You ever read a comic book? Like Superman? or Spider man or something?
People like Guzman? they're not just some rich gangster. A 21st century Al Capone. No they're more like the real world version of Lex Luthor.
Think of the pull Bill gates has. Google has. The Saudis have. Now give that juice to a socio-pathic hill billy. If you were a multi-billionaire super criminal and you wanted to do something, do you really think something like federal agencies and drug policies apply to you? If relatively small-time local thugs from Nuevo Leon and Tampalugas can buy whole Sheriff's departments in south Texas, what do think he can do?
Stock speedometers....
I know in cars, they'll show some stupid high number on the dial and there's no way you'll get that car that fast.
I forget how fast the speedometer claims it will go on my wife's Toyota. LOL you couldn't throw it off a cliff and get it to go as fast as that speedo claims.
Now motorcycles, they're not always very accurate either. Especially after you've hopped up something. My Suzuki's speedo only goes to 120. LOL I know it goes a bit faster than 120. But again after you hit 95, the needle goes nuts and after you go faster, it buries itself into 120. I think stock, this bike would have had to fight to go that fast if it could hit it at all.
I imagine tire size affects the accuracy too. How much though? i don't mean radical differences in diameter, just something little. Like the variation of the actual tire used compared to the tire size the speedometer was calibrated with. I dunno. As far as that bike goes, I'm debating on getting rid of the speedometer anyways vs re-finishing it.
Digital speedometers. Are these any good on bikes? The only ones I've seen were in mid '80s model cars and they sucked as far as accuracy went. They just looked cool.
650s and speed. My friend had a 1984(?) yamaha 650 turbo. God that bike was ugly. The turbo was more of a gimmick if anything else. He'd a got better performance from a hyper charger than that thing. This bike was stock and since it was his, not very well maintained. It could get up to maybe. Maybe 120. I only rode on the back of it. With both of us on it, he got it to 100....eventually. Man that bike was ugly.
This:
http://www.motorcyclespecs.co. ... ha/yamaha_xj650_turbo.htm
The pics don't really do it justice. This bike is uglier than a Yugo Lowrider
And the stats are an understatement. It's performance was the same as a... Yugo Lowrider.
Some drunk @ss hole decided it was ugly too and ran all into him in Galveston and disintegrated it. I don't remember the extent of his injuries, but his left hand is still pretty screwed up from it.
Like I've said before, we Loved Nuevo Laredo. We were actually looking into moving there and working in Laredo, Then 911 happened and then the cartels...
But there have been I dunno 5 or 10 murders related to Mexican cartel business in my neighborhood over the last five years. A couple of years ago, on the other side of Houston form me some zetas tried to ambush a drug sting being conducted by the Harris County Sheriffs and DEA. They were having an informant carry a load of weed in an 18 wheeler to try and bust some buyer. The cartel got wind of the deal, but didn't know it was a sting operation. They ambushed the truck in traffic. It looked like something you'd see in a news broadcast from Juarez. Or a Shwartzenager movie.
Around ten years ago, the cartels had a safe house for illegals a couple of blocks from my house. one afternoon I heard what best could be described as giant zippers. What that sound really was was machine guns from local gangsters (tango blast?) shooting up the house because the cartels guys wouldn't pay them off. No one got killed or even shot as far as I know, but it shut that house down.
That happened in broad daylight on a summer day with kids out playing every where about a quarter mile from a police department and that story didn't make the news! There wasn't any sirens or cops for about 15 minutes afterwards either.
Like I said, it's happening here, just not as extreme - yet.
I look like a reject from Duck Dynasty. They like the bike.
Yeah... Weird... But true. Why do you think the first thing he did when he took over was grab everyone else's guns?
Chrome=chicks!
Oh yeah, my bikes are chick magnets
... but not just chicks....One night I was gassing up. This car pulls up at the other pump. Out gets these gay guys. One of them, this funky looking black guy, starts going off, "That's a mans bike. a MAN'S bike". and gave me the same look that those cute girls with daddy issues usually do. You know, I'm an open minded guy and all. I could care less if a person is gay or not, but that really was an uncomfortable feeling.
