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Message started by kimchris1 on 12/07/13 at 12:09:06

Title: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by kimchris1 on 12/07/13 at 12:09:06

So seems most of us are under a cold snap and
that is keeping us from riding.
So what other hobbies do you have, that keeps
you preoccupied when your unable to ride?

Myself I go to the gym, do Zumba at least 3 x's a week,
and am in the mist of redoing the living room.
I painted the ceiling in the kitchen and living room a
couple weeks ago. Ugh I hate painting ceilings..
Next will be the walls and then the carpet is coming
out and being replaced with wood.. :)
No I am not doing the floor, that is something I am
paying to have done.
Yet I will be watching so I can learn from them.. Their is
a method at times to my madness. ;D ;D :) kim

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by Oldfeller on 12/07/13 at 12:31:07

I fiddle with computers and finish off old gun projects.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 12/07/13 at 12:52:24

Same as when I can ride. I build stuff. Was in the shop till 4 am, working on a bracket to hold a propane bottle on the generator. Still at it today.
I dont HAVE to mount the bottle, but if I dont, then if I wanna move the generator, I hafta unhook the bottle, move the generator, go get the bottle, hook it back up,, blaah de blaah de blaah blaah blaah,, SO, Im building a bracket that will mount across the end where the pull start is. It has a hinge in it, so I can pull the bottle off & swing the bracket away, so I can access the motor should maintenance be required,,Im using the 1" X 2" steel that held the control for a manual treadmill someone gave me,
Ive got the rollers & a pulley that mounts to one roller all ready for the day I need to build a sheet metal roller. Ive got rollers from another one, so, with 3 rollers I can run a piece of sheet metal in & make it roll into a tube. My shop really is my man cave. The propane heater brought it from 30 to 48 degrees & never even put it on high. I listened to the radio, shortwave, Listened to Coast to Coast, out of San Antonio. I am about an hour west of Shreveport La., so, that puts us about 400 miles away. The radio is another hobby. I listen to China, Cuba, heck, all over the world. Its not fancy, its a Hallicrafters S-38, IIRC, just 5 tubes. Probably a mid 60's ish vintage. Had all the old capacitors replaced with caps that dont leak & dry out like they did back then. The tuning string has been replaced & its been tuned by a pro. Ive spent more in shipping for service than it cost, If anyone is interested in shortwave listening, hit Ebay, get an old Hallicrafters, I recommend the round tuning dial style. The linear tuning design takes a lot more effort & time to sweep thru a band. If you have room for a long antenna, hang one out. Mine is about 80 feet. If not, there are designs online to build compact & efficient antennas. Antenna design is a cool art & science,,what with trimming caps & such to tune the antenna & drive off stations that are bleeding into the one ya wanna hear. I gotta get around to doin that,,
Another hobby of mine is being HERE & typing long winded responses to simple questions,, :)

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by Dave on 12/07/13 at 16:43:57

Winter is the time for my garage projects. In the summer the yard work keeps my really busy - so winter I can get a lot of quality garage time in.

This winter the Cafe' bike will get a front fender, and the bike will be painted.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by ZAR on 12/07/13 at 17:59:24

I used to recondition or restore old garden tractors....esp the Simplicity and Allis Chalmers ones,but I hate working in the gravel floored shop in the winter.

My hobbies now involve ham radio,our dogs,reading and raising Buff Brahma chickens. Unfortunately,when you leave home for work at 7:00 in the morning and get home 6:30 to 7:00 at night there's not much time left for hobbies :(

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by Serowbot on 12/07/13 at 22:51:00

I play a little guitar... occasionally, I get together with friends and play a big guitar...
I spend a lot of time trying to make things do things that they weren't intended to do...
... and, on Sundays,.. I make a big breakfast...

:-?...

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by stinger on 12/08/13 at 00:46:32

Late at night when I was in high school and living at home with parents, I used to throw the covers over me and put on my headphones and listen to my Hallicrafters shortwave radio till all hours of the night. Good times!

