Post a Pic in Your 20's...Your Prime! :)

Inept said:
I love the sound and response of a properly-tuned 4-cylinder Honda.
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These newer ones have fuel injection so you do have to worry about synchronizing four carbs. And it's nice and quiet. Sounds like a sewing machine which I like because I don't want to be "that guy" who the neighbors all hate because of my loud motorcycle. Two things I don't like about it, one is that it is a 6 speed. I prefer 5. There's no need for 6. Just space the gears out wider and give me 5. This bike has plenty of torque and it's all there from 2,000 RPMs and up. No need to be doing a lot of reving and shifting.

The other thing is that it's got a built in limiter at 180 KM/Hr. That's 112 mph. Not that I have ever had it up that high. But this bike has enough power to hit 130 mph if it were not for that limiter and that bothers me.
 

Trade said:
These newer ones have fuel injection so you do have to worry about synchronizing four carbs. And it's nice and quiet. Sounds like a sewing machine which I like because I don't want to be "that guy" who the neighbors all hate because of my loud motorcycle. Two things I don't like about it, one is that it is a 6 speed. I prefer 5. There's no need for 6. Just space the gears out wider and give me 5. This bike has plenty of torque and it's all there from 2,000 RPMs and up. No need to be doing a lot of reving and shifting.

The other thing is that it's got a built in limiter at 180 KM/Hr. That's 112 mph. Not that I have ever had it up that high. But this bike has enough power to hit 130 mph if it were not for that limiter and that bothers me.
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The max allowed speed limit is 110 km on our motorways anyway.
 
Trade said:
Around here people don't even treat the speed limits as a suggestion. The speed limit on I-10 here in Mobile is 65. But if you want to keep up with the flow of traffic you need to be at 80. That's in the right and center lanes. In the fast lane the average is 90.
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The police don't give a d... da... dam ....... darn?
 
Eupher said:
I was probably 30 or 31 in this pic, but it's close enough to my 20s to count, right?

A field exercise somewhere in West Berlin - probably 1987. A local mini-mart had a "buy one, get one free" sale going on for M16A2 rifles. I snagged a few of them. It wasn't easy moving that shopping cart through the muck, but somehow I managed.

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And I thought those films of Nazis on motorcycles in the mud during the assault of Stalingrad were tough!
 
Inept said:
E-5 in your twenties?
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Dude, I dodged the draft for as long as I could. But when I graduated from college and my student deferment ran out my draft board was on my ass like white on rice so I enlisted in the Air Force at the age of almost 23. So making E-5 in my first and only term of enlistment wasn't half bad. Especially considering they put me in a job I hated (Medic).
 
Inept said:
E-5 in your twenties?
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Trade said:
Dude, I dodged the draft for as long as I could. But when I graduated from college and my student deferment ran out my draft board was on my ass like white on rice so Especially considering they put me in a job I hated (Medic).
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"Half bad"? Cripes! Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I should have rephrased my comment to, "You managed to get promoted to E-5 and you were only in your twenties?" So, "half bad"? Holy moley, that was pretty good!
 
Inept said:
"Half bad"? Cripes! Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I should have rephrased my comment to, "You managed to get promoted to E-5 and you were only in your twenties?" So, "half bad"? Holy moley, that was pretty good!
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Sorry, I thought you meant it the other way.

It took me 3 years and 5 months to make E-5.

This dude Titus, with the monkey on his shoulder, made it in a little under 3 years.

But then this moron Witzack, waving his hat, was still an E-5 after 19 years.


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The first one is me at age 23 as a medic on the Internal Medicine Ward at Cam Rahn Bay.

The second one is me also age 23 in our Hooch at Cam Rahn Bay. Damn. I think I was weighing about 180 or 185 then. Wish I could get back to that weight.

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Trade said:
That's why I opted for 4 years in the Air Force in lieu of the 2 years of the draft. Less chance of coming home in a body bag. Truth be known I still feel guilty about that.
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Never feel guilty. If I'd have been a little wiser, I'd have never enlisted in the Army. It left me half a bubble off plumb. :( (hind sight really is 20-20).
 
Trade said:
Dude, I dodged the draft for as long as I could. But when I graduated from college and my student deferment ran out my draft board was on my ass like white on rice so I enlisted in the Air Force at the age of almost 23. So making E-5 in my first and only term of enlistment wasn't half bad. Especially considering they put me in a job I hated (Medic).
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Medic is a HARD job especially if you didn't like it. I met a guy, and E-9 during Desert Storm who was a medic on Vietnam, we exchanged experiences, etc...some of what he saw was tragic to say the least.
 
Trade said:
Around here people don't even treat the speed limits as a suggestion. The speed limit on I-10 here in Mobile is 65. But if you want to keep up with the flow of traffic you need to be at 80. That's in the right and center lanes. In the fast lane the average is 90.
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Howdy, neighbor! I'm in the Gulfport/Biloxi area, the wife is from Mobile. I've driven that Interstate many times, and you're right about the speeding. If you drive the speed limit, you'd better get outta the way...:eek: I used to be a speeder too, but have finally slowed down in my dotage. What's more of a hazard is the selfish so-and-sos who won't get out of the left lane, even if they're just doing the speed limit. That causes more chance taking and short fuses than anything else. All highways should have the rule, "keep right except to pass", or "slower traffic keep right".
 
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