My father had a 1939 Areal with a milled head,
He got it from the family of the last owner that
was killed by it, My uncle tried to ride it and hit
a tree… No he didn’t make it either. This was
before my father was drafted. The compression
was so high on that 1000cc engine that
kick-starting it would likely break your leg. My
father told me he’d roll it to start it.
At that time, I had a brand new Yamaha RD350A.
RD stood for “Race Developed.”
The water-cooled version was being ridden,
and winning, in the 750 classes.
It wasn’t a killer like the H1,
but its performance stood way above the rest
of the 350’s and even 500’s of the time.
And no, it didn’t try to kill me.
It was very good-mannered.
That 4 cyl 550 SS Honda I had just before
my car accident was a dog, it had spunk,
but after mid-range it would start to dog.
That 900 I rode really opened my eyes to
“what if” 😉
Panel two – HA!! Gotcha Miral! Ahmya told her in
episode 1362 that she had two sisters and a brother.
She didn’t tell her that Miral herself was one of the
sisters. And Miral unwittingly picked the color. Score
one for Ahmya !!!!!
Those are all sweet bikes, I can’t tell you how badly
I want to ride. Alas, my last attempt resulted in my
junk jammed between the seat and tank, and me
wrenching my hip. I’m just glad my son was watching,
or I would have had the bike laying on my leg. It
was my son’s training bike, a 250 honda.
I get that the Buns are in great risk, but it was going
to happen sooner or later. Better to lay a trap and
let them destroy themselves trying it. We seen that
they are a natural at space combat from the start,
so this might get dicey, but do-able
I’m about to try and sleep with the CPAP…
wish me luck I do NOT like those things.
I hope when the attack fails the Motha corp
was dumb enough to not safeguard the FTL
drives so the empire can get enough to
reverse-engineer it. And let them improve on it!
(walks off humming the Star Trek theme…)
And so it begins: https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/05/american-business-returns-trump-tariffs-china/
Not really politics, just economic news.
I’d rather pay twice as much for a USA computer mouse
that will last four times as long as a Chinese mouse.
Believe me, I know Chinese mice.
And I have some very good Chinese electronics,
but they all have one thing in common:
I don’t have to physically interact with them,
so they don’t wear out.
Things like monitors that auto-turn on when the
computer does.
I never have to press a button or manipulate a
control.
But yeah, I’d rather buy everything made-in-USA.
I almost can’t wait to see how the lefters will try
to spin this as being a bad thing. The mouse I have
now is a M.I.C, It’s not even a year old and it’s
starting to mess up. I’ve had 5 in the last 6 years,
none of them were made here.
I never messed with an H-1 but back in the mid 70s
Kawasaki made a screaming 2-stroke 750 that could
lift the front wheel of the ground at 90! I had a
Suzuki T500 Titan (some called it “the poor man’s
BMW”) that was plenty for me. I rode it right up
to when I had $3K in medical bills on my wife that
CHAMPUS didn’t cover. Sold the Suzi and took out a
signature loan from the base Credit Union. At that
time no Doctors in Kansas were CHAMPUS
participating and the base hospital was so small
that dependents had to go downtown for anything
worse than the sniffles.
The BX and Commissary were miniscule, too.
The H1 was a 500 that had a power curve that looked like
a single heartbeat on an oscilloscope, a flexible frame,
a rear brake that would lock up easily, a spongy front
brake that wouldn’t lock up under any circumstances, and
shock absorbers that lost damping as they gained heat.
Zero to 100 time were measured in seconds, 100 to zero
times were measured in minutes. I rode a friend’s…
once. It was his first bike, and it put him through a
barbed wire fence. But the wires didn’t break until the
bike followed him through.
They came out with the 900 shortly after that,
it was marketed as a “race-ready” bike. I rode
one once, couldn’t keep the front wheel down
to save my soul on that beast. I wanted to get
one, but they wanted more for that machine
than a fully dressed Goldwing… Jeez…
The 900 was the Kawasaki Z1, a four-stroke 4-cylinder
designed to steal buyers from Honda. Like the H1 and
H2, it had brutal acceleration. The 750 was the H2.
