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    Prediction for `26 bike insurance.....

    Every report, lots of them, with the rider taken to a trauma center or suffering life altering injuries is brutal. When I see or hear the Ornge medevac chopper coming out of my local regional airport every summer I say a quick prayer.
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    Prediction for `26 bike insurance.....

    .....with the discussion of the DoFo insurance thread, gotta` wonder. This year has been terrible for motorcycle fatalities and injuries. How long before the companies become even more punitive with rates ( bottom line matters obviously), and dog help us if the gov`t meddles even more in...
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    Thinking of trading my V-Strom 650XT for the new Himalayan 450 – need your thoughts!

    A decade of supporting Liberals will get you this. There should be a "stupid" tax they pay for the chopper support. OK....back to bike talk.
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    Thinking of trading my V-Strom 650XT for the new Himalayan 450 – need your thoughts!

    Good grief. Three pages of debating over a proven, dependable and reasonably powerful Suzuki V-twin and a wheezy 450 single with suspect reliability and thin dealer network. How did so many of us riding from the late `60s make it this far? :rolleyes:
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    Moto Canada submits recommendations for CUSMA free trade review

    Nice gesture I suppose, Carney wouldn`t know a Ninja or GasGas if it bit his arse .
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    EICMA 2025

    Posting your road crimes for all to see....If you`re going to be a criminal, don`t be a stupid criminal.
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    EICMA 2025

    I subscribed to Performance Bikes for years, pricey but worth it, I`ve still got the sheets of wacky stickers sealed in the bag, only the Brits could produce those loony things. That mag was nearly equal to the late, great Cycle magazine, especially thru the `70`s, I`m still hanging onto...
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    Donating to charities

    I throw some cash to my hospital, Sally Ann and some to the local animal shelter. Hell,...they`re all local, within a 5 minute drive. Always makes me wonder how much of a lot of charity gets skimmed for the organizers bank accounts. The shelter is a throw `N go, hang around and take the chance...
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    November 11th

    My Dad signed up for the Canadian army, underage in late `40. He fought in Italy and Holland. My Grandfather was at sea on freighters world wide, pre-WW2 and served on freighters sailing from Halifax to England for several years. He lost friends to the U-boat packs. He ended up training British...
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    ADV Racing! LOL!

    Some talent on display there wrestling those big pigs around. Ever see the races from Sturgis with an assortment of Harleys in the run whatcha` brung street bikes on a dirt short track? 🤪
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    Public service announcement

    Hadda layerdown Hoss, Gobbless. Clibbins are a year round thing. 🙀
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    Motorcycle adventure riding books

    I`ve no idea where you can find a copy, but, "Racer.. the Gary Nixon story". By Joe Scalzo I believe, I`ve had mine forever. I met Nixon and his tuner Erv Kanemoto at Mosport, probably `76 or so. He was on a TZ750, likely the OW31 variant. There that weekend also was Gene Romero aboard a TZ750...
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    Prostate cancer update....

    It`s the only way to go. I actually cancelled my first appointment for my prostate biopsy. I`d built up big anxiety and trepidation and bailed out. The thought of getting a needle/freezing up the hoop, followed by some little pickle grabber thing :eek: taking tiny bites out of my prostate in a...
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    Prostate cancer update....

    That explains my puzzled look when they handed me the squeeze mustard. I got 4 blue dot tattoos, positioning markers, to ensure accuracy with the external beam radiation circular ray gun. One above my navel, another mid groin and one on each hip, line `em up and zap away. The treatment took...
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    Prostate cancer update....

    Well played. Prostate cancer is nothing to die of embarrassment about, lots of men just don`t want to do it. Ya gotta` wonder...we have x-rays, CT scans, MRI`s and Ultrasound yet the DRE is king.
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    Prostate cancer update....

    There`s lots of variables with prostate cancer. A percentage of men do die with it but not from it, mostly at a well advanced age. If it metastasizes, spreads to other parts of your body, as would have happened to me,....you`re in serious trouble. Get checked is right, like a .50 cal. machine...
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    Prostate cancer update....

    ...had my annual sit down with my radiation oncologist last Monday at Durham Cancer Center/Lakeridge, bloodwork done 2 weeks prior. All is good five years on. I`ve mentioned I was diagnosed in Aug. of `20, had brachytherapy and 15 external beam radiation treatments a few months following...
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    Not sure how i feel

    Once Upon A Tyme, I was a young loon lusting after someone`s daughters. I oddly never rode as such with any passenger, the OP should be more concerned about an unwanted pregnancy IMO. 🙃 I did know a guy who was real close friends with another guys wife however. He crashed his 500 Kawi H1, late...
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    What did you do in your garage today..?

    Checked over my 3 Honda blowers yesterday, no not that V-3 electric supercharged bike on the show circuit. A 520,720, and the big 724. Let`s hope this winter isn`t a repeat of last year, we got clobbered.
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    Normal car recommendation….

    Probably cheaper to trade in the wife. ;)
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