Ever wonder about Dr. Cranky

[Agent G]

Oh how I yearn for some extended controls on those long hauls. I cannot get my feet out around those cylinder heads to use highway pegs at all. It's hard to tell but the fairing lower prevents much movement. What I can do is rest my heels on top of the crash bars. It gets a bit warm, but that's why we wear boots.

G

[Kustom Rodder]

Sweet lookin tank and fenders Doc post a pic when you get em put on.

[crazyjim]

Okay. Here's some older one before we had the shop.

The tank flames have been repainted in matching lavender with the flame tips in red. The air filter ring reads "I ride in freedom for those who can't - KIA/POW/MIA.

Incidentally, the frame is black with purple sheet metal representing those Americans who have died in wars. The red is chosen color of our POW/MIA families.

[martinfan5]

All the Dr Cranky threads are starting be like all the Danica mania media hype and all that they want to talk about , just kidding Virgil

Edited March 1, 2012 by martinfan5

[Danno]

Oh how I yearn for some extended controls on those long hauls. I cannot get my feet out around those cylinder heads to use highway pegs at all. It's hard to tell but the fairing lower prevents much movement. What I can do is rest my heels on top of the crash bars. It gets a bit warm, but that's why we wear boots.

G

Very relieved to see the last letter of your vanity plate is "R" rather than "Y."

- That's humor, Jim.

[Danno]

I wonder, Tucker wonders too what is is with Dr Cranki? Every place I vist here he's been there first. So much effort to say so little?

Whoa! They feedin' you and Tucker some steel wheaties for breakfast?

Ease up, Jethro. For a brand new guy, you're coming on pretty strong.

- Now that there is ironic observation, Jim.

[diymirage]

David, no . . . these are my Google Image parents. My parents were both terrified of motorcycles and my old man died in 1997 not knowing the kind of freedom a motorcycle is!

if you'd allow me to share a quick story about my dad Doc.

i was 16 years old, a snot nosed little punk who knew everything about anything and dad was only good for money, that old geezer didnt know squat

well, dad was kind enough to drive me out to this guys house where i was going to buy my first bike...nothing to special, a mid 80s honda MTX, street legal dirtbike

up untill this point i had only driven bikes with centrifugal clutches and variomatic transmission, nothing with an actual clutch lever

when we got to the house i couldnt believe my eyes, this bike was every little kids dream, big knobbie tires, loud exhaust and a 5 speed tranny

i got on it and stalled it 6-7 times in a row, i just couldnt ride the darn thing

the old man looked at me and said, let me try that once

he hopped on, dropped it in first, popped a wheelie, shifted into second, dropped the front back down and hit third before the end of the street

i think it was that exact moment i realised...maybe the old man does know a thing or two

[Jdurg]

I've always liked the way bikes look and sense of freedom they provide, but it'll be a cold day in Hades before you see me on one. I have a nasty habit of breaking bones and getting hurt doing simple things like stretching, taking out the trash, or walking around. (For a little background about me, a few years ago I was stretching out my right calf muscle before a cross-country flight for work. I had previously strained the calf while skiing a few months earlier, and after the torture that was physical therapy, I was told that I needed to stretch it out before the flight to prevent it from tightening up again. Anyway, I was stretching the calf using the stairs in my house as extra leverage to get a full stretch when the calf muscle seized up. I dropped down the two steps onto a hardwood floor with my full body weight on my right foot. I instantly shattered the 6 bones in my right foot in 8 spots. The three cuneiform bones, the navicular bone, the cuboid, and the first metatarsal in two spots. Went cross-country for work, walked on it for a couple weeks, then finally listened to everyone who saw me limping and saw a doctor who did x-rays and told me they were broken. Right after that injury healed, I had my 30th b-day in NYC with some friends and after a long night out I didn't pay attention to the curb and fell forward putting my hand out in front. Shattered my scaphoid. Then, this past October I was taking trash out when I slipped on some wet leaves and tried to regain my balance instead of falling into the street. Trying to get my balance back I rolled my ankle and cracked my right medial malleolus. The knob on the inside of your foot. That finally healed, and I discovered today that the pain I still have in my right ankle is a stress fracture of that same bone caused by the 5 miles or so I walked while out in NYC last week).

Anyway, rant aside, you won't see me on a bike as it would just be too expensive. (The hospital bills, funeral bills for the family, insurance rates, etc. lol). But I do recognize beautiful bikes when I see 'em and I see some beauties here.

