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    Stocks

    Telcos, check. Banks, check.
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    What happens if KTM goes bust?

    Dismantlers and ebay and internet user groups will keep them going for a while. Major components that aren't wear items are usually crash-repair parts or major-mechanical-failure repair parts, and at that point, it's a crapshoot whether you can find used parts or substitute parts, or make...
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    Any GTAM'ers own an electric vehicle?

    Quebec is the closest province with the highest EV market penetration, much higher than Ontario. It stands to reason that there will be more used ones from there! (Didn't PrivatePilot buy one from Quebec a while back?)
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    Mouse Blocker

    I have two mouse blockers. Cats. I've yet to see a mouse anywhere, not even in the garage.
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    What happens if KTM goes bust?

    I think it is fairly likely that Bajaj or CFMoto (or both) will pick up some of the pieces for pennies on the dollar, and carry on building the portions of KTM that they are already involved with. What that does for parts availability, particularly for historical models that are no longer in...
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    North American International Motorcycle Supershow - Jan 3-5, 2025

    Hung out at the Ride42 booth with a bunch of the SOAR racers for a while this morning. Bumped into a few more familiar faces while making the rounds. That's what this is mostly about.
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    Speed camera update (Sept.11)

    Just FYI in my experience on unrestricted sections of autobahns in Germany, most normal traffic is doing 120 - 140 km/h (130 km/h is the recommended speed where there are no limits). Sure, there is the occasional high-end vehicle doing more than that, sometimes much more, but for every one of...
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    If you could load your bike on a plane and had 6 weeks off, where would you go?

    Probably Spain. There's no shortage of places to go and things to look at.
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    Speed camera update (Sept.11)

    Make engineering changes so that people don't drive fast near pedestrians or cyclists because they can't or it's uncomfortable. Option 1 separate them and allow high speeds, option 2 allow them together on curvy narrow streets where you can't comfortably drive fast and with houses and schools on...
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    Speed camera update (Sept.11)

    One particular cycling advocate on youtube (I think it's "Not Just Bikes" but could be wrong) calls them "stroads". We should have "roads" to get traffic from one place to another, with motor traffic separated from pedestrians and cyclists, and higher speed limits, and no private entrances, and...
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    Any GTAM'ers own an electric vehicle?

    It's being stated now that the bomber may have shot himself in the head before the explosion, but I have questions. Was the trigger on a timer, or on a fuse that took a finite amount of time? Nothing else about this incident suggests that level of planning.
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    Speed camera update (Sept.11)

    The problem with Parkside Drive is that it's a wide 2-lanes-each-way straight road with no interruptions (suggests 60 km/h to drivers) but with private driveways going directly to the street, some of which have poor visibility (I'm looking at streetview right now - this is bad) and with walkways...
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    Any GTAM'ers own an electric vehicle?

    The bomber's use of fireworks designed to make a cute bang and a pretty display, plus a few containers of liquid fuel which make a "woof" and a fireball unless first mixed with air, are what stopped this from being a blast that did significant damage. If he had used a real explosive, that truck...
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    The Bad Drivers of Ontario Thread

    Should have gone faster ... would have made it. Yeeee-haaaaaahhh!! First vehicle spotted in the ditch this winter. Ford F150 4x4. Of course. (Bottom of Winston Churchill in Terra Cotta - did lots of damage to the guardrail on the south side) Followed shortly thereafter by the second ... I think...
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    Let Me Know Your Thoughts?

    Nobody knows the "why" yet, and that may be the toughest question of all to answer, with the people in the best position to answer it not being around to answer it.
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    Let Me Know Your Thoughts?

    Yeah, this explosion was amateur level. I'm seeing preliminary reporting that the LV guy was a 37 year old man from Colorado, ex military. There's a photo circulating of someone with the same name, but apparently from Pennsylvania but the photo is from a few years ago, unknown if it's the same...
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    Any GTAM'ers own an electric vehicle?

    It is now coming out that the cybertruck locked itself after the explosion. What prompted it to do that, I don't know, but this makes ZERO sense on a vehicle that has no exterior door handles and relies on an electrically powered latch-popper (and presumably some computer wizardry) to open the...
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    Let Me Know Your Thoughts?

    I don't think the choice of vehicle made any difference whatsoever, given their choice of combustibles.
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    Let Me Know Your Thoughts?

    Well, they didn't exactly use the strongest explosive available, either. There's a photo circulating of what was left in the bed of the truck: A gasoline can, a couple of Coleman camp-fuel cans, and random detritus which is presumably the leftovers of fireworks - which are designed to produce...
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    Let Me Know Your Thoughts?

    It’s still premature. Don't jump to conclusions. Let the investigators do their thing.
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