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Yes, I’ve ridden with an SV1000 rider, who couldn’t (or maybe didn’t want to) keep his front wheel down. 

That would have been more impressive as a haiku.

The characteristics that make zealots call the SV650 “perfect” are largely absent from the SV1000 (apart from accessible low-end torque.) The SV1000 handles very differently from its little brother. 

It’s referred to as “Half-a-Busa” for a reason. 100hp at the crank?? More like 100hp on crack.

That would be passive-aggressive pickuping. I anticipate side mirror issues. Let us know how that works out. 

It would be impossible for me to like this enough.

Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were great players. They both had long careers and amassed impressive stats. They also make a lot of money. Had they not cheated, they may have made the Hall anyway. (Clemens would have, I’m sure.) However, in order to sustain those achievements, and to prolong those careers, to amass

Oh, OK. Indiana. That explains a lot.

“Ow” [Keyboard drops on toe.]

In ‘Murica it’s “meter.”

“What does MG stand for?”

But, but ‘clean diesel!’

Ohio has a lot of Official State whatnots: (non-exhaustive list follows)

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McParland’s Future Children: “A ‘car?!???’ What are we supposed to do with a car?”

I wish I lived in your kinder, gentler America. 

I agree with the comments you made, both about force escalation and the fact that this kind of intervention would likely be considered “brutality” or a civil rights violation in the US. The point of my comment (in addition to clapping back on the exaggeration) was that examining a variety of police responses to

1st Gear: GM blah, blah, blah . . .