On 6/22/2011 4:13 PM, iBoat wrote:
In articlefOidnXxbg4clqJ_TnZ2dnUVZ_gydnZ2d@earthlink .com, payer33859
@mypacks.net says...

On 6/22/11 1:38 PM, Jack. wrote:
On Jun 22, 12:50 pm, wrote:
In ,
says...







On 6/22/11 10:35 AM, Jack. wrote:
On Jun 22, 8:43 am, wrote:
In ,
says...

On 6/22/11 8:12 AM, Jack. wrote:
On Jun 20, 12:46 am, wrote:
"John H" wrote in message

...

On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:26:15 -0500, Richard Casady

wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:40:48 -0400, Wayne B
wrote:

On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:25:10 -0400, John
wrote:

How has the demand changed in 10 years? I would guess there is more
gasoline sold. The taxes are another matter. I'll look into that.

Here is some good info on diesel prices.

http://www.dieselserviceandsupply.co...el_prices.aspx

Worldwide demand for diesel has gone way up.

===

Good information, thanks.

It is obviously biased away from popular folk wisdom however since
there was no category in the pie chart breakdown called "Greedy
Corporate Speculative Excess Profits". I don't see how they could
have missed an obvious item like that in an otherwise well researched
article. :-)

Agent just ate my reply with a typo, and in 13 yeaars, I have never
figured out how. Our Lincoln Navigator has four cams and 32 valves and
only manages to get 14 at 70. The thing some real walnut trim,
steering wheel, little plates containing the window and door lock
switches. Nice looking. So, I sometimes call it:' The Sliverado.'

Casady

My Silverado gets 14 mpg - when I'm pulling the travel trailer. But, that's
40% better than my
4Runner got, so I'm not complaining.

My 1999 Expedition sucked fuel. 14,5 mpg was about normal. In 100,000
miles the best I ever got on a long trip was 16.5 mpg, and that was from Los
Angeles to Pleasanton and I do not think I ever got over 65 mph. My 300 HP
327 SS 1964 Impala got better than that, and would do 142 mph.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

My 'vette has 436 HP, does 0-60 in 4.3 seconds, and has a top speed
of 190 mph. I'm getting 22 mpg around town and nearly 27 on the
highway. Of course, it only weighs 3200 lbs and it's easy to push
through the air. You just can't compare these big, heavy, blunt SUVs
to cars. Apples and oranges.

Gee, my less powerful little sports car gets to 60 as quickly as yours,
and gets better mileage, too. Of course, it also isn't suitable for
pulling a heavy boat trailer, so why bother mentioning it? Oh...you
wanted us to know you had a plastic sports car!

That's Harry, never miss an opportunity to be a true asshole....

It's pretty funny... notice how he fails to mention exactly what "less
powerful little sports car" he has? That's because if he really has
one, it isn't nearly a 4.3 second car. Not taking anything away from
small, nimble British or other marque sports cars, but they are
typically 6-10 second cars. They are great fun to drive, but even a
base Corvette will eat them alive on a track.

But if he can post a pic of his chubby fingers holding a harry nametag
with that little sports car in the background that has a 0-60 time of
4.5 seconds or less, I know we'd all like to see it!

Gosh...took five seconds to find a Brit sports car that accelerates as
quickly as your 'vette:

http://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/carpag...persports.html

Too bad you don't have one....

And it's a little slower and and gets about the same mileage as the
'vette. But didn't he write "my less powerful little sports car gets
to 60 as quickly as yours, and gets better mileage"? Now the best he
can do is google up a car he doesn't have that isn't as fast, and gets
about the same mileage. ~snerk~ You'd think he'd point us to the
website with the specs of the car he supposedly *does* have with those
performance parameters. Oops, the website and car would have to
exist.


You commented about "British" sports cars and how most of them were
lacking in performance. I pointed you to one of many that is not lacking.

I see no reason to mention the brand names here of current cars,
motorbikes, boats, et cetera. BTW, I'm pretty sure my motorbike will
out-accelerate your 'vette to 60 mph and some ways beyond.

If you had one. You see, you don't realize this because you're stupid,
but in the past, the things that you really DO own, if someone called
you on it, you'd offer up a picture in a heart beat. And when you don't
really have something, no picture. You're too easy to read, so you get
caught in your lies.

Of one thing we are certain. He does have a coffee maker and a grungy sink.

On 6/22/2011 8:22 PM, L G wrote:
Jack. wrote:
On Jun 22, 8:43 am, wrote:
In ,
says...







On 6/22/11 8:12 AM, Jack. wrote:
On Jun 20, 12:46 am, wrote:
"John H" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:26:15 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:40:48 -0400, Wayne B
wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:25:10 -0400, John
wrote:
How has the demand changed in 10 years? I would guess there is
more
gasoline sold. The taxes are another matter. I'll look into that.
Here is some good info on diesel prices.
http://www.dieselserviceandsupply.co...el_prices.aspx
Worldwide demand for diesel has gone way up.
===
Good information, thanks.
It is obviously biased away from popular folk wisdom however since
there was no category in the pie chart breakdown called "Greedy
Corporate Speculative Excess Profits". I don't see how they could
have missed an obvious item like that in an otherwise well
researched
article. :-)
Agent just ate my reply with a typo, and in 13 yeaars, I have never
figured out how. Our Lincoln Navigator has four cams and 32
valves and
only manages to get 14 at 70. The thing some real walnut trim,
steering wheel, little plates containing the window and door lock
switches. Nice looking. So, I sometimes call it:' The Sliverado.'
Casady
My Silverado gets 14 mpg - when I'm pulling the travel trailer.
But, that's
40% better than my
4Runner got, so I'm not complaining.
My 1999 Expedition sucked fuel. 14,5 mpg was about normal. In 100,000
miles the best I ever got on a long trip was 16.5 mpg, and that
was from Los
Angeles to Pleasanton and I do not think I ever got over 65 mph.
My 300 HP
327 SS 1964 Impala got better than that, and would do 142 mph.-
Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
My 'vette has 436 HP, does 0-60 in 4.3 seconds, and has a top speed
of 190 mph. I'm getting 22 mpg around town and nearly 27 on the
highway. Of course, it only weighs 3200 lbs and it's easy to push
through the air. You just can't compare these big, heavy, blunt SUVs
to cars. Apples and oranges.
Gee, my less powerful little sports car gets to 60 as quickly as yours,
and gets better mileage, too. Of course, it also isn't suitable for
pulling a heavy boat trailer, so why bother mentioning it? Oh...you
wanted us to know you had a plastic sports car!
That's Harry, never miss an opportunity to be a true asshole....
It's pretty funny... notice how he fails to mention exactly what "less
powerful little sports car" he has? That's because if he really has
one, it isn't nearly a 4.3 second car. Not taking anything away from
small, nimble British or other marque sports cars, but they are
typically 6-10 second cars. They are great fun to drive, but even a
base Corvette will eat them alive on a track.

But if he can post a pic of his chubby fingers holding a harry nametag
with that little sports car in the background that has a 0-60 time of
4.5 seconds or less, I know we'd all like to see it!
You won't. It exists only in his imagination.

He did show pictures of his Maryland red barn, didn't he? Do you really
want him to post snapshots of everything he owns?

On Jun 22, 4:33*pm, iBoat wrote:
In article , payer33859
@mypacks.net says...







On 6/22/11 3:30 PM, Jack. wrote:

I see no reason to mention the brand names here of current cars,
motorbikes, boats, et cetera. BTW, I'm pretty sure my motorbike will
out-accelerate your 'vette to 60 mph and some ways beyond.

That would be your Zimmerman-like bike, right?

Nope, it's Italian, and it's very fast. Faster than your pushrod V8 hawg
car under many conditions, I am sure, though I'm not a skillful enough
rider to wring its best out of it.

I can't do this, but I've seen tests of the same model I have run the
quarter mile in a hair over 10 seconds, with a terminal velocity of 145
mph. How's that hawg 'vette do in the quarter mile?

Bull****, YOU said right here last year that you bought a Kawasaki....

And that was probably a lie as well. As many times as he's said that
no one needs or should have a high perfomance boat, car, etc., you can
be sure he didn't buy a high performance bike or sports car. And if
he did, em would be along in a minute questioning his manhood, right?

This is really some high-dollar entertainment, and for free! :-

On 6/23/11 8:52 AM, Jack. wrote:
On Jun 22, 4:33 pm, wrote:
In articlefdSdndbRd5YxzZ_TnZ2dnUVZ_jCdn...@earthlink .com, payer33859
@mypacks.net says...







On 6/22/11 3:30 PM, Jack. wrote:

I see no reason to mention the brand names here of current cars,
motorbikes, boats, et cetera. BTW, I'm pretty sure my motorbike will
out-accelerate your 'vette to 60 mph and some ways beyond.

That would be your Zimmerman-like bike, right?

Nope, it's Italian, and it's very fast. Faster than your pushrod V8 hawg
car under many conditions, I am sure, though I'm not a skillful enough
rider to wring its best out of it.

I can't do this, but I've seen tests of the same model I have run the
quarter mile in a hair over 10 seconds, with a terminal velocity of 145
mph. How's that hawg 'vette do in the quarter mile?

Bull****, YOU said right here last year that you bought a Kawasaki....

And that was probably a lie as well. As many times as he's said that
no one needs or should have a high perfomance boat, car, etc., you can
be sure he didn't buy a high performance bike or sports car. And if
he did, em would be along in a minute questioning his manhood, right?

This is really some high-dollar entertainment, and for free! :-


Actually, I did buy a Kawasaki, I kept it for a while, more than a year,
and then I sold it to buy an Italian bike, which was my first
preference, but I didn't want to make that sort of investment until I
determined whether I'd still enjoy motorcycling.

My guess is that my non-British sports car accelerates about as fast as
your 'vette, and that you have 10-15 mph top end on me. Maybe, if your
valve train can actually take it. I know my non-Japanese Italian
motorcycle will out-accelerate your 'vette on the straights and in the
right driver's hands (not mine, to be sure), blow you right off any real
sports car racing track. I know that because a model similar to what I
have has been raced against Ferrari's and Lamborghini's and has come out
on top...with a pro motorcycle racer doing the driving.








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In article , payer33859
@mypacks.net says...

On 6/23/11 8:52 AM, Jack. wrote:
On Jun 22, 4:33 pm, wrote:
In articlefdSdndbRd5YxzZ_TnZ2dnUVZ_jCdn...@earthlink .com, payer33859
@mypacks.net says...







On 6/22/11 3:30 PM, Jack. wrote:

I see no reason to mention the brand names here of current cars,
motorbikes, boats, et cetera. BTW, I'm pretty sure my motorbike will
out-accelerate your 'vette to 60 mph and some ways beyond.

That would be your Zimmerman-like bike, right?

Nope, it's Italian, and it's very fast. Faster than your pushrod V8 hawg
car under many conditions, I am sure, though I'm not a skillful enough
rider to wring its best out of it.

I can't do this, but I've seen tests of the same model I have run the
quarter mile in a hair over 10 seconds, with a terminal velocity of 145
mph. How's that hawg 'vette do in the quarter mile?

Bull****, YOU said right here last year that you bought a Kawasaki....

And that was probably a lie as well. As many times as he's said that
no one needs or should have a high perfomance boat, car, etc., you can
be sure he didn't buy a high performance bike or sports car. And if
he did, em would be along in a minute questioning his manhood, right?

This is really some high-dollar entertainment, and for free! :-


Actually, I did buy a Kawasaki, I kept it for a while, more than a year,
and then I sold it to buy an Italian bike, which was my first
preference, but I didn't want to make that sort of investment until I
determined whether I'd still enjoy motorcycling.

My guess is that my non-British sports car accelerates about as fast as
your 'vette, and that you have 10-15 mph top end on me. Maybe, if your
valve train can actually take it. I know my non-Japanese Italian
motorcycle will out-accelerate your 'vette on the straights and in the
right driver's hands (not mine, to be sure), blow you right off any real
sports car racing track. I know that because a model similar to what I
have has been raced against Ferrari's and Lamborghini's and has come out
on top...with a pro motorcycle racer doing the driving.

Yeah, sure. You sure can cover up your lies well, or at least you try
hard. If you want to save face, post a picture of it in front of your
new boat with the twin diesels.....

On Jun 23, 9:13*am, Harryk wrote:
On 6/23/11 8:52 AM, Jack. wrote:





On Jun 22, 4:33 pm, *wrote:
In articlefdSdndbRd5YxzZ_TnZ2dnUVZ_jCdn...@earthlink .com, payer33859
@mypacks.net says...

On 6/22/11 3:30 PM, Jack. wrote:

I see no reason to mention the brand names here of current cars,
motorbikes, boats, et cetera. BTW, I'm pretty sure my motorbike will
out-accelerate your 'vette to 60 mph and some ways beyond.

That would be your Zimmerman-like bike, right?

Nope, it's Italian, and it's very fast. Faster than your pushrod V8 hawg
car under many conditions, I am sure, though I'm not a skillful enough
rider to wring its best out of it.

I can't do this, but I've seen tests of the same model I have run the
quarter mile in a hair over 10 seconds, with a terminal velocity of 145
mph. How's that hawg 'vette do in the quarter mile?

Bull****, YOU said right here last year that you bought a Kawasaki....

And that was probably a lie as well. *As many times as he's said that
no one needs or should have a high perfomance boat, car, etc., you can
be sure he didn't buy a high performance bike or sports car. *And if
he did, em would be along in a minute questioning his manhood, right?

This is really some high-dollar entertainment, and for free! *:-

Actually, I did buy a Kawasaki, I kept it for a while, more than a year,
and then I sold it to buy an Italian bike, which was my first
preference, but I didn't want to make that sort of investment until I
determined whether I'd still enjoy motorcycling.

My guess is that my non-British sports car accelerates about as fast as
your 'vette, and that you have 10-15 mph top end on me. Maybe, if your
valve train can actually take it. I know my non-Japanese Italian
motorcycle will out-accelerate your 'vette on the straights and in the
right driver's hands (not mine, to be sure), blow you right off any real
sports car racing track. I know that because a model similar to what I
have has been raced against Ferrari's and Lamborghini's and has come out
on top...with a pro motorcycle racer doing the driving.

LOL! Those are some serious feelings of inadequacy you have, krause!
Too funny!

Write up some more funny stuff boasting about things you've never done
or owned to make yourself seem more important to us. Come on, this is
great! Set the fiction writer in you free! Haha!!!

On 6/23/11 9:13 AM, Harryk wrote:
On 6/23/11 8:52 AM, Jack. wrote:
On Jun 22, 4:33 pm, wrote:
In articlefdSdndbRd5YxzZ_TnZ2dnUVZ_jCdn...@earthlink .com, payer33859
@mypacks.net says...







On 6/22/11 3:30 PM, Jack. wrote:

I see no reason to mention the brand names here of current cars,
motorbikes, boats, et cetera. BTW, I'm pretty sure my motorbike will
out-accelerate your 'vette to 60 mph and some ways beyond.

That would be your Zimmerman-like bike, right?

Nope, it's Italian, and it's very fast. Faster than your pushrod V8
hawg
car under many conditions, I am sure, though I'm not a skillful enough
rider to wring its best out of it.

I can't do this, but I've seen tests of the same model I have run the
quarter mile in a hair over 10 seconds, with a terminal velocity of 145
mph. How's that hawg 'vette do in the quarter mile?

Bull****, YOU said right here last year that you bought a Kawasaki....

And that was probably a lie as well. As many times as he's said that
no one needs or should have a high perfomance boat, car, etc., you can
be sure he didn't buy a high performance bike or sports car. And if
he did, em would be along in a minute questioning his manhood, right?

This is really some high-dollar entertainment, and for free! :-


Actually, I did buy a Kawasaki, I kept it for a while, more than a year,
and then I sold it to buy an Italian bike, which was my first
preference, but I didn't want to make that sort of investment until I
determined whether I'd still enjoy motorcycling.

My guess is that my non-British sports car accelerates about as fast as
your 'vette, and that you have 10-15 mph top end on me. Maybe, if your
valve train can actually take it. I know my non-Japanese Italian
motorcycle will out-accelerate your 'vette on the straights and in the
right driver's hands (not mine, to be sure), blow you right off any real
sports car racing track. I know that because a model similar to what I
have has been raced against Ferrari's and Lamborghini's and has come out
on top...with a pro motorcycle racer doing the driving.

You can tell how much I enjoy both boating and riding my high
performance motorcycle, by the time I actually use either of them. I
hope no one starts to track my posts again where it showed I never was
away from my computer for more than an hour. Damn that was embarrassing.

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On Jun 23, 9:47*am, iBoat wrote:
In article , payer33859
@mypacks.net says...







On 6/23/11 8:52 AM, Jack. wrote:
On Jun 22, 4:33 pm, *wrote:
In articlefdSdndbRd5YxzZ_TnZ2dnUVZ_jCdn...@earthlink .com, payer33859
@mypacks.net says...

On 6/22/11 3:30 PM, Jack. wrote:

I see no reason to mention the brand names here of current cars,
motorbikes, boats, et cetera. BTW, I'm pretty sure my motorbike will
out-accelerate your 'vette to 60 mph and some ways beyond.

That would be your Zimmerman-like bike, right?

Nope, it's Italian, and it's very fast. Faster than your pushrod V8 hawg
car under many conditions, I am sure, though I'm not a skillful enough
rider to wring its best out of it.

I can't do this, but I've seen tests of the same model I have run the
quarter mile in a hair over 10 seconds, with a terminal velocity of 145
mph. How's that hawg 'vette do in the quarter mile?

Bull****, YOU said right here last year that you bought a Kawasaki.....

And that was probably a lie as well. *As many times as he's said that
no one needs or should have a high perfomance boat, car, etc., you can
be sure he didn't buy a high performance bike or sports car. *And if
he did, em would be along in a minute questioning his manhood, right?

This is really some high-dollar entertainment, and for free! *:-

Actually, I did buy a Kawasaki, I kept it for a while, more than a year,
and then I sold it to buy an Italian bike, which was my first
preference, but I didn't want to make that sort of investment until I
determined whether I'd still enjoy motorcycling.

My guess is that my non-British sports car accelerates about as fast as
your 'vette, and that you have 10-15 mph top end on me. Maybe, if your
valve train can actually take it. I know my non-Japanese Italian motorcycle
will out-accelerate your 'vette on the straights and in the
right driver's hands (not mine, to be sure), blow you right off any real
sports car racing track. I know that because a model similar to what I
have has been raced against Ferrari's and Lamborghini's and has come out
on top...with a pro motorcycle racer doing the driving.

Yeah, sure. You sure can cover up your lies well, or at least you try
hard. If you want to save face, post a picture of it in front of your
new boat with the twin diesels.....

Hey! He has a "non-British sports car" and a "non-Japanese Italian
motorcycle"! Don't you dare make fun of him! LOL!

On 6/23/11 9:58 AM, Jack. wrote:
On Jun 23, 9:13 am, wrote:
On 6/23/11 8:52 AM, Jack. wrote:





On Jun 22, 4:33 pm, wrote:
In articlefdSdndbRd5YxzZ_TnZ2dnUVZ_jCdn...@earthlink .com, payer33859
@mypacks.net says...

On 6/22/11 3:30 PM, Jack. wrote:

I see no reason to mention the brand names here of current cars,
motorbikes, boats, et cetera. BTW, I'm pretty sure my motorbike will
out-accelerate your 'vette to 60 mph and some ways beyond.

That would be your Zimmerman-like bike, right?

Nope, it's Italian, and it's very fast. Faster than your pushrod V8 hawg
car under many conditions, I am sure, though I'm not a skillful enough
rider to wring its best out of it.

I can't do this, but I've seen tests of the same model I have run the
quarter mile in a hair over 10 seconds, with a terminal velocity of 145
mph. How's that hawg 'vette do in the quarter mile?

Bull****, YOU said right here last year that you bought a Kawasaki....

And that was probably a lie as well. As many times as he's said that
no one needs or should have a high perfomance boat, car, etc., you can
be sure he didn't buy a high performance bike or sports car. And if
he did, em would be along in a minute questioning his manhood, right?

This is really some high-dollar entertainment, and for free! :-

Actually, I did buy a Kawasaki, I kept it for a while, more than a year,
and then I sold it to buy an Italian bike, which was my first
preference, but I didn't want to make that sort of investment until I
determined whether I'd still enjoy motorcycling.

My guess is that my non-British sports car accelerates about as fast as
your 'vette, and that you have 10-15 mph top end on me. Maybe, if your
valve train can actually take it. I know my non-Japanese Italian
motorcycle will out-accelerate your 'vette on the straights and in the
right driver's hands (not mine, to be sure), blow you right off any real
sports car racing track. I know that because a model similar to what I
have has been raced against Ferrari's and Lamborghini's and has come out
on top...with a pro motorcycle racer doing the driving.

LOL! Those are some serious feelings of inadequacy you have, krause!
Too funny!

Write up some more funny stuff boasting about things you've never done
or owned to make yourself seem more important to us. Come on, this is
great! Set the fiction writer in you free! Haha!!!


Inadequacy? You mean because I wanted to "experiment" with an
inexpensive motorcycle before I bought an expensive one? Many years ago,
while in college, I suffered a neck/back injury that was severe enough
to make it impossible for me to ride the motorcycle I had at that time,
a two cylinder Honda. I had to sell the bike. I was fairly certain the
injury over the years healed properly and that I could ride a motorcycle
again. So I spent a small amount of money on a Kawasaki to see if I
would be able to ride reasonable distances, up to a couple of hundred
miles. After messing around with the bike locally, one morning I drove
off to Virginia Beach and back. It was a successful trip, neck and back
wise, as it were, so I seriously began considering getting the bike I
really wanted. Simple enough.

