The FSSNOC HISTORY PAGE
FSSNOC - since 1986! (Scroll down for comments on photo)
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Yah, I know ... this post was on last week. Keep reading, it's been refreshed!
FEW THINGS IN LIFE HOLD MYSTERY EQUAL TO A TAPED BOX AT YOUR FRONT DOOR (was above last week) - now this box is in my shed...
Anyone recognize the shape, tape-style, etc to give a clue? You, Sherlock, what say you?
Dick Tracy, you have an idea?
Columbo, you or do you want to think about it? What? Do I have a toothpick?
Okay, you Nancy Drew, can you draw any conclusions? Marlowe, if I lived in L.A, would you come knocking?
And for us old timers, how about you, Sam Spade?
Email me at: FSSNOCthumpers@yahoo.com
LATER THAT SAME DAY:
"DING" 4:26PM.
"DING" 4:26.50PM
"YOUR BOX ON THE CLUB HISTORY PAGE IS YOUR SARGENT SEAT!!"
"MINE CAME IN A BOX EXACTLY LIKE THAT, TAPED THE SAME WAY!!!!
...STAN, #4856 - KANSAS
BOOM! Stan is right! Stan, come to P.J.'s in Little River, this week's Moto-Coffee, I'll buy your lunch - you win!
( Oh wait, too late, darn, that was earlier today ... and I was really feeling generous, too! Oh, well... - #000. )
P.S. I mounted my new seat from Sargent on my Royal Enfield Classic 350 deluxe. I'll plan to do a report on that saddle after I get a few miles on it...
What? The box? No, Stan, you can't have it - it went into the re-cycle bin and they picked it up Tuesday morning. Sorry... #000
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It's coming in Thumper News #151 (see photo above of a very nicely prepped road-going Suzuki DR650) - TN151 is arriving in a mailbox near you just in time to tell us all about our next event:
THE FEARLESS AND FAITHFUL FSSNOC REUNION
JUNE 21, 2023 - BE THERE TO WELCOME THE SUMMER SEASON WHILE IN THE COMPANY OF YOUR FELLOW FSSNOC MEMBERS ... held smackdab in the middle of the USA!
Come Meet, Greet, and Eat with members from throughout our own United States of America.
It matters not if I've only joined this group this year,
It matters not if I've never attended a "Single" club event,
It matters not if I don't know anyone in the club,
It matters not what conveyance I choose to arrive in or on,
It matters not where I live,
It matters not...
It only matters that if I am a FSSNOC club member, I should definitely consider attending this reunion event ... stay tuned!
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A LITTLE OF OUR OWN HISTORY ... CHECK IT OUT, RUNS AN HOUR AND MAYBE A BIT MORE, MIGHT TAKE THE PLACE OF SOME BAD TV, EH? - #000
A THUMPER RIDER'S PODCAST ...
To view the podcast ... CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZb4CgjfmEk
The podcast above was generated by Janus Motorcycles in Goshen, Indiana. EP.#1 ... In this podcast, FSSNOC #000 (Jack) is the guest being interviewed by Richard and Grant from JANUS MOTORCYCLES.
Play/View time is a tick over an hour so some popcorn might be nice, I like the chocolate drizzle kind, btw. Formal wear (FSSNOC club t-shirts, cap, etc...) adds to the mood, but not mandatory. Contact your friends, invite them in, share as you like. No cheat sheets, no prompt boards, no prior discussion and no Thumpers hurt in the making of this podcast.
574-538-1350 JANUSMOTORCYCLES.COM
And, this podcast is for entertainment only...
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Of late, I've been reading a book...
No ... it's not a road atlas, it's not a service manual, it's not a new motorcycle brochure or a motorcycle auction flyer...
It's titled: MOTORCYCLE ADVENTURER,
a paperback book by Carl Stearns Clancy,
I'm gonna say it this way: As I understand it, this work has been compiled, edited, and published a few years back by Dr. Gregory W. Frazier (who happens to be a fellow FSSNOC member and was at the Iowa event in August of 2022!) An amazingly interesting gentleman, for sure...
Anyway, I find the book to be a unique read and I am ENJOYING it! Carl writes of his trip on his 1912 Henderson 4-cylinder motorcycle and most of the content, if not all, was written on the actual trip back in 1912-13 ... the FIRST MOTORCYCLIST TO RIDE AROUND THE WORLD 1912-1913
I may not get it written exactly as in the book but here are a few words to give an idea of the content, etc: (see photo above)
From today's read:
A tour of the world that did not include Italy would be like a visit to Washington and not seeing the Capital ... architectural wonders of great antiquity and absorbing interest, of beautiful lakes and valleys flooded with somnolent sunlight or bathed with a poetic moon; or a dream of a land of love, romance, and beauty - perhaps the most interesting, picturesque and historical of all the countries of the globe.
Under a sub-title of POMPEII NINETEEN CENTURIES AGO:
Here I found a crystalized bunch of grapes, a charred plate of English walnuts ready to serve, a half-baked loaf of bread, bowls of rice and similar grains, and many other eatables - all carbonized into immortality, and each with its own story of the end of the world.
And on down a few pages:
It was with mingled and deep emotions that I finally returned from this city of death into life and civilization again, so hard was it to realize that nearly 2000 years have come and gone (This was stated back in 1912, a 110 years ago! - #000) since these same streets and homes teemed with life. Like one from a dream, I had to shake myself to awaken to twentieth century atmosphere again. What, I asked myself, will New York be like 2000 years from now?
I, like Carl Stearns Clancy of 1912, have to shake myself repeatedly as I read this account. It reads like it is current 2000 era stuff; he even uses words like "modern" and "cosmopolitan" and then he writes of riding in a taximeter (taxi) across the city for 4 cents!
The photo above: When I shared with wife Carrie that I was reading about a visit to Pompeii that was written 110 years ago, she showed me on her phone almost the same photos as described by Carl, her's taken in 2012 and in color and with "modern-plus" tourists, though the building remnants and Mt. Vesuvius look much the same.
Geeesh! ... I might have become a History Teacher if I would have had this book to read back in my school daze! Yup! - #000.