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Back on the topic of the forum and user spike: I really do like forums but this vBulletin software is really showing its age as far as usability is concerned. Would love to see it updated, or converted to XenForo, or something free like MyBB. It majorly sucks having to ever use this forum with a web browser on one's mobile phone. Additionally, the "VigLink vBulletin Plugin v2.0.6" that you can find at the end of the page's source code, well that plugin often changes links without users' knowledge, and sometimes it sends people to a completely different website than the poster actually intended. Would be great for that to go away, at least.
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Volcano, Ca
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I was bitching to Mrs. 2LZ dad about it and he showed me his Hensim quad he just bought from a local China bike dealer (Doug on this site). Next thing I know, we had a pair of Hensim DB150's. Bikes, helmets, gloves, trickle chargers, and other schmise......1500.00 OTD. More than worth it. We had a blast on those little bikes.
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Join Date: May 2023
Location: NY
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I was looking for a small dualsport to keep on the back of my RV and use for light dualsport exploring and grocery runs and figured a Honda CRF300L at $5300 would be great. I've been riding dualsport for decades (ugh). Well that 5300 turned into almost 9 grand with dealer fees and market adjustments so I came home quite dismayed (as a 4 decade Honda guy) and found the Templar X which seemed to fit the bill and had some decent utube reviews so I clicked buy. Damn happy I did as it has turned out to be exactly what I wanted at a price that didn't hurt. I was so impressed I ordered a scooter as well and that has also been fantastic. The big name manufacturers really need to get ahold of their dealers actions and greed before China cleans their clock. The CFMOTO 450 MT and Kove models should be a real wakeup call for the big boys that China has arrived and is quite serious.
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Join Date: Aug 2020
Location: Australia
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its somewhat ironic that the Japanese brands are being overtaken by essentially their own 30 year old engineering and technology. Though that seems to be a case of history repeating.
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Volcano, Ca
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That....and everyone now has computers. 30 year old designs, being built more accurately than they were 30 years ago.
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Maybe the same price as 30 years ago, but without inflation. |
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Location: Kansas City
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Maybe "everyone" had computers ten years ago, but that trend is over. Now, smart phones that have high resolution 5" and bigger screens loaded with text, and apps for email, streaming video, and all sorts of social media, all of these things are migrating to mobile devices!
I wonder how many of these new users browse oldgeezer bikes, I mean China Riders on a desktop? My 73 year old older sister is a luddite, and when her laptop volume was too low suddenly, she didn't look for volume control, she started watching videos on her 3" flip phone. Gee Not me ![]() ![]() We are lucky to have access to hardware that would be considered supercomputers a couple of decades ago for barely over $1000 !!! ![]()
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Join Date: Feb 2024
Location: SW Missouri
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I'm running a retired CAD workstation tower from my former workplace as my main PC these days.
Thinkstation S20 case, W3550 CPU, 32GB of RAM, 6TB of storage, dual Quadro 600 graphics cards running a quad 24" monitor setup. Total investment? $0.00 (ignoring the 5 years of soul-sucking that job did to me)
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Join Date: Aug 2020
Location: Australia
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My mother told me stories of how she worked in a punch card compute room.
Moore's law though is effectively dead now. the number of transistors are hitting a limit on the silcon wafer. Which is why there is an incentive towards light and quantum computing. I think that's why there is such a push towards 'AI' becuase basically there is a hard wall conventional PC hardware and the 'upgrade' path is not offering a lot in terms of value over the last couple of generations of domestic hardware. Yes advances are being made...But I seem to be playing more games from 10years ago and don't need a $5000k PC to ray trace graphics when I can just step out side and not deal with DLC and microtrasactions. All these stories of EVs on autopilot racking up kills. Then the sociopaths in places of power wanting to switch off your tracked vehicle remotely because you violated your carbon credits... That's why I am grateful for being 1 of the last analogues in a the smarter the phone, the dumber the person seems to be world ... |
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Join Date: Aug 2020
Location: Australia
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35k most users now with over 15k avg guests mid week.
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