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The Fender Player Series Jazz Bass Guitar combines everything we've come to know and love about this awesome bass. Upon its introduction in the early '60s, the Fender Jazz Bass was an instant hit. Since then, it has been employed by many musical luminaries and played a pivotal role in the development of signature sounds in many musical genres, including blues, disco, funk, heavy metal, jazz-fusion, and reggae. The current model brings together the greatest features of classic models, alongside modern appointments, in perfect harmony.
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The lean-and-mean Player Jazz Bass incorporates many of the original model's classic Fender "firsts" such as the effortlessly cool offset waist. The body has been crafted using alder, a lightweight and tonally balanced tonewood that is very generous with its low-end delivery, which is carried through with a forceful punch, but cuts through with enough high-end sparkle. The body has been finished in a classic brown sunburst, which is protected by a slender layer of polyester.
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wide range of tone
For a bass that is renowned for its versatility, it's surprising that the electronics' setup consists of Player Series Alnico 5 Single-Coil Jazz Bass pickups in the neck and bridge positions. Each pickup has an individual volume pot, and a master tone pot controls both pickups. Whether you're playing upbeat dance-inspired riffs, heavy rock, punk, country - pretty much anything you can imagine -, the Jazz Bass has you covered. Simply plug in and play.
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The body is equipped with a 4-saddle standard vintage-style bridge with single-groove saddles, creating a seamless connection between strings and body. Not only does this create the perfect foundation for optimising intonation and sustain, but ensures an anchored playing feel so you can rock out freely. The headstock bears the standard open-gear tuning machines, which work tirelessly to maintain tuning integrity.
Whether you're new to the instrument or are a seasoned pro with years of experience behind you, the Fender Player Series Jazz bass guitar would make a fantastic addition to any bassist's arsenal.
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Manufacturer Fender Model Player Series Jazz Bass Guitar Body Material Alder Neck Material Maple Fingerboard Material Maple Number of Strings 4 Pickup Configuration SS Active/Passive Passive Product Range Jazz Bass Neck Profile Modern C Shape Number of Frets 20 Scale Length 34" Fretboard Radius 9.5" Fretboard Inlays White Dot Tuning Machines Standard Pickups (Neck/Bridge) Player Series Alnico 5 Single-Coil Jazz Bass Pickguard 3-Ply Parchment Bridge 4-Saddle Standard Controls Volume 1. (Neck Pickup)
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An application can be JPA-enabled via many routes depending on the development process of the project in question. For example the project could use Eclipse as the IDE for developing classes. In that case the project would typically use the Dali Eclipse plugin coupled with the DataNucleus Eclipse plugin. Alternatively the project could use Ant, Maven2 or some other build tool. In this case this tutorial should be used as a guiding way for using DataNucleus in the application. The JPA process is quite straightforward.
The tutorial guides you through this. You can obtain the code referenced in this tutorial from SourceForge (one of the files entitled "datanucleus-samples-jpa-tutorial-*").
You can download DataNucleus in many ways, but the simplest is to download the distribution zip appropriate to your datastore (in this case Excel). You can do this from SourceForge DataNucleus download page. When you open the zip you will find DataNucleus jars in the lib directory, and dependency jars in the deps directory.
For our tutorial, say we have the following classes representing a store of products for sale.
package org.datanucleus.samples.jpa.tutorial; public class Inventory { String name = null; Set<Product> products = new HashSet(); public Inventory(String name) { this.name = name; } public Set<Product> getProducts() {return products;} }
package org.datanucleus.samples.jpa.tutorial; public class Product { long id; String name = null; String description = null; double price = 0.0; public Product(String name, String desc, double price) { this.name = name; this.description = desc; this.price = price; } }
package org.datanucleus.samples.jpa.tutorial; public class Book extends Product { String author=null; String isbn=null; String publisher=null; public Book(String name, String desc, double price, String author, String isbn, String publisher) { super(name,desc,price); this.author = author; this.isbn = isbn; this.publisher = publisher; } }
So we have a relationship (Inventory having a set of Products), and inheritance (Product-Book). Now we need to be able to persist objects of all of these types, so we need to define persistence for them. There are many things that you can define when deciding how to persist objects of a type but the essential parts are
So this is what we do now. Note that we could define persistence using XML metadata, annotations. In this tutorial we will use annotations.
package org.datanucleus.samples.jpa.tutorial; @Entity public class Inventory { @Id String name = null; @OneToMany(cascade={CascadeType.PERSIST, CascadeType.MERGE, CascadeType.DETACH}) Set<Product> products = new HashSet(); ... }
package org.datanucleus.samples.jpa.tutorial; @Entity @Inheritance(strategy=InheritanceType.JOINED) public class Product { @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.TABLE) long id; ... }
package org.datanucleus.samples.jpa.tutorial; @Entity public class Book extends Product { ... }
Note that we mark each class that can be persisted with @Entity and their primary key field(s) with @Id In addition we defined a valueStrategy for Product field id so that it will have its values generated automatically. In this tutorial we are using application identity which means that all objects of these classes will have their identity defined by the primary key field(s). You can read more in application identity when designing your systems persistence.
