Karl

Junko out for a blast

I can see why you might. You do meet the nicest people on a Honda they say.

Did you run out of hosting space ? I didn't realise there is a limit on this forum. You might need to delete some of the earlier ones.

I hope you aren't pretending to be mad Mick ? That's some rider isn't it, bikes rear sliding and front crossed a la dirt tracking motocrosser style on a road bike with slicks. There is a great video of One rider who high sided off the bike, ran alongside briefly before the bike flipped him over the other side, then,seemingly disobeying the laws of physics, he managed to get back on board and carry on riding. Those massively powerful 2 strokes that dominated the last class of 500/750 were the beasts though. Enormous power in one narrowly defined power band and frames/tyres and brakes which were still not far off the bikes of the 50s. Remember that radial tyres on bikes were considered technically Un feasible and the chassis were so weedy that any kind of tyre flex would have spit the rider off at track speeds. I bet modern riders like Rossi would not have been quite so competetive on those stink wheels.

There's a really cheesy Keith Code video on YouTube that makes the point pretty well about well meaning amateurs. :-) I followed a guy in our riding group that had been told he must shift his weight and stick his knee out to go around a turn. Jesus F Christ he nearly took out half a dozen of the group who were forced to overtake him, such were his antics. He didn't half get a roasting when we got to the coffee stop. "Did you notice we are all going twice as fast as you are and none of us sticks our knee out or shifts our bums at road legal speeds" just getting him to stop thinking steering was all about weight transfer had him riding 200% better. We didn't dare explain counter steering to him, or there would likely have been a body count.

The steering function is automatic, but then I have been doing it so long and learned to use it when fear might bring on the opposite response. You might be surprised at the amount of experienced riders who know all about counter steering, but get as tangled up as a learner when faced with something unexpected. It's the same with throttle control-riders know how it works, then they find themselves on gravel, leaves, ice or diesel and immediately chop the throttle and deny the tyres any chance to find grip, it takes a lot of work to remove that reaction and I often start the season by practising rolling on the throttle on less than perfect surfaces. You can drive on automatic because the car requires far less effort as it only operates in one plane. On a bike you have 3 planes, much like an aircraft, but with a million more hazards. You don't have the variation in height of an aircraft, but you have front rear weight shift through throttle and brakes, you have road position which might be called yaw and then there is roll. On an aircraft you sit back and operate the controls like a car, but a bike rider is coping with acceleration and deceleration forces, fighting instinctive reactions and a stall results in a fall, or crash. A bike is a very complex piece of machinery to operate, hence drivers need to be aware of the specifics so they might anticipate where a hapless rider might go. In a car, if you very a bit onto the curb then no issues, but on a bike that can be game over. I had a friend who crashed through a moments inattention, he looked at something and veered slightly off course, next moment he was cartwheeling down the road. If you climb onto a bike, you had better be 100% fit, not distracted, a bit tired, or slightly woozy. There are days when you thread a series of bends, or an entire road perfectly, you anticipated all the hazards, you put the bike in the right place for safety and enjoyed some high speed thrills without any sense of fear or surprise. To be confident, precise, safe, quick and in control of a powerful motorcycle is like the skill of a fighter pilot, or an F1 driver, it gives an enormous sense of joy when it's performed well. I'm sure that some riders who ride more miles, or throughout the season probably require less thinking than someone who only rides summer miles- however, it is also true that most motorcycle accidents happen within a few miles of the riders home, which suggests that familiarity breeds contempt. That, at the times where they could more easily switch off, then they were at their most vulnerable.

I would be forced to involve myself in football which, would be against my religion, if I had one.

