Anyone need Harley Exhaust pipes

Are you joking? Every time I'm on Route 66 and catch up on a herd of Harleys carrying bald-headed bandana-wearing old fat guys to whom the

65 mph limit is as attainable as a weekend with... oh crap, who would they lust after? Farrah Fawcett maybe? :-) Apparently holding up and then being smartly passed by a station wagon or a minivan isn't humbling if you have ape-hangers and highway pegs.

BTW, I was passed by a pair of Harleys once, they were being towed on a trailer. :-)

Wayne

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wmbjk
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Hm, OK. Around here I can't tell you the last time I passed someone on a bike.

Never did understand how riding with the blood draining from your hands would be fun. Liked that Beemer with the full fairing...

And I bet the pipes weren't all that loud at that time either, eh?

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Dave Hinz

See, there it is.

Conservatives = redneck, H/D driving, lout pipes save lives, ABATE folks.

You recognize the fact that the pipes point *backwards* so they don't make terribly good horns. Therefore you cannot be a true conservative.

Oh, you may *think* you like driving in a pouring rainstorm with one of those beanie helmets on, but in reality you're gonna wind up a few years with a center fold-out of hillary or somebody like that adorning your bedroom walls. Just you wait.

You could stave off the inevitable by dressing up like Ollie North and saluting yourself in the mirror every morning, but trust me, it's what's deep inside that counts. Your IQ is just too darn high.

Jim

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jim rozen

We do however, know their stance on what to do when driving on bridges.....

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

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Gunner

Heh.. Depends on the bike and the pipes.

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JohnM

Well, having been an EMT for a dozen or so years, I have some strong feelings about helmets. But, I also have strong feelings about organ donation, so I have this conflict, y'see? Basically, I think I've resolved it with myself by saying "Well, if the dumbass wants to end up brain-dead, at least let's hope he signed his donor statement on his driver's license so something good comes of it". That said, of the...

3 or 4 M/C fatalities I've responded to, none of them would have been viable donors. I say 3 or 4, because after HIPAA passed, we're not allowed to know if our patients live or not once we drop 'em off. Isn't that nice?

Well, I'm not a conservative in classical definitions; I just vote for them rather than democrats because democrats, as a rule, want to take my guns away. If the libertarian party could ever get it's shit together, I'd be interested, but I think by definition they never will. I overlap with their beliefs maybe 90%, as compared to maybe 60% with the republicans.

I can't think of anything less appealing. Wait - Janet Reno. Nevermind. I need to get this mental image out of my mind, thankyouverymuch, you bastard.

Never could handle that whole stiff-backed posture thing. Ever watch "Meet the Fockers", by the way?

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Dave Hinz

It's not about bridges, specifically, gunner, it's about _water_ with them. Think about it. Even snow, is water.

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Dave Hinz

Right, but you probably wear a full-face when you do (did) ride. That automatically takes you into the liberal zone. True conservatives ride without, or just one of those phony DOT-stickered beanies because anthing else is a tacit admission that helmet laws are tolerable.

Actually don't watch any cable or network TV at all.

Jim

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jim rozen

How does a kennedy score with their date?

"OK, nevermind. I'll just have uncle ted drive you home..."

Jim

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jim rozen

Hell yes.

Sorry, but I reject that theory.

I didn't wear a helmet because of a law (it's optional in Wisconsin anyway, which may be why we have a very high organ donor rate here), I wore it because I didn't want to crack the egg. And this was before I was doing the EMT thing.

It's worth 3 bucks pay-per-view. Pretty funny if you ever get the chance. I won't bother making a comparison to it, given that you haven't seen it.

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Dave Hinz

Ah, application of reason. Another nail in the coffin, Dave.

The ABATE folks don't wear helmets *because* of the law. It's their way of protesting. Odd but there it is. Where there are laws, they wear them but try to change it, citing all kinds of bogus stats (remember my complaints about gunner and his link-wars>) that *prove* that helmets break your neck.

