Mellow
06-03-2010, 06:05 AM
http://www.st-owners.com/forums/picture.php?pictureid=16841&albumid=12&dl=1275566072&thumb=1 David, is one of those members that
always has great advice and has
always tried to be helpful to
other members...
Please congratulate him for being the
May 2010 Member Of The Month.
From David himself:
Well as others mentioned, I was minding my own business when my phone alerts me that I have a new email. I take a quick glance and see I have a new PM. So I launch ST-Owners expecting to read a response to one of the 4 PMs I had sent off today. Hmm, I think to myself, Mellow sent something. Well, I haven’t started any new threads in the last couple days so I don’t think he moved one again. The subject is some strange acronym. “May MOTM” I am trying to decipher yet another new acronym for something. I kind of shrug my shoulders and open it up. To my shock I have been nominated for the Member of the Month.
When I first saw they were doing these awards I thought, “That would be cool to get some day.” I also figured that there are a lot of people here that post more than I do, so it probably wouldn’t happen. While I have been here for a few years, there are a lot of people that have been around a lot longer.
I have never made it to any of the big STOC events. While I would love to go, we have two young children and I save vacation time for doing things as a family. About the only thing I have done is made it to a couple RTEs and a MSF ERC course. I have met a few of the local members and it worked out to meet one member in Arizona when I was picking up my 1300. I guess I have hosted a couple mini TechSTOCs.
Over the years a few guys have been over to my place and I have helped them with syncing carbs or installing something here and there. It has never been anything big, just another member stopping by and wrenching on his bike so it was never advertised. Other than that I really only thought of myself as another one of the masses out here in cyber space reading about other’s adventures and handing out a virtual helping hand when we can.
I went back and reread some of the acceptance notes from other members since I have no idea what to write. So it seems like this is the point where most people go into their history of motorcycles. I am one of the guys out there that started young.
My first was a Honda Z50 when I was about 4 or 5. I know I was too small to touch the ground so I would push off with one foot and open it up. I would ride around with it wound out in 1st gear because I didn’t know how to shift. These were some of my earliest memories. Riding around on gravel, not the little gravel either mind you, but the big chunky kind. Later I moved up to the Honda XR100 when I was in 5th grade. This was my main ride down at the cabin in southern Minnesota through High School. I always kind of wish there was an odometer on it because I must have really racked up the miles on it. I rode it all over the place, lots of gravel roads and down in the ditches even in the snow without the help of studded tires. That being the last time I went down on a motorcycle, darn ice. After High School I went off to the military.
I thought about getting an XR650L at the time but got stationed in Germany. Since I didn’t have a motorcycle license it would have been a real hassle to get licensed without coming back here to get a US license first besides it was too hard to find storage and other things so I took a break from motorcycling for a while. To get me through I took up mountain biking. It got me out in the woods and helped maintain some of the core skills. After 6 years in Germany I came back to the US and went to college.
While going to school my father (STOC # 2480) decided to get back into motorcycling. He had a few when I was younger but never really rode them much. The bike he bought was the 1993 ST1100 that I have now. He rode it a few years but didn’t put much for miles on it. Then it sat for a couple years because he bought a Corvette and my mother wouldn’t ride on the ST but she would go for rides in the Corvette. At the time gas prices were going up and I had thought I would like to get another bike as I had a long commute so I asked if he was interested in selling it. It had a broken mirror from tipping it over in storage and needed a little TLC. Well he said if I fixed it up I could have it. I am thinking, sweet, free bike. So I fixed it up and got it back on the road. At the time I didn’t know much about the ST line but I have grown to love them. I had to laugh one fall when my father said to me that I could sell the ST and keep the money rather than leave it sit in my pole barn. I looked at him and said that I was still riding it and I had close to 5,000 miles on it at that point in time for season.
I think it was about 3 months ago that I started to get the itch for another bike. Nothing really wrong with the 1100, I wanted to add heated gear and while I could do the 40 Amp upgrade I also really liked the idea of a power windscreen and ABS. I was looking at the C14 but when I got on one it didn’t fit me as well as the ST1300. It was about a month and a half ago that I picked up my “new to me” ST1300 in Arizona and rode it home to Minnesota. So far I am very glad I made the purchase. However now I feel just like a noob all over. While I know the 1100 inside and out, the 1300 is a different animal and I am now learning a new bike.
Mellow also asked for a few pics. That is a little hard. Other than MN Tag photos of my bike, nothing really includes me since I haven’t done too many rides or events. Then I typically am the one running around on the other end of the camera as the “Family Photographer”. Oh well, here are a few shots that I dug up where someone either managed to pry the camera out of my hands, shots of the STs and a self portrait with my son.
http://www.st-owners.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=12&pictureid=16841
Kudos to Adam (SoloTotoCoyote) for the Caricature
always has great advice and has
always tried to be helpful to
other members...
