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Q. I am 18, I have no experience on a bike at all, but I do know the basics of it and I think I could handle it. I weigh 190 lbs and 5'9 in height. I plan on taking the msf and getting my endorsement pretty soon. BTW if I get a cruiser, what type of gear should I typically wear, full helmet or open face w/ goggles?? Leather jacket or what?? I am also considering sport bikes such as the Ninja 650r or SV650 even a GS500, or maybe a Harley Sportster 883 or Honda Shadow. Any recommendations, I am also leaning onto Dual Sport such as the DR650. Can I use those on the highway, and also are they capable of holding passengers. I know I am asking a lot, but this is out of curiosity.
I think I might be too big on a ninja 250r, I sat on it and I felt cramped, I am somewhat a big guy, how about dual sport bikes like DR650 are they any good
I think I might be too big on a ninja 250r, I sat on it and I felt cramped, I am somewhat a big guy, how about dual sport bikes like DR650 are they any good
I think I might be too big on a ninja 250r, I sat on it and I felt cramped, I am somewhat a big guy, how about dual sport bikes like DR650 are they any good
I think I might be too big on a ninja 250r, I sat on it and I felt cramped, I am somewhat a big guy, how about dual sport bikes like DR650 are they any good
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I was riding the streets in Detroit at 13, on a pedal bicycle. My first motorcycle was a new 50cc Honda CA110. I *learned* traffic and how to avoid collisions. So far, no one have been able to touch me.
An excellent first motorcycle would be a SYM Symba -- a 101cc clone of a Honda Super Cub. But you do *NOT* want a good beginner motorcycle -- you want something big that you can ride immediately on the freeways. You do not want to learn the basics, you do not want to learn how to avoid. Don't feel bad, NO ONE want a beginner motorcycle. Nowadays everyone start with a middle or a heavy motorcycle.
Just decide what you want to do on a motorcycle. A sporty Ninja or SV so you can play racer and speed on the streets -- a cruiser to tour on highways -- a DualSport to play in the dirt and hop potholes and curbs in the city.
I was riding the streets in Detroit at 13, on a pedal bicycle. My first motorcycle was a new 50cc Honda CA110. I *learned* traffic and how to avoid collisions. So far, no one have been able to touch me.
An excellent first motorcycle would be a SYM Symba -- a 101cc clone of a Honda Super Cub. But you do *NOT* want a good beginner motorcycle -- you want something big that you can ride immediately on the freeways. You do not want to learn the basics, you do not want to learn how to avoid. Don't feel bad, NO ONE want a beginner motorcycle. Nowadays everyone start with a middle or a heavy motorcycle.
Just decide what you want to do on a motorcycle. A sporty Ninja or SV so you can play racer and speed on the streets -- a cruiser to tour on highways -- a DualSport to play in the dirt and hop potholes and curbs in the city.
Technology and science when you were a teen?
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This is a 20 question interview for homework about technology and science back when you were a teenager. I need answers right no so please be a quick as you can. This will require historical knowledge so please only answer if you are 40+.
1. Was there a lot of technology around you? What were some everyday examples?
2. What was the most common form of communication when you were a teenager?
3. Was it portable? How convenient was it to use?
4. What were the fastest and slowest communication methods of the time? How long did they take? How do they compare to the fastest and slowest today?
5. Was there an effective way to send a message to a large amount of people cheaply and quickly? What was it and if there wasn't, what was the next best thing?
6. What was medical care like back then? What machines did doctors use?
7. On average, how many hours a day did you spend watching television and/or playing with an electronic?
8. How was transportation back then different from now?
9. What was a popular fad or thing of the time that everyone had?
10. What was the most advanced technology of the time?
11. How advanced were recording devices? (video cameras, cameras, records, tapes, etc.)
12. What was a major technological breakthrough that affected you? And how?
13. How were media outlets (TVs, radios, newspapers, etc.) different from modern ones?
14. At what age did you first use/get a computer? How was it different from modern computers?
15. How has modern medicine improved from the past?
16. How mas improved technology made things better and worse?
17. What's one modern piece of technology you would have like to have had back then?
18. What's your opinion on electronics getting small and portable, and everybody having one for themselves?
19. How do you think technology will further change as it advances?
20. What's a notable recent discovery in science or technology and how do you think it will affect the future?
And you're done. Please also leave your a
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I was a teenager in the 1960's.
