Friday, April 30, 2010

2010 KAWASAKI VN900 Vulcan Classic Edition Revealed

2010 KAWASAKI VN900 / Vulcan Classic
2010 KAWASAKI VN900 / Vulcan Classic
New Kawasaki VN900 Classic Edition, the amalgamation is additionally accessible at a bulk that is lower than the absolute bulk of the added features. The Kawasaki VN900 Classic Light Tour Edition adds covering panniers additional bassinet brackets to the VN900 Classic, as able-bodied as a windscreen and angle leg wind deflectors, all official Kawasaki accessories that appear with a two-year guarantee. All these accessories added up would amount £1,000, but the motorcycle architect alone adds £800 to the amount of the bike to booty it to £7,400.

“We’ve witnessed aberrant absorption in our 18-carat accessories, not aloof for their architecture fit and finish, but additionally because they backpack a admired two year Kawasaki warranty. Now we are accessible to cycle out these bristles new accessorized Limited Edition machines at a bulk abounding will acquisition attractive. We anticipate the aggregate of such a aerial blueprint at such aggressive retail bulk credibility will accomplish these Special Edition models absolutely popular,” Sales and Marketing Manager for Kawasaki Motors UK Michael Johnstone said in a release.

The Transition from Liberal to Conservative Made Easy

Another in my "made easy series", how a person transforms from a liberal to a conservative.

Winston Churchill once remarked that a young person who was a conservative had no heart and an older person who was a liberal had no intelligence.

I think, for the most part, that people do start out their lives as liberals, and with time gradually turn to being conservative. If so, that is going to mean conservative politics will dominate for a while as the baby boomers become older and one by one, turn conservative.

My own conservative "awakening" has not happened yet, but already I can begin to see the pressure mounting that would normally push me over the edge, if I only had a brain.

Let's go back to the time when people just start to form their own political point of view, possibly after high school. That's about when you get to vote for the first time, but as a young person you don't really care that much. A young person at that age accepts the world as a place that has never changed and never will. That is because, during their own short experience, the world has not changed, and by logical extension, never will. So politics has no meaning, no matter who gets in power.

Now maybe I was particularly isolated as a child, living in Baie Comeau. I did not have the opportunity to observe poverty, or wealth, as it was a strictly middle class town with both ends of the wealth spectrum missing. We had no visible minorities, our main concerns were around French vs. English or to a much lesser degree, Catholic vs. Protestant. I did not even get to see any old people. There was no senior citizens' home, and 50% of the population was under 16 years old. I first saw large numbers of old people when I moved to Sherbrooke, and took a city bus.

During a person's twenties, observations take place. You begin to notice such things as poverty, for example. During this period of time, there are a lot of major concerns that come up. My first one was a strong desire to see the world. That seemed more important than getting a car or a job.

Seeing the world as a young person is something that is likely to turn you liberal. You get so see the inequalities in life, and learn about social justice. Because you are young, you are not likely to blame third world poverty on "laziness", the way an older person might. Older people have put in thousands of days of hard work already in their lives, and often have a high opinion of themselves as a "hard worker" who earned everything they got, whether that view is justified or not. Young people are not yet thinking that way.

A younger person travelling in the world is likely to have a good opinion of foreigners, as young travellers often make friends in places that they go, and are treated well by locals. On the other hand, young people travelling abroad are often treated badly and hassled by the authorities, leading to a negative view of "THE MAN". This also undermines their classical conservative viewpoint.

Now moving ahead, to marriage, kids, and settling down. All of this usually takes place close to home. Having kids arouses protective instincts, and often this is the time that owning a house becomes an issue. At this stage, things begin to change rapidly toward conservatism. No longer do you have nothing to lose, like most liberals. You are becoming a land owner, and so you have much to lose. Now you can worry about theft, about the neighbourhood becoming a slum. That worry is the beginning of the conservative mindset. Suddenly you are concerned for the first time about how nice the lawns are, about how many and what type of weeds are springing up, not only on your own lawn, but your neighbour's lawn too. You don't fear police protection any more, you want more of it. And you are now not too far away from fearing that visible minorities might move in to your neighbourhood. This is the time that you might finally become one of those bigots that you mocked as a young person. I'm not saying it is sure to happen, but you are exposed to the pressures, and you may have neighbours around you to heighten your fears. Not only is this happening to you, but to most of your friends of the same age.

