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  1. 19 hours ago, bubbadavis said:

    I really like the Baron. I prefer the clean look and you get better airflow. You do need to get the computer sent to Ivan before installing. Ivan does some real magic! The throttle response is so much better afterwards.

    The 1300 coil cover was from a machinist on another forum. He did a custom run of them after getting enough people to commit to purchasing. I don't think he is selling them anymore.

    Well thats a real bummer on the coil cover.   Unless you want to sell yours....haha. 

    Good look selling.  I think they are great bikes for the money.  Mine is a 13 Deluxe.  And my baron kit is the plain black look because I too like the smooth look. 

  2. Decided to try out one of the assemble it yourself kits.  Went with the cheap grab bag (mystery) kit from DIY Watch Club.  I got a couple of cool upgrades over the standard Expedition kits in the form of a skeletonized movement and dial.  I love the gunmetal finish of everything.   Im not sold on the band but those are simple enough to swap out and I have plenty of options floating around the house to swap onto it.  And it's extremely small for someone my size.   But it is a good looking watch and I love putting stuff together so that was fun.  I'm definitely going to build another watch, likely a pam homage but since there is no kit for it, I'm going to have to do more research to get all of the right parts. 

     

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  3. 14 hours ago, kvmx00 said:

    I love my solar atomic G- Shocks, going with my analog one today.

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    I'm an analog fan.   I have three digital watches, the super mario g-shock which is only because im a nerd, and two of my dad's old watches (one timex expedition and one casio) from the 90s.  I just prefer a good old fashioned analog. 

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  4. 5 hours ago, Chucktshoes said:

    It’s as close as I’ll ever get to a smart watch. 

    It's much more acceptable than a smartwatch.   Even with 6 billion scribbles on it. 


    Today is the GSD 3A Explorer on the GSD leather NATO.

     

     

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  5. It sounds like some version of anti-rotation pins.   An unnecessary accessory on an AR.   Trigger pins are meant to rotate.  So long as you take care of your rifle and inspect parts when cleaning, you won't run into problems. 

     

    The reason that these are even a thing is poor QC from a number of manufacturers causing out of spec receivers and parts. 

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  6. 3 hours ago, analog_kidd said:

    It's been decades since I had a reason to know what a bag costs. I somehow stumbled upon an article the other day listing the average cost of an ounce (seriously, I wasn't looking). I was surprised to learn that where it is legal, they are selling it for $300-ish an ounce. Seems like that was what the going rate was back in the early 90's. It may be the only thing not affected by inflation.

    This would be an interesting paper on economics.   A lot of factors in play.   A legalized/decriminalized market vs a black market.  That cause a lot of other factors like increased supply but taxes and it would be interesting to see someone study all of the effects.  

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  7. So I saw one of the tv channels posted a poll asking about what students think were the biggest issues for them.  Gun violence came in fourth on the list.  And it got me thinking about the political side of the argument.  The antis tend to use it and focus on the first word, Gun.   But I think society needs to focus more on the second half, violence.  
     

    of course, this is something that a lot of have said throughout the years but I’ve never really seen it framed that way.   

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  8. 5 hours ago, gregintenn said:

    I worked with a big guy. For some reason, he would up with a Sportster. I don’t think he’d ever had a motorcycle before. He looked like a circus bear riding a child’s bicycle. 😄

    Oh, also, my nine year old niece told me she wants a Harley so I’m about to be in the market for a sporty that we can fix up over the next few years. 

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  9. 3 hours ago, gregintenn said:

    I worked with a big guy. For some reason, he would up with a Sportster. I don’t think he’d ever had a motorcycle before. He looked like a circus bear riding a child’s bicycle. 😄

    That’s probably why so many people take pictures of me and laugh at me at stop lights.  Jokes on them, I’m on two wheels. 

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  10. 9 hours ago, Darrell said:

    I carry rain gear when there's a legitimate threat. My Frogg Toggs have been with me for many years, and they work great. EXCEPT that if it's warm you may as well save the effort, as you'll be in a sauna. My main complaint with riding in the rain is having to clean the bike afterward.

    No one makes anything large enough to fit me.   I’m a huge dude. 

  11. I’ve been riding to work nearly every day for over a month.  Managed to avoid the rain.   I got here this morning at 8 am and there was rain predicted at around 1 am.   Now it’s moved to about 11:30 pm which is right before I leave to go home.  Looks like I’m getting wet tonight…

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  12. 14 hours ago, Luckyforward said:

    Friends, I'd like to offer some perspective as a mental health professional.  Not trying to argue or start a conflict.  I've been doing this for 40 years so my words do not come so much from an earned doctorate but from practical experience.

    I applaud each and every one of you who are willing to take a call from a friend in crisis and/or hold their firearms for them.  God bless each and every one of you. But in a moment of personal crisis, a friend may not want to make themselves vulnerable to you, thus, talking with an anonymous person on a national lifeline may be their best option.

    Allow me to offer some feedback on the national suicide hotlines. I have worked on them.  Many of you distrust them, so I am going to tell you how they work.  You may believe me or not; your choice.  Again, I am not seeking to start a conflict - just offering enlightenment and it is your choice what you do with it. 

    If you call 988 or any other lifeline you will be asked a few screening questions which have one purpose: to route you to the closest suicide hotline in your area.  If you are in the Nashville area and call 988, your call will go to Family and Children's Service who has the contract to operate the suicide hotline in Middle Tennessee. A few screening questions will be asked, but whether they are answered or not, the trained telephone responder has only one goal: to persuade the caller to accept help.

