Join our friend and fellow motorcycle apparel designer, Dan Tibbs, owner of NEXX UNLIMITED Leathers, along with RIDES Magazine and Harley Davidson for the “BAND of BROTHER” Event on Feb 24th at 8pm for a special exhibit to commemerate the achievements of African-American bikers.
I was thumbing through an old magazine, I believe it was Outdoors or Popular Science, and it had a list of 100 skills that every man should know. Now, I am the last person to ever question my manhood. I happen to think that I am a jack of all trades but after reading this list I am clearly a master of none. So for all of you “menly” men out there, we challenge you to read this list, educate yourself and check off as many things as you can in 2011 to get your game up. Will participating in these activities make you a real man? Hell YES it will! When you are stranded in the woods with your date and you are able to survive Bear Grylls style, build your own home and car from scratch, just send us a thank card.
1. Tape drywall
2. Grill with charcoal
3. Split firewood
4. Setup a ladder, safely
5. Take the perfect portrait
6. Find potable water
7. Build a fire in the wilderness
8. Build a shelter
9. Ditch your hard drive
10. Use a French knife
11. Cast a fishing line
12. Wax a car
13. Check trouble codes (on yout car)
14. Iron a shirt
15. Paint a straight line
16. Tie a bowline
17. Use a stick welder
18. Read an electric meter
19. Hang food in the wild
20. Solder wire
21. Circular saw (Workshop Tool)
22. Spade Bit (Workshop Tool)
23. Infrared Thermometer (Workshop Tool)
24. Wood Chisel (Workshop Tool)
25. Sandblaster (Workshop Tool)
26. Hacksaw (Workshop Tool)
27. Torque rench (Workshop Tool)
28. Feeler Gauges (Workshop Tool)
29. Test Light (Workshop Tool)
30. Faming Hammer (Workshop Tool)
31. Grease Gun (car)
32. Hand Plane (Wood Tool)
33. Air-Impace Wrench
34. Drill Driver
35. Socket Wrench
36. Multimeter (Electrical Tool)
37. Sledgehammer
38. Coolant Hyrometer (car)
39. Brick Trowel
40. Crosscut Saw
41. Put out a fire
42. Move heavy stuff
43. Change a diaper
44. Drive in snow
45. REmove bloodstains from fabric
46. Feel a tree (Cut it and drop it properly)
47. Ride a bike
48. Conquer an off-road obstacle
49. Whittle
50. Install a graphics card in a computer
51. Hitch up a trailer
52. Sew a button
53. Throw a spiral
54. Lightning Storm (know how to survive extremes)
55. Flood (know how to survive extremes)
56. Tornado (know how to survive extremes)
57. Cold (know how to survive extremes)
58. Heat (know how to survive extremes)
59. Home-brew beer
60. Fix a faucet cartridge
61. Replace a fan belt
62. Lend a hand
63. Mix concrete
64. Run rapids in a canoe
65. Drive a stick shift
66. Escape a sinking car
67. Shoot a home movie
68. Replace a faucet washer
69. Shoot straight
70. Tie a necktie
71. Grow food
72. Handle a tire blowout
73. Skipper a boat
74. Fly a stunt kite
75. Make a drum-tight bed
76. Shine shoes
77. Drop and give the perfect pushup
78. Carve a turkey
79. Replace a broken windowpane
80. Chante a single-pole switch (electrical)
81. Sweat Copper tubing
82. Parallel park
83. Escape a rip current
84. Use a sewing machine
85. Snakebite (how to handle medical emergancy)
86. Frostbite (how to handle medical emergancy)
87. Burns (how to handle medical emergancy)
88. Seizures (how to handle medical emergancy)
89. Ticks (how to handle medical emergancy)
90. Change a tire
91. Shovel right right way
92. Fix a toilet-tank flapper
93. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike
94. Reverse hypothermia (how to handle medical emergancy)
95. Perform the Heimlich (how to handle medical emergancy)
96. Perform hands-only CPR (how to handle medical emergancy)
97. Prune bushes and small trees
98. Jumpstart a car
99. Calibrate HDTV settings
100. Fold the flag
*If you are unfamiliar with any of the terms on this list, Google them. We did our part. We gave you the list.
#101. Learn to Google
#102. Be grateful
The rest of your body may be mangled beyond recognition in a serious motorcycle accident, but your hand will be pristine from the wrist up when the police find it in a nearby ditch thanks to the Handroid glove.
