Kris

Yeah, that's one of my peeves as well. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

The swoop cords should be long enough that if you're flying in the Boxman or mantis position you won't put tension on the cords until you rotate your wrists forward & out (and/or bring your arms forward just a smidge more, too). This gives you the ability to adjust the tension on the wings as you wish, on demand. Now, for todays safetly lesson, always put the swoop cords on last....never put them on under your gloves or altimeter. With some suits, you may not be able to reach very far up with the cords on. On my old RW suit, I had to remove the swoop cords before I could reach my toggles. I could reach the risers fine, but was stopped about 2-3" away from the toggles. As always, YMMV...keep adjusting the cords until you think you have it about right, then have an experienced RW flyer take a look at them while you're wearing the suit.

Sunrise Rigging with their Wings container can be packed grommet to pin. I would be interested as well. I've packed my Mirage G3 grommet to pin for almost the last 250 jumps with no issues at all. For the record, it does have the 9' bridle and cut corners. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

You do realize that if those stickers were yellow, they'd add 5hp each, right? J/K....Way to represent, !! Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Start > Run > REGEDT32 DISCLAIMER > Mucking about in your system registry can have dire consequences....The Shepherd's Prayer is called for here. Specifically, US Astronaut Alan Shepherd, who stated, "Lord....Please don't let me fuck this up." Once in the registry editor, go to HKEY_Local_Machine > Software > Microsoft > Windows NT > Current Version > Winlogon. Once in that key, you'll see the password listed. Double-click on it to open the value. Change the password to blank, click OK, then close the registry editor. You're all done at that point.

Sorry, guys...send your PM's to wingnut. I'm taking a month or so hiatus from the sport and dz.com. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Here we go again...... And this is a perfect example why you have no business under a Stiletto. A Stiletto (and full ellipticals like it) requires you to be perfectly symmetrical during the opening. Hip-input works best while keeping eyes on the horizon. Line twists under an elliptical can be pretty evil things. At 110 jumps, I doubt you have the awareness or finesse required to properly fly the openings. I know I didn't at your # of jumps. Not to mention the fact that if you aren't up to flying the openings, you're a danger to everyone around you while your canopy is opening. Collisions during opening aren't fun. I'm not even going to get into the rest of it....I'll leave that for someone else. Actually....I'll get into this: Didn't a newer jumper die just a few months ago under a Stiletto that was sold to him by someone at Lodi? Does nobody over there give a damn? Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

If loving a Grue is wrong, I don't wanna be right. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

I would say it's more of a fit thing. My Mirage G3 Unisyn doesn't have the butt-bungee and my legstraps never move during a sit, HD, or transitions. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

I draw the line at gloves, jacket, and the helmet. The jacket has a spine protector built in. The other gear will be my jeans and Doc Marten boots. I'll take my chances with full protection from the waist up, and minimum protection on the bottom half. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

My own nephew to me: "Sweet! Can I take it for a ride?!" Me to my own blood-kin: "Only if I can ride your girlfriend." Don't worry Jeff, I'll let you ride on the bitch seat. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Honestly, as much as I love motorcycles, rice-burners on more than a 150 mile trip aren't the most comfy things on the planet. I appreciate the offer, but I'll be taking my car for that long haul.

Awww.....I miss you too, Casie. I'll be heading out TX way sometime in the next couple of weeks. I'll give you a call later this week and we'll catch up and make plans. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

[replyExcuse me. I believe you forgot to order my jacket and helmet If you aren't coming out here with that "thing", then are you at least heading to Skyfest with it? Sorry, Mar...I'll be taking the car. I don't exactly have a way to carry all my skydiving gear on the bike. But I may feel froggy enough to make a run up to CO one of these days for some more of your wonderful hospitality.

No kidding. The guy basically took a $6000 loss on the bike from the time he bought it to the time he sold it. Sucker! Duuuuuuude. You have no idea. I looked at a 2001 ZX-6R that they only wanted $4K for....I found out why. They rashed it up and covered it in zebra-fur. What the fuck is up with that?! That had to be the most ghetto squid-like thing I have ever seen. I honestly wanted to beat his ass but just left in disgust. I've been checking eBay and it looks like there are plenty of fairings for sale cheap. I should hopefully be able to pick up a right & left side for $300-ish total. After that she's getting a Yosh tri-oval slip on and an undertail kit. I've already ordered a double-bubble windscreen. Yup, damn close. Don't get me wrong, a Yammie R6 would have been my first choice, but the Gixxer makes me all happy inside as well.

You've obviously never been to Oklahoma...the roads here were laid out by alcoholics. I have a nice set of 4-mile long twisties less than 10 minutes from my house. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Snicker! Drive it down to Dallas. I've got a lonely porch and 12-pack of Shiner. I am never going to live down killing Bambi, am I? Okay, here's the whole sordid dealio on how I ended up with this bike... The pilot at Skydive Hinton made the mistake of letting me drive his '03 Yamaha R6 a couple of months back. I had owned a Ninja 600 about a decade back, but thought I was over the bike bug until I took his for a spin down the taxi-way. Well, I didn't have the money to get a bike and thought that was the end of it. The plot thickens... Two weeks back we had a vicious hail storm come through while I was at work. My car didn't look bad, so I didn't think much about it. I took it to the ins agent on a lark this past Tuesday to have them look it over anyway. I walked out of there with a check for $4K *giving mad props to State Farm* I saw a couple of low-end 600's, but nothing that didn't look like ass or wasn't rode hard. A 750 is honestly way too much bike for me. Well, a dealership that I was looking at earlier in the week called me and told me a damn funny story... It seems this idiot bought this 02' Gixxer 600 new, and within having it a week, layed it down and rashed up the left side. Apparently, he scared himself pretty good on it several times after that. He brought it by the shop two days ago and tried to sell it. They weren't looking to buy any used bikes at the time so he was going to take it down the street to another bike shop. In the parking lot, doing about 10mph, he lays it down on the other side and rashes up that side and bloodies his hands up pretty good. The owner went out and bought the bike off the guy to keep him from killing himself and called me. It needs the plastics on both front lower fairings either repainted or replaced, and a new gas tank (which I found on eBay for $110 shipped). I walked out of there with the bike (which only had 3600 miles on it), matching helmet, and an order for an armored matching jacket for.....$3650. The same bike in good condition can't be found for less than $6500-7000. So, that's my story, sometimes timing is everything and having a positive balance in one's Karma account pays off big.

Yes, it's true...I brought her home yesterday, I kept her out all night, and I just had to ride her again today. 2002 Suzuki GSX-R 600 Fuel Injected. Since the weather is windy as hell today, I think I'll go take her for another spin around town.

Cheeeecccccckkk IT -lip! Hooty Hoo! *throwing down a quick WML hand sign then running back out of the post* Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

It also stays perfectly controllable and recoverable during said stall....I really liked that about the Sam demo I tried. But, sorry Phree, I just loved the CF2 better overall.

I'm surprised Sunshine hasn't taken this thread over and demanded to know why a Donkey Punch wasn't an option. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

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Jesus walks into a hotel, hands the innkeeper three nails and asks, "Can you put me up for the night?" Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

He never left... Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

This has to be my biggest pet peeve ever. Since when did instructors and 'experienced' jumpers become psychic? When I got my instructor rating I sure as hell didn't get ESP as part of the package. Boredom can be a good thing, it gives people a chance to learn their canopies. Speedy...if you were 1.5 under that 149, you would still be 1.3 under a 169. This isn't a race, slow down and learn how to fly a canopy at 1:1 before trying to get so damn agressive. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™