Way Way Off Topic / Members Only Section

[Horton]

I believe the strength of BallOfSpray is largely that I keep the conversation focused. Historically threads that were really not about water skiing have been strongly discouraged.

 

It has also occurred that we are all part of a network. Why not have skiers talk about making beer or riding road bikes or BBQ Grills?

 

So feel free to go way way off topic here. As before, please no politics or religion. If it feels like this section is taking away from the water ski conversation I will end it.

[Nando]

Get guys going on grills or beer and you're venturing close to religion- or at least cults...

[Skoot1123]

I have a BMW for sale if anyone is interested.

[Horton]

@Skoot1123 Don't tell @jdarwin

 

[BraceMaker]

@Skoot1123 bimmer or Beemer

[lakeaustinskier]

@horton great idea! More focused on skiing during ski season and less focused during the winter. Gives me a reason to visit the site and make your advertisers happy. For the Ballers in the Southern Hemisphere..........I don't know what to do for you.

[Horton]

@lakeaustinskier No No the site is really about skiing all year round. You will notice that you can not see this section until you log in. I do not want the site over run with bike talk or gun talk.

[DonT]

when the water is of the solid variety here in utah, I still live vicariously through those that can still ski and tell/brag about it.

 

[thager]

I think I will go hunting on my bicycle while drinking beer and dreaming of running short-line behind a BMW powered towboat on a new ski given to me by @Horton. Yeah, that could happen.........

[Horton]

I should have named this section Thangerville

[JBB]

@DonT - When the water is of the solid variety, I continue to search for it. I look specifically for it in the crystalline form on steep mountains :smiley:

[Wish]

What if the guns and skiing are somehow related?

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[thager]

Yeah Baby!!!

[Horton]

@wish meh.

[A_B]

@Wish anti-Muskrat WMD?

[Bruce_Butterfield]

@Wish, Is that the best you got? I'll call the 50 cal and raise a minigun.

 

 

[Skoot1123]

@BraceMaker - it is a Bimmer. A 2006 6spd manual. Let me know if you want more details and I can PM you.

[Wish]

@Bruce_Butterfield does she ski?

[eleeski]

I put a BMW 2002 engine in a Ski Nautique years ago. Blinker didn't work.

 

Eric

[skialex]

Serviced my bike last Saturday, weather is really bad for waterskiing right now

[walleye]

@Thager u are hilarious

[Keith_Menard]

@Bruce_Butterfield That could be useful for keeping wave runners off public lakes. Thankfully marijuana keeps the wakeboarders from waking up too early :)

[BraceMaker]

@Skoot1123 so 3 grand? I'm actually on the last legs of my 99 e46. But next vehicle won't be a sedan. If your 2006 is a touring wagon....

[thager]

@walleye Sometimes even a blind pilot finds the runway!

[Booze]

@skialex - MMM, Honda CR, I'm jealous

Maybe if I had 4 less skis and 5 less Datsun Z's I could spring for a XR or CRF.

I wonder if @LLUSA would let me build a track around the back 40?

 

 

[h2onhk]

most of my winters consist of home projects and wood working. Have been slowly putting my shop together over the last several years. i have some modern equipment but I really like the older nostalgic machines. Great conversation pieces, but also completely functional and built like tanks. Last month I picked up a rare 1945ish Moak Machinery 6" jointer from my father in law and restored it. Still had the original motor and all. Next on my list is a vintage planer.

[MrJones]

What not just have and "off topic" section. Seems common on other forums.

[Horton]

Yea we already have an off-topic section but it seems like sometimes I don't ask questions that are like way way way way off topic. Way way way off topic is a subsection of off topic. On the other hand I don't want it to become the bread and butter of this forum.

 

 

[Skoot1123]

@jdarwin 2006 6spd M with sport package and cold weather package. Silver exterior and black interior with silver accents. Let me know if your interested.

[skialex]

@Booze this is a 2 stroke CR 500, I had 2 CR 250, 3 CR 500, a 250 and 650 XR AND A 450 CRF.

I think the CR500 is the most fun of all and the most powerful Honda MX, that's why I kept it and still riding it few times every year, in the off season and only when waterskiing is not an option.

It is fun when younger rider hear the sound of this bike, it's terrifying :)

[Bdecker]

@BraceMaker - https://goo.gl/uYGWCR awesome spec for a wagon. Sure to drive you absolutely insane with CEL’s. Must be just about the last proper manual offered in a 5-series xi wagon in the US.

[BraceMaker]

@Bdecker I have an absurd ability to work with BMW CEL issues - current car is on the 3rd throttle body and it got a wiring harness as part of the deal.

[Bdecker]

My last BMW CEL adventure was my wife’s 2011 335d. That one was not for the faint of heart. Great handling car but I don’t miss it a bit.

[DW]

@Horton : are you doing this to lament about #88 going in to retirement or Alonso's chances at a WDC next year?

 

@Skoot1123 - more details?

[Skoot1123]

@DW it is a 2006 325i 6spd mnl with 128k miles. Drives like a dream. Tires are only 1.5 yrs old, clutch was replaced 4 yrs ago, brakes replaced all around last spring, replaced front control arms, radio display was replaced, and I am replacing the valve cover gasket/oil filter housing gasket, oil change today. I also have winter tires for it, if interested.

[6balls]

What a change...just a few weeks ago I got a triple panda for asking about a surf wake! I think what I will do is now take credit for @horton's change of heart :wink:

[skialex]

Tomorrow is the finals of the figure skating Grand Prix in France, if anyone is interested B)