That we are born with intrinsic knowledge that we have somehow forgotten. An intrincisist believes in revelation, or a 'feeling' or some other sense that there is a knowing beyond the capacity to reason. Some will say it's lost knowledge, others say it is just beyond the mind and others say 'be still and listen'. These are all intrincisist philosophies with slightly different twists. In objectivist terms these are the beliefs of the Mystics of spirit. The usual argument then proceeds down the sophist route when the one making the statement realises he can't substantiate it. This is the argument that 'man cannot step in the same river twice for he is not exactly the same man, nor is that exact section of rives exactly the same as it was the first time' these are the Mystics of muscle-the subjectivists and the quantum theorists at the level of scientism. A floating abstract is the Dao. It's formless, without identity and several many other things that means it is 'beyond the mind' or however someone wishes to posit it. This is an area where I frequently hear that 'that's not it at all' 'you don't know because you don't follow the dao' et al. I would make comment on your previous post where you mentioned hedonism but then confused it slightly by adding that you didn't 'get what you wanted'. Hedonism is the pursuit of pleasure purely for the pursuit of pleasure and pleasure at any cost. However pleasure isn't a value that we need to obtain, it is the reward for achieving the value and so hedonism is one of the subjectivist extremes-it results in the pragmatism of taking whatever you want because there are no moral absolutes, because reality cannot be known. Funnily enough the same thing-in reverse-applies to the intrincisists who insist that pleasure is unnecessary and therefore go off searching for a 'simplistic' life, or with the ascetics, a life of penury and pain. Naturally, no one owes you anything, or you don't owe anyone, except where you have given your word as contract. So, if you had expected people to sacrifice for you, then that is neitzchian philosophy-the superman which the many are forced to sacrifice to the one. To expect everyone to sacrifice to a greater 'common good' the state/the people etc then this is Hegelian philosophy as interpreted by the likes of Marx. It is fine to 'live as you want' as long as it doesn't involve others having to follow your lead, or the way you vote, or what you believe is right-if that philosophy isn't fully grounded in reality. Then you are initiating force. The beauty of objectivism is that it's a guide for the individual and sees the initiation of force as a strike against reason, therefore the mind and that is anti-reason and therefore anti-objectivist. Leave me alone and I will leave you alone is the best practice.

The threats to the economy are likely real, but not because of exit, but of what those powerful people behind the scenes want. I most definitely believe they will try and crash the pound. I reckon this is what Osborne is doing as a back up. By showing that he was right about leaving, he can then claim to be the oracle-which he will be in a sense because he knows what these powerful elite want from us and what they will do if they don't get their way. In the event of a Brexit we should be prepared for the attacks. The elite aren't kidding around, they arrange wars and coups, so an all out attack on the pound for a short time wouldn't be difficult. It may shut down our banking system. It's also possible that TBoE could just ramp up the interest rates by selling assets as fast as possible-effectively reducing liquidity to drive interest rates higher and making homeowners and private debtors squeal- this is probably the most logical scenario as in fact, this is the recommended course for Austrian economists anyway, but it will certainly hurt. I think it's time for the politicians in the leave camp to officially kill this one, but, as you know, the Government is always saying that the BoE is 'independent'. When it suits.

Yeah right :roller eyes: it's all fitting into place now. You really should stop taking the advice of folk who know nothing at all about the subject in question. Next time your cyclist friend approaches a turn ask him to push on the opposing bar and then count the seconds before he realises his mistake. My guess is mere milliseconds.

Not much on the face of it, but a motorcycle is far more stable due to its speed. The wheels are gyroscopes and the faster and heavier, the greater the need to positively counter steer. On a pushbike you rarely think about it, the bike is light enough that you can create counter steering just by a shift in weight without touching the bars. DH bikes are a bit different, but then you are hitting speeds in excess of 70mph in a race so they do need a bit of a push at times.

We weren't born with any code. We are blank slates at birth with cognitive and emotional capacities. I see you are an intrincisist-which means you have bought into that philosophy. All of us buy into a philosophy whether we want to or not. The problem is that the philosophies are usually a cobbled together mass of ill fitting odds and ends lacking coherent Genesis in reality. They are floating concepts tied to nothing and integrated to nothing. Your intrincisist philosophy is an example of a floating abstract. You got that from Plato and his world of forms and he gave it to Aquinas who added-or at least attempted to derive it logically. I'm mindful that the usual turn here is for me to get a landslide of derision which I'm used to, so, to save us from the collapse into irrational haranguing I shall say that upfront. If you want a really open debate-something I am often accused of being incapable due to closed mind/black and white thinking etc-then we can do that, but my adopted philosophy drives my debating style and view point so, you were warned :-)

