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ducati_EL34 said:
Well it is a lot less expensive to provide your own bike and equipment. I just don’t feel like pulling a trailer to VIR or B’ham.
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I pulled a 6x10’ trailer to Barber, NC Bike, Carolina Motorsports Park, VIR, NJMP, Monticello Motor Club, PittRace, Pocono Raceway, Mid Ohio, Grattan Raceway, Gimgerman, Autobahn Country Club and Road America, from 2005-2012 behind a Diesel Jeep Liberty, with 1-2 bikes, stands warmers, tools and catering gear for doing trackside Bbq & all the sides for 50-60 people. I also worked in AMA Pro Roadracing and Flattrack from 2011-2018. If I were to do it again, I’d probably do a fly and ride with Ken Hill or Yamaha Champions School- Ken is a former client and i know Nick Ienatsch and many of the YCRS staff. I still (barely) fit in my leathers.
 
Gigantic said:
I pulled a 6x10’ trailer to Barber, NC Bike, Carolina Motorsports Park, VIR, NJMP, Monticello Motor Club, PittRace, Pocono Raceway, Mid Ohio, Grattan Raceway, Gimgerman, Autobahn Country Club and Road America, from 2005-2012 behind a Diesel Jeep Liberty, with 1-2 bikes, stands warmers, tools and catering gear for doing trackside Bbq & all the sides for 50-60 people. I also worked in AMA Pro Roadracing and Flattrack from 2011-2018. If I were to do it again, I’d probably do a fly and ride with Ken Hill or Yamaha Champions School- Ken is a former client and i know Nick Ienatsch and many of the YCRS staff. I still (barely) fit in my leathers.
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I just hate driving with a trailer. I like my truck, but I like my GT or WRX much more for the driving experience.
 
GChief said:
Is that the same as a vinyls?
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Vinyl is a material from which phonograph records are made. It is not the phonograph records themselves. "Record" is just a common colloquialism for the music storage medium which is made out of a plastic material called vinyl and played on a phonograph or turntable. Since there is a plethora of media upon which to store music, the name of the material has become a stand-in for that particular music storage medium. So, a "vinyl" is an expression that means a "phonograph record".
 
egellings said:
Vinyl is a material from which phonograph records are made. It is not the phonograph records themselves. "Record" is just a common colloquialism for the music storage medium which is made out of a plastic material called vinyl and played on a phonograph or turntable. Since there is a plethora of media upon which to store music, the name of the material has become a stand-in for that particular music storage medium. So, a "vinyl" is an expression that means a "phonograph record".
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So the same then.

A yes would have been much easier :thumbsup:
 
egellings said:
I kept mine, and that night I ended up spending 2 hours listening to the lead-out groove on the last record I put on the turntable.
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I usually wore earbuds on my motorcycles, after I lost a chunk of hearing in my right from an unmuffled left cylinder in my xs 650.
 
egellings said:
Vinyl is a material from which phonograph records are made. It is not the phonograph records themselves. "Record" is just a common colloquialism for the music storage medium which is made out of a plastic material called vinyl and played on a phonograph or turntable. Since there is a plethora of media upon which to store music, the name of the material has become a stand-in for that particular music storage medium. So, a "vinyl" is an expression that means a "phonograph record".
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which makes "vinyls" plural!:rockon:
 
painttoad said:
i thought it was W east of the mississippi. K west of
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Well, true but I believe the real early ones were all east of the river.

OK, after a bit of research, the oldest station was KDKA in Pittsburgh and there has always been a mixture of W and K stations so forget about what I said about all early stations being W stations. There were both on either side of the Mississippi although later, generally the W stations were east of the river and K stations west of the river.

Doug
 
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Doug G. said:
Well, true but I believe the real early ones were all east of the river.

OK, after a bit of research, the oldest station was KDKA in Pittsburgh and there has always been a mixture of W and K stations so forget about what I said about all early stations being W stations. There were both on either side of the Mississippi although later, generally the W stations were east of the river and K stations west of the river.

Doug
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I wonder what it is about K and W that radio stations have one of them as the first letter in their call signs.
 
painttoad said:
i thought it was W east of the mississippi. K west of
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Generally true, but there are many exceptions: e.g. KDKA in Pittsburgh; WBAP in Fort Worth, Texas; WACO in Waco, Texas; WMT in Waterloo, Iowa.
One of the most recent examples is KTGG in Okemos, Michigan, a suburb of Lansing. It went on the air in 1980. Supposedly, a license processor at the FCC mistakenly thought Okemos, MI meant Missouri and assigned a K.
In 1912, at an international radiotelegraph conference, countries were assigned broadcast call letter prefixes. The United States was assigned four: K and W for commercial stations and N and A for military broadcasting. Canada was assigned C; Mexico got X.
The original K/W boundary in the U.S. ran north from the Texas/New Mexico border, along the eastern borders of Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. K was assigned to stations in the east and W for stations to the west.
This was reversed in January 1923 when the K/W divider was moved east to the Mississippi River. New stations west of the Miss River were assigned Ks and Ws east of the Miss River. However, existing stations, such as KDKA, were allowed to keep their now non-standard calls.
And Doug G is correct: WLS in Chicago never had a "D" in its call letters. It has always been the three-letter call WLS.
 
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All I know is I'm glad I don't have to listen to some of you guys arguing, over a loudspeaker. It's bad enough reading it.

:D

Doug
 
anytune said:
Generally true, but there are many exceptions: e.g. KDKA in Pittsburgh; WBAP in Fort Worth, Texas; WACO in Waco, Texas; WMT in Waterloo, Iowa.
One of the most recent examples is KTGG in Okemos, Michigan, a suburb of Lansing. It went on the air in 1980. Supposedly, a license processor at the FCC mistakenly thought Okemos, MI meant Missouri and assigned a K.
In 1912, at an international radiotelegraph conference, countries were assigned broadcast call letter prefixes. The United States was assigned four: K and W for commercial stations and N and A for military broadcasting. Canada was assigned C; Mexico got X.
The original K/W boundary in the U.S. ran north from the Texas/New Mexico border, along the eastern borders of Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. K stations were assigned to stations in the east and W stations to the west.
This was reversed in January 1923 when the K/W divider was moved east to the Mississippi River. New stations west of the Miss River were assigned Ks and Ws east of the Miss River. However, existing stations, such as KDKA, were allowed to keep their now non-standard calls.
And Doug G is correct: WLS in Chicago never had a "D" in its call letters. It has always been the three-letter call WLS.
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