Writing your own classes to be persisted is the start point, but you now need to define which objects of these classes are actually persisted. You do this via a file META-INF/persistence.xml at the root of the CLASSPATH. Like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd" version="2.0">  <persistence-unit name="Tutorial"> <class>org.datanucleus.samples.jpa.tutorial.Inventory</class> <class>org.datanucleus.samples.jpa.tutorial.Product</class> <class>org.datanucleus.samples.jpa.tutorial.Book</class> <exclude-unlisted-classes/> <properties> <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="excel:file:tutorial.xls"/> <property name="datanucleus.schema.autoCreateAll" value="true"/> <property name="datanucleus.schema.validateTables" value="false"/> <property name="datanucleus.schema.validateConstraints" value="false"/> </properties> </persistence-unit> </persistence>
DataNucleus relies on the classes that you want to persist be enhanced to implement the interface Persistable. You could write your classes manually to do this but this would be laborious. Alternatively you can use a post-processing step to compilation that "enhances" your compiled classes, adding on the necessary extra methods to make them Persistable. There are several ways to do this, most notably at post-compile, or at runtime. We use the post-compile step in this tutorial. DataNucleus JPA provides its own byte-code enhancer for instrumenting/enhancing your classes (in datanucleus-core) and this is included in the DataNucleus AccessPlatform zip file prerequisite.
To understand on how to invoke the enhancer you need to visualise where the various files are stored
src/main/java/org/datanucleus/samples/jpa/tutorial/Book.java src/main/java/org/datanucleus/samples/jpa/tutorial/Inventory.java src/main/java/org/datanucleus/samples/jpa/tutorial/Product.java src/main/resources/META-INF/persistence.xml target/classes/org/datanucleus/samples/jpa/tutorial/Book.class target/classes/org/datanucleus/samples/jpa/tutorial/Inventory.class target/classes/org/datanucleus/samples/jpa/tutorial/Product.class [when using Ant] lib/persistence-api.jar lib/datanucleus-core.jar lib/datanucleus-api-jpa.jar
The first thing to do is compile your domain/model classes. You can do this in any way you wish, but the downloadable JAR provides an Ant task, and a Maven2 project to do this for you.
Using Ant : ant compile Using Maven : mvn compile
To enhance classes using the DataNucleus Enhancer, you need to invoke a command something like this from the root of your project.
Using Ant : ant enhance Using Maven : (this is usually done automatically after the "compile" goal) mvn datanucleus:enhance Manually on Linux/Unix : java -cp target/classes:lib/datanucleus-core.jar:lib/datanucleus-api-jpa.jar:lib/persistence-api.jar org.datanucleus.enhancer.DataNucleusEnhancer -api JPA -pu Tutorial Manually on Windows : java -cp target\classes;lib\datanucleus-core.jar;lib\datanucleus-api-jpa.jar;lib\persistence-api.jar org.datanucleus.enhancer.DataNucleusEnhancer -api JPA -pu Tutorial [Command shown on many lines to aid reading - should be on single line]
This command enhances all class files specified in the persistence-unit "Tutorial". If you accidentally omitted this step, at the point of running your application and trying to persist an object, you would get a ClassNotPersistableException thrown. The use of the enhancer is documented in more detail in the Enhancer Guide. The output of this step are a set of class files that represent persistable classes.
Writing your own classes to be persisted is the start point, but you now need to define which objects of these classes are actually persisted, and when. Interaction with the persistence framework of JPA is performed via an EntityManager. This provides methods for persisting of objects, removal of objects, querying for persisted objects, etc. This section gives examples of typical scenarios encountered in an application.
