mania

Just curious if anyone has been to the local gold shop today or yesterday to buy (or sell!) and can report on availability/liquidity during these wild price swings...

I did see some shops are open but they have the last business days prices still up.

Meaning the price before songkran started

So I am sure they will sell to you at that 21k THB per baht or what ever it was

But I also bet they will not buy your gold at the buy price listed

Pedrosa with his commentary

doing a lap of Austin

http://www.redbull.com/en/motorsports/motogp/stories/1331586206644/video-a-lap-of-austin-with-dani-pedrosa

Nice lap of Austin with Pedrosa

commentary added

Last time I saw this was just him riding it

http://www.redbull.com/en/motorsports/motogp/stories/1331586206644/video-a-lap-of-austin-with-dani-pedrosa

a 650 twin honda with 70-odd HP would be nice - just googled it and can't find owt!

You know they have a shot here .......But I doubt demand. Unless they made something to really

tempt others away

Make it a non-square V & give it a real frame with real tunable suspension front & rear.

True Move Intersim

Been using it for many years always 1 baht per minute

You need to put 00600 in front of the number your calling

but easy enough once you set up your speed dial phone book

Buy these anywhere that sells phone cards & top up as needed

http://www.truemove.com/en/Inter-SIM-Prepay.rails

PS: I never paid the higher rate for supposedly

better quality as the 00600 quality has always been fine to the USA

Hey good choice Yankee

What ya got there? 2003-04 600rr?

I can't say I have ever seen a BIB pulling anyone or anything over after dark here.

Which is when the LED's would be going

That aside you should see some of the tuk-tuks here at night.

Like a Chevy Chase Christmas Vacation movie

This is the direct link to the pic (which is of a bike in the Philippines):

Yes I can definitely see the blue in that one

I cannot seem to see your pic but this is the only blue like version I have seen

pics of off the Thai Kawasaki site

If your replying to Yankees black commentThose pics I posted are the zx1400r's not the z1000's

I know- I've got one on order in that color and should have it in May- I was just commenting on them.

Ah I see,Interesting

It sure looked black to me initially although I did not look from angles.

May I ask,

What attracted you to that model? Also

What type of riding do you like to do?

Those are actually metallic midnight sapphire blue- they look black in anything but direct sun or strong overhead lights.

If your replying to Yankees black comment

Those pics I posted are the zx1400r's not the z1000's

What are people realistically expecting with a pipe, fuel controller and air filter?

Does the US version have more HP? if so, how?

15-20% is a quite reasonable expectation.

Will be nice if a pipe,filter & ECU can gain 20%/9.4 HP

But I think that 20% off those mods may be hopeful these days.

Cams, porting etc? yes possible to see the 10hp+ gains

Pilm, there was a rumor originally that the US got a 54hp version rather than the 47hp

but that was just a rumor it seems.

I wonder why I'm now looking at this forum?

Almost 4 years of er6n ownership are coming to an end?

Keep those good times rolling...

Gonna buy a Z1000?

If so congrats & post some pics

So what do they do? They create an extra $85 Billion per month to counter their own fiat debt creation

Mania,

that is one of the typical wrong assumptions/claims spread by gloom&doomers to BS ignorant the not so informed public. the FED neither prints nor creates actual cash. i admit that fictious billions are put down in some ledgers or rather in digital form to absorb U.S. sovereign debt in order to suppress interest rates. the learned gurus have agreed to disagree whether this is beneficial or not in the prevailing situation. the problem is that those who disagree can't come up with an alternative. all what they are able is presenting yada yada yakety-yak and the day of reckoning is looming around the corner.

do they have a solution? no, they don't!

Yes understood.

I used the term "create" loosely to mean created as a ledger input/cross ledger cancellation etc.

Yes no solution in sight

But I do not see a USD collapse any time soon as there is no viable replacement.

Not to mention for something to collapse it needs room to fall.

There is so much worldwide crap under the USD it cannot even fall of its own free will.

But they can devalue it till repayment of debt is managable

So to morrowbay's question

So why cant anyone stop this Bernanke ? He should be taken away and locked up for treason.

It is because Bernanke's crime? is against the citizens who will be made to repay not the government who appointed & cheers him onward.

nice front brakes on the Honda... single disk and one piston caliper, should be awesome

Not large pistons per se' but they are twin pistons up front

Yeah Valentino got off line early and paid a price for it I thought. If had stayed in the train what would have happened, he would have passed the Honda's earlier and challenged Lorenzo?. Did you see the cloud of sand that fumed up every time someone got off line. I realise they race there for politics and money but please don't conclude the season based on it. In fact what a crap track. VR46 though has emerged better than anyone except Lorenzo though.

Tom is on pole for today, Brits galore, Laverty, Davies etc

Lickey whats going on at Thruxton

Yes I saw that dust off the main line & yes what a crappy environment to be doing

those speeds.

I imagine Moto 3 had it worst

You know one thing about that GP race was from the start Pedrosa was right there

& the race was his to lose

Is he still suffering from injuries?

How many posters celebrate Christmas every year?

Do you all visit Church, or hold some kind of religious acknowledgement to the reason behind the event?

I think the way Songkran is changing is one of the results of 'westernization' of Thailand.

Funny as I was just saying this to my wife the other day.

She mentioned that on many Thai Forums she reads that many Thai's were not

thrilled with what Songkran has become.

I mentioned the exact analogy you did.

Except I used Christmas to illustrate many did not like what

it had become over the years

I said Christmas was once a marker for the day a man named Jesus was born

Today it is a marker for the arrival of some fat guy in a red suit & a white beard.

They pound the population for months in advance with get your shopping done

advertising

I also told her, what is even more odd is Easter once a marker for the day that same man

from Christmas origins died is now a marker for some Big Easter Bunny who leaves candy eggs for kids.

She did not ask why a Bunny leaves eggs instead of a chicken

Wish it had English subtitles.

But even without is very cool to see

http://video.repubblica.it/sport/aprilia-cosi-nasce-la-moto-dei-campioni/124651?video

The US fed is printing $85B a month, that doesn't concern you?

What is almost funny about that is they are in a sense

creating counterfeit counter-fiat

At one time ( when the system was healthy ) they needed to sell Treasury notes or bonds

to pay for the debt created by USD fiat creation.

Now they have created too much debt & there are not enough

legitimate buyers to keep pace with their printing/creating

So what do they do? They create an extra $85 Billion per month

to counter their own fiat debt creation

The Greatest Nation On Earth is pulling the Greatest Ponzi On Earth

So.. inappopriate: yes. But in certain areas a good laugh too. Should be loads more pictures of him tomorrow, lots of people were taking pics and vids.

Yeah cm108 already has another on Loi Kroh

What can we say about VR46, he certainly closed a few mouths in the racing world, Has Been, utter squit and <deleted>, Rossi is back on a bike he knows and can ride to its max, wonder what would have happened if that little mistake early on hadnt happened??

I think if he had qualified better & did not slip up

( I know that is two if's )

but I tend to think judging by his lap times while bridging up that we may have been treated to a Yamaha/Yamaha

battle of a race. Whether or not that would be a good thing for that team at the 1st race is another story

especially if a mishap was the result.

But between Rossi being back & Marc looking so good early on like this...I think

it will be a fun season to watch. Not to mention Cal if he gets just a bit more hp

The Thais on cm108 are asking why is this guy still walking around

They are asking where are the BIB

Then again it is Loy Khor road isn't it?