As I am always really fasanated by the progress of robotics, heres a link to a short video clip of one that tries to walk up a ramp and falls over, but learns from it and after 3 tries, it works out how to get up it without falling over, very clever stuff indeed.
And also helping siceints on how the spine works and maybe at some stage in the years ahead helping those with spinal injuries.
Amazing the condition of this 10,000 year old mamoth found in the frozen part of northern Russia.
Check out the link, amazing pic and article below!
Well into my next bike I bought a couple of months back and one only 9 years old this time 😉 It looks like it was left out in all weathers and never cleaned once. Hence it has a lot of rust, which I have started to try and remove and also the paint from the wheels has started to fall off. So this needs a lot of tlc to get back to a decent condition, as always in pics, it dont look too bad, it looks rather more tatty in the flesh though. The exhaust gaskets have all blown and thats my next job to replace those and give it a really good clear up and spray the wheels.
Also with this bike, it dont come with a center stand, how much did that really bring the price down? So its either get a paddock stand or a main stand add on for this model, either a must or you cant tension the chain, remove the wheel etc.
Also just got insurance sorted and it seems these days you cant put more than 1 bike on the same policy, so had to take out 2 seperate insurance policys , which is a bummer and expensive for riding both of these during any summer weather we get. Still hopefully aftter some work, I can still get to try this one out this year if weather does get better. And also I can see why the insurance on this was £150 pounds dearer than my other CX500. Where the CX has 50 bhp, this one has almost 100 bhp. Nice 😉
Well at long last the Bike I bought last summer is ready for me to use, when or rather if we have any summer here in 2007!
It still needs a fair bit doing on it to get it into the condition I want, but not bad for something 20+ years old. 😉
I had mega problems rebuilding the brake calipiers, after new seals and spending hours polishing up the calipier cylinders, they kept on binding and took them apart loads of times and could not find anything wrong. It turned out the return feed to the master cylinder reservoir on the handlebars, it became blocked and was not letting the fluid back to the reservoir and hence after you applied the front brakes they stayed on. One of the rear exhausts if quite badly pitted and starting to blow. Going to be a hard job to get the exhausts as I want the orginal and not the 2 into 1 motads, as in my eyes they look crap.
Still now with a new clutch as that was also worn out and slipping bad and a few other bits, its ready to ride when the bloody weather warms up! lol
Still for a old bike, it runs really well and I can remember back to when I owned one of these brand new, many many years back when I was a London Motorcycle Courier (and survived to tell the tale 😉 ) It does not seem to feel any different riding this compared to all those years back. However I had forgot how top heavy these are and how there was always a qnack of riding these around bends, especially when they jump out of gear while you are banked over. I dare say it will take a few days riding regular again to clear off the rust of my riding skills again.. After all it was some 11+ years ago since I last rode a bike properly.
Well after a couple of really warm weeks in April, it has not stopped raining here in the UK! In my own weather station equipment, I monitored almost 3 inches of rain in June! And during the first few days of July, almost 1 inch so far.
What I find so funny is, when we had those wamer than normal days in April, we were told it was prooth of gobal warming and the year 2007 was going to see the warmest summer ever! Now that we have had below average Temps and tons of rain guess what??? These same people are now saying, hey all this cool weather and rain is because of gobal warming!
For sure all the crap we pour into the climate must make some difference, but please not to this extent and most of the spin and rubbish we here about global warming is totally so those in charge can raise tax’s and make people feel guilty and hence they wont mind paying extra. My own feeling is as it has been over millions if years on the earth, the weather goes in cycles and sometimes it will be warmer than normal and as of this summer cooler and far wetter than normal.
When the world has had reliable monitoring over a decent time scale then we can draw conclusions from it all, so hey to all those alive in 100 years time, email me your results 😉
