Intro (well, sort of)Ok, round for everyone here. I'm kinda new, or at least new to you, as
I was a somewhat prolific poster, like 5 -7 years ago....
Ok, basically, I'm (a) Phil, and I used to live in various places:
* East Hartford, CT (college, looking for first job).
* Glen Cove, NY (I grew up there, and lived there again after school for
a year or two)
And now I live in - Lincoln park, NJ.
**** begin boring shit ****
This place has nothing to do with the band by the same name. rather,
it's the part of NJ that's on TV every time it rains.
About 4 years ago, I dumped my then job, which sucked royally, to get a
new job. Current job is doing controls and instrumentation for water
and poop plants. The company I work for is small (15 folks), but has
stuff everywhere. if you've shitted in NYC, we had something to do with
it. If you've drunk the water in Toms River or Brick, we had something
to do with that, too. Actually, our stuff's everywhere. For the
technically inclined - we're mostly a GE-Fanuc shop, though we've got a
lot of Allen-Bradley, Modicon, Bristol, and Siemens experience. We also
vend pumps and chemical injection and all that other good stuff.
My current big project is sorting out Toms River's water controls.
This beats the pants off of elevator crap (really, it does). I get to
see new/different stuff all the time. Since I have no sense of smell
really, poop plants don't bother me (though I've yet to get soaked in
poop, which means I'm not an 'official' employee yet..)
**** end boring shit ****
Ok, anyway, the current ride is a '99 FXDWG that I've had since....'99.
The motor's been punched to 95 inches, it's got Hillside heads, a TW9BG,
S&S E with Thunderjet, Jims rollers, S&S lifters, Axtell pistons (which
actually wear out the jugs faster than the pistons wear). It hauls ass
nicely to about 105 - 110, at which point it's a bit out of pep. I did
find out last fall that it *will* pin the speedo, though, just gotta
give it 20 secs or so once you get over 105...
Oh, it'll got 108 uphill, fully loaded ;) Seriously, it eats hills up
for some reason I could never figure out.
The paint is a custom done by Rolling Thunder Çycles (Long Island) then
in house painter dude. Traditional flame job - I had to actually talk
him into it, but it's a really fucking nice one. Seat's a Mustang
flamed one with the flames matching the paint (yay for advanced material
samples!)
I'm thinking of building a barhopper / fast bike, and leaving the WG for
longer distances / more relaxed riding (relative - the thing's fast
enough to get you into trouble real fast). Basic requirements as of now
are:
* Solo seat.
* Stability to at least 125mph.
* 117 inch motor.
* 220 - 240ish rear.
* 6 speed (Baker).
* Forward controls.
Something that makes getting arrested really easy ;)
Things I've noticed about NJ:
* Panhead lives right near one of my customers
* State Troopers can't drive.
* Taxes are obscene.
* Dick Cody acts like a govorner a lot.
* Nobody caught on after McGreevy rebuilt 1/2 the rest stops on the GSP?
* NJ Transit sucks enough that it's employees don't even use it...
Um, ok, that's out of the way, I guess...