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I'm truly shocked!;)

Have managed out a few times in the past few days. Yesterday, was out on both W800 and Interceptor. So how is the comparison going? Uhm, no conclusions yet. The Interceptor sounds great. Especially when I give it a bit of throttle to pass a lorry. More throaty than the Kawasaki. Feels more...

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You are of course right, @650Skull as I should have known - I was thinking the JWST image used clever software to compensate for the brightness and low light shadow. After all, many space images show us phenomena we cannot see with the naked Mark 1 eyeball by collecting light in different parts...

I guess we're looking at the solar wind. The Sun emits a constant stream of charged particles, and also has a powerful and constantly changing magnetic field which pulls those stream of ions into patterns. Sometimes, photos of the Sun show great arches when the magnetism pulls the stream back to...

Laffing and swallowing a hot drink at the same time? Not recommended . . .

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This thread underlines what me Mum told me - it really is all in the preparation.

There was a wonderful documentary a few years ago about the female pilots of the ATA - Air Transport Auxiliary - who delivered aircraft to service squadrons in WW2. They interviewed a few of them, all of course very old ladies by then. They had marvelous anecdotes to share about their...

With due respect, that is exactly the kind of fairly easy tricks to impress people that I intended here - https://www.xs650.com/threads/should-we-be-afraid-of-artificial-intelligence.63904/post-835841 The robot is programmed to activate servos to rolls its eyes and frown while it 'listens'...

I love those old American pickups. And so does Mrs, which is of course absolutely great. Except, well, from time to time she sorta looks for ads on social media. And when she finds some luvverly old Ford or Dodge or Chevvy or whatever, she comes to me with a wistful look . . . They fetch...

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It's false economy not to replace both sprockets and the chain all together. An old sprocket is always worn and will shag your new chain. Technical term there . . . Good, thorough rebuild BTW.

Sounds like good practice - I've certainly heard of people rinsing an empty tank with petrol-two stroke mix to coat the inside and keep rust at bay.

And after a cold, clear night we had frost this morning. Now, I hoped that this late in the year, a single night frost might not lead to the Scottish Government calling the salt trucks out . . . However, just in case, decided to use Polly, Kawasaki W800 for today's outing to the shops. Ok, it's...

Heard a university lecturer on Radio Four a few months back talking about marking work submitted by his students. Apparently, getting harder and harder as more and more of what he receives appears to be machine generated . . .

Bet it does better burnouts than wheelies . . .

In the Scottish Borders, it's too bloomin' cold to do anything today. Cold and windy. Would like to spend the day in the garage but not going to.

I loved the quote from the guy who sacked 90% of his work force (Suumit Shah, CEO Dukaan) who said it looks brutal if you're human . . .

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