Let's go forward another decade or so. Your kids are going to school, you have a "good" job. You are worried now about how your kids are going to make out in life. They do not seem to have the same priorities as you do, about work, and money. They just want to goof off and have fun. They don't listen to your music, or dress the way you want them to dress. They don't hang out with kids that you want them to hang out with. They don't care about money, which is actually yours anyway. Now for the first time, you become aware that there is a generational gap, and now there is a generation younger than yours, and they have disturbing ideas. One of those disturbing ideas is that welfare is a viable career path. Now you begin to question for the first time, the need for welfare, unemployment insurance, and any government benefit at all (except the Canada Pension Plan, that will come later)

You are now paying a fair amount in taxes. You may start reading more, and listening to the news, to find out what is being done with all the tax money you are paying. What you want to hear, is that it is being used to hire cops and throw people in jail. Also, that it is being used to beat down foreign countries that are full of people trying to steal the wealth of rich countries like Canada. You do not really want to hear that it is being used to help immigrants "flood" into Canada, or to help equalize trade with poorer countries. All these developments are now seen as threats, if not to you, to your children who still seem unconcerned about getting a job.

So, you start reading the National Post. You find the writings of Mark Steyn in MacLeans' magazine, and they are a revelation to you. When Mark says "it's the end of our white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant way of life" you feel a kinship with him, a bond is formed. Now you are nearing the end of your transition from liberal to conservative. But there is still more.

Now that you trust Fox News, The National Post, Mark Steyn, Ann Coulter, and Pat Robertson as the true source of all knowledge, you begin to distrust science itself. After all, your own death is approaching now, and this is not the time to be mocking Chistianity. You begin to turn to God and the supernatural. And since the end is approaching, you have no time for Al Gore and his scaremongering about the "future" global warming that you will never live to see anyway. You want, and need, to keep burning those fossil fuels. Drill anywhere you can for the last bit of oil if you have to, to keep gas under a buck a litre, even if it means more oil spills (unless it is on your own cottage waterfront of course). And for heaven's sake, we don't want to see those horrible three bladed wind turbines rearing their oh-so-ugly heads somewhere on the horizon, causing cancer and doing nothing but wasting taxpayers' money.

OK now I have laid out the entire transition from naive innocent young liberal to wise, rich, old conservative. According to the demographics of the baby boom, we are going to have a lot more old people than young people for about 40 more years. I think it's going to get very conservative out there.

Picture: How conservatives imagine a liberal brain would look, if they actually had one. This image is from Conservapedia, the conservative answer to all the lies and distortions of truth in Wikipedia.

2009 Aprilia Shiver 750 GT Photo Gallery Design

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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Answering a Reader Question #76

Anonymous Wrote:

um i m 14 and i went to this agency and they said that they cant do a photoshoot wit my braces on they said i had great looks and i should come back when i get them off:( well idk i m just kinda confused cuz i want to start my modelling career as soon as possible:)

reply back thanks:)


Hey, Anonymous! To clear up the confusion, the agency likes your look but will only work with you after you have gotten your braces off. So for now you won't be able to do any modeling work with them, including photoshoots, until your braces come off. Unfortunately, there is no way around that. Even though you may want to start your career asap, as my post "Modeling with Braces" stated, there isn't much you can do since the demand for models with braces isn't high. You're more marketable to an agency if you have your braces off.

So in your situation you have one of two options:

1) Wait until your braces come off and then contact the agency in order to officially begin your modeling career with them.

2) Submit yourself (with your braces) to other modeling agencies and see if any of them will be willing to sign you as you are now.