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by jcstokes on 12/08/13 at 01:05:17

You may not be aware that an American Hallicrafters set was crucial in winning the Battle of Britain for the Poms. The Hallicrafters set was fitted to an Avro Anson aeroplane and detected the early German navigational beams set up to provide the Germans with accurate night target location over England.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by ToesNose on 12/08/13 at 04:47:19

I'm looking to build a pergola off the back of the house over the winter. Got all the permits and such as well as picked up all the materials to get the ledger board up to get started, just haven't had any free time when it's above freezing and or not raining yet LOL.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by bobert_FSO on 12/08/13 at 06:01:10

My other big hobby is not just an off-riding-season hobby. I play bass guitar. At church, in a rock/pop band and in a big jazz/stage band. Just like motorcycles, I can't stand to leave well enough alone. Guitars and basses can also be modified/hot-rodded.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by arteacher on 12/08/13 at 06:24:22

Audiophile. I have a dedicated listening room in the basement which is acoustically treated (double dry-walled, corner traps, wall hangings to eliminate slap echo) and has dedicated outlets for all the components, a heavily modded Thorens turntable, and the room is close to a Golden Rule, so there are few standing waves. I have modified everything to some degree or other. Bryston BP26 pre-amp, Classe CA300 amp, Magnepan 1.6 speakers with upgraded crossover. I even built my own listening chair.
I pick away at a few instruments- Guitar, banjo, dulcimer. I have a banjo uke, which was pretty hard to find.
Photography- I have three nice digital cameras, three film cameras including a mid-format, and a complete range of lenses from extreme wide angle to 1000mm. I was a pro commercial photographer back in the day, but I didn't really like it.
And I read. A lot.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 12/08/13 at 07:08:13

6D647473686C6274070 wrote:

NO! I had no idea,, what a clever idea, mount a receiver & start sweeping thru the bands..But having found a signal, how did that let them know the targets? Can you point me to something about this?

Artteacher,, I envy you your ears. Mine are damaged from noise, 24/7 ringing. Ive never had good hearing, really, even as a kid I couldnt pull the lyrics out of songs well. &, for some reason, I would go just about deaf when Mom was telling me I wasnt to go down to the bayou & get my clothes nasty,,
I have a Pentax from the 80's. Got a good lens selection. I USED to be real good with it, able to shoot backlit subjects w/o them washing out, w/o a meter. My sisters Pro Photog messed her wedding shots up. Mine were in the front of the album & we aint even friends..
Pretty sure that things on a burn pile somewhere anyway,,

YOu do all those mods on your equipment?
Explain Golden Rule dimensions. I think I know what its about,,& If Im right, its part of every architects training, because the ratios are pleasing to the eye.

http://www.kdnuggets.com/images/golden-ratio.jpg
This it? How does that affect acoustics? Why is that good for killing reflected waves? Ill bet some of that answer can be found somewhere in the same stuff youd study if you were looking into antenna theory, lots of wave propagation/reflected wave stuff in that kind of application.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by wambr on 12/08/13 at 08:29:01

when I can't ride my baby, I have little free time(work takes up too much) and I try to relax. as I can... no vodka is not a way to relax... ;D
I go mountain Biking (Oh, how cool ride across the autumnal forest paths, hills and at the first snow), skiing, a little play hockey and live in expectation of spring. so that's how it...

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by Tempted on 12/08/13 at 18:37:51

When I'm not riding I'm building bikes and cars. I also anodize and restore paintball markers, build offroad toys and fish.

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This is one of 250 1992 Dodge Daytona Iroc R/Ts built. I've owned 3 of them.
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Just some old mud toys.
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Basically anything with a motor that can get me in trouble. That 86 Chevy was bought as a rolling chassis and turned into a twin turbo 350, 500hp mud truck lifted on 35s.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by Serowbot on 12/08/13 at 18:52:27

6C5D55484C5D5C380 wrote:

When I'm not riding I'm building bikes and cars. I also anodize and restore paintball markers, build offroad toys and fish.

Pretty cool....

...what do you build the fish out of?... :-?...

;D ;D ;D...

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by gizzo on 12/08/13 at 19:28:11

When I'm not motorcycling I'm into radio controlled gliders. I fly slope gliders, thermal, discuss launch and the most fun of all, dynamic soaring. I mess about with electric aeroplanes and helicopters too, but mostly just for the company. Gliding is where its at for me. Lately I've been messing about with pulse jets. Got a HK special, Dyna Jet and just got gifted a (I think) old Bailey jet by a riding buddy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghSjHuEYXLo&feature=c4-overview&list=UUa7gJ5EEDce3j-qbXZ3NxKw
for a look at my HK pulse jet going on the test stand. It's loud. 140db.
I'm a surfer, ride mostly my longboard these days and occasionally a retro single fin or 5'6" fish
I fly paragliders, ridge soaring and cross country thermal flying, have my tandem endorsement. I love flying with passengers. Got about 400hrs logged. It's great fun.
And I like spending time with the wife and kids, hanging around at home, camping and 4 wheeling or skiing at the river.
Sometimes I find some time to go to work.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by Tempted on 12/08/13 at 19:38:00

4F594E534B5E53483C0 wrote:

[quote author=6C5D55484C5D5C380 link=1386446947/0#13 date=1386556671]When I'm not riding I'm building bikes and cars. I also anodize and restore paintball markers, build offroad toys and fish.

