intro: seattle rider

[flying eyeball]

hey all.. been lurking here a while and decided it was time to join up...been riding for a few years(mostly hds) and currently have an 02 softail 03 rk and 06 e glide. I've worked in construction the last 15 years and the last 10 or so as a union operating engineer. I am not married nor do I have any kids. I am looking for a pan or shovel project along with a lot of ideas and inspiration.I am attaching some pics of my rides and look forward to talking and meeting some of you in the near future. I'm leavin seattle for a ride down the coast on friday so it will be great to be on the road again...Oh well...tryed loading pics but files are too big...Any help for loading pics?? Heres my myspace for pic viewing http://www.myspace.com/flyingeyeball666

[warehouse skate]

use imageshack.us to resize...oh and safe travels

[Beefdrippings]

Hey eyeball,isn't there a vintage bike swap coming up sometime in Wa.?Rosalia maybe?Have a good/safe trip!
J

[Shooty]

welcome man....any duane peters fan is alright in my book!

[Manny Fresh]

hey all.. been lurking here a while and decided it was time to join up...been riding for a few years(mostly hds) and currently have an 02 softail 03 rk and 06 e glide. I've worked in construction the last 15 years and the last 10 or so as a union operating engineer. I am not married nor do I have any kids. I am looking for a pan or shovel project along with a lot of ideas and inspiration.I am attaching some pics of my rides and look forward to talking and meeting some of you in the near future. I'm leavin seattle for a ride down the coast on friday so it will be great to be on the road again...Oh well...tryed loading pics but files are too big...Any help for loading pics?? Heres my myspace for pic viewing http://www.myspace.com/flyingeyeball666
have you checked out felonyflyers, over in ballard? there are some cool guys there and some pretty sick scoots. they are on leary if you haven't.

[flying eyeball]

I know the 100 years of motorcycling is in rosalia later in the summer...but I'm not shure if they have a swap meet...If there are any members of the vme on here I think they would know...anybody??

[flying eyeball]

hey manny I was at ff last week getting some heated grips for my new glide. got to meet the younger guy that part owns it...seemed like a pretty kool guy and gave me a hell of a deal on the grips. The new shop is way smaller than the shop in kent but they are (as I would be) relieved to be out of kent. The only thing that sucks is that it's further away now. I'm in maple valley. It's refreshing to see a shop around here doing bikes in there style compared to the raked out billet show bikes that people are building. I like the bikes from the guys at nash motorcycles down in vancouver. They build some kool stuff.

[Halseth]

did you say heated grips?

[Yurasuka13]

did you say heated grips? I heard it too. I rubbed my eyes for a second, yet it was still there. I wasn't even aware that such a thing existed.

Welcome, Mr. Warmhands.

[flying eyeball]

i said it...when you leave the house @6am here in seattle in the winter time...your lucky if its above 35 degrees...a fourty mile commute later I have warms hands .. to freeze my ass off all day on a construction site...if that makes me a pussy...so be it...I'd rather be a pussy with warm hands...

[Yurasuka13]

if that makes me a pussy...so be it...I'd rather be a pussy with warm hands...Easy killer. Nobody said anything of the sort. It's just a funny concept (to me). No need to defend it. It's yours.

[Ryno]

Welcome, Mr. Warmhands.


BAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!
Now THATS funny!

[bwagner]

You have some pretty interesting photos on your "Pics" page. Nice bikes too

[Beefdrippings]

I know the 100 years of motorcycling is in rosalia later in the summer...but I'm not shure if they have a swap meet...If there are any members of the vme on here I think they would know...anybody??

No that's not it.One of the shops here had a flyer for a vintage bike swap SOMEWHERE in Washington.I'll check it out and get back to you if I find out.Could be cool.

