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  • trbig
    Simply used to just post A LOT!
    • Nov 2005
    • 7838
    • Ada, Oklahoma
    #1

    Happy Birthday, Ben...

    .. Ya ol' codger you!

    We'll celebrate next month at Stecoah with a couple beers! Yeah, I know you don't drink, but that way, I have an excuse for a couple beers! lol.

    Hopefully many more.
    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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    • motoman
      Master of XSology
      • Aug 2005
      • 8413
      • Grand Junction, Colorado
      #2
      Happy B-Day Ben!.............looks like ya' got a few months on me...
      81H Venturer1100 "The Bentley" (on steroids) 97 Yamaha YZ250(age reducer) 92 Honda ST1100 "Twisty"(touring rocket) Age is relative to the number of seconds counted 'airing' out an 85ft. table-top.

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        • natemoen
          Master of XSology
          • May 2010
          • 8640
          • Fargo
          #3
          Have a good one Ben!
          Nathan
          KD9ARL

          μολὼν λαβέ

          1978 XS1100E
          K&N Filter
          #45 pilot Jet, #137.5 Main Jet
          OEM Exhaust
          ATK Fork Brace
          LED Dash lights
          Ammeter, Oil Pressure, Oil Temp, and Volt Meters
          Green Monster Coils
          SS Brake Lines
          Vision 550 Auto Tensioner

          In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

          Theodore Roosevelt

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            • BA80
              Doctor of XSology
              • Oct 2010
              • 9980
              • Tulsa, Ok
              #4
              Damn Ben! You need to start counting backwards.

              See you soon.
              Greg

              Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

              ― Albert Einstein

              80 SG Ol' Okie;79 engine & carbs w/pods, 45 pilots, 140 mains, Custom Mac 4 into 2 exhaust, ACCT,XS850 final drive,110/90/19 front tire,TKat fork brace, XS750 140 MPH speedometer, Vetter IV fairing, aftermarket hard bags and trunk, LG high back seat, XJ rear shocks.

              The list changes.

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                • madmax-im
                  Master of XSology
                  • Sep 2007
                  • 6751
                  • Southern Comfort...Wendell NC
                  #5
                  Tod I drink...just not alot but I'll definitrely look forward to having one with ya...
                  Yeah Brant I'm approaching curmudgeon-dom...
                  Its been a great day Nate...
                  Greg...been counting backwards...
                  Thanks Guys...
                  1980 XS650G Special-Two
                  1993 Honda ST1100

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                    • MaximPhil
                      XS-XJ Super Guru
                      • May 2004
                      • 4119
                      • Mississauga, ON CANADA
                      #6
                      Happy Birthday Ben. I am a bi late to the party...if you are still up
                      I am trying to get to Stecoah too to have a beer with you and all the others.
                      Phil
                      1981 XS1100 H Venturer ( Addie)
                      1983 XJ 650 Maxim
                      2004 Kawasaki Concours. ( Black Bear)

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                        • madmax-im
                          Master of XSology
                          • Sep 2007
                          • 6751
                          • Southern Comfort...Wendell NC
                          #7
                          Originally posted by MaximPhil
                          Happy Birthday Ben. I am a bi late to the party...if you are still up
                          I am trying to get to Stecoah too to have a beer with you and all the others.
                          Phil
                          That would awesome...Thanks Phil...
                          1980 XS650G Special-Two
                          1993 Honda ST1100

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                            • GLoweVA
                              XS-XJ Guru
                              • Jun 2011
                              • 1957
                              • Virginia Beach, VA.
                              #8
                              I'll toast one to you too next month.
                              Hi, my name is George & I'm a twisty addict!

                              80G (Green paint(PO idea))
                              The Green Monster
                              K&N A/F, TC's fuse block, '81 oil cooler, TC's homemade 4-2 w/Mac Mufflers, Raptor 660 ACCT
                              Got him in '04.
                              bald tire & borrowing parts

                              80SG (Black w/red emblems & calipers)
                              Scarlet
                              K&N A/F, TC's fuse block, WJ5, Shoei bags, Raptor 660 ACCT.
                              Got her in '11
                              Ready for the twisties!

                              81H (previously CPMaynard's)
                              Hugo
                              Full Venturer, Indigo Blue with B/W painted tank.
                              Cold weather ride

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                                • motoman
                                  Master of XSology
                                  • Aug 2005
                                  • 8413
                                  • Grand Junction, Colorado
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by motoman
                                  Happy B-Day Ben!.............looks like ya' got a few months on me...
                                  Correction Ben...............you got SEVERAL months(6) to play catch-up on me.
                                  81H Venturer1100 "The Bentley" (on steroids) 97 Yamaha YZ250(age reducer) 92 Honda ST1100 "Twisty"(touring rocket) Age is relative to the number of seconds counted 'airing' out an 85ft. table-top.

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                                    • madmax-im
                                      Master of XSology
                                      • Sep 2007
                                      • 6751
                                      • Southern Comfort...Wendell NC
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by motoman
                                      Correction Ben...............you got SEVERAL months(6) to play catch-up on me.
                                      good theres someone older than me...phew...not ready for curmudgeon-dom just yet...
                                      1980 XS650G Special-Two
                                      1993 Honda ST1100

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                                        • xs11lover
                                          XS-XJ Guru
                                          • Apr 2008
                                          • 1433
                                          • Montoursville Pa
                                          #11
                                          Happy Birthday!
                                          79 XS11 Special (Lazarus)
                                          80 XS850 Special (Old Faithful)
                                          80 XS11 Standard sorta stock (Beatrice)
                                          79 DT 100

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                                            • XJOK2PLAY
                                              XS-XJ Guru
                                              • Jan 2009
                                              • 2099
                                              • Skiatook, Ok.
                                              #12
                                              Ben,
                                              Guess you can look at this one of two ways...

                                              Either Happy Belated Birthday, Buddy...

                                              Or else I'm REALLY early sending you wishes for next year...???


                                              Either way, hope you had a great one, and the next one's even better!
                                              Bob
                                              '82 XJ1100J Maxim (has been sold.)

                                              '79 F "Time Machine"... oh yeah, Baby.... (Sold back to Maximan)

                                              2011 Kaw Concours 14 ABS

                                              In the warden's words from Cool Hand Luke;
                                              "What we have here is a failure to communicate."

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