Tomas.

2008 Polaris Switchback Dragon 700 2007 Arctic Cat Crossfire 600 I would be lucky to put 500 kms on between the two of them a year. Like Neal, kind of loosing ambition. Low snow years making it hard to ride to the trails and lack of owning a trailer doesn't help. Still own them as I paid less than $3000CAD each so they really don't cost anything to sit there. Nice to have around when the nephews come out or the rare trip to BC if the opportunity/situation arises.

The story I always heard that it was a typo and it stuck

If I remember right, I think I heard something about the CDC removing self defense statistics recently. Found this on fox news. So take it for what it is worth lol https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/politics/cdc-removed-stats-defensive-gun-use-pressure-gun-control-activists-report.amp

Most of these mass shooters have displayed warning signs that were ignored by family and friends for years. Yes, some do slip passed unnoticed or suffer a mental break that blindsides everyone. The answer still isn't to take away the right from the vast majority that still deserves or has earned it. Per the numbers, this "mass shootings" pose a very small risk to the everyday person. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/

Honestly I struggle with what their options are. The extremely large majority of anti gun people don't even know most of the laws that are currently already on the books let alone understand them. That is all the way from the low information public to the lawmakers, to the political representatives and ending at the POTUS. They are clueless when it comes to guns. How they function, the capabilities and how they are currently regulated. So how does one fight an information war where the highest elected seats in the land are lying against you? Banning firearms of any kind really

https://youtu.be/U6Eoss6iLsY For some reason I can't get it to embed. It is a video from Colion Noir and he breaks down the mass shooting numbers a little bit in the video.

I hit a deer on my way to work 3 years ago. 5 of them came out of the trees and started running parallel with me in the ditch. I got on the brakes real quick and that's when a year old made a 90° right infront of me and tried to jump the road. The front tire of my KLR caught it right infront of its hind leg and sent it spinning into the ditch. Thankfully I managed to slow down enough that I didn't crash and stayed on the bike.

You should start a thread just for your travels. They seem incredible!!!

There is a husband and wife that are in their late 50's I believe up here in the Edmonton Alberta area that bought two of those brand new back in the day. One silver one red. They have been daily driving them since. All year round. Rain, shine , snow doesn't matter. Edit: I guess he bought one in 2013. Not brand new. But between him and his wife they have 4 and they daily drive them https://acuraconnected.com/2020/01/19/rogers-1991-nsx-daily-driver/

Maybe I misunderstood. I thought you meant f/a ment full auto firearms and not just firearms in general. I have a small collection of firearms but nothing full auto lol

Up here in Canada you can import vehicles 15 years or older and those kei trucks are popular. They go for around $6000-$10000 Canadian. That is bought in Japan, deregistered, put on a boat and shipped to Vancouver, through customs and waiting for you to pick it up.

I am very envious on the first bold. As for the second bold, I guess that is the beauty of living in a first world country. We are not a society of needs. We are a society of wants. We don't need a 700hp factory stock truck but we will sell it to any meat stick with enough money and not question the morality of it. We don't need 99% of the shit we buy.

But if the masses are uneducated on the subject and being fed false information by shitty politicians try to win votes with emotions. It won't help them solve the problem they are trying to solve.

Are we going to ban pressure cookers because some people used them as bombs and killed a bunch of people? Are we going to ban vehicle renting outfits like U-Haul because someone rented a van and drove into a crowd of people and killed some? Are we going to ban air travel because they have been hijacked and flown into buildings and killed people? Bans do not work against criminals. They will always find away. In the UK where they banned guns (for the most part with some exceptions) knifings went through the roof. On top of that they still have a large amount of shootings, they just aren't