The initial step is to obtain access to an EntityManager, which you do as follows
EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("Tutorial"); EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();
So we created an EntityManagerFactory for our "persistence-unit" called "Tutorial". Now that the application has an EntityManager it can persist objects. This is performed as follows
Transaction tx = em.getTransaction(); try { tx.begin(); Inventory inv = new Inventory("My Inventory"); Product product = new Product("Sony Discman", "A standard discman from Sony", 49.99); inv.getProducts().add(product); em.persist(inv); tx.commit(); } finally { if (tx.isActive()) { tx.rollback(); } em.close(); }
Please note that the finally step is important in that it tidies up connections to the datastore and the EntityManager.
Now we want to retrieve some objects from persistent storage, so we will use a "Query". In our case we want access to all Product objects that have a price below 150.00 and ordering them in ascending order.
Transaction tx = em.getTransaction(); try { tx.begin(); Query q = pm.createQuery("SELECT p FROM Product p WHERE p.price < 150.00"); List results = q.getResultList(); Iterator iter = results.iterator(); while (iter.hasNext()) { Product p = (Product)iter.next(); ... (use the retrieved object) } tx.commit(); } finally { if (tx.isActive()) { tx.rollback(); } em.close(); }
If you want to delete an object from persistence, you would perform an operation something like
Transaction tx = em.getTransaction(); try { tx.begin(); // Find and delete all objects whose last name is 'Jones' Query q = em.createQuery("DELETE FROM Person p WHERE p.lastName = 'Jones'"); int numberInstancesDeleted = q.executeUpdate(); tx.commit(); } finally { if (tx.isActive()) { tx.rollback(); } em.close(); }
Clearly you can perform a large range of operations on objects. We can't hope to show all of these here. Any good JPA book will provide many examples.
To run your JPA-enabled application will require a few things to be available in the Java CLASSPATH, these being
After that it is simply a question of starting your application and all should be taken care of. You can access the DataNucleus Log file by specifying the logging configuration properties, and any messages from DataNucleus will be output in the normal way. The DataNucleus log is a very powerful way of finding problems since it can list all SQL actually sent to the datastore as well as many other parts of the persistence process.
Using Ant (you need the included persistence.xml to specify your database) ant run Using Maven: mvn exec:java Manually on Linux/Unix : java -cp lib/persistence-api.jar:lib/datanucleus-core.jar:lib/datanucleus-excel.jar: lib/datanucleus-api-jpa.jar:lib/{poi_jars}:target/classes/:. org.datanucleus.samples.jpa.tutorial.Main Manually on Windows : java -cp lib\persistence-api.jar;lib\datanucleus-core.jar;lib\datanucleus-excel.jar; lib\datanucleus-api-jpa.jar;lib\{poi_jars};target\classes\;. org.datanucleus.samples.jpa.tutorial.Main Output : DataNucleus Tutorial with JPA ============================= Persisting products Product and Book have been persisted Executing Query for Products with price below 150.00 > Book : JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings by Tolkien Deleting all products from persistence End of Tutorial
In the above simple tutorial we showed how to employ JPA and persist objects to an Excel spreadsheet. Obviously this just scratches the surface of what you can do, and to use JPA requires minimal work from the user. In this second part we show some further things that you are likely to want to do.
In the above simple tutorial we didn't look at controlling the schema generated for these classes. Now let's pay more attention to this part by defining XML Metadata for the schema. We define this in XML to separate schema information from persistence information. So we define a file orm.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <entity-mappings> <description>DataNucleus JPA tutorial</description> <package>org.datanucleus.samples.jpa.tutorial</package> <entity class="org.datanucleus.samples.jpa.tutorial.Product" name="Product">
 <attributes> <id name="id"> <generated-value strategy="TABLE"/> </id> <basic name="name"> <column name="PRODUCT_NAME" length="100"/> </basic> <basic name="description"> <column length="255"/> </basic> </attributes> </entity> <entity class="org.datanucleus.samples.jpa.tutorial.Book" name="Book">
 <attributes> <basic name="isbn"> <column name="ISBN" length="20"></column> </basic> <basic name="author"> <column name="AUTHOR" length="40"/> </basic> <basic name="publisher"> <column name="PUBLISHER" length="40"/> </basic> </attributes> </entity> <entity class="org.datanucleus.samples.jpa.tutorial.Inventory" name="Inventory">
 <attributes> <id name="name"> <column name="NAME" length="40"></column> </id> <one-to-many name="products"> <join-table name="JPA_INVENTORY_PRODUCTS"> <join-column name="INVENTORY_ID_OID"/> <inverse-join-column name="PRODUCT_ID_EID"/> </join-table> </one-to-many> </attributes> </entity> </entity-mappings>
This file should be placed at the root of the CLASSPATH under META-INF.
