redkow97

FYI - i just texted my friend Jeff. He'll be Control Riding on the blue/white R6, #15. He's running Dunlop 211 DOT race tires this weekend. If you've got street tires, you'll have more grip than he does in wet conditions. It can be done.

maybe. I usually don't filter through traffic the way those guys were. definitely not at the speed they were doing it. Honestly, I'd probably just chill in traffic. If they try to ticket me for reckless operation or whatever, I'd challenge them to prove I actually did it. It didn't appear that any of the police officers witnessed anything, and there were a LOT of bikes. Prove it was ME who was doing wheelies, etc. If they're confiscating the video, then fine. Show me where I broke the law, and I'll happily plead guilty to any charge they can actually prove, but simply being around those guys shouldn't be a charge that sticks.

Stephen Hawking explained that in one of his special's. His assumption was that it's a scientific impossibility to travel faster than the speed of light, thus if you were to do what you described, time would slow down explicitly to prevent you from moving faster than the speed of light, relative to the outside surroundings. Thus the craft you're traveling in would be moving through time, as well as space. that's the dumbed-down version, but it kind of makes sense. Of course you have to base the whole theory on the assumption that the speed of light is THE limit of speed in the universe.

BeaveRun has good traction in wet conditions. Don't sweat it too much. Just exaggerate your body positioning to keep the bike more upright, and apply brakes/gas more gently and smoothly. riding in the rain isn't so difficult, because the track conditions are pretty consistent. it's kind of like driving in the snow - once you're used to it, it's business as usual. What I find harder is when the rain stops, and there's good traction in certain places, and a river running across the track in Turn 7 (watch out for that btw). Really throws off your rhythm. And as the track dries, or if it starts raining again, you're never 100% sure that the limit is the same from one lap to the next... Otherwise just have fun, and keep it conservative. Riding all stressed out about wet conditions isn't super fun for me. Finding a way to make it a game (even if that means slowing down) is a lot more enjoyable. I've spent entire rain sessions experimenting with locking up the rear brake on corner entry, and trying to spin up the rear in a controlled manner on exit. I've also spent a considerable amount of time trying to splash other riders by passing them through puddles Just be sure you're not being unpredictable when doing that. darting to the right or left is dangerous, so you've got to plan your puddles well in advance so the people behind you know what you're doing, and can get around if they're quicker.

basically, yeah. There is no penalty for the police when they're "wrong," unless they infringe upon your civil rights, or beat you up or something. Even then, you pretty much have to be a minority for anyone to care. Parma police shot an unarmed white kid. there's some local outcry (posters, a plane with a banner a few weeks ago), but no media coverage. I was in Ocean City, MD for a bachelor party. The people below us called the cops on us (noise) at 8:30 PM. There were 17 guys there. 1 is a police officer, 1 is a licensed attorney, and 2 of us are law students. The responding officers told us (direct quote), "if we have to come back, everyone in the house will be arrested and taken to jail." That is flatly bullshit, but strangely, the people who work in legal professions were the least outraged. "YOU CAN'T ARREST SOMEONE FOR A NOISE COMPLAINT!" blah blah blah. Suddenly my friend the mechanical engineer knows more about law than the attorneys? The fact is, you can't get someone convicted of anything but a minor fine for a noise complaint. The police would have just called the landlord of our rented condo, said, "hey, we're going to slap you with this $2,500 fine for a noise violation ...or you can issue a criminal trespass notice to the people you're currently renting to." Then they would have arrested us for trespassing, disorderly conduct, public intox, etc., and taken us to jail. In the morning, we would have been arraigned, the charges would have been dismissed or plead-down to minor fines, and we would have been free to go. But the fact remains, we would have spent the night in jail. I suppose we could have filed malicious prosecution claims against the police officers and/or the landlord if we'd really wanted to make a point about it, but it's a lot easier and less expensive to just walk away and let the police make their point: "we don't tolerate that shit around here." we ended up getting a hotel room so we could be rowdy when the strippers got there at 11:00

I was surprised to read "nearly 1,000 lbs empty," so I did a quick search. I also found some info on the breaker in the process: I have casually looked into buying a used tub, because my back patio is perfect for it... I'd buy something used though. They seem to depreciate VERY quickly.

p.s. - if you contact our site sponsoring vendors, RidersDiscount.com, I believe they can get you pretty good pricing on a GoPro setup.

GoPro is the most popular, and from what I've seen, there's a good reason. I am sure tehy are not the "best" setup available, but the available accessories and knowledge out there makes it my first choice. It's kind of like the Mac v. PC debate... Mac's might legitimately be better, but there's a lot more "stuff" for PC, and more people are familiar with them. That makes the GoPro more practical, if not "better."

