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    Stupidly overpriced motorcycle for sale thread

    Maybe a professional comedian built it. It's obvious the owner has never ridden the thing... studded rear tire with no studded front tire tire means it WILL NOT steer. It will follow the direction of the rear.
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    latest on the new Safety Cert Drive On program...

    The inspection hasn't changed, the reporting of the inspection has changed. Everything has to be documented. If your Deuce coupe would have passed a 'cert a year ago, your deuce coupe should pass a 'cert Apr.1. If your deuce coupe would have passed a 'cert last year... with a wink and a nod...
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    What did you do in your garage today..?

    you'll get better traction from that rear wheel if you install longer struts. You want the swingarm at 7-12 degrees downward slope to get the virtual traction patch in front of the actual contact patch. The tire will work better. ... and get Shinkos
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    No laws against headlights

    The Safari/Astro vans had a light sensor on the dash, if the truck was in gear the daytime lights came on at 60%, no dash lights. When it got dark (or you went though a tunnel, or threw stuff on the dash) the lights came on. PERFECT That truck shared it's electronic package with almost every...
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    Auto shop feedback

    Your auto insurance is for claims while driving... it is not set up for "consumer protection", which is your issue. Your insurance company has decided it is cheaper to pay you out that to try to recoup your losses... mainly because this isn't your auto insurance purview. This isn't why you buy...
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    Good news thread

    While we would lose SOME plant life, bees do not pollinate everything... mostly stuff with flowers. Grains and trees get pollinated by the wind. ... and honey bees, the ones that everyone wants to protect, actually do comparatively little pollination (there are thousands of species of bees)...
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    Interesting break down stories?

    Being young, broke and stupid: didn't understand the necessity of a drive shaft loop. Buddy has a '69 big block Camaro, running as big a tire as we could get in 1976. Nice launch, lowest 60 ft time we've seen from the car, hits third, twists the drive shaft and the front half tried to beat it's...
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    Interesting break down stories?

    Spent a week of nights swapping out the K member of buddy's '67 Dodge race car, with a real cool tube coil over setup. He did a couple of runs on Saturday, it works GREAT... on the third run of the day, he hit it HARD, pulled the front wheels off the ground AND THE RIGHT FRONT WHEEL FALLS OFF...
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    Interesting break down stories?

    Newly married, 1 yr old kid, just bought a house... and the diff bearings in the wife's car goes CRUNCH... and she NEEDS the car. So according to all my friends, the manual AND Autodata: the motor and trans have to come out... but you know me... I'm smarter than the average bear, I can do it...
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    If You Could Turn Back Time

    I knew a few Nortel millionaires. Good friend was a secretary at Nortel, she went nuts on shares, bought as much as she could afford (Nortel would match the investment). There was a time she was worth a couple million. She was complaining about her husband's drinking and he said he should have...
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    If You Could Turn Back Time

    '89 was a high point in Canadian motorcycle racing. There was REAL prize money, contingency money, sponsors... the whole show. Now you're lucky to see 100 spectators that aren't directly related to a racer.
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    If You Could Turn Back Time

    Selective memory. The late '60s was a **** storm... and the dope was crap... all sticks and seeds... the acid was pretty good and 'ludes were a buck each. I was "coming of age" in the late '60s and I believed. My theme song was CSNY Chicago and I, and a LOT of others thought we COULD "Change the...
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    If You Could Turn Back Time

    Don't get married, buy Apple at $22 in 1980, then BTC at $2
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    KTM's Parent Company Isn't Doing Hot, Shifting More Production to China and India

    All the teams pay for Dorna... some pay more, some pay less. Ducati pays nothing... or close to nothing. Ferrari gets the same free ride in F1.
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    Stupidly overpriced motorcycle for sale thread

    Check again https://bringatrailer.com/honda/rc-four/?q=rc30 He is a tad optimistic on that price. The rare colour was only in Australia, not America where the money is. The rare colour may be a detriment... some yank will buy it and put regular bodywork on it. I betcha, IF it sells, it goes to...
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    LA Fires

    I hear the insurance companies saw this coming... and cancelled huge swaths of insurance policies.
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    Speed camera update (Sept.11)

    "Speed cameras are a cash grab" FFS give it a rest. If a speed enforcement camera is a "cash grab" you're an idiot if you get caught. Speed cameras are a tax on the stupid. In a hypothetical world: let's say Toronto Police services set up a well marked radar car on Parkside, 24/7/365 at the...
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    Speed camera update (Sept.11)

    Here is ONE of the problems. MOST people are pretty awful drivers, making pretty awful decisions... and these are the people that are speeding on Parkside, AND complaining about the speed of Parkside, which is a VERY residential street, with one of the largest parks in Canada on one side...
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    Prices went up

    Free market economy? When is this gonna start? We live in a free market economy just like Russia is a communist economy. Our free market economy is NOT free. Tesla would not exist without government subsidy. The auto industry, on a whole, would not exist. The oil and gas industry would not...
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    Prices went up

    I live in farm country. The local grocer has a deal with a local egg farm and sells their "non standard" eggs. Commercial eggs are VERY controlled as to size and weight and most egg farms sell non standards as "egg product". The eggs are 25-30% larger and heavier, and $3.50/doz for large, $3/doz...
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