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I have heard just about every level of dumb from people I meet when riding my Duc. How fast, how old, must be expensive, who makes it? The list goes on forever. I actually dread a crowded gas station just because I don't want to have to think about the stupidity of the non-riding public once I get back on the road.

Haven't raced many cars but I did outrun a black early 2000's model Mustang last year. He pulled the red light gag and it was one of those moments I just had to do it. I may not have huge top speeds but it should still pull a 12 flat in the quarter. Takes alot of car to match that kind of acceleration. Well that and he had his windows down and I just felt like blasting him with the exhaust.

Not a pilot but I am an A&P. 15 years in the industry wrenching, avionics and more recently maintenance control.

As funny as it sounds, I prefer Tool's cover of No Quarter to the Trent Reznor cover.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdn-axLUnKs

I put for sport touring and other. My Duc is a cafe racer.

I can't see the problem with it. I rode on the back of my dads old CB450 when I was roughly 9-10. The only gear back in those days was a gold metal flake open face helmet and leather gardening gloves. We never went far but it was fun. These days I still have to take a look anytime I pass an old Honda twin just to reminisce for the good old days.

For the guys who where talking kit bikes. Here is a link for a guy that did something similar. It's a '78 motor and frame with modern sportclassic suspension parts and other goodies thrown into the mix.

http://www.bikeexif.com/ducati-900-gts

The Tron bike is cool but they never got the sound of it with those pipes right for the trailer. Should sound closer to this;

http://s267.photobucket.com/albums/ii281/vf1000ride/?action=view&current=PICT4383.mp4

or on the dyno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhWo4bwuiAs

Seen a pair of Ariel Square Fours touring British bike shops on a weekend, looking for parts.

I don't think they found anything they could use...

I forgot I had seen one of those up at the vintage weekend in 09 at Mid-O. That and a turbocharged Honda CBX. I could only wish to have ridden or owned either machine.

I had an '85 Honda VF1000F that I ended up having to sell after losing my job back in 2001. Had never seen another one in person until Mid-Ohio races last year somebody rode one in. Spent almost 20 minutes staring at it trying to figure out if it was my old one or not, don't think it was. I couldn't find any of the scratches I knew mine had.

My current bike, the Ducati SportClassic is not quite as rare but still something that you almost never see anywhere. I know of at least 6 in Columbus but only 1 other in the same color.

13 long guns and 9 pistols.

Here is the bike they modeled it after. A mid 70's Sport 750.

You can start to see the styling similarities when you compare it to a new one.

I just wish I owned the older one to go with my '07

Edit: Jamez, check out the NCR New Blue. It is a faired sport classic with higher tucked in pipes.

I have a yellow '07 sportclassic. The one in your pics is a black '07 or newer as it is a Biposto. Nobody makes an undertail exhaust for the '07 and up, you need an '06 mono for the Zard underseat kit. As for the ethanol intolerant tank, yes. I have already had my tank replaced twice due to swelling, distortion and paint pealing.

Still love the bike and would buy it again if I had it to do over.

That's cool. I have never done a full load buildup for match ammo in a bolt action gun so maybe it is that much easier and more consistent.

I always ran the Garands with a full enbloc (8rds) as the accuracy of the gun changes from first shot to the last in the clip. Best thing I can figure is due to the speed at which the bolt closes and how good the lockup of the bolt is on each round. The first one from the clip is harder to strip out and amazingly enough will always end up shooting to a different poi than the next 6, the last shot is the same for some reason it always ends up being a small amount off from the rest. It was helpful to see where each round in the clip was going to go as I did my load buildup. The shooter can also affect accuracy when you single load rounds in a Garand if you don't allow the bolt to close at the same speed each time.

Here is a target I shot at 300yds prone. First shot was bottom left, the following 7 shots started at bottom right and worked their way up and left as the gun heated up. I can't say it was my best work with the gun but I have always kept the scan of this target as it really shows the first round flier you can expect every time with my rifle.

I did the same thing for my match ammo years ago until I found the speeds and accuracy that suited me. Don't forget to mention that if you are looking to keep the same recipe for a long time you need to buy your supplies in bulk. Theoretically if you change to a different lot of powder, bullets, brass or primers everything you worked for in the initial tests can be changed. When I was making match ammo for my Garands I would load 3-4 thousand rounds at a time so I would know I had enough ammo for 2 years worth of shooting without having to do any adjustment to the load formula.

Unless I missed it why did you settle for 3rnd groups and not a larger testing group at each powder weight?

With the semi-auto guns I am used to, I shoot 5-10rnd groups to get a better statistical average. With the Garands I shoot 8rnd groups just as it makes loading easier. Granted even with all the mods and load development I put into my Garand it is just at 1MOA. For a 65 year old semi-auto battle rifle with iron sights, she doesn't shoot bad. As an example with military surplus ball ammo it shoots into 6 inch groups at 100 yards. So to agree with Flounder, you can see that with handloading and doing proper testing you can make almost any rifle shoot better, some can be very much better.

