I warned you because he fooled me! For all I know, he either paid for that photo or it was photoshop'd!I have seen the pic of Sal sitting on a Harley with a woman sitting in his lap. Now that makes him my personal hero! Dang what I wouldn't give to have a younger woman sit on my lap.....Heck, I'd pay good money for that!
I warned you because he fooled me! For all I know, he either paid for that photo or it was photoshop'd!
This is a very well known strip bar that has been in Vancouver for a long time. No5 Orange it is called. The talent is primO top notch and the place is clean and well serviced by staff. There is no cover charge and the drink and food prices are great for well prepared pub fare. It's very popular at lunchtime for the business crowd and the rest of the day it's just people attending for snacks, brewskies and shows from 11am to 1am. I googled the subject a bit and apparently many of the Vancouver strip bars closed. The new generation is not attending the shows and the pubs closed as a result. The Drake in Vancouver was my all time favorite though. I've been there and out of the blue a half dozen gorgeous women saunter onto the stage and do their thang. It was a big place with 3 small 6 foot diameter stages with poles, with a few chairs at each and then the main stage is huge as it can fit some talent in numbers. No extra charge for sitting at any stage too. Sigh* I live in Alberta now and this place sucks for stripper bars. They call them gentlemen's' clubs and charge to get in, charge exorbitant prices for a coke or a beer and you must buy the talent a $15 coke if you want to keep viewing. I never go here because it's just a cash grab and even checking your coat is $30.00 here. Pffft*
I find Moto 3 the most enjoyable to watch, but do keep up with MotoGP. Somehow Moto 2 just doesn't interest me. Loved Canet in Moto3. I agree with the coverage and the expense. I believe they could drop the subscription price to 1/3 and get ten times the subscriptions. I suppose they think they are protecting local broadcast money. My problem is in the USA the races are barely covered.Not a big fan of how MotoGP handles my expensive yearly subscription. Main commentators are fine, but live coverage is flaky, editing is slow and the website just fights to spoil the races - which living in California I try very hard to avoid. My MotoGP local Sundays see me go to the gym with a perfect excuse to do 3 hours of cardio - watch the races while I sweat!
From an audio point of view - live, I can very often recognize approaching motorcycles by their exhaust and engine notes. I have been to live MotoGP events (wear earplugs!) and the engine notes are so wild and amazing... yet on the MotoGP stream they make no attempt to ever capture it, what a shame.
PS: Ducs seem to be coming back in MotoGP, it's going to be an amazing second half in *all* categories - close and any possibility still open. I admit I'll root for Aleix E in MotoGP, Aaron Canet in Moto2, and just laugh and enjoy myself watching Moto3.
So I guess that is a sound bar underneath the TV? It doesn't look cheap. Bet we could put together a better sound system for Marc.
Moto3 is just pure and often stupid racing, but it is soooooooo much fun! MotoGP to me is simply something I have to watch, even though we know the big $ sometime distort the racing purity.
So much of motorsports suffers from the same.
Yes, that too. There is some good dirt track around where I live so its cheaper to go see it than to subscribe.
I think it is the centre from the Bowers and Wilkins XT series:
Yes, think I recall it being nicknamed "the doctor dangle", or some such early on, as it was Rossi (nicknamed "The Doctor"...as he was clinical), who started it.Rode bikes for over a half a century but I never wanted hear some story about someone who knows someone who rides a bike and who was involved in a 'rubber-side-not-down' scenario. As a rider, those stories always gave me the heebie-jeebiez but not because I lack any good stories and/or scars to prove them.
I turned candy-ass and gave up that hobby few years ago, after a meeting w/a texting cager. [He won!]
Someone suggested that I might as well become couch-rider and start watching MotoGP. [It's a hoot!]
Something I don't quite understand though: Why do SOME of MotoGP racers stick out their inside leg/foot (like a dirtbike rider) but ONLY during SOME turns and NOT consistently EVERY lap?
I resemble that. Not quite 50 years, but rode over 100k miles on various bikes over a 20 year period. After losing a family member and a few friends over the years (the one I mentioned earlier in this thread has since died, add one more to the list
), I turned candy-ass myself and stopped riding a few years ago. I discovered that slow airplanes are more fun than fast cars & bikes, and safer, with a different risk profile that puts you in more control over your own fate. However, just like motorcycling, most private pilots who fly long enough, know another pilot who died in a crash. Doing what you enjoy, despite its risks, is better than living in fear.I never found this useful or did this motorbiking on dirt or on pavement. I see cyclists doing this too, on dirt. The cycling pavement version is sticking your inside knee out into the turn. On a street motorbike it makes sense since you can use your inside knee as a feeler gauge through the turn. But a bicycle can't lean enough in the turn for that. I do a lot of bicycling and I don't do it there either since all it seems to do is increase aero drag. In dirt, I speculate that this is a way to shift your weight distribution lower into the turn, without countersteering to lean further, since that can lose traction in the dirt. That said, in mountain-biking (no engines), we sometimes lean the bike more than the body in turns in order to engage the cornering tread blocks; bicycle tires made for efficiency & speed have smaller less grippy traction/tread in the center. Kind of the opposite on road bikes and street motorcycles due to limited ground clearance.... Something I don't quite understand though: Why do SOME of MotoGP racers stick out their inside leg/foot (like a dirtbike rider) but ONLY during SOME turns and NOT consistently EVERY lap?
Lovely Superduke there. Had one myself for a few years til some scumbag cut the steel door off my lockup and stole it. Replaced it with a Triumph Street Triple R. Similar fun power to weight ratio.
Yeah the Duke is a real laugh, a bit snatchy! My mate just picked up a triple, it has all mod cons, even has a USB socket!
Aye, big twins are often quite snatchy at low revs. There's a hell of a lot of torque available low down.
