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ven my ride home from work cooled me down i do like it though well my latest motorbike project is finally getting a little momentum behind it my pal paul the lead motorcycle mechanic at olympic powersports is guiding me through the steps to restoring a 1978 gl1000 gold wing maybe not restoring as much as rustoring since we aren t doing a frame up job on it we will get it in good running order with some elbow grease parts and cash though i m looking forward to the project and can t wait to throw a leg over the saddle after it comes back from the upholstery shop the one hitch in the gittalong is the application for lost title the girl at the vehicle licensing desk told me that the vin number look up showed a titleholder and a leinholder the title holder appears to have vanished and the leinholder has since closed his business i did however contact his daughter and it looks as though he will sign off on his portion of the affidavit the nutty part is that if i follow their guidelines i will need to send the affidavit to the last known address of the registered owner by certified mail if it is returned unopened then i can turn it in to the gal at the licensing desk to be hopefully registered to me but not as the titleholder it seems that i will need to wait for 3 years in case the original dude decides to come out of the woodwork to reclaim it that would suck oh and i was told that the state patrol will need to inspect it they told me that they don t do inspections any more what a mess i e mailed paul the other night throwing out the option that maybe we could look at one of his other wing s that doesn t carry so much baggage he has six of them i have had my eye on one that i call old black it has all the character that appeals to me in a beater motorcycle if the title is clear and he hasn t become too attached to it i may end up coming up sweet on the deal i contacted paul today to tell him to check out his e mail box then let me know whats up and with that when i know i ll let you know have fun bill posted by bill sommers at 4 57 pm 8 comments saturday august 09 2008 the rainy dark highway that brought me back yeah i m still around life has a way of finding its own priorities for you and so i dealt with them i never did stop riding though i felt like it was time to get back in the blogging saddle after an adventure in riding that i had last night sometimes you need a little nudge to get you moving in the right direction my family and i rolled out of town on sunny wednesday to spend a few days on the beach at kalaloch about 100 miles from our doorstep since i was in need of a long ride i loaded up the big ruckus and enjoyed the hot august putt to our yearly camping destination being that the weather usually doesn t play by the rules in a rainforest region i packed my raingear just in case lately i ve taken to wearing my fieldsheer touring jacket with body armor i totally abandonded the old school mod staple fishtail parka in favor of some serious new school ride wear technology i also wear an orange safety vest now too like my boss says better to be seen then flat my rainpants are basic fisherman s heavy duty pants and i keep a light weight hooded hikers rain jacket in my tour pack for when the need arises well the need arose at about 6 00 p m yesterday after having a real nice dinner the mist off the pacific ocean started getting a little heavy not wanting to pull the rug out from anyone s good time i was hesitant about pushing the issue of maybe bailing out and heading for home a day or two early then it started really getting wet i tossed the idea about pulling up stakes literally to my wife and she agreed that the fun factor was pretty much gone in an attempt to keep the trip alive i went out to build a fire and the rain said no i was done i asked my wife if she would help take the tent down and in record time we were packed i ducked for cover to strip out of my wet clothes and change into dry duds and my raingear and after pulling the cover off the scoot and saddling up we were off it was now 7 45 p m full on darkness is about 9 00 p m and my goal was to be at lake crescent at dark a bit like a cowboy s trust in his horse i now feel like i have a riders relationship with my scooter i trusted my steed to get me home with my wife in the family mini van with dozing kids in back i lead us out of the campground and headed toward home i think we rolled all the way to forks approx 40 miles with no traffic behind us i hung out at around 60 mph in the straight stretches and backed off a bit in the sweepers we made forks in good time and i stopped to check for any concerns from my wife she asked why she couldn t see my brake light on the road i told her that i wasn t using it i tapped it so she could see that it does work now it was my mission to make the lake by dark there are sections of highway that run straight and long between forks and lake crescent and when the rain wasn t drumming down i was able to roll at around 68 mph the one thing that i wasn t prepared for though was the moths and flying bugs made out of glue that live on this stretch i remembered the saying that i used to use at the service station when washing the bug collection off tourist s windshields it won t have the guts to do that again the whole front of the scooter the windshield my helmet and goggles everything was covered in a layer of bug guts i started wishing for the hard rain again to wash some of this stuff off soon enough we had made it to the lake lake crescent is a beautiful lake that resides in the olympic national park and highway 101 winds for 21 miles in a twisty path around its shores it was now dark and the drenching rains had returned huh visibility sucks i thought to myself i found a wide pull off at around the halfway point and stopped to let some traffic go by i asked my bride to wipe off my goggles for me i was having a hard time seeing through the water guts and road grime that covered the lenses my vision is bad as it is i needed to see for the home stretch i wicked it up and headed for the ranch the last few miles flew by in familiar territory and i was thinking as we wound down our quick trip that i really enjoyed this ride i was tested in conditions that i don t usually ride in any more and i did it off the cuff no planning no worrying no nothing i saddled up and rode the way i used to so many years ago i was happy riding in the rain and darkness my wife asked if i was stressed out at all i told her that i was far from stressed i was having a good time out there it was this thought that compelled me to sit back down at this keyboard i ve been working my rear end off to achieve the highest levels of success in so many areas of my life and having to be on so much of the time happiness is achieved and cherished but i have to work for it as well i didn t expect to gain so much joy in tearing a soggy camp down and hauling balls for home in the rain and darkness but i did absolute flippin joy and i got to share it with my wife and kids that made it even better i don t think i would have been back here anytime soon had i not had this experience but i think i need to do this now it feels right again have fun bill posted by bill sommers at 11 20 am 10 comments monday june 30 2008 bring me another convert i took some time away from the blogsite to square some stuff away i basically needed to get refocused on home life work life and whatever extra stuff that is thrown