On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:11:22 -0400, H the K wrote:


I saw two "solo" wipe-outs while I was watching. One of the commentators
said that in both cases, a set of custom leathers and pads made by an
Italian factory whose name I cannot recall kept the riders from
sustaining serious injuries. They both got right up and walked off the
track.

It's not the rider hitting the road. It's the rider hitting what lines
the road, and in the case of the Isle of Man, that would be rocks,
buildings, and other very hard objects. Hell, most motorcycle races
don't even like closed car tracks. Car tracks are lined with ARMCO, and
such, to keep the cars on the course. Motorcycle courses tend to have
open sides, to allow for longer slides.


But, surely, there are few blood sports more dangerous than high speed
open road motorcycle racing.

Motorcycle racing is one of my favorites. I don't watch it much anymore,
but it's like a high speed ballet, very graceful, at least to me.

thunder wrote:
On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:11:22 -0400, H the K wrote:


I saw two "solo" wipe-outs while I was watching. One of the commentators
said that in both cases, a set of custom leathers and pads made by an
Italian factory whose name I cannot recall kept the riders from
sustaining serious injuries. They both got right up and walked off the
track.

It's not the rider hitting the road. It's the rider hitting what lines
the road, and in the case of the Isle of Man, that would be rocks,
buildings, and other very hard objects. Hell, most motorcycle races
don't even like closed car tracks. Car tracks are lined with ARMCO, and
such, to keep the cars on the course. Motorcycle courses tend to have
open sides, to allow for longer slides.


But, surely, there are few blood sports more dangerous than high speed
open road motorcycle racing.

Motorcycle racing is one of my favorites. I don't watch it much anymore,
but it's like a high speed ballet, very graceful, at least to me.


Yes it is, especially the sidecar races...

But for the noise, I could probably fall asleep at a typical NASCAR
"left turn only" race.

thunder wrote:
On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:11:22 -0400, H the K wrote:


I saw two "solo" wipe-outs while I was watching. One of the commentators
said that in both cases, a set of custom leathers and pads made by an
Italian factory whose name I cannot recall kept the riders from
sustaining serious injuries. They both got right up and walked off the
track.

It's not the rider hitting the road. It's the rider hitting what lines
the road, and in the case of the Isle of Man, that would be rocks,
buildings, and other very hard objects. Hell, most motorcycle races
don't even like closed car tracks. Car tracks are lined with ARMCO, and
such, to keep the cars on the course. Motorcycle courses tend to have
open sides, to allow for longer slides.


But, surely, there are few blood sports more dangerous than high speed
open road motorcycle racing.

Motorcycle racing is one of my favorites. I don't watch it much anymore,
but it's like a high speed ballet, very graceful, at least to me.

So, let's see. Harry has constantly ****ted on anything that Scotty says
about his daughter's love of motorcycle racing and bonding with dad.
BUT, he just loves to watch motorcycle riders eat pavement.....WAFA

NotNow wrote:
thunder wrote:
On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:11:22 -0400, H the K wrote:


I saw two "solo" wipe-outs while I was watching. One of the commentators
said that in both cases, a set of custom leathers and pads made by an
Italian factory whose name I cannot recall kept the riders from
sustaining serious injuries. They both got right up and walked off the
track.

It's not the rider hitting the road. It's the rider hitting what
lines the road, and in the case of the Isle of Man, that would be
rocks, buildings, and other very hard objects. Hell, most motorcycle
races don't even like closed car tracks. Car tracks are lined with
ARMCO, and such, to keep the cars on the course. Motorcycle courses
tend to have open sides, to allow for longer slides.


But, surely, there are few blood sports more dangerous than high speed
open road motorcycle racing.

Motorcycle racing is one of my favorites. I don't watch it much
anymore, but it's like a high speed ballet, very graceful, at least to
me.

So, let's see. Harry has constantly ****ted on anything that Scotty says
about his daughter's love of motorcycle racing and bonding with dad.
BUT, he just loves to watch motorcycle riders eat pavement.....WAFA

Team Rowdy Mouse includes a street racer who is actually pretty good. I
will see if I can dig up the video of him at Loudon a few weeks back...
He got an inside line on a guy but the guy came down on him and they
both went skidding off the track, both stayed up though. The rest of the
race was great with the guy chasing Dan having a helmet cam. Made for a
great video but Dan held him off the whole race.. Our buddy offered to
train The Mouse and help her get her licence but she insists "not until
they put some jumps on that track"...