We used to go to Nuevo Laredo for weekend getaways. I seen a death metal concert there. We'd stay in a very nice hotel and get T-bone Steak and eggs for breakfast. For poor people from Texas, this was great. It was also the SAFEST big city I had ever been in. Not so much anymore. My co-worker is from Guadalajara. He used to be able to drive there from Houston over the Christmas holidays to see his parents. Now he and his brothers have to fly them in.
A good friend of the family used to be a cop in Monterrey. He has to live here now. And there's still no guarantee of his safety here.
In another thread you posted a nice quote from Nietzsche.
Well I got one for you.
"Power comes from the barrel of a gun." - Mao Zedong.
Get rid of your gun laws. It totally works against the security of the people.
But your video sort of proves that. So I guess my quote is a little late too.
A good friend of the family used to be a cop in Monterrey. He has to live here now. And there's still no guarantee of his safety here.
In another thread you posted a nice quote from Nietzsche.
Well I got one for you.
"Power comes from the barrel of a gun." - Mao Zedong.
Get rid of your gun laws. It totally works against the security of the people.
But your video sort of proves that. So I guess my quote is a little late too.
Nice quote. But being from Texas, I'm sorry your quote comes a bit late.
I've been warning people for decades that the drug war our government created
was going to create conditions like that. And we're getting it here. We don't have the headless bodies hanging from overpasses yet, but it's coming.
After the fact that the DEA is in league with the sinaloa cartel sets in with guys like the Zetas, in their eyes the DEA will just be another player. All the restraint they've held on this side of the border is going to go away.
Oh screw Bieber. He's just another stupid celebrity.
Who Canada needs to take back is Senator Ted Cruz.
I'm glad you wasn't hurt. To be honest, I hated your video. It sucks to be reminded how easy and quickly something like that happens. Yeah, I know. It comes with the territory, but it still sucks. And again, I'm glad you're OK.
If you have a friend that's thinking about buying a bike, but his wife/mom has doubts, don't show them this. I knew I shouldn't have seen the video. Now my leg hurts.
A friend of mine, Mark Gineux (sp?) died of a heart attack last Saturday. A day after his mother passed.
He has (had?) the world record for vintage bike at the Pike's Peak run.
He had a zillion bikes. From a 1949 HD pan head to the hopped up Yamaha he rode at Pikes Peak and just about any other type of bike you can think of in between. He was a good guy. If you gotta go, taking a world record with you ain't bad.
Dual purpose bikes....
Nice bike!
ROFL I've never seen one that looks like the rider took it off-road since I was a kid.
My first bike was a Kawasaki 100. I don't remember the exact model name, but it was a dual purpose, only we called those bikes enduros back then. Didn't get to ride it much, but it was fun what I did.
LOL There are times when I'm stuck in traffic, see a field I can ride through and wish I was on a bike like yours instead of the chrome tank I live on.
1981...
Wow that was a fun year - what I can remember of it. I was in High School.
The only people that knew anything about computers were the nerd clique that played dungeons and dragons all the time.
Wow that was a fun year - what I can remember of it. I was in High School.
The only people that knew anything about computers were the nerd clique that played dungeons and dragons all the time.
In America, an armed cop shooting a suspected "dickhead" wouldn't even make page 20 of the paper,
This is one day, one city
http://www.khou.com/news
What the hell is it with us (Americans) and Harley Davidson? I mean, for what it is, a Harley is a good bike and all, but that's just it. It's just a bike.
But not here. It's almost like a religion or something.
I think the 1200 is their best motor. no I don't. a 1940's knuckle head 74 is.
Speaking of 1200s.. That "Girl's bike sportster" my brother got is really looking good!
And I guess you need to see it, but it really is little!
If you parked your 650(?) next to it and a cager walked up to them, they'd think your bike had the twice the ccs as his.
Oh yeah... sorry a little drunk at the moment...
Anyhow, you had these graphs of various models from various makes. a couple of posts back.
LOL you're the bike guru. you're a genius with this stuff. With your knowlege you should consider a career writing for motorcycle magazines, if you don't contribute already.
