WetLeather Lore

Lore of the group/community/family.

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Gooz

Gooz

Looking for DoD license plate frame (still)

Yes folks, I'm still looking for another Denizens of Doom license plate frame - these have been out of production for aeons...do you have one lying moribund on that old Spagthorpe in the garage? Premium price and/or bribes offered...

First!

Thanks for the new forum Carl!

I'll kick it off with a request for advice regarding the attached photo of my niece. The skin tone has a lot of grain, and I have noticed this on skin tones in many of my color photos with this camera. I'm not sure if the problem is cheap film, a crappy scanner, or what. Any suggestions?

Photo details -

Camera: Canonet QL17 GIII rangefinder

Film: Cheapo Kodak ASA 200

Negative scanned with: HP Scanjet 4850 flatbed


How To Roast A Goat 1995

By Martin Golding

Thanks to JZ and Mark's Meats, getting the goat was a painless process. Carol picked it up neatly dressed and ready for marinating Friday afternoon. Hanging weight was reported as 24 pounds.

[Live weight was 50 pounds even. I sell meat goats by offering to deliver them to a local reputable processor I know to be USDA inspected and humane. - JZ]

I used a Jamaican jerk dry rub on the hindquarters, and marinated the rest using a Cajun recipe we dug up. I covered it with plastic and tossed some ice bags on, and left it overnight. The spit-roasting technique was straight out of "Outdoor Cooking" from the Time/Life series of cookbooks. It called for 2 hours plus 4 minutes per pound, so Saturday at noon we started the charcoal.


Goat Roast 1996

How to REALLY Get Someone's Goat

by Leigh Ann Hussey


In the Beginning...

It began with an invitation:

Conveniently, I was already planning to be up that week, for the SCA 30-year celebration, and so me and two of my friends rode our bikes up in an attempt at the Iron Butt Association's Saddlesore 1000 (and if we ever get the paperwork in, maybe we'll know for sure if we made it, but that's another story for another time).


Team WetLeather

Team WetLeather started as a loose group of Wetleatherites going racing. The Team expanded, fundraising started, actual bucks began flowing in (and out). The Team has acquired some equipment necessary (and nice) for a race team. Case in point: the TWL awning and banner.
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Unfortunately, we've pretty much reached the limit of the number of bikes and riders we can reasonably accommodate and effectively lend support to in the Team. You can only do so much with limited resources, time, and energy.

The following charter contains guidelines that we hope will ensure the health of the Team. The Team has turned out to be a Good Thing™, and many of you have helped to make it happen.


Cafe Veloce' 1995

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Da Pope toasts Cheez Wiz

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L to R: Ryan Cousineau in back, Norman Hamer in front, Scott Larson, non-inflatable Debbie, Rob Cazares, Havoc23

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Goat Boy - "Can you give this child a home"

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Ron Radko - "WL meets GQ - eat your heart out!"


A Prayer for a 955i



It all started innocently enough. Billy Hutchinson sent a posting to the WetLeather mailing list, plugging his own new website. One of the topics on his site that day was "A prayer for a 955i". The rest just happened at Internet speed (i.e. within an hour or two)...
Dean Woodward

Oh Lord, won't you buy me, a 9-5-5-i?
My friends all ride sportbikes, and ask why don't I?
The chicks all laugh at me, won't go for a ride,
So Lord, won't you buy me, a 9-5-5-i.

Bill Rockoff

Oh Lord, won't you buy me, a nine ninety-six?
My Gixxer won't cut it, with WetLeather chicks.
I love them Ducatis, but I sure ain't rich,
So Lord, won't you buy me, a nine ninety-six.