[starvingstudent]

They may not have "bragging rights" or "street cred", but I always knew that Honda had the goods. Go Big Red!



Starving Student

 

[starvingstudent]

Re: Honda street cred?

You are absolutely correct.

However, most squids have an extremely short memory and do not remember anything before the 996 and the R1. Within 2 years, even those will be forgotten with the tetrastretta (or however you spell it) and the GSX-R1000. They also do not look at actual supersport wins (heavily honda-favored) and consider only stats and fancy paintjobs.

I wouldn't flame you about "street cred"--my bike (shadow 600) plus my probable next bike (CB750) have street cred only for practicality and reliability. Not squid stuff.

 

[starvingstudent]

What CAN we ride?

America=slavery, repeated firebombing of Tokyo, atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, irradiation of Bikini atoll--so no HD or Buell

Britain=imperial atrocities in India and Ireland--so no Triumph

Germany=Holocaust--so no BMW or MZ

Austria=collaborated with Hitler--so no KTM

Italy=Mussolini--so no Ducati, Moto Guzzi, Cagiva, etc

Japan=Manchurian atrocities--so no Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Yamaha

China=Tibetan occupation--so none of this SV650-based bike that a company there is working on

I guess from now on we're going to all have to ride the Korean-built 250cc Hyosung twin. Korea never launched an invasion of another nation.

Or we could all realize that the people building these bikes are not the same people who committed the sins of the past, and we can just go ahead and ride whatever bike appeals to us the most.

 

[starvingstudent]

Re: don

That's bull. I know plenty of Koreans and they're quite pleasant people. I ALSO know plenty of Japanese, and they're nice and friendly. Same with the Chinese I know.

I go to Tufts University, well-known for its international relations program, so the ethnic diversity and percentage of foreign nationals is quite high. I can tell you that no nationality is prone to racism. There are a couple bad seeds in every group, but 99% of Germans, Italians, British, Japanese, Koreans, AMERICANS, etc are really good people. Grow up and quit pointing fingers. It sounds like you're one of that 1% who DOES judge people by their ethnicity.

Starving Student

 

[starvingstudent]

hahaha

One day you will see the incredible irony in calling everyone of a certain ethnicity racist...