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I was surfing through some of the on-line motorcycle magazines when I came across a Cycle World Special Feature, CW’s Best Used Bikes and there was a photo of a ZRX1100R.  Well, that immediately got my attention, so I clicked on the link.

Best Used Bikes

I was interested because about three years ago I bought a used 2002 ZRX1200R, the newer, bigger brother of the 1100.   Back in the day when I was putting around on my Honda CB77 305 SuperHawk and my Honda 450 DOHC, Kawasaki was the premier performance motor cycle.  The first of their legendary super bikes was two stroke H1 and H2 triple cylinder bikes.  A buddy of mine had the 750 H2 Kawasaki. These things were just scary fast from a stop light.  Kawasaki came out with their first four stroke performance bike with the Z-900, followed by the legendary KZ-1000 and the KZ-1100.  These bikes were very fast, handled well, and was the platform that Eddie Lawson won several national championships on.  Eddie’s 1981 KZ 1000 was the model for the “retro” ZRX-1100 / 1200.

ZRX1100R and KZ1000

The ZRX is retro in styling, but backed up with some more modern running gear.  The 4 cylinder inline engine is liquid cooled as apposed to the air cooled KZ.  It has modern multi piston caliper disk brakes, electronic ignition and some of the later models even have catalytic converters for reduced emissions.

I have been thoroughly pleased with the Kawa.  It is very versatile, it can be a daily driver, it can do a pretty good imitation of a sport bike, but the reason I like it, it is just fun to ride.  It has enough power to be both fun and dangerous.  It is kinda fun walking away from a Z06 Corvette at a stop light, but you can’t roll on a lot of throttle quickly or it will stand up on the rear wheel in a heartbeat!  As a daily driver it is smooth and is perfectly comfortable cruising at 35 miles per hour, or if you want to do a track day it will cruise nicely at 135 miles per hour.

Ride Safe.

Here is a story of a bank that encourages it’s customers, who are licensed to carry a concealed firearm, to carry in the bank.

http://www.brenhambanner.com/articles/2010/08/19/news/news03.txt

I liked the part about the comments of support for the policy far outweighed the critical comments.

The Federal Government won’t enforce immigration laws, but they will “set up” a law abiding citizen to sell a firearm to a illegal alien.

Read this story…….

http://www.infowars.com/feds-convict-texan-for-selling-a-gun-to-illegal-alien-with-texas-drivers-license/

And politicians wonder why the citizens don’t trust the government!

The head of the US Department of Education sent an internal email to 4000 employees of the Department of Education encouraging them to attend the rally organized by Rev. Al Sharpton last Saturday in Washington DC.  Link to the Washington Examiner article here.

Sharpton organized his rally in response to Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally held August 28th in DC.   Apparently the Rev. Sharpton thought that Mr. Beck was hijacking the anniversary of Dr. King’s famous speech that was delivered in the same place, the Lincoln Memorial, as Beck’s rally.

Apparently, some D. E. employees didn’t feel that the director should have requested employees to attend the rally and leaked the email to the press.  I am sure, however, as will all things Obama, nothing will come of this.  If the George Bush administration had done this of course the media would be on a rampage!

This is serious. The Obama administration is now eying your IRA and 401K accounts as a method to finance the huge debt that they have run up.

I first became aware of this about a year ago when someone sent me a link to a Department of Labor paper that was investigating if Individual Retirement Accounts would provide people enough income after they retire. They were proposing requiring IRAs and 401K accounts to include some US Treasury Bonds as part of the investment portfolio.  The idea was to have a stable and reliable source of income in the account and not just leaving folks to the risky stock market or bond market.  Without even saying that, just typing it, a bit of vomit comes up in my throat!

WND Article

Well, obviously the tactic here is to funnel some of the 4 trillion dollars in individual investment accounts into helping pay off some of the US Government Debt.  Sure, I want the Federal Government taking my IRA money, that I have been saving since I was 23 years old, and diverting it to US Treasury Bonds that are very likely to be worth nothing in a few years!

I thought the hole idea of a Individual Retirement Account was to have MY VERY OWN savings and retirement plan.  Now, your President has decided that I am not capable of managing  my own investments, I need the Government’s help.  BULL-you-know-what!

The time is now to start writing to your Congressman and Senators and let them know that you are against this.  I have already fired of a series of letters.  While you are at it, make sure that everyone you know is aware of this plot against your IRA.

You know,  this will turn out just as good as Social Security.  No matter what they say, they don’t care about you, they are just looking for a way to redistribute your wealth to someone else.  Don’t buy into it!

NOW, GO WRITE SOME LETTERS!