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Κracus
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PostPosted: 08-13-2020 10:04 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Jeeze dude sounds like you've had it rough. What the hell were you up to on the dirtbike to cause so much damage anyway?
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PostPosted: 08-13-2020 10:08 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


It's just how I happened to land; all my weight went down on my knee as I was falling in a twisting motion.
Took a turn a little too fast not realizing I was about to hit a patch of loose gravel. Hand got caught under the bike and was crushed.
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PostPosted: 08-13-2020 10:09 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


What kind of dirtbike do you ride? Still riding or still recovering from the rona?
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PostPosted: 08-13-2020 10:11 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


The bikes belong to my uncle. I'll have to ask him.
I was planning on going back in september to get on the trails again but my knee still isn't fully recovered.
I've been recovered from covid since late march.
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PostPosted: 08-13-2020 11:00 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Sucks dude, hope you get well soon. If you're ever on a dirt bike expedition in eastern Canada let me know. I'm out on the trails on a daily basis.
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PostPosted: 08-17-2020 11:02 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote




Found some old binders with some super old drawings I did as a kid... Kinda like this one. Drawing is at least 25 years old, paper is falling apart.
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PostPosted: 08-17-2020 11:15 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Violator, neat :up:
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PostPosted: 08-17-2020 11:26 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I see you are also a man of culture. :p
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PostPosted: 08-28-2020 09:55 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Re: What is new in your little world, me, I bought a Lego train set and just threw the pieces together :D
.... and buying Lego bricks, bits and pieces online, throwing together to make railway car/carriage MOCs (my own creation)



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PostPosted: 08-29-2020 02:15 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


That is rather spiffy Whiskey 7 :) You have a lot more patience than I



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PostPosted: 08-30-2020 01:57 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I Became a HAM operator. Yes, I got a call sign that is also my name. KD3NZI If anyone else is a HAM operator I hang out on Reflector 30C



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PostPosted: 08-30-2020 02:14 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Hey Denz. I have/had my amateur radio licence. I am told my call-sign VK4VGJ and no doubt the license lapsed years ago, Recently I started to ask about locally as to what's required to get back into the hobby. Question: Did you or do you need proficiency in Morse Code these days? I am guessing not in these days of advancing technology.

Quick snippet. I remember back in the day, visiting a shack and seeing a TRS80 deciphering Morse, characters 'magically the appearing on a B&W monitor :eek: So long ago.



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PostPosted: 08-31-2020 12:18 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


so is ham radio basically just discord chat but with radios?
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PostPosted: 08-31-2020 05:23 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Whiskey 7 wrote:
Quick snippet. I remember back in the day, visiting a shack and seeing a TRS80 deciphering Morse, characters 'magically the appearing on a B&W monitor :eek: So long ago.


Keep voting for the coal and gas parties and in a couple decades we'll be back to those long ago days.
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PostPosted: 08-31-2020 08:26 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


seremtan wrote:
so is ham radio basically just discord chat but with radios?


And you can call the ISS if you're lucky, I saw a ham nerd do it once on the tube. He could only talk to them for a few minutes since the ISS is flying at 17,000km/h or whatever. It was pretty cool actually :olo:
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PostPosted: 09-01-2020 01:15 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


i admire the dedication to old school analogue while at the same noting that this is essentially Omegle only more wholesome
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PostPosted: 09-01-2020 04:58 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


seremtan wrote:
i admire the dedication to old school analogue while at the same noting that this is essentially Omegle only more wholesome

i bet you omegle the shit out of the internet.
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PostPosted: 09-01-2020 07:49 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Omegle? Reminds me of my old CB radio days in the early 1970's, yes before some of you were born :p



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PostPosted: 09-02-2020 10:13 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:
seremtan wrote:
i admire the dedication to old school analogue while at the same noting that this is essentially Omegle only more wholesome


i bet you omegle the shit out of the internet.


what does that even mean? :olo:
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PostPosted: 09-03-2020 04:43 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


:olo:
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Speaking of Omegle I'm so jealous of this guys skill on the guitar.
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PostPosted: 09-03-2020 12:42 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


:up:
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PostPosted: 09-07-2020 12:26 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


The bike is all cleaned up, prepped and ready to go for our trip to Virginia. A few friends and I are riding 950 miles from south Florida to a Shenandoah Valley resort where we will stay several days. Should be great weather and a great place to ride.
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YourGrandpa wrote:
...... great weather and a great place to ride.


Enjoy the trip YourGrandpa :up:



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PostPosted: 09-07-2020 05:26 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Sounds like a great way to spend time during a pandemic... :rolleyes: :up:




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YourGrandpa wrote:
The bike is all cleaned up, prepped and ready to go for our trip to Virginia. A few friends and I are riding 950 miles from south Florida to a Shenandoah Valley resort where we will stay several days. Should be great weather and a great place to ride.



Wait you guys are allowed to cross state borders without having to quarantine? No wonder Covid is so out of control over there.
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https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus ... rus-cases/

Quote:
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Is Now Linked to More Than 250,000 Coronavirus Cases
One study estimates the public health cost of the super-spreading event is near $12 billion.
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HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:
https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/09/sturgis-motorcycle-rally-is-now-linked-to-more-than-250000-coronavirus-cases/

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Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Is Now Linked to More Than 250,000 Coronavirus Cases
One study estimates the public health cost of the super-spreading event is near $12 billion.

A rally like this is stupid, but the article mentions the numbers are based on anonymized cellphone data.
It's very unlikely the numbers actually reflect reality. There's no way 250,000 people get infected at an outdoor motorcycling event of 500,000 people..
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I agree it’s impossible to know the numbers. But don’t they mean it’s “linked” to 250k people? Meaning they can (theoretically) be traced backed to the biker circlejerk. Not necessarily that half the people there contracted the virus...
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PostPosted: 09-08-2020 03:03 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


it's almost as if the virus doesn't care why people are congregating and is just infecting them anyway
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Yeah, don't mind all the looting and rioting. Covid doesn't go anywhere near there. :olo:

We're heading out tomorrow morning for Virginia... For all you Covid warriors, I've already checked the travel restrictions. As long as I have my covid-proof mask I'll be fine.

It should be a great ride around the mountains. I'll post some pics and video when I return.

See ya soon. :cool:
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YourGrandpa wrote:
............. See ya soon. :cool:


Me too :) as I'm off to a boutique sub tropical hideaway escape in the Gold Coast hinterland for a few nights, set back in the hills maybe an hour from the sands of the coast. Looking forward to the green and damp of the bush, cold nights and a log fire.



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PostPosted: 09-18-2020 09:04 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Whiskey 7 wrote:
......off to a boutique sub tropical hideaway escape in the Gold Coast hinterland.....


Lovely nights out in the bush :)


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PostPosted: 09-18-2020 11:44 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Very nice Whiskey
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looks amazing and also full of things that can kill you

watching out for the gimpi-gimpi tree, Whiskey! :D
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