What do you all do for fun???
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From: Allen, TX, USA
Hey Tim,
That's great to have a fellow baseball player here. I, too, play in a Men's Sr. League here in Dallas, TX. (over 30). I laid out for 10 years after college and just picked it back up this last year. Been playing softball for 10 years, but that is _boring_ in comparison. Honestly, I'm probably in as good of shape as I was 10+ years ago when I was playing competitively in college...at least strength-wise. However, recovery time is a LOT longer. Fortunately, we only play 2x week vs. a rigorous college schedule which can be 4-5 games a week easily. You know the routine.
That's one reason I didn't play for awhile after college...my wife had really gotten tired of going to baseball games all the time. 
That and I wasn't good enough to play at any sort of professional level.
I'll probably play baseball for a couple more years, and then my kids will be old enough to start playing and it will be time to move on. But, I doubt I'll ever give up hot-rodding.
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Wes Tarbox
90 LX 5.0 (10.69 @ 134.7)--597rwhp/590rwtq
96 Cobra (12.34 @ 115.8)--392rwhp/433rwtq
99 Lightning (13.20 @ 103.8)--364rwhp/447rwtq
00 Expedition XLT 5.4 http://members.aol.com/Wa2fst/index.html
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That's great to have a fellow baseball player here. I, too, play in a Men's Sr. League here in Dallas, TX. (over 30). I laid out for 10 years after college and just picked it back up this last year. Been playing softball for 10 years, but that is _boring_ in comparison. Honestly, I'm probably in as good of shape as I was 10+ years ago when I was playing competitively in college...at least strength-wise. However, recovery time is a LOT longer. Fortunately, we only play 2x week vs. a rigorous college schedule which can be 4-5 games a week easily. You know the routine.
That's one reason I didn't play for awhile after college...my wife had really gotten tired of going to baseball games all the time. That and I wasn't good enough to play at any sort of professional level.I'll probably play baseball for a couple more years, and then my kids will be old enough to start playing and it will be time to move on. But, I doubt I'll ever give up hot-rodding.
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Wes Tarbox
90 LX 5.0 (10.69 @ 134.7)--597rwhp/590rwtq
96 Cobra (12.34 @ 115.8)--392rwhp/433rwtq
99 Lightning (13.20 @ 103.8)--364rwhp/447rwtq
00 Expedition XLT 5.4 http://members.aol.com/Wa2fst/index.html
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Toobad,
I sure hate surgery. I couldn't straighten my leg fully for a month or so. The stitches are pretty cool though. The way I got mine was I was showing off to friends and hit a tree at about 40 m.p.h, I never knew how strong trees were until I hit one. I flew about 25 feet in the air, if only I had a video camera.......America's Dumbest People would have given me thousands to see it!
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I sure hate surgery. I couldn't straighten my leg fully for a month or so. The stitches are pretty cool though. The way I got mine was I was showing off to friends and hit a tree at about 40 m.p.h, I never knew how strong trees were until I hit one. I flew about 25 feet in the air, if only I had a video camera.......America's Dumbest People would have given me thousands to see it!
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From: Milford, Ohio USA
Severe crippling injuries from overpowered recreational equipment seens to be a common theme here. I also found myself on the business end of a 475-pound flyswatter a few times.
The most bloodthirsty of the bunch was an absolutely minted-out, built-up (serious power added), polished-to-within-an-inch-of-its-life 1983 Suzuki GS1100ES. I should have been wary of the beast from the get-go, as it was feeding well in excess of 120 HP through a 130 mm bias-ply rear tire. Let's not even mention the flexy-by-modern-standards frame, fork, and swingarm. Did I mention the brakes were crap also?
Anyway, I did manage to stack almost 85,000 miles on the thing before it tried to kill me (for the last time). So I suppose I just "spent my lifetime allotment of miles" at a young age.