You mean maximum freedom to get on with your life peacefully and productively ? Then the decision is simpler. EU is more government and less accountability and sovereignty is less government with far greater accountability (that's the problem right there, they don't want to be accountable, they want to impose any kind of facist, nanny state ideology that they can think up and deny people the right to object). So, out isn't a panacea for greater wealth-and in isn't a panacea for status quo wealth. I think that Cameron is quite right about a a rapid recession if we vote to leave-I think he has been told by the central banks, Merkel and Obama, that if he steps over that line then the central banks will arrange a run on the pound to such an extent that we will be begging to stay. I think Merkel will bite the hand that feeds her and France will reluctantly follow the EU lead. It is planned in. The markets have been warned. It will be short, hard, nasty and Brutish, which, funnily enough was the Battle of Britain. This is the tyrants way and I don't fear tyrants because they are weak. Their actions are always damaging to their own credibility-we see this with Merkel over immigration and Greece. Varafoukas has given us fair warning of what to expect, his belief is that we can change things because we are Britain, but I see no sign this is possible and so, it is my sad duty to inform you, that as of today, we are at war with the EU.

Its one quick push then you can take your hand away as the bike is self steering to an extent. Tilting the bike is steering it through the turn. The bike has to lean over in order to offset centripetal forces an gravity. The faster the speed, the harder you must counter steer. If you push left for left and then apply a counter push right the bike will turn right. Thats exactly what I do in a rapid series of fast turns. Push left and then rapidly back right. The bike goes rim to rim in an instant. You can slalom fast like that and some guys do it as a sport. The transition speed from lock to lock looks very impressive.

They made it clear that they couldn't offer to spend more on the NHS, only that we could should an incumbent Government decide to. You are wrong about 'they don't even like the NHS' . They see it for what it is, an unsustainable monolith which is failing and, according to every 'right thinking' socialist, the only way to save it is to throw more cash at it-cash we haven't got. So, should Labour or another NHS Government offer the extra money in their manifesto pledge, then the electorate can vote for it. Much better I think than the TTIP agreement which will bring the kind of US centric healthcare scam to the UK and there will be no way to stop it, because the EU will have agreed to it and we can't vote them out. That's a real possibility isn't it ? We have our own Government and we can shit kick them out if the people don't like them. Cronyism is Cameron and Osborne. They will have been given their marching orders by Herr Merkel and overlord Obama. If we remain then these two will be richly rewarded and be taken to that 'top table' they like to talk about. It isn't a top table for ordinary folk, it's just for those specially loyal high achievers that get the US policy done. Come on Apech, it must be clear by now. You don't have to trust them, just a bit of research reveals that Cameron has been lying about the aim of the EU, it's moves to have an army and police force, our eventual requirement for Schengen and the Euro and Turkeys supported entry into the EU. It's clear the EU is anti- democratic and even its biggest supporters have made the point it's unfit for purpose and too corrupt. Even if you don't believe the £350 million, the spending on the NHS, or the brave new world of global trade, you cannot overlook something that isn't in the average persons best interests. The EU is a dictatorship for 'getting things done' without public accountability. It is designed to drain countries of sovereignty like a leech-we never signed up for that and despite Camerons promises, that's exactly where we will end up. We need to take back a measure of control, restore what democracy we did have and start making our own laws again. That alone is worth whatever the worry warts woukd have us believe leaving would do.

