Very disappointed with my downhill speed, I was getting passed up by minivans full of kids going full speed down steep hills.Don't even want to talk about uphill.
Turd Ferguson wrote:That isn't a Honda, that is a Chinese manufactured scooter from TANK (what the company was called back in 2008 at least). I had one, and had it imported straight from the factory, had a gouge in the back metal wheelframe and would deflate and pop suddenly, which sucks if your on the highway, woke up in the hospital due to that defect, nice pothole crater in the road where my head hit.
The engine is a exact Honda engine replica.
The guy who runs the website vespa amore looked it over and informed me of this, he is a big scooter expert in the US, and also runs a icecream shop (just cause, not because he needs to).
The TANK factory sells them under slightly different models and "company names".
Very disappointed with my downhill speed, I was getting passed up by minivans full of kids going full speed down steep hills.Don't even want to talk about uphill.
mr reasonable wrote:Zin, you're lucky because everything that the Chinese make, at least the stuff they send to the US is total shit.
Turd Ferguson wrote:I am right, I've seen that exact scooter on sale for 699 back in 2012 in Honolulu.
I owned the tank here in West Virginia, but was looking for a scooter in Hawaii as I wanted to be able to live more inland and drive to work (was working in a icecreme shop then, prior to security).
I highly doubt the Chinese licenced a knock off of a Japanese Honda to the Indians. Your defence sounds absurd.... I'm stupid for not knowing India knocked off a Chinese knock off of a Japanese Knock off of a Italian design of a scooter made by a American after WW2?
Vespa was started by a American GI in Italy after WW2, the Japanese had followed suit, Chinese not too long ago started knocking off clones of Japanese junk, and now you claim near identical scooters in India are unique? At best, its a knock off of a knock off of a knock off, and I'm hardly convinced the Chinese aren't sneaking stuff in like they do here, your import customs is less advanced than it is here.
And you know I read several Indian News Sites, they have business sections. I can hardly know everything happening economically around the world, but if I was a investor, I definitely would have a substantial edge in terms of knowledge from the business news I come aceoss. Not a fan of the stock market.
If anything, its you who put too much stock in financial motivations for international diplomacy and alliance making. Countries reject or ignore profit motivations in their dealings all the time, US used it as a tool to end the Cold War, not as the means of spurring our economic engine, that happened as a result. A lot of Marxist leaning ideologists aren't aware that Diplomacy amoung Capitalists can be motivated for other reasons that market economics. We were not explicitly founded on Capitalism, and have needs beyond it, and a history of traditions long preceding its modern emergence detailing how competent government is guided and administered. You always get excited pointing to India buying weapons in the short term = US concessions and Indian Influence over the US. India sits in exactly the same ignored, irrelevant strategic position now as before. Its always ignored the US, and the US always have ignored India. Sometimes hostile words or dick headed policies towards each other, but usually we can get along even when befriending one another's enemies. We more or less know deep down inside we won't ever go into a serious war with one another.
As a result, US is concerned about Pakistan, which is a Hugh money drain, and Afghanistan.... likewise a money drain, and are enthusiastic whenever the Chinese inquire about building roads or mining there. Why? Flow of wealth stabilizes those shitholes, decreases terrorism in the long run (more jobs, increased taxation and development, population better educated and less militant) and gives us a light to the end of the geopolitical tunnel. We drop more money on trying to encourage economic growth and bombing militant factions than India can ever supply to the US in trade. The Marxist assumption that we can be trained and lured with a little money is a joke, or that we are that one dimensional. We have a lookout of generations ahead, its why we try so absurdly hard in fostering military pacts in Oceana looking for crashed Malaysian planes. Eventually they will be a powerhouse Bloc, and we will be a cherished part of it. We fight pirates around the world, liberating even hostile national ships because we have a sense of ethics and of the very long term.
A few million, a few billion.... yes, money is nice, were not stupid and won't intentionally stop most trade, we have a system that encourages it.... but that rarely sets our foreign policy concern. We won't trade or sell our best weapons with many long term allies even. Some countries like Myanmar and North Korea we won't even trade with.
Zoot Allures wrote:I just bought this off of craigslist. Got a pretty good deal on it, but I can't pick it up yet because I don't have a trailer big enough to haul it. Plan to do some bass fishing and water skiing with it. I'm really psyched about it.
Turd Ferguson wrote:I'll sit in the rain if I want to, you can't stop me.
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