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With the benefit of cheap tickets from NWA I "ran down" to help Dwight with a project and just to experience warm in Arizona for a couple of days. First thing I got to enjoy? Shoveling snow! Yea, seems I can't ever get away from the white stuff! Yesterday Dwight drove us up to Sedona for a nice ride in the truck. We were chugging through the mountains between Prescott and Jerome, a road with intense twisties and hairpin curves and shoulders that drop off into nothingness. All of a sudden I hear a V-Twin bark and see the stretched forks of a chopper as it shoots past us on a blind corner, right into a tight turn! Now even a novice rider could see this was not going to be the wisest choice this guy made this particular morning! In attempt to get out of the opposing lane of traffic on this two lane mountain road, the old boy leans into it in a futile effort to now navigate the corner only to encounter the residual lose gravel from the winters accumulation. He lays into it hard and heading right for the guard rail the narrow front wheel of this chopper yields its grip on the road and the bike and rider go down, and spin out right in front of us. The guy flops on the road and we pull off to a shoulder that Dwight had been going to yield for the guy had he been just a little patient. We get out and see if the fellow is OK, he say's, "Well that wasn't very smart." Well here is where our very own Dwight goes into a on the spot commentary with this fellow. If you think for a moment our friend on the site here is any different in person than he is here on the board, let me tell you, he is not. The first thing Dwight says, "What were you thinking?!?! You Harley guy's, don't you know that you don't pass a truck with a Triumph sticker in the window!?!" No, Dwight did not give the guy one bit of leeway for this blatant act of ignorant..no I'll say it, stupidity! Now this fellow looks as though he was 60 or a very abused 50 year old biker. Dwight says again, "What were you thinking? You have to have been riding as long as I have and that was just stupid!" The guy was a but humbled and we helped him pick his bike up and get it off the road and remove the primary case from the bike as it was peeled up. Clutch was damaged but the guy decides he can drive it back home. He thanked us after we helped him on his way. One thing I'll give Dwight, you don't have to wonder what he is thinking! 
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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What? I found him quite reserved and measured. You're saying he's a regular Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Blowhard? 
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With the benefit of cheap tickets from NWA I "ran down" to help Dwight with a project and just to experience warm in Arizona for a couple of days. First thing I got to enjoy? Shoveling snow!
Sounds more like Tom Sawyer than Dwight to me.
Chucklehead driving a v-twin, now there's a new one 
jh
"It's not what I say that's important, it's what you hear" Red Auerbach
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At least he was riding, not driving a truck!!!
I wonder where he left his trailer??? 
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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"With the benefit of cheap tickets from NWA". Eddy, I presume that NWA is an airline and not the 80's rap group with Dr Dre or a combination of both.  I can see Dre as a flight steward skipping down the aisles. "yo wan sum ice t mo fo?" Sorry, I've had rather a slow and boring day.
Before the war on terror, if I saw an unattended package I used to think "I'll be having that!"
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Isn't Dre the only one still alive from NWA?
Always remember to be yourself. Unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.
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At least he was riding, not driving a truck!!!
I wonder where he left his trailer???
Hmmmmm...and here GB, I was half expectin' you to ask me if my truck might be a Dodge Ram with a Cummins Diesel, you dern Mopar fanatic you!!! 
(and nope...if you're wonderin', it's a Chevy Silverado, dude!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Isn't Dre the only one still alive from NWA?
Well, other than that recent head cold I had, THIS old retired former NWA employee is still alive and kickin', Dave ol' boy!!! 
(BTW...I WAS about to quote Mark Twain's famous old line about HIS premature death notice in the newpapers here too, but I figured THAT'S been done to death....so to speak) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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The first thing Dwight says, "What were you thinking?!?! You Harley guy's, don't you know that you don't pass a truck with a Triumph sticker in the window!?!"
That's the best line ever!! I've driven that road out of the canyon and I'd have to agree.
George
Freelance Observer
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All right. That does it. I'm getting a Triumph sticker for the back window of my wifes Chevy Silverado! I've never been into stickers, but this story just changed my thinking!
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All right. That does it. I'm getting a Triumph sticker for the back window of my wifes Chevy Silverado! I've never been into stickers, but this story just changed my thinking!
Wife's truck....
Al
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The first thing Dwight says, "What were you thinking?!?! You Harley guy's, don't you know that you don't pass a truck with a Triumph sticker in the window!?!"
That's the best line ever!!
Dwight...
I have often thought of myself as a pretty good smart @ss and have had my fair share of one liners and quips...but that line...that line in THAT situation...YOU are the man!
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How many people that have Harley stickers actually own a Harley? Sure are a lot out there. 
My dream may be your nightmare.
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Haha that's awesome! I'm getting a triumph sticker for the Volvo!
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Should be Riding
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I have Triumph stickers on the back window of all my vehicles, I hope to get some friends someday...
Always remember to be yourself. Unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.
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As soon as you said "chopper" on that road, I knew how it would turn out. Knowing that road, and Dwight, I'm not the least bit surprised by any of the story . Zdenko, you must come to SWTF
Contra todo mal, mezcal; contra todo bien, también
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Now that's funny.  Glad he didn't go over the cliff.
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I couldnt resist when i read this...
"seems I can't ever get away from the white stuff!"
Is that why they call you "fast eddy?"
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Donny's got all you guys beat. He has a Triumph Sticker on the left and Harley sticker on the right back window of his Dodge Ram p'up.  But he would not pull a stunt like that on his Harley. 
"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
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next time your in Arizona, give me a holler, it has been in the mid 80's last few days and been riding with a huge smile on my face 
SANDIE
07 AMERICA pacific blue/new england white . exhaust w/ slant cut pipes, floor boards with heel/ toe shift
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been at work for three months,thats the funniest thing I've herd,thanks Eddy got any more?
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Folks, I don't care who you are that was funny!
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