    What the hotlines DO NOT DO:  they do not trace calls.  They have no way to find out who the caller is.  They have no means to call emergency services UNLESS the caller offers their address.  There is no attempt to take firearms away. No databases of names are kept and turned over to LEOs or anyone else.  In the moment a call comes from a suicidal person, the only agenda is to talk to them long enough that they give their address for EMTs to come to them or hopefully calm the person to the extent when they hang up on you, hopefully, they will not take their life.  The cops are called ONLY if the caller gives their address.

    These call centers do not have the funds for equipment to trace calls. Doesn't matter if you use your own cellphone, a burner phone, or (for anyone who still has one!) a wired phone - there is not money in these agencies to acquire such technology, even if it exists. Call center workers have some background in mental health and are trained to talk with someone long enough that they will give their address and allow emergency services to respond.

    IF THE CALLER DOES NOT OFFER THEIR ADDRESS THERE IS NO WAY TO DIRECT ANYONE TO HELP THEM.  THERE IS NO "SECRET SYSTEM" TO FIND OUT WHO THEY ARE OR WHERE THEY LIVE.

    So I have worked in such a call center.  On a very cold night in January a gentleman called me and talked about taking his life. He wouldn't give me his address and then - as now - I had no way to trace it.  The only thing I had was my training as a mental health therapist to get him to talk; if I could get him to talk as long as possible the hope is that his emotion would lessen, match his logic, give me his address and I could get 911 to him so he could get to an ED.

    We talked for four hours.  At the end, I heard a huge "BANG" and the line went dead.  As did the caller.  I still have dreams about what else I could have said . . .  I never knew who he was or where he lived.  We had no way to trace the call.

    Guys, this isn't about "red flag" laws, tracing phone calls, or "the government."  Hotlines try to keep people alive.  And when they do not, the hotline worker gets counseling because of the massive guilt and disappointment they feel.  Because when the caller kills themselves, the hotline worker feels like a failure.  I know . . .

    None of you know me and none of you have any reason to believe me, but if the only thing you can get a friend to do is to call a national/state lifeline . . . get them to call. 

    I have offered my perspective and am not going to argue/justify my words. Accept or reject these statements as you wish.  And may life be good to you all.

    Thank you for trying to dispel some of the myths.   In a time of real crisis, you probably shouldn’t let politics override your mental health but it’s still great to push the truth.  
     

     

    Side note, anyone know how to make all of the text appear as plain text?   I found this post incredibly difficult to read but don’t want him to have to change it just because my eyes don’t work right. 

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  13. “…..should always carry.” 
     

    nope.  Some shouldn’t even own a gun, much less carry it.  Everyone should be interested in their own protection and take some precautions and have some level of training with their preferred method.  But I’ll never tell someone that they don’t do enough because they don’t carry.  

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  14. 2 minutes ago, TGO David said:

    I would say that it also matters what they are told about the police by their peers, their community.  But, yes.

    This is vicious cycle, unfortunately.  All of it.  In the 26 pages of this thread so far, I have read a staggering number of responses that amount to addressing the symptoms of a problem, but not many things that get to the actual root of the problem.

    Our culture is broken because we've allowed it to become broken.  This occurred over literal generations of lifetimes, not all at once.  We're perhaps seeing the decline of our culture accelerating now because the rate of decay has reached critical mass and changes are happening faster now than ever before, but it certainly did not all happen overnight.

     

    Mane this is close to what I was trying to say!!!

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  15. 31 minutes ago, deerslayer said:

    I don’t see what harm they are doing, but I haven’t witnessed the “prison guard” analogy in action.  

    Your relationship with police is very different from kids growing up in the poorer parts of town.   He’s officer friendly to those growing up in the suburbs.   He’s the enemy to the boys in the hood.  That’s another issue, well collection of issues, entirely.  But it’s the way it is.  
     

     

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  16. 3 hours ago, deerslayer said:

    If we put Robocop or Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in schools and they terrorized children, I might agree with your concerns about SROs.  But we don’t, at least not around here.  The admittedly few SROs I know about or have experience with are actually fairly popular among students.  They clown with the kids and get along well with faculty.  Some schools even list their SROs as staff on the websites.  My experience with them is mainly in suburban schools, but it would be a mistake to assume they are merely protectors and not enforcers.  Suburban schools have many of the same problems as inner city schools. 

    If by “concessions” you mean compromises granted to more restrictive gun control proposals, I’ll pass.  I’ll willingly consider any gun control proposal that passes a simple two step litmus test - first, will it actually help solve the issue?  Second, are those proposing the change sincerely trying to solve the issue?  Is their proposal merely one of the prongs in a bigger agenda?  Have they actually educated themselves about what they are proposing?  Do they want to take guns while hamstringing police?  Do they also claim that NRA members are all terrorists?  When politicians propose banning AR-15s because the Nashville shooter was “able to fire 152 rounds in 15 minutes” (something any of us could pull off with a single action revolver), I can’t take them very seriously.  It’s a rare day when the latest proposed gun control laws pass my sniff test. 


    I didn’t say let’s not put cops in schools.  I said that should be nothing more than a stop gap or bandaid.   Actually, let’s do it today and call it a tourniquet.   It’s the best solution right now but will cause a different harm if left too long.   
     

     

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