My Fellow Blacks, Can I Criticize Dear Leader Now?

[NoDrama]

My first car was a 1971 Dodge Challenger with a 440 six pack. Not quite the Hemi, but it was quick off the line. Got extra scary around 120 MPH when the front end started getting light due to the shitty aerodynamics. No idea what my mileage was, gas was so cheap you didn't really check those things.

Carburetors are notoriously inefficient if not tuned correctly.

My first new vehicle was a 1982 Toyota FJ60 Land Cruiser. I still have it and everything still works. It gets 12MPG in town and 18 MPG on the highway. Its slow off the line taking about 18 seconds to reach 60 MPH with the pedal mashed down. It goes through and over just about anything though and has never once broke down. At the rate I drive it, it should last until I die and then go on to provide service for the next 10 generations if maintained well enough.

 

[Canna Sylvan]

That article lies. Harding was the first black president.

 

[Dr Kynes]

I despise the Prius. I cannot get one in a tiny Turbodiesel and with a manual transmission. My current ride is a Honda Fit, the most fuel-efficient new car with a clutch pedal being sold here in the States today. i envy the Europeans with their 60-70mpg Diesel hatchbacks.

My dad never bothered to get a muscle car. Not the family man thing to do. There were some interesting car choices in the golden days before OPEC, even after discounting the drag-racing specialists that seem to hog all the admiration today. ~shrug~

What bike was it? Back then your choice iirc was a big Harley, something English with mid-displacement or tiny Japanese sewing machines ... neeeneeeEEEEEngeeee...

EY NOW!!!

the Honda CB 750 was a badass bike, faster than any harley, and more fun to ride too.

i hade one made in '72 and it smoked everything but the new crotchrockets or one of these:

 

[cannabineer]

Busted! I was off by a few years. Yup; the CB750 was introduced in '69 and began the UJM revolution ...

 

[Canna Sylvan]

EY NOW!!!

the Honda CB 750 was a badass bike, faster than any harley, and more fun to ride too.

i hade one made in '72 and it smoked everything but the new crotchrockets or one of these:

That doesn't look like a Hayabusa.

 

[cannabineer]

'tis a Vincent. In the 50s they ruled the roost.

 

[Dr Kynes]

 

[Doer]

'tis a Vincent. In the 50s they ruled the roost.

We drooled over Norton and Bonneville...

What do you have now, if I may ask, cn? When Triumph put out the twin, big bore, in 2010, I got one.

 

[abandonconflict]

It's common knowledge that Blacks who criticize Dear Leader are considered "sell-outs" while Whites are labeled "racists."

This is where he went wrong. The line before it about putting critical thinking over black solidarity was a warning that he was about to go wrong, but that line was at least semiagreeable, critical thinking is better than black solidarity. He still delivered this view condescendingly. It just kind of makes him look stupid when his very next line lacks critical thinking. Now it has to seem like I only disagree with him because of black solidarity, when in fact I disagree with him because he is full of shit.

It's too bad too, he may actually have had a valid point somewhere in there, but I'll never know because he broke the first rule of journalism, don't open with bullshit or you'll get TL;DR'd.

 

[Dr Kynes]

'tis a Vincent. In the 50s they ruled the roost.

until you tried to make a tight corner...

 

[MuyLocoNC]

This is where he went wrong. The line before it about putting critical thinking over black solidarity was a warning that he was about to go wrong, but that line was at least semiagreeable, critical thinking is better than black solidarity. He still delivered this view condescendingly. It just kind of makes him look stupid when his very next line lacks critical thinking. Now it has to seem like I only disagree with him because of black solidarity, when in fact I disagree with him because he is full of shit.

It's too bad too, he may actually have had a valid point somewhere in there, but I'll never know because he broke the first rule of journalism, don't open with bullshit or you'll get TL;DR'd.

Really, I read the entire thing. You seem to think you are the dispenser of TLDR (as well as being obsessed with typing it), but I assure you, no one gives a shit what you think is or isn't TLDR worthy. That's an individual decision and from what I've seen so far, you apparently have the attention span of a gnat.

 

[abandonconflict]

Really, I read the entire thing.

Good for you.

 

[echelon1k1]

Obama is a moron because he watches Homeland

Obama is a moron for watching homeland... He should take a leaf out of Saul Berenson's book and let the CIA get back to what it does best, human intelligence...