Either way it turns out, good luck!

Honda VFR800 C-ABS


We’d earlier said that Honda are likely to replace the existing VFR800 with a brand-new, V5-powered VFR1000 for 2009. And we were completely wrong! Honda have released pics of the 2009 VFR800, which is still powered by the same VTEC V4 which we all know and love.

However, like the 2009 Fireblade, the VFR800 now comes with C-ABS on the options list, and white is one of the new paint options. The base model costs US$11,000 and you’ll have to pay US$12,000 if you want those anti-lock brakes.

Must admit we’re a bit disappointed that apart from the C-ABS thing, Honda haven’t bothered to update the VFR800 at all. If not the V5 engine, at least sharpened-up styling and USD forks would have helped. And maybe that underseat exhaust system should have made way for a Fireblade-style number

Honda VFR800 C-ABS


We’d earlier said that Honda are likely to replace the existing VFR800 with a brand-new, V5-powered VFR1000 for 2009. And we were completely wrong! Honda have released pics of the 2009 VFR800, which is still powered by the same VTEC V4 which we all know and love.

However, like the 2009 Fireblade, the VFR800 now comes with C-ABS on the options list, and white is one of the new paint options. The base model costs US$11,000 and you’ll have to pay US$12,000 if you want those anti-lock brakes.

Must admit we’re a bit disappointed that apart from the C-ABS thing, Honda haven’t bothered to update the VFR800 at all. If not the V5 engine, at least sharpened-up styling and USD forks would have helped. And maybe that underseat exhaust system should have made way for a Fireblade-style number

My Article "Why use Car Covers"


If we have a car, important one is how to keep car body to make it look clean and shiny like a new car. For that we need to use a car cover, below are the benefits we get when using a car cover

1) If you live a high rainfall area which then you need a car cover is resistant to water. Because rain can damage car paint, so we need to use a car cover, than we bother washing our cars better to install the car cover.

2) Sometimes we choose to park in the shade such as under trees, but we are not aware that the tree is a nesting place for birds. Your car will be dirty if exposed to the feces of birds that nest in trees or branches from trees that fell to make your car paint scratched, you may not immediately clean so we need to put a car cover if we parked the car under a tree.

3) Although only a cloth car cover that covers the car but it is useful to prevent theft. Cars that use the cover to make a thief can’t open car doors with ease so that cars become safer.

4) The UV rays are too strong can make you easy to dull paint, if you park the vehicle in the sun should use a car cover.

5) Conscious or not when we parked the car in the garage,the cold can get into the car so the car's interior was wet. To prevent that we need to install the car cover, car cover to protect your car from the cold outside.

Buy a car cover is not anything wrong because the aim to protect your car. If you want to buy it, choose the best because not all car covers same and compare the prices so we can buy car covers at best prices.

My Article "Why use Car Covers"


If we have a car, important one is how to keep car body to make it look clean and shiny like a new car. For that we need to use a car cover, below are the benefits we get when using a car cover

1) If you live a high rainfall area which then you need a car cover is resistant to water. Because rain can damage car paint, so we need to use a car cover, than we bother washing our cars better to install the car cover.

2) Sometimes we choose to park in the shade such as under trees, but we are not aware that the tree is a nesting place for birds. Your car will be dirty if exposed to the feces of birds that nest in trees or branches from trees that fell to make your car paint scratched, you may not immediately clean so we need to put a car cover if we parked the car under a tree.

3) Although only a cloth car cover that covers the car but it is useful to prevent theft. Cars that use the cover to make a thief can’t open car doors with ease so that cars become safer.

4) The UV rays are too strong can make you easy to dull paint, if you park the vehicle in the sun should use a car cover.

5) Conscious or not when we parked the car in the garage,the cold can get into the car so the car's interior was wet. To prevent that we need to install the car cover, car cover to protect your car from the cold outside.

Buy a car cover is not anything wrong because the aim to protect your car. If you want to buy it, choose the best because not all car covers same and compare the prices so we can buy car covers at best prices.

