NickDG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5QCs3PnQBc NickD

I'm going with a round oil tank so I needed a battery box that I'll mount behind the transmission, so I fabbed one up today . . . NickD

Beautiful day in So Cal, temps in the 90s! Rolled Nina out of the garage for her first obligatory dose of sunshine . . . NickD

You go girl . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk NickD

I smoked a fatty and drank 21 beers and ok, maybe, and I mean just maybe, it does look better w/o the pillion . . . I spent the morning pounding on the rear fender, trying to radius it up correctly, and it still needs another cut and weld in the upper portion. Anyway so farry so goody . . . NickD

Well, I leave the pillion off for a while. Can't ride two-up until the motor is broke in anyway. I know some say pillions don't belong on bikes like this, but back in the day we all had them, so I'm not sure where that's coming from. And I'm not going for the CFL look . . . Picked up some front and rear brake calibers to go along with the hangar brackets I got at the swap meet. This is all single puck stock Harley stuff but it's still light years ahead of the drum brakes I had on my last bike. Started working on fixing the radius of the rear fender. So far just one cut, weld and grind. And it looks like it'll need one or two more. And Nina has a brandy new six speed transmission !!! NickD

Jumpmasters were (still should be) the apprentices to Instructors. Coaches are apprentices to that guy who sweeps up around the DZ . . . NickD

Picked up a passenger pillion for 20 bucks and I'm also attacking the fender radius issues. I fabbed up some passenger peg mounts from two gate locks I picked up for three dollars. I'll tack weld them eventually to the frame so they can't spin. I couldn't decide if I should place the passenger pegs on the top or bottom rail of the frame. But I hardly know any woman anymore who can get their knees high enough for the top rail. And the ones that can I stay away from, LOL . . . I'm going to cut wedges into the bottom portion of the fender in two places and cut the bottom off even with the tranny plate. Then bend it to fit and weld it up. This certainly isn't going be a "one ton ho" fender but it'll be half ton ho, and that's good enough . . . NickD

Innocent! They must be scrapping the bottom of the barrel. I've got jury duty in the morning! 7:45 AM in downtown Los Angeles. I'll be Henry Fonda in "12 Angry Men" . . . NickD

I pounded and slammed on the front fender today. And got a nice fit. Life should be like that, LOL . . . The rear fender is going to be another whole deal. Then I started drinking and took some artsy fartsy shots! NickD

No, in cop view, say standing twenty feet behind, you can read it fine (really the reason I made up the license plate). In California vertical plates are still legal (for now anyway). NickD

I re-did Nina's license plate frame and tail light mount today. The first one I made was way too flimsy . . . And no, I didn't go down and register Nina at the DMV. I just made my own license plate, LOL !!! It should get me around the neighborhood when Nina's ready for her first test ride! NickD

Went to the Long Beach Cycle Swap Meet again today. I didn't take as many photos as last time as I was busy looking through the milk crates for stuff I needed . . . I picked up some hand controls & hand grips, a rear brake caliber hanger, a fuel filter, and some passenger pegs. The turnout was much bigger than last time. I suppose even in California there is such a thing as Spring fever . . . NickD

I got the brake rotors mounted and the front fender. I need to lower the fender about an inch - it looks like a guy pulling his trousers up while crossing a puddle . . . NickD

The one I owned had the "two stow" diaper and the rest of the lines were stowed in the container. I remember if you were a goober and put both line groups into the diaper stows you would die. Only one line group locked the diaper and the excess (on that side) was taken up in the container. It was tricky . . . NickD

>>Agent 9- I mean Summer Rose, who, as you well know, was not my daughter, but my niece (wink-wink)

