Did you know that, according the French V2 Honda website, a VTR is not a Honda V twin? Apparently this is because, in common with the Rebel and Varadero 125s, it uses the engine as a stressed member.
How Gallic.
I presume you've seen this - - which makes me feel a lot better about my mechanical skills.
There's a series of about half a dozen films.
I'm sort of glad he's the other side of the Atlantic.
Internet trawls
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Internet trawls
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Re: Internet trawls
It sounds like it running on 1 potoldburnthippy wrote:Did you know that, according the French V2 Honda website, a VTR is not a Honda V twin? Apparently this is because, in common with the Rebel and Varadero 125s, it uses the engine as a stressed member.
How Gallic.
I presume you've seen this - - which makes me feel a lot better about my mechanical skills.
Re: Internet trawls
Ha ha I thought this was going to be a discussion on trolls and then I realised you meant trawl as in trawling the net. Those kind of youtube vids are total rubbish. That is the typical video posted by someone that has both no mechanical skills and is looking for help and also has no idea on how to produce a video and get the message across to it's target audience and as to what he wants from it. Strangely it does come across more as trolling as in posting something pointless which basically wastes peoples time. It may not be intentional and is simply down to a lack of know how / skills.
It's a shame social media sites like youtube don't vet their user base and content before allowing it to be posted. Both the content and the quality of the content should have to meet certain requirements before being allowed to be put out there for others to view. Not only the copyright side of things which they only do for legality reasons but also the way the content is produced. Kind of in the same way as professional stock image / footage libraries work. Look at the way vimeo vet their stock or even more so how the much better but now unfortunately gone Exposure room did.
Without trying to sound discriminative the youtube market is aimed at users of a lesser intelligence both technically and in other areas. But that is the majority of most social media sites as they are out to get as many users as possible and make as much money as they can from advertising as possible along with selling you and your data. If they are going to make money from advertising then they are not going to care so much about the content which eventually degrades the quality of their business. That's the market they are in......an amateur mass consumer market so what do you expect. On the plus side it does allow folk to get away with posting things they may otherwise not be able to post elsewhere including getting past copyright issues....for a short while anyway unless someone reports it. Heck they even allow joe bloggs to go and take crap on a mobile phone and upload it. Now that says a lot about them. The only time mobile phone footage should be allowed is when used an an abstract or creative way. Kind of how the Blair Witch Project was filmed.
It's weird because in this day and age the majority of the public care less about quality and care more about having the content out there. It's the same with music. How many folk are happy accepting a lesser quality MP3 over CD quality or downloading a Flac file with higher Bitrate. Technology is driving things faster and getting the content out there but we are all sacrificing the quality along with selling our souls for advertising space. The same with web sites. How many sites now copy and paste content from other sites without verifying the truth and / or quality of that content simply because they make money from the advertising on their site. Most of the sites where content is copied from don't even supply references to where they got the content from. All this does is spread what is known as perpetual errors in journalism because there is a lack of proper research and quality control. This spreads like a chain letter to the point where everyone is brainwashed and starts to believe it. I would say that 80% of what is on the internet these days is total crap and not worth the screen space. It should all come with a warning that some of this content may be fictional, this includes all the news sites.
Video's like that one posted on youtube frustrate me.
It's a shame social media sites like youtube don't vet their user base and content before allowing it to be posted. Both the content and the quality of the content should have to meet certain requirements before being allowed to be put out there for others to view. Not only the copyright side of things which they only do for legality reasons but also the way the content is produced. Kind of in the same way as professional stock image / footage libraries work. Look at the way vimeo vet their stock or even more so how the much better but now unfortunately gone Exposure room did.
Without trying to sound discriminative the youtube market is aimed at users of a lesser intelligence both technically and in other areas. But that is the majority of most social media sites as they are out to get as many users as possible and make as much money as they can from advertising as possible along with selling you and your data. If they are going to make money from advertising then they are not going to care so much about the content which eventually degrades the quality of their business. That's the market they are in......an amateur mass consumer market so what do you expect. On the plus side it does allow folk to get away with posting things they may otherwise not be able to post elsewhere including getting past copyright issues....for a short while anyway unless someone reports it. Heck they even allow joe bloggs to go and take crap on a mobile phone and upload it. Now that says a lot about them. The only time mobile phone footage should be allowed is when used an an abstract or creative way. Kind of how the Blair Witch Project was filmed.
It's weird because in this day and age the majority of the public care less about quality and care more about having the content out there. It's the same with music. How many folk are happy accepting a lesser quality MP3 over CD quality or downloading a Flac file with higher Bitrate. Technology is driving things faster and getting the content out there but we are all sacrificing the quality along with selling our souls for advertising space. The same with web sites. How many sites now copy and paste content from other sites without verifying the truth and / or quality of that content simply because they make money from the advertising on their site. Most of the sites where content is copied from don't even supply references to where they got the content from. All this does is spread what is known as perpetual errors in journalism because there is a lack of proper research and quality control. This spreads like a chain letter to the point where everyone is brainwashed and starts to believe it. I would say that 80% of what is on the internet these days is total crap and not worth the screen space. It should all come with a warning that some of this content may be fictional, this includes all the news sites.
Video's like that one posted on youtube frustrate me.
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Re: Internet trawls
interestingly tho, many years ago I posted something on youtube that was not appropriate, at the time I was under the assumption that you could post anything 
I posted the video for my then girlfriend to see, but by the time she'd received the link, yuotube had deleted it. youtube then contacted me pretty quickly and gave me a bollocking and put me on 6mths probation.. 
in the short period that the video was live, I managed to gain a subscriber, sadly it was a he.....
i'd learnt my lesson
I posted the video for my then girlfriend to see, but by the time she'd received the link, yuotube had deleted it. youtube then contacted me pretty quickly and gave me a bollocking and put me on 6mths probation..
in the short period that the video was live, I managed to gain a subscriber, sadly it was a he.....
i'd learnt my lesson
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Re: Internet trawls
A private peep show was it. I'm not surprised they removed that as that is enough to scare anyone. Just ask CK LOL It's not the content as in what it contains but it's also camera resolution, lighting, angles, shaky footage, storyline, bad audio quality, narration etc etc. With youtube being a mass consumer based market there should be some kind of leeway but they don't have any boundaries. Apart from the usual no porn, racism etc and now most likely some political extremist type footage. Saying that though you can see some of that but they wont show beheadings but there is plenty of pisstaking made up vids of this kind of stuff. Black comedy if you like or folk being stupid.
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