Posted on 01/31/2008 9:58:22 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB
Zenu will be pleased with this Bike.......
Yep........massive blow / snow white out here this AM. Visability almost zero . 5 mile an hour drive too work per se. Pretty bad. Clear and sunny now and yes I have the tires that were holding down yer roof !......:o)
Big bad accident in Amarillo on I40.....2 killed, 30 plus last I heard cars involved. Crazy weather !
weatherguesser is a loon !
Oh good. My life is complete now.
Same here.......Militay Aero Club Cessna 172 pile it !
Soloed in 79 at Red Wing Air Port in Kansas while stationed at McConnell AFB KS. Stay current but can’t find a oklahoma credit card for avgas so just play with my oil burning cummins dodge these days for speed drills.......:o)
Stay safe !
Actually, cruise is said to be a very good rider. As a long time Rock Store fan, I can tell you there is still talk of his escapades in his younger days hauling his eggs to market through the canyon on a Ninja 900.
God bless him. I like to see successful people enjoy what they’ve worked so hard for.
I got my licence in ‘99 at CYTZ- it’s a great base for newbies to train at because it’s on an island 1 mile from the CN tower and the bank skyscrapers so you can see it from 80 miles away. These days I’m piloting a Yamaha Vino 125. Feels like flying but at 100mpg it’s a lot cheaper :-)
Amen to that. He may say some rather moronic things sometimes but he's mostly harmless and it's pretty obvious that he works hard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHMxLCr2sfk
Check this out ...its great stuff (from 1938)
If anyone thinks it deserves its own post go ahead no one will go to my posts anymore
Brush up on your history; James dean wasn't on a bike, he was driving a 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder when he got snuffed.
It’s a MotoGP replica for the street. It has a 989CC, V-4, 200HP engine.
I understand that, blackie. Point is, James Dean regarded himself as something of a racecar driver the way Tom Cruise apparently thinks he can handle bikes. Well, movies ain’t the real thing, I’m sure you will agree.
There are general aviation aircraft that are labeled “doctor-killers” and “lawyer-killers” because their speeds demand greater skill. These professionals are fine with Cessna 152’s & 172’s but manage to kill themselves when they buy the hotter plane. These are easy to spin and rates of descent & so forth can get out of hand (like JFK junior). Yet, people with more money than brains need the toy, but don’t respect it (or don’t know enough to respect it might be a better way to put it).
I don’t think Tom is going to park that thing in a garage & admire it. Hope it scares him good so he survives it & learns.
James Dean was a race car driver ~ he finished 2nd and 3rd in two So-Cal sportscar races earlier in 1955. He traded his Porsche Speedster in on the Porsche Spyder.
He left for a Salinas race on Sept 3, 1955, driving the Spyder with his mechanic, Dean was driving west on U.S. Route 466 (later State Route 46) near Cholame, California when a black-and-white 1950 Ford Custom Tudor coupe, driven from the opposite direction by 23-year-old Cal Poly student Donald Turnupseed, attempted to take the fork onto State Route 41 and crossed into Dean’s lane without seeing him. The two cars hit almost head on.
Dean was DOA and his mechanic was thrown clear, he only had a broken jaw. Dean’s estimated speed was 55MPH.
As usual, the media gets it wrong... This is NOT the Ducati Superbike, which is the 1098 (twin). This is pretty much the 2006 MotoGP bike (4 cylinder). No, I'm not kidding. People have been begging Ducati for a MotoGP "replica" since they started back in it, and this was the perfect opportunity to offer it.
Remember that MotoGP rules mandate that NO production parts be used in the engines and when MotoGP rules mandated the change from 990cc to 800, Ducati had all the tooling and spares around, and had spent all this money on development, so they figured, let's give them what they want.
They did make some changes, like getting rid of the carbon fiber rotors for the brakes , since they're great on the track, but can't be used on the street (they can't get hot enough on the streets, or even on the highway), beefing up the chassis a little bit, and slightly detuning the bike (remember that these racers are tuned so highly that they don't care if the engine blows up on the cooldown lap, and they rebuild them after every race anyway).
But these bikes ARE as close to a steet legal MotoGP racer from a factory as you can find.
And the price is not bad... Plus you get 3 years of maintenance... That's important: Remember, you've got to deal with 16 Desmo valves!
I would love one of these, but I wouldn't fit on it, plus it costs more than I paid for my house! I'll just have to make due with my 900SS/SP.
Mark
Is that a P51D?
Mark
Thanks for the update.. Still out of my range.. I’ll stick with my 999. It really is just to make the garage look good anyway. :->
You guys MUST see the erratic, scatterbrained scientology video Tom Cruise made — it’s obvious his helmet has a lot of empty space:
http://defamer.com/344987/the-tom-cruise-indoctrination-video-scientologists-dont-want-you-to-see
Then after that you need to see the SPOOF of the same video mocking his mannerisms and bizarre behavior: HILARIOUS!!!
http://www.celebridiot.com/2008/01/24/jerry-oconnell-scientology-spoof/
From what I’ve read the Desmosedici has the same brakes as my 1098S. That is to say, they’re incredible. Brembos, 330mm discs with radial Monobloc calipers, but without the remote adjuster.
I was going down the interstate at 85 MPH a couple of months ago, and saw a cop opposite direction — I gave it a hard two-finger squeeze. The front brake locked up, the tire squealed loudly, and the front end started to tuck, even as I was going in a straight line.
Luckily I still have a few highly trained brain cells, and I didn’t go down. Got my attention though.
He had better pray that a Scientologist is around when he crashes that bike.The rest of us had better pray that the crash takes out most of the Scientologist hierarchy who are standing by the track.
Hmmm? That canopy and wing look an awful lot like P-51.
As I recall, the accident wasn’t his fault and he was a good driver.
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