[jscoma47]

ya gotta keep your hands warm when your an operating engineer.that where the moneys at.
welcome brother,138 here

[Brundlefly]

Welcome dude,
My son is stationed at McHord AFB in Seattle. Cool my space too! BTW what are heated grips?? :-)

[flying eyeball]

hey brotha local 302 represent....we may be going on strike as of june 1, our contract runs out and the agc are trying to have there way with us...we'll see..as far as the heated grips go I use these hotgrips.com and they are rad and cost half what the stealer charges for there version that sucks and always burns out...I take off tomorrow from seattle down the oregon and california coast to pismo beach for a couple days and then probably on to o side or dago after that..I'll try to check in during the trip...sooo if you see a fat guy broke down on a white e glide... helpa brotha out

[pan5074]

Whats up man,have a good ride.We'll have to grab a beer when you get back and tell each other lies.

[Manny Fresh]

hey pan5074,
checked out your page where does that show take place in August?

[FOE]

Rosalia takes place the weekend of Aug 18th in Rosalia Wa. about 20 minutes south of Spokane. New stuff, show/ party. The same weekend in Tenino is the antique swap meet. That would be the place to go, it is put on by the Evergreen chapter of the AMCA. There are a few little hole in the wall shops on the coast that still have parts and decent people. Dig around and find them, it is worth it. Also, go to a Seattle Cossacks stunt show, talk to them, they ride old stuff.

[flying eyeball]

thanks geff...sounds good...I may be home for the vme meet...do you go??

[SltyDog]

Welcome.

[TwoWheelFiend]

He's right, maybe you guys have never ridden when it's thirty degrees out. Frostbite happens real quick at 60 mph.

welcome aboard

[flying eyeball]

hey all...got in pismo beach late sunday night...rode about 140 miles down hwy 1 in the dark....won't do that again...leaving for oceanside on thursday for a couple of days days then I'll ride the coast all the way back to seattle...about 1500 miles on the trip clock so far...nice weather here but I heard it's been 80 in seattle...hopefully it will be nice on the way home...had to ditch the powercommander today...I didn't have the exact download I needed so it was running like shit on the bottom end..I'll screw with it when I get home...It's running good through the whole band now...I'll have lots of pics when I get home...You guys enjoy going into work tomoorow..........

[101stAbnvet]

Hey Flying Eyeball! I'm visiting Seattle as I speak...originally from Alaska. I'm here to fly down to LA area Friday, picking up a motorcycle at the Orange County airport and riding back to the Seattle area leaving Friday about 8-8:30 p.m. .....Any chance you're heading back to Seattle and we can hook up for a Ponch and John side-by-side formation ride! Just kidding about the Ponch & John thing! What's your riding plans?

101stAbnvet

[flying eyeball]

hey...I just saw your message...did you make it back to seattle?? Which way did you ride?

[101stAbnvet]

Hey Flying Eyeball..........

Yup, made it back to Seattle! I flew into OC Airport in Santa Anna (?) jumped on the bike and rode 300 miles before I napped out in a rest area in Chalinga (Sp ?)......Woke at 6:30 a.m. and rode the rest of the 9000 miles to Seattle..Straight! Loved the Shasta Mountain area...matter of fact, ALL of Northern California and into the high country of Oregon...stopped for a few cold ones at Grant's pass. When I cleared LA, I cruised between 70 and 90 mph for a few hundred miles UNMOLESTED by the PD! That was a **bleeping** blast!!!!!!!

Didn't have time for the coast ride...had to be back at work for 8 a.m. Monday. It was GREAT!!!!!!!!!

101stAbnvet

[80shovel]

A bit late on the response but thought I would let ya know bad weather Bob is having his December 19th run up here in Marysville leaving from the longhorn tavern. (Bob is one of the founders or original people that started the oyster run)

Also did ya make the Oyster run? Was a nice day and a ton of bikes.

[flying eyeball]

A bit late on the response but thought I would let ya know bad weather Bob is having his December 19th run up here in Marysville leaving from the longhorn tavern. (Bob is one of the founders or original people that started the oyster run)

Also did ya make the Oyster run? Was a nice day and a ton of bikes.

Damn...these were my first posts here...it's odd how jaded we become.

You know, I have never heard of BWB or his run before, but thanks for the heads up...you might try starting a thread about it when it gets a little closer.

And

Do I know you?? This thread is like a year and a half old.

PM me if this is the case.

And try doing an intro in the other area so people will know who you are.