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Post by dakota on Aug 19, 2006 17:33:36 GMT -5
Come alongs are worth their weight in gold, or can be at times. I had a '59 Jeep pickup that althought it had almost new tires started sliding sideways and it stopped at the edge of a ravine - deep ravine. I was back woods driving during deer season in the hills. I smelled stink and go figure - no one was with me. I stepped out and slipped on my a$$. After a couple mile walk and a phone call, my brother-in-law came with four or five come alongs and helped me get her out. I like to have a come along or two ever since.
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Post by Bill on Aug 20, 2006 7:57:29 GMT -5
Three things I use to carry in my 4X4 Pickup all the time. A comealong and a highjacker and a shovel. All three are life savers when your stuck. I will say this though, when the transmission wasn't going out or the transfer case kit that changes the full time 4WD to 2X4 that someone had put in my 78 3/4 ton chevy was all working right There wasn't much that could stop it besides a gas station. ;D
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Post by deputydon on Aug 20, 2006 8:40:13 GMT -5
LOL I bet your gald you don't own that w/ $ 3.00 plus gas. BTW do they did you MPG on the 360; 650; & 750's? I don't have a way to figure mine cause I'm never on a road. I'm curious what the differances are.
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Post by Bill on Aug 20, 2006 22:32:55 GMT -5
Depending on how you ride their getting from 45-80 miles per tank. This means if your a ATV jocky and like to do the wheelies and drags you might not get far on a tank. But if your just crusing along you can do pretty well. Some guys I talk to say you can run all day on a tank and others say they get about 1/2 a day to a tank. I think I probably will be one of the 80 miles to a tank guys as I dont get as wound up about getting another joint jambed or bones broken as I use to. Belive me I remember every one of my accidents and mishaps every morning.
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Post by dakota on Aug 21, 2006 10:52:42 GMT -5
I am curious how an officer of the law might know that his Mustang could do 140 mph? Must have some good race tracks in Nebraska I had not heard of.
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Post by deputydon on Aug 21, 2006 11:14:43 GMT -5
Wellllllllllll actually it was 154.3 MPH on vas-car. We (I) needed to know haw fast it would go to make sure I could "catch" anything else on the road. Funny but vary few ever tried.....to out-run me that is!
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Post by Bill on Aug 21, 2006 22:50:15 GMT -5
Dakota, most cops are adrenalin junkies and thats the reason they know just how fast their patrol cars will do. ;D Don't ask me how I know that Belive me when I tell you most of us could probably teach a race car driver a thing or two.
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Post by dakota on Aug 22, 2006 7:29:42 GMT -5
My SS396 65 Impala would go that fast. But it was a bitch to keep on the road. It floated/drifted. And I had a motorcycle that would approach that speed, but the thought of hitting anything at that speed kept me from anything but short spurts of speed. I left work one day from KC, MO and made it to a wedding in Hudson SD that evening and on time. On the way I passed a European sports car - Lambregheni (SP?) I think. That car later passed me like I was sitting still. At Omaha there were Highway patrol cars and city police cars all with their lights on. The sports car was pulled over. It seems the police wanted to talk with that guy. I honked my horn and waved as I pulled on by ---- at exactly the speed limit. (That was before the Interstate was finished.) I try to keep under the speed limit anymore. I used to think I was bullet proof. Now, well you know
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Post by Bill on Aug 23, 2006 7:44:07 GMT -5
Tell me about it Dakota. I owned 13 motor cycles and everyone of them tried to kill me. The last one was a 900 Kawasaki that the local dealer had worked over for the drags. When I went to look at it and thinking of buying it I asked if I could ride it. He said sure but don't be driving it no 100 mph. I said OK You know a souped up 900 will go airborn if you have enough drop to the the hill and are going 150 Course I had to have it then. ;D And I sadatly drove it all over after that. Cha Right
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Post by deputydon on Aug 23, 2006 7:49:20 GMT -5
That WAS a bike to behold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by dakota on Aug 23, 2006 7:59:58 GMT -5
I was driving by Sturgis, SD the other day, just before the rally. The traffic was 85 mph on the Interstate. I started passing this guy on a road rocket. The rider gave it the gas and did a long wheely until he was probably a 1/2 mile ahead of me. I thought the guy was a stupid as I was at that age, but I still thought I would like his bike.
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Post by deputydon on Aug 23, 2006 9:48:51 GMT -5
#3 son did that to me and little mama { who was driving ) she was so worried about him she damn near ditched us!!!!! Stupid? yes.......... Fun to watch? you bet ya!!!!!!
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Post by Bill on Aug 25, 2006 7:16:37 GMT -5
When I was in KC K I was driving home one night and was going by one of those guys on a crotch rocket when he did the wheelie thing on me. Awsome to say the least but also not the smartest either for that matter. I think my 900 would of held its own pretty easily against most of the bikes built today but I sure didn't like getting the front end airborn. It was fun though to take the Tac to 9000 and dump the clutch. Usually about 3rd gear is when the smoke cleared. ;D Shortly after that you would cross the 1/4 mile line. I have owned some very fast cars and drove some even faster but nothing as fast as that 900 was.
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Post by deputydon on Aug 25, 2006 7:36:30 GMT -5
I believe that 900 would have put my 'stang to shame!!!
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Post by dakota on Aug 25, 2006 8:05:22 GMT -5
I agree that the Kaw's were the fastest on the road - when I biked a lot. At Grad school / School of Mines I road a Goldwing to class everyday from Sturgis. Lucky it had a fairing. Those winters were cold. In the service I had a 650 BSA (wish I still had it). A friend had a 500 Kaw - it was a very hot bike. (I think the 750 had not yet come out and I didn't even know they made a 900.) The 900 must have been something. We were riding around one day just So. of KC and he had been running that bike hard all day in 100+ heat. All of a sudden his back tire stopped, he slid to a hault. It turned out the middle cylinder froze solid. That was an early model - might of been the first year, I don't know.
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