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Pay attention. They make it easy for you to tell who to taze by making us talk with funny accents or have dark skin. Dark skin AND funny accent = you get to use the shotgun tazer in his mansack. Tazing protocol 101: "Ola Amigo." = TAZE "Could you direct me and my black friends to a place where I can engage in the purchase and/or sale of unlicensed pharmaceuticals?" = TAZE twice. "Jolly good show old chap." = Potentially taze - if the limey bastard is being followed by drooling American girls who think his accent is dreamy. "Excuse me officer, but could you direct me an my white male friends to the golf tournament" = DO NOT TAZE, unles he shouts "Don't taze me bro". "Bad cop, no donut" / "I pay your salary" / "Why don't you catch some real criminals" etc = Just attach jumper cables from your alternator to his nuts and nipples and rev the engine until you run out of gas. Call backup to bring more gas. Did that make it more clear for you?

Why does it need all new gaskets and seals after 2.7k miles?? Seriously - Scam City.

The bit I can't get past is where footage of the mass Katrina confiscation is portrayed, without clarification, as a potential threat under "Obama's" new ATF rules. The style and content of that video was intended to stir emotion and fear, not rational debate and discourse - otherwise why the unattributed katrina video? The Katrina confiscation was a huge travesty and massive violation of the constitution. What president would allow that?

Raise your hand if you'd like Uncle Punk on the inside.

You warm up your boxing skills, and I'll ro-shambo you squaaar in the nootz. That's all I will be able to do because Obama himself will come to my house and confiscate all my guns, knives and everything dangerous from my house except for dull sporks. (which I will have to get a permit for). Right after that hes going to start tattooing and gassing people, because he's hitler reincarnate, supposedly.

He can tell me if my ankle is strong enough to support the weight of the bike, or is repetitive dorsiflexion from upshifts will cause problems with the ligaments that cross to front of my ankle (the ligaments that hurt like a mofo when they are used during physio)

Have doc appt on monday the 8th to review the progress I've made with my physio since I broke and sprained my ankle ~5 weeks ago. I'm hoping he'll clearme to drive stick, and explain what criteria he'd use to deem me fit to ride again. I'm hoping it's not something like; 'Your ankle has to be strong enough to save the bike from tipping over on your weak side.'

I am pro-gun and even I can't make it through that propaganda.

First time Obama orders civillians to be gassed to death you can make those comparisons.

Are there still people who believe he was born in kenya? Really? If there was any actual truth to that the the GOP would be all over it, no? (Not that it matters as his mother was a born citizen and passed her citizenship to him)

Definitely need to know bikes inside and out to be sure you won't get something you can't fix. Would hate to pick up a bike with only wrecked plastics and then find out you have a bad engine, edu or ecu harness etc. Those things aren't cheap.

How logn did the last ice age last? Not gonna be around that long. No care.

We need to get that guy a thermometer.

If it was economical to fix the bike up to pre-accident condition for less $$$ than the book value then the insurance company would have just fixed the bike rather than totalling it. If you want to flip a salvage bike then plan on sellign it for half of what it would fetch if original,and even then you will have to show it is properly fixed.

I'd buy a salvage title bike for the project, but onyl as a fun project / spare bike type thing. Not as a flip/investment or a daily rider that I would rely on. Also, if you have a salvage title then don't expect non-salvage $$$ from the insurance company if it gets wrecked (again). Even if you fix it up to pre-accident condition then you still have a salvage title bike and they are simply worth much less than an original bike. They are only worth what someone will pay for it - and I won't pay top $$$ for a salvage title bike. Would you?

http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2011/aug/01/motorcyclist-injured-i-270-eb-crash-north-side-ar-654759/

I'll start a new thread for the 270 accident.

That's obviosuly a different wreck (or the OP predicted the accident 4 hours before it happened...) Maybe the mods can split that post out into its own thread?

Do you leave the windows open during that day? Too many pop-up storms for that... I work in an office shirt/dockers type setup - I can't do my Lumberg impression with massive pit stains.

Spending will always go up as long as we keep having more babies.

Sorry to burst your bubble. Maybe your bubble should have been wearing a helmet...

A/C is my saviour. I did the proper conversion from R12 to R134 in the Gimpmobile (new compressor/ascumulator/all o-rings, evacuated to 29" for an hour, made sure it held for 24h, recharged...) Just got in the car to go to lunch now, 93F outside, 130F inside the car - within 2 minutes of driving it's spewing 44F air. When I first got the car it as R12 and all leaked out - 85F days were horrible. 95F would have been unbearable for my 7yo. If anyone is thinking of the R12-R134 conversion kits, don't do it unless you can evacuate the system. It didn't work well at all (only 20deg temp drop across the evap, 10 minutes to get to 50F vent temp) with the R134 added into an "empty" r12 system, but once the job was done right it it much cooler.

You are I are actually in agreement. I was jsut saying that gear is not a guarantee of safety, but it doesn't hurt to wear it. Don't forget the Chinese man who jumped from 22 floors and survived.... And Dr Atkins who slipped on ice and died. Accidents are inherently dynamic events that are difficult to predict. Any amount of gear may or may not help - it's a roll of the dice. Having said that, hitting a minivan head-on at road speeds is like a roll of heavily weighted dice. I'm ATGATT becuase i want to give myself the best chance of coming away from an accident with a few injuries as possible, but I'm not kidding myself that a helmet is a 30' wide magic force field of silk pillows or some such bollocks.

This is different than someone next to you in traffic when you are both civillians. At that point I consider eye contact to be a challenge and get out and brutally murder the other guy with a spork. An officer is going to be taking greater interest in the cars around him and he's looking for minorities to taze, and if he looks over and you're hiding your face or spend the whole light cycle staring through your passenger window because he's on your left... Well... They he may just consider you to be an honorary minority until he can wear out the batteries in his X26.

You won't have to worry about getting old if you're riding without gear.