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Offline Airhead

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« Reply #45 on: April 25, 2005, 06:53:37 PM »
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John Deere construction equipment is made in Dubuque Iowa... which I guess is a suburb of Tokyo.


Thier equipment is also manufactured in nine different Nations and imported here. I read the Pres's comments on globalization- it was a good read.
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Offline MiloMorai

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« Reply #46 on: April 25, 2005, 07:00:09 PM »
Skydancer,

Jackal never went fast enough to have to use brakes.:p
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« Reply #47 on: April 25, 2005, 09:39:24 PM »
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Interestingly when I went to Sturgis in 98 I thought guys would think my triumph was junk.  


Zulu, thought you said you went in a Chrysler. :D
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« Reply #48 on: April 25, 2005, 10:07:38 PM »
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I rode a mates sportster back around 92.


So you rode one bike once and that makes you an expert on the manufacturer?
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« Reply #49 on: April 25, 2005, 10:28:26 PM »
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I rode a mates sportster back around 92. It was a bendy wobbly vibrating piece of junk that didn't stop until the lever was right back against the bar.
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In the bad old days of American brakes you'd be through the back of the car in front amd out the other side before they bit!
huh?,sence it was a old harley and didnt have jap parts that it was junk?..,,if it wasnt a 1945 harley and below..it had jap parts on it..harley has been using jap parts on there bikes sence 1946 i believe..including breaks..so you saying old jap breaks are junk?,,lol


any bike. jap..british..american..all will be junk if not took care of.. i had a 1976 iron head sporty..never had a proublem stopping..very touchy breaks stopped on a dime...if you dont adjust any break system specialy a old one..sure it will feal sloppy...had a honda 125 that couldnt stop with out pushing the bar to the ground,,i adjusted the cable,,sure anuff..fixed it right up..lol i cant tell much diffrence between new disk breaks on a bike and old drums..they all lock up really easy

you cant knock around harley to much..they are the best selling bikes on the planet..and hold there value and gain like no other production bike..they are very easy to find after market parts for any year..try to find aftermarket jap or british parts for anything older..like pulling teeth..specialy triumph or bsa...hell i cant even find a piston ring for my 1987 huskavarna 400...harley is good on keeping even there older bikes on the road
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« Reply #50 on: April 25, 2005, 10:29:33 PM »
i love my Chevy Impala
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« Reply #51 on: April 26, 2005, 07:14:55 PM »
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huh?,sence it was a old harley and didnt have jap parts that it was junk?..,,if it wasnt a 1945 harley and below..it had jap parts on it..harley has been using jap parts on there bikes sence 1946 i believe..including breaks..so you saying old jap breaks are junk?,,lol


any bike. jap..british..american..all will be junk if not took care of.. i had a 1976 iron head sporty..never had a proublem stopping..very touchy breaks stopped on a dime...if you dont adjust any break system specialy a old one..sure it will feal sloppy...had a honda 125 that couldnt stop with out pushing the bar to the ground,,i adjusted the cable,,sure anuff..fixed it right up..lol i cant tell much diffrence between new disk breaks on a bike and old drums..they all lock up really easy

you cant knock around harley to much..they are the best selling bikes on the planet..and hold there value and gain like no other production bike..they are very easy to find after market parts for any year..try to find aftermarket jap or british parts for anything older..like pulling teeth..specialy triumph or bsa...hell i cant even find a piston ring for my 1987 huskavarna 400...harley is good on keeping even there older bikes on the road


Hehe.
Please don`t be offensive to the professor of everything  U.S.
After all he DID ride a Sporter in the `90s and he HAS driven a Chrysler.

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« Reply #52 on: April 26, 2005, 08:08:13 PM »
it is very difficult, especially when you consider that the made in the U.S.A lable applied as a sticker, may only mean that the sticker was made in the U.S.A

One act of nationalization from sinking.  As long as they still need our extra food, we are still afloat.  When they don't...I don't want to think about it.
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« Reply #53 on: April 26, 2005, 09:05:56 PM »
All one has to is add a single wire, say to a TV, and a label 'Made in ??' can be attached even though the rest of the TV was made offshore.
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« Reply #54 on: April 26, 2005, 09:29:08 PM »
As far the Harley thing is concerned, I'm not shure how good their bikes are today, but I used to live near Sturgis SD, and every year there were people that would make living picking up broken down Harleys.  It was a race between theives and mechanics then, with mechanics going out in trucks to pick up the bikers and their ride, and the theives that would travel in pairs.  The first guy in a car would spot the guy with his broken hog and call his friend in a truck, that was about mile behind. Then the guy in his car would offer the biker a ride to town, and if he fell for it, in comes the guy in a truck to pick up the bike.  Most Harleys were art, not transportation.  The guys that understood this always had a toolbox with them for extended travel.
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« Reply #55 on: April 27, 2005, 09:56:07 AM »
"try to find aftermarket jap or british parts for anything older..like pulling teeth..specialy triumph or bsa"

I guess Hyena that they are easier to get hold of here. I live in Birmingham where most of the motorcycle industry here was located. So there are still loads opf people with parts, many still origional and if not plenty of manufacturers who will make parts. My new triumph is made about twenty miles up the road and the great thing is that when I've hit a snag working on her I can call the factory direct and get advice. Can't phone Japan or milwaukee so easily!

Steve, nope I'm not an expert but I do have opinion if thats ok pal? So do you ride then?

Jackal thanks for elevating me to the status of professor. When do I get my PHD? My experience of Yank stuff was not good, though as you may have read I think Harleys are getting better. Plus as I recall Buells are assembled in the US. It says American motorcycle on the tank, and I think they are pretty good.

Do you think that as a Brit I shouldn't be buying a Brit product then? It would not be very patriotic of me to buy a yank tank ;) would it? Suprised you don't understand that one as you seem to be Mr all american and patriotic to the core!
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« Reply #56 on: April 27, 2005, 10:48:49 AM »
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Steve, nope I'm not an expert but I do have opinion if thats ok pal? So do you ride then?


It's ok now.  Now that we know you rode one bike once and really don't know what you're talking about.
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« Reply #57 on: April 27, 2005, 11:47:32 AM »
So do you ride then?

If not what the hell gives you the right to decide what I do and don't know!:rolleyes: Sheesh:lol
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« Reply #58 on: April 27, 2005, 12:14:07 PM »
I have a T-shirt that is "made in america" and it still looks great after about 10 years. I also have a few products thats "designed in california, made in china".. also great quality.

My IBM Thinkpad is also designed in america i belive but i think its buildt in Ireland.

Rest of my stuff is european and asian.
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« Reply #59 on: April 27, 2005, 12:25:40 PM »
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My IBM Thinkpad is also designed in america i belive but i think its buildt in Ireland.


The parts are probably from all over the world...  south korea, taiwan, china...
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