showing you how well my bike rides, very smooth

I take an ER6F (Ninja 650/ Mordeth13mobile) for a test ride without the camera. Sounds weird. My wife then jumps on for the "ultimate" decision-making back seat ride. Will it be yes? or will   more...it be no?  less

Some pix from the Museum that we visited in Maggie Valley, NC

Wheels Tag ...Just an idea we had in the box. Show me your Wheels!!

A response to the LiveVideo Writing Challenge #3 - "Photo Prose", posted by Dugalwest.

~<b>Spin Those Wheels ~

Kenny always had this thing for wheels. Turning wheels.

I could be working   more...on my car for hours and never see his face. Which was good. I didn’t want him getting hit by a flying wrench, or kicked as I lay across the fender, head buried under the hood trying to tighten that last bolt.

But change a tire or work on the brakes? He was right there, hand pressed flat against the sidewall, trying to spin it. That would have been the ’56 Buick with the big white sidewalls.

I can still see him kneeling on the driver’s seat, leaning on the horn ring while trying to turn that big ass steering wheel. Nighttime was his favorite time to ride in that car, because it was quiet out, and he could hear the sound of the tires on the road as we drove with the windows open.

I can still remember one of the first times he borrowed my car, right after he got his license. Later in the day, I found the jack loose in the trunk. When I asked him about it, he said he had to change a tire because it was low on air. I guess he was too embarrassed to tell me about it, because when he got home and checked it with an air gauge, it was fine. I think he just wanted to spin the wheels.

When school didn’t work out for him, I told him, “Either you go to school, or get a job and start paying your own bills.” So he started working on the loading dock with me. He was a good worker, but he was always watching the trucks coming into the dock and talking with the drivers about rolling down the road.

The next thing I knew, he’d talked the boss into letting him go out with the drivers, because that’s what he wanted to do – learn to drive a semi. I heard him joking with a friend, once, about how it was appropriate that he was reading Heinlein’s “The Roads Must Roll”. I never could figure that out. What did moving roads have to do with wheels turning? But that was him and his science fiction. I reminded him that the story sounded anti-union, anyway.

So, driving and wheels turning are what got him to stick out the job and stay in the union. He’s been driving all this time, and now he just retired. We went through some old family pictures for the retirement party, and I found this one. It was Christmas, and he was three years old. The first thing he did when he picked up that bus was to spin those wheels.
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Love this song...

I think Ford could be entering a death spiral - what do you think?

Another waste of money for your pimped out ride.

Test video of a truck crashing into a barrier. Apparently, it's a 16,000 pound Ford dump truck crashing into a military barrier going 55 MPH.

skating...

I reminisce (if that's the right word) about my 1995 Ford Mustang 5.0 Convertible. What a fantastic looking piece of crap

Expedition Everest - Animal Kingdom

Sorry this is out of order but I just had to put this up first.....great video!

Watching The Wheels...Dedication to John Lennon...Just Sitting Here Watching!..Them Go Round and Round!!

I have been restoring this old trail bike. Thought I would take it on a test ride. This trail zig-zags parallel to the business district in town. It is like a whole new hidden part of town that I never   more...got to see before.  less

ROCK

a lot of people think my ford vs dodge video is staged(only mopar fans) so here is a little something that might change your mind.

Tibet

Tibet

The trailer about the I-GO defends the whale’s campaign. Japan today launches a fleet of six boats from Arukaport to commence a new season of whale hunting, despite a global moratorium and international   more...outcry against whaling. Japan's self-allocated whaling quota permits its whalers to kill up to 935 minke and 10 endangered fin whales. Greenpeace needs the power of your ideas. Join us for the final leg of the I- Go expedition as the Esperanza returns to Antarctica to once again confront the whaling fleet. Visit our new defending the whales site, where you can get inspired by other people's ideas, rate them, improve them and add your own. We'll read every idea and you'll see the best ones put into action. We are all in this together.945 whales are waiting for your help.
http://whales.greenpeace.org/ar  less

open house in the MC club "Spinning Wheels".

as the title

Paul McCartney

TaiwanPsycho tagged me. here it is.

Features a BMW 316i moving at slow speeds with tight turns during car show. Probably is European despite American truck in background.