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And was reading with glee the snippet about the S1000RR on page 10-11 and the end of the story has been left out!! And amongst other errors did you know that changes have been made to the CBR to broaden torque between 8000 and 120,000 RPM. Man the new honda revs!! Lots of mistakes creeping in again guys. Standards are slipping.......
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Shit My Honda 919 only revs to 95,000 rpm.Originally Posted by Anthrax
Maybe that's why the magazine is in a sealed plastic bag this month...
I subscribe to Cycle World magazine and I received a issue a couple of months ago with a 6 page section repeated twice!
So they are in good company
What they need to do is throw in the occasional tittie picture to take your mind off any errors..........or so I was told by a guy in publishing...........
百人看不懂
Doing Proof reading sucks balls...
I know firsthand that its bloody hard to do a publication without any little mistakes present! I've just finished a 484 page catalogue. Even though I don't know where the mistakes are, I know its not 100% accurate -that's what disclaimers are for
BMW Motorrad
Not only Kiwi Rider but Bike Trader mag made some good mistakes too (while back in 2007 and 08).
Such as, there was a review of a ST1050 on one page and a review about the Piaggio MP3 on the other. The spec of the MP3 showing 1050cc. Was tempted to buy one.
Also the infamous year 2066 VL1600 NOMAD on the front page.
Still got them both mags.
If you can make it on Kiwibiker you can make it anywhere.
Scooter boy
Two Wheels magazine is so full of small mistakes some paragraphs are almost gibberish. Things must be getting desperate for the Aussies, as they are now including porno advertisements to make ends meet.
Are these the final days for a once great bike mag?
He who rides fastest, rides alone.
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Bling to the person who finds the stupid mistake in my latest blog entry. I spotted it about 24 hours ago. Well after everyone who is going to read it has.
It isn't as easy as you'd sometimes think it is, despite re-reads, rewrites, crumple-it-up-and-throw-it-in-the-bin-ites, and screwing up layouts by inserting pictures, and then finding that you'd re-used a photo you'd already used in another blog, I still missed one little contextual spelling mistake.
KR has come a long way in the last 3 or 4 years. A long, long way.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
parting of the sensory
I don't want no blingz. I spotted errors in your last two blogs, but figured overall they were so excellent (Dude!) that to pick on a coupla typos would be churlish.
So I didn't.
But it's "it's" in the last one.
So you can stop looking now.
However, "slack-jawed" should be, and "road-oriented", if you like.
I'd also change "Raked out" to raked out" or mebbe even "raked-out" and "19 inch" to "19-inch" if I was being an arseholey pedantrist.
Fukkit Jim - just send me your blog to proofread, so I don't feel so mean....
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
Deus ex ukulele
Reading things out loud before hitting "submit" is a great way of flushing out the errant and obscure.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
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Harley-Davidson "is" due to being informed so by the Motor Company. Big Dave also.I don't want no blingz. I spotted errors in your last two blogs, but figured overall they were so excellent (Dude!) that to pick on a coupla typos would be churlish.
So I didn't.
But it's "it's" in the last one.
So you can stop looking now.
However, "slack-jawed" should be, and "road-oriented", if you like.
I'd also change "Raked out" to raked out" or mebbe even "raked-out" and "19 inch" to "19-inch" if I was being an arseholey pedantrist.
Fukkit Jim - just send me your blog to proofread, so I don't feel so mean....
The "it's" is the one I was thinking of, but I just found another. Bling to de dude (or dudette) who done finds that one!
Thanks V-Man!
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
thinks it's real.
I know what you mean. First job out of uni was a 500 page catalogue, first draft came back with about 300 corrections. Second draft came back with 350...Doing Proof reading sucks balls...
I know firsthand that its bloody hard to do a publication without any little mistakes present! I've just finished a 484 page catalogue. Even though I don't know where the mistakes are, I know its not 100% accurate -that's what disclaimers are for
Grumpy Old Bastard
You have a comma preceding an "and" in your first paragraph after the quote...
I regularly put out a newsletter. It ALWAYS has some errors in it despite my best endeavours. I find I do better proof reading a printout of it than reading it on screen...dunno why. I have got to the stage where I just think "Fuck it! Good to go!"
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
Cyborg Biker
Use to work for a newspaper, and it is blardy difficult damn near impossible to get everything perfect. Every issue after it had gone through the process of proof reading (by a qualified proof ready person) and the reproofed etc... printed we would always find few errors through out...
The bigger the publication the harder it becomes to control and get everything.
Still in the printing industry today, and it hasn't changed. You would be supprised on the errors that are picked up and the ones that are missed.
Homo Sapiens Vulgaris
[QUOTE=James Deuce;1129265792]Well, if you want to get anal - AND and REALLY are written in all-caps which isn't exactly kosher. But since I presume you did that on purpose...
If you are writing on a serious level you will not use contractions such as don't, won't, it's and can't unless you are trying to impart an amount of animation to a written dialogue. Of course, blogging does not constitute formal writing so I suppose that isn't what you are thinking about either.
Neither "Sports bike" nor "Road racing" constitute a full sentence - they should be seperated by commas since you are effectively creating a list. But I dare assume you did that on purpose too.
But there is one error that I am certain you did not do on purpose. There's no space between 150 and mm nor between 400 and kg.(Also I have to assume you mean a 240 mm section... but there's no unit provided.)
Your writing is great Jim. Don't worry about it
It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. - Joseph Rotblat
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Cheers Mssrs Slofox and Mikkel!
Well, if you want to get anal - AND and REALLY are written in all-caps which isn't exactly kosher. But since I presume you did that on purpose...
If you are writing on a serious level you will not use contractions such as don't, won't, it's and can't unless you are trying to impart an amount of animation to a written dialogue. Of course, blogging does not constitute formal writing so I suppose that isn't what you are thinking about either.
Neither "Sports bike" nor "Road racing" constitute a full sentence - they should be seperated by commas since you are effectively creating a list. But I dare assume you did that on purpose too.
But there is one error that I am certain you did not do on purpose. There's no space between 150 and mm nor between 400 and kg.
Your writing is great Jim. Don't worry about it
The lack of space between value and unit is due to a formal technical engineering background. That's how "they" do it in the auto industry or at least they did 25 years ago.
The "240 section" thing is crediting your audience with a bit of nouse - not your scary amount of nouse Mr Mikkel, but nouse nonetheless.
But you've all missed it! I wrote "mounts" rather than "amounts" in the paragraph discussing the Rocker's brakes.
All the other stuff I have taken on board and I will most definitely use Mr Hitcher's approach of reading aloud, as well as eliminating the amateurish duplication of simile that creeps in to some paragraphs.
It's cool that people care enough about KR that they feel moved to point out that there's mistakes. I'm perfectly happy to lay my nuts on the line and ask for feedback. It's part of the ongoing experience of improving your writing, gauging whether or not you're connecting with people enough for them to read with sufficient concentration to find the mistakes, and it makes you want to improve the product overall.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
One hell of a ride.
...of 2009.
KR
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