Our team is growing pretty fast. We all camp together. Brianna is number
one in the Women's B class at age 14, her brother is number two in the
7-11 year old 65 class. Mikey is number 2 in the 65 with two wins this
season, number three in the 85 class he just started this seaaon, and
5th in the 65 all ages class, The Mouse is number 6 in the Womens C with
three races missed, no DNF's... We have a couple of pledges coming on
strong too. Our home track makes a great showing every weekend, they all
know who we are..

Rowdy Mouse Racing, Comin' on strong!

Just wait a frekin' minute! wrote:
NotNow wrote:
thunder wrote:
On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:11:22 -0400, H the K wrote:


I saw two "solo" wipe-outs while I was watching. One of the
commentators
said that in both cases, a set of custom leathers and pads made by an
Italian factory whose name I cannot recall kept the riders from
sustaining serious injuries. They both got right up and walked off the
track.

It's not the rider hitting the road. It's the rider hitting what
lines the road, and in the case of the Isle of Man, that would be
rocks, buildings, and other very hard objects. Hell, most motorcycle
races don't even like closed car tracks. Car tracks are lined with
ARMCO, and such, to keep the cars on the course. Motorcycle courses
tend to have open sides, to allow for longer slides.


But, surely, there are few blood sports more dangerous than high speed
open road motorcycle racing.

Motorcycle racing is one of my favorites. I don't watch it much
anymore, but it's like a high speed ballet, very graceful, at least
to me.

So, let's see. Harry has constantly ****ted on anything that Scotty
says about his daughter's love of motorcycle racing and bonding with
dad. BUT, he just loves to watch motorcycle riders eat pavement.....WAFA

Team Rowdy Mouse includes a street racer who is actually pretty good.



What's his/her name...I'll look for him at the Isle of Man TT next year.

I wonder what is wrong with your buddy's loogy's synapses. I certainly
never said or implied I "love to watch motorcycle riders eat pavement,"
although I wouldn't mind seeing you or loogy slam into a bridge
abutment. Might, just might, knock a bit of sense into one of you.

H the K wrote:
Don White wrote:


Not to worry. The 'Freaks' definition of work is cluttering up his
wifes kitchen table with worn out kiddycycle parts.


Speaking of motorcycles, did you happen to catch any of the rebroadcasts
of the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy races? What a great race course, 30+
miles I think, around that island in the Irish Sea...twistys, hills,
airborne motorcycles, speeds *averaging* 125-130 mph in some classes,
sidecar motorcycle races...and vistas where you can actually see the
bikes roar by a few feet away, plus many of the bikes had miniature
video cameras mounted *and* there were helicopter cameras, too.

The races were exciting, and the coverage was terrific. These sorts of
open road races have always been my favorites, cars or motorcycles.

How does the great WAFA find time to watch TV?

NotNow wrote:
it's me, Jim wrote:
Just wait a frekin' minute! wrote:
NotNow wrote:
Drifting John wrote:
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:34:04 -0400, NotNow wrote:

John Again wrote:
On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:45:33 -0400, NotNow wrote:

Calif Bill wrote:
"NotNow" wrote in message
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BAR wrote:
NotNow wrote:
BAR wrote:
Vic Smith wrote:
Ran across this after seeing an article in boattest
about a guy with a
Nordhavn doing the trip Atlantic to Pacific.
http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/...y/1620336.html


Weird when you consider the travails of Franklin and
Amundsen.
If the passage gets going good it could affect Panama
Canal revenues.
You could see the Chinese jump on the Global Warming
band wagon at that point.
I wonder how the passage is getting "increasingly ice
free" when the republican politicians are forcing
everyone in their party to be darned near militant in
telling everyone that global warming just isn't
happening despite all of the data proving otherwise?
Where is the peer reviewed data.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html

http://wdc.cricyt.edu.ar/paleo/globalwarming/end.html
Which states in part:

When one reviews all the data, both from thermometers and
paleotemperature proxies, it becomes clear that the Earth
has warmed significantly over the last 140 years; Global
Warming is a reality. Multiple paleoclimatic studies
indicate that recent years, the 1990s, and the 20th
century are all the warmest, on a global basis, of the
last 600, and most likely 1200 years. It appears that the
global warming of the last century is unprecedented in the
last 1,200 years.
The peer review does not address man causes for global
warming. Earth has heated and cooled for it whole life.
What did man do to cause the last Ice Age about 15,000
years ago? The mini ice age 500 years ago? And the warming
afterwards?
It does not matter what has happened and how it happened in
the past. We are talking about the CURRENT situation. That's
why the right's insistence that it isn't man made is non-think.
Now the past does not matter in global warming and history
does not enter into science. I am not sure I want you
engineering a building for me. You would ignore codes, etc as
they are based on history.
Uh, no not really. Codes are based on known strengths,
stresses, strains, etc. And you use the CURRENT code. Using
your analogy, you'd want me to design by a standard that was a
few million years old.
Nope, what I said if history did not matter. You would be
designing to codes at are as first written. They would not be
changed because of history. Exactly the opposite of what you
stated.

