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Originally posted by LAB3 View Post
I trust you've removed it from your residence.1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red
2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.
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Originally posted by Rob S. View Post
Ya, I know dat. Aside from marijuana every day of high school and college, I never smoked. And I always put the joint down before peering down the six cells of sulfur. I did, however, develop a slight taste for battery acid. Strong and salty, my own sustainable hydrometer. Seven years of college down the drain!
Am I misinformed when I believe that most if not all chargers sold in the past few decades are fail-safe as far as overcharging?Komorebi-The light filtering through the trees.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. H.D.T.
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Originally posted by earlfor View Post
Nothing is fail safe, not even the space shuttle or nuclear power stations.
Low earth orbit? Been there, done that. Decades ago.1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red
2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.
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Originally posted by Rob S. View Post
The Space Shuttle - the most useless boondoggle ever invented by man. Mercury, Gemini and Apollo crews were all astronauts. Explorers of new things. Not a single member of a single crew of any shuttle mission was an astronaut. Well, a former astronaut, John Glenn, did fly on the shuttle. But he knew it was a p.r. stunt.
Low earth orbit? Been there, done that. Decades ago.
The same problems that kept us from going beyond the moon are still with us today, mainly propulsion and radiation protection for the crew. We really don't have much in the way of viable answers to this, let Elon Musk et al foot the bill this time.1980 Yamaha XS1100G (Current bike)
1982 GS450txz (former bike)
LONG list of previous bikes not listed here.
I identify as a man but according to the label on a box of Stauffers Baked Lasagne I'm actually a family of four
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Originally posted by Rob S. View Post
The Space Shuttle - the most useless boondoggle ever invented by man. Mercury, Gemini and Apollo crews were all astronauts. Explorers of new things. Not a single member of a single crew of any shuttle mission was an astronaut. Well, a former astronaut, John Glenn, did fly on the shuttle. But he knew it was a p.r. stunt.
Low earth orbit? Been there, done that. Decades ago.Komorebi-The light filtering through the trees.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. H.D.T.
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Originally posted by earlfor View Post
There is one thing that can said about most vortex members, They are experts at going off on pointless.tangents and have the topic attention span of a gnat.
Bertrand Russell: 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.'
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Originally posted by earlfor View Post
There is one thing that can said about most vortex members, They are experts at going off on pointless.tangents and have the topic attention span of a gnat.1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red
2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.
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More battery issues.
South Koreans hit the brakes on EVs after battery fires
Julian Ryall | 08/19/2024
Several electric vehicle fires in South Korea have dented sales as buyers worry about potential battery hazards. Carmakers are responding by cutting prices and trying to allay consumers' safety concerns.
A series of headline-grabbing car fires in South Korea are driving distrust of electric vehicles (EVs), in what local media have dubbed "EV-phobia."
South Korean officials met last week to discuss vehicle safety, and called on all car manufacturers to increase transparency and name their battery suppliers.
On August 1, a Mercedes-Benz EV caught fire in the underground parking lot of an apartment complex in the city of Incheon. It took firefighters more than eight hours to extinguish the blaze. Twenty-three people required hospital treatment, around 140 vehicles were damaged, and 1,600 homes were affected by electricity and water outages for a week.
In separate incident several days later, a Kia EV6 burned out in a parking tower in South Chungcheong Province, with the blaze lasting more than 90 minutes before it could be brought under control.
The cause of both fires is believed to have been the vehicles' batteries...more
Several electric vehicle fires in South Korea have dented sales as buyers worry about potential battery hazards. Carmakers are responding by cutting prices and trying to allay consumers' safety concerns.
1982 GS1000S Katana
1982 GS1100E
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At least they're quiet fires.1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red
2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.
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Big fire today in NY. Dozens of melted bikes. Second fire of the year at that location.1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red
2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.
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