Hiccup!
Those graphs...
Those graphs are for new bikes. Pretty much right after being broke in - right?
There's an old cartoon I saw in an old Easy Rider Magazine a zillion years ago.
It showed a dude on a hog in a traffic intersection and a kid on a crotch rocket challenging him to a race. Below it, the caption read, "OK same bikes. Ten years from now".
Wouldn't it be cool if there was some way to get the same sort of graph
but with the bikes after i dunno 50 - 60k miles?
And maybe a list as to what if anything got replaced or fixed with whatever model in that span?
Tires... Is it just me or does the price of tires totally suck?
Speaking of tires... ain't having to deal with that strap of tread comes off the 18 wheelers fun to deal with? Damn, today, on the way to work, I come around a car and wound up in a lane full of it. It looked like the tire just exploded off the truck (lorry).
You're from Connecticut? Damn. Your state is as hard to spell as Massachusetts and Nova Scotia!
I've been to that casino there. Foxwood. New England has some of the prettiest country I've ever seen.
You really shouldn't be so hard on Racer X**. LOL get past all the conspiracy theory stuff and he's more American than you, me and Dawes* put together.
He sees the ideas that built this country. He realizes how we, as a people see things and what we truly believe in. Even Dawes. He sees how the country is screwing up. He's just as upset about things, if not more than we are. I don't know why he doesn't realize that to most Americans, he's just pointing out the obvious. (huh dawes?*)
There's a saying (wait... getting another beer.. OK three - Mexican - Modelo rules! Hey. I'm part beaner. Get over it.
¡Viva Mejico! ¡¡¡¡Arribba!!!!¡ ¡Su penche ojetes!***) Now I got a buzz and forgot the saying.
Skip it. It doesn't matter.
That being said, the less wealthy can do nothing.
Remember what I said in that post Racer X about differnet people fighting different people for different reasons?
If you read BMX's post You'll notice BMX leans towards class warfare.
Oh yeah... The saying...
You can't fight city hall.
Yeah. BMXer is spot on about a lot of things...
Remember what I said in that post Racer X about differnet people fighting different people for different reasons?
Even though I agree with sorta almost with everything he posted, my "personalized radicalization" is a bit different.
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I could care less how much money someone has or doesn't have. I have been fortunate enough to have actually interacted with almost the the whole socioeconomic cross section of this country. All that interaction made me think more along ideological lines.
My opinion is a lot of poor people think like rich people and a lot of rich people think like poor people.
BMX, Th84 and I see the big machine our government evolved into. We all see where it's headed. We also realize that we're the low man on a real big totem pole. We're just as powerless as the guys hanging out in the Home Depot Parking Lot (Have you done that dawes?). For such an Ameriphile, I'd figure you'd know all this about us
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This part:
"That being said, the less wealthy can do nothing. You cannot blame Americans that our government is messed up, you can only blame the people who influence those policies and candidates decisions."
Actually, you can cousin.
No matter what we whine or complain about - either the left or the right wingers (ok you eurotypes - we're ALL right wingers in the US of A - happy now?)
at the end of the day we'll go to the ballot booths and click off what ever the party of D's or R's tells us too.
* At Dawesdust: All kidding aside, I have nothing but respect and admiration for you Canadians. While RacerX waxes on about the USA and out foundiing values and virtues, there are things y'all do especially with healthcare that the reat of the planet ought to be looking at for inspration. I also seen April Wine and Triumph in concert!
In fact, Canada is my third favorite country. Sorry, but TEXAS is the greatest country in the world.
**At Racer X
It's nice that you admire our original prinicples. It'd bve nice if everyone did and everyone acted like those principles. I know a bunch of Aussies. My wife's been over there twice. One of their criticisms about you kiwis is something I really like. That's y'all's informal, almost casual approach to national government. LOL almost straight out of an old Henry Fonda Movie.
*** At Scawen
"¡¡¡¡Arribba!!!!¡" has NOTHING to do with Arabia, Ameraic Peoples or the religion of Islam. Please don't ban me - you Limey &*^%^!!!!!
