PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

Good call. Not opposed to what you had but seems like its drawing out the crazies toward you

 

I just spent Easter in Key West this year. We took the auto train down form VA with the bike then rode home over a one week period stopping and photographing lighthouses along the coast.

Bear in mind I know most of these folks through motorcycling so good, fun, twisty roads are a priority. For many of them they also have never lived anywhere with real, defined, changes of season and they want to have that at least for a few years. I'll be seeing 4 or 5 of these people in September in Flatwoods, WV where we're all meeting for an FJR forum meet up.

 

He could move to Tennessee and ride the Dragon. But only once. Anything more than once and you’re pushing your luck.

 

Dragon is highly overrated in my opinion. I've ridden it several times starting back in 2004 and a few trips more recently. I've done is solo, 2-up, and even in the rain. Weekends are overcrowded with the combo of Hardy Ablesons and squids on crotch rockets trying to get a knee down while putting everyone around them at risk. Cherohalah Skyway is much more fun in that area. Moonshiner 28 down into GA is fun. I like the Back of the Dragon, VA16, between Marion and Tazwell a lot more.

 

VA16 is good.

But I must confess, I am a “crotch rocket guy” or used to be. I sold my bike back in 2007. Probably a good thing, I’d be dead, in jail, or walking because of no license if I hadn’t sold mine.

 

Nothing wrong with that. First time on the Dragon was on the Buell in my avatar and I drug footpegs on both sides. Now that I'm a "little" older, not to mention heavier and wiser, the FJR1300 is more my speed. Still handles well enough to let me have some fun but comfortable enough to knock out some big miles.

 

Velcro adhesive does not like extreme heat, and it was hit as hell here in PA during the week we were in California. My truck sat in the driveway, unused, for about nine days; I took the truck for a spin on Sunday evening, and when I got in the truck I found my Edison PD patch sitting on the passenger seat. My late grandpa was an Edison police officer for thirty years, and my uncle is about to reach his 30th year on the force. My uncle gave me this patch, so it has a great deal of sentimental value to me...

 

This patch is meant to be ironed onto a cop's uniform and doesn't have the Velcro backing that most of the patches in my collection have, so I improvised with adhesive-backed Velcro strips, which worked fine until last week...

 

The heat wave is over for now, so I slapped my beloved Edison PD patch back onto the roof where the Velcro strips still are and it seems to be staying...

 

Why not just get sheet Velcro then iron the patch to it and trim to size?

 

That's actually a damn good idea, but my big project for this weekend is getting the Fluid Film on the frame, which my friend will be helping me do...

 

This is still one of my favorite patches!

 

That’s pretty cool. I used to have some THP stuff my stepfather gave me.
But I can’t say what I ever did the stuff. (I probably gave it away?)
I’ve never been sentimental about physical stuff.
The memories made are more important to me.

My family knows better than to “hand me down” family heirlooms.
I just never have had an emotional attachment to things.
Sometimes I think, maybe there’s something wrong with me?

And in the end, I guess it wasn’t a bad thing. Because all of that “stuff” would have been ruined with the water damage we had when the tree fell through the house. I’m starting to think, being a minimalist might not be a bad thing?

 

A few weeks before the big Syracuse road trip, the Velcro adhesive holding my EZ Pass to the windshield gave out due to the heat. I was lazy, so I used painters tape to hold it in place. It held up for the drive to upstate New York and back home again, then I got in the truck Tuesday morning after returning home from New York on Monday afternoon, I found the EZ Pass on the floor. I stuck it in the cubby near the ignition and haven't touched it since because I have no need to go on the turnpike until the end of August...

 

How does that work?
Do they bill you each time you get on a toll road?
Or is it a monthly/yearly fee?

We don’t have toll roads or turnpikes here.

 

I bought my own EZ Pass with my own money a few years, but the truck has been on my parents' account since we bought it new in 2009; I tried to open my own account, but one vehicle can't be on multiple accounts so my parents just let me stay on their account free of charge. I believe it gets charged to my dad's credit card either every month or every year...

 

My t truck was purchased new in September 30th, 2009 and I have put over 155K miles on it in that time; I didn't do a whole hell of a lot of driving prior to 2019 and even with all the driving I did in the summer of 2019, I only managed to put a little over 100K on it by the end of that year. COVID didn't stop me from driving a lot, and I've put over 55K miles on it since July 2019. Despite this, my truck hasn't been a whole lot of places...

In Pennsylvania, I've never gone further west than Carlisle; I drive it to New Jersey fairly often and I've also been to Delaware and New York. I drove through Maryland on my way to Northern Virginia, and my truck saw its share of Virginia's DC suburbs on that trip, but I've never been further North than Rochester, New York or further South than Fairfax County, Virginia; I will likely be driving the truck to Massachusetts this September, but I don't have any plans to drive outside of Pennsylvania for the rest of the year after the Massachusetts trip except for two car shows in New Jersey this fall.

 

Yup, much like me. I had the long hair and metal band shirts, which really stood out in the preppy rich town I grew up in. Hell, before I could legally work I would deliver newspapers, mow lawns, rake leaves, whatever.

Same, never taken any drug stronger than aspirin be it prescribed or otherwise. I was quite the drinker in my younger years though, remind me if you've heard some of my stories.

People are usually pretty good about hiding, I was.

I don't mind spending on stuff if I like what I'm buying. Writing an 11K check for my roof wasn't much fun.

I am on the energy drink train as well, really need to slow down myself

Perfect world people respect each other's opinions regardless, but not always the case sadly.

I have one that's rarely used, linked to my credit card. I leave $20 on it max and if it gets low (I think $5) they automatically tap my card and load another $20

 

I can’t say I recall any of those stories.
I have a few myself, and the worst part is I was 99% of them happened while I was sober.
Sure we all have few drinkin stories from back when when we were younger and though it was “cool”.
But just about every weird and screwed up story I have is from self induced stupidity.

 

I literally just had a guy in a 2011ish Honda Pilot blow a stop sign in the business complex where I work without even making an attempt to stop; I slammed on the brakes and blasted the horn, he put up his hand to acknowledge he'd fucked up, and we went out separate ways. That's the way it should be...

Last month (or maybe in June) at a different stop sign in the same complex where I work, an older guy in a Mercury Grand Marquis blew a stop sign and then stopped his car and rolled his window down like he wanted a fight; I ignored him and kept driving.