1. Not a lot of technology, nothing like today. I remember following the space race. We all
knew the names of the astronauts and what they were doing. We lived under a flight path to a nearby Naval Air Base. I remember the sonic booms as they broke the sound barrier.
2. Telephone. Always talking to friends on the phone. If we traveled, we wrote letters or postcards. Long distance phone calls were expensive.
3. The telephone was not at all portable. We had a wallphone. You had to sit in one place and use it. There was no privacy. The family was all around and could listen.
4. I only knew personal use. The fastest was the telephone. Slowest was mail. Sometimes I'd get a postcard after my friend was back from vacation. How do they compare today? Mail is even slower and unreliable. I'm not up on all the communication today. I pay bills online. I can look up anything on the internet. I used to have to go to a library. We have lost the unknown fact. Whenever I'm out with friends, we'll start to disagree about something minor, whether someone is alive or dead or when a particular song or movie came out. Someone now always pulls out a smartphone and looks it up.
5. There was not an effective way. If you were going for a wide audience, you could get your story on local television, radio or in a newspaper. In school, if they had something they wanted us to all know, we'd all gather in the assembly hall. Someone would stand on the stage and make an announcement. We didn't have loudspeakers in classrooms.
6. Medical care wasn't much like today. Machines weren't seen as the answer. All the talk was about new drugs being developed. X-rays were about all I was aware of.
7. There was no playing with an electronic. We were still playing board games. I probably watched 2 hours of television. There wasn't much on.
8. Transportation wasn't that different, just slower. Also not as safe. I never saw a bicycle helmet. Cars didn't have seat belts. They didn't have the child safety seats they do now. There also was no talk of clean air or energy saving .
9. It was the time of the Beatles. The thing we all talked about was who got color television. Also air conditioning. We started the decade with only businesses having air conditioning. Then homes started getting them.
10. Most advanced was probably computers which were slowly coming into use. They were not in homes. I was a junior when my high school first made our schedules by computer. My schedule was so messed up that year. I had to take senior gym when I was a junior and junior gym as a senior. They even did a school dance using computer dating as a gimmick. Your date for the dance was chosen by computer.
11. They were getting smaller. Transistors had come into use. In the 50's, my brother had a reel-to-reel box tape recorder. In the 60's, they were handheld. There were no consumer video recording devices. Records were either 45's or 33 1/3 albums. Stereo was becoming common.
12. As a high school student, I don't think I was much affected by technology. Unless you count television which was slowly playing a larger part in our lives.
13. TV: much less. We had fewer choices, 5 stations in Chicago, the three networks, an educational station, and a local station, WGN. Homes had one TV set and everybody watched the same thing together. Radio: I listened to the top 40 station. FM was non-commercial and mostly classical. There were more newspapers and that was the main news outlet. Chicago had 4 dailies (now 2). TV news shows were shorter and we had no all news networks.
14. I was 40 when I bought my first computer. It was much, much slower, no Cd-roms, everything on big floppy disks.
15. I can't really address this well. I've never followed medical issues.
16. Better or worse. I love today's communication. If I have information, I'd rather send an E-mail than risk interrupting something with a phone call. I love the ready access to information via the internet. One does have to be careful because so much on the internet isn't true. Worse. I miss newspapers. There is a disconnect. Everywhere you go, people are on their phones, wearing headphones, or tweeting. I recently went to an art opening and people were walking around tweeting their experiences and not interacting at all with the people around them.