This step is optional, depending on whether you have an existing database schema. If you haven't, at this point you can use the DataNucleus SchemaTool to generate the tables where these domain objects will be persisted. DataNucleus SchemaTool is a command line utility (it can be invoked from Maven/Ant in a similar way to how the Enhancer is invoked). The first thing that you need is to update the src/java/META-INF/persistence.xml file with your database details. Here we have a sample file (for HSQLDB) that contains
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd" version="2.0">  <persistence-unit name="Tutorial"> <class>org.datanucleus.samples.jpa.tutorial.Inventory</class> <class>org.datanucleus.samples.jpa.tutorial.Product</class> <class>org.datanucleus.samples.jpa.tutorial.Book</class> <properties> <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="excel:file:tutorial.xls"/> <property name="datanucleus.schema.autoCreateAll" value="true"/> <property name="datanucleus.schema.validateTables" value="false"/> <property name="datanucleus.schema.validateConstraints" value="false"/> </properties> </persistence-unit> </persistence>
Now we need to run DataNucleus SchemaTool. For our case above you would do something like this
Using Ant : ant createschema Using Maven : mvn datanucleus:schema-create Manually on Linux/Unix : java -cp target/classes:lib/persistence-api.jar:lib/datanucleus-core.jar: lib/datanucleus-excel.jar:lib/datanucleus-api-jpa.jar:lib/{poi.jar} org.datanucleus.store.schema.SchemaTool -create -api JPA -pu Tutorial Manually on Windows : java -cp target\classes;lib\persistence-api.jar;lib\datanucleus-core.jar; lib\datanucleus-excel.jar;lib\datanucleus-api-jpa.jar;lib\{poi.jar} org.datanucleus.store.schema.SchemaTool -create -api JPA -pu Tutorial [Command shown on many lines to aid reading. Should be on single line]
This will generate the required tables, indexes, and foreign keys for the classes defined in the annotations and orm.xml Meta-Data file.
If you have any questions about this tutorial and how to develop applications for use with DataNucleus please read the online documentation since answers are to be found there. If you don't find what you're looking for go to our Forums.
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Cons Of Losing Fat Through Surgery
I know there are a lot of people out there that tend to get confused about how to lose excess fat. They want to strip it away as soon as possible, but things never work out. This is when you start contemplating the idea of getting surgery done in order to lose weight.
Is it worth going down this route? There are many positives that come along with getting liposuction done and they should not be scoffed at. This is certainly a viable option for those who want to get rid of the fat as soon as possible. Yet, there are a few cons that should be noted down beforehand.
One of the cons that I have seen would be shocking the body into this immediate change. You have to remember the body is not used to having the weight removed in one shot. This could be a bit troubling for the body especially if you've never done it before. I know guys in places like San Antonio where they tried something like liposuction to lose weight but it heavily backfired on them.
Another con would be the payments that have to be made. You can only go down this route, if you have money in hand and don't mind spending it on such a surgery. This is definitely not something the average person can get done.
How to Attain a 40 Inch Vertical with The Jump Manual
This might sound farfetched but it's actually possible to achieve a 35-40 inch vertical in just a few months using the jump manual – a vertical leap training program for professional graders.
If you haven't heard about it yet, this program is currently the most popular program today. Just hit a quick search on youtube and you'll see tons of reviews on the jump manual, here's a really good one on Basketball Workout Tips which was really helpful for me to decide if I want this program.
Before you drop on me and say that there's no such thing as increasing your vertical leap overnight I'll just say it's not what I meant to say. But from my experience with the jump if you take the training seriously and truly commit yourself to it, you could gain 3-4 inches monthly.
Now let's say that currently you already have a 15-20 inch vertical, just very reasonable and a normal vertical to have. If you took the jump manual and trained properly then you could reach a 35 inch vertical in just 4 month. And if you're average height like 5'10?-6'0? then you'll be able to dunk with this vertical.
So really the whole idea is that the jump manual can get you to dunk in just 4-6 months, no other program can do that so thumbs up for jacob hiller for making this manual so quick to show results.
I don't know about you guys but when I get to see even small results it just gives me motivation to work even harder, and after seeing testimonials like on Basketball Workout Tips I get pumped even further about the jump manual and can't stop thinking about dunking.
Believe it or not there's also a section in the manual just for motivation and the psychology of basketball, this worth's gold for guys like me who have insecurity problem when they step on court.