What a day so far: Anyone see the drubbing metered out to the Conservative politicians on daily politics. Brillo was his savage best-I saw his co presenter try and choke back a laugh at just how angry he was. We have Labour in total disarray, it doesn't agree with itself on anything and is now advising voters to ' vote leave to wipe the smile off the faces of dynamic duo'. Are they insane ? How can voting the same way the part time PM and his absentee chancellor are voting cause an upset? They are clearly so arrogant that they think there supporters are idiotic enough to fall for that load of bollox. Then we had captain Bob Geldof-the pirate of everyone's pocket-boating on the Thames to confront a phalanx of small fishing boats who wanted to leave. Sir Bob-the anti establishment establishmentarian-was showing the fishermen two fingers and shouting abuse from his mini Terpitz battle water taxi. It was like an enactment of the small boats heroism in confronting the Nazi threat. There was Geldof, like a latter day Brown Shirt, clearly on the wrong side of the argument for the good of his reputation. Indeed, all he really has, is his chameleon like reputation, a title and a wad of money. You can bet 'give us the money' Bob is looking after his own pocket in some way. Finally we had the PMQs set up of all time. Questions from every politician that is supposed to challenge the Government, doing the exact opposite. Each and every question was a gently thrown ball that allowed Cameron to throw the exact same speech into each and every answer. 'Does the PM agree with me that metal polish is very polishy" "Yes the honourable member had a good point and we must stay in the EU to keep it as polishy as it is, it effects our economy....drone, drone" Only two questions reflected the leave position and Cameron decided not to answer them. Surely Dave has lost the audience. People must have gone Dave deaf by now. But it didn't end there. Osborne came out with an 'emergency budget' which has quickly become to be termed 'the punishment budget'. If we don't vote the way the Government wants we can expect hefty tax rises and savage cuts. This is a Government who has a manifesto offering an EU referendum AND tax cuts, plus ring fencing public services and pensions. Even funnier that 58 of the Tory backbenchers would shoot it down, Corbyn said no way and Osborne most likely won't be around anyway. I like to hear people who tell the truth and the more truth they tell the more confident I can be of their ideas. All that's coming out of the remain camp is lies, threats and spin. What level of desperation is it ? It's the sort that should inform any undecided voter that the remain side don't have an argument for anything positive about the EU. Their rhetoric lines up perfectly with the EU project ideology, that it must be right, because it feels right and that's all you need in today's world. If something feels right then just go ahead and do it and everyone will see how right it was in the end. That's faith, not fact. An addendum to the above: today I receive another leaflet from remain. They seem to have given up on factual argument. Now it's down to personalities. A vote for leave is apparently a vote for public enemy number one to speak on your behalf. The PE1 being that nice Mr Farage that took a very credible second place in lots of Labour constituencies around here. Farage was right about immigration, he predicted the numbers accurately, he told the truth about what the EU was planning and what it meant to the UK. Leave are completely brainless if they think this kind of rank character attacks will sway the population. We Brits favour the underdog and Farage is the underdog. A fat cat, lying, distorting, terrorising establishment giving the undergoing a shoeing is exactly what is required to catapult UKIP to election victory. Are these people so stupid that they can't see what's happening because of a bizzarely need to cling to the establishment line ?

Except Farage is a turkey voting for Christmas. He will be out of a very nice little job if he gets his way, same with Dan Hanan and all the other Euro MPs that will have to go job hunting on the 24th if we leave. Having the guts to give up lots of money on a point of principle is either very foolish, to a sign of integrity. I don't see any of the remain camp saying they will do anything like that. You might call them misguided, but I know who people trust and it isn't Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, The IMF, The Government and it is especially not Obama-as Peter Schiff said in a recent podcast 'even if nothing else prompts the UK leave, it should be that Obama is issuing threats for Britain to stay, not because of the threats, but for the fact everything Obama has done has been a disaster'. Never trust a pyromaniac with a box of matches, never trust a liar to tell the truth.

'Fearless moral inventory' :-) And the morality has to be entirely self-generated. We have to be out own watchdog at all times; guarding against consuming and integrating moral evasion or ignorance. People readily accept that eating junk harms their bodies, but few recognise that consciously appropriating mental junk is much worse. You can easily look at a diet and then take some exercise, but mental hygeine is not as easy to spot. One of the things that is required is to have a fully formed and integrated philosophy which accords with reality and I know from experience, that having such a thing and having a precise code of virtues, is one of the easiest ways of achieving mental peace and increases the chance of greater happiness, but people can't see it, they walk straight past like they might walk past a gym, or the greengrocer.