Sportbike track gear has them beat by $8 for the pair with free shipping also. It's all in who you like to buy them from.

Edit; forgot to mention with CA they have a retail store in Ohio so you have to pay sales tax.

Kinda reminds me of Vic Rattlehead from Megadeth. Look on the bright side, you have a cool image of your melon most people never get to see.

i4 > v2

l2 > i4 > v2

Oh come on, nobody wants to have a fun discusion about angular momentums and gyroscopic precession?

Yes the front tire must go left so you can turn right but the falling over part is really a kindergarden level explanation. You can ride a motorcycle leaned over pretty far and have it continue in a straight line if you apply the correct forces. The lean angle is not what makes a bike turn but is only a byproduct of the physics involved.

I am still confused as to the hatred some people have for the 1911. I have always found the design to be super simple compared to other guns, both old and new. Heck try taking apart a Mauser or Luger pistol from the same era, they are like working on a jigsaw puzzle.

On the cleaning thing, why so hard? Of the 8 handguns I currently have the 1911 is the easiest to work with and takes the least amount of time to clean. You rack the slide, turn the gun upside down and clean inside the barrel. Close the slide and strip the slide off the lower frame and spray out the inside with CLP or your preferred aerosol cleaner. Reassemble slide to frame and you are done in under 5 minutes. No fuss, no hassle. As for the detailed stripping thing and this is the gods honest truth. I have had my 1911 since new when I purchased it in 1999 and up until January of this year I had never detail stripped the gun. 12 years and well over 15 thousand rounds of ammo and there was no need to remove the grip safety and clean inside the backstrap of the pistol. Even still, the only reason I took it apart is because I was going to be field stripping a WWI GI 1911 and wanted to be sure I could do it without scratching or damaging anything. With normal use and care you may never see inside that part of your gun.

I find the trigger on my 1911 to be one of the best of any handgun I own. The trigger pull is light and crisp. It has a total travel of .1 inch and it breaks with only .05 inch of movement. It is repeatable and consistent with a very fast reset and short pull. Obviously trigger dynamics are personal preference, some people enjoy long drawn out trigger pulls. You can't fault a handgun for a trigger when the only way to quantify it is by personal preference. Let the prospective buyer fire one and make their own choice. I had a Beretta Neos pistol with what I felt was the worst trigger I had ever felt on a handgun yet I don't knock that pistol because it was also one of the most accurate and cool looking .22's I had ever owned.

The dirt bike is a still clip from the video. And yes it does fall off.

http://youtu.be/JeJ0O4ZDc6M

Back when I was young.

My first TV didn't have a remote (neither did the stereo), you had to get off your butt and turn the knob to change the channels. We had to upgrade from pulse dialing to tone dialing on the phone so we could use free dialup internet (Juno if I remember) and the pc we owned still had dual floppy drives, cd's for computers hadn't been invented yet. Taking a rifle to school was OK as long as you where on the shooting team and you had practice that day. Audio CD's where new technology and I spent years replacing all my cassette tapes. Riding dirtbikes on the street was accepted by the police as long as you gave cars right of way. Most certainly different times.

In Pennsylvania they will continue to pull you clear to the curb and ticket you. They have a law on the books that if you are lagging in the left lane and holding up traffic you will be fined. That twit was lucky they weren't a few bills lighter in the wallet.

Found this one today, not a fast pass but he wins for sheer lack of altitude.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=da9_1301883563

I use it on my Linux machines and it seems to work just fine.

I have nothing in the new car, just the factory stereo. My last car was an '01 GTI and I had 1500watts worth of stuff in that car.

Front's and rear's where Boston Acoustics Pro6.5 speakers powered from a JL audio 300/4 amp. 75 watts to each of the 4 channels.

Subs where a pair of 10 inch Eclipse 88100dvc's wired for 1ohm and being powered by an Orion HCCA 275G4 competition amp. It was pushing 1200watts into the subs. I had the remote gain control so you could back the subs down when you wanted to listen to normal music.

I also ran an Audio Controls EQ, a pair of optima batteries, 1 farad cap on the stereo, a .25 farad cap for the engine computer, a custom 265 amp Bosch alternator and enough 4 gauge wire to weigh down a small country. Here are pics of the amp and subs when I had them pulled out when I sold the car.

(and yes the floor tiles are 1 foot squares, it's a friggin big amp:rolleyes:)

Sorry, maybe the sarcasm didn't come across strong enough. I meant to say that if you leave your gun in the safe untouched for 5-6 years, when it doesn't work it is probably operator error.

Edit, I currently have 10 guns that are all over 60 years old. Only one of them is known to have springs installed recently and it is my Garand that is tuned for match shooting. I can gladly attest to the fact that 60-100 year old springs work darn good.