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mello dude

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  1. I read it - its argueing - what ifs, possibilties, and maybes. And even if the Pentagon is cut 800 billion, that's over 10 years = 80 B a year, a piss in the bucket. I'm not anti gun, but you might as well worry that the sky is falling.
  2. If your at 14ish at idle and still 14 - 15 at 5000 rpm your good to go. Over 15 I would start to be conserned and below 13 at idle I would start watching it. See what your manual says, but a steady 14.3v is a good thing. --- Oh yeah, put a good overnite 18 hour trickle charge on the battery before you test. Go through your connections and clean them good and you should be fine.
  3. If somebody has been witness to the guy having stolen property in his house - call the police now?
  4. - I like the balanced budget idea, but spend the effort to make it a Consitutional requirement? Dunno on that one, I would rather have term limits. The recent debacle on the debt ceiling reinforces that one. - A balance budget instantly today? Dunno how to do that one either. SS is $700 billion and medicare/medicaid is another $700 billion, defense is $650B and interest on the debt is in the $220B range. So that consumes the 2.2 trillion we take in now and leaves no bucks for the other 20 or so bureaucracys. (Education, Labor, Justice, Energy, etc...) - Then about a dozen years out, SS and medicare will consume all the incoming revenue of the US at the present rate. So between now and then, Washington needs to change their ways or its gonna be nasty.
  5. Well you know if you threw a FZ1 and an RC51 in a blender, the bike that it would spit out would be a VFR..
  6. Sweet! Knees and elbows......
  7. mello dude

    Hot rear quarter

    I'm not usually a custom cruiser bike guy, but I dont know what it is, this bike gets it for me. Jaw dropping job on this bike!
  8. French Canadian, Irish, Polish, American Indian, English. Japanese bikes, Japanese and German cars.
  9. Agreed - I would love to do another fly n ride, but live out there? Um no thanks, - its the land of political whackjobs and lunacity, and waaay too damn much traffic, and very expensive.
  10. Ok I'll bite - Favorites in no particular order -- Been riding in the 12 states below - all are great. NorCal Oregon Arizona New Mexico Colorado Ohio West Virginia Tennesese Kentucky North Carolina Georgia Virginia Havent been riding in below but no reason they shouldnt be great too. Washington Montana Pennsylvania Utah New York NH Vermont Maine That's enuff to keep busy. Have road, will ride.....
  11. I dont think you can say any one state is "best". There are so many good places to ride. ---- On the other end of the stick, there is def states that would suck, starting with Florida and Kansas.
  12. Did a riding vacation of about 2900 miles in north california - awesome place to ride. Florida, Kansas, Iowa? BS....
  13. Fail ---list made by people who dont ride.......
  14. That sucks dude...Does this help? http://www.ronayers.com/Fiche/TypeID/26/Type/Motorcycle/MakeID/1/Make/Honda/YearID/40/Year/1999/ModelID/7498/Model/VTR1000F/GroupID/329543/Group/COWL
  15. 12 and 13, but both look like near new
  16. I did it on my vfr and got sucked into the twistys and earned a ticket. 35 is too slow on a sporty bike. I want to get back on the Valkyrie for a laid back style ride and that will be much better. Major tip - watch out for deer and bears! Saw a couple bears and mucho deer. Especially in the late afternoon and evenings. Also take the wife out on some practice rides in SE Ohio for a warm up. Good luck
  17. The V4 is the soul of the bike. You know how sporty v twins have great mid range torque but top out at around 9-10K? And that inlines kinda miss something in the midrange but come alive if you rev it with red line at 13 - 14K? The viffer engine is the blend of the 2, wide tractable power mid to top, and with a top end hit too. - If that isnt enuff juice, theres a supercharger kit that will put in on par with liter bikes.
  18. Your list seems to be a confluence of stuff, but busa and blackbird come to mind. And the obvious.......
  19. I like the yahoo version ... http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/blog/from_the_marbles/post/Video-Two-cycles-dance-in-the-funniest-wreck-of?urn=nascar-wp2122 LOL!!!
  20. I had a 4th gen VFR and rode it for 28K miles. Great ride and loved the thing. But a vacation on a 5th gen had me wanting one. The engine is stronger and revs quicker than the 4th gen, and the bike overall just feels like that they took everything that was good/great about the 4th gen and amplified all that into the design of the 5th gen. Yeah I bought a '98. The gear driven cams are still alive and well. Of the 5th gens, there were 2 generations, the '98 & '99 and the '00 & '01. The '98s & '99s are the more coveted with the larger diameter headers and no cat. Good luck on the new bike search.
  21. I'm a diehard 5th gen VFR crazy, but that SV has about everything on it that you could want to upgrade on the thing. Still a VFR will do anything you want it to do long distance, twists and local commuting. I guess it depends what are you up for and what bucks you want to spend.
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