This mornings ride

[derf]

OTB took me out for a little ride this morning, nothing crazy but definately nice. He took me around eastern MD, Annapolis, and just on the other side of the Bay Bridge, maybe 80 miles or so. The weather could have been better, it rained last night so the ground was wet, and at the end it poured on us for a few minutes.



The dry clutch on his duc is crazy and sounds like a hundred small elfs wearing steel condoms doing their best to impregnate his bike.

[tached1000rr]

sweet, had a good ride today as well

[Gas Man]

OTB is the man but he's elusive.

[OTB]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

OTB is the man but he's elusive.

I am not "elusive", nor actually a "man". I don't actually exist; I am a construct AI program developed by Marko and Derf; (co-incidentally the ONLY two people on this board to claim to have ridden with "me"). Clever of them, Neh?

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[101lifts2]

Derf I'm surprised you don't have helmet fur.

[derf]

No, no helmet fur at all, I do however like to scrape fur off the grill of my truck when I get a chance

[OTB]

We actually had a pretty nice ride; it was cooler than it had been, but there was a bit of sandwash in the bottom of turns, and these little showers would go by and one second you'd be on dry pavement, and then be splashing through puddles in the apex on the next. Made for a few interesting moments.

Derf got the busman's tour of central AA and Queen Anne's counties; some backroads and some downtown/expressway/stuff...took him over the Bay Bridge to the Eastern Shore (must capitalize here). Asked him how he liked the view; that's when he told me he wasn't real big on heights......ooops, and we still had to go back.....oh, well.

So, Derf, how DO you know what elves with steel condoms sound like, HMMMMM? Sounds like a story to me......

Originally Posted by derf

OTB took me out for a little ride this morning, nothing crazy but definately nice. He took me around eastern MD, Annapolis, and just on the other side of the Bay Bridge, maybe 80 miles or so. The weather could have been better, it rained last night so the ground was wet, and at the end it poured on us for a few minutes.



The dry clutch on his duc is crazy and sounds like a hundred small elfs wearing steel condoms doing their best to impregnate his bike.

[derf]

Originally Posted by OTB

So, Derf, how DO you know what elves with steel condoms sound like, HMMMMM? Sounds like a story to me......

Yeh I was helping a friend rebuild his engine a while back and I came along at the point where he was hooking everything back up and helped start it up for the first time. The engine started up with no problem but after 30 seconds made the worst crunching sound I had ever heard come from a motor. His words to me were that it sounded like elves with steel condoms screwing his motor. He started unplugging stuff frantically until it turned off then we spent the next few hours dissmantling the engine. Turns out (we think) he either had a bad bolt, didnt tourque it or left it all togetheroff one of the con rods and it let go, sending the piston into the head then down into the crank where it was churned up and destroyed the crank and 2 other cylinders.

Basically the guy spent a few grand to build a race motor just to watch it grenade itself on a test. The dry ducati clutches always remind me of a quiter gentler version of that sound.