helicopterjim R.I.P.

OHHHHHHHH CANADA!!!

Three bids now. Someone wants this bike!

Last time I tried the Raceco website (maybe a year ago) it wouldn't work. Good to see it's there again. Always loved this bike.

My apologies Antonio. This is for you!

Miss Hooters Canada video!

I am glad to see there is a bid on the bike too. I have a 1974 SFC and when I am about 85 years old I may have to sell it to pay my nursing bills (I hope to have 2 nurses by then)! I'm glad to see the price is up there!

I'm looking at the Aprilia SXV for similar purposes. I don't know about the UK but here in Canada I can get an SXV for about 500 dollars less than a CR450F kitted out with similar wheels and brakes. There is also the added bonus that the SXV has full lighting kit , a bigger back wheel and about 20 more horsepower. On the other hand I'm not going to sell my V11!! Perhaps if you bought a kevlar codpiece to go with it .... By the way, ebay can be fine if you set your own parameters. I suggest you try selling local first with pick-up or local delivery only. If you wish to sell abroad then make sure the money is at least put into escrow before shipping the bike. That way you can ensure payment before the bike leaves your possession. I like your profile photo.

Where's the beer??

Aye! She's got a great pair o' lungs on her, that one! I think the Tricolore may have a bit of upgraded suspension and some extra bits for the insrumentation as well.

Try here and here.

How about one that is all dressed up Ben?

He's not joking either!!

We understand Ben!! This would make almsot any man cry.

My condolences to your wife, Ben. Perhaps it is she that you should send out to the coast to check out the new Aprilias!!

I have found a moderator for this thread. If only he can be persuaded to buy a V11 ..... Silly! Sillier!! Silliest!!!

I know this should be posted in the technical section but somehow it seems fitting for it to be here! Santa, from an engineering point-of-view.... This just goes to show you, you should never let any engineer explain anything Happy, fantastic, or traditional to you, like Santa, the Tooth Fairy or Easter Bunny. There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west(which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get onto the next house. Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth ( which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second--3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element.Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them-Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth II (the ship, not the monarch). 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance. This would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of acceleratingfrom a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now Merry Christmas.!!

Naw mate. Not VB! He's been havin' a few Bundies!!

Yeah. I checked with Crikey at work and he filled me in but i can never turn down a chance to slag an Ozzie or a Newfy!

Santa has his own plane now and he does fly low!! Video here!

Merry Christmas Antonio!! Here is your brake!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!! From Helicopterjim

A friend of mine emailed this picture to me today. His wife's friend is at Texas A&M for a veterinary course (she is a vet in Canada) and they have a deer that was brought in with a broken neck. The deer is being treated and is expected to recover (broken neck?). I wonder if it was the weight of the antlers that broke its neck .....

I don't know! I can't understand Newfies either. It must come from living on an island!!

I hope Jude is OK! I only saw one kangaroo in the whole 2 monthes I spent in OZ and it was dead - roadkill. I thought it was only sleeping ....

Playing maybe.