9 people died and 18 were injured. What, exactly is your definition of “blood bath?”

Are you talking about the MCs or Frat houses? (yes, I said Frat.)

I dunno man. When the “true” scrambler riders who actually hit the dirt go against the “cafe” scrambler riders who just ride the street, oh man. It starts tame enough, but then someone brings up ADV riders and compares a V-Strom to a soccer mom’s SUV, then shit gets real.

He probably means what happened after that. After he bumped the guy who brake checked him, the rest of the gang surrounded him and started beating on his vehicle and threatening him. In fear for his family and himself he stepped on the gas and took off, running over one of them and seriously injuring him if I recall.

Meh. People are different. Many are mature enough to start on a larger bike and just not exceed their limits. I know plenty of people who started on bigger bikes and are still around to talk about it. I had my first bike, a GS500, for 2.5 years and never dropped it, never got into trouble, ran it until I started…

Nice bike, you do good work. It looks like the head angle is smaller than stock. Is that just the suspension changes to get the front end down/back end up? Was that enough to get decent cornering performance?

I kept hoping they would para-drop the bladders

Wow, it was flying upside down?!?! And why are the clouds green?

Yeah, I think sometimes the bad rap is deserved and sometimes it isn’t. I had a coworker tell me he was not having luck buying a car even though he had cash and was badmouthing the dealers up and down calling them crooks. Newly released model being advertised above MSRP and dealers still couldn’t keep them on the lot.…

Second that, and I’d skip Seattle anyway and take the ferry to Port Townsend. However: 1. I prefer outdoors to cities and 2. it will add a bunch of time to the trip.

I wonder which gauge it was. I wonder if there were other gauges or information they could have used to validate the data on the abnormal gauge. Like if the turbine speed went to 0 while the EGT was normal and there was no loss of power. If so, then yeah, they may be done.

I don’t know if you could be sure the right things were destroyed if you ‘bombed’ it. If they were concerned, they could always bring in some divers to put some demolition or thermite charges on it, or maybe just recover anything they cared about. I’d be curious to know the depth where this one settled.

They are pretty much the same in that category... Both CAN do vertical take off if you don’t put too much weight in fuel and bombs on them, but then why bother unless it’s an airshow or your base is getting overrun. In a practical sense they are both short take off.

Couldn’t they let the pilots board without the stupid TSA?

Note that TX does not have a state income tax. Property taxes are somewhat high to compensate, but I still pay significantly lower total taxes here than where I was before.

You will still need an inspection in TX. It isn’t bad, mostly lights and safety equipment, but if you live in the wrong place they may also do an emissions test. If you have a newer car they just plug into the OBD II port, if not then it is the probe in the pipe.

Here is an example of a Harrier doing the same thing.

I think there are differences in performance parameters that the Air Force cares more about than STOVL, such as range and payload

1. There is a set of cameras around the aircraft (DAS) that provide a view in just about every direction and the pilot can get that video slaved to his helmet mounted display, so in theory yes, but... If I understand correctly, the Marines are getting an older helmet when they go operational this year so I don’t know…

does it come in brown?