The first wreck happened when a small bolt (holding down a windage plate under a crank throw) worked loose and was thrown by the crank into the transmission (unitized engine/transmission in a bike, for those unaware). This was at about 45 mph as I was leaving work on the way to the dragstrip (I lived in Mobile, AL at the time). Threw me 30 feet or so through the air (plus I tried to "save it", which didn't help) and I landed on my left temple/shoulder. Rung my bell but good (total amnesia for a while) and drove my left arm a good 2 inches out of the socket, plus broke my left collarbone. Imagine my shock when I put the palms of my hands together and nothing lined up!
Well, this totaled the bike, but I rebuilt it better than before by liberally rubbing it with high-denomination bills (50's and 100's work best). It took about 6 months to get it to how I wanted it, but it sure was a showpiece when I was done.
About 6 months after that I was taking my wife for a ride on the highway north of Mobile (playing hooky from work, at that) and had the misfortune to run over an entire bucket of bolts, screws, wire, cotter pins, and other junk that fell through the trunk of a car in front of me. I should mention that we were rolling at around 90 mph in the center of a huge, tall bridge over the Alabama River. A big lag bolt took out the rear tire, and the bike tried to swap ends several dozen times before I somehow got it off the bridge and onto the shoulder. We both got thrown off at about 45 mph, My wife landed on her azz and slid (full leathers in wet grass) for a good 200 feet. I landed on my feet, flipped a time or two, and ended up next to the bike on top of a big fire ant hill.
Anyway, this shattered my left femur, two bones in my left foot, and my left humerus. After $35,000 of surgery (thank God for insurance), a week in the hospital, and 6 months in a wheelchair, I was on my feet again and doing fine.
The 'Bolt is the first decent piece of machinery I've had since the wreck (which happend in 1993), and it has brough all of those good feelings back. I love that damn thing.
I'm working right now on importing a freshly-restored 1950's Nimbus (a cool Danish-built 750cc I-4 bike) from my "ancestral homeland" of Denmark. No real injury risk, as it is only rated for sustained speeds of 55 mph (or else the No. 3 cylinder melts down) and is too rare/expensive to crash.
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Best 60-foot: 2.063
Best 1/8: 8.876
Best 1/4: 13.789
Best MPH: 99.67
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The most bloodthirsty of the bunch was an absolutely minted-out, built-up (serious power added), polished-to-within-an-inch-of-its-life 1983 Suzuki GS1100ES. I should have been wary of the beast from the get-go, as it was feeding well in excess of 120 HP through a 130 mm bias-ply rear tire. Let's not even mention the flexy-by-modern-standards frame, fork, and swingarm. Did I mention the brakes were crap also?
Anyway, I did manage to stack almost 85,000 miles on the thing before it tried to kill me (for the last time). So I suppose I just "spent my lifetime allotment of miles" at a young age.
The first wreck happened when a small bolt (holding down a windage plate under a crank throw) worked loose and was thrown by the crank into the transmission (unitized engine/transmission in a bike, for those unaware). This was at about 45 mph as I was leaving work on the way to the dragstrip (I lived in Mobile, AL at the time). Threw me 30 feet or so through the air (plus I tried to "save it", which didn't help) and I landed on my left temple/shoulder. Rung my bell but good (total amnesia for a while) and drove my left arm a good 2 inches out of the socket, plus broke my left collarbone. Imagine my shock when I put the palms of my hands together and nothing lined up!
Well, this totaled the bike, but I rebuilt it better than before by liberally rubbing it with high-denomination bills (50's and 100's work best). It took about 6 months to get it to how I wanted it, but it sure was a showpiece when I was done.
About 6 months after that I was taking my wife for a ride on the highway north of Mobile (playing hooky from work, at that) and had the misfortune to run over an entire bucket of bolts, screws, wire, cotter pins, and other junk that fell through the trunk of a car in front of me. I should mention that we were rolling at around 90 mph in the center of a huge, tall bridge over the Alabama River. A big lag bolt took out the rear tire, and the bike tried to swap ends several dozen times before I somehow got it off the bridge and onto the shoulder. We both got thrown off at about 45 mph, My wife landed on her azz and slid (full leathers in wet grass) for a good 200 feet. I landed on my feet, flipped a time or two, and ended up next to the bike on top of a big fire ant hill.
