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Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:57 pm
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The Swedish electric motorcycle manufacturer, Cake, has filed for bankruptcy. There goes another one: https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/2024...for-bankruptcy/
Current motorcycle collection: 2002 Yamaha FZ1; 2020 KTM 390 Duke; 2009 BMW F650GS; 2018 Zero S 16.6 kWh
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Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #496 So…you’re saying the Cake is a lie?
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Zitat von zer0netgain im Beitrag #497Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #496 Nothing wrong with the Cake bikes other than they are quite expensive for what you get, as you might expect from a bike built in Sweden. My guess is that they just couldn't sell enough to keep the doors open.
Current motorcycle collection: 2002 Yamaha FZ1; 2020 KTM 390 Duke; 2009 BMW F650GS; 2018 Zero S 16.6 kWh
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Zitat von zer0netgain im Beitrag #499 That term went completely over my head. I had never heard it before.
Current motorcycle collection: 2002 Yamaha FZ1; 2020 KTM 390 Duke; 2009 BMW F650GS; 2018 Zero S 16.6 kWh
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Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #500 Same here.
Lee
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Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #500 Zitat von Lee im Beitrag #501 I thought the meme was ubiquitous, but that just shows not everyone is into the nerd or gaming culture to get the joke.
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Zitat von zer0netgain im Beitrag #502Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #500 I think you are forgetting the skewing of the demographic in this forum towards people who did not have computers as part of their pre-adult education.
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Zitat von zer0netgain im Beitrag #502Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #500 Liked you post, fellow Portal aficionado two-wheeler :)
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Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #503Zitat von zer0netgain im Beitrag #502Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #500 I completed high school having used punched paper tape. I completed my undergrad degree using punched cards. My calculator uses Reverse Polish Notation............
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Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #505Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #503Zitat von zer0netgain im Beitrag #502Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #500 When I was a kid, to make a phone call you picked up the receiver (there was no dial, rotary or pushbutton) and an Operator would come on the line. You then gave the phone number you wanted, starting with a location identifier, as in "MO-3-XXXX". She (and it was always a woman) would then connect you. She could also listen to your call, as could other people on the same line network. "Howdy Doody" was a popular TV show at the time, and the first commercial jet flight had yet to take place. Food was actual food, and a "social network" was comprised of people actually writing letters to each other. |
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Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #505Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #503Zitat von zer0netgain im Beitrag #502Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #500 but you and I are relatively rare for our demographic I was in the first cohort of kids in my school to use a computer in 1979. I was 17. A Research Machines 380Z I first programmed in BASIC. This was a fee paying school where I had a local council scholarship. It was probably another decade before most kids would start using a computer in elementary education in the UK and have a games console at home. The millennials. Not sure we have many of that generation in here.
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Zitat von BEARR im Beitrag #506 Same here and for some reason I can't explain I remember our phone number when I was a kid was 138J. And it was a party line. Frank
2023 R1250RS- 6000 mi.
2003 R1100S Boxer Cup Replika #6/200 1985 K100/1100RS- 330,000 mi. 38 yrs. 2017 R1200RS- 51,070 mi, 5 yrs, (gone) 2016 R1200RS- 28,322 mi. 18 mo. (gone) 2011 R1200RT- 30,000 mi. 2 yr. (gone) 2005 R1200ST- 58,000 mi. 8 yr. 3rd deer killed it. 1999 R1100S- 15,000 mi. 2 yr. (gone) 1996 Ducati 900SS/SP- 89,000 mi. 12 yr. (gone) 500,000+ BMW miles |
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Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #507Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #505Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #503Zitat von zer0netgain im Beitrag #502Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #500 My brother-in-law is 2 yrs younger and built his first computer from a Heathkit. He's been a gaming software coder since taking a few college courses in the very late 70s. He humors me by not laughing when I mention computer or software. Things change with time, sometimes rapidly.
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Zitat von Duckbubbles im Beitrag #508 In a similar vein, I could tell you the reg plate numbers of probably all my parent's cars during the 1960s and 1970s, but ask me for my current bike's or car's and I'll look at you blankly.
KC100->CB100N->CB250RS--------->DL650AL2->R1200RS->R1250RS
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