Pretty cool....

...what do you build the fish out of?... :-?...

;D ;D ;D...[/quote]

Usually ex girlfriends.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 12/09/13 at 07:51:18

Sounds like Gizzo has a lot of fun,,
I played with RC stuff a while,,I had a 60 on an Ugly Stick & had modified the rear control surfaces to be larger and then gave the servos leverage to swing them hard. It was coming along as a nice stunter when some A55HOLE decided to flip his transmitter on & it was the same channel as mine. No one else noticed what he did, or the club woulda made him pay for my plane, He did it on purpose, Id been flying less time & was able to take off & land & could fly circles around him, he was just jealous. I decided then that if a plane could go from fun to trash sack in that amount of time & at that expense, Id find a new hobby,,Sold the engine & radio, I DO still have an Enya 35 & a Veco T-,, Hmm,, dang,, Itll come to me,, A Veco Tank & the handle to build a You Control. May build one for the grand kid one day,,Hafta get an .049 & teach him how to fly, tho,,cant afford to l;et him stuff big ones in the ground till he learns ;

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by old_rider on 12/09/13 at 07:56:06

There ya go JOG.... get him interested in RC' flying..... he could be a drone pilot... ::) ::) ::)
and be able to keep an eye on his crazy ol' grandpappy! ;D ;D ;)

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 12/09/13 at 09:01:07

Heck, just walk by & look in the shop.. The other day he asked me
"Papa,, why are you always building something?"

I am STILL working on getting that propane tank & regulator mounted.
Listened to Coast to Coast last nite & fiddle farted around with it some more. Gonna be a real tidy, well thot out installation, but dang, finding that "Just right" piece of junk, cutting, fitting, cleaning,, AAAGGHHH!!
It just takes a lot longer than it looks like it should, Finally got all the bits & pieces cut out, just 2 more plates to weld onto the generator frame, to hold the vapor regulator.
To make the "seat" for the tank I sliced across the 1X2 bracket & laid in pieces of 1/2" square tubing( you dont even wanna know how long it took to get the distance between & angle of the cuts & then opening them to the right depth to lay the tubing in & making sure I didnt set them deep enough to have the bottle sitting on the bracket where the bottom of the bottle is kinda rounded instead of sitting on the ring/base its supposed to sit on.) that I cut one side out of, tack welded & then brazed up gaps. Ive used parts from a manual treadmill, a regular bed frame, the 1/2" square tubing was part of a hospital bed some guy had me store for him,, It didnt sell, so, he gave it to me, & the last 2 bits came from a junk riding lawnmower. A cut off disk in a grinder is a mighty handy tool,,OHH, & FWIW,, I may be the worlds worst welder..weld & grind & weld again, grind some more,,, BUT, NOt blowin holes in that stuff is more important than getting a full weld down on the first pass..The welder is at its lowest setting, using some skinny rods. Theyre not 1/8th, idk what they are,, I like them, so, I better get some more. NOT from Harbor Freight..

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by keith pearson on 12/09/13 at 09:43:11

I used to make miniature steam engines, but you now have to have a certificate and get them tested and the Health and Safety seems to be killing some of this activity off. But I can ride a bike when I want. Thanks to the model making , I have a lathe and mill , oxy-propane and other gear so I can make parts for bikes. So now I make bikes in my workshop. I also had a couple of Rolls Royces and a Bentley, ( one after the other) but I have no room to work on them, so now I have a nice garage with two bikes at present and one being built in another shed. It can rain a lot here, and we might even get snow , which can some years be very heavy. But I don't like laying things up for the winter, you save a bit on the road tax, but I like to go out when the weather is fine, sometimes you can have weeks in the "Summer" here when it rains every day.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by Pine on 12/09/13 at 11:10:36

Tinker on the computer. Keep up with the wife and kids... which ensures that there is always something on the honeydo list. I have a reloader for ammo.. so if I am completely out of things to do I have that.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 12/09/13 at 21:40:42

372F2F203E7C36440 wrote:

