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Natexlh1000
Posted on Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 11:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Someone took a bunch of standard pics from the tokyo motorcycle show and gave them to a complete tool to put captions under.
http://thecarnut.typepad.com/photos/motorcycles_at_the_tokyo_/dsc00131.html
This is about the worst moto-journalism I have ever seen.

Go through these photos and read the random B.S. they put under each them.
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Ulendo
Posted on Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 11:42 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I especially like the one where they refer to the ducati monster as a dakar/enduro style bike
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Diablobrian
Posted on Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 11:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I like the inline straight six suzuki.

Imagine the innovation it's inline and straight!
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Nutsosane
Posted on Sunday, April 30, 2006 - 08:42 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That guy must be a legend in his own mind. Someone should "out" this character for the buffoon he is. NUTS
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Patrickh
Posted on Sunday, April 30, 2006 - 08:43 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I didn't think it was possible to be that misinformed. I couldn't care less about cars, but at least I don't sound like a twit when talking about them.
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Carparts009
Posted on Sunday, April 30, 2006 - 12:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

i liked how they called the 12r in the first pic a "super custom"
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Jimidan
Posted on Monday, May 01, 2006 - 02:25 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I was reading one of the exotic car mags (can't remember the name) in the doctor's office the other day when I came upon a one page editorial entitled, "When two wheels are better than four". It was about MotoGP when compared to F1 racing...and gave 12 different reasons why MotoGP racing was superior to F1 car racing. Remember, this was in a car mag! Of course, I agree, but not just about MotoGP, but all bike racing vs. car racing.

Motorcycle racing makes NASCAR look like a kiddie car ride, IMHO. Apparently, one exotic car mag agrees.

jimidan
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Djkaplan
Posted on Monday, May 01, 2006 - 09:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

He's oblivious, but he was also at the show having a great time.

A happy idiot... is that so bad?
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Ceejay
Posted on Monday, May 01, 2006 - 10:15 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

when I look at the concept bikes, "choppers", new glidewings, etc, it makes one wonder why would a person buy a new motorcycle of this type and not a car. hope the trend doesn't continue...
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Eeeeek
Posted on Monday, May 01, 2006 - 11:29 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I liked the stripped down BMW "650."

And monoshocks are ultra trick!


Vik

(Message edited by eeeeek on May 01, 2006)
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Paulson
Posted on Monday, May 01, 2006 - 02:41 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

It sure is cool that the Buell was the first bike shown, though. : D
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Natexlh1000
Posted on Monday, May 01, 2006 - 08:19 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I don't think he was at the show at all. I think he bought those pics from someone that was at the show
and ad-libbed all of the captions. If he were there, he would have seen all of the promotional stuff for Buell and the tech info for the "new 650 BMW" on the little signs.
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Brineusaf
Posted on Monday, May 01, 2006 - 08:21 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Like the Super Custom.... but that Triumph Triple is catching my eye.
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