Recent content by J_F

who is the sat team for Yamaha next year? SRT and Petronas are done with MotoGP Dovi is too fast and too well like to sit eff Ducati thrilled for Aleix and Aprilia today can't wait to see the Problem Child on the RS-GP he's gonna be fast AF on that bike and the chip on his shoulder

GM Oshawa is recruiting and hiring hundreds/thousands of production workers the best plant they had for making pickup trucks is going to roll again soon the union, CAW, that became Unifor has completely bent over to GM maybe assembly line workers aren't worth executive salaries ? but the...

390 Duke is a great little motorcycle and it's a real bike the BMW G310R is a direct comparison also made for the India market and exported as it's great little bike maybe the same factory? Groms are cool, much fun to be had apparently but they are a novelty, a minibike other manus sell Grom...

love the chickie on the didjeriedoo did I white-dude the spelling for you upside down people?

didn't end up going back today rain day led to domestic tasks which led to day-drinking which led to a long BBQ cook cheers, burns

so why you tossing shade all around here for peoples poll choices? re: post #8

guessing that's me did not have my own bike there but a friend from MTL that lives there let me ride his from time to time same as Colombia, the cities are nutso, countryside is fantastic if it weren't for the Darien Gap I'd ride down there with my current bike top notch private hospital...

terrible RIP rider

the 85 is 5K more $$ than the MT09 and about the same as the loaded Tracer GT this new 100 is likely to be in the 20K range going to have to be a real romanticist to pony that up for an air cooled bike with sparse dealer support

no one wants to hear of anyone getting a decent freebie unless it's themselves

amazing what you stumble across exploring back roads putting around near Golden Lake today saw this setup and had stop and see WTF was going on gal in historical garb waived me in for a visit around 10 of them are staging a settlers re-enactment for the weekend hand made clothing, no...

never heard of the orange, other than a gasket maker blue is regular strength red is high strength, can still be removed with quality tooling and heat may be required green I've only seen as a retaining compound for bearings, seals etc, not normally used on bolts I'd feel safe going out on a...

if the goal was to bring security and stability to the place and I still believe it was the troop surge worked but there was no need for 100,000 + soldiers long term a small occupation, forever or a better managed withdrawal I see US and NATO are still reluctant to engage in war mongering...

this is some good reading at one point, Canada was in command of 3 US battalions on top of our own this was a very important part of the security effort and we succeeded Kandahar City and province were no longer dangerous sh!tholes for awhile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Force_Kandahar

it was NOT a training mission we had for 10 years, at least one full infantry battalion and the support groups in country it was a COMBAT mission there was no ******* around in white APC's and blue hard hat BS going on there