any one else playing simpsons tapped out?
damn thing is addictive and full of self deprecating humor that i love and expect from the simpsons.

Hey guys, just trying to get rid of some stuff so that I can upgrade my vinyl setup a bit. It's just a Halo Reach edition Xbox 360 (cool grey design, not ugly like the other special editions :vomit: ) and two matching controllers. 250 gig hard drive version. Comes with Halo 4, Just Cause 2, Assassin's Creed 3, Forza 4, and Skyrim. I've never had any problems with it, it's the newer, not shitty version. $250. I'll be at JMU until May 3. 757 871 1515, text if you want pictures or anything.

-Zach

I know some of you guys have some GoPro's for race footage. How do you guys store it? I saw Pelican has a nice case but I'm not really looking to blow the bank. Any cheap options that you guys know of?

So I picked up this little gem somewhere between the football garage and parking by festival.


Just bought last sept, so i started reading the conti warranty and they have road hazard for the first year/ 2/32 of tread, just contact your local dealer to get a replacement. I'm all like :thumbup:

Call blue ridge tire and guy goes into a speech about how he's been doing this 40 years and conti doesn't have a road hazard warranty but I can buy a new one. And I'm all like :evil:

Call tirerack up and without any hassle, guy has a new tire on the way and sent me a shipping label for the old tire. Total time on phone, >3 min. And now I'm all like :mrgreen: again.

I'm all for supporting local businesses, but get your act together if you want to keep customers.

1992 turbo Miata. I bought it as fun track car project but life has gotten in the way. It was taken off the road due to an oil line for the turbo coming off and spraying the entire engine bay. Was running as recently as February (there is a receipt in the glove box for 2 new tires that where installed on it then). It needs a top, could use 2 tires, and needs a passenger mirror. the entire car is flat black, and the lenses are all tinted black. Also included (but missing in the pictures) are the black cloth seats.
$2000 obo





Mod list:

- ARP Headstuds
- Megasquirt PNP
- Cometic MLS headgasket
- rx7 550cc injectors
- 255 fuel pump
- brand new fenders
- Innovate wideband
- 1.8 Hollow spoke wheels
- 1.8 torsen diff
- 2.5" stainless OBX downpipe
- Flyin' Miata 2.5" stainless Turbo Exhaust
- Extra intercooler
- Tokico struts

Posting this up for a good friend. He's the second owner of this Jeep, and he's had it for about 13 months. Its bone stock with about 100k miles. It's in great shape. It’s listed for $14,500, but he’s willing to negotiate for a hassle free sale. Please see the craigslist ad below (*he's located in Reston, VA).


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My Fender Roller is MIA, and it seems like the last person I loaned it to was associated with MM. Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Peter

Hello MMer's!
As the title states I'd like to run for the position of Vice president, however I'd be willing to fill any role needed. I have loved the last 2 years being in the club and would like to step up and be an executive for next year, and to do my best to keep the club awesome and even improve the club.

As VP I'd like the club to have more social meets next year, which could be hosted at my apartment and/or getting dinner more often together, possibly even an offroading/camping trip for a low cost social event as well. Also I'd like to get the club out to more events, such as some drift events , drag racing or circle track/stock car type events. Shenandoah speedway which is only 25ish minutes away has both drift events and circle track events, and MM as a club has not taken advantage of this. Also Waynesboro has an 1/8th mile drag strip that you can get unlimited runs for $20 on test and tune days, which would be fantastic to get members involved in. I myself am not a big drag racing fan, but even I have a blast hanging out at the strip, so we just need to get members out there and give it a shot.

I'd like to fund raise more for the club by selling more apparel, and possibly even sober rides if we could get willing drivers.

P.S. I have a light load for classes for the fall so I will have plenty of time for the club!!

-Well currently that's all I can think of to say, so if you have any questions just ask!

So last Saturday I left home at around 8:15 to head out to the car show. By around 9 am I was on 66W and had just passed Haymarket. I was at the front of a group of cars doing about 65-70 mph when a deer ran out less than 8 feet in front of me, maybe even 5 feet. Before I even had time to let off the throttle, came the smash of the bike hitting the deer squarely in the side. I went flying off the bike but wasn't in the air for too long. I tumbled and slid down the road and came to a stop maybe 40 or 50 ft down the road. I immediately jumped up and ran off to the left median so I could get out of the way of oncoming cars.

All of the cars directly behind me saw what happened stopped to get out and help me out. As I was sitting up against the guardrail I didn't actually feel too bad. My fingertips hurt like hell, so much so that I couldn't really touch anything. I can only imagine that they smashed up against the brake and clutch levers as I left the bike. As I type some of my fingers are still bruised.

The deer was killed on impact. It landed on the right side of the road, some of its organs ended up in the middle of the road, and blood went all over the place. There were flecks of blood on my visor, blood on my pants, blood on my boots, blood on my backpack, and a ton of blood on the bike. The bike came to rest in the ditch on the left. I didn't get a good chance to take a look at it but from what I saw every fairing on it was smashed, and everything on the front was gone except for the forks and handlebars.