 

[cannabineer]

We drooled over Norton and Bonneville...

What do you have now, if I may ask, cn? When Triumph put out the twin, big bore, in 2010, I got one.

I confess that I am now bikeless. i had an '03 FLHT Bagger until two summers ago. i sold the poor beached dearie out of pure pity. One day i want one of those BMW opposed Twins, should I land on my feet again.

until you tried to make a tight corner...

Some of us are into distance and not speed. I am solidly in the former camp. But I do remember the young immortals at the Spot where all types of motorcyclist converged. You know the sort: the underweight Adonises, zero body fat, not legal drinking age, half out of their one-piece leathers lounging in the hot Pacific sun next to their nervy racebikes. One such spake unto me in a voice channeling Saint Jeff Spicoli: Yah du'ude if yer not CRASHING every two or three months yer just not FAST enough! ~sigh~ I do love to watch the young immortals before they scuff their steeds and get the inevitable tantalo-nickel knees.

 

[NoDrama]

get the inevitable tantalo-nickel knees.

One of my friends has those, bike crash on Oahu.

 

[Dr Kynes]

I confess that I am now bikeless. i had an '03 FLHT Bagger until two summers ago. i sold the poor beached dearie out of pure pity. One day i want one of those BMW opposed Twins, should I land on my feet again.



Some of us are into distance and not speed. I am solidly in the former camp. But I do remember the young immortals at the Spot where all types of motorcyclist converged. You know the sort: the underweight Adonises, zero body fat, not legal drinking age, half out of their one-piece leathers lounging in the hot Pacific sun next to their nervy racebikes. One such spake unto me in a voice channeling Saint Jeff Spicoli: Yah du'ude if yer not CRASHING every two or three months yer just not FAST enough! ~sigh~ I do love to watch the young immortals before they scuff their steeds and get the inevitable tantalo-nickel knees.

goin off a bridge into a ravine in the middle of the night cured me of my desire to go fast.

it seemed like i was falling for hours.

good thing the river was high (and so was i) but my hot aluminum block hit the cold water and went SPrAAaaNG! then never moved again under it's own power.

 

[Doer]

goin off a bridge into a ravine in the middle of the night cured me of my desire to go fast.

it seemed like i was falling for hours.

good thing the river was high (and so was i) but my hot aluminum block hit the cold water and went SPrAAaaNG! then never moved again under it's own power.

That is a horror story. The bikes now, finally are big, mine is 1700 cc, and high tech. I love the robot aspect, fuel injection, liquid cooled, etc.

 

[Wavels]

Yikes this thread took a rapid detour, but it induced me to wax nostalgic...I miss 34 cents per gallon gasoline, and life before AIDS and the interweb and cell phones and bicycle helmets and so on.

That little Suzuki assisted me in getting started in what was to become my favorite pastime...the growing of ganja.
It enabled me to run up into the woods and begin many guerilla plots of reefer. This was around 1971 or '72.
When I picked up the first issue of High Times mag, it galvanized my determination to learn how to grow the sacred herb.
I have been enjoying my hobby ever since.

The last time I drove a motorcycle was about 15 years ago...borrowed my brothers Yamaha V-Max.
Scared me so badly that I have not been on a bike since then.

 

[GreatwhiteNorth]

Some time back I went through my "Gotta have a Hayabusa" phase.

Took a spin on a buddies & very quickly realized that I simply don't have the reactions, nor the instinct for it any longer (if I ever did in the first place).

I gave his bike back to him & *Poof*, my Hayabusa phase was over & I moved into my "Gotta have a KingQuad" phase.

 

[ginwilly]

Some time back I went through my "Gotta have a Hayabusa" phase.

Took a spin on a buddies & very quickly realized that I simply don't have the reactions, nor the instinct for it any longer (if I ever did in the first place).

I gave his bike back to him & *Poof*, my phase was over.

My experience was way back in the FZR1100 days. I experienced a high speed wobble, realized I could die and haven't exceeding 120mph since. I'm like cn in that I prefer creature comforts over speed. I like doing butt busters and coastal cruising. Ultra Classic or gold wing is my present preference but I fear I'm only about 10 years away from a trike.