I had made a deal with the Suzuki dealer in Cleburne,
TX, to buy a used GT380 from him, the 3-cylinder
2-stroke. When I came back two hours later with the
check, he had sold it out from under me. That’s when
I bought the Yamaha 350 new. Some years later I
bought a Suzuki GT550, the 3-cylinder two-stroke
between the 380 and the Water Buffalo 750.
My wife was all in favor of the RD350A, but she won’t
let me buy any more bikes. I tell her if she dies
before me, I will stop at the dealer on the way home
from her funeral and buy a motorcycle.
Oh yeah, it had crazy amount of torque. I was
sticking to Honda mostly because my father
had a major gripe about “those damned loud
Harley riders” when I was a kid. I liked a loud
bike, it was harder for cars/trucks to ignore
you and run you over. What doesn’t help was
in those days they put those dinky horns on
bikes, reminded me of the roadrunner’s beep!
When I rebuilt that 160, I put a 6 volt car horn
on it, sounded like an excited foghorn heh.
Does anyone know how I can get in touch
with a Postal Inspector directly?
I’ve had it with this bullshit.
It has reached the level of deliberate
criminal action by a Postal employee,
and I want satisfaction.
I haven’t had a phone since I retired.
Ah, blessed peace!
I prefer e-mail so that I have a
permanent record of communications.
You know how those government
employees will lie.
I get it, if it wasn’t for my wife and father,
I wouldn’t either! I get sick of every time
I go out to the store, I get texted to pickup
this and that, turning a quick single stop
trip into 3-5 stop major event.
Go, Granny, go!
place holder 🙂
now,, IF i could change the image…
So, who was logged on as Rob – PC or Rob?
i did for PC
Cue, “The little old lady from Hiroshima.”
Go granny go
Just read a bit on the H1.
Those things were quite
literally a widowmaker.
My father had a 1939 Areal with a milled head,
He got it from the family of the last owner that
was killed by it, My uncle tried to ride it and hit
a tree… No he didn’t make it either. This was
before my father was drafted. The compression
was so high on that 1000cc engine that
kick-starting it would likely break your leg. My
father told me he’d roll it to start it.
At that time, I had a brand new Yamaha RD350A.
RD stood for “Race Developed.”
The water-cooled version was being ridden,
and winning, in the 750 classes.
It wasn’t a killer like the H1,
but its performance stood way above the rest
of the 350’s and even 500’s of the time.
And no, it didn’t try to kill me.
It was very good-mannered.
That 4 cyl 550 SS Honda I had just before
my car accident was a dog, it had spunk,
but after mid-range it would start to dog.
That 900 I rode really opened my eyes to
“what if” 😉
Panel two – HA!! Gotcha Miral! Ahmya told her in
episode 1362 that she had two sisters and a brother.
She didn’t tell her that Miral herself was one of the
sisters. And Miral unwittingly picked the color. Score
one for Ahmya !!!!!
Those are all sweet bikes, I can’t tell you how badly
I want to ride. Alas, my last attempt resulted in my
junk jammed between the seat and tank, and me
wrenching my hip. I’m just glad my son was watching,
or I would have had the bike laying on my leg. It
was my son’s training bike, a 250 honda.
I get that the Buns are in great risk, but it was going
to happen sooner or later. Better to lay a trap and
let them destroy themselves trying it. We seen that
they are a natural at space combat from the start,
so this might get dicey, but do-able
I’m about to try and sleep with the CPAP…
wish me luck I do NOT like those things.
I hope when the attack fails the Motha corp
was dumb enough to not safeguard the FTL
drives so the empire can get enough to
reverse-engineer it. And let them improve on it!
(walks off humming the Star Trek theme…)
And so it begins:
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/05/american-business-returns-trump-tariffs-china/
Not really politics, just economic news.
I’d rather pay twice as much for a USA computer mouse
that will last four times as long as a Chinese mouse.
Believe me, I know Chinese mice.
And I have some very good Chinese electronics,
but they all have one thing in common:
I don’t have to physically interact with them,
so they don’t wear out.