Honda SS125 1967


The stamped-frame Hondas have grown more attractive with the passage of time, and the SS125 is the best looker among them. I like the efficiency of the layout, but it certainly doesn't rival the best European designs of the time for sheer sculptural beauty.

'SuperSport' didn't translate into any extra power. By the time the SS125 was introduced, the 125 twin was pretty long in the tooth and already making all the power it reliably could. Its 10,000 RPM redline was still remarkable, but all those revs only provided 16 crank horsepower and less torque than a 4-stroke twin was expected to make, especially with a 4-speed transmission.

The stamped steel frame was actually quite rigid. The flexy forks and swingarm, combined with garbage damping units and springs, made it less than sporting.

Honda SS125 1967


The stamped-frame Hondas have grown more attractive with the passage of time, and the SS125 is the best looker among them. I like the efficiency of the layout, but it certainly doesn't rival the best European designs of the time for sheer sculptural beauty.

'SuperSport' didn't translate into any extra power. By the time the SS125 was introduced, the 125 twin was pretty long in the tooth and already making all the power it reliably could. Its 10,000 RPM redline was still remarkable, but all those revs only provided 16 crank horsepower and less torque than a 4-stroke twin was expected to make, especially with a 4-speed transmission.

The stamped steel frame was actually quite rigid. The flexy forks and swingarm, combined with garbage damping units and springs, made it less than sporting.

2010 Kawasaki ER6-n


At first, the silly sideblades and overly-ambitious styling looked horrible to me. The fact that it is functionally excellent prompted me give it another look, and I must confess it has grown on me over time. Many of the details are still too cluttered (especially the exhaust and lower engine shields, and that silly headlight) but it does have a certain panache. It certainly isn't boring or bland.

The 650 twin is classed as a 'beginner bike' and dismissed by many as 'just a midsized twin.' But let's put that in perspective: the ER-6n would have been amongst the fastest production bikes in the world 30 years ago. It is still no slouch. Some say it vibrates a bit too much, but once again, that is just being nit-picky by anything but 2010 standards.

There is nothing to complain about the ER-6n's handling, it steers nicely, corners and is reassuringly steady on the highway. Again, this score is a sign of how much bikes have improved over the last decade or so, and just how many excellent bikes are out there now.

Rieju MRT50 Pro Competition being launched


Spansh motorcycle manufacturer Rieju launch their new 50cc European Enduro series Blegium roun winner the Rieju MRT50 Pro Competition is being launched next week for the public to buy. Its features include:-

50 cc 6 speed Pre Mix Yamaha LC motor with special head & Cylinder by Top competition, Front floating wave disc 260 mm. Rear Wave 200 mm.
Upside-Down adjustable Marzocchi 40 mm forks. Adjustable rear gas monoshock. Aluminium swing arm. Hand made exhaust with competition silencer. Hydraulic clutch. Race clutch with straight cut teeth & reinforced discs. Tommaselli tapered handlebars with anodised duraluminium brackets. Dual radiator, Michelin FIM tires, Racing quick twist throttle.
Mikuni 24 mm carburettor. Racing CDI with variable curve. Oversized footrests. NGK Platinum BR10ES spark plug, Team Rieju Race Graphics, Hand & fork guards plus sump guard as standard.

It's claimed to be a very serious road legal race machine.

Ride safe

Jon Booth
Email: webmaster@inter-bike.co.uk
Blog: http://bestmotorstyle2011.blogspot.com//
Swicki: http://motorcycling-swicki.eurekster.com/

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2010 Spring Flood Run photos

What's that in that side Car?

A St. Bernard!



Wicked Cool old Sporty.





Gibson Les Paul guitar bike.




Up one end of the road


Down the other


How we roll

2010 Spring Flood Run photos

What's that in that side Car?

A St. Bernard!



Wicked Cool old Sporty.





Gibson Les Paul guitar bike.




