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So the lunar orbiters sent to the moon in the 60’s were also faked? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_program …and the orbiters up there now, launched 15 years ago or so are fakes too, and all the photos they have sent back are faked, and the high res images of the Apollo sites are faked too … ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Reconnaissance_Orbiter …and the photos gathered by the Japanese, Indian and Chinese of the Apollo sites are all fakes, and the various countries which tracked the missions on the way to the moon by radar are all in on the conspiracy and are faking everything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_evidence_for_Apollo_Moon_landings That’s a fuck of a lot of people supposedly “in” on the fakery and supporting it for no obvious reason.

Sadly not, - don’t have any bike bags/ luggage & wife not interested in bikes which would mean I’d be here in my Tod. Lovely place though.

Currently in Copenhagen and it’s lovely. No litter, cheap public transport ( that actually works), park your bike and it’s still there when you go back to it, great bars, no obnoxious twats, no pot holes … it’s lovely, tho a bit cold.

My FTR is a brilliant fun and certainly no copy. Bikes made for the US cruiser market all look similar because it’s what the yanks want, but seems to me Harley only upped their game and produced a liquid cooled engine with a decent power output because Indian were doing it? Indian is not going to challenge Harley in terms of sales, at least not for a long time. There is a chunk of the bike riding community who just want a Harley because it’s a Harley, just like there are Ducati die hards. Indian hasn’t got that brand cachet. At least not yet. Just noticed you are in Edinburgh, I got mine from Saltire.

But you didn’t think shadows could be anything but parallel until I proved otherwise. Their direction is dictated by the angle of the object casting the shadow. It’s physics. The reality is that no matter how much of the hoax “ evidence” is shown to be incorrect the conspiracy theorists will just go back to the internet for another piece of so called evidence.

I’ll be the first to admit I know nothing about Harley’s but it does seem that actually having some competition, in the form of Indian, might be good for both companies. A lot of the big Harley’s actually had relatively low power outputs ( but reasonable torque) but more recently the sportster s ( and others) has seen this improved with a liquid cooled engine. Might seem like an abomination for the air cooled purists but If I could get past the feet forward riding stance I’d consider one.

But Zacc you thought that the moon landing was a hoax and one of your principal arguments was that the shadows weren't parallel. It seems to be one of the main arguments the moon hoax lot put forward. It took 20 seconds, two match sticks and a torch to show you that argument was bollox. Tell me again who's on the short bus?

Indian bought out the FTR in 2019. Since then Indian have won the super twin class 4 times & I can't find the results for last year, so it might be 5, i.e. every year. . Harley have won the twin class twice (dunno about the result for 2023). Not sure what the difference between twin and super twin is ( and dont care enough to google it ). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Flat_Track

Rode my Indian FTR today for the first time this year, love that thing, even tho I always need to know where the next gas station is. One day I might remember to take a photo whilst I'm out.

I’ve been called lots of things, but never that before . My wife worked for a company where the MD was a colonial type, very well spoken with a large period house in its own large grounds. Like everyone else he had to put his bins out at the end of the ( long) drive on bin day. One day he went to collect them and saw that someone had spray pained “ cunt” on one of them. He wheeled it in, didn’t bother to clean the paint off but went and got a spray can and painted “Rich” in front of cunt and just put it out as normal the next week.

Hampshire, the place which would elect a dog turd as an MP if it had a blue rosette on it. Out in the sticks west of Basingstoke and north of Winchester where every road is more pot hole than road.

I don’t go out if it’s wet, or for that matter when there is a ton of salt on the roads. Really aggravates me having them caked in salt which then either causes instant rust or turns the garage floor into a dank mess. However well you think you have washed it all off inevitably you’ve missed a bit, or a lot. Round here the grit truck is out seemingly within 20 mins of the last rainfall, even if it’s not forecast to go below 5 degrees for the next few days.

Story of my life today, weather is good, go for a ride, flooded roads everywhere. Had to turn around 3 times.

That looks really nicely made, sadly it’s prob illegal in this country where the government decide what’s best for us all.

It’s shit isn’t it, bloody rain all damn day. To make matters worse the road outside my house is at the bottom of a public byway which the electricity folks kindly dug up a few weeks back but made no effort to sort the surface out. Now every time it rains 5 tons of mud and crap washes down onto the road. Need to get myself a dirt bike I guess …

↑ that looks lovely. Id be divorced within a month if I lived there, id spend my whole time biking, shooting, fishing and skiing.

They do, to some degree, but because of the damage to the UK economy as a result of us economically shooting ourselves in the foot so we can be free, they just can’t afford as much. The NHS is still waiting for its £350 million or whatever it was a week.

Wow, that's posh!! You bike is super clean ...

looks nice! What is the orange and black thingumy that looks like a 9v Duracell just in front of the rear spring?

The best argument against democracy is a 5 min conversation with the average voter. Or 10 seconds if in the USA.

I think the early model years had a 19" front and an 18" rear. Makes the bike feel a lot taller. Im not bothered about all the carbon and bling paintwork so wouldn't pay the premium price but I love my FTR.

Yup. Ive tried fermented shark, insects, half a barbecued sheep head, some French sausage full of lips and sphincters (or something equally gross), but a duck foetus - no thanks.

@Clive - how old is the building? Extract fans for bathrooms can normally be adjusted to over run for up to 15 mins, altering it to as long as poss might help. Some extract fans wouldn't blow out a candle, the volume of air they shift varies with model/ make, obviously the more wellie the better, and having the thing directly over the shower helps. If its in the ceiling there will be a length of duct running the extract to the exterior, the shortest path with proper ductwork rather than that crappy Flexi stuff offers the least resistance. Might be worth checking that the loft insulation has been put back on the bathroom ceiling too, lots of times people doing things in the roof move it about and dont put it back.

I like to think I'll try anything but I'd draw the bloody line at that