Things like monitors that auto-turn on when the
computer does.
I never have to press a button or manipulate a
control.
But yeah, I’d rather buy everything made-in-USA.
I almost can’t wait to see how the lefters will try
to spin this as being a bad thing. The mouse I have
now is a M.I.C, It’s not even a year old and it’s
starting to mess up. I’ve had 5 in the last 6 years,
none of them were made here.
“….I know Chinese mice.”
Do you have to feed them Chinese cheese?
I never messed with an H-1 but back in the mid 70s
Kawasaki made a screaming 2-stroke 750 that could
lift the front wheel of the ground at 90! I had a
Suzuki T500 Titan (some called it “the poor man’s
BMW”) that was plenty for me. I rode it right up
to when I had $3K in medical bills on my wife that
CHAMPUS didn’t cover. Sold the Suzi and took out a
signature loan from the base Credit Union. At that
time no Doctors in Kansas were CHAMPUS
participating and the base hospital was so small
that dependents had to go downtown for anything
worse than the sniffles.
The BX and Commissary were miniscule, too.
The H1 was a 500 that had a power curve that looked like
a single heartbeat on an oscilloscope, a flexible frame,
a rear brake that would lock up easily, a spongy front
brake that wouldn’t lock up under any circumstances, and
shock absorbers that lost damping as they gained heat.
Zero to 100 time were measured in seconds, 100 to zero
times were measured in minutes. I rode a friend’s…
once. It was his first bike, and it put him through a
barbed wire fence. But the wires didn’t break until the
bike followed him through.
They came out with the 900 shortly after that,
it was marketed as a “race-ready” bike. I rode
one once, couldn’t keep the front wheel down
to save my soul on that beast. I wanted to get
one, but they wanted more for that machine
than a fully dressed Goldwing… Jeez…
The 900 was the Kawasaki Z1, a four-stroke 4-cylinder
designed to steal buyers from Honda. Like the H1 and
H2, it had brutal acceleration. The 750 was the H2.
I had made a deal with the Suzuki dealer in Cleburne,
TX, to buy a used GT380 from him, the 3-cylinder
2-stroke. When I came back two hours later with the
check, he had sold it out from under me. That’s when
I bought the Yamaha 350 new. Some years later I
bought a Suzuki GT550, the 3-cylinder two-stroke
between the 380 and the Water Buffalo 750.
My wife was all in favor of the RD350A, but she won’t
let me buy any more bikes. I tell her if she dies
before me, I will stop at the dealer on the way home
from her funeral and buy a motorcycle.
Oh yeah, it had crazy amount of torque. I was
sticking to Honda mostly because my father
had a major gripe about “those damned loud
Harley riders” when I was a kid. I liked a loud
bike, it was harder for cars/trucks to ignore
you and run you over. What doesn’t help was
in those days they put those dinky horns on
bikes, reminded me of the roadrunner’s beep!
When I rebuilt that 160, I put a 6 volt car horn
on it, sounded like an excited foghorn heh.
Scars – not on a bike,
but my dad had an AH-OO-GA
horn on his 46 Chevy pickup.
That sucker was LOUD!
Does anyone know how I can get in touch
with a Postal Inspector directly?
I’ve had it with this bullshit.
It has reached the level of deliberate
criminal action by a Postal employee,
and I want satisfaction.
404 656 7924 as with any gov.gov,. you
have to go thru the 5 layers of karens…
I haven’t had a phone since I retired.
Ah, blessed peace!
I prefer e-mail so that I have a
permanent record of communications.
You know how those government
employees will lie.
I get it, if it wasn’t for my wife and father,
I wouldn’t either! I get sick of every time
I go out to the store, I get texted to pickup
this and that, turning a quick single stop
trip into 3-5 stop major event.
https://www.usps.com/ ,
follow the links at the bottom.
There is a support page you
can lodge complaints at,
but I’ve never got a response from them.
Panel 7 – ” . . . from our other three systems.”
Does that mean Catia, Earth and Dogishua?
Yes. I should have said
“Our other three major fleet systems”.
No problem. Just confirming in
my own mind. Thanks.