I am ,  

Little creek nearby, two bath houses, nice fire pit and sitting wall, and right in the middle of everthing else.

Wow  I might have to leave now just thinking about it.

Midnightrider wrote on 05/15/10 at 10:29:03:



Yep, I will be camping at Deal's gap.
Bigzuk

I'm still planning on riding up Fri morning and camping.

Now Toymaker, you is the nice(r) one you know ....



Lancer, he's jest letting us have enough rope to hang ourselves don't 'cha you know it ....

He's got 'ol Rexxy humming along jest dandy and he's jest gulling us to put the odds in his favor for when the wagering starts in a few days time ...


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But jest in case -- we need to start considerin' commissioning the exact wording for the little wooden tombstone we will nail to the Tree of Shame should he NOT make it again this year.

Ya got any small scraps of plywood in your garage?   A little paint brush and a little bit of red paint to wet it with?

Heck, that's such a good idea we might as well make it retroactive

Let's see, for the first year it might be:

(the exact date, I forget)

In fond memory of Rex, may he rest quietly in pieces
May that all his boxes be found so he can be resurrected on the day.

Lord, please let Lancer ride yet again, since he's such a Sporty fellow
Give him purty blondes to chase and good companions to ride with.

Amen


You do the second year  (I'm all teared up with emotion)









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NO Toymaker,  we don't want to try out your new jump ramps your son & his buds built going down the slope in your back yard ...

Boy, I sure hope you are good at marinating and barbeque'n crow to kill the rancid taste, 'cause we are at serious risk of munching & spitting a bunch of black feathers in about 35 days or there abouts ....

Bad enough that he whups up on all of us wid his nekkid Savage, but to first force feed us a big meal of "the other dark meat" would make it even worse.

Mebbe he'll offer us the choice of either chowing down on the smelly black bird or else taking a quick ride down the ramp in the back yard on that beat up & wobbly 'ol mountain bike .....

  watta choice, huh?

MMRanch, you'll likely get your cowburger since you didn't razz the man about the past years any -- so far only Toymaker and I are at risk of spitting out them nasty black feathers.


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But the pattern is the same every year -- as we all pull our stuff together and discuss getting our bikes ready Lancer starts to get all ...... quiet ......  towards the end.

First Dragon trip Lancer showed up riding a Sportster as REX was still hibernating in his boxes (procrastination strikes again).

Last year he invited Verslagen to come to SC for a assembly fest the last week before Dragon time and they actually put all the pieces together good enough for it to actually start up & squeal out a cam head bearing and puke out some oil on them.  Then they rode to the coast and borrowed a Beemer from his daughter for Lancer to ride and Verslagen rode Toymakers spare Savage on Dragon Run #2.

This year we made sure to remind him early enough to actually put the bike together in time.   And he did.   And he talked about it up to the point where he was ready to fire it up ....


And now he is done got all quiet on us again.    


Rexxy's done puked or squealed or done something else all ungrateful b*tchy again.


Me, I'd have posted me a great big AWSHIT post jest a face slapping the ungrateful b*tch for whatever new nonsense she was kicking up this time just to vent it all out, but that simply isn't Lancer's style.  


He's the quiet suffer'n in silence type.


Remember, Lancer has most of his stuff all still in boxes from his last move (check the background of that last picture) and he is trying to put Rex back together without all his mechanical stuff available to him, so you can imagine what that's like.


But then again, that's the miracle of Lancer -- we'll never know the actual story until he shows up at Toymaker's.    And mebbe not even then (we got last year's story from Verslagen).



And who knows, mebbe he'll be packing him a cooler full of well aged crow on Rex's rear fender fer Toymaker & me to chew on instead.

Hey Kel, when you get there, reserve a Tee-time for me at the deals gap motorcycle resort and golf club. I'll meet you in the clubhouse.

AL

I am in Quantico VA with my US Marine kids and #6 baby grandson Marine.  We are camped out here until Jun2, which after almost 2 months of moving crap and such, now this trip (though I surely love playing with my 1 yr old Marine baby) it all cuts a huge piece out of the preparation time.
REX's engine is together and in the frame as noted in the last photo's I posted, the wheels and carb are on and now to hook up the wiring that Verslagen so expertly unraveled and organized for me last year, then align the front discs & calipers so they actually work  and I will be on the road.

That big fat piston sure did look perty inside the newly done cylinder, new cam chain wrapped around the Stage 2 cam, and with the Slavy 2-hole tensioner to keep things together properly and even a new gasket for the right side case.  Oh yea, feelin good !
The GS650 front end is on and now to align the dual discs and calipers so the brakes actually work and don't just look perty sittin up there in   front and life will be good for sure.

Throw on the finely tuned custom header/muffler and a sparking plug...oh, and a really high torque battery to turn the sucker over fast enought to fire up the boiler would help too.
I am ready to hear that hard pounding CRACK OF AN EXHAUST SOUND from the big high compression piston.

So, what are the odds makers giving at the mountainside resort that REX will be there and raring to go ? ?