How many have ya built? How many failed the test? If you have sufficient experience & a batting average, build it, play with it,, dont sell it,dont let anyone near it untill you know its good.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by old_rider on 12/09/13 at 23:50:43

425D5B5C41467747774F5D511A280 wrote:

[quote author=372F2F203E7C36440 link=1386446947/15#20 date=1386610991]I used to make miniature steam engines, but you now have to have a certificate and get them tested and the Health and Safety seems to be killing some of this activity off. But I can ride a bike when I want. Thanks to the model making , I have a lathe and mill , oxy-propane and other gear so I can make parts for bikes. So now I make bikes in my workshop. I also had a couple of Rolls Royces and a Bentley, ( one after the other) but I have no room to work on them, so now I have a nice garage with two bikes at present and one being built in another shed. It can rain a lot here, and we might even get snow , which can some years be very heavy. But I don't like laying things up for the winter, you save a bit on the road tax, but I like to go out when the weather is fine, sometimes you can have weeks in the "Summer" here when it rains every day.

How many have ya built? How many failed the test? If you have sufficient experience & a batting average, build it, play with it,, dont sell it,dont let anyone near it untill you know its good.[/quote]

What JOG is saying...... if yer successful there will be tons of folks wanting one...
I would be in the line myself :D
Screw the man, make'm work and sell them on the sly, what they gonna do? arrest you for selling experimental power machines?

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by walterpump on 12/10/13 at 13:06:36

Hobbies!!!
Yoga, Weight Lifting, Tai-Chi, Amateur Radio - esp CW, keeping the wood stove going in my garage/studio, working on my Savage (building the wood stand right now, ordered the Verslavy Tensioner, buying Dyna Glide muffler this weekend, going to do the carb jetting to go with the new muffler, by spring also want new progressive shocks on back end, progressive springs in front end, fork brace on, and my christmas present installed - VaporTek Digital Dash :)
Fun, fun, fun.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 12/10/13 at 16:28:51

27313C24352220253D20500 wrote:

What is CW? Seems I have a CW option on a knob on the shortwave but cant get squat

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by arteacher on 12/10/13 at 16:45:07

"This it? How does that affect acoustics? Why is that good for killing reflected waves? Ill bet some of that answer can be found somewhere in the same stuff you'd study if you were looking into antenna theory, lots of wave propagation/reflected wave stuff in that kind of application."

Justin: In a Golden Rule room the width is 1.6 times the height and the length is 1.6 times the width. A standing wave is created at the frequency that has the wave length of the length, width and/or height of the room, or their multiples. For example, a room that was 8' high by 16' wide by 32' long would create an awful sounding room as the standing waves created would re-enforce each other and there would be a major bump in the resonance of the room at a certain frequency, at certain places in the room, and also at 1/2 and 1/4 the wavelength. The dimensions of a Golden Rule room do not allow any particular frequency to be "re-enforced", and in fact work to cancel out any standing wave created by any of the dimensions.

And I used to fly control line stunt and combat (5 minute epoxy was my friend) as well, and I too still have an Enya 35 on a stunt plane in the basement. Small world.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by ZAR on 12/10/13 at 17:43:45

6F7076716C6B5A6A5A62707C37050 wrote:

[quote author=27313C24352220253D20500 link=1386446947/15#24 date=1386709596]Hobbies!!!
Yoga, Weight Lifting, Tai-Chi, Amateur Radio - esp CW, keeping the wood stove going in my garage/studio, working on my Savage (building the wood stand right now, ordered the Verslavy Tensioner, buying Dyna Glide muffler this weekend, going to do the carb jetting to go with the new muffler, by spring also want new progressive shocks on back end, progressive springs in front end, fork brace on, and my christmas present installed - VaporTek Digital Dash :)
Fun, fun, fun.

What is CW? Seems I have a CW option on a knob on the shortwave but cant get squat[/quote]

JOG CW is short for continous wave. In simpler terms....Morse Code. When radio first came to be,and Morse Code was the only mode of radio communication operators used "spark gap" transmitters. These produced a continous wave at a given frequency and the "spark gap" was just a break in the radio wave. the gap was produced similar to the Jacobs Ladder we learned in science class as kids. The lenght of time the gap was open determined either the dot or dash.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by Bluesman on 12/10/13 at 18:00:02

Cool..people seem to stay busy :-). I play in a cover band, take part in open mike nights here and there, I also do the oldschool Ham Radio CW bit, and I repair and restore vaccum tube amps. I do photography, both digital and analogue, in home studio or outdoors. And some more. With no kids in the house and no lady, there´s some spare time. At the current speed of things, I figured out that I need to become 241 years of age if I want to complete all my projects laying around :-)

Walterpump: what´s your call? Mine´s SM7SCJ. Active mostly on 18 & 21 MHz, lowbudget (HB wire GP on fishing rod and 50W max).

