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protias

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Hi there! Nothing wrong with small bikes, they're fun too - especially if that's all you can afford. My wife's got a GS450 that I ride once in a while, but at 6'2" I just look downright funny on it! Beemers are cool, gotta buy one some day. Basically I like most anything with 2 wheels. (well, OK, not a 125 two-stroke - just not enough power to haul my fat ass around!)

Actually I kinda met you yesterday at Starbucks, but I didn't know it until after you left. Deb & I walked over by you and Paul as you were getting on your bike - nice horn! BTW, what kind did you say that was?

Her horn has nothing on mine. :D

Hornblasters 228VX :D
 

Spartacus

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We are getting into the mid 60's here for the next couple of days so I'm gonna be riding my ass off. It looks like Thursday we are going to be starting the cold, hard plunge.
 

Spartacus

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You should read the articles that you post and comment on first...


The company is trying to expand its brand internationally from 30 to 40 percent by 2014 according to Prakash and India plays an important role in that.

"We see a distinctive credible growth story here, growth opportunity," he said."
 
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Have Gun - Will Carry

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We are getting into the mid 60's here for the next couple of days so I'm gonna be riding my ass off. It looks like Thursday we are going to be starting the cold, hard plunge.

What's that? Sorry, I missed what you said - I was out riding!

Don't remind me of what's going to happen with the temperature soon; I'll be in my annual 5-month period of clinical depression...
 

Have Gun - Will Carry

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Try a Stebel Nautilas.:dude:

I thought about one of those because they're really loud for the size, but the problem is they're too high-pitched. I'm looking for something a bit deeper, and I found another set from Stebel that might work. Although they're not air horns, Stebel makes a set of electric horns (TM 80/2 Magnum Two-Tone) that sound like they're off a '70s V8 car - just what a bike needs!
 

J.Gleason

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You should read the articles that you post and comment on first...


The company is trying to expand its brand internationally from 30 to 40 percent by 2014 according to Prakash and India plays an important role in that.

"We see a distinctive credible growth story here, growth opportunity," he said."

Maybe you should read your idiotic comments before you post and your credibility may actually mean something here.
They are still outsourcing jobs. Those bikes could be made in America, Assembled in America and then shipped to India. Either way they have to ship parts or Bikes so the cost of shipping is still there. Why not put more Americans to work instead of giving the jobs to Ahbeeb the Camel Jockey?
 
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McX

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i keep hoping they'll outsource my job; Yur car, it is fixed, here is bill, here is slurpy, dank yoo com agin!
 

Brass Magnet

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Having been there and done that; manufacturing companies need to have plants overseas to survive in the current market and to increase market share. With a few fixes to trade agreements and corporate taxation companies would only need to move overseas to increase market share and not just to survive.

The company I work for has 2 plants in China; various vendors there and in Taiwan, and 2 plants in the U.S.

Corporate double taxation needs to go away, then we'd be on a much more even playing field considering that countries like China don't tax corporations for at least 10 years after start-up. Not only that, but they pay companies to export.

We need to have REAL free trade. China needs to get rid of their huge import tariffs. Those huge import tariffs are the reason that companies need to have plants there if they ever hope to sell to the 1.4 billion Chinese.

The Chinese people WANT American products just like I'm sure the Indian people do, and we WANT to sell them our products. We just need the governments of our country and theirs to not make it financially impossible.
 
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McX

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well, it may not be right, but after 40 some years of paying in and never getting for nor asking for anything i'll take it. it would be more than i get now after dealing with crooked customers, crooked suppliers, taxes, energy bills, building repairs and maintenance, i could continue to list but what the hell...sign me up baby! Do we get free ammo too?
 

J.Gleason

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Having been there and done that; manufacturing companies need to have plants overseas to survive in the current market and to increase market share. With a few fixes to trade agreements and corporate taxation companies would only need to move overseas to increase market share and not just to survive.

The company I work for has 2 plants in China; various vendors there and in Taiwan, and 2 plants in the U.S.

Corporate double taxation needs to go away, then we'd be on a much more even playing field considering that countries like China don't tax corporations for at least 10 years after start-up. Not only that, but they pay companies to export.

We need to have REAL free trade. China needs to get rid of their huge import tariffs. Those huge import tariffs are the reason that companies need to have plants there if they ever hope to sell to the 1.4 billion Chinese.

The Chinese people WANT American products just like I'm sure the Indian people do, and we WANT to sell them our products. We just need the governments of our country and theirs to not make it financially impossible.

And this is exactly why our country is in the shape that it is in. We need to worry about our own country first. Giving our jobs to other countries is not the way. It is nothing more than supporting NAFTA and CAFTA and it is what is destroying our country from within. While the rich get richer. Buy American, Build American, Be American.

I will never ride a Hindu Harley! Mine is made and assembled right here in Milwaukee, WI.
 
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