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    The missus is walkin home in the rain half-cut and determined.
    I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    Rock and/or Roll
    Nearing the end of a shitty year with better things on the horizon
    An interesting (if difficult and expensive and somewhat uncertain) project on the go.
    Boobs. because boobs.
    Oh, and this. This made me really happy.

    Orion and the Delta IV heavy liftoff
    Vertigo-inducing NASA video shows Orion hurtling through Earth’s atmosphere.
    I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!

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    Needs a clean...


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    Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon

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    When I wake up in the morning, I think, "So far, so good!"

    Being above ground and vertical is pretty cool, too.
    You don't get to be an old dog without learning a few tricks.
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    More science!

    http://www.newscientist.com/article/...l#.VK8HtYc9_Qg

    Pretty science.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post
    Needs a clean...
    The 1290? How long have you had that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by carbonhed View Post
    The 1290? How long have you had that?
    About a month.

    I've cleaned it 6 times since then.

    Might go clean it again when I've finished this wee dram...
    Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post
    About a month.

    I've cleaned it 6 times since then.

    Might go clean it again when I've finished this wee dram...
    Cool.

    I suspect a small step for man but a giant leap for mankind vis a vis the Buell? Be cool in the Wairarapa.

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    Quote Originally Posted by carbonhed View Post
    Cool.

    I suspect a small step for man but a giant leap for mankind vis a vis the Buell? Be cool in the Wairarapa.
    Which Buell? It's surprising how much of a bike's character and handling stem from it's engine.

    Big difference between the 1290 and the XB12X, but it feels a lot like the 1125.

    And yes, first decent ride was over to Ngawi a couple of weeks ago. It's very... unflappable.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post
    Which Buell? It's surprising how much of a bike's character and handling stem from it's engine.

    Big difference between the 1290 and the XB12X, but it feels a lot like the 1125.

    And yes, first decent ride was over to Ngawi a couple of weeks ago. It's very... unflappable.
    I remember you having an 1125.

    I would hope that the KTM is like a hi tech and massively powerful version of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by carbonhed View Post
    I remember you having an 1125.

    I would hope that the KTM is like a hi tech and massively powerful version of it.
    Leme see. Big picture stuff... it's an Austrian designed open-class V twin: Check. It has top-shelf proprietary link-less suspension and forks: Check. It has an unusually rigid chassis... yup.

    Hi tech? Mechanically very similar, although the 1290's geometry is more conservative. Yes, the KTM has a far more sophisticated electronics: EMS, (fuelling is non-linear, programme selectable and absolutely perfect), traction control and ABS that work so smoothly you find it difficult to know where you leave off and the bike begins. Except that it tells you.

    Which is very handy, because it's also got 20ft.lb more torque.
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    Think I'll just drop this here...

    http://ourworldindata.org/roser/pres...l#/title-slide
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    Cheerful lemme think...first speeding ticket for years the other day and a paltry 122kms
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    "In New Zealand, however, growth is barrelling along at a historically high 3 per cent or so per year while unemployment is dropping towards 5 per cent and workforce participation rates remain higher than most of the developed world, even with very strong inward migration.

    Business investment is strong and there is no realistic prospect of the Reserve Bank raising interest rates before some time next year.

    Despite the return of a worryingly strong exchange rate, especially for exporters to Australia, and some signs of resurgence in Auckland house prices, economic conditions in New Zealand are almost ridiculously rosy compared with most of the rest of the developed world."

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opin...t-a-good-thing
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