How did you come by your Forum "handle"?

In about Jan 1992, I bought a 68 Dunstall Atlas. In July of 1992 I was Registrar of the INOA rally in Gunstock NH.
A local guy brought a dyno to our rally for norton dyno runs. I was keenly aware of dyno's and offered to be his "norton" assistant and help the hook-up process.
After the rally I got inspired to try and "test" my Dunstall for "truth" in measurement rather than sloppy bar room bragging.
In the fall of 92, I found a hydraulic "brake" in Craigs list in Ware, Mass for $1500. The guy raced a Hyabusa or Suzucki that the HP far exceeded 100HP and additionally far outgrew the length of the dyno.
As I would almost always be doing air cooled engines, I knew an inertia dyno was out of the question as it did not provide for heat soak....
Never did test the Dunstall atlas as I fully now know it is not even close to combat commando specs. It was high compression but otherwise IMO a very mild build.
A few years later with the internet I started using dynodave and my close friends fully understood and approved.
 
When I was married some of the comics (read mates) started calling me Edburt. It didn't take much to figure out they were saying my situation was as Edburt in the Bugs Bunny cartoons. (I will leave the situation to your imaginations)
Needless to say that nick lasted longer than the situation .
 
Bought the first one to come into a dealer near me, in 1986.

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My first post, so first let me say thank you to the community and admins for opening the door to me. My son, who graduated High School this year and has decided to defer college until the fall of 2021, picks up his first bike on Thursday - a '73 Norton 850 Commando. It's a little rough around the edges and will need some parts replaced, but it's mostly complete - it looks like the only part missing is the left side battery cover. Looking forward to digging into it and doing a ground up rebuild with the kid.

As for my forum handle...it's the same that I use for most of my other forums as well. I'm a Dead Head and though I'm not Jewish myself, my wife and my son who are jewish, say i'm Jew-ish. My wife makes a fantastic challah that I can't get enough of, so hence the forum name BluesforChallah. ;)
 
Bluesforchallah said:
My first post, so first let me say thank you to the community and admins for opening the door to me. My son, who graduated High School this year and has decided to defer college until the fall of 2021, picks up his first bike on Thursday - a '73 Norton 850 Commando. It's a little rough around the edges and will need some parts replaced, but it's mostly complete - it looks like the only part missing is the left side battery cover. Looking forward to digging into it and doing a ground up rebuild with the kid.

As for my forum handle...it's the same that I use for most of my other forums as well. I'm a Dead Head and though I'm not Jewish myself, my wife and my son who are jewish, say i'm Jew-ish. My wife makes a fantastic challah that I can't get enough of, so hence the forum name BluesforChallah. ;)
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Oy Vay!
 
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