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“It is commonly believed that man will fly directly from the earth to the moon, but to do this, we would require a vehicle of such gigantic proportions that it would prove an economic impossibility. It would have to develop sufficient speed to penetrate the atmosphere and overcome the earth’s gravity and, having traveled all the way to the moon, it must still have enough fuel to land safely and make the return trip to earth. Furthermore, in order to give the expedition a margin of safety, we would not use one ship alone, but a minimum of three … each rocket ship would be taller than New York’s Empire State Building [almost ¼ mile high] and weigh about ten times the tonnage of the Queen Mary, or some 800,000 tons.”—Wernher von Braun, the father of the Apollo space program, writing in Conquest of the Moon

I found a YouTube video of someone restoring the same calipers as mine, that was a happy day.

Well a short history to start, in 2016 I slipped a disc and had only been able to ride it a couple of times before I moved to the country in 2019. When I got it here I decided to give it a bit of a smarten up so I organised a hi flow filter, new plugs , cans, a custom jetting kit (which has the same jets as those that are in it) etc etc etc, then some cunt shutdown the world. As a result the bike sat while I waited and waited on the parts, sadly I had already pulled a bunch of stuff off it otherwise I would have left it as it was. So got the forks done and sent the rear shock away for a rebuild, eventually got someone to help me get the tank off, what a c*nt of a job, took two of us about 15 minutes, I guess that's the price that you pay for ready to race bikes. Anyway I pottered away at it and now have it close to fruition, things that I need to do include the calipers, plugs, air filter and coolant, that's eff all I hear you snigger. So I have the calipers off and split and now need to blow the pistons out, they are stuck so they are in a container with lanolin and WD40 and when my mate gets back in his shop I'll take them down and use his compressor, hopefully they'll pop out and the seals will be OK, the local KTM fiche tells me that these parts cost a bomb and also are not in stock, just more good news really so I'll make do with what I have. In more good news the weather has made an abrupt turn from six days of 36+ in a row to a pleasant 28 average so now I can get into the garage without a special suit which is nice. I found that whenever I wanted to do something on the bike it was a little tricky, take adding coolant for example, I went and got what I needed and then opened the owners manual, to refill the coolant raise the front wheel 500mm, great I thought, nothing like challenge, I eventually got an engine lifter for that job but now it needs done again since moving the bike to a new garage. I saw online that if you lie the bike over to near horizontal and massage the large hose you can pump it through, well its easier than getting an engine lifter I think, however I had a thought and with my very large syringe and a suitable length of tubing I should be able to squirt some coolant in at the bottom, maybe even fill it up the drain plug, will give that a go later. I now need to do the plugs and filter and maybe check the carbs, when I stopped riding it I let the fuel completely run out while idling so hopefully the carbs aren't all gummy, as I have had it running albeit a bit roughly that seems to have worked, I do not want to do anything to the carbs if I can avoid it, maybe a can of carb cleaner might sort out any little problems, so that's about it apart from one major job, remounting the top box bracket, if it doesn't have a top box it's not a proper bike, no tiny caravan for me and Pete, we're top box men. So here's a couple of photos of the calipers and also my inside work area to set the scene.

You alright mate, is everything going good, aaaah that's good, anyway just one thing that you might like to consider, your constant allusions to conspiracy theories and political mentions are kind of getting the fundamental purpose of the forum off track if you know what I mean, so if you stop mentioning things that cause me to respond in order to set you right we'll all have a much better time. I'm sure that all the others agree with me as well, it's not that we don't like you or anything, it's just that you can be a bit disruptive, tata for now.

You know Bucky, I like that Putin can talk for half an hour about Russian history from the 9th Century without notes and that Trump can address a crowd of over 20,000 people for two hours again without notes which shows them to have superior intellects, then on the other hand we have Joe sniffing children and unable to find his way off a stage so who would you put in charge of the nukes, for you, if you look outside Rishi is taking a dump on your doorstep and Macron is already at the nightclub, better get your glad rags on or you'll miss all the fun. https://www.bitchute.com/video/1BDDOTE9zOnw/

I took notice of what you said and went to the NASA site and it is indeed Aldrin in that photo so there, I've learnt something albeit minor, while I was on the NASA site I came across a picture of the lander in all it's glory and seriously they must be kidding, its made out of shit left over from a hardware shop sale, further on the photos celluloid film used to get damaged in the airports under a low level radiation scan so how did they get all those rolls of film back throught the Van Allen belts, no way Jose.

And Trump.

Sorry, I wasn't referring to you losing your rag, you're the only one that didn't, that remark was for the others.

For you to go on a rideout against my KTM you would need to leave a week earlier.

Just disassembled my calipers and am hoping to pop the pistons out soon, depends on when the computer shop is open, he has a compressor, small town stuff.

As I have said afaic the Earth is an oblate sphere, I'm not questioning that but was merely interested in the two items that I posted seeking a rational explanation, this apparently was to much for some of the forum members as you have seen. Shadows don't turn corners. If you know anything about photography in the late 60's you will know that celluloid film stock is very heat sensitive so none of those miraculous images would have come out, in the shade the film would have shattered as it was advanced and when exposed to the heat it would have lost the ability to capture an image, Armstrong had the camera strapped to his chest without a viewfinder and he would have had to make the exposure adjustments while wearing heavy gloves, not happening, but by a miracle every photo came out perfectly, but the big thing from all the alleged missions is where are the photos of the Earth, there aren't any, not a one, did they not look up or something, the "Blue Marble' image is an illustration done by a guy working for NASA, he even admits it, so there was only one camera on the Apollo 11 mission so who took this, where was the camera mounted ?

My sides, my sides.

One owner.

Is that the best that you can come up with ? As you seem to think that you're an intellectual can you tell me what's wrong with this photo ?

You might have been to successful in your search.

OK, get your torch out and get shadows at 90 degrees to each other, by the way the shadows are not the main arguments as there are so many other things that don't add up, such as where's the dust on the landers pads, surely a rocket engine would have blown a bit of moondust around.

You're not fooling me mate.

So you call me an idiot for asking a question and then answer the question, that says a lot about you.

Thank you for a sensible answer to the questions that I posed, as I said I was merely wondering and seeking further information. As to the rest of the posts at no stage have I ever said that the Earth was flat, in fact I don't think that it is but was merely curious about the two things that I posted, the only person here who has mentioned a flat Earth has been Bucky so keep that in mind before you lose your rag in future. One last question, Pete, where the fuck did you get this lot from, off a short bus from a special school or something ?

There's this as well, if the Sun is 93 million miles away how come the rays spread out like this ? You know, it looks like Bucky could be right.

Bucky mentioned it a few times but I paid him no heed because I only look for things that are valid and Buckys constant references to it were enough to make me ignore it, however as a conspiracy theorist I always keep looking for clues and I found this. Now as to the Earth being flat I am neither for or against it but given what we have been told I found this to be an interesting observation.