I had a ‘78 Buick with a 350 with one of these. I was out in the middle of nowhere, foot on the floor, with the needle ticking against the pin just over 85. I saw blue and red lights in the very distant rear view. Knowing I could not beat the radio and there were very few places to go, I slowed to 65. When the trooper…

If you think getting struck with a water balloon is assualt, you definitely should not be a cop. Or live a life in society.

So you’re suggesting that people ought to be allowed to go throw water balloons at anyone anytime? Or are you suggesting that they just let those involved work it out together? I’d be fine with that second option in this case.

Wow, that escalated quickly. Moto, and I only say this because I care, but there’s a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

I wonder how you’d “demilitarize” an A-10. I don’t know if it would even fly without the weight of the gun up front. Maybe just mock up something out of wrought iron that is the approximate shape of the GAU-8 and bolt it in.

They did take the free personality assessment and found that they were repressing anger over mismanagement of the program.

Ugly, perhaps, but it was far better than the alternative...

Depends on what you mean by operational. Remember that this is OT, the T being Test. There aren’t any that are actually operational meaning they could be sent into combat. There are over 100 that are being used for various kinds of testing and training.

I’d really like to see that. Maybe not a LASER but at least directed energy weapons. Take that drive shaft and plug it into a generator... >25K horsepower.

That weapons layout...makes me wonder how much of its signature stealth is compromised

The releases are by block, which is to say a group of capabilities, each better than the previous. The Marines are getting Block 2B and they don’t care because even at that level it is far away better than the harrier. The USAF is getting Block 3i (initial) which builds on 2B and includes the Gen III helmet, and the…

At first I was going to do a point by point refutation... But then I read ... build more F-22s and let the navy keep the F-15 and the SR-71 stuff and I realized you are either making a joke, trolling, or just woefully uninformed about the subject in general. In any case, you have a good day.

No doubt. I’d have actually driven down there and watched from across the street if I had known what was going to go down. Maybe filmed it and put it on youtube, fast forwarded with Yakety Sax in the background.

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