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Super Secret Motorcycle Test Facility

Discussion in 'Hangout Lounge' started by taildragger, Nov 11, 2008.

  1. taildragger

    taildragger Member

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    Used to live in G-forsaken sagebrush country 'West of the Pecos'

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    Built a custom XS850 in our super secret test facility... riding was a trip in 40 mph wind gusts, near Roswell, NM

    1981 XJ550 Maxim 2,945 miles ... runs great ...
    will run safer with a complete wire harness.
     
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    Nice! Is there a gas BBQ in there?
     
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    LOL Nope - used 120V Honeywell oil heater to heat metal parts and me; then painted as they warmed up. New Year's Day steaks cooked on the hibachi were great.
     
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    Something tells me there has been banjo music played in that shack some time in the past... :)
     
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    Roswell?

    Every encounter any alien bikers from Area 51?
     
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    Now we's livin' in duh Big Citie along a dry gulch called the Rilito. Think the aliens followed us from Roswell. Lots of bikers in Tucson ... great riding country, with dry roads all the way down to Nogales and the Border thru colorful Patagonia.
     
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    So does the new place have a garage?
     
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    Kinda sorta. Its a fully enclosed 40' patio attached to a 10' X 12' Workshop - er Operating Theater. Plenty of room for multiple patients.
    An its way warmer than the Lil' Ole Shed-on-the-Prairie ever was.
     
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    Take a run in late March or early April up to Phoenix through the high desert when all of the cactus is in bloom. It has to be seen to be believed.
     
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