Someone called an ambulance, but to be honest I didn't feel bad at all. When the paramedics arrived I almost told them I didn't need help but the EMT told me I should probably get checked out to make sure I don't have any spinal injuries. They put on a neck brace and strapped me to a backboard to take me to the ER. It took awhile, but I finally got the cat scan and x-rays and they all came back negative. Only damage I needed medical attention for was a nickel-sized gash taken out of my right elbow. That was the only place where my gear really failed, and it was because my elbow pads shifted enough to let some of the road take a bite out of my elbow.

My gear definitely made the difference. Had I not been geared up I probably would've spent a few nights in the hospital and a lot of permanent disfigurement. I don't have pics of the scene but hopefully I'll be able to get that from the State trooper that came to document the accident.

I talked to Progressive and they'll reimburse me for my gear, and I imagine the bike will be totalled so I'll get the NADA value for it (minus the deductible). Here are pics of my gear:

A hare scramble is an off-road event on a marked course through the woods, using what are pretty much motocross bikes. A coworker of mine said he ran most of a season and is again this year, so I went to spectate, with interest in potential participation. I figured I'd share what I learned.



WIth the VCHSS, an AMA organization, the races are 1.5 to 2 hours long. And the schedule's pretty nice, held about every 3 weeks and all in VA. This weekend's course they cut on a 5000 acre horse farm was 7.5 miles, 4 laps.

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Here's some things I like:

Cheap. It's $65 to join, and a race day is $30. So we're talking like, karting day entry costs here. Equipment costs are as little as you care to spend. A used bike, a couple hundred bucks worth of safety gear, and low consumables. And of hauling is anything from a long-bed pickup truck to a full camper.

It's almost all skill. With this terrain, there isn't much incentive to spend a ton on the bike. Not that that doesn't stop a lot of people, and newish looking KTMs represented half the hardware there, but the rules are pretty lax on modifications, and I can see why. The fast guys are clearly fast because they're good at it, not because they spent more. The stratification on finishing times was vast in most classes.

Safe (at least by bike standards). Bike mostly stays on the ground, and average race speed *for the leader* is around 18MPH. My coworker averaged 14. It's mostly very tight and technical. Some open field time here and there to wind out, but then there's nothing to hit. So when you do fall off, injuries are light to none and bike damage is usually minimal.

Huge participation. There were 3 main races. With 10-15 classes in each race and 15-25 bikes in most classes. Each class starts, engines off, one minute behind the preceding class, so it's pretty wild when they drop the flag... 10-15 times in a row. Most bikes were 2-strokes, but there was a 4-stroke class, and 4-strokes were found here and there in other classes too.

Lower time commitment. You pull in any time saturday, most people camp, hang out, lots of families, beer, dogs, whatever. Then you just have your one time slot sunday (I *think* you could run two?), pack it up and call it a weekend. Some people just showed up sunday morn.

Some things to think more about:

The race length. This is an endurance event. Most everyone's got a camelbak or similar, and since you're an active suspension component and standing half the time... well I better start working out, now!

There's some tricks to prepping the bike. As I said, pretty open rules. And there's a lot to learn by just walking around. A bike set up for motocross isn't really ready for a hare scramble. Shorter bars, lots of guards, it will be running over all kinds of stuff, and I'd be willing to bet further Mad-Max type ingenuity could be rewarded in this area.

Organization needs improvement.
1) A thousand good-ol-boys on motorcycles in one place with little restriction on where to ride leads to paddock and spectator areas that seemed a bit less safe than your average track or autocross day. People, dogs, kids on motos, trucks, everywhere.
2) They had some timing and scoring issues. BIG TIME. Coworker said he'd never seen anything like that, it obviously doesn't happen often, but they delayed the first race an HOUR due to computer failure. No backup computer? No 2nd backup to just use paper and a few volunteers? No plan to let the 100+ people sitting on grid, in the sun, with gear on to go relax for a bit and come back. No announcements to notify the later groups that they were now off schedule. Just nothing. Maybe this crowd is just a litte more lax, but I hope the organizers learned it might be worth having a plan for next time.
3) Track safety should have been stressed more. Though I think that's true for bike track weekends too. People stood REALLY close to the course, no reminder of safe passing rules and little protocol talk. Maybe it just looked like chaos to me since it was my first time, but it appears people will likely get hurt for preventable reasons. FWIW they do have a couple marshals riding, more out on course, and the spectators expect to respond too, so maybe they just ensure they don't lose or leave anybody in the woods and figure there's no point telling people how to do it.

No pace lap? Eh, well I guess I won't knock it until I've tried it. Apparently you're allowed to walk the... 7.5 mile course... but it's rare they allow bikes. We walked about a mile of it. I guess that's part of the game, reading the terrain at speed. It's not like you're going to learn the whole course in a few laps anyway, but it'd take some faith to just speed through lap one of a course cut by people I don't know.

:dunno: Ok that's all I have to say! Anyone tried one of these? I mean, hell, I figure it's worth a shot! I just need to do some trail riding first so I don't look like this guy. :lol: