[Bruce CurtisMember]

Hb AB with the TM, many more to qualify as old yet……

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that doggy in the window does look a bit like your fella in your avatar Blue :blink:

Similar temperament as Old reggie had too I say, bite first ask questions later………..much later.

His grandson isn’t much different in attitude, except he’s only half the size, standard make Collie.

Oh and I fully intend on doing some nomading when we retire, one of the kids can use the house, I’ll be on the road.

And XRs will beaut unique bikes, are not young Blokes bikes.

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Dunno about that XY, Kansai airport maybe big but I dont think it would make that much of a difference.

yeah Mick, not by its’ lonesome, but all the others, in Miami, Dubai, our own goldcoast all the places where we have reclaimed or just plain made land is all part of the bigger picture, we change so so much and all of us assume that we are causing minimal impact, but each one of us scurrying little ants going about our business never stop to look at the really big scene and occassionally we do and it scares us, so we don’t anymore.

Do you blokes realise we know more about what’s on the surface of the moon that what is really at the bottom of our oceans?

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Exactly my thoughts AB, how can we not be having some effect?

not to mention just the extraction of huge amounts of subsurface materials, what is this doing to the plates etc?

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I had an XR once, just the once an XR75, it got handed onto my brother very quickly and i got a YZ80 instead, he went onto a mediocre’ motorcycling career, DS80, PE250, XV1100, then hospitalisation for a long period and nothing ever more.
So see where owning an XR gets you!

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happy belated Birfdey Boony, did the birthday fairy bring you a proper off-road motorcycle yet?

or did you get a KTM instead?

Nice shirt, can understand why you’d want 20 of them, only the best of the best can ride them, and the others wear the shirts

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Nah I dont think so Bollocks, when I get really old I will probably do what you did and trade my trusty XR on a WR

And me the YZ for an XR…..

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thanks fellas. i’m still hesitant about my return of sorts.

as to your replies Hatto and Mr Blue. i understand the ice to water ratio/ displacement diff.

my point was thinking in mind that some point to the polar caps depletion and ice floating away from the polar regions as certain proof for their case that global warming is fact.

my point is that with the ice breakers going in and out has to impact on the amount of ice that floats away from the region.

as for global warming. i’m still out.

has the climate changed, in my mind yes. but global warming???

someone the other day in the states said it was quoted that they had more snow and ice and colder temps than the previous few years as a direct result of global warming?? :dry: :unsure: :S :blush:

do we need to look long and hard as to how we treat the land? Yes.

but the hardest part is getting a balance

I agree with that whole statement Trannie, another aspect is that the planet has it’s own cycles that may have been disrupted in the last millenia by the landbridge between the north and south americas, which in effect has stopped the equalisation of the worlds temperatures. Whereas once the waters circled the globe almost without barriers and disappated heat from large warm masses and then warmed up smaller colder masses or those nearer the extremes, now or sonce the time it became cojoined this has been impeded, and things have been going out of kilter, which also explains why winters are more severe at ties too, the gradual heating of some sections of the globe and the gradual cooling of others, either way that would be outside our doing or control. BUT (big but notice?) are we exacerbating the whole issue by pumping the untold millions of tonnes of crap we do into the atmosphere and relying soley upon the oceans to regulate temperatures?
Remember the land masses are but 12% of the surface of the planet, and most life lives beneath the water, have we screwed that too?

BC

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Global warming? I like the idea. Cant wait to catch Barramundi in the Hastings.

I read an interesting take on rising sea levels a while back, they suggested that the rising levels are from the displacement caused by all the boats now days, as there are a lot more boats than there was 100 years ago when they are comparing measurments with.I do believe this was said in jest though.

what about all the exploration that is going on in the arctic circles!!!!

the ice breakers take in and out people and equipment. the ice then floats away and melts.

so who exactly is causing the polar ice depletion and therefor the sea levels to change ?!?!!? :angry: :blink: :huh: :unsure: :S

>> necessity is the mother of invention. breakage is the father of necessity << book of drewpy 1:1

Nice thoughts tranny, but on a whole the amount of activity you speak of is miniscule compared to the overall ice cap, this I have on good authority, my late uncle and one of my current workmates were both based down there with meteorological depts in recent times.
Besides the polar caps diminishing is but one tiny aspect of the global environmental changes that are likely to occur, and probably have the lest impact on our overall wellbeing.

I’m just throwing it out there, for I am neither a sayer, nor nay-sayer of the cause, just trying to get it right in my mind. and i personally reckon we should all be concerned about what is being said in the media one way or another, cause Honestly I don’t trust politicians or professional green9ies with the future of the planet or Humankind.

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I meant to also say, the YZ forks are beautiful at holdig a line IF you ride like a motocross ride and load the front up, this isn’t a problem for me cause that’s where I come from, but on the Wr’s (and most enduro bikes for that matter) I find my loading the front up makes them understeer badly as they compress and the geo’s change.

What rate spring did you go to?

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just buy a ktm they come standard with good suspension wr forks have always sucked will they ever get it right

Are you serious Rocket???

a white power sticker no longer ensures anything out of the box, and hasn’t done so since KTM went Orange.

Some of the KTM forks i have used have sucked so badly in corners that I may as well have got off and walked, and the rear on most PDS… let’s just say more have been chucked off thean stayed on.

They all have faults and good points and KTM is these days just another mass produced brand hasn’t been exclusive since the first orange spew graphics model was introduced.

Yamaha has very reliable engines but terrible forks, rear is great, brakes are acceptable, forks are easy to fix.

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Mick be grateful it’s not worse, three weeks ago I upgraded the families main desktop unit with a new(ish) twin dual core CPU all singing , all dancing unit… two nights ago #1 daughter informs me it has become infected with a super virus, (it installs itself as windows security centre and then gradually takes everything over) so for the last 2 nights I have tried every trick I know (and I’m not super-gifted, but can navigate, my own machines reasonably adeptly) and many all my Geek contacts have suggested to no avail, I’m about to reformat it’s butt if I can’t kill it tonight…

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I posted this yesterday as my personal response to global warming and our impact on the world, I have listened ad-naseum to all the arguments, read many papers. I was discussing it with the only Bloke I’ve ever been in cerebral awe of (Head engineer for this organisation- IQ well above 180 and common sense plus) and we are both not sure what the ehll is going on, the only thing that is for certain, something is going on the climate IS changing, he has been studying it for the past 18 months in earnest, has some excellent theories, but isn’t sure.

Then I listened to a councillor talking out of his rectum about it, “bah humbug” he said, and this bloke has well below average intelligence and a huge mouth with very little common sense, but all he could see is change will cost him money….

The only thing I do know about the argument is that vested interests and people I wouldn’t take advice off in a pink fit are denying any problem exists……….

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Mick you have way way too much spare change laying around if, ahh the lifestyle of the wauchopian newspaper magnate and “importer/exporter” eh?

BC

If only you knew how crap the pay is in the newspaper game. You would be amazed that people persevere with it to be honest. Thankfully I have a few “scammies” on the side that pay for the luxuries like dirt bikes and trips away.

So what are you saying that you are involved in the mid-north coast “underbelly” scene eh Michael, or should that be Don Michael?

I’d believe it about the newspaper game, had a mate that worked for the Northern star, I made more working in a sawmill, which was pretty pathetic too.

I like the term “scammies” reminds me of Arfur off Minder.

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The valving issue is well known in the world of Yamaha ecks, they’ve been doing it for years. Apparently they can also just replace the mid-valve with a straight poppet (T-Valve) like your mates got and then work on the extremes.

if you rely just on springs to stop bottoming you’d have to have the hardest springs for an MX track which will never work on the trail.
Also i will repeat a well uttered truism, never setup/test your enduro/trail bikes suspension on an MX track, chalk and cheese my brother, chalk and cheese.

I have gone through the same issues, except i was starting from the MX end, not the trail end and mine is still a bit so so in the mid-stroke for my liking,

BC

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