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gstump
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woodworking
kayaking
horse drawn vehicle restoration and use
bike riding (Trek comfort bike not too serious)
grand kids
cutting dead trees and making firewood
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Brad361
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| Dale Proctor wrote: | Yes, they were called street scramblers. They had high pipes, smaller fenders, smaller tanks, braced handlebars, and lower gearing. Still, just a differently styled street bike. Fun to ride, though. Here it is when I started on it...
I traced motocross a little in the mid '70s in the open class on a Yamaha 360MX. Man, that thing was a handful. |
I'll bet it was (a handful)! The dirt bikes today are SO much more advanced, especially the suspension. I raced a Bultaco 125 in 1970, the Japanese bikes were barely beginning to have a presence in motocross.
Hell, we thought a jump on the track where you were 6-7 feet off the ground was a big deal, now they're jumping 2 stories high! Suspension and frame geometry probably have a lot to do with it.
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RandyTX
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| Brad361 wrote: | | Hell, we thought a jump on the track where you were 6-7 feet off the ground was a big deal, now they're jumping 2 stories high! Suspension and frame geometry probably have a lot to do with it.
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My off-road experience with a motorcycle is fairly limited. Jumping terraces in a cotton field (barely getting any air at all) on an old Honda 125 sometime back around 1975.
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LittleRusty
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| Brad361 wrote: | | Dale Proctor wrote: | Yes, they were called street scramblers. They had high pipes, smaller fenders, smaller tanks, braced handlebars, and lower gearing. Still, just a differently styled street bike. Fun to ride, though. Here it is when I started on it...
I traced motocross a little in the mid '70s in the open class on a Yamaha 360MX. Man, that thing was a handful. |
I'll bet it was (a handful)! The dirt bikes today are SO much more advanced, especially the suspension. I raced a Bultaco 125 in 1970, the Japanese bikes were barely beginning to have a presence in motocross.
Hell, we thought a jump on the track where you were 6-7 feet off the ground was a big deal, now they're jumping 2 stories high! Suspension and frame geometry probably have a lot to do with it.
Brad |
In the '70s I watched a go cart owner launch over his go kart on a Honda 350 doing an unintentionally wheelie with the bike owner hanging on for life behind him.
The bike went over the front of the kart and landed behind and was brought to a stop with both people still in the saddle. |
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Grits Burgh
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Dale, nice picture. I could enjoy hiking in scenery like that. Gorgeous.
Eastern Tennessee?
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Dale Proctor
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| Grits Burgh wrote: | Dale, nice picture. I could enjoy hiking in scenery like that. Gorgeous.
Eastern Tennessee?
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Yes, the scenery was very pretty. My brother and I hiked to the top of Mt. LeConte a couple years ago and spent the night on top. That picture is at the high point. Here's one of Clingman's Dome in the distance. I suppose photography is a hobby of mine, too...
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bamajazzlady
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I don't, can't and won't call it an obsession but I am looking at getting into playing piano and also synths.
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WxJeff
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| Dale Proctor wrote: | | Grits Burgh wrote: | Dale, nice picture. I could enjoy hiking in scenery like that. Gorgeous.
Eastern Tennessee?
Warm Regards,
Grits |
Yes, the scenery was very pretty. My brother and I hiked to the top of Mt. LeConte a couple years ago and spent the night on top. That picture is at the high point. Here's one of Clingman's Dome in the distance. I suppose photography is a hobby of mine, too... |
Mountains, Shmountains  How about a sunrise run in the swampy flat piney woods? Good for the soul...
Dixon State Forest, adjacent to Laura S Walker State Park, Waycross GA |
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Dale Proctor
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Swamps? Yeah, I've been known to canoe a tropical swamp or two. Just watch out for the alligators...ha ha
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Grits Burgh
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WxJeff, Dale,
Nice pictures. I'm not a fan of movies, but I could really enjoy listening to some nice big band music and trumpet ballads while watching a slide show of pictures of beautiful scenery.
Warm regards,
Grits
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Andy Del
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Obsessions?
Scuba diving.
Started in 2001, and at th height of my involvement was diving up to 6 times a week. Got into 'technical diving' which is puffed chest speak for deeper, riskier diving. Use closed circuit rebreathers (modified my moi) and get into wreck diving... things like 125m was a nice day out, even if it was planned to the nth degree.
16 years on, it looks like my diving day's are up. Dry mouth from cancer treatment, now a defibrillator, I can my hyperbaric specialist friends using terms like, 'contact-indicated' 'recovery after loss of consciousness highly unlikely' etc.
One of the most amazing sports. It can be WWII wrecks, a pretty coral reef, watching sharks, dolphins, exploring Sydney harbour, a sink hole in the GBR, it's a pastime which grabs your imagination like little, apart on music...
I've been doubly blessed.
Cheers
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