At very slow speeds that is indeed correct. Any speed above a crawl and counter steering comes into play. This isn't theory Stosh, it is unequivocally and factually correct. Most learner riders come to respect that wisdom the hard way. Motorcycle RTA reports are littered with FTS (failed to steer) and has often be attributed to the rider freezing and staring at the object they eventually hit, but that's only half the story, many actually revert back to their days riding tricycles, or using stabilisers and try and steer away from the danger, which puts them into a collision course-then they freeze. Once counter steering is understood properly and riders train themselves to positive steering inputs, then they progress rapidly and the danger reduces. There are a lot of other instincts which have to be eradicated such as shutting the throttle through a turn (coasting) and improving visual awareness by looking wider.

That we know of I should add. I was interested to see where this would go and held back from jumping in too quickly on something that is a natural subject for me-particularly as its a newcomers post-but now the post count has increased sufficiently I thought it time to get my feet wet. We are unique amongst all the species on planet Earth because we are the only species that uses reason. This means that it is necessary to think into the future, to the point where we are able to conceptualise our own death and even to prepare for it-making wills, power of attorney, the kind of funeral and life insurance policies. We are irreplaceable, special and unique as independent individuals and we are the only animal on the planet that is capable of knowing and expressing it. We are the only animal able to conceptualise the universe and our place in it.

Funnily enough you made an error, you push left to go left. You can also pull right to go left. If you don't learn counter steering pretty quickly, particularly on a motorcycle, you often end up not enjoying the scenery by ending up part of it. :-) shifting your weight is useful though, it lowers the CoG which can help the balance/grip by letting the suspension track better and reducing the lean angle. It's no good picking a hole in the road as an example of why you believe everything is automatic :-) it's necessary to read the road a long way ahead and to force yourself to scan and not to focus. You have to anticipate the actions of other drivers and react to the changing road conditions in advance, it's no good being forced into making emergency manoeuvres at the last minute.

You wrote 'humanity is getting more tolerant' - have you the evidence that this is so ? What you refer to as tolerance may well be the result of intolerance, that's why it's bullshitty. It means nothing within the context of the sentence you wrote. One is 'tolerant' of a specific and your attempt to collectivise, is an evasion. Man is more tolerant of what exactly and how do you know it ? What you have written is a blatent generalisation with no context, so that's what I am speaking to. I don't always explain the steps because it seems to me it's obvious when an argument is given which has no basis in fact. It seems to me very clear why people act the way they do. What you describe as an egoistic filter, is an egoic filter. Tolerance isn't a virtue and a cursory sweep through the annals of history will reveal plenty of factual evidence for why it can't be. Some of the most hideous crimes through the centuries are the result of tolerated irrational and violent behaviours. Once you begin tolerating things, it isn't long before someone wicked turns up and starts to take advantage. It's also the precursor to stagnation. The tolerant rarely want to improve things.

Crook.

Twice, then I voted Libdems. It was the 2007 crash that started me thinking. It seemed insane that such a thing could occur and yet nobody 'apparently' had any idea. Then I discovered that there were many, many, less high ranking economists and investors that did know and had forecast it. I discovered that economics was relatively simple with few rules and it was the elite who had deliberately manufactured smoke and mirrors to stop the man in the street figuring out how many ways he was being screwed sideways. It's why they don't teach the philosophical knowledge related to the mathematic or students would de focus and see the big picture.

That's because you think in a collective sense. You can't manage the collective, only your self. The highest reasoning is completely human, it is the apex of being a human being. This is where many will evade, they cannot conceive of it, so they act like they think everybody else does and make the excuse that logic denies humanity, or that humans are irrational anyway. They create a web of justification in order not to know. Instead they believe they can reach utopia by refusing to think, by drifting or inversion. They look for trance states or other levels of consciousness to avoid what seems base and harsh. Tolerance is evasion. It is to say we accept everything, we do not discriminate, we just go with the flow and sacrifice, or do our duty. It is to suppress and deny, to chain your mind, to use false reasoning to convince yourself that this 'isn't it', that there is something more and that this world is falsity. Everyday people wander around in this dream state, it is not because they can't break it, it's because they fear to break it.