in to make up my days so a few things had to suffer and this blog ended up being one of them stuff just piles up you know and pretty soon you end up looking up at this huge pile of issues and say oh crap i gotta get things figured out so thats what i ve been doing now where am i i don t know how things are in your town but around here scooters and small motorbikes are being scooped up left and right if the trend of rising fuel costs continues the local riding population will continue to grow with the fuel prices the local motorcycle dealership is having a hard time keeping the 50cc scoots in stock and the after market parts and repair shop that my buddy owns is now bringing in a line of scooters as well it blows my mind to think that the preferred local harley repair house will now be selling scooters i guess that day has come my pa in law was looking into buying a cheap ass scooter on line for 699 00 and i told him that he was probably going to get boned in some form on the deal i mentioned an ad in the classifieds for a 1985 honda elite 250 going for 1100 00 i didn t wait to see if my in law was going to make the call so i rang the dude up myself the cat seemed real cool on the phone and said to swing by in about an hour i gave the old corndog a ride to the dudes house in my pickup and met cliff out back washing his brand new yamaha v star 650 classic no wonder he isn t riding the elite anymore i was real pleased when cliff pulled the cover off the honda to unveil a very well kept ride it had a fresh coat of metal flake blue paint and everything just seemed to look nice old corndog hesitated when cliff offered up a test ride but not me i was on it and gone in about two seconds since the starting procedure is just like my old helix i knew just what to do without being shown and boy did this scoot want to get out and run i knew that this was the deal not to be missed so i went directly to my in laws house to show my mother in law the scooter so she wouldn t have to come up with a mental picture when corndog tried to describe to her what the scoot is and looks like a sly move but it paid off after corndog finally took a quick spin around the block he told cliff that he d let him know the next day what his decision would be about this time cliff s cell phone is jangling and he flips it open to speaker phone the cat on the other end wants to know if the scooter is still for sale cliff says i ll call you back and here we go down the road with no decision geez i told my father in law that he was a dumbass for not pulling the trigger on this deal he was willing to gamble on an on line purchase for a 49cc scooter with a max load rating of 165 lbs and a top speed of next to zero and then take his time to ponder a sure deal that will do well over the speed limit while still saving on fuel so yeah i called him a dumbass i dropped him off muttering swear words under my breath loud enough to hear and ran an errand and by the time i got home he was waiting in my back yard the deal was done corndog bought the elite 250 and has been happily riding almost non stop since another convert to the magical world of scootering i ve scored again and am damned proud of it i may have been gone from here for awhile but i m still getting my job done as far as preachin the good word of scootering you see i ve got the secret have fun bill posted by bill sommers at 5 13 pm 9 comments tuesday june 10 2008 welcome to juneuary juneuary that s what the folks around here are calling this month i think its pretty much right on point considering the fact that we had winter type weather warnings with a 2500 foot snow level yesterday and 40 mph winds with rain and hail hey no more talk about global warning for a few days my friend and fellow blogger podcaster dave mangano was in town this past weekend to visit with his mother and took some time to hang out with geezer jaybee and myself it was a pleasure to shoot the breeze with dave and get caught up on what s going on in his neck of the woods back in richmond virgina this is the best scootering time of the year where he lives and we are apparently still struggling to break free of old man winter s grip over here dave took some photos of our scoots parked in his mom s driveway and i think he took a shine to my rat rod influenced vespa i ve yet to square my camera situation away and who knows maybe he will share a photo over on his blogsite he can be found on my blogroll or by tapping into www sctrcst com this was the first time that jaybee had seen my scooter in its new get up and admitted that the vespa now has my character he said that he didn t want to insult me by saying he didn t like the color when my 125gt was painted blue so now that it wears red oxide primer and pin stripes he says that he really digs it who knows maybe we can follow the same route with his p200e and get a cool look going with it too i have even drawn up a paint scheme incorporating the use of both gray and white primers topped with some red pin stripes if he s into it i m all over it just think of my approach to what i want a scooter to look like as a mix of traditional vespa styling topped with some hardcore kustom kulture rat rod flavoring i guess my leaning is more toward the ed roth robert williams school of kool design more to come later on these boss projects photos too maybe have fun bill posted by bill sommers at 4 33 pm 10 comments sunday june 01 2008 clearing away the fog i almost started by saying that there wasn t much going on around here but i caught it in time on the contrary there is a whole lot going on and my head feels like it is in a constant fog from all of the junk that i have to think about all of the time thats why they call it work and not fun my pal oilcan kurt is grinding away on the simplex project and i spent a few hours the other night heating beating and sanding on some fifty year old parts and enjoyed every moment on my side of the fence i have been working at honing my pin striping skills and now realize that i have about a million miles to go before i can say that i don t suck it is fun though to try to pull off some straight lines and then run parallels and flares every now and then i surprise myself when not soaring with the seagulls at work being dad and husband i do get some time to bomb around on the big ruckus it just seems like i don t do it as much as i used to i do commute to work consistantly though that will not change and its good to see five scooters lined up at the fence every day and know that i had a hand in putting riders on every one of them and i m still not done i still bang the drum loudly to send the message of the beauty of two wheeling to anyone wishing to hear it it does not matter to me one bit what their personal reason for riding may be i will continue to speak positively about riding scooters and motorbikes i believe in the msf courses and encourage those that i speak to to take the class i speak about proper riding equipment in a nutshell i am still playing the role of scooter evangelist and it is working now that i m off the soapbox on the lighter side the weather has been real nice lately and has given the family opportunities to get out and about yesterday we attended a car show at seven cedars casino and saw some sweet antiques street rods and hot rods of all kinds since my camera hasn t been repaired or replaced i didn t come home with pictures i did however get caught up with some patch holders 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