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But.. but... but... isn't there an entire mob of people clamoring to buy the first American dirt bike? Just like they said they would all buy the first "proper" American sportbike? (Whatever that means).

I'm shock, SHOCKED!

 

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I freaking hate...

ARMENIA.

Nope, the CL is long gone. Sold it in May after I got out of rehab, along with everything else that once made me happy (DT1, CR500, TC100, CB350, DT1MX, XL250, etc..etc...) I guess God said "That's it for you" and my biking days were done. Here's a shot of the fleet, from a year or so ago, before I got the XB9SX...

... the way we open our country to these people and they come here and set up their little thug kingdoms. I know plenty about the Ar****** mafia.

 

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What?

listen to the new MX formula the FIM/AMA wants to foist on us:

1: 300cc four Stroke open class.

2: 125cc two stroke, uh, 125 class.

What a crock. Betcha it's a French idea...

They must be mad. Do they think all the manufacturers are going to design all new lines of 300cc bikes?

 

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Yeah but...

The manufacturers want to keep "50" at the end of the displacement for, get this, marketing reasons. It's looking like the new displacement for MX is going to be 350cc. At least, acording to Steve Whitelock.

I say bring back the open class. Anything goes. Let those who ride decide. Then make the tracks tight, technical and rediculously ignorant. Big fun.

.. once again I ask, "Are the manufacturers expected to design and build all new lines of bikes at the demands of racing associations instead of customers?" The customers are obviously not demanding 350s any more since no one is selling any. Who made the FIM/AMA king?

 

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You're kidding me!

Saw that too, in my searchings for the proposed 2009 rule. Looks like they're gonna bore out 250's to get the required 350 cee cee bike. The wimpopotamuses are saying the new 450's are too fast, and too hard to ride, oh boo hoo! One FIM/AMA twit said something akin to "Just like when we discovered the CR & KX500's were too dangerous, we're discovering the same thing with the 450's."

Sheesh, maybe competition bikes will be limited to 150cc 4 strokes, with 11 horsepower, run on slick-tracks.

As someone who's owned an open class dirt bike SINCE 1973, this doesn't bode well for the sport.

MX racing is *gasp* DANGEROUS?

LOL! When did the Nannystaterfascists take over motorcycle racing? How did people ever survive the 60's and 70's racing on Triumph650TTs and XLCHs?

I'm waiting to see how well the lower ends survive on these bored out 250s.

 

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We used to drink those...

Sidecar: Havana Sidecar

.... in Singapore! Except we didn't bother with the chilled glass, or the ice, or the lemon juice.... or actually the Triple Sec either.

 

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Just how many types of rum do you think are available in a former British Crown Colony? The mind boggles.

There was one bar where the owner had a 100pound note in a frame. You could have the note if you could drink two of his layered Rainbow Mai Tais within 15 minutes, get up, walk to the bathroom and return without passing out. That bill had been there a loooong time.

His rainbow Mai Tais were tall drinks with several layers of rum of various potencies, 151 rum being the bottom layer. There was usually someone laying on the floor.