And you call yourself an expert on America.
"the difference is, we don't get to change their power and control over your gun toting army. YOU DO, if you'd realize that you do."
LOL ROFL LMAO!!!!! No we don't. In fact, foreign powers have more control over our Government than we do.
Ask Israel and China.
It's like this. A candidate raised 40 million to get elected for a four year position that only pays 150k a year. Now who controls that politician?
The good people of the US of A that were dumb enough to vote for him? Or the people he owes 40 million to?
Ehhh... Just more propaganda from the Canadian Separatist Movement.
You know they put subliminal messages in Rush Songs.
We have all sorts of education here. Why what jobs used to only require a kindergarten education twenty years ago now require a B.A. or Masters
We have all sorts of free education too. Actually the best in the world - we get that statistic thanks to the number of people defaulting on their college loans. The loans they took out to get a degree to get the exact same job that only required a kindergarten level education twenty years ago. too bad when they increased the education requirement for those jobs, they didn't increase the pay scale.
"Also, this thread and the thread starter is retarded. Just my humble opinion, of course."
Awwww... Give the guy a break. Why it's mighty hard bein up there in the 51st state, clubbing seals all day, coming home to having to keep moving the router so it doesn't melt the roof and fry the computer - AGAIN...
I mean really. Look where he's at. BC
That's right smack in between Alaska and the lower 48. Her's kinda like a turd stuck in the ass crack of the most advanced empire in the history of mankind. So can you really blame him for being bitter? Think of what that can do to a person's self esteem.
Either that. Or he's just pissed off that we don't give him a dollar a day like we do all the other third world kids.
Sorry... Not that one. http://www.triumphmotorcycles. ... 013/thunderbird-storm-abs
LOL it's a twin!. I thought it had three cylinders... kinda hard to tell on the freeway, but it looked like it had three. Still sounded good.
But, why would he lie about it? Maybe his claim of 175 was actually 165? That's still fast. I seen a 750 drag bike hit just under 180. LOL I imagine if the guy got that bike going that fast, it was probably pretty freaking far from stock.
I watched a documentary about the British Rocker scene and the bikes they rode. They had a saying called pulling a ton. Or something. It meant going over 100.
I guarantee you that everyone on this forum that has a bike that can go that fast and then some - has. And I imagine that in that bike shop were people that are the same way. So I doubt the guy claiming that didn't do so without being able to back it up.
Damn....
Man... I would love to have a sport bike. But, I have this horrible vision of this:
http://backmarker-bikewriter.b ... -one-for-fat-tuesday.html
No. I'm not that bad...not yet...
Speaking of Triumphs, there's this guy I run into every once in a while on the way to work. He has this big ass monster Triumph. I love the thing!
Nah, it ain't all high performance, but it looks cool and it has that 3 cylinder sound you've mentioned. It'a not like a thump sound, more like a I dunno, a rumbling growl.
I don't know what it is... A thunderbird? It's not a Rocket. I like the way the exhausts look.
kind of like fins on an old cadillac.
.... I dunno what bike I expected her to get... LOL still in shock about her statement...
Also, Going by the tattoo I drew up for her, the club she rides with (borderline 1%ers) you wouldn't think a Beemer.
Personally I think this bike is better suited for what she wants, but still...wow.
Oh well... Now if I can get her to wear a brain bucket. She slammed into the back end of an SUV, face first, about three years ago. You'd think she'd wear one after that nasty face plant.
ROFL maybe your trackday coach and her are distantly related?
I don't take any of it serious, and I don't think you're really Anti-American.
This just sounds like a joke thread, so I figured I'd act like the stereotypical too-easily offended American moron.
You're right about the "rulers" - mostly.
To be honest even though it ain't as glamorous as what people suspect, What they're doing IS messed up. And it's probably going to get worse. And worse still, the rest of the planet will probably just tag along.
This country is slowly headed for its next civil war. We're not just politically divided, there's all sorts of things that are coming to a head here. This will be a multi-factioned war. Different groups fighting different groups for different reasons.
