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Why do people love these soggy, heavy, uncomfortable, underpowered lumps of shit? Draw up a list of what motorcycles should do, and the cruiser fails on pretty much every count. They're tolerable bikes provided 100% of your riding is on long, straight highways. The throb of the v-twin and the ride position are great if your idea of fun is riding in an endless straight line. Personally, I'd rather watch paint dry. These things just cannot go around corners: the soggy suspension wobbles around wildly, the footpegs scrape at any angle other than full vertical, and the tank-like weight wants to make the bike hit the tarmac. I remember passing a bunch of tough-boy Harley riders in the twisty stuff near Bateman's Bay. Their attempts to keep up were laughable: those throttles sure made a lot of noise when opened, but they sure don't produce anything resembling speed, and my granny on a bicycle could have beat them around corners, which they had to crawl around. The brakes are usually crap, the instrumentation & general design stupid, they have no top-end power, little luggage capacity and poor wind/weather protection. Which brings me to the great motorcycle myth: that cruisers are "comfortable". What a load of ass. The seats are terrible, the suspension and ride position transfer all those bumps directly up your spine, the ludicrous vibration is irritating beyond belief and your upright torso acts as a wind sock. If this is motorcycling,
give me a bicycle any day.
...they always leave slime in their tracks, or in Guardian creepoid Matthew Engel's case, his latest column, in which he reckons Iraqis are better off under Saddam than the US constitution. No, really. Some good thoughts
on this very subject over at libertarian.org.au. More goodness from
Daniel Pipes. Couldn't let this latest Webdiary nugget pass without comment:
Lost our friends? Who were they exactly Margot? And "the goodwill and protection of the United Nations"??? BWAHAHA. Lordy, we won't be "protected" by the UN anymore...what a loss. Further on, Margot graduates from nutty to nauseating;
Yep, the teenagers who will die in the next Kuta were just asking for it. Mind you, this is what she said about Kuta. And now for some tired lefty lies;
Here cometh the bullshit...
Care to give specifics Margot? The signing of massive trade deals with the Chinese? Bringing democracy to East Timor? (as opposed to Keating's "visonary" defence ties with the Jakarta junta). And Howard actually got that Australia-hating windbag Mahatir to visit.
I guess Howard might have walked away from it, if anyone could explain what the hell "international architecture" was. Maybe it was Keating's love for Papa Suharto, that being - you know - visionary leadership and all. Leftist lies never
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I
love motorcycles, but I hate cruisers. I took my bike in for a service
today and they loaned me a Vulcan 800 for the day. I was reminded why
I hate cruisers so much. I have nothing in particular against the Kawasaki
Vulcan 800 (I'd rather own a Vulcan than a Harley anyday), it's just one
representative of it's useless breed.