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  1. Gnarly Cranium

    Speaking my truth after a long silence.

    Yesterday at Folsom, I had the chance to talk to Nemo Brinker, who expressed to me some concern over my long silence here on BARF. It is true that riders here sometimes go silent because they've had some kind of accident that never gets posted about, and I cringe at the idea of leaving anyone in...
  2. Gnarly Cranium

    Securing 8x 6' poles to a Ninja 650?

    I have a construction project here at home, and I'm looking into picking some stuff up from like Home Depot. A total of 8 poles, 6 of em 2" in diameter, two more like 3". Bamboo, if I can find it-- that, or some 2x2s and some larger pipe. But I've never attached something like this to my bike...
  3. Gnarly Cranium

    Why do incompetent, crazy a-holes end up in management?

    A good friend of mine has been working in a restaurant for a crazy, crazy bitch for a couple of months now. The health inspector is descending on the place due to some reports against crazy bitch, and as the crazy bitch's favorite scapegoat my friend is dealing with a lot of the fallout. When...
  4. Gnarly Cranium

    Help! I am running out of good RTS games...

    Dammit when does the next expansion to Starcraft 2 come out?? I'm big on RTS games, but between Warcraft/Starcraft updates I always find myself lost in a depressing wasteland. I keep trying other games and ending up disappointed and it's starting to get to me, as these can be expensive...
  5. Gnarly Cranium

    Deadliest Catch

    Finally got around to watching this one, and got pretty thoroughly hooked. The dudes really remind me of barfers! I was not expecting that. If anything though, they're about 10x as dysfunctional and insane. I sorta want to hang out with them. :p I don't even eat crab, I can't afford the stuff...
  6. Gnarly Cranium

    Good martial arts / self-defense class?

    I miss my old class! I'm out of shape now, and I've been trying to go to the gym to get back to the point where I can start martial arts again without passing out, but it's very slow going. It's just tough to get motivated alone, doing lame repetitive crap and not learning anything along the...
  7. Gnarly Cranium

    Just saw a motocop TOW another bike

    :wow I... didn't realize that was actually possible. I have seen videos of people trying to tow motorcycles with other vehicles, and it always ends BADLY. I was on my way home, and approaching the exit off the bridge to Treasure Island, my lane of traffic suddenly slows to a crawl. Headed down...
  8. Gnarly Cranium

    Arrr matey, thar be parrots in here

    Car hit a tree on Embarcadero. Nest full of wild parrots fall down go boom. Main rehabber for the local conures was out of town for the weekend, so my roomie ended up with the 2 survivors for a couple days till the rehabber gets back tomorrow morning. One (all green) had a broken leg +...
  9. Gnarly Cranium

    Ever closed a car's gas door thingie while splitting?

    I have. Twice. I feel like a cleaner fish picking at something on a shark. :laughing First guy thought it was hilarious. Not sure that the second one ever realized I was there. I am oddly proud of myself. :cool
  10. Gnarly Cranium

    Pluto is farting on me, and I'm thinking of getting an alarm

    Somebody let the air out of my back tire tonight while I was at work. There is apparently some kind of nasty astrological bullshit thing going on, and I'm starting to wonder if I should just stay indoors till it blows over. A couple days ago, my exhaust can broke loose from my engine. When I...
  11. Gnarly Cranium

    Bike theft + ace of spades? What's with that?

    A friend of mine just got up in the morning to find his bike totally mutilated. 1990ish CB1, down on the ground, chain gone, battery gone, seat torn off, all sorts of parts missing. He stands it back up, goes to work, comes back-- to find the bike GONE, with both locks (some kind of U-lock I...
  12. Gnarly Cranium

    Interesting thoughts, moto vs flying...

    I was poking randomly around the internet and on this page came across a post I found very interesting to read, figured you guys might dig it... The points about training are interesting, and not a way I'd thought about it before. I especially like the bit about how the plane wants to fly...
  13. Gnarly Cranium

    1984 cb650sc Honda Nighthawk (engine is kaput)

    This was my first bike, and pretty trusty up until the engine sortof imploded. :cry Current theory is that the cam chain probably jumped a few teeth, and she will never run again. If you happen to have an engine laying around, or you need older Nighthawk parts, this bike may do you some good...
  14. Gnarly Cranium

    Tips for fighting the scourge of salty coastal fog?

    I live on Treasure Island, and I have a carport but no garage. I'm about to bring home a pretty new bike (probably a Ninja 650r), which is actually still shiny. How can I try to keep it that way, as much as I can? Do I just douse the whole bike with WD-40 every day, or what? I know this issue...
  15. Gnarly Cranium

    How long does it take to adjust to an unfamiliar bike?

    My Nighthawk died a while ago and I'm on the eve of acquiring a new(er) bike. The last time I rode someone else's bike, I lasted about 1.5min before flopping over at a stop sign like an idiot. Granted that was quite a while ago, but that DR650 was the first bike I started practicing on, I...
  16. Gnarly Cranium

    Piercings!

    Is it just me, or is the sink specifically excluded from the forum's search function? There's probably some previous threads on this subject but I cain't find em so blah. I just got my first piercing-- 18g earlobes, the most basic. Went to Body Manipulations in the mission to have it done...
  17. Gnarly Cranium

    Runaway semi catastrophe in LA?

    Okay, there's no motos involved as far as I know (sure hope not!) but I was randomly poking at the CHP feed looking for any mention of an incident from a thread in General, and I came across this. Just... wow. Anybody seen mention of this one on the news? Not coming up with anything from a...
  18. Gnarly Cranium

    Need to replace my jacket liner...

    I managed to lose the insulated liner for my leather jacket. It's from the same company that makes draggin jeans, a women's Barracuda in large, and it's the most bestest jacket ever!! I tried on everything at Cycle Gear and Scuderia and Road Rider and couldn't find ANY jackets that fit me...
  19. Gnarly Cranium

    Warning about the lights at Broadway and Columbus

    I just got my first moving violation in North Beach a couple days ago: ticketed (by a motorcop, which is somehow more embarrassing) for running a red light, turning right onto Broadway westbound from Columbus southbound. I was aghast-- I had my eyes on that light, I was waiting for it, it was...
  20. Gnarly Cranium

    Bike down on Treasure Island

    I was just arriving back home from a trip to Santa Cruz, got to TI at about 1am 1:30 something like that. Just after getting off the bridge, on that big sweeping righthand corner over the shoulder of Yerba Buena, in the downhill lane there were several police cruisers, an array of red flares...
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