Jim

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jim rozen

Jim, assuming that your political party is the only one that uses logic is more than just a little bit arrogant.

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Dave Hinz

Sorry, I was just taking a page from the other camp. You are of course correct.

Jim

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jim rozen

Funny how you get a feeling about that. I bought a new TR6 back in '63. Beautiful thing, purple and silver paint job. I insisted on a helmet-----at least that's what they called them then. Just a half thing, but enough to maybe save me in a crash. I was totally inexperienced as a rider-----and the crash came. Long story short, I ended up coming down on my left side, head and shoulder first. Had it not been for the helmet, I'd have likely been killed. Some folks might think that would have been a good thing, but I'm damned glad I lived------thanks to the helmet, which almost no one wore at that time.

Harold

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Harold and Susan Vordos

Tangentially related, I thought about buying a motorcycle 7 years ago, but bought a boat instead because boating is safer. I am gladthat I did so. Last weekend I went out with 13 people on board on a 21 foot boat. (many of these 13 were kids, so the weight load was not terrible). My boat is 21 years old.

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Ignoramus27341

Jim, assuming that the other political party always uses a particular tactic is more than just a little bit arrogant. People on both sides of the aisle use all sorts of shady tactics.

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Dave Hinz

So let me get this straight, it's OK if everyone else uses this tactic, including you and gunner. But it's verboten for me to apply it?

Jim

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jim rozen

On 20 Jul 2005 08:40:01 -0700, jim rozen wrote:

From Mary Jo Kopechne I would have been 65 years of age this year. But I died young, after a foolish night spent with my killer. It was an accident, like many that are caused by irresponsible behavior and drunk driving. When my killer was merely just another Senator bloating on Capitol Hill on behalf of liberal causes, it was perhaps excusable to ignore his deplorable past. But now that he's become a leading Republican attack dog, positioning himself as Washington's leading arbiter of truth and integrity, the days for such indulgence are now over. It's time for the GOP to stand up and remind America why this chief spokesman had to abandon his own presidential bid in 1980 - time to stand and please say my name out loud, Mary Jo Kopechne. MMAD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) never have... As is often the case, Republicans have deluded themselves into thinking that most Americans already know the story of how this "Conscience of the Democratic Party" left me behind to die in the waters underneath the Edgartown Bridge in July 1969, after a night of drinking and partying. I was a young, blonde campaign worker and easily impressed by power and money. But most Americans under 40 have never heard that story, or details of how Kennedy swam to safety, then tried to get his cousin Joe Garghan to say he was behind the wheel. Those young voters don't know how I died: Trapped inside Senator Kennedy's Oldsmobile, gasping for air. I died painfully, while the Democrats' leading Iraq war critic rushed back to his compound to formulate the best alibi he could think of. Neither does Generation X know how Kennedy was thrown out of Harvard on his ear 15 years earlier -- for paying a fellow student to take his Spanish final. Or why the US Army denied him a commission because he cheated on tests. As they listen to the Democrats' "Liberal Lion" accuse President Bush of "telling lie after lie after lie" to get America to go to war in Iraq, young voters don't know about that notorious 1991 Easter weekend in Palm Beach, when "Uncle Teddy" rounded up his nephews for a night on the town, an evening that ended with one of them credibly accused of rape. It's time for Republicans and decent Democrats to state unabashedly that they will no longer "go along with the gag" when it comes to Senator Kennedy's rants about deception and moral turpitude inside the Bush White House. And if the Republicans and responsible Democrats don't, will you pass my forgotten disgrace around the Internet to wake up memories of what a fraud and fake Teddy Kennedy really is? The Democratic Party should be ashamed to have the national disgrace from Massachusettses their spokesman. God Bless you All

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

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Gunner

Well it's true teddy killed one person. But it didn't cost the american taxpayer $5B per month to do it.

Lighten up, I thought it was a funny joke.

Jim

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jim rozen

And you are ok with this. In fact..you would vote for him. Correct?

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

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Gunner

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