Re: Harley Davidson Dyna ride height

Naw, our US managers will never understand Deming let alone adopt his
obviously correct methods. They are too busy collecting inflated saleries
and bickering with labor. That's why Jap management can take over a GM
factory and workers and use it to produce top quality products without labor
problems.

 

Vito wrote

It is called "Protectionism" and is a short sighted and dishonest policy
used, in the past by others and now discarded, to cover up the gross
ineptitude in foreign financial dealings that merkin Capital has never
been able to rid itself of.

Worth noting that protectionism and isolationism tend to go together and
are generally more indicative of incompetent government rather than any
particular political colouring although extreme right/left tends to be
the natural home of such idiocy.

 

It did at the time (1980). The H-D phenominon didn't start here until about
1991. When I bought my 1990 the dealer still had a couple 1989s on the
floor. He knocked $1000 off the price, threw in an extended warranty, and
charged no setup fee. By mid-91 he was selling every bike he could get
without incentive and soon began adding accessories to raise the price and
profit, yet there was still over a 6-month waiting list!

 

Yours? <grin>

 

Solo Rider wrote

You haven't got a fucking clue have you? Ask your tame bro what life is
like for a spade in NZ and don't be surprised if he says, "short".

There has been a growing tide of accusation from "the rest of us"
regarding racial and social intolerance among the (newly arrived?)
"Asian" parts of our community. Although in truth this is probably more
(historically) internally focused than externally and usually seems
based on religious and other cultural differences.

These riots have only taken place in European France as far as I know.
There may be more relevance in examining the whys and wherefores of this
other than as a purely racial thing.

 

Sorry, just 'ragging' on dwb. Would love to spend some time in Europe.

 

Even depends on where in the US you are. In the upper mid-west and west
there are whites and blacks. Other places differentiate between Cubans,
Mexicans and other hispanics and 'whites'. California blames all crime and
disease on "transcients" even though few Californians are 2nd generation
natives. Most North eastern cities still have ethnic neighborhoods.

 

Having done it a few times I can admit "Not much!". That's why one needs a
H-D to do it.

Sounds great.

 

Would that be more or less barbaric than strapping a man down and
pumping a cocktail of drugs into his body until he died?

Just because an Austrian nazi says something is right it doesn't mean
that a large percentage of the civilised World don't think he's a
****. Hmm, that rings a bell doesn't it?

 

Actually I seem to have qutie a few more than you do.

If you think it is bad in NZ, try it in Japan or China.

I was speaking of the nations themselves, not people from those countries.
Try being a gajin in Japan sometimes.

And there aren't racial tensions in London? I seem to recal riots there in
the late 70s and other unrest there since.

 

Vito said...

Dwb's not even British, he's a fucking Bokker.

 

But Nigel, one only gets 200 miles per tank so one must stop several times
and each time several Texas women, all like Dallas cheerleaders, will hound
you for sex in you are on a Harley Davidson. That means you can't get out
of town til next morning.

 

<fx: tumbleweed>

Do you think you're going to get a straight answer to that? 'Cos I
don't....

 

He didn't "allow" it.

You made an asinine comment, which he picked up on.

 

All they'll do is impose tariffs on the rest of the World and by doing
so deny the people the right to choose.

 

They're fine if you want a machine for your garage. Have you tried
using a dividing head on one when the job is nearly as long as the
table? Even on a brand new example the table will rock by about 0.020"
because of the weight.

You can't even improve things by bolting them down onto a 4' thick
concrete raft.

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

I was moved to eamil the today program a couple of weeks ago when it was
reported that Jack Straw was "relieved" that the English and Aussie
yachting couples had been relased from custody in Iran, after being
"imprisoned for 2 weeks without charge".
"Imagine how incensed he'd have been if they'd been held for 90 days
without charge" I said, the day after Jack Straw and the govt had been
defeated on the anti-terrorism bill with it's 90 day detention without
charge clause.

They read it out too ;-)

 

Yes, but you'll not see the beaver building their dams nor the bear fishing
in the stream.

Indeed, but once you've explored the limits one a real race bike shod with
slicks without any oncoming traffic then toddling along on a sport's bike at
70% those speeds becomes boring - so one slows even farther and enjoys the
flowers.

I've had a GSXR, or rather my wife did (great girls bike) but I couldn't
ride it over 100 miles without the pain becoming unbearable.

 

Solo Rider wrote

No, you have a few opinions that you think you hold strongly. These do
not appear to be based in fact to any meaningful degree.

Try being a "bleedin' foreigner" in anybody's country.

On the whole no. We don't have ethnic ghettos in the way you do.

We do have areas where one immigrant group will settle for a couple of
generations before being assimilated into the wider community. In these
areas there is an obvious presence of the immigrants but even then it is
within an established community and not separate from the mainstream of
British culture.

In fact these transit areas are a part of our culture, the means by
which the wogs become English, or Welsh, or whatever. Over time they
move out, we move back in and the whole place becomes "normal" and other
areas become the new arrival point and a place of future development for
our society.

Modelled largely upon merkin methods.

It wasn't racist really as it was stirred up by both commie and fascist
elements in an attempt to destabilise democratic society for their own
political gain. They have been dealt with, mostly. We now live in
harmony with our older immigrant communities.

 

You are correct. As long as H-D can sell bikes faster than they can make
them there is no incentive to add models.

Probably. To me a "sport bike" is a machine made for posiers who like to
think they can ride as good a real racers - the same folk who think their
Ford is just like a NASCAR racer and enjoy "virtual" reality. The styling
needed to make them look like race bikes yields atrocious comfort on the
street and the overtuning needed to get HP out of their goofy 4-stroke
motors makes them at once finiky on maintenance and treacherous handlers.
Yes, I know, people do race them. They race lawn mowers too.