[Mercman]

Justin if it weren't for bad luck you would have no luck at all it sounds like. I sold my bike many years ago. Hard a chopped HD with all the goodies on. My girlfriend at the time used to complain about it being uncomfortable, Rigid frame and only a p-pad seat on the back. Years later I saw the bike in town here, and guess who was riding it. Yep she bought it a t police auction. I had sold it to some rich kid who got busted dealing, ant he cops took the bike from him. Now it's out in Montana somewhere.

[race06]

###### Cranky, I LOVE it!!! tink it fits u jus rite. I'll post mine. Wasnt bein volger jus readin Doc's tank

Edited March 1, 2012 by race06

[race06]

Here it is mine shall we ride sumtime?

[diymirage]

heres me with my bike

its like riding a powdered donut around town

i call it my barney bike

[race06]

1 Trick Pony trick, I like it!

[Dr. Cranky]

Eelco, that bike can take you to the end of the world and back several times. Those things are built for the Apocalypse!

[diymirage]

Eelco, that bike can take you to the end of the world and back several times. Those things are built for the Apocalypse!

yeah but it will be a slow ride...remember the powerded donut comment?

today i went to run an errand, no more then 2 miles round trip and guess who i ran into ?

didnt get a ticket since the bike IS street legal but he did want to see all the documentations proving that

[Dr. Cranky]

If you are street legal, you are street legal. I have seen police stop lots of guys on dirt bikes and other types that don't look like cruisers, etc . . . normally they leave us alone, as it should be. Then again I have seen guys doing willies on the freeways. That's a big no-no.

[diymirage]

If you are street legal, you are street legal. I have seen police stop lots of guys on dirt bikes and other types that don't look like cruisers, etc . . . normally they leave us alone, as it should be. Then again I have seen guys doing willies on the freeways. That's a big no-no.

to the best of my knowledge he didnt see me pop any wheelies

oh, and i wasnt on the freeway, just a road on the outskirts of town

but i can understand how it doesnt look street legal and on top of that its a two stroker so it probably doesnt sound street legal iether...but it is

[Dr. Cranky]

Oh yeah, the sound will give you away. I got stopped once for my "loud" pipes and the police officer kept saying I had removed the baffles, and come to find out, they were in there, they were just loud pipes!

[diymirage]

Im running an aftermarket expancion chamber on it but it has the stock muffler WITH spark arrestor

The stock pipe wasn't any quieter

But at the day its still a 2stroker and zounds the part (but luckily it also has the typical powerband)

[race06]

Satin n chrome a wonderful thing, too ya no!

[Dr. Cranky]

I really like the combination too.

[Agent G]

Very relieved to see the last letter of your vanity plate is "R" rather than "Y."

- That's humor, Jim.

Funny guy hahahahahah

That plate got me in more trouble because of the jokers I worked with. I'm in Illinois, riding the river road, stopped at a light. Big old Dodge smelling like unmarked car pulls along side and the window drops. Uniformed occupant yells out " OK smartazz what's the plate supposed to read?" As he's running it, I boogie when the light goes green wondering what the issue is. He doesn't stop me and I continue home to find one of my, or all of my, stars taped over the R and replaced it with a Y.

Funny hahahahah.

Look at the Missouri plate and you'll see the wavy lines representing the river under the word Missouri at the top of the plate. Well someone found that there is a gay pride decal specifically produced to cover those wavy lines.

Guess who had one on his bike?

Guess who didn't find it for a week? That's a clue detective.........................

I'm in uniform, riding home. stopped at a light. A car full of young gents is behind me honking and waving. Very friendly they were. One even yells out how proud of me he is that I could be so open, in uniform at that. Huh?

Then I find the decal.

Now that was some funny sheist there, I don't care who you are.

Of course my best friend, she's "family" herself, told me that had I played my cards right I coud have gotten dinner and drinks for sure.

Why didn't I think of that?

G

[Danno]

This one's for G.

That's more humor, Jim.

[Agent G]

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[Dr. Cranky]

Wayne, I recently took a trip to Vegas, after a twenty year hiatus and was shocked to find out the true slot machines have all been replaced with very boring slots. I say "boring" because they no longer spit out all that money. I don't know, the whole place seemed way too family oriented, and you know that family and gambling should never mix.