Austin Area TW Chapter (all gens welcome, even T4Rs; heck, just make it a Toyota and we're good)

Awesome sauce M & B have worked on my last truck a few times a leaky axle seal they do good work an super reasonable pricing. I would love to meet up gotta work that Saturday cause of the airshow. Wish y’all a safe ride. If y’all see my forest Whitaker eyed(lights crooked from washing)truck be sure to wave. To many riders to distinguish who’s who. Vtx 1300 or 1800s?

 

@jmdaniel Going to kick tires at this vrod after work possibly.

 

I had an '03 1300:



But sold that years ago when I picked up a new '07 Yamaha FJR1300. Last year, I added a new '16 Honda Goldwing F6B:



I'll probably be on the FJR for the run to Green's; need that top case for the sausage, salsa, jams, etc... that I'll be buying in the store!

 

Nice! How big is the tank on that? I think the early ones had a pretty tiny tank, but I've been told they fixed that.

 

Sweet bikes you got there. I used to goto greens a lot havnt been in about a year or so the sausage is mouth watering we used to get renfro sausage so damn good. The vrod has a 4 gallon tank decent sized I always have to pee before I gotta fill up. Only cruisers I ever had was a 01 soft-tail an a 02 victory Vegas.

 

@jmdaniel always loved goldwings to me they are the caddy’s of bikes.

 

Morning yall!

Who is rolling out to Jambo this year? Who is headed out there Thursday? let me know and lets roll together!

 

Ok y’all gave you all a teaser yesterday about the new TTC sticker, have been working with @ChadsPride on this so he is fully aware of the details. Ok going to sell these stickers to the group, each one is $5. If interested please PM with information so I can mail these out along with a PayPal address, will send you a payment confirmation once this is done. I have just over 40 of them for sale so it will be first come first served. Please be patient with me this week due to my work schedule that I am dealing with. These are uv protected stickers.

 

Morning guys and gals,

Just a check in and a bit of an update.

I maybe moving back to Washington to live with my mother.......yay 42 and I live with mom.......

For 2 years I have been trying like hell to find a livable wage job here and can't get more than 16 per hr or 30 bucks flat rate with a maximum week of 25 hrs.

I wish I knew how people do it out here.

I will let y'all know as things progress.

This is FUBAR
The wife and kids thing is also part of this......for those that are not in the loop, she took off to Japan with my kids and since every one of them is a Japanese national or dual citizen.....I can do nothing without a HUGE legal bill to get the judgement which Japan will most likely refuse to honor....

I want to stay here, love Texas, but, can't get a decent pay job, can't afford to pay for a roof.......

 

Shot, now I want to leave Thursday so bad lol

Mucho wants!

 

Just do it Chad! Lets convoy!

 

Sorry about that Dennis. This place used to be affordable 20 years ago, but then the Californians started moving in and costs outpaced wages. There is supposedly a leveling going to happen, but I doubt it. When 1400 sq foot shitbox homes are going for $250K, the market is fucked up.

What part of Washington? I lived in Spokane 20 years ago and it wasn't as affordable as we thought it would be.

 

Going to wait for a day when i bring the boss some dank tacos.

Then ask ​

 

Anybody care to see the building that was imploded yesterday from the view of the Frost Bank tower on level 29? I took a video of it yesterday from my iPhone.

 

Um, YEAH!

 

mom lives in Kirkland..........back to all the brightness and the things I hate......

rent is stupid high there, but, the wages make up for it...kinda. at least there i can get paid 25-30 per hr to turn wrenches starting..........just don't want to do it.......
legal pot, sanctuary cities, 4 bucks a gallon for fuel.......rain,rain,and more rain...

 

Ok i'm uploading the video now to my flickr account. If it doesn't come through i'll upload to youtube.

 

So that must be a '02 - '06; in '07, they bumped it to 5 gallons. There was one model that had the 5 in '06, (Street Rod), but for all intents and purposes, the 5 didn't come out until '07. There are aftermarket 5 gallons for the earlier models, but if it don't bother you, no need to fix. On putt around, Ride To Eat (RTE) rides, tank size isn't an issue. I ride with a lot of cruisers, and they're usually needing to get gas at 120 miles or so. When I'm soloing on a long trip, like out to the Smokies last September, it's nice to be on the FJR, which has about a 250 mile range. I do 5-600 mile days, and if you only have to stop for gas once or twice, you can get on down the road.

 

Ya that’s what I was used to 100-150 I’ve done a long ride 750ish in one day was brutal in the softtail. Best investment ever was a windshield I’ll be getting one for sure. Nothing set in stone trying to gather the funds for it right now going back n forth with CFO she said “if you didn’t redneck bling your truck you could afford it”. My reply was “it’s cool an protection if you ever wanna drive it” has not gone over well.