Or do you think I am feeling "inadequate" because I'm not ashamed to
admit I am *not* a skilled professional motorcycle racer? Well, I'm not.
Driving a motorcycle around a sports car track at 160+ mph is not
something I would do. But...a bit of stoplight drag racing against
snotnoses like you in 'vettes? Absolutely. Actually, I haven't had the
pleasure with a 'vette, but I have had some fun with boy racers in V8
Mustangs, Chryslers, and BMWs. When they finally pull up next to me at
the next traffic light and say, "What the hell is that?" I have the
pleasure of saying, "It's just my Duc, a little Italian motorcycle."
And it's not even the "hot" model.

Nothing against your 'vette...nice car, but not my taste. Too big, and I
don't much like the interiors.



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On 6/23/11 10:16 AM, Harryk wrote:
On 6/23/11 9:58 AM, Jack. wrote:
On Jun 23, 9:13 am, wrote:
On 6/23/11 8:52 AM, Jack. wrote:





On Jun 22, 4:33 pm, wrote:
In articlefdSdndbRd5YxzZ_TnZ2dnUVZ_jCdn...@earthlink .com, payer33859
@mypacks.net says...

On 6/22/11 3:30 PM, Jack. wrote:

I see no reason to mention the brand names here of current cars,
motorbikes, boats, et cetera. BTW, I'm pretty sure my motorbike
will
out-accelerate your 'vette to 60 mph and some ways beyond.

That would be your Zimmerman-like bike, right?

Nope, it's Italian, and it's very fast. Faster than your pushrod
V8 hawg
car under many conditions, I am sure, though I'm not a skillful
enough
rider to wring its best out of it.

I can't do this, but I've seen tests of the same model I have run the
quarter mile in a hair over 10 seconds, with a terminal velocity
of 145
mph. How's that hawg 'vette do in the quarter mile?

Bull****, YOU said right here last year that you bought a Kawasaki....

And that was probably a lie as well. As many times as he's said that
no one needs or should have a high perfomance boat, car, etc., you can
be sure he didn't buy a high performance bike or sports car. And if
he did, em would be along in a minute questioning his manhood, right?

This is really some high-dollar entertainment, and for free! :-

Actually, I did buy a Kawasaki, I kept it for a while, more than a year,
and then I sold it to buy an Italian bike, which was my first
preference, but I didn't want to make that sort of investment until I
determined whether I'd still enjoy motorcycling.

My guess is that my non-British sports car accelerates about as fast as
your 'vette, and that you have 10-15 mph top end on me. Maybe, if your
valve train can actually take it. I know my non-Japanese Italian
motorcycle will out-accelerate your 'vette on the straights and in the
right driver's hands (not mine, to be sure), blow you right off any real
sports car racing track. I know that because a model similar to what I
have has been raced against Ferrari's and Lamborghini's and has come out
on top...with a pro motorcycle racer doing the driving.

LOL! Those are some serious feelings of inadequacy you have, krause!
Too funny!

Write up some more funny stuff boasting about things you've never done
or owned to make yourself seem more important to us. Come on, this is
great! Set the fiction writer in you free! Haha!!!


Inadequacy? You mean because I wanted to "experiment" with an
inexpensive motorcycle before I bought an expensive one? Many years ago,
while in college, I suffered a neck/back injury that was severe enough
to make it impossible for me to ride the motorcycle I had at that time,
a two cylinder Honda. I had to sell the bike. I was fairly certain the
injury over the years healed properly and that I could ride a motorcycle
again. So I spent a small amount of money on a Kawasaki to see if I
would be able to ride reasonable distances, up to a couple of hundred
miles. After messing around with the bike locally, one morning I drove
off to Virginia Beach and back. It was a successful trip, neck and back
wise, as it were, so I seriously began considering getting the bike I
really wanted. Simple enough.

Or do you think I am feeling "inadequate" because I'm not ashamed to
admit I am *not* a skilled professional motorcycle racer? Well, I'm not.
Driving a motorcycle around a sports car track at 160+ mph is not
something I would do. But...a bit of stoplight drag racing against
snotnoses like you in 'vettes? Absolutely. Actually, I haven't had the
pleasure with a 'vette, but I have had some fun with boy racers in V8
Mustangs, Chryslers, and BMWs. When they finally pull up next to me at
the next traffic light and say, "What the hell is that?" I have the
pleasure of saying, "It's just my Duc, a little Italian motorcycle."
And it's not even the "hot" model.

Nothing against your 'vette...nice car, but not my taste. Too big, and I
don't much like the interiors.




LOL, I make myself giggle when I read my posts.

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