The problem here is simple. *I* was talking about a specific
problem, not problems in general. As far as the topic I was
discussing, history does not matter. Why? Simple. Because the
cataclysmic events that shaped the climate at a given point in
time doesn't matter anymore. What does a history that involves
things like super volcanoes, giant meteors hitting earth, etc.
have to do with man made pollution and it's affects on climate
that is occuring right now?
If history doesn't matter, why look back 140 years?
WHOOSH!
Or, why use Bush as an excuse for everything Obama does? --

The same reason why Clinton is an excuse for everything Bush does!

Bush doesn't do.

Obama does.

Using Bush as the justification for Obama's actions doesn't say much
for Obama, does it?
--

John H
As usual.
Anything liberal = lying, blaming, nothing good everything bad
Anything conservative = complete honesty, never blaming, everything
wonderful.

Finally you get it.. Now I can go back to work

Back to work? A liberal socialist wouldn't be caught dead uttering
those words.

I'm fairly liberal and have worked my ass off all of my life.

Read: liberal socialist

it's me, Jim wrote:
H the K wrote:
Don White wrote:


Not to worry. The 'Freaks' definition of work is cluttering up his
wifes kitchen table with worn out kiddycycle parts.


Speaking of motorcycles, did you happen to catch any of the
rebroadcasts of the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy races? What a great
race course, 30+ miles I think, around that island in the Irish
Sea...twistys, hills, airborne motorcycles, speeds *averaging* 125-130
mph in some classes, sidecar motorcycle races...and vistas where you
can actually see the bikes roar by a few feet away, plus many of the
bikes had miniature video cameras mounted *and* there were helicopter
cameras, too.

The races were exciting, and the coverage was terrific. These sorts of
open road races have always been my favorites, cars or motorcycles.

How does the great WAFA find time to watch TV?

Oh, you know the drill. He really hasn't a clue what he's talking about,
just another of his look at me, look at me stories. I'm sure it'll
evolve to a story about how his father raced a motorcycle across the
U.S. and back or some such bull****.

"thunder" wrote in message
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On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:46:40 -0400, H the K wrote:

The races were exciting, and the coverage was terrific. These sorts of
open road races have always been my favorites, cars or motorcycles.

And they are extremely dangerous. There's been a couple of hundred
racers killed on the Isle of Man races alone.

One of the funniest races I ever saw was the films of the motor scooter
races at Isle of Man

H the K wrote:
Don White wrote:
"H the K" wrote in message
m...
Don White wrote:

Not to worry. The 'Freaks' definition of work is cluttering up his
wifes kitchen table with worn out kiddycycle parts.

Speaking of motorcycles, did you happen to catch any of the
rebroadcasts of the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy races? What a great
race course, 30+ miles I think, around that island in the Irish
Sea...twistys, hills, airborne motorcycles, speeds *averaging*
125-130 mph in some classes, sidecar motorcycle races...and vistas
where you can actually see the bikes roar by a few feet away, plus
many of the bikes had miniature video cameras mounted *and* there
were helicopter cameras, too.

The races were exciting, and the coverage was terrific. These sorts
of open road races have always been my favorites, cars or motorcycles.


Didn't see that race. Usually they are presented on one of the many
cable stations and I only come across them by accident.
What I'm always amazed about is the lack of real boating shows...(not
fishing shows, which are a dime a dozen)



We have an embarrassment of riches in boat shows down here...the big
Annapolis shows, the DC show, there's a pretty big show out by Dulles
Airport, and at least a have dozen other mostly boating shows in the
general area. Once you've been to the Annapolis shows, though, the other
area shows look...small.

The best boat shows I've seen in recent years, though, have been the
Miami "International" shows. Mind-boggling in size...both on land and in
the water. Lots of demo rides, too. Best time of year, typically, to be
in south Florida, usually February, when your northern clime is a
bit...chilly.

Harry,
You idiot, if you spent a half a second reading his post, you would have
realized he was talking about TV shows. You were too busy thinking
about what you were going to say to be able to understand what DD was
talking about.

--
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq.

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