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The Best Exercises For Getting Rid of Stretch Marks
Stretch marks are a pain in the ass. I remember when I first heard my sister bitch about how bad it is to get stretch marks. She would not stop talking.
However, over time she came to realize that there is hope and that stretch marks can be defeated if you know what you're doing.
While everyone is busy trying to find the next best stretch mark cream, I've found a much better a much better way to remove stretch marks, and that is through exercises.
By exercising the right way and by doing the right weight training movements, you can actually remove the original stretch pattern and revert your skin back to it's original form.
How do you do this?
By doing exercises such as reverse curls, reverse chest presses, reverse rows, and pretty much anything else that requires you to do a reverse form of an already existing exercise.
By doing the reverse movement instead of the conventional movement, you will be able to undo any bad stretch mark damage.
10 Takeaways From A Top Trainer
Over the weekend, I read this interview over on 46 jumpers where the author interviewed Jacob Hiller, one of the top vertical jumper trainers in the world.
I thought the interview was great and the author provided plenty of insights as to how to increase my own vertical jump. Here are the top 10 takeaways I learned from the interview:
1) Don't train for high reps when doing your vertical, it doesn't lead to good results.
2) Train your squats at specific angles (I never heard of this before).
3) Eat for your sport. Don't try to lose weight, you need the extra calories to help you jump higher.
4) Get enough sleep.
5) Don't neglect your upper body as it will help you push more power in the jump.
6) Use plyometrics smartly.
7) Trust your gut when jumping…you can jump higher than you think.
8) Don't train with someone who hasn't trained in vertical training
9) Building leg muscles does help you jump higher
10) Be safe!
Importance of Counting Calories When Training at a Bootcamp
When you engage in fitness training at Dangerously Fit boot camp in Centennial Park you can assure yourself that you are following the right track for your fitness goals. However there are plenty of loopholes which might sabotage your fitness plans especially if your long term goals involve weight loss. Calorie counting is extremely important if you want your training to go well. Here are the top reasons which will tell you why you should watch what you eat.
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Trainers working in boot camp Centennial Park say that most participants who join the boot camps are asked to be extremely conscious about their diet. The workouts will only help you lose weight if the amount of calories burnt is more than the amount of calories ingested.
Calorie counting helps because you have to be constantly aware about what you can or can't eat. Fitness boot camps in Centennial Park rely on cardio vascular workouts and interval training for the maximum period of time. The workouts will deliver the full benefits when supplemented with high protein, low carbohydrate and low fat diet.
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When you want to lose weight you must be extremely careful about controlling your fat content. Centennial Park boot camp trainers say that fat is very difficult to burn because the body treats it as a reserve store for energy to be utilised only in emergency situations. So that bar of chocolate or the mayo loaded burger you consume is going to sit on your waist till eternity. You should only have little quantities of healthy fats like avocadoes, almonds, ground nuts and olive oil as these types of fats raise the level of good cholesterol.
Best Ways To Build A Great Male Body
I have decided to try to build up my masculine physique recently, and I was surprised to find out that there are a lot of ways to build a great male body. One of the ways I have decided to focus on is strength training and bodybuilding. I really want to get strong and chiseled sixpack abs, along with extremely defined and built muscles like Stephen Amell. The best way I know how to do that is by intense strength training.
Another thing that I'm going to try is going on a very high-protein diet that includes protein shakes made with a particular kind of protein powder. My trainer feels like they will be very effective in helping me to build a very hot and cut masculine physique.
I really hope that these techniques work, because I have already worked very hard on developing this body type, and I would like to see my ongoing efforts rewarded with getting the body that I have always dreamed of having. I want to have attractive and defined muscles, muscles that women will respect and love, and I'm willing to work as hard as I need to to get them.
This Article Saved My Workout
I been struggling for a while now to lose weight, and I recently found an article with ten workout tips that helped me figure out a lot of the things that I have been struggling with. I am really glad that I came across this article, because the information contained in it was gold.
The ten tips that the nutritional and exercise article contained mainly had to do with eating healthy and maintaining a consistent workout regimen. In fact one of my main goals was to build a body like Jason Statham (40 years old and I love his body). TO do this I would need to ramp up my chest and shoulder workout These things, of course, are no secret – any trained health professional will tell you that eating healthy and exercising consistently are the key to losing weight. If you really want to lose weight, then you should focus on diet. Don't worry about muscles since you can absolutely build muscle mass without any weights.