Anyway, this shattered my left femur, two bones in my left foot, and my left humerus. After $35,000 of surgery (thank God for insurance), a week in the hospital, and 6 months in a wheelchair, I was on my feet again and doing fine.
The 'Bolt is the first decent piece of machinery I've had since the wreck (which happend in 1993), and it has brough all of those good feelings back. I love that damn thing.
I'm working right now on importing a freshly-restored 1950's Nimbus (a cool Danish-built 750cc I-4 bike) from my "ancestral homeland" of Denmark. No real injury risk, as it is only rated for sustained speeds of 55 mph (or else the No. 3 cylinder melts down) and is too rare/expensive to crash.
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Silver Y2K Lightning
Bone Stock w/ Duraliner, Ford Hitch Cover
Best 60-foot: 2.063
Best 1/8: 8.876
Best 1/4: 13.789
Best MPH: 99.67
Silver (matching) Y2K ML320 Benz
Burl (ML430) Shift ****
1992 Grand Prix SE
Commuter Mule
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Silver-Y2K-SVT,
That is a good (frightening) description. Anything that has a power to weight ratio of 1:3 hp per lb is way to fast for me. The only vehicle I know that beats that are full on drag cars, too risky for my blood!
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That is a good (frightening) description. Anything that has a power to weight ratio of 1:3 hp per lb is way to fast for me. The only vehicle I know that beats that are full on drag cars, too risky for my blood!
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From: Baytown, Texas Harris
STRUCK,
Not sure, we go to the skinny dippin hole and to New Port beach alot. Finish the day at River Side for a burger and a beer. I put in at the Baytown Boat Club, its in the same area as Tug Boat Annies. I have a 21' Kona w/volvo OD and a 383 stroked small block chevy motor, the boat is yellow and white.
Tt
Not sure, we go to the skinny dippin hole and to New Port beach alot. Finish the day at River Side for a burger and a beer. I put in at the Baytown Boat Club, its in the same area as Tug Boat Annies. I have a 21' Kona w/volvo OD and a 383 stroked small block chevy motor, the boat is yellow and white.
Tt
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From: Ontario, Canada
I have a go fast hobby that doesn't put me in real peril. Radio controlled pylon racing with aircraft.
50" wingspan, 3-1/12 lb. minimum weight, 0.40 cu.in. engine with 15% nitro fuel, 2.2 hp, 9" prop spinning 19500 rpm. Top speed: 140 mph. ( This is a slow class!! I'm not that good yet. Faster classes get up to 180 mph)
Three of us take off at once, fly ten laps around a quarter mile triangular coarse. A fast time is about 1 min, 25 sec. From a standing start, that's not bad.
The rush is unbelievable. The adrenaline really pumps and it feels like you're flying forever. 5 heats usually make up a day, and it exhausts you. A real blast.
My Plane (now deceased):
One of the Faster Classes:
Results of Bad Flying:
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2000 Red Lightning - #835 of 4966 Born 3-8-00 / Delivered 3-22-00
22% Window Tint, Clear Corners, MPulse LoPro Tonneau, AIM 2" Drop Shackles, Bed Rug, PSP Filter Kit, Other Goodies, Group Buy Floor Mats
Best time: 13.45 sec. @ 101.99 mph
2000 Red Trans Am Ram Air WS6, 6 Speed - Delivered 2-15-00 - Awesome Looking Car
My Zing.com Album Click Here
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50" wingspan, 3-1/12 lb. minimum weight, 0.40 cu.in. engine with 15% nitro fuel, 2.2 hp, 9" prop spinning 19500 rpm. Top speed: 140 mph. ( This is a slow class!! I'm not that good yet. Faster classes get up to 180 mph)
Three of us take off at once, fly ten laps around a quarter mile triangular coarse. A fast time is about 1 min, 25 sec. From a standing start, that's not bad.