My wife's sister has a CR-V (she lives w/ us. I have driven it a lot), and then friends of mine have the latest generation. The new ones are larger, which is a good thing. The old gen isn't 'cramped,' but it feels more like a tall car than a light SUV. Some may call that a good thing. Nothing bad to say about the Honda, except that there is no V6 option. That said, even the older generation does pretty well with the 4 cylinder. If you're not 100% sold on the Honda, do yourself a favor and check out the new gen Hyundai Tucson. I have the old gen, which is totally different, but I read really good things about the new one. Choices are a 2.4 liter 4 cylinder, or 2 liter turbo (I think). All this talk about how advanced the AWD systems are is pointless, IMHO. Your wife isn't going off-roading; she's going to drive in Columbus snow, and maybe you'll take it on a couple camping trips. whichever AWD system hurts gas mileage the least, and won't fall apart is what you want. The Honda probably fits the bill. But definitely take a look at the Hyundai/Kia models. The are vastly improved in the last couple years, and the warranties are still really good.

you're assuming that stupid people have an objection to hypocrisy.

clearly this guy didn't belong in "open." Why wasn't he moved down? This situation is precisely why I don't like riders being allowed to register for whatever group they want. Every time I bring that up, people say, "the orgs will move people down or up if they're not in the right group." It would appear that didn't happen. I am not going to pretend that moving the guy down would have prevented him from crashing, but it sure sounds like he was causing others a LOT of grief by being unpredictable and off-line in open. Yes, most people are realistic about their riding abilities, and this guy is probably the exception to the rule - but you're dealing with serious speeds and danger. Isn't one dangerous rider one too many?

may stop by on Sunday. Debating between that and browns game... I won't be riding, but I'll know at least 5 or 6 people who will be...

**okay it was only 6 people, and some were his cousins, but this is what I was thinking of. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/02/chief-teens-drown-red-river-shreveport-la-crews-searching/

I knew it was a stereotype, but I thought it was a joke until I saw a news story about a black family having a picnic by a river. 1 of the kids went in too deep, and his 7 brothers and sisters all died trying to save him. Not kidding. The news was interviewing friends of the family, and one of them said that swimming is "something white people do."

because kicking his ass would be battery, and the police would have arrested both of them.

at that speed, you can't exactly alter your course very easily. If he was going to hit the tumbling bike, there wouldn't have been a whole lot he could do to avoid it. Once you're past it, may as well get as far away as possible as quickly as possible. There's a good chance that warranted a red flag, and slowing down only keeps the rider waiting for a bus ride that much longer. Basically that's what happened to my bike, except in the grass, and not as fast. Spun the rear, and then it caught and tumbled after the rider and bike had parted ways. Something tells me his repair bill will be higher though.

I really hope black people find that swimming joke as hilarious as I do.

i usually think those things are staged too, but if that one was, they were decent actors. It seemed pretty real. Now that said, it's a stone-cold fact that they can't show the guy's face on TV w/o his consent, so after the fact, I am sure the "rug" got paid something to let them use the footage on their show. actually, it's kind of win/win/win in a ultra hill-jack way... Finance company got their bike, repo guy got his payday, and the rug got some cash for being an aggressive jerkoff.

you're talking about Shervin "RRR" (he added an extra R to be unique). That guy was a trip and a half... huge holes in his frame "to reduce weight and drag." He shaved the tips off the teeth on his rear sprocket to save weight. cut out a bunch of holes in his tail section "to lower wind resistance" and rattle-canned so many parts on his bike that it looks ridiculous... http://www.flickr.com/people/shervinrrr/

I think Dr. Paul's primary point is that policing the world is not cost-effective for us, and may even piss off more people than it helps. I agree w/ the fiscal part. If we stopped spending money on foreign wars, and spent half that amount on defense, we'd be fine, and in a ton less debt. regarding homosexuals, I think Dr. Paul is relatively neutral on that. He'll just say, "the states should be able to decide," without actively taking a position.

i'd be more likely to use that gun on myself than either of those boys, or my daughter. Sorry - if my daughter is willing to get double-teamed at 16, I fucked up way worse than aiming a gun at someone a long time ago.

ps. - i think this pic sucks more than the first one (from a body-postion standpoint. No disrespect, Marty )

so they were moved down to novice, and one of them still crashed?

would you care to elaborate?

a pickle. Makes a great chain-cleaning tool. Someone posted an article testing it a while back. Works great. And the Pit-Bull trailer restraint system. I know i metaphorically suck it off on a regular basis, but I have a nervous disposition to begin with. Transporting my bike with straps would literally have given me ulcers by now. Every time I hit a bump, I would worry that the suspension was going to compress, and the straps would go slack enough to cause one of the hooks to let go. with the TRS, I no longer need my wife to sit on the bike while I strap it down, and once it's clipped in, I am 100% confident that it's not going to fall over mid transport. That alone makes it worth the money, but the fact that you can do away with straps frees up a lot of trailer space too. I had Imprez55's bike on the trailer with mine. His fell over once during loading, and even after it was securely strapped down, routing straps to their appropriate anchor points was a royal pain. Using straps on both bikes would have been a nightmare.