Post #202,742
4/10/05 7:02:25 PM
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Oh___Noes!__-y
BODY. {Ugh} KITS. !!
{Urp}
Gotta pass this one on!
I notice, where I drop in for general maint. info on my car - the definition of 'ricers'. (Fortunately, few of these drop in re my particular model, for which there Aren't many such hideous monstrosities available: except a couple from .. Yes .. Japan! Whew.)
In US, ricers are the folk what smear decals all over with BIG silly R's, blue-LEDs underneath, flame jobs, yet.. rarely anything ever so extreme as THIS melange from Hell.
My take has been - that these abortions are the wordless proof of the huge chasm 'twixt, Hey! LookAtMe-PLEASE!! / and 'Art' (or a desire to correct some manufacturing brain-fart, say with something actually mo-bettah)
{Shudder}
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Post #202,744
4/10/05 7:09:54 PM
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They're obviously NOT kits:All different, ergo each handmade
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Post #202,747
4/10/05 7:26:24 PM
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No, not *ALL* - Some Are kits: have seen them elsewhere.
And of course - which decal you put where - is a 'handmade' collage.
The One-Offs are pretty evident, I'd thought was evident.
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Post #202,806
4/11/05 2:36:11 AM
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Yeah, OK, true. But, hey, yagotta give extra points...
...for creativity -- 'coz many of those kits are apparently mounted on a different model of car than the one they were designed for! :-)
Also, everybody, don't miss that little "BACK" link at the bottom; it leads to a whole passel more of pages just like that one.
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
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Post #202,808
4/11/05 2:47:58 AM
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Damn you
I skipped the link the first time.
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Post #202,809
4/11/05 2:58:04 AM
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Check out the bikes
Ashton will start out liking [link|http://tanetane92.web.infoseek.co.jp/motorcycle.html|this page]. Then he will see the two at the bottom.
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Post #202,816
4/11/05 7:25:42 AM
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Dig those air horn trumpets. :-)
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Post #202,954
4/12/05 1:51:28 AM
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At first, I thought you meant those old white Hondas...
...just above the bottom (in all ways) ones. I think those are 70s police bikes.
Anyone able to tell what the signage says -- Wade, Thane...?
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
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Post #202,924
4/11/05 9:39:52 PM
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Yes and {erp} yes.
Some pukka racers there, under all the &*%%^ ad logos.
Reminds me - there was a (commercial not factory) Honda CBX for a few years - a straight-6! (transverse) == wide sucker. Saw one on the Sunday Morning Ride\ufffd, about the time I was breaking in the Kawa KZ-550. Too heavy and wide to handle, but straight-line Gs. Fer the early Yuppies, I guess.
Ah well.. there are fewer and fewer roads on which to play + dumber and more cell-fone insouciant drivers.
{sigh} Its. Over.
{sob} Dead. Parrot.
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Post #202,929
4/11/05 10:27:28 PM
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The CBX had a reputation for frying the inner cylinders.
IIRC, [link|http://www.granta.com/features/2004/12/setright|LJK Setright] at Car and Driver had one and would occasionally mention it. But he seemed to have a soft spot for European bikes.
<googlie goo...>
[link|http://www.cbxclub.com/setright.html|Here] is a 1980 piece about the CBX.
He too had a rather strange (to these American eyes) prose style. Hmmmm...
;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #203,137
4/13/05 2:23:02 AM
4/13/05 2:33:02 AM
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Lovely: 'the average reader of a car magazine or book
doesn't actually want to be made to think' Fellow curmudgeon, Hail! Further endearing - Setright began his working life as a lawyer but 'hated it' and 'if you don't like what you are doing you should stop forthwith.' So he did ...
And -
When I ask what he thinks of the cars on the market today, Setright replies that they are 'frightfully boring' due to a 'convergence of fashion which forces all manufactures into same mould because they are all addressing the same multitude of banal and unintelligent twits who are their principle customers.' {chortle} Well, I possess little lore on the CBX - it was not of interest because of the Weight (as noted below). But thanks for yer googlefu - Setright is a treat! moi PS - Bristol Club eh? Well then, love to be a kibitzer at the pub with him and [link|http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/content/110808094683927230/| Mr. Farago] I mean.. Really! Wouldn't you? :-0
Edited by Ashton
April 13, 2005, 02:33:02 AM EDT
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Post #203,159
4/13/05 7:37:18 AM
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Yup. Writers like him are treasures.
Thanks for the pointer to Farago. When I asked if the odd sound under throttle indicated some kind of problem, the owner told me to drop the subject. :-) Cheers, Scott.
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Post #202,955
4/12/05 2:00:05 AM
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A couple of similar bikes from about the same time:
The [link|http://images.google.com/images?q=Kawasaki+Z1300|Kawasaki Z1300] and the [link|http://images.google.com/images?q=Benelli+900+Sei|Benelli 900 Sei].
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
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Post #203,049
4/12/05 3:26:08 PM
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That's nothin'
Now [link|http://www.bosshoss.com/view_bike.asp?x=BHC3502&cid=773319550.442242.698341|this] is a bike
~~~)-Steven----
"I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country..."
General George S. Patton
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Post #203,051
4/12/05 3:31:29 PM
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Nice. ~ 130 mile cruising range. Fill up every 2 hours....
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Post #203,113
4/12/05 11:32:04 PM
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Screw that ... every 1.5 hours max
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Post #203,136
4/13/05 2:05:55 AM
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Mmm OK: 13 mpg 1300# Hummer caricature.
Prediction: anyone trying to Use those HP, torque specs - will soon be a spec(k).
Seems to be primarily a sculpture ~ the way I think of Hogs of all stripes, though some of those have paintwork from masters.
But then, we handling snobs - with a clean sheet of paper - would likely opt for 325-350# max, and whatever exotic alloys get you there with an adequate say, 5#/HP, including the ummm rider.
Fortunately, I lack the funds to proceed from this formula, but I recall in the Norton days.. one morning's lovely ride on a new Manx 30M. From that (and other comparative rides on lighter machines of the era) I concluded that WEIGHT is always BAD for complex maneuvers of any kind. And since cycling is about your moving your CG relative to the machine's: I called that an earliest QED.
(Bonus: on a lighter machine, a less than world-class rider (who likely got first moto at age 3) -- your chances of surviving an error are lots better than on any behemoth.)
But the Monsters are sorta fun, except the Harley Monsters - lineage (like your example, too) from Trucks; however tarted-up, they remain lousy-clearance 2-wheel-Trucks. Entirely appropriate that these would snare the new Murican class of 'motorcyclists' - fondly remembering their (father's?) 5000# Buicks.
I think.. {sob} It's Over.
No (few) places left to play.
Oh well.
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