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New Year Resolutions!
01/01/18 at 03:42:13

What changes are you making for 2018? Huh

For me:

1) Ride More.
2) Wrench Less.

In the last several years I have spent twice as much time in the garage working on bikes than I have riding. This was a result of the Ninja Cafe project and various other fiddling I did on the bikes. I do need to paint the Ninja Cafe' this winter - but when riding season comes I intend to spend more time riding! I also intend to ride my motorcycle to/from work more often - I can take some nice curvy back roads and avoid the heavy rush hour traffic on the main roads. (My new job provides a Ford Explorer retired from the Police Department for me to drive around while at work).

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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10667 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: New Year Resolutions! Reply #1 - 01/01/18 at 04:02:26 Im trying to thin out the used LS650 parts collection, and have started on that already. I need to ride more as well, the past year had a lot of things that got in the way and hopefully this year will be less so.
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Re: New Year Resolutions!
Reply #2 - 01/01/18 at 11:35:07

RETIRE.........!!!!!!!

Once and for all.

My old place of employment (plumbing) wants me to consider working a few days a week, as the owner wants more time away....
He wants me to take over while he is gone.

Tempting, but you know they things rarely work out as expected/planned.
I could easily see it turning back into more than I want.

I think you have to square your mind to the point of not saying, "OK, this is my last hand..... ya just gotta pull up your stakes and leave the table, FOR GOOD! Grin

Think I will go and see if the savage will even fire up.....
Been setting months Embarrassed

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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5112 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: New Year Resolutions! Reply #3 - 01/01/18 at 11:59:38 Shed a few pounds and a bad habit or two ! Maybe take up a new bad habit. Finish at least two bikes and start a third. Ride the crap out of the tracker this year. Health Wealth & Happiness to all , Happy New Year !
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Re: New Year Resolutions!
Reply #4 - 01/01/18 at 12:33:28

Go review the Daytona Beach Bike Week proposed free campground for trip #1 -- has Dave's
Evening Shower and just built bath house and it is far enough away from the Daytonal Beach Hurley Burley zoo to give some peace and quiet to the camping experience.

(Recommendations from Florida locals were taken into picking this Central Florida location. If you know there is a better place, please do tell -- you live local and know these things better than we do.)

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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18101 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: New Year Resolutions! Reply #5 - 01/01/18 at 16:31:43 Dave wrote on 01/01/18 at 03:42:13: What changes are you making for 2018? For me: 1) Ride More. 2) Wrench Less. 3) Clean up and organize garage, closet, basement....throw out useless stuff.
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5112 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: New Year Resolutions! Reply #6 - 01/01/18 at 17:50:04 And sell 2 of my 4 p/u trucks & sell the go kart then buy a m/c lift !
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engineer Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 872 Gender:	Re: New Year Resolutions! Reply #7 - 01/01/18 at 18:07:07 Sell my little Honda CB125 and finish restoring the old BMW R60/5 airhead so I can organize/clean the garage.
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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5837 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: New Year Resolutions! Reply #8 - 01/01/18 at 20:09:03 I'm going to try to check more things off my Bucket list than I put ON it ! Really , it seems , the more places I ride to , the more I find to ride too !!!
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: New Year Resolutions! Reply #9 - 01/01/18 at 21:10:53 Dave wrote on 01/01/18 at 16:31:43: Dave wrote on 01/01/18 at 03:42:13: What changes are you making for 2018? For me: 1) Ride More. 2) Wrench Less. 3) Clean up and organize garage, closet, basement....throw out useless stuff. How many Useless things have I thrown away Only to realize that they had a part I need Today?
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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5837 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: New Year Resolutions! Reply #10 - 01/03/18 at 21:49:37 I'm planning to "Live up" to the example set by three very fine ~~gentlemen~~ guys here on the Savage Site : 1. YouzGuyz , best I can figure ... he rides every day 2 Bad Wolf , he racks-up more cycle-miles than anybody else I know . 3. Dave , the guy that rides the CLEANEST Bike in the bunch .
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Re: New Year Resolutions!
Reply #11 - 01/04/18 at 04:30:37

MMRanch wrote on 01/03/18 at 21:49:37:

I'm planning to "Live up" to the example set by two very fine ~~gentlemen~~ guys here on the Savage Site : Grin

1. YouzGuyz , best I can figure ... he rides every day
2 Bad Wolf , he racks-up more cycle-miles than anybody else I know .

What about the fellow that has tried to set a good example for you on the need for regular bike cleaning and polishing? Huh

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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5837 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: New Year Resolutions! Reply #12 - 01/04/18 at 10:17:19 OH , Yea .... Mr Clean Machine too ! Makes me smile just to look at a Clean bike !
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