Cheers /Rick

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by walterpump on 12/10/13 at 18:10:44

657A7C7B6661506050687A763D0F0 wrote:

What is CW? Seems I have a CW option on a knob on the shortwave but cant get squat[/quote]

CW is amateur radio talk for Morse Code, used by a lot of amateur radio operators to communicate with each other. It is kinda neat and getting a little rare, but I enjoy it.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by ZAR on 12/10/13 at 18:16:04

@ walterpump and bluesman....KG4ZAR here. I never got into CW,but work a lot of SSB on 50mhz and looking at some of the digital modes for 6 meters.

And now you know where my username originated ;)

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by walterpump on 12/10/13 at 18:16:48

0C223B2B3D232F204E0 wrote:

Cool..people seem to stay busy :-). I play in a cover band, take part in open mike nights here and there, I also do the oldschool Ham Radio CW bit, and I repair and restore vaccum tube amps. I do photography, both digital and analogue, in home studio or outdoors. And some more. With no kids in the house and no lady, there´s some spare time. At the current speed of things, I figured out that I need to become 241 years of age if I want to complete all my projects laying around :-)

Waterpump: what´s your call? Mine´s SM7SCJ. Active mostly on 18 & 21 MHz, lowbudget (HB wire GP on fishing rod and 50W max).

Cheers /Rick

Hi Bluesman:
My call is VE3NWN, in southern Ontario, approx 100mi east of Toronto. I have my HF rig on right now around 7.046 listening to a NAQCC Sprint. Trying to contact some guys stateside but so far they cannot hear my 50watts. Low budget here also with a ICOM 735 (old) and a second hand 6 band vertical. I am not great at CW but around 15wpm.
73's

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by walterpump on 12/10/13 at 18:20:56

0C1704560 wrote:

@ walterpump and bluesman....KG4ZAR here. I never got into CW,but work a lot of SSB on 50mhz and looking at some of the digital modes for 6 meters.

And now you know where my username originated ;)

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by Bluesman on 12/10/13 at 18:22:44

KG4ZAR & VE3NWN - both of you would be easily workable from here, given a quiet plasma-TV-free night. I´m sure we will hook up during the winter :-) 73 .-.-. ...-.- 8-)

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by walterpump on 12/10/13 at 18:48:54

7F5148584E505C533D0 wrote:

Hey Bluesman: I finally got through to a fellow in Texas. Pretty good Ontario to Texas. He is WA5PFJ in Midland Texas - yahoo. Very pleased with that distance. He gave me signal report of 559 but he copied me just fine and we chatted for almost 20min (CW).

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by ZAR on 12/10/13 at 18:58:11

7C6A677F6E797B7E667B0B0 wrote:

[quote author=0C1704560 link=1386446947/30#30 date=1386728164]@ walterpump and bluesman....KG4ZAR here. I never got into CW,but work a lot of SSB on 50mhz and looking at some of the digital modes for 6 meters.

And now you know where my username originated ;)

Hey ZAR:
I would love to get into 6 metres but no rig for it. Ten Tec made a neat inexpensive 6 and 2 metre rig called the 6N2 that I would like to have, then I could do both 6M and 2M SSB. My shack is out in my garage/studio where I am right now, with my wood stove keeping me warm, listening to 7.046 CW and chatting with you guys.
73's
[/quote]

Walter the TenTec 526 is a sweet rig. Even with only 20w rated output they seem to compete with the big guns pretty well. I keep looking for one myself but when the rare one comes up for sale they fetch around $500 USD. I was lucky and traded an excess to me shooting iron for a Kenwood TS60 for 6 meter work. It's rated 90w output and with only a rigid dipole I've worked 28 states and 3 countries. My farthest qso was the Island of Trinidad in the Caribbeans. That was worked with only 10 watts on the dipole.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by ZAR on 12/10/13 at 19:33:43

7B554C5C4A545857390 wrote:

KG4ZAR & VE3NWN - both of you would be easily workable from here, given a quiet plasma-TV-free night. I´m sure we will hook up during the winter :-) 73 .-.-. ...-.- 8-)

Rick if only I had HF equipment :( . I don't think my 90w 6 meter rig and homebrew dipole will do the job to Sweden. Then again.....they don't call it the magic band for nothin' 8-)

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by gizzo on 12/11/13 at 14:49:36

5D56565F535C5D4746320 wrote:

And I used to fly control line stunt and combat (5 minute epoxy was my friend) as well, and I too still have an Enya 35 on a stunt plane in the basement. Small world.

