-=> JEAN PARROT wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 JP>      Good morning, Wayne.

 WC> Thanks, that brings the total to some 4 - 5 out of hundreds.

 JP>   I am a proud memeber of this 4 - 5 elite.

That number includes one police officer and my best friend who 
knows my ethics and honesty.
I tend to focus on those that believe rather than those that don't
as I was *there*. It helps a bit psychologically
to have a few believers and in fact there have been some
mornings I wish I'd actually done something wrong so at 
least there'd be a _reason_ my current circumstances.
However on repeated requests of that officer if tailgating
on the part of police officrs was in any way a standard practice
I"ve received no reply to that specific question at all.
Other inquiries were answered promptly, draw your own
conclusions.

 JP>   I do not run a Mo-Byke anymore. I drive an SUV, yep ! But it made me
 JP>   realize that I am quite considerate of the other cars/drivers. Not
 JP> bragging
 JP>   here. Also, I never ever floor the pedal, I never go over 62 mph,
 JP> this is
 JP>   at 2000 rpm in Overdrive. Runs good and fine at that setting and I
 JP> get 33
 JP>   m/g imp, that would be 26.4 to your small gallon. See ?

Hmm, that's within 1 MPH of my old Chevy Impala 283 8 cylinder.
You've a gentle touch on the accellerator.

 JP>   My SUV is an Explorer Sport, the 2-door model and I have kept the "
 JP> bad "
 JP>   tyres. I am sure that the dead drivers were driving this as a sport
 JP> car
 JP>   when it is a truck. So, no tyre exchange for me. I will not waste any
 JP> $$
 JP>   even if they were Ford's.

Did you hear GM's Cadillac division is introducing a 16 cylinder
1,000 H.P. model? I've not confirmed this though the post
did include a URL to verify.
Who needs a 1,000 H.P. passenger vehicle?
I used to joke with friends my 1100 Yamaha with radical cam and
tuned pipes would actually perform once I latched a turbocharger
on it ;-)  
It made an honest 119 H.P. as was but I bought it for it's
handling, condition, low mileage used and reasonable cost at a mere
1,600 dollars for an excellent bike being the best used
bike I saw at Barney's motorcycle shop that day.
In point of fact I had been planning to detune it 
for the following reasons.
1. Lousy right hand cornering clearance with the tuned 4 into 1 pipes. 
2. lousy gas mileage, a 32 MPG motorcycle with a 3.6 gallon
gas tank :-(
3. excess noise
4. beast was a bear to start or keep idling smoothly
unless you found a desolate area to opened it up a bit at least 
once every ten days or so.
Opening it up a _bit_ quickly resulted in illegal speeds.
To cross Florida and back was three fillups and it was
a near thing reaching highway 27 on the return trip before
the mighty half gallon reserve tank ran dry, long stretch of interstate
with no gas stations handy.
The thing would start sputtering some 12 - 16 miles
after switching to reserve.
Detuning I expected to improve mileage to around 40 MPG.
Comically it also had an emergency kick starter 
bolted under the frame which you presumably could use
to start it in an emergency, you had to attach it to the
bare kick starter spindle.
I made 40 bucks in bar bets no-one could kick start it
before word got around and my group at that time included some
rather large individuals.
High compression, large size, limited travel  
and the lack of the swing pivot on the emergency kick starter
made the bet a sure thing. 
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5