Up one end of the road


Down the other


How we roll

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Axes and Vise Grips

Yesterday, I was helping remove a dead battery from a Yamaha Majesty scooter belonging to a friend. Once the battery is dead in a scooter, you can't drive or push-start it, and the Majesty has no kick start either, so I drove to the dead scooter with my set of tools. My Allen key wrenches were not up to the job, and before long I found myself asking if he had an axe and vice grips in his tool shed.

In case some of you are very young, by "Axe", I don't mean a sexy deodorant. It is a sharp bladed tool with a wooden handle.

That takes me back to when I was a teenager. Then I knew very little about working on cars and bikes, but I did notice that my father would often be out repairing the family car with nothing more than an axe and vise grips. Being a kind of wise-ass back then, I managed to concoct a fair number of side splittingly funny comments on this. But here I was, in the year 2010, working with an axe and vise grips like he did.

I never intended to become exactly like my father. When I got my first motorcycle, my initial tool kit consisted of a shiny metric ratchet set, in addition to the specialized tool kit that came with the bike. With time, I added more and more tools, including vise grips. But it took at least twenty years before, I finally decided to buy an axe.

The main reason my father used an axe for almost everything was multi-faceted. Number one, he had a lot of axes. Wherever you were around our house, there was always an axe somewhere near at hand, except in the vicinity of the TV, as that would have been extremely dangerous during the Saturday hockey game. Anyhow, by the fourth law of auto mechanics, the axe got used a lot simply because one was always the object closest at hand. Furthermore, my Dad was a forester, also known as "lumberjack". He didn't like to use the term lumberjack, although he started out as one, but progressed to many other jobs such as mapping, surveying, fighting forest fires, and doing logging inspections. But until he retired he was basically working in the forest, and around lumberjacks, and carrying an axe was not considered weird. Third, and by no means the least important, he was extremely skilled at using an axe. By that, I mean the axe head went where it was intended to go, with the amount of force necessary to get whatever job done, and no horrible accidents ever happened resulting from deflections or flying shrapnel There were stories of lumberjacks shaving with their axes, but I never saw my father do this. For recreation, it can be thrown at targets. But whatever you do, do not use an axe like a Frisbee, because that is dangerous.

The only other profession to use axes as much as foresters, are firefighters. Firefighting a job where you are not sure exactly what you will need to do, but whatever you bring better be damned useful and get the job done quickly. Hence, the axe.

During my teenage years, he built a log cabin during his spare time. Axes are incredibly useful for building log cabins. Actually, not so much for the new kind of prefabricated log cabins, delivered by truck with each log preshaped and numbered for assembly. But yes, for the type of log cabin where you walk into the woods for about an hour carrying an axe, stop in some random spot, and start cutting down trees and building a cabin. When he was finished, the cabin looked quite beautiful. I would be lying to say no other tools were used. However, the axe was used to chop trees, shave off the bark, flatten two sides of the logs, notch the ends, drive nails, split wood for the fire, and many other odd jobs.

Although he didn't have much of a formal education (he said grade four, but many in his family seemed to remember most of that was playing hooky.) Anyway, it didn't matter too much, as the stuff he missed probably would have been mostly religious stuff anyway. Instead, he was keen on learning about the rest of the world outside his isolated fishing community in Quebec. That would explain why he voluntarily joined the Canadian Army as soon as WW2 broke out. He was later transferred to the British Royal Engineers, which I used to think meant he was an engineer, but actually the Royal Engineers was a place that lots of non-engineers ended up, because a lot of it was unappealing work like digging foxholes, latrines, building bridges and clearing mines. And some of that is also done under fire.

I can not remember him ever without an axe, but he didn't always have vise grips. I see from Wikipedia, that, they were invented way back in 1924. But they became very popular during my youth, when my father acquired some. I guess he was finding an ever increasing need to do and undo nuts and bolts, which was difficult with an axe. And vise grips were starting to be put to many new ingenious uses as more and more people bought them.

