was a Muslim. Hot Granny's answer: "Because he is".
Now, while I realize the folks on the Left are masters of Newspeak and "re-defining" words and concepts, I'm wondering how they are going to spin the idea of a Democrat being a Christian, much less a "Committed" one.
One of the non-issues that separate We The People is that of equality for homosexuals. Some gay folks have a lot of resentment against "Right-wing Christians" who claim that said gays are
"An Abomination Before The Lord" (yeah, you can hear the capitals when they proclaim it).
Reckon a "Committed Christian" is somehow different from a "Right-wing" one, or are we going to find that it has been redefined to exclude Christian precepts?
If I believed that Obama had any kind of moral compass he might rise, slightly, in my estimation. But I find the idea of him being a "Committed Christian" about as believable as Hillary losing subpoenaed documents under her p.c.
Of course, we're just a buncha big ol' dumb-ass rednecks down here on the Bible Belt buckle. We don't care about NAFTA, the dismantling of the Constitution or how winking at 20 million foreign criminals will affect the United States. Sheee-it, if he's a "Committed Christian", that's all we need to know.
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