We hear this same bit from someone different every few weeks or months. I guess today is my turn.
Why would you bother to upload a photo with absolutely no background info attached? Too often the title line reads "JPEG.blablabla" and there's nothing to indicate why or where you took the image much less why you are sharing it. If it means that little to you, it means a lot less to anyone else!
I think CC should make filling in a caption line a manditory field before an image is uploaded. Come on guys, you took the photo, why not share with us what it's about? It's not like I'm KRESKIN or something that I can't read your mind!
I haven't had to eat crow in a while, so what do you think?
Just wanted to say Happy Veterans Day to all my CC friends.
Thank you, veterans, for the freedoms I enjoy every day. Thank you for your sacrifice and thank your families too for sharing you.
Have a great day and ride safe,
Marianne from Texas
Fun Stuff
I had a blast this weekend. I did my first ride with over 100+ bikers. Probably closser to 200. We had our Toy Run and I got to be in it. What an experience. First my friends and I met up probably about 10 of us, then we all went to the Toy run. There were bikes every where. All the groups of bikers met up and talked for a while. The group kept getting larger and larger. All kinds of people and groups some independent riders fell in and then when it was time we all rolled together with a police escourt through town to the drop off point. It was a hudge group by this time and we took both sides of the street for as far as I could see. Bikes of all types and people of all kinds also. we all talked and hung out then went for free chilli. Best time I have had yet on the bike. This is what bikers are all about getting together and sharing the ride. The stories and friendships made are great. Just loving it.....
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Here's the text (verbatim) from the CHP's site: "Lane splitting by motorcycles is permissible under California law but must done in a safe and prudent manner." The text used to also include "The motorcycle should be traveling no more than 10 mph faster than surrounding traffic (without exceeding the speed limit) and not come close enough to that traffic to cause a collision." but has since been removed. Perhaps they wanted to give cops more latitude to interpret what they thought was safe so they removed it.
If you lane split, avoid weaving between the two lanes and don't exceed traffic speed by more than 10 mph. The former could get you a ticket for changing lanes without signaling while the latter could get you a ticket for reckless driving.
Your odds of getting ticketed also increase if you lane split between the carpool and fast lane. A double yellow line divides the two lanes and those are illegal to cross (with rare exceptions that would never occur on the freeway); I know of riders who have been specifically ticketed for crossing the double yellow while lane splitting between those lanes.
Lane splitting on surface streets is probably not addressed in city or county laws so I would do this with caution, as individual cops will decide whether or not they like what they see. I split lanes on surface streets if I don't see any cops, but I stop immediately if I spot one.
There's a little bit of information on "lane sharing" in the DMV Motorcycle handbook. They say to discourage its practice, but never say it's illegal.
Keep it upright and ride it like you mean it!
Well hello from France, those of you who are reading one of my postings for the first time ( sorry ) for those of you that have read before ( you knew what you would get ).
Here we are in the 10 th month of 2009 and things are not getting any better, just to bring the probes up to speed ( legal limit ), Pam my wife and she said I could say that I am the BOSS, (it looks better) and I moved from the UK to France in 1984, changed our lifestyle and way of living ( for the better ), not really thinking about the advancing years and the problems that come, YES, got a job trucking all over Europe ( great but weeks away from home ), got a job in what you call a Truck Stop in the USA, yes I knew the Boss and family as was a client for a couple of years before starting there ( Super Job Long Hours but kept the smell of 18 wheelers in my system) Pam and I started around 1987 01 01, built up a run down shop and gas station to a thriving shop and still a good gas station ( we used to get sometimes 2 refills a day on Diesel it was a good stop for all as on the SPAIN <<>> Germany/ England route. Things went good the wages kept us going and we could slowly make are home.
THEN the SH** hit the FAN, Good BOSS sold out to a NEW BOSS, he seemed to be OK, but the bed of roses soon became bed of thorns, the wife left the job cutting down on the income, but she started working for the Gendarmerie National as a translator, but the work was like working for the army, paid you when they used you. I continued with the Bad BOSS stressing out day by day ( no I never shot the guy ) till in 2006 after 19 years went on sick leave, money was tight but after all the mist cleared and visits to the hospital, doctors and all I was put out as an Invalid, so there we go 21 years in the same job, here comes the curved ball, in France when you are 60 years old( laws at the time ) you retire in theory, so that day came 22 years and 4 months and then ZERO, you become RETIRED.
