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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a...

An hour or two ago. -23F / -30.5C Now It's warming up!

Not really. Traffic peaked around 2013 and then declined for many years, but now is pretty stable. There was a nice bump in traffic during the first year or so of covid, and 2024 has been good. The number of visitors is up 26% compared to 2023. The number of posts is up 9% and reactions are up 30%.

I can't believe this isn't in there. I'll add it.

Posting to the sandbox, then moving it later would work.

If you go to that petcock thread now (https://www.xs650.com/threads/20662/), you'll see the images without the watermarks. That's becuase in March of this year, I spent several days importing tens of thousands of images directly to the site. Photobucket was the main driver behind that (to get...

Check this out: https://web.archive.org/web/20210924142126/https://xs650temp.proboards.com/thread/4858/mashermotos-big-street-tracker-adventure If you let it load long enough, it'll show broken photobucket images. Photobucket seems to have blocked archive.org from displaying them, but the...

Did I? :umm: that sounds like something I could have said, but don't remember it and couldn't find it in a search. I did find this, however:

Congratulations to the top 13! It's going to be another great calendar! @electricpoet @halfmile @NW1952 @TX650A Van Islander @JesseeS @MacVittieMotorcycles @jpdevol @sparky4123 @Spannerman @eidemaddin @GLJ @bakerman24 @lakeview Send a message to @samoran1 ASAP with your email address to start...

The voting thread is posted! https://www.xs650.com/threads/2025-xs650-calendar-vote-here.67220/ Message me if you see any mistakes! I'm going to close this thread. Nominees should promote and post more photos of their bikes in the voting thread.

Voting ends Oct 21, 2024 at 10:40 AM CDT! Good luck to everyone! Here are the previous calendars: See the 2024 Calendar See the 2023 Calendar See the 2022 Calendar See the 2021 Calendar See the 2020 Calendar See the 2019 Calendar See the 2018 Calendar See the 2017 Calendar See the 2016...

Vote for the XS650s you'd like to see in the 2025 XS650 Calendar! It's time to Vote! This will be the 13th year for the XS650 Calendars! As usual, Shawn (samoran1) is putting them together for us. The nomination stage is over and there are 31 bikes to vote for this year! Click here to see the...

We're at 28 accepted nominations, so there is still room for a few more. I've emailed the 5 people who were nominated and haven't accepted yet. Here's my list: JesseeS Accepted electricpoet Accepted MacVittieMotorcycles Accepted hkraanen emailed eidemaddin Accepted IronFist_650...

Is anyone keeping a tally of the nominated and accepted bikes so far? If not, I'll have to put together a list.

I'll email him.

That was two years ago. ☺️

They knew you wouldn't fall for it, so they didn't bother emailing you. :D

I got the same email, but to both the xs650 admin email and my Chop Source email. One was from cassidykitbanks@gmail.com and the other cassidykbanks@gmail.com I assume they are using a script to scrape the site for any email addressed ever publicly posted. I've posted both of those email...

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I just got an email from Google about the top-performing threads on the site for July, and this one ranks quite high. :laugh: Click-bait titles work! Intentional or not.