The Chopper Compendium

Where the h**l is everybody ? 5 days of crickets !!

gearhead1951 wrote:Where the h**l is everybody ? 5 days of crickets !!

Don't know I keep checking in and nobody ever posts.
Lurk Lurk Lurk
Dusty

I check in almost every day when I'm not on the road. Has been quiet for several months now. I sort of expect that during the summer when folks are riding or doing other summer activities.

Don't know how it is in the States, but the last few days of September and now the first few days of October have been cold and rainy. I hope we have some decent weather the rest of October and November because those are the only two months this year will I'll be home more than two weeks.

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so did I mention the lack of $$$$$$$

If only I had some $$$$ I could build something! My shop is getting cleaner though. That does not cost $$$$!

I know ! The holy trinity , Time , Money and a space work in and keep your tools safe !

Got the Putanya safely broken in and/or sold ? Is the Broken Blade going well ? Bored , Retired old engineers want to know !!

One of the problems (or maybe the blessings) of discussions boards, blogs and general Internet sites is that people have finally caught on to the fact that this digital stuff just doesn't matter and a lot of people are just ignoring the whole 'social media' thing which I think is probably a good thing. On the other hand sharing technical information can never be 'overdone' so maybe sites like this are best viewed as depositories (not Suppositories) of information that isn't added to in blog fashion day after day. I guess everything changes with time. I for one haven't posted anything of significance here in years but I've been working on two major projects that I've posted at other sites since I don't consider either project as having any technical significance that anybody could learn from so I don't bother to list the work on this site.

Been riding the puta and the broken rubber. The knife sits it is only maybe a month from riding.

Been drawing schetchs for a board tracker or a V8 trike for next project.

At work we are going to dismantle a large dumping machine with about 60 ft of roller chain about 2 in wide. Hope to get it at scrap pricing to weld the links for next frame.

Dreams for the dreamer here is all right now.

Sorry for not logging on sooner, I have been especially busy this construction season.
I have a lot of personal goals I am working on, along with the work.
I won't go thru the list, but it is very long.

I've been away working much more than home, 6-8 weeks at a time, home for possibly a week, gone again.

Hope everyone is doing well.

gww25 wrote:One of the problems (or maybe the blessings) of discussions boards, blogs and general Internet sites is that people have finally caught on to the fact that this digital stuff just doesn't matter and a lot of people are just ignoring the whole 'social media' thing which I think is probably a good thing. On the other hand sharing technical information can never be 'overdone' so maybe sites like this are best viewed as depositories (not Suppositories) of information that isn't added to in blog fashion day after day. I guess everything changes with time. I for one haven't posted anything of significance here in years but I've been working on two major projects that I've posted at other sites since I don't consider either project as having any technical significance that anybody could learn from so I don't bother to list the work on this site.

Where do you have projects posted? I'd like to see them.

I don't consider either project as having any technical significance that anybody could learn from so I don't bother to list the work on this site.

You would be surprised at who can sneak through the door, and what they can learn.

But I can also agree, I have a thread on another site, me cutting the top off of my suv and making a truck out of it.
It is nice for others who may roll their truck, see what it might look like if they removed the smashed top, little value here.

Indian Mark wrote:

gww25 wrote:One of the problems (or maybe the blessings) of discussions boards, blogs and general Internet sites is that people have finally caught on to the fact that this digital stuff just doesn't matter and a lot of people are just ignoring the whole 'social media' thing which I think is probably a good thing. On the other hand sharing technical information can never be 'overdone' so maybe sites like this are best viewed as depositories (not Suppositories) of information that isn't added to in blog fashion day after day. I guess everything changes with time. I for one haven't posted anything of significance here in years but I've been working on two major projects that I've posted at other sites since I don't consider either project as having any technical significance that anybody could learn from so I don't bother to list the work on this site.

Where do you have projects posted? I'd like to see them.[/quote

I am curious also. I dont post a lot here, but I do check this site a few times a week. I dont really visit other bike sites, because I dont feel as though there is as much good information like there is on this site.

a couple a personal tragedy taken the wind out of my sails for a while now . I still check in time to time not as much as id like or used to . still a few projects I want to see like indian marks 1911 a couple a nates bikes and a nice 750 triple , blue triumph . I still have a couple projects rattlein around in my head I want to get to I will eventually get to .

...If not for the info, insight, and encouragement from both the CD, and the forum involvement i might never have believed i could do this.

Im aware of the hacks, crashes, loss of info, and how much of a pain that all must be to the awesome dedicated people who have tried so long to keep this forum alive. So it is not with ignorance that i say that im going to start spending more time here and do what i can to give back -even if its with crickets.

My first step is to make the CBH logo the background on my computer -you know, as a reminder.

For me it was getting one of my hands caught in an industrial steel cutting chop saw, lucky I didn't lose the hand, but it has been a long recovery, am back to about 50% with that hand, and am trying to get some work done out in the shop, but it has really slowed me down. Four bike projects just sitting there and when I try to work on them, it is painful and slow. But I'm determined to finish them, it will just take awhile longer then I originally thought.

The doc told me it's lucky I didn't lose the hand.
And he's exactly right !!!
Aloha from Maui,
Willy

2Loose wrote:For me it was getting one of my hands caught in an industrial steel cutting chop saw, lucky I didn't lose the hand, but it has been a long recovery,

Holy Crap!