As retired your pension is based on the best 20 years wages and then this and that, fine if I had been in France and worked for 40 years all would have fell into place ( little but just enough ), but NO I started work at 15 in the UK and worked till I left the UK in 1984, so my first part of qualification in England and the French bit together would make up my pension, OH S--- the French pay out at 60 or later it depends, the English don’t depend they don’t anything till you are 65, well it don’t need a high school diploma to see 60 and 65 don’t correspond, so 60-65 little from France until 65 when England chips in, since my 60th birthday I lost nearly 700 Euro in benefits and its hard.
I have heard it said that a trouble shared is a trouble halved, so sorry by sharing it with all you I should have no PROBLEM, Thanks all for reading my ramblings and I do feel a little better for typing this morning not that will change anything, you work like a ********* all your life to find at the END you have what you started with Zero but you have gained a lot of FRIENDS.
May who or what you believe in keep you and yours
Medal of Honor Winner Ed Freeman!
The Story
You're a 19 year old Infantry Soldier, critically wounded and slowly dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley
The date is 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray , Viet Nam . Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8 - 1 and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to stop coming in.
You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out. Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter..!! You look up to see an un-armed Huey!!
But.... it doesn't seem real because no Medi-Vac markings are on it. Ed Freeman is coming for you..!! He's not Medi-Vac so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway. Even after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway. And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on board.
Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the waiting Doctors and Nurses.
And, he kept coming back..!! 13 more times..!! He took about 30 of you and your buddies out who would never have gotten out.
Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise , ID
May God Rest His Soul
I bet you didn't hear about this Hero's passing...
we had 24/7 coverage of Michael Jackson instead.
Shame on the Media..!!
Manybikes of Cruiser Customizing here with this Cruiser Customizing Tip of the Week. My goal of this tip is to introduce you Jason Welsh, one of my friends and motorcycle parts representatives. Jason Welsh, owner of Jason's Performance Parts stops by our shop every time he has something we "Have To See!" As you will learn here today, Jason is a passionate rider who lives his life sharing his passion with other motorcyclists. His life long goal is a quest to help others protect themselvesso they may enjoy their ride, as well as continue to enjoy life if the ride happens to end abruptly. Jason is a firm believer of protective riding gear and accessories. Below you will find some of Jason's most popular brands:
I had the great pleasure of meeting and riding with a few of our members today, Rugerdaddy, PJD1952 & Surfwer. We had a nice day out for a ride and then we grabbed a bite to eat. I hope you all enjoy the photos and only wish that we could get together with many of you to meet & ride! I must say they all sure have sweeeeeet bikes!
PJ,Surfwer & Rugerdaddy, Thanx for sharing your day with me & the hubby and hope to do it again ~Vstargrl~
I had the great pleasure of meeting and riding with a few of our members today, Rugerdaddy, PJD1952 & Surfwer. We had a nice day out for a ride and then we grabbed a bite to eat. I hope you all enjoy the photos and only wish that we could get together with many of you to meet & ride! I must say they all sure have sweeeeeet bikes!
PJ,Surfwer & Rugerdaddy, Thanx for sharing your day with me & the hubby and hope to do it again ~Vstargrl~
I had the great pleasure of meeting and riding with a few of our members today, Rugerdaddy, PJD1952 & Surfwer. We had a nice day out for a ride and then we grabbed a bite to eat. I hope you all enjoy the photos and only wish that we could get together with many of you to meet & ride! I must say they all sure have sweeeeeet bikes!
PJ,Surfwer & Rugerdaddy, Thanx for sharing your day with me & the hubby and hope to do it again ~Vstargrl~
I had the great pleasure of meeting and riding with a few of our members today, Rugerdaddy, PJD1952 & Surfwer. We had a nice day out for a ride and then we grabbed a bite to eat. I hope you all enjoy the photos and only wish that we could get together with many of you to meet & ride! I must say they all sure have sweeeeeet bikes!
PJ,Surfwer & Rugerdaddy, Thanx for sharing your day with me & the hubby and hope to do it again ~Vstargrl~