17. When I was in school, I wish I had had internet access. Homework would have been so much easier.
18. I already addressed this in #16
19. Smaller, faster and doing things I haven't imagined.
20. Recent technology. Not something I'm up on. Looking forward to developments in alternative energy.
By a, did you mean address? carolynbay@yahoo.com.
I was a teenager in the 1960's.
1. Not a lot of technology, nothing like today. I remember following the space race. We all
knew the names of the astronauts and what they were doing. We lived under a flight path to a nearby Naval Air Base. I remember the sonic booms as they broke the sound barrier.
2. Telephone. Always talking to friends on the phone. If we traveled, we wrote letters or postcards. Long distance phone calls were expensive.
3. The telephone was not at all portable. We had a wallphone. You had to sit in one place and use it. There was no privacy. The family was all around and could listen.
4. I only knew personal use. The fastest was the telephone. Slowest was mail. Sometimes I'd get a postcard after my friend was back from vacation. How do they compare today? Mail is even slower and unreliable. I'm not up on all the communication today. I pay bills online. I can look up anything on the internet. I used to have to go to a library. We have lost the unknown fact. Whenever I'm out with friends, we'll start to disagree about something minor, whether someone is alive or dead or when a particular song or movie came out. Someone now always pulls out a smartphone and looks it up.
5. There was not an effective way. If you were going for a wide audience, you could get your story on local television, radio or in a newspaper. In school, if they had something they wanted us to all know, we'd all gather in the assembly hall. Someone would stand on the stage and make an announcement. We didn't have loudspeakers in classrooms.
6. Medical care wasn't much like today. Machines weren't seen as the answer. All the talk was about new drugs being developed. X-rays were about all I was aware of.
7. There was no playing with an electronic. We were still playing board games. I probably watched 2 hours of television. There wasn't much on.
8. Transportation wasn't that different, just slower. Also not as safe. I never saw a bicycle helmet. Cars didn't have seat belts. They didn't have the child safety seats they do now. There also was no talk of clean air or energy saving .
9. It was the time of the Beatles. The thing we all talked about was who got color television. Also air conditioning. We started the decade with only businesses having air conditioning. Then homes started getting them.
10. Most advanced was probably computers which were slowly coming into use. They were not in homes. I was a junior when my high school first made our schedules by computer. My schedule was so messed up that year. I had to take senior gym when I was a junior and junior gym as a senior. They even did a school dance using computer dating as a gimmick. Your date for the dance was chosen by computer.
11. They were getting smaller. Transistors had come into use. In the 50's, my brother had a reel-to-reel box tape recorder. In the 60's, they were handheld. There were no consumer video recording devices. Records were either 45's or 33 1/3 albums. Stereo was becoming common.
12. As a high school student, I don't think I was much affected by technology. Unless you count television which was slowly playing a larger part in our lives.
13. TV: much less. We had fewer choices, 5 stations in Chicago, the three networks, an educational station, and a local station, WGN. Homes had one TV set and everybody watched the same thing together. Radio: I listened to the top 40 station. FM was non-commercial and mostly classical. There were more newspapers and that was the main news outlet. Chicago had 4 dailies (now 2). TV news shows were shorter and we had no all news networks.
14. I was 40 when I bought my first computer. It was much, much slower, no Cd-roms, everything on big floppy disks.
15. I can't really address this well. I've never followed medical issues.
16. Better or worse. I love today's communication. If I have information, I'd rather send an E-mail than risk interrupting something with a phone call. I love the ready access to information via the internet. One does have to be careful because so much on the internet isn't true. Worse. I miss newspapers. There is a disconnect. Everywhere you go, people are on their phones, wearing headphones, or tweeting. I recently went to an art opening and people were walking around tweeting their experiences and not interacting at all with the people around them.
17. When I was in school, I wish I had had internet access. Homework would have been so much easier.
18. I already addressed this in #16
19. Smaller, faster and doing things I haven't imagined.
20. Recent technology. Not something I'm up on. Looking forward to developments in alternative energy.
By a, did you mean address? carolynbay@yahoo.com.
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