I'm still flying an old plain bearing Enya 15 I've had for a million years. Bought it new when I was 12. We fly those engines on coreflute combat wings now. Plus a couple of mutant Cox .049's. They're badass. Right now I'm looking at CL options for my pulse jet. I'll RC that one too, though, for laughs. My father in law used to be a state champ in .15 speed (rat race) and he's got some cool old sleds we get out occasionally.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 12/11/13 at 16:17:44

505B5B525E51504A4B3F0 wrote:

Awwrite! Im gladd I found this,, You ever answer a question for me & I dont say thanks, PM me & point me to it, I missied it, The quote about the Enya sent me looking.. ANYONE,, I ask you a question & dont say thanks when ya answer, Point it out, I missed it,,
Thats some cool stuff about that room.

I placed 2nd in a 150 lap rat race with that Enya on a Buster. I pitted 5 times, everyone else pitted 3 times. That sucker ran Goood.. IIRC, I ran 6 gallons thru it before I replaced the piston & sleeve.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by arteacher on 12/12/13 at 15:35:20

It IS a small world- I had a Buster too. Mine was red. I think I had a Fox .35 on it. I remember I had a rig on it so I could start it up and run to the control handle, and yank a cord to release the plane. That was a great plane.
I also had a Nobler with a Fox .50 schnurel and 3-wire controls, to add throttle control.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 12/12/13 at 22:45:36

I tricked my Buster out a bit. I opened a place up under the rudder & epoxied a 1 oz. trot line weight in it. That thing would come out of a wingover going backwards & go straight back up the line it was coming down on. One day, the slug flew out,,
The Buster had a good elevator to horizontal stabilizer ratio & a low profile, long chord wing. It would move out real good & do vertical 8's with no problem. I rigged a Flight Streak with flaps on the back of the wing that worked opposite of the elevator.. That dude would turn tight,,
Vertical 8's with that thing were crazy,,I crashed it before I got around to weighting the tail. All C/L planes Ive seen are a bit nose heavy,so a tail weight helps out, but an ounce may be a bit much that far back,.Gotta be careful about weighting the rear too much, wouldnt want the mass to drag the tail out & put slack in the lines,

A guy I knew brought out one of his hot rodded up Fox 35's on a combat & told me he wanted me to fly it. Id never handled a fast combat before & that thing ran 98 MPH,, I lost sight of it 3 times & only saved it by feeling the pull of it. I was never so happy to see a plane run outta gas in my Life! A pacifier load of fuel only lasted a coupla minutes, but that was a coupla very intense minutes.

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 12/13/13 at 11:11:30

I Always wanted a Nobler.. I wanted to do carrier landings & fly the stunt "outline". Did you compete? Ever fly real combat pulling the ribbon? I did twice, once I stuffed mine right thru the other guys plane. Mine saved, his went in the trash,,:). The other time I was flying with an older guy, we had lines twisted a few turns & he just let go of his. I asked him why & he said he didnt wanna see a young guy lose his plane,, Dang, I hated seein his plane crash,,absolutely needless loss. All we had to do was calla truce & unwind the lines,, no big deal,,
I had a buddy who bought a biplane w/ 3 lines. He wouldnt even try to loop it,, & he wouldnt even consider letting me fly it,,

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by thumperclone on 12/13/13 at 23:57:00

TRYING TO STAY WARM
and out of the line of fire :(

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by trini tuner on 12/14/13 at 10:13:16

When I am unable to ride the savage I play with my cages and other toys.

http://s21.postimg.org/49st04h9v/crx2.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/49st04h9v/)

http://s15.postimg.org/7puj2uetz/gopedinsta.jpg (http://postimage.org/)

http://s30.postimg.org/4t9ic45rx/jog.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/4t9ic45rx/)

Title: Re: Your hobbies when your unable to ride.
Post by gizzo on 12/15/13 at 14:43:15

213E383F22251424142C3E32794B0 wrote:

I have a profile Nobler I built years ago. It has the .15 on it, flies well for a plane with no airfoil. Has flaps though. My partner's dad has the real thing with an OS 35 and it is a real honey to fly.