Adventure in Ohio?

[Sparkster]

Originally Posted by buildit

While your there, the politicians are causing trouble again. Could you straighten things out?

On it.

[vivid dadas]

Is that taken from New Jersey Avenue? I have a very similar pic.

[Sparkster]

Originally Posted by vivid dadas

Is that taken from New Jersey Avenue? I have a very similar pic.

Sure is- we were arriving at the Hyatt when I snapped it.

[ironbuttwannabe]

Originally Posted by Sparkster

On it.

Tell them to quit burning corn!!! And whatever this crap is about getting cdl's to drive tractors. Which means we probably have to pay for some type of license for them. Off rant

[ohioroadrat]

Originally Posted by swingset

i got up this morning and hit the road at 6am to enjoy some cool country air and explore some southern ohio backroads. Had a really relaxing, peaceful ride all the way to the river by gravel and little county highways...got very close to that "zen" thing i hear the pompous motorcycle writers blather on about, just sort of going down roads without any care of direction or destination really just relaxing in my helmet.

Stopped for some good chow at a little country kitchen for lunch, then meandered home for a few hours.

Now, here's where my story is slightly interesting. Just north of the dillon dam wildlife area, on a hilly road whose name doesn't matter, i spied a car coming over the hills out in front of me...could see narrow lights, and something flapping around over the outline of the car. When it got closer i could see it was a convertible, more specifically a fiberglass dune-buggy circa the 70's.

It had flame paint job, in mint shape, but what made this dune buggy epic was the guy driving it in a darth vader costume; helmet, chest piece, and a flowing black cape flapping around in the breeze.

Now, if you pass something like this on your way to the doodah parade or in downtown san francisco, that's not an event that blows your noodle, but in the middle of bumfuck country road, ohio, for no good reason, darth vader piloting speed buggy makes you question your sanity.



this might be the event that makes me break down and buy a helmet-mounted cam capable of quick snapshots.

just say 'no' to drugs !!!

[sion]

Originally Posted by ohioroadrat

just say 'no' to drugs !!!

why?

[GregsBro]

Originally Posted by swingset

Now, here's where my story is slightly interesting. Just north of the Dillon Dam wildlife area, on a hilly road whose name doesn't matter, I spied a car coming over the hills out in front of me...could see narrow lights, and something flapping around over the outline of the car. When it got closer I could see it was a convertible, more specifically a fiberglass dune-buggy circa the 70's.
It had flame paint job, in mint shape, but what made this dune buggy epic was the guy driving it in a Darth Vader costume; helmet, chest piece, and a flowing black cape flapping around in the breeze.
Darth Vader piloting Speed Buggy makes you question your sanity.
This might be the event that makes me break down and buy a helmet-mounted cam capable of quick snapshots.

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[ohioroadrat]

Originally Posted by sion

why?

Cause "Drugs are bad.............MMMMMMMKay?"

[swingset]

Originally Posted by ohioroadrat

Cause "Drugs are bad.............MMMMMMMKay?"

Well thank goodness beer isn't a drug, because I drank me some.

[sion]

Originally Posted by swingset

Well thank goodness beer isn't a drug, because I drank me some.

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
supposedly said by Benjamin Franklin some 200 years ago.


a little quick googling reveals that:

"For the record, here, in a letter addressed to André Morellet in 1779, is what Benjamin Franklin actually did say:

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine, a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy."

http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2008...in-on-beer.htm

[ScienceOfDirt]

You guys are hard core. I usually don't start my drinking before 11AM.

[CBBaron]

Originally Posted by ScienceOfDirt

You guys are hard core. I usually don't start my drinking before 11AM.

I am not so limited, however I will not ride after drinking so its not often I will drink before dusk

Craig

[mgorman]

I never understood the whole beer/coffee thing. Could never get past the taste of either. My wife HAS to have coffee every morning or things aren't so rosey until her bean pallette has been satisfied. People keep telling me "Drink enough and you'll aquire a taste for it" but how much do you have to drink before it becomes pleasurable or you're too drunk or sick to care?

I do like the occasional mixed drink though. The one thing I do like about the Adv crowd, they don't have to bar hop to ride.

[swingset]

Originally Posted by mgorman

The one thing I do like about the Adv crowd, they don't have to bar hop to ride.

Yup, I'm very considerate of my fellow riders, I get loaded BEFORE I ride.



I'm with ya on coffee...never a drink I favored. I can drink it I guess, but there's 200 other things that taste better to me and it's a drink with all kinds of downsides...hmmm, tastes bitter, makes you crap and your breath smell bad, oh and it's hell on your teeth. You gotta really love it, I guess.

Beer, on the other hand I like, but I'm a pretty light drinker honestly...a few on the weekends now and then, and I'm good. I can go a month and not touch it.

[buildit]

Untill I was about 30 I was an every weekend drinker. Never could do the have a beer every night but when I did drink I was far from a light weight. Then one day I just sort of stopped, the bar sceen was boring and watching people become blathering idiots got old too. So I quit drinking other than maybe once or twice a year. When I do drink, all vehicles are parked and I'm where I will be for the next 12 hours at least.