So that brings me up to present day. The Yamaha Majesty had a couple of Allen screws that were on too tight, and the Allen key had rounded the hole. So I started with vise grips, which just slipped off. Then I got a chisel and hammer to notch the side of the bolt and turn it by hammer blows. It also didn't work, so I simply asked if there was a bigger hammer. That's when the axe made its appearance, and with a few axe taps, the screw surrendered.

Picture: I don't need to show vise grips or locking pliers, but many people do not know what a "real" axe looks like, at least judging by how long it took me to find a decent picture on the Internet.

NEW YAMAHA MIO 125CC XEON

NEW YAMAHA MIO 125CC XEON
The presence or familiarly called Xeon Yamaha Yamaha Mio 125 cc in Indonesia has been increasingly felt.

Even a special site about 125 cc Yamaha Xeon already appeared on the official site of Yamaha.

And what about this Xeon motor specs? Well, this time to give clarity specifications detikOto scooter Yamaha Mio Yamaha Mio 125 cc or 125 cc.

As quoted from the official site of Yamaha, Wednesday (04/28/2010) Yamaha 125 Xeon adopt cooled liquid that serves to control the temperature so the temperature at Yamaha claimed the engine remains stable.

Yamaha Xeon compression pressure is higher and more maximum power. But not explained whether the compression is higher than its competitors or scooter variants lower class below him.

For that detikOto try to compare with the Yamaha Mio Soul. As a comparison, 113.7 cc Yamaha Mio Soul, or variants of Yamaha's scooter highest current compression is 8.8: 1 with a maximum of 8.9 ps energy in 8000
rpm. While torque is 7.84 Nm at 7000 rpm. But if Yamaha claims 125 cc Yamaha Xeon higher, means it can be imagined how much compression Xeon Yamaha 125 cc.

In addition Xeon Yamaha 125 cc Cylinder DiASil also adopted a working quickly to keep the engine in order not to wear and machine condition remains stable.

Cylinder DiASil technology can also maintain long-lasting Forged Piston. Technology DiASil Forged Piston Cylinder and also immersed in Jupiter MX 135 cc.

Yamaha Throttle sensor pin on the Xeon 125 cc, so in addition to fuel economy, acceleration is also better because it fit with the opening of the carburetor, and RPMs.

While for the exhaust, 125 cc Yamaha Xeon contain elements of sportiness. Where pinned protective heat shock and the use of catalysts which function to reduce excessive exhaust emissions. Given that Yamaha claims 125 cc Xeon very friendly environment.

While the watchlist detikOto some time ago, the body size of 125 cc Yamaha Xeon is not far different from the big body of Suzuki SkyDrive almost the same alias. And for a fancy, Xeon also uses the cover of dusk light handlebar.

Add curious huh? Patiently waiting on the game later on Friday, April 30, 2010.

Bajaj Pulsar Fairing Motorcycles Pics

Bajaj Pulsar Fairing Motorcycles Pics

Bajaj is activity to aftermath Pulsar 350 cc. The Pulsar 350 will be completed with aqueous cooled arrangement that claimed alone charge baby amplitude and ablaze weight. Big anatomy of Bajaj 350 cc Full racing. This motorcycles is restoration of all afore Bajaj Pulsar.

Bajaj Pulsar 135 LS (Light Sport) SOHC DTS-i Reviews

Bajaj Pulsar 135 LS (Light Sport) SOHC DTS-i
Soon, Bajaj appear to barrage Bajaj Pulsar 135 LS (Light Sport) on April 14, 2010.
The agent of Bajaj Pulsar 135 LS is SOHC, DTS-i 4 achievement distinct cylinder, 4 valve with air cooled. The Displacement (cc) of Bajaj Pulsar 135 LS is 134.66cc
And the agent would accomplish Max. Power (Ps @ RPM) 13.5 @ 9000 rpm and Max. Torque (Nm @ RPM) 11.4 @ 7500
The amount bump of Pulsar 135 LS(Light Sport) is about 15-16 actor rupiah.