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18 February 2007 Our beloved kook Jake McCrann has claimed that his demented biographical fantasies were merely "extended metaphors". Bwehehe.
For those of you who are tempted to try basejumping, you may want to watch this first....and turn the sound up. (No fatalities, nothing gruesome, just a heap big agony)
It's going to get worse you know......much worse All you "war on drugs" cretins must feel so proud.
When avowed Stalinists start whining about theft of property and civil rights. It's not hypocrisy, it's just "social justice with intellectual characteristics".
Can somebody please bring Antony Lowenstein up to speed as to the meaning of "freedom of speech"? I'll give you a hint Anto: me deciding not to give someone my money is not violating anyone's freedom. Got that?
YZF-600: Yamaha's forgotten gem
Let me be unambiguous: I don't like 600s, or more specifically, the modern stable of Japanese four-cylinder supersport 600s, those cut-priced rockets which represent the biggest slice of the sportsbike market. Today's batch look great on paper: super light weight, huge peak horsepower, superb handling. They have everything going for them except for one small problem: they suck. They're horrible to ride: small, uncomfortable, twitchy handling, with engines which have fuck-all power below 10,000rpm, requiring you to revs the tits off them 100% of the time to have any momentum. This may be great for the World SuperSport Championship, which the current crop are designed for, but they make for shit roadbikes. It wasn't always like this. Back before Yamaha released their razor-sharp R6 in 1999, their representative in the middleweight sportsbike class was the YZF600 Thundercat. This bike got ditched because it was too fat, too soft and too slow for racing. It was however, a bloody nice roadbike. To start with, it was comfortable. Such wimpy considerations are out of place in today's wannabe-racer squidboy market, but I've never seen the attraction of riding a bike which leaves you in pain after 15 minutes, which is pretty much 100% of today's supersport bikes. The YZF has a comfy seat and sensible geometry which allows the bike to handle quick, but still leaves you some 'stretching' room. The screen gives plenty of protection, and there's just the right balance of weight loading between arse and wrists. It's comfortable enough to tour on, yet it still does the biz as a sports-roadbike. It steers well, is stable and has good brakes. The engine is stil a 600, meaning not a lot of torque, but at least with the YZF600 Yamaha were going for rideability, so there's enough mid-range in the engine tuning to make riding it more enjoyable than most 600s. You can get these bikes dirt-cheap and in good nick on the used market. You could do a heck of a lot worse. It's a good, no bullshit sporty roadbike which is bloody comfy and still can be punted at a fair pace. It's kinda like a 600-four Honda VTR. You could even buy a cheap used one, stick some hard luggage and high screen on it, and have your own unusual little sporty touring bike. Mmmmm, now there's an idea.....
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