Please congratulate him for being the
May 2010 Member Of The Month.
From David himself:
Well as others mentioned, I was minding my own business when my phone alerts me that I have a new email. I take a quick glance and see I have a new PM. So I launch ST-Owners expecting to read a response to one of the 4 PMs I had sent off today. Hmm, I think to myself, Mellow sent something. Well, I haven’t started any new threads in the last couple days so I don’t think he moved one again. The subject is some strange acronym. “May MOTM” I am trying to decipher yet another new acronym for something. I kind of shrug my shoulders and open it up. To my shock I have been nominated for the Member of the Month.
When I first saw they were doing these awards I thought, “That would be cool to get some day.” I also figured that there are a lot of people here that post more than I do, so it probably wouldn’t happen. While I have been here for a few years, there are a lot of people that have been around a lot longer.
I have never made it to any of the big STOC events. While I would love to go, we have two young children and I save vacation time for doing things as a family. About the only thing I have done is made it to a couple RTEs and a MSF ERC course. I have met a few of the local members and it worked out to meet one member in Arizona when I was picking up my 1300. I guess I have hosted a couple mini TechSTOCs.
Over the years a few guys have been over to my place and I have helped them with syncing carbs or installing something here and there. It has never been anything big, just another member stopping by and wrenching on his bike so it was never advertised. Other than that I really only thought of myself as another one of the masses out here in cyber space reading about other’s adventures and handing out a virtual helping hand when we can.
I went back and reread some of the acceptance notes from other members since I have no idea what to write. So it seems like this is the point where most people go into their history of motorcycles. I am one of the guys out there that started young.
My first was a Honda Z50 when I was about 4 or 5. I know I was too small to touch the ground so I would push off with one foot and open it up. I would ride around with it wound out in 1st gear because I didn’t know how to shift. These were some of my earliest memories. Riding around on gravel, not the little gravel either mind you, but the big chunky kind. Later I moved up to the Honda XR100 when I was in 5th grade. This was my main ride down at the cabin in southern Minnesota through High School. I always kind of wish there was an odometer on it because I must have really racked up the miles on it. I rode it all over the place, lots of gravel roads and down in the ditches even in the snow without the help of studded tires. That being the last time I went down on a motorcycle, darn ice. After High School I went off to the military.
I thought about getting an XR650L at the time but got stationed in Germany. Since I didn’t have a motorcycle license it would have been a real hassle to get licensed without coming back here to get a US license first besides it was too hard to find storage and other things so I took a break from motorcycling for a while. To get me through I took up mountain biking. It got me out in the woods and helped maintain some of the core skills. After 6 years in Germany I came back to the US and went to college.
While going to school my father (STOC # 2480) decided to get back into motorcycling. He had a few when I was younger but never really rode them much. The bike he bought was the 1993 ST1100 that I have now. He rode it a few years but didn’t put much for miles on it. Then it sat for a couple years because he bought a Corvette and my mother wouldn’t ride on the ST but she would go for rides in the Corvette. At the time gas prices were going up and I had thought I would like to get another bike as I had a long commute so I asked if he was interested in selling it. It had a broken mirror from tipping it over in storage and needed a little TLC. Well he said if I fixed it up I could have it. I am thinking, sweet, free bike. So I fixed it up and got it back on the road. At the time I didn’t know much about the ST line but I have grown to love them. I had to laugh one fall when my father said to me that I could sell the ST and keep the money rather than leave it sit in my pole barn. I looked at him and said that I was still riding it and I had close to 5,000 miles on it at that point in time for season.
I think it was about 3 months ago that I started to get the itch for another bike. Nothing really wrong with the 1100, I wanted to add heated gear and while I could do the 40 Amp upgrade I also really liked the idea of a power windscreen and ABS. I was looking at the C14 but when I got on one it didn’t fit me as well as the ST1300. It was about a month and a half ago that I picked up my “new to me” ST1300 in Arizona and rode it home to Minnesota. So far I am very glad I made the purchase. However now I feel just like a noob all over. While I know the 1100 inside and out, the 1300 is a different animal and I am now learning a new bike.
Mellow also asked for a few pics. That is a little hard. Other than MN Tag photos of my bike, nothing really includes me since I haven’t done too many rides or events. Then I typically am the one running around on the other end of the camera as the “Family Photographer”. Oh well, here are a few shots that I dug up where someone either managed to pry the camera out of my hands, shots of the STs and a self portrait with my son.
http://www.st-owners.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=12&pictureid=16841
Kudos to Adam (SoloTotoCoyote) for the Caricature