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From: Zebee Johnstone on 3 Jul 2008 19:22 In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:05:33 +1000 G-S <geoff(a)castbus.com.au> wrote: > > The Electra has longer service intervals but not much more power and not > really any better reliability. > > +1 for the older engined bike looking better... But still -2 for the brakes. I regularly ride drum braked bikes. But the Enfield has smaller brakes than either and the damn thing weighs a fair bit more[1] than the Yellow Devil and has single sided twin leader. The Devil's double sided twin is good enough for traffic these days you'd want to be very careful with a 7" single sided TLS. Zebee - who has found a 10" 4LS can pull up 260kg of Guzzi surprisingly quickly when applied with enough panic. [1] I note with amusement they don't give the weight on the specs page on the Oz site, but I somehow think it's more than the Devil's 120kg wet....
From: MJ on 5 Jul 2008 05:05 Knobdoodle wrote... > It's like these wankers that use L8R, 2MORROW, PH@T and all these other > stupid kiddy-spellings; they actually take more keystrokes than just keying > the word in english! Unless those mobiles that they target kids with have these words already programmed into the predictive text database... And yes, the phone that I use definately would require 4 or 5 extra keystrokes just to enter 3 characters compared to its predictive text input. I wonder if they took the saying, "why utilise big words when small iterations would suffice?" too literally...
From: Zebee Johnstone on 5 Jul 2008 05:40 In aus.motorcycles on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:05:11 +1000 MJ <mjpt57(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote: > Knobdoodle wrote... > >> It's like these wankers that use L8R, 2MORROW, PH@T and all these other >> stupid kiddy-spellings; they actually take more keystrokes than just keying >> the word in english! > > Unless those mobiles that they target kids with have these words already > programmed into the predictive text database... > > And yes, the phone that I use definately would require 4 or 5 extra keystrokes > just to enter 3 characters compared to its predictive text input. > I am old... because I can recall when there wasn't predictive text and those abbreviations were in heavy use. Now my Nokia has them in the predictive text... Zebee
From: Knobdoodle on 5 Jul 2008 06:56 "Zebee Johnstone" <zebeej(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I am old... because I can recall when there wasn't predictive text and > those abbreviations were in heavy use. > > Now my Nokia has them in the predictive text... > [sad sigh] They could've just as easily put the real words in...... -- Clem
From: Aeek on 5 Jul 2008 07:37
On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:56:52 GMT, "Knobdoodle" <knobdoodle(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >[sad sigh] They could've just as easily put the real words in...... sz u |