(did he really bow

That's not so bad. Bush Sr barfed a banquet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnOnDatqENo

There's a plan behind it all-you can bet on that.And the ones up there doin the dirt know that it's pretty much their last opportunity to get rich quick.Like Giethner stated"we don't want to waste a crisis".

I'm hearing a lot of that, rich folks are stealing all they can cause they know the parties almost over and it'll soon be time to pay the fiddler. Kind of reminds me of rats deserting a sinking ship with a big mouthful of somebody elses cheese.

BTW, I think that was Rahm Emmanuel who made the comment about not wasting a crisis.

* Last updated by: Kruz on 1/4/2010 @ 6:50 AM *

Uh, think Harley on that whole development cycle thing. BMW Models didnt change much.
NC2VA makes a good point. Hell the 11 is still a great bike. Same with the 12.
What the guy down the street order a 1000rr Kruz? LOL
Our 14s are massive bikes. Frickin great scoots.

all political parties aside. They dont matter. Exxon and friends calls the tune.
Used to be Standard Oil, Ma Bell,GE,etc.

Global warming etc. Think your party or religion can stop planet changes?
12,000 yrs. ago, most of the country was under a mile of ice. WWJD? Buy Gerbings!!
Try not to think about such matters.
Go for a ride.

Its hard to believe that new industrialised nations China India etc . will want the US to become a country with full employment again , they want to be the ones that make stuff and western country's to be consumers. Without manufacturing jobs its hard to see things turning around. these country's are not going back to the rice fields from where they came they have had a taste of capitalism and they want more. The world is awash with manufactured goods, too many goods not enough buyers. and a redistribution of the worlds work force. and its only just begun. The US is not alone in this battle it affects many of its allies too !

* Last updated by: ethin14 on 1/5/2010 @ 3:40 AM *

Ethin, there are many advocates of doing away with our fair trade policy as practised on the global economic stage and replacing it with balanced trade. Economist John Maynard Keynes believed that this was the only truly sustainable model of world trade. Huge trade imbalances have built up between the industrialized producer nations and the western consumer nations such as the U.S. What you are seeing now is simply an equalization process underway.

Oldguy, somehow I missed your point here.

What the guy down the street order a 1000rr Kruz? LOL

What the guy down the street order a 1000rr Kruz? LOL

Oldguy, somehow I missed your point here.

^^Bikes that haven't changed much in past few years?

All nice bikes and nice to have them stay that way, IMHO.

* Last updated by: Rook on 1/5/2010 @ 1:02 PM *

That’s very much the truth if I could have one old bike this one would be it for sure.I had the pleasure of having a not so responsible uncle take me for a ride on one when I was about 13 years old. He was doing a 130 mph near my school during a football game.LOL I'm pretty sure I had on shorts t-shirt and a big grin on my face. Knowing him all he had on was a pair of jeans, sandals and a buzz. His neighbors told my mother and I was not allowed over to his house for several years after that day. To bad no one has the balls to build bikes like this anymore.

Kruz in this country politicians think that a Million dollars of wheat in exchange for a million dollars of manufactured goods like cars is the same. Dad Mum a couple of kids and a casual worker can produce a Mil of wheat on the farm, a Mil of cars will need a factory with 10,000 workers making and assembling components that will end up a car , plus the on going parts over its life. trade agreements need to be made on mutual benefit , how long will we owe the world a favour.

willidx4, Great story, if you took the front fairing off and ran it like a naked it wouldn't look out of place with any of todays bikes. I always dream of finding something like that under a house somewhere maybe one day, great bike.

Badzx14r wrote "well painter ..don't think for 1 minute that Canada isn't in the baggage compartment"

ya possibly however we do not have the debt the US has. Our economy is predicted to grow at 6% and the government here is apparently securing a wider range of trading partners than the US which has dominated our trade forever.

It will be of enormous interest to see if the US can climb out of the very real ecomomic black hole they are now captured by..Maybe just print lots and lots of money.
Seems to be the answer so far..but then if they do that at the end of that game a motorcycle will cost two million US dollars!!

Actually two million U.S. dollars will not be enough for a down payment on that new bike if we keep running the printing presses at full speed. I'm not kidding, that was one of my motivations for buying another new bike, our money is being rapidly debased and there is no investment that is truly safe. I'd rather spend it now than watch it sit in a bank and dwindle to zero value as all fiat currencies eventually do. A South African gent I met last summer gave me an actual 20 million dollar Zimbabwe note. I asked him how much it was worth and he told me to keep it, the paper it was printed on was worth more. We will be there soon as our Congress is doing the exact same thing Zimbabwe did.

* Last updated by: Kruz on 1/6/2010 @ 2:26 PM *