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My riding buddy that I spend a lot of time with everywhere riding single track to some moto rides a 22 300 so I have some experience on one and his experience with it (he’s a Yamaha guy at heart but they don’t make good 2 stroke offroad bikes for tech riding). pros - kyb, ton of low end grunt, great handling, looks so so good in person! Not everyone has one. cons - vibrates like an old school 2 stroke, heaviest 300 on the market, build quality isn’t of an Austrian bike or a Honda ( think plastic figment...

I was working in the Yuma / Gila Bend area today and my truck was reading 121F for a good 50 mile stretch between the two areas. I also saw it peak out at 122F for about 5 minutes during one stretch. I don't care where you are, that's fucking hot as hell.

Nothing to worry about, they're our friends. Should be interesting when BRICS release their gold backed currency next month.

You can get a new 23’ GG MC250 for $6,499 OTD, there is no reason to buy this commie junk

I just understand how this country operates and the only way we can compete on the manufacturing side would be basically equivalent to slave labor.

Hah… ok man if that’s what you want to believe. If you think China will be weaker in 15-20 years that’s cool, but, that’s just not the reality we are living in today. Based on my experience operating at the Theater Command level throughout the INDOPACOM region and the information that i have received from dedicated personnel that aren’t trying to sell books or generate traffic to social media posts, the kind that you can’t google and post, Peter isn’t 100% correct on his assessment. The Belt and Road is a concept and don’t kid yourself into thinking China has...

Fuck China x5. Yeah I have Chinese crap, mobile phone, occasional spring rolls, etc... I don't buy any more from them than I absolutely have to, where there is a feasible alternative I will buy it. The US is getting the shaft from the Chinese even worse than we are in Europe. Even just the Chinese government sanctioned Fentanyl flooding your country ought to be enough reason and that's a drop on the ocean and one of their hundred angles on you. Glad to see more people acknowledging the threat. I did my best not to post in here, I'm...

Damn, are you being paid by a Chinese owned company or something? I am a strong believer that if we do not change course soon and get off of the cheap China made tit that we a truly screwed. Now, with every mom & dad convinced that little Johnny should go get a degree for Flower blooming meditation from some woke university instead of a good trade school or a blue collar on the job training we will be the land of the incompetent idiots,...... scratch that we are pretty much already there. I mean just look at 60% of...

Exactly... Peter does agree. At the risk of posting something and being called "arrogant" (or maybe he meant educated with practical knowledge and aware? I maybe confused), there is a shift to moving mfg ing back to the US. Clearly for national security it's the right thing to do. Having the high end chips the USA uses for defense and the high end products mfg'ed at TSMC in Taiwan with no US based second source.... it's a BAD idea! Not to mention a host of other things. Let the hate begin... fire away! LOL

Buy American, or at least NOT chinese junk.

Sounds like it's time for Chinese Takeout Part 2.

The belt and road initiative is almost exclusively seen as a failure around the world and the chinese themselves have recently been scaling wayyyy back on the investment because the returns have been so bad. Most people around the world and especially in africa have also caught on to the debt trap diplomacy that was going on and are not thrilled to say the least. What they have gotten out of the BRI is ENORMOUS amounts of debt and not a whole lot to show for it beside a couple of ports that arent connected to anything and are way...