Yeah Gary, that's a whole 'nother can of secrets . . . But I've never been entirely sure about you either, Dad? You, Hoop, and the rest, I'm pretty sure, were all in on it too . . . When first I met your daughter Summer Rose it was funny how she couldn't account for your whereabouts before the late 70s. So what was her "real name" anyway? Agent 99? And how about Hank Asciutto? I remember when Hank had his storefront in downtown Perris. It was said you could get an Elbow there. And as a young jumper I thought he was in the friggin macaroni business. Hank got so out of hand they had to get an ex-CIA agent to be his minder. His name is Bob Celaya, and he's still on the job. Ask him about it and he'll just lie and say he's just a jumper, just a friend, blah, blah, bla . . . Dirty Ed? Assassinated by that "Russian hooker" right under our very noses in the Perris Ghetto. And ever wonder what happened to Becky and Leo Orlowski? They're in the Witness Protection Program and selling pool supplies somewhere in Arizona. It's all coming apart, you guys. NickD

Almost everyone was wearing Tevas, or some type of sandals, in the early 90s. Bill Von too. Only I remember he wore socks with his . . . NickD

Someone asked in another thread how the bike was progressing. I'm in drive-line dough saving mode, but have been hacking on this and that. And I just purchased two brake rotors (front & rear) off a '98 Fatboy for cheap on Ebay. Not here yet, but they are supposed to be 500 mile takes offs. I'm also getting a front and rear brake setup from Fab Kevin. He has these complete deals for a good price and they use Tokido calibers so that's kind of trick . . . NickD

>>IMO NO way would Ted Mayfield spill the beans.

This has taken me 18 years of research, hundreds of FOIA requests, and several key interviews with some of the biggest names in gear manufacturing today. And I'm finally in a position to reveal the truth. There was a massive conspiracy during WW II to cover up American parachute technology that persists to this day. It all started in the late 1930s when advisers to President Franklin Roosevelt informed him the Russians and Germans were so far ahead of us in terms of parachute technology that any future war would have us at a critical disadvantage. Roosevelt then green lighted a massive parachute development program that was secret well into the mid-1970s and still hasn't been fully publicly acknowledged. Oddly, enough I got wind of this in the early 1980s from Pat Works. And although my report isn't quite ready for publication, I feel like I must go public as, either I'm being paranoid, or there are people watching my house. And I'm being followed almost everywhere I go. I know all this will sound bat-shit crazy, but when I got with Pat Works recently to go over our long ago conversion he denied it all. He had me thinking maybe I was off my nut until I realized the well publicized motorcycle accident he had many years ago was a fake. Sure, he's got a big zipper scar on his head but its really from when he got re-programed. When I insisted he'd told me some pretty strange things, he just shrugged, and blamed it on his getting hold of some bad acid. But they were all in on it. Booth, Strong, Sherman, and even Jalbert and Istel (both of who were in the French Resistance) and even Lyle Cameron (hey come on, the beret?) These guys were all later, after the war, given this technology by the Gov't but sworn to secrecy. I mean have you actually ever sat down and talked to John Sherman or Bill Booth? These two couldn't change the batteries in a flashlight let alone come up with the SST/Racer or the Wonderhog/Vector. Go ahead and ask them point blank. I'll bet you anything they both deny it! But every released parachute photograph depicting Airborne Operations from WW II has been doctored. Roosevelt wanted desperately to keep the appearance that a "parachute gap" still existed. The truth of it is everything you think of as new today is well over sixty years old. And most of this stuff was tested secretly in Sheridan, WA. in the mid 1940s. Ted Mayfield had the contract for all that but when he made noises like he was going to spill the beans, well, you know what happened to him. DuPont came up with ZP fabric in 1940 and Domina Jalbert perfected the first airborne elliptical ram air in time for D-Day. A night jump, combat loaded, into places like St. Mere Eglise with rounds? Yeah right! And think head down is something new? Well, guess again cupcake . . . I'm posting just a few of the original photographs I managed to collect over the years so if I suddenly disappear, get sent to Gitmo, or wind up with a zipper in my head - you'll know the reason why . . . NickD

Mac and Nina! There's a blast from the past . . . NickD

We static lined a lot of PCs at the old Ramona DZ in So Cal. There are a few in this vid . . . http://www.dropzone.com/videos/Exits/Door_Time_For_Students_69.html NickD

>>A BASE jumper is a criminal trespasser, and they get treated as such, especially when they screw up.

Hey Airtwardo . . . Did I leave a shovel at your place? Can't find it anywhere . . . NickD