The rush is unbelievable. The adrenaline really pumps and it feels like you're flying forever. 5 heats usually make up a day, and it exhausts you. A real blast.
My Plane (now deceased):
One of the Faster Classes:
Results of Bad Flying:
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2000 Red Lightning - #835 of 4966 Born 3-8-00 / Delivered 3-22-00
22% Window Tint, Clear Corners, MPulse LoPro Tonneau, AIM 2" Drop Shackles, Bed Rug, PSP Filter Kit, Other Goodies, Group Buy Floor Mats
Best time: 13.45 sec. @ 101.99 mph
2000 Red Trans Am Ram Air WS6, 6 Speed - Delivered 2-15-00 - Awesome Looking Car
My Zing.com Album Click Here
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From: KS
Hey Jackel
Do you have any extra? My Glaucoma is causing my eye preasure to go up. Love to go bass fishing when I have time. Dennis
99Lightning PSP full meal deal
98 SVTC KMM cold air
97 PSD Banks Power Pack
Do you have any extra? My Glaucoma is causing my eye preasure to go up. Love to go bass fishing when I have time. Dennis
99Lightning PSP full meal deal
98 SVTC KMM cold air
97 PSD Banks Power Pack
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From: KS
Hey Jackel
Do you have any extra? My Glaucoma is causing my eye preasure to go up. Love to go bass fishing when I have time. Dennis
99Lightning PSP full meal deal
98 SVTC KMM cold air
97 PSD Banks Power Pack
Do you have any extra? My Glaucoma is causing my eye preasure to go up. Love to go bass fishing when I have time. Dennis
99Lightning PSP full meal deal
98 SVTC KMM cold air
97 PSD Banks Power Pack
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From: SD, CA
Motocross in my mind is by far the coolest thing going right now- and I'm not trying to start a pissing contest with anyone- because I too am very partial to alcohol (jk). SVTSnake- what kind of bike do you have? Do you race? I'm proud to say that this past spring I won the New England Amateur 250 Class and moved up to expert. The arenacross series is here in Worcester this weekend, but I won't be racing in it. Next year though I'm going to try to qualify for the AMA Southwick National, but we'll see how that goes. Struck- I picked up wakeboarding last year too. My father (I'm 22 and still in grad school) bought a new Sea Ray for the lake behind our house on the Cape (with a shifting prop- which is cool), so even though its not as application specific as the boat you've got, its does the job for me. A couple of the guys I go to school with here at WPI are pretty big into wakeboarding, so I'm gonna have them "show me the ropes" so to speak and try some bigger stuff next year once it warms up above 45 degrees like its been lately. Anyways, its cool to have a refreshing topic for a change (not that I don't love my L). Later...
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Play the game- Don't let the game play you!!!
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Play the game- Don't let the game play you!!!
(((garrett)))
'00 Silver Lightning
'00 KX250
'00 NESC MX Amateur Champ
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From: Usually a Holiday Inn
I personally enjoy studying the mystical order of Druids, blowing the froth off a few pints with the mates, heading to the studio, and excercising the 11 feature.
Also,
Cheers!
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Yours truly,
Sir Loin of Beef
Nigel Tufnel
1999 Black Ford Lightning
Marshall Amplifier tonneau cover
Custom Stonehenge mural
Custom Hairspray Nitrous system with in-cab purge.
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Also,
Cheers!
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Yours truly,
Sir Loin of Beef
Nigel Tufnel
1999 Black Ford Lightning
Marshall Amplifier tonneau cover
Custom Stonehenge mural
Custom Hairspray Nitrous system with in-cab purge.
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Read my signature.
Gardening is a nice hobby though...
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1994 Black Lightning (Totalled)
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1980 Jet Ski 440
1981 Jet Ski 440
1991 Jet Ski 550sx
Gardening is a nice hobby though...
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2000 Black Lightning (bone stock for now)
1994 Black Lightning (Totalled)
1999 Yamaha XL1200 Limited Waverunner
1980 Jet Ski 440
1981 Jet Ski 440
1991 Jet Ski 550sx
