Yep. I not starving for attention either. When I get on a cycle, its for a purpose and it never involved impressing someone. I raced dragbike for four years. I don't care for Harleys.

I've been looking at the hogs dropping in price too. For five thousand you can get yourself a noisy harley. What kind of DS did you get?

Picked this up last year for 150. Here's what it looks like now.

@PondartIncbendog I remember those.. Nice, and about all anyone really needs, unless you’re maybe 150lbs overweight ..with a tiny dick..

@Varn I bought it so I could get out of town when the tsunami hits the Ocean Shore area.

@PondartIncbendog I’d have to look to see where you’re located.. But good move! As soon as you feel the ground shake - get to high ground. Hope it starts easy … I remember kicking my ol’ (new in the day) 79 Honda 400T1 so many times ..I just let it drop to the ground and walked off. You may not have that option

@Varn Google Ocean shores, tsunami. We are in the worst place possible. Two miles from the Pacific Ocean. But the whole sand bar will be gone.

@PondartIncbendog Damn, you’re gonna have instant liquefaction… I was considering several places at the Oregon Coast until a local city counsel guy suggested I ‘look into what’s going to trigger the ‘sunami.’ I did, and had been aware of the subduction zone potential for years, but the deeper I looked, the further the devastation is reliability predicted to go inland - to the base of the Cascades basically. There’s goes my hometown ..Portland ~

Googled ‘most stable location on continental USA’ and came up with where I’m at, the Appalachian mountain chain, Blue Ridge in particular.. Had I not lost the family homestead to divorce, I’d still be ‘back there.’ But when considering ‘re-investing’ what I had left, OR no longer looked like a good idea. And, since neither daughter wanted the homestead, or ultimately planned to stay in OR, thought I’d find a safer place.

I’ve given up talking family out.. ‘It hasn’t happened yet’ seems their logic. Nobody around from the winter of 1700 to describe the last one, either

@Varn [Yes. Instant. The people here are still unprepared and stupid. I'm here because I can't move. I carry a three months food and provision supply in my truck at all times. And emergency equipment. Float vest in the truck. And I won't have a chance. Lots of old people here 65+. But I have several plans in thought and planning. The tsunami has an "average" of three hundred years, but the swing is about two hundred years. The chance of having one in the next ten years are pretty slim.

@Varn Three hundred AD. A fifteen foot tsunami was recorded as having originated from a local source. Location not confirmed. Even that would decimate this flat bar of sand.

@Varn If you watch nova now, you will see the scientists examine a river bank and taking slices from the river bank. That is two mile from me.

@Varn I was wrong. The swing is from 200 to 900 years. So I think I'm safe.

@PondartIncbendog The best info I’d found gave a recurrence of from 300 to 350 years, with the last break being 320 years ago.. The ‘southern half’ breaks twice as often as the northern, so that knocked Coos Bay out of the running for me. Fell in love with Coos Bay/ North Bend … damnit.

The shore will instantly sink, from 20 to 30 feet, it’s bound and ‘pressed up,’ right now. That’s what created ‘the ghost forest’ that is also part of the discovering this recurring event. What confirmed it was ‘the ghost sunami’ recorded in Japan, wiping out their coastal villages in January of 1700. They now know where it came from!

Both my daughters took some deep geology courses in college, I’d tagged along on a field trip, a ‘rock hound’ since I was a kid.. Asked the instructor, one of the top geologists in OR, about the mega-thrust quake … her very next class was on ‘quake preparedness.’ Both daughters carry ‘quake kits’ in their vehicles..

As much as I miss Oregon, it didn’t take long to strike me ‘over here’ as how much ..less stressed I felt. The roads around me are often carved from solid rock! And the only quakes we get are ‘rebound quakes,’ where the ground is actually moving ‘up’ due to the erosion of mountains, once as high - or higher than the Himalayas!

My father lives in OR’s ‘Sunami Central,’ as I call it.. He’ll go while rounding up cats… If this virus doesn't get him first. The PNW doesn't deserve this, but part of ‘The Ring of Fire,’ it’s very much overdue