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Offline Shoganai

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Flying Duck; (frankenduck) Anybody know what's happened to our friend?
« on: May 10, 2015, 03:51:44 PM »
I received a PM from RicK G on K100 forum on May 3rd saying Drake dropped off the site and has been gone a long time. He's also missing from K11OG and here.

He has ALWAYS returned my phone calls...this time nothing after 3 attempts.

He's not returning emails or PM's either.

[size=18]I am now very concerned about Drake.[/size]

FYI Drake is a hard core alcoholic. I know this from spending time in his company. I just thought he was in the bottle so deep he didn't know what was going on.

He lost his father last year and hasn't been the same since.



Is there anyone that knows what's going on or who is close enough to the PNW that could check up on him?

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Offline billday

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Re: Flying Duck; (frankenduck) Anybody know what's happened to our friend?
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2015, 09:29:02 PM »



Let's leave aside rumors. Who knows anything about Drake?
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Offline Shoganai

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Re: Flying Duck; (frankenduck) Anybody know what's happened to our friend?
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2015, 09:36:15 PM »
+1

When a friend and fellow rider is missing, jokes are in poor taste.

Quote from: billday on May 10, 2015, 09:29:02 PM

Let's leave aside rumors. Who knows anything about Drake?
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Offline F14CRAZY

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Re: Flying Duck; (frankenduck) Anybody know what's happened to our friend?
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2015, 09:54:07 PM »
My K75 wouldn't be like it is without him
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Offline Crapdealerbob

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Re: Flying Duck; (frankenduck) Anybody know what's happened to our friend?
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2015, 03:09:20 PM »
My RS wouldn't be same either, he has done several mods & upgrades for me.  I sent him an email over a month ago about getting together again to ride in southern CA., haven't gotten a reply.  He always replied to an email.  Prayers that he surfaces soon.
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Offline enb54

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Re: Flying Duck; (frankenduck) Anybody know what's happened to our friend?
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2015, 03:28:13 AM »
Just looked at this thread... I had a very good experience dealing with him, he helped me out a lot with advice about several of my K75 difficulties. I have lost parents and a spouse, and know from personal experience that those are very troubling times in life. Good to hear that others are concerned, unfortunately don't live close enough to check it out, hope he is OK.
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Offline Shoganai

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Re: Flying Duck; (frankenduck) Anybody know what's happened to our friend?
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2015, 10:22:40 AM »
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Offline Crapdealerbob

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Re: Flying Duck; (frankenduck) Anybody know what's happened to our friend?
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2015, 11:40:28 AM »
Shoganai

Thanks for the update, glad to hear it !!!

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Offline TaosBob101

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Re: Flying Duck; (frankenduck) Anybody know what's happened to our friend?
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2015, 12:22:27 PM »

 Went over and saw that...like to finished upgrading my 75S w/ items he has.
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Offline enb54

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Re: Flying Duck; (frankenduck) Anybody know what's happened to our friend?
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2015, 12:34:20 PM »
Quote from: Shoganai on May 19, 2015, 10:22:40 AM
Update.

All is well.

http://k11og.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=90845#90845

Well, dropping off the grid is good for the soul every once in a while. Glad to hear he's OK, thanks for the update...
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Offline billday

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Re: Flying Duck; (frankenduck) Anybody know what's happened to our friend?
« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2015, 06:16:48 PM »
Thanks Gwen for flushing him out.
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Offline Motorhobo

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Re: Flying Duck; (frankenduck) Anybody know what's happened to our friend?
« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2015, 03:36:19 PM »
Looks like Drake let his domain classickbikes.com expire.

That said, he seems to be posting on the K1100 forum again. That's good news for motobrickers everywhere.

Sure would love to see him start running kbikeparts.com again..,what a resource that was! It is still up but still no update in many many moons.
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Offline rbm

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Re: Flying Duck; (frankenduck) Anybody know what's happened to our friend?
« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2015, 05:52:46 PM »
I mentioned the expired classicbikes domain to Johnny a few weeks ago.  He's copied the content so, with work, it could be made available again.
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Offline Motorhobo

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Re: Flying Duck; (frankenduck) Anybody know what's happened to our friend?
« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2015, 07:33:46 PM »
Classickbikes.com content was all marked as copyrighted by Drake -- I don't think it would be ethical to republish that content. Drake's content on this forum is shared content I guess...but the classickbikes.com content is Drake's property and I think it should be up to him and him alone what happens to it.
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1994/1995 K75 ABS Frankenbike: original engine 136k miles, frame from Gary Weaver (RIP), 173k miles -- Current Odometer: 198k miles
1994 K75 since 2013, 82,000 mi (19k mine) w/California Sidecar Friendship II Sidecar & Black Lab 'Miss B' - RIP

Past: 1974 Honda 550/4 (first bike), 1994 K75 (sold), 1995 K75 ABS (parts bike), Sidecar Dog & Best Bud 'Bo' - RIP

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Re: Flying Duck; (frankenduck) Anybody know what's happened to our friend?
« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2015, 07:46:41 PM »
Quote from: Motorhobo on July 30, 2015, 07:33:46 PM
Classickbikes.com content was all marked as copyrighted by Drake -- I don't think it would be ethical to republish that content. Drake's content on this forum is shared content I guess...but the classickbikes.com content is Drake's property and I think it should be up to him and him alone what happens to it.

No need to republish

https://web.archive.org/web/20141219035747/http://classickbikes.com/ckb/ckb.htm
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Offline Motorhobo

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Re: Flying Duck; (frankenduck) Anybody know what's happened to our friend?
« Reply #15 on: July 30, 2015, 10:47:04 PM »
Well -- that's kind of scary.
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Past: 1974 Honda 550/4 (first bike), 1994 K75 (sold), 1995 K75 ABS (parts bike), Sidecar Dog & Best Bud 'Bo' - RIP

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Re: Flying Duck; (frankenduck) Anybody know what's happened to our friend?
« Reply #16 on: July 31, 2015, 04:14:47 AM »
Quote from: F14CRAZY on July 30, 2015, 07:46:41 PM
Quote from: Motorhobo on July 30, 2015, 07:33:46 PM
Classickbikes.com content was all marked as copyrighted by Drake -- I don't think it would be ethical to republish that content. Drake's content on this forum is shared content I guess...but the classickbikes.com content is Drake's property and I think it should be up to him and him alone what happens to it.

No need to republish

https://web.archive.org/web/20141219035747/http://classickbikes.com/ckb/ckb.htm


If you follow links on that page to the second or third level you find no content, so it would be valuable to republish.
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Re: Flying Duck; (frankenduck) Anybody know what's happened to our friend?
« Reply #17 on: July 31, 2015, 06:14:28 AM »
Quote from: Glacial on July 31, 2015, 04:14:47 AM
Quote from: F14CRAZY on July 30, 2015, 07:46:41 PM
Quote from: Motorhobo on July 30, 2015, 07:33:46 PM
Classickbikes.com content was all marked as copyrighted by Drake -- I don't think it would be ethical to republish that content. Drake's content on this forum is shared content I guess...but the classickbikes.com content is Drake's property and I think it should be up to him and him alone what happens to it.

No need to republish

https://web.archive.org/web/20141219035747/http://classickbikes.com/ckb/ckb.htm


If you follow links on that page to the second or third level you find no content, so it would be valuable to republish.

My bad, it was worth a shot though
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