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Wow.....you got something against money and big business.....we could all go back to trading chicken-shit and hay bails for a fire place to cook on. I'm old enough to have gotten up every morning to get a bucket of coal outside so Grandma could start the stove fire. My first grade school had out-houses.

No thanks.....I'm all for big business; that and my own small business is where my retirement will be coming from.

And when I go across country I plan to use a motorcycle produced by a big business, on tires from the big tire business, running big oil business gasoline, and stopping at big food businesses and hotel businesses, wearing big business cloths while taking pictures with big business cameras and posting them on a big business laptop while getting covered by big business insurance companies...oh wait...the government will take that over and make me ride 100 cc scooter or something.

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Busy doing more riding than wrenching.......

thanks for the info Rick we in Australia are paying $1.35 per lt for standard unleaded , thats still $5.50 US gal !!!!!!!!!, . urs Al in Aus

Got nothing against big business here - or small business (I go out of my way to support small local business first, then local big business, then internet specifically looking for made in USA and avoid as much as possible made overseas).

What I AM against is the big money lobbyist machines in our political arenas. But that's a political issue I won't discuss here.

Rick, preaching to the choir on hard work. I rose from a 14 year old living in an old car that did not run to a fruitful life through very hard work (and a little help from the guy upstairs). Nuff said.

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This is true. Where I grew up the hills were so steep and long, when your ball rolled down the hill you just said "screw it"...

aprox 6.60$ for a gallon of diesel here in norway, good thing my skoda station wagon gets about 60mpg. DSG gear box is awesome.

How much is gas in Norway DSG is that a VW gear box we have a DSG in a Jetta TDI its a blast to drive especially down long hills feels like a manual transmission

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1975 S3 project bike
1974 H1 project bike
1972 Yamaha R5
1974 Yamaha RD350

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Always remember, there will be greater and lesser people than yourself . . . you can learn from either!

If most euro cars have the option of diesel power why is your diesel and gas so high and not havlved , I been a diesel owner for 25 years diesel ,in the US diesel used to be 60 cents less than gas then diesel power became popular and now diesel is usually higher than the gas, more diesel power has not been good over here for prices.

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1975 S3 project bike
1974 H1 project bike
1972 Yamaha R5
1974 Yamaha RD350

Hey, that's big business.

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"One day, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." : anon.

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Simple, we have socialised medicine and unlike the U.S. when I go to the doctors or the hospital I never get a bill, and at my age I get VERY worried when I have to go to the emergency room here in the U.S. Something as simple as cut with infection is $200 or like last week, a speck of dirt in my eye . . . $150, A friends kids abluance ride, 11 miles $1,400! I know of 5 friends in the U.K. who in the last Year have had triple or quadruple heart by passes . . . And the cost? ZERO.

I'm not starting a right or wrong to socialised medicine, just telling you where the extra funds go, and because it is so expensive THAT is why we are so anal about fuel economy

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Always remember, there will be greater and lesser people than yourself . . . you can learn from either!

Always wondered how they paid for the medical over there, old saying I heard some where "Ya can't take the work out of work or the cost out of the cost " your friends still paid for their heart surgery at the the pump

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1975 S3 project bike
1974 H1 project bike
1972 Yamaha R5
1974 Yamaha RD350