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Arschloch

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Reply #30 on: December 08, 2020, 08:53:20 am
Similar in intent to the popular enquiry If Gawd is all powerful, can He make a rock larger than He can lift?

I certainly don't know what Gawd is up to, what I know if I'm in charge of a built like my Fireball or design of something, than I'm the Gawd of it, anyone who can't accept it can drop death.  ;)
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Reply #31 on: December 08, 2020, 01:55:27 pm
Get something good in your life. Do a Royal Enfield build.
  Darwin didn’t have a theory. He plagiarized it.
Way too much illogical nonsense here to be worth reading anymore.
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Reply #32 on: April 13, 2021, 07:36:04 am
A trifecta of Pre-Unit Bullets: a Red Deluxe 500, a Green Standard 500, and a Black ES 350.


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Reply #33 on: April 13, 2021, 12:26:28 pm
2021 Monster....how fugly is it going to get?



Predictably as fugly as literally 99 percent of all modern motos. 


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Reply #34 on: April 13, 2021, 04:12:47 pm
Racing innovations that jumped the gap betwixt track & the everyman:
Atmospheric intake valves.
Hairpin valve springs.
Coil valve springs.
Side valves.
Overhead valves.
Overhead Cam.
Desmodromic valves.
Total loss oiling.
Oil pumps & sump.
Solid wheels with rubber rim strips.
Pneumatic tyres.
Hot tube ignition.
Spark ignition.
Magneto spark ignition.
Electronic spark ignition.
Ridgid rear end.
Swingarm suspension.
Friction Bump dampers.
Hydraulic rear dampers.
Girder front suspension.
Leading Link front suspension.
Hydraulic dampened front fork suspension.
Band Brakes.
Drum Brakes.
Disc Brakes.
Perimeter tube frames.
Sheet steel monocoque frames.
Aluminium monocoque frames.
Space frames.
Carburettors.
EFI.
Tyres made of tree sap.
Tyres made of petroleum.
Tyres that actually stick to the road when too hot, too cold, too wet.
Each driven by the desire to pass the next guy.
Darwin had a theory, a sound theory, a proven theory, and he didn't even know about "junk" DNA and "Discrete Evolution".
For odd animals, look to the Cheetah or Platypus. For rapid evolutionary changes, look to bacillus & virus.
A lifespan of hours has more opportunity to evolve than a mouse who lives years. But you know all this and still come up with stuff like "Why are there still mice around when the cats eat them?"...??
Similar in intent to the popular enquiry If Gawd is all powerful, can He make a rock larger than He can lift?

+1

As far as mice and Darwin  go, it's my understanding, that the mouse's evolutionary response to cats, and damn near everything else in the world that views them as a tasty treat, has been to have multiple large litters as often as possible. Judging by the amount of time I have to clean their mangled little bodies out of my tractor engine during a normal summer I'm amazed they haven't taken over the world.


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Reply #35 on: April 13, 2021, 05:22:10 pm
I never owned a Ducati but one of the richer kids across town did a 250, l always was under the impression they were race track bikes for the road, even being complex but quite well built.


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Reply #36 on: April 13, 2021, 05:51:28 pm
I saw this run at Ontario Motor Speedway in the wayback. The fours would howl by on the front straight, closely followed by Old Blue, sounding like a biplane thundering past at ground level. In the infield the Ducati would pass them back. Great racing.

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Reply #37 on: April 14, 2021, 06:29:36 pm
Daughter has an 03 Monster 620 which also looks like the bottom picture.   It runs great and is a faster and smoother then my 14GT. 


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Reply #38 on: April 15, 2021, 05:01:40 pm
My 2000 900 was one sweet bike. The newer ones look weird to me.

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Reply #39 on: April 15, 2021, 05:47:31 pm
My 2000 900 was one sweet bike. The newer ones look weird to me.


I really like those old 900's the new ones not so much, yours does look sweet.