i need strength

I'm still waiting for a real world diesel motorcycle. I saw one for Military applications, sort of an off road/ on road / any road dirtbike thing. It was very cool looking, but can I get one? Nooooo! Now there are all these junk e-bike things from China all over my town, and that's not what I am looking for. More like the HD electric prototype. Is that coming out any time soon? I love that in preliminary testing, the HD faithful thought it was too quiet (imagine that), and so they spent millions re-working the teeth on the transmission to make it louder, like a Harley is supposed to be. Yep, de-engineering for image and noise... like a Harley!

 

Brammo just got bought by Victory a few months ago. All we're waiting on is better batteries for some long-distance riding. Personaly I'd prefer a small fusion reactor to provide the current. No recharging.

 

It could also power the Flux Capacitor! All you need is 1.21 gigawatts.

 

Make your own. Daihatsu 3-cyl 1000cc turbo lump, producing 60bhp, coupled to an R or K-series Beemer box, in (usually) a Beemer frame.
They go reasonably well, and a world apart from the shitty slow painful Chinese or Enfield things.
The idea ocurred to me 30 years ago, and I shelved it, but later on, thank to the 'net, I discovered the Germans had been doing it for ages. They're not commercially made, just put together by enthusiasts.

 

Next step? Convert to bio diesel! I wanna fill up at KFC!

 

We use hydrogen fuel cells at work. Very powerful, no exhaust, but you're carrying a tank of compressed gas. We had a storage tank flare up, and the fireball was seen for miles around!

 

Nonsense. The answer is bacon.

 

Nope. Not again!

 

Not up here..... We do it quick, they never know. One moment they're eatin', the next moment they're eaten.

 

Sounds too nice to be true.

 

Oh boy ... you still carry that Glock in your waistband? Is than for being kind and gentle? People are animals too! Seems odd to care about pigs, but not humans. But what do I know? Omnivore for life!

 

It's not a tool for peaceful conflict resolution, and i eat meat as self defense from being dead. All good, then. You justify your choices, I'll justify mine.

 

I agree that 'factory farming' techniques are torturous. Thankfully there has been a resurgence of small scale farms and processing operations (often times the same farmer that raises the animal) that will harvest the flesh in a manner that is respectful to them. As Hogfiddles inferred, some farmers harvest their pigs by giving them a delicious meal and whilst the pig is happily munching away they approach the pig, speaking gently to it and calmly put a bullet (probably a Glock) through its skull - killing it instantly. There is no stress, there is no torture, it is an animal that was cared for and treated kindly its whole life and now it is honoring its caretakers by providing sustenance.

So all I can do is refuse to buy any product that was not raised and harvested with honor - will it shut down factory farming? Probably not, but that is one 'pig' I refuse to feed. I often get on a soap box (like now) and try to educate others to the importance of shying away from factory farm raised meat. It is not an appropriate way to treat a living creature AND an animal that is raised in a condition that is unnatural to them, which requires antibiotics, hormones and god knows what else is a stressed animal. Stressed animals do not provide healthy flesh. Animals pumped up with an unnatural diet and drugs/ chemicals do not provide healthy flesh - they provide toxic flesh that the end-user ingests and this in turn creates mental and physical health issues that we still haven't fully realized.

I told my wife, when my time comes, bake me some of your delicious lasagna and while I am stuffing my pie hole, walk quietly behind me and do the humane thing. Don't tie me up with tubes in a hospital, just let me eat drink and die.


We now return you to your regularly scheduled Hangout Lounge ramblings . . . .

 

Tell me about the rabbits, George.
OK Lenny. Just look over there and sit still...

 

My wife just put a pan of lasagna on the table ..........

 

Been to Walmart again, huh?

 

Are you still talking about wrapping the cat in bacon and eat it?

 

You made me spit out some really good beer!

 

Plant farming isn't that great either. Pretty much everything humans do produces something environmentally terrible.

We didn't spend all those millions of years getting to the top just to give up.
If you look at places in the world where vegetarian diets are traditional, you will see poverty-stricken crapholes with no sanitation. They got this way out of necessity, not because it's somehow superior.

 

Oh man, don't get me started on GMO's!
And factory farming of any plant food.

Quick thought - 80% of the world's almonds come from California. If there is contamination, or blight/ disease what would the end result be?
The family farm has all but vanished, we should be very afraid.

Pogo said it best; "We have met the enemy and he is us."