Forget about all those secret society groups and megabuck corporations seizing control. The Bildeburger folks, the illuminati types, everything they have that puts them in power now will be devalued later. Whatever power they thought they had will be torn to shreds by subordinates wanting their own piece of the pie. So they'll be knocked out of the picture pretty early. The Federal Government itself? ROFL, it already runs on imaginary money. The government is committing suicide by over-regulating and over reaching without having the resources to back it. I hate to sound like another doomsday nut, but my opinion is based on what I see and what I hear from people and their attitudes. The economy is held together with spit and string,. Paranoia is a silent pandemic here no one talks about. Ignorance is rampant, morality is shot and intolerance is quietly on the rise. What will happen here will make Bosnia and Rwanda look like a paintball game. Better still? The ripple effect from it will hit everyone else except maybe N. Korea like a tsunami.
Hey Racer X...
You like Conspiracies, right?
I have a nasty one. Unfortunately, it's not just another conspiracy theory and it will eventually wind up directly affecting me.
Ever heard of Fast and Furious? No. Not the movie.
This was some sort of major screw up done by our ATF and Justice Department.
Apparently, they allowed gun runners to buy assault rifles they knew was going into Mexico and into the hands of the cartels down there. Have you heard much on that? One of those guns was used in a hiomicide of a DEA agent. Fast and Furious was supposedly an investigation to track the guns bought by gun runners...WTF??? Any Idiot knew damned good and well where those guns were going. Hell, even the guy at the gun store contacted the ATF about his suspicions of the gunrunner buying guns instead of just filling out the paperwork
But that's what they claimed. What they really were doing was trying to find another lame excuse to disarm us - at least we thought.
It's very important to know the location where this particular action took place.
Recent the DEA admitted to high level deals with the Sinola cartel. Have you heard of them? The guy that runs it is almost as rich a Bill Gates.
They made deals that allowed them to bring in mega amounts of coke in exchange for ratting out their competitors.
Remember about knowing where the Fast and Furious gun "investigation" took place?
It took place in Arizona. The state that's directly above the stronghold of the Sinola cartel.
Another interesting thing about the Sinola Cartel was when President Calderon of Mexico unleashed the blood bath, he all but gave the Sinola cartel a free pass.
Where I live, there's already cartel related violence. It's increasing a little, but nothing like in Mexico, but that's fixing to change. And once it sinks in to the cartel guys that the DEA is truly as big a player as they are, that unwritten rule about going after American police goes out the window. And the restraint they show here in the states will vanish as well.
You like Conspiracies, right?
I have a nasty one. Unfortunately, it's not just another conspiracy theory and it will eventually wind up directly affecting me.
Ever heard of Fast and Furious? No. Not the movie.
This was some sort of major screw up done by our ATF and Justice Department.
Apparently, they allowed gun runners to buy assault rifles they knew was going into Mexico and into the hands of the cartels down there. Have you heard much on that? One of those guns was used in a hiomicide of a DEA agent. Fast and Furious was supposedly an investigation to track the guns bought by gun runners...WTF??? Any Idiot knew damned good and well where those guns were going. Hell, even the guy at the gun store contacted the ATF about his suspicions of the gunrunner buying guns instead of just filling out the paperwork
But that's what they claimed. What they really were doing was trying to find another lame excuse to disarm us - at least we thought.
It's very important to know the location where this particular action took place.
Recent the DEA admitted to high level deals with the Sinola cartel. Have you heard of them? The guy that runs it is almost as rich a Bill Gates.
They made deals that allowed them to bring in mega amounts of coke in exchange for ratting out their competitors.
Remember about knowing where the Fast and Furious gun "investigation" took place?
It took place in Arizona. The state that's directly above the stronghold of the Sinola cartel.
Another interesting thing about the Sinola Cartel was when President Calderon of Mexico unleashed the blood bath, he all but gave the Sinola cartel a free pass.
Where I live, there's already cartel related violence. It's increasing a little, but nothing like in Mexico, but that's fixing to change. And once it sinks in to the cartel guys that the DEA is truly as big a player as they are, that unwritten rule about going after American police goes out the window. And the restraint they show here in the states will vanish as well.
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