Bladeforger, from St Pete, Howdy
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10-03-2008, 02:55 PM
Bladeforger, from St Pete, Howdy
Howdy, Y'all:
I'm Bladeforger because I have forged some knives... been using this handle in lots of places. Don't get to make too many knives anymore because of limited shop space. And I'm from Texas so of course I like guns, knives, etc.
The penguin avatar is because that is the symbol of Linux, and I am switching all my computers to Linux except for one old Windows box that I'll keep around for a few years... Bill Gates is tickin' me off too many times a year with all this proprietary stuff and registrations and anit-pirate stuff that doesn't stop pirates but irritates everyone else. Linux is finally good enough to appeal to someone who isn't too much of a geek--like me.
Bikes:
I had a Kaw Ninja but I sold it--too much street.
My primary ride is a KLR650, one of the last of the "older ones", and it's a keeper. I've ridden it in the mountains of Colorado, through Deal's Gap, through a tropical depression going across the Mississippi in Baton Rouge, and in the traffic of Atlanta coming back to Florida from Deal's Gap. She don't do worth spit on the freeways loaded down with 275 pounds of baggage and rider with semis blowing her around, but she's just fine on US Highways on down to fireroads and some single track. That's more scenic anyway.
The other bike is a DR350 that I've been ironing the kinks out of, and if she doesn't get unkinked to my satisfaction in the next 12 months, I'll trade her in on a KLX250S... and I might do that anyway because the little KLX is such a great bike. The budget tells me to keep ironing out kinks because... well, ya know how it is these days.
The KLR has some great mods: HT SU rack, HT nerf bars, Russel all-day saddle for trips, fork brace, Moose skit plate, progressive springs, upgraded turn-signal unit with push-to-cancel and no fuse-blowing when going from high to low beams. The doohickey is upgraded, too. She's sitting in my office, next to my desk, after the daily commute, with 11,259 miles on her.
I also dive and like to paddle around in the water. Reading is a passion. I vote conservative and believe in keeping America free. I'm not afraid to wear a t-shirt with Sarah Palin holding a rifle and squatting next to a red and blue dead donkey or, my favorite, her sitting on a motorcycle.
That's it. Howdy to Y'all.
Keith
I'm Bladeforger because I have forged some knives... been using this handle in lots of places. Don't get to make too many knives anymore because of limited shop space. And I'm from Texas so of course I like guns, knives, etc.
The penguin avatar is because that is the symbol of Linux, and I am switching all my computers to Linux except for one old Windows box that I'll keep around for a few years... Bill Gates is tickin' me off too many times a year with all this proprietary stuff and registrations and anit-pirate stuff that doesn't stop pirates but irritates everyone else. Linux is finally good enough to appeal to someone who isn't too much of a geek--like me.
Bikes:
I had a Kaw Ninja but I sold it--too much street.
My primary ride is a KLR650, one of the last of the "older ones", and it's a keeper. I've ridden it in the mountains of Colorado, through Deal's Gap, through a tropical depression going across the Mississippi in Baton Rouge, and in the traffic of Atlanta coming back to Florida from Deal's Gap. She don't do worth spit on the freeways loaded down with 275 pounds of baggage and rider with semis blowing her around, but she's just fine on US Highways on down to fireroads and some single track. That's more scenic anyway.
The other bike is a DR350 that I've been ironing the kinks out of, and if she doesn't get unkinked to my satisfaction in the next 12 months, I'll trade her in on a KLX250S... and I might do that anyway because the little KLX is such a great bike. The budget tells me to keep ironing out kinks because... well, ya know how it is these days.
The KLR has some great mods: HT SU rack, HT nerf bars, Russel all-day saddle for trips, fork brace, Moose skit plate, progressive springs, upgraded turn-signal unit with push-to-cancel and no fuse-blowing when going from high to low beams. The doohickey is upgraded, too. She's sitting in my office, next to my desk, after the daily commute, with 11,259 miles on her.
I also dive and like to paddle around in the water. Reading is a passion. I vote conservative and believe in keeping America free. I'm not afraid to wear a t-shirt with Sarah Palin holding a rifle and squatting next to a red and blue dead donkey or, my favorite, her sitting on a motorcycle.
That's it. Howdy to Y'all.
Keith
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10-10-2008, 07:38 AM
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