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Not a joke.
How about Royal Enfield[^]?
They never stopped making them, they kept on building them in India and have kept on refining the old construction for daily use in India, and nowadays they just work.
Well, that was at least true fifteen years ago. I had a friend in my hometown that had one that he used everyday no matter the weather, and it simply just worked.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Ask Nagy: I know he was thinking of getting one around March this year - don't know if he did in the end though.
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I like the look of the Royal Enfields too, but then Harley came out with some small cafe-raceresque bikes this year.
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I find the rear lights quite ugly, but on the battle green version I can live with that.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: rear lights
No one ever sees them anyway.
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In some sad way getting a classic is about reliving your youth dreams. I agree with you on royal enfields and indeed any British bike, my poster on my wall when I was a kid was a Lamborghini Countach. But if was a bike it would have been a honda cb 750.
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Used to be a commercial for Kawasaki "Put something exciting between your legs" always a good selling point!
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There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Honda had a radio ad that only played for a short time before it got banned about 20 years ago.
Went something like "Ladies, wouldn't you like something big red and thrubbing between your legs. Then get down to your local honda dealer....."
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I don't remember that one, but very ?creative?. 
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There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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It any played for a short time any I think it was created by a Honda dealer rather then honda itself
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Yeah that makes more sense, I can't see Honda putting anything on the air waves that would be that provocative.
I surprised Kawasaki got away with it for as long as they did.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Have you seen the movie "The Worlds Fastest Indian"?
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Yep, I have nothing against Indians except in my youth about all you could get was British and jap bike. Unfortunately no emotional attachment.
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I don't know if its been mentioned, but how about 650cc Triumph TR6 Trophy, Steve McQueen's bike from the great escape? If it were me though, can't beat an old Indian..
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Has been mentioned yet. The challenge for those sort of bikes (and indians) is found one in this small corner of the universe..
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Or in some cases, to find one that costs less than your house. 
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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RossMW wrote: Sad day. Sold my old 1954 Ariel Motorbike
Sad day indeed.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
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Where are you in the world ? I have a 1961Norton Dominator 650 that I would consider selling. Its all there and in reasonable nick just needs some TLC
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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About as far away as you can get. New Zealand...
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Ah bit of a trek that one what model was your Ariel ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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It was a just little one. An Ariel colt. I got it off a the missus family friend about 20 years ago. Just as an interest. I've had all sorts motorbike on and off all my live but just as toys. The family friend as since passed away so it had sentimental value and the missus was also sad to see it go (close family friend on her side), but relieved it has gone to someone who is going to care for it. The friend who bought it is a mechanic and wants to restore it back to new condition. (it was already in good condition)
It had been stuck in the back of my shed untouched for a long time and hadn't been run for quite a long time, but my friend has got it going again already...
Now the kids are getting older I'm thinking off getting something just to do up and tinker round with. Leaning towards a Honda cb750 K1 or 2, if I can find one.
What your story with the Norton?
modified 19-Oct-14 14:59pm.
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Hi, my story with the Norton is, I live very close to the Brooklands circuit in Weybridge Surrey in the UK, and spent a lot of my schoolboy days going to watch older friends race motorbikes ( Triumphs, Nortons etc... ) and was a member of the VMCC club so you had to have an old bike if you wanted to participate in their events - I still have three bikes, a F4 750 MV Augusta, VFR 750 ( 1990 ) and the Norton but don't ride much these days , old age and lethargy being the main culprits - I hope you find what you're looking for.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Dear CP forum people,
I'm stuck in a bit of a rut and looking for some outside perspective from other developers.
So I've been working for this company for about 9 months (remote) and have been doing some level of tech support and product installation with the understanding that I would be doing this until I have a solid understanding of the product. Well this isn't true so much anymore and now this is an indefinite thing because I need to be available as an alternate to the other 2 tech support\deployment folks. I've been screwing up pretty bad on the tech support side as I have a really hard time with doing tech support and coding combined and have an even harder time doing arbitrary processes related "things" for the sake of doing them instead of trying to improve them and streamline. The situation has gotten to the point where I do very little actual coding from week to week if not after hours.
I have made a number of suggestions throughout the course of my time at this company on ways we could cut down as a whole on install\deployment if we automate the software deployment workflow and simplify some things about the UX for ease of product usage instead of writing a ton more documentation and throwing more Tech Support at it. I've made suggestions about this for quite some time but it doesn't seem like I'm really getting anywhere and I spend more time worrying about tech support related issues than anything else. Much of it comes from them being a company that had 1 programmer who was the CTO and part-owner up until now and this person has largely been unfamiliar with any architectural design or good programming practices. (i.e. lots of copy paste and single letter variables, deploys via windows form app and lots of copying and pasting in vb.net 2.0 up until recently )
The biggest reasons for me wanting to stay are that I have more time with my daughter by working from home, the hours are not bad, the pay is good and that I've hopped around a good bit,sometimes as a contractor and sometimes not, for about once a year up until now and I'm really not trying to be labeled a "flight risk" either. I'm trying to stick it out but I'm not sure I see things getting better.
I do love what I do when what I do is software development and design. More specifically, creating or improving software systems in ways that make life easier for developers, customers and co-workers. I see a lot of potential for doing that in this job but given the current constraints and maybe my instability to provide a convincing argument for doing just that I'm not sure I will ever actually be doing it.
But maybe no one is ever really happy with work and I'm silly for thinking otherwise.
modified 17-Oct-14 18:03pm.
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1. Never stop looking for the next job.
2. A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush.
Keep your job, do your best, don't give up. If something better appears with the same benefits of this job, but better use of your skills GREAT! If not, enjoy that you have an income and time with your daughter, and wait for that better situation to appear.
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Agreed. I would also add.
3. Don't talk bad about a job using your real name, if there is any chance someone at said company might see it.
However I do hope it works out for the OP.
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