simicrintz

I liked her before, and I like her even more now! I have a couple Jeeps (Jeepsters actually) as well, and bike, truck and Jeep people are some of the best on the planet! I love your "signature", bikeslut! I think the Dos Equis ads are some of the best ever, and your twist on them is awesome!

I'm sure I would fall in that 99%, Chris! I'll do the work, but I won't like it! I haven't been a newbie to a page for a long time (I am a Mod on another page-unrelated to bikes) and a Site Administrator/owner on another page (also unrelated). As I'm sure you know, after a while you get to know who people are and what they do. Starting out "green" like this means I have no idea who anyone is or what they are capable of! I guess I'll have to enjoy getting to learn who's here and who does what for as long as it lasts. Soon you'll all be people I "know"! I've been pretty busy, but I'm really looking forward to spending time here and exploring the site. So far it seems like a lot of nice folks.

Thank you again everyone for the comments/suggestions. I really do appreciate them and have always felt that a second set of eyes or another opinion is always valuable. I will keep my eyes peeled for the January 2012 meeting info. I would like to try and attend that, if possible. I may have to offer a "platform" to widen the footprint for truck use, or a board might work just fine, like bikeslut suggests (I'll get back to you on the address/testing offer!). And I agree with your concern about having the rear secured, Spyder (I kind of took it for granted that folks would do that, but I think adding to the site makes good sense. Thank you). Big bike chocks are coming next, but it will be a while yet. We would like to get through the holidays and desert season before moving on to the road bikes, so hang in there! The challenge of the dirt bikes was designing the load of the bike/wheel and distributing it across the footprint of the chock, as much as it was design. Once we had the perfect combination and angle to maximize the load, we could work on design. That will hold true with the bigger/heavier bikes as well. I can't believe that you guys let dirt dame have a truck with bad ball joints, and then give her grief on top of it! You all should be ashamed of yourselves I'm thinking we should form a work party and go take care of that for her! Thanks again for all of the comments and suggestions (and keep them coming)! We are making these here in the good ol' USA, so we want to make them the best we can and keep the jobs on our own soil! Input like this helps us to do the best we can!

Thanks guys. I didn't really design these for truck beds, but I am interested in seeing how well they would work in this application as well! The prototypes work well on my garage floor, and amazing on the floor of a toy hauler, but I've yet to try a truck bed. The foot is pretty wide, so there is the possibility that it could catch a couple ribs in a bed. I'd like to try it on a painted bed and a rhino lined bed. Only one way to find out, right?! When is this meeting that you speak of? I'd have to look at the schedule to see where I am and what I'm doing, but I would certainly attempt to make it. Getting some real world testing and questions makes for the ability to provide honest answers! My testing on toy haulers allows me to answer those questions easily, but you guys are taking it places I haven't gone yet! Just couldn't bear to drill into my toy hauler and had to design something better. Let's see if it works for expensive truck beds as well! Hopefully I can get the answers before anyone has to by a rigid mounted chock or drill their floor again!

Thanks for the welcome! This looks like a real friendly place; hope I can add to it! I'm hoping for lots of people with the Christmas list idea! I'm pretty sure I can provide free delivery in Escondido too! Thanks again for the welcome!

Looking forward to loosing the Noob tag ASAP But it does keep me humble! Thank you for the welcome, dsfox!

Long time dirt bike rider (since the late 70's). Started out on three wheelers (remember those?!) and graduated to an XR500 in the early 80's and never looked back. Spent time in Glamis, Plaster City/Superstition Mountain and for the last several years at Ocotillo. I am now on an '08 XR6550L that my wife bought me for my 50th birthday (yup, I'm old! I also have a great wife!). Just sold my XR400R (sad day) and my wife's CRF150, so my 650 is now the only bike in the garage. The wife and I have have done several 100+ mile trips in Arizona on the 650 when visiting her Dad (he's a biker too). Hard to have a bad day when you are on 2 wheels! I have been in the swimming pool industry for almost 20 years (we use a 40,000 gallon per day Reverse Osmosis system mounted in a trailer to purify swimming pool water), and I also own a company called Chock-Styx (which dirt dame/Mimi mentioned here, and is how I found this page)that makes motorcycle wheel chocks. I guess between swimming pools and motorcycles as "what I do" you could say I never really grew up! I like it that way! Happy to be here, and hope to learn (and contribute) a lot.

Oh yeah; 35 years riding and I get a "Total Noob" handle?! Wow, way to knock me back down to earth -Bruce

Hi All- My name is Bruce and I do own the wheel chocks (Chock Styx) that dirt dame (Mimi) mentioned. I wanted to thank Mimi for the mention (I do not know her, even though we both appear to live in the same town!). That was very cool and appreciated. I currently ride an '08 Honda XR650L, and have been a two wheel rider since the late 70's (I started out on three wheelers first but graduated to an XR500 in early 1980. Glamis was my first stomping ground, but I spend most of my two wheel dirt time (just recently sold my XR400R-sad day) at Ocotillo now). My wife rides as well (CRF150F most recently) and has spent many miles on the back of the 650 with me in Arizona (where her Dad lives part time), and we enjoy our two wheel time. I hope to contribute as well as learn some things on this page. I was unaware that it existed, so I am glad I found it. We have quite a big group that goes to Ocotillo and other areas quite often, so I will be mentioning this site to them as well. Thank you again for having me, and a big thank you to Mimi again for the mention! -Bruce