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  • #1

    An XS Halloween

    Okay... so I'm not mechanic... and I can't possibly keep up with y'all on that end of this deal... but I do what I can...


    This was my first pumpkin of the season... so a little rough.
    Heaven help me if I mess up one of the kids' pumpkins.
    Critics...

    81 SH Something Special
    81 frame, 80 tank and side covers, 79 tail light and carbs, 78 engine, 750 final drive mod, Geezer rec/reg, 140 mains, LH wheels
    ☺

    79 SF MEAUQABEAUXS
    81SH Nor'eas tah (Old Red)
    80 LG Black Magic
    78 E Standard Practice


    James 3:17

    If I can make at least one person smile, or pee their pants a little, or maybe spit out their drink; then my day is not wasted.

    “Alis Volat Propriis”

    Yamaha XS 1100 Classic
    For those on FB
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  • #2
    "Are you out of your gourd?"

    Very nice.
    Liked the last photo... the one were the XS is getting ready to run over the homeless people standing in the street.(Ok, so that was my vision of it)
    And to think I was always afraid of women with knives.
    "Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not a mechanic!' ('Bones' McCoy)

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    • #3
      Outstanding job!
      CUAgain,
      Daniel Meyer
      Author. Adventurer. Electrician.
      Find out why...It's About the Ride.

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      • #4
        wow
        "a good man knows his limitations" dirty harry
        History
        85 Yamaha FJ 1100
        79 yamaha xs1100f
        03 honda cbr 600 f4
        91 yamaha fzr 600
        84 yamaha fj 1100
        82 yamaha seca 750
        87 yamaha fazer
        86 yamaha maxim x
        82 yamaha vision
        78 yamaha rd 400

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        • #5
          Thanks!

          It's always fun to explore new mediums (and this is the only medium I've worked with that makes a decent pie as well)... Some of the pumpkins I've seen while Internet surfing are AMAZING!! Definitely inspiring...

          Here's one more pic after I cleaned up a little behind the tank... You can see the YAMAHA emblem now...



          the one were the XS is getting ready to run over the homeless people standing in the street
          *smack* upside the head

          And to think I was always afraid of women with knives.
          Especially if they are named Lorena...
          81 SH Something Special
          81 frame, 80 tank and side covers, 79 tail light and carbs, 78 engine, 750 final drive mod, Geezer rec/reg, 140 mains, LH wheels
          ☺

          79 SF MEAUQABEAUXS
          81SH Nor'eas tah (Old Red)
          80 LG Black Magic
          78 E Standard Practice


          James 3:17

          If I can make at least one person smile, or pee their pants a little, or maybe spit out their drink; then my day is not wasted.

          “Alis Volat Propriis”

          Yamaha XS 1100 Classic
          For those on FB

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          • #6
            always fun to explore new mediums

            yup............

            and your carving is way cool


            mro

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            • #7
              awesome

              wish my 80g looked as good!
              MDRNF
              79F.....Not Stock
              80G......Not Stock Either....In the works

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              • #8
                SWEET. That is the coolest pumkin that I have ever seen. No one in my neighborhood does anything cool because the pumkins end up in the street or stepped on when the first kids come by
                United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY
                If I can do it at 18 yrs old, anyone can
                "You know something, You can't polish a turd"
                "What are you rebelling against", "Well, what do you got?"
                Acta Non Verba

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                • #9
                  the pumkins end up in the street or stepped on when the first kids come by
                  See... we had a cure for people like that. We had an old chainsaw that would start easily on the first pull. I would remove the chain (Blade) just in case we got caught, then wait in the bushes dressed in black with a mask on.. then wait. The first sign of little trouble makers... we would jump out of hiding.. run at them screaming and fire up the chain saw.... They would scream and run! As a bonus... alot of them would even drop their candy!! hee hee...

                  I suppose I deserve everything bad that ever happens to me... lol.

                  Tod
                  Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

                  You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

                  Current bikes:
                  '06 Suzuki DR650
                  *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
                  '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
                  '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
                  '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
                  '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
                  '81 XS1100 Special
                  '81 YZ250
                  '80 XS850 Special
                  '80 XR100
                  *Crashed/Totalled, still own

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                  • #10
                    Kat you make me sick!

                    Is there anything artistic you CAN'T DO?

                    BTW Cool pumpkin.

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                    • #11
                      Thanks again!

                      Here's one more that I did... there is a cut out of a bat on the back that shines the image on the wall behind the pumpkin... didn't turn out quite so well, but next year it will be awesome!
                      (I hope... if I remember)


                      Hobbyman - I always put ours in a window so that the troublemakers don't smash them. Sucks that people are that thoughtless sometimes... a lot of time goes into these, just to have them smashed? My pacifist ways would fall to the wayside, I'm afraid...

                      Tod- Don't take this the wrong way... I'm going to agree with you again...

                      But I LIKE your idea of the chainsaw... come to think of it... we have one... and I know how to use it... That should be a scary enough thought for ANYbody...

                      By the way...
                      I suppose I deserve everything bad that ever happens to me...
                      not EVERYthing...

                      Kat you make me sick!
                      ummmm... thanks?

                      Is there anything artistic you CAN'T DO?
                      I never tell myself I CAN'T do something... so... no.

                      Of course, that philosophy tends to get one in trouble sometimes...
                      81 SH Something Special
                      81 frame, 80 tank and side covers, 79 tail light and carbs, 78 engine, 750 final drive mod, Geezer rec/reg, 140 mains, LH wheels
                      ☺

                      79 SF MEAUQABEAUXS
                      81SH Nor'eas tah (Old Red)
                      80 LG Black Magic
                      78 E Standard Practice


                      James 3:17

                      If I can make at least one person smile, or pee their pants a little, or maybe spit out their drink; then my day is not wasted.

                      “Alis Volat Propriis”

                      Yamaha XS 1100 Classic
                      For those on FB

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                      • #12
                        OH THAT REALLY PISSES ME OFF!!!

                        How did you know what I looked like?!?!?!

                        Again...very very cool pumpkins. And youu are obviously very talented.

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                        • #13
                          "Blah, blah, blah..."

                          (But I'll bet it's John who carves the turkey!)
                          "Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not a mechanic!' ('Bones' McCoy)

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                          • #14
                            Hey! I can carve a turkey!

                            I just don't have another pumpkin to carve it on...
                            81 SH Something Special
                            81 frame, 80 tank and side covers, 79 tail light and carbs, 78 engine, 750 final drive mod, Geezer rec/reg, 140 mains, LH wheels
                            ☺

                            79 SF MEAUQABEAUXS
                            81SH Nor'eas tah (Old Red)
                            80 LG Black Magic
                            78 E Standard Practice


                            James 3:17

                            If I can make at least one person smile, or pee their pants a little, or maybe spit out their drink; then my day is not wasted.

                            “Alis Volat Propriis”

                            Yamaha XS 1100 Classic
                            For those on FB

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                            • #15
                              OMG!

                              Those pumpkins are amazing!

                              I can't sign my name most days, and you carved an XS into a pumpkin!

                              I have to agree with MaxiMan, though!

                              You really are talented! Great Job!

                              Oh, and Prometheus, that was truly awful... I'm still ROFL-ing!

                              greg
                              Gone but never Forgotten:
                              1980 XS11SG - "Scorpion"

                              Current:
                              2006 Yamaha FJR1300A - "Orion"
                              2007 Honda CBR600RR - "Twitch"


                              "Life is not a journey to the grave, with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body; but rather to skid on broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming:

                              WOW - What a ride!

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