However, I found that when I began to lose motivation to stick with my workout routine, revisiting these ten tips helped me to pump up my motivation again and keep going with my workout regimen.
Now I am a lot more knowledgeable about eating healthy and working out than I used to be, I think I might write a personal "ten tips" of my own and post them on my blog and social networking sites so that other people can get the benefit of my knowledge, as well.


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Published November 28, 2015
The top editor of Guns & Ammo became the second employee of the venerable firearms magazine to lose his job after a column advocating gun control backfired, prompting rifle-toting readers to unload on the publication.
In a statement posted Wednesday on the InterMedia Outdoors-owned magazine's homepage, Jim Bequette apologized to "each and every reader" of the magazine for Dick Metcalf's column that appeared in its December issue, which generated "unprecedented" controversy and left readers "hopping mad" in regards to the magazine's commitment to the Second Amendment.
"Let me be clear: Our commitment to the Second Amendment is unwavering," Bequette wrote. "It has been so since the beginning. Historically, our tradition in supporting the Second Amendment has been unflinching. No strings attached."
But by publishing Metcalf's column, Bequette said he was "untrue" to the magazine's tradition. He reiterated that Metcalf's views did not represent his or that of the magazine before later acknowledging he would step down as editor earlier than originally planned.
"It is very clear to me that they don't reflect the views of our readership either," Bequette's response continued. " … I once again offer my personal apology. I understand what our valued readers want. I understand what you believe in when it comes to gun rights, and I believe the same thing."
Metcalf, meanwhile, a longtime writer on firearms and U.S. gun culture, saw his association with the magazine terminated. Attempts to reach him Friday at his home in Barry, Ill., were unsuccessful.
In his column entitled "Let's Talk Limits: Do certain firearm regulations really constitute infringement?," Metcalf wrote that "way too many" gun owners believe that any regulation of the right to bear arms is an infringement prohibited by the Second Amendment.
"The fact is, all constitutional rights are regulated, always have been, and need to be," Metcalf wrote. "Freedom of speech is regulated. You cannot falsely and deliberating shout, 'Fire!' in a crowded theater. Freedom of religion is regulated. A church cannot practice human sacrifice. Freedom of assembly is regulated."
Metcalf continued: "The question is, when does regulation become infringement?"
The firestorm that following was intense and swift, with some readers indicating they would immediately end their subscription to the magazine.
"So a writer takes a moderate, rational stance and you fire him? Predictably gutless response from a magazine that sells fear," one message posted on the magazine's Twitter page read.
Other posts on the Twitter feed claimed the "damage is done" despite Bequette's apology and accused the magazine of betraying its core readers. At least one Twitter user also accused the magazine of backtracking when money "is on the line."
Ladd Everitt, a spokesman for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, told FoxNews.com that Metcalf should not have been fired, but added that the termination was not shocking.
"The central thesis of the piece — that all constitutional rights are subject to reasonable regulation, including the Second Amendment — is so point-of-fact and obvious that even grade school kids know it," Everitt wrote FoxNews.com in an email. "But his termination is not surprising. The modern pro-gun movement is dominated by radical voices and brooks no dissent whatsoever. Dick Metcalf is certainly not the first moderate pro-gun commentator to have his career upended by absolutists."
Everitt's email continued: "Jim Bequette had hoped Metcalf's column would 'generate a healthy exchange of ideas on gun rights.' He forgot that no such thing exists within that community. You either embrace far right orthodoxy 100 percent or you are an enemy to be silenced and destroyed."
Messages seeking comment from National Rifle Association officials were not returned on Friday.
Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, told FoxNews.com that Metcalf "absolutely did not" deserve to lose his post.
"If he suggested a ban on all guns, then I would understand that reaction," Watts said. "But to say a fair exchange of ideas on how to stem the deaths and murders in this country because of gun violence is an act of heresy just reeks of no tolerance."
Watts, a 42-year-old mother of five from Zionsville, Ind., launched her organization in the days after the December massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. She said she was so outraged by the "slaughter of 26 innocent people" that she had to act.
"I just felt as a mother that I would be culpable the next time this happened if I didn't do something to stop it," she said. "We need to look at background checks for every purchase. That's not violating the Second Amendment, that's common sense. And ultimately common sense will prevail."


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Actress Drea de Matteo and rocker hubby Shooter Jennings are expecting a new member of their traveling band.
de Matteo, known for her role as Christopher Moltisanti's sassy girlfriend Adriana La Cerva on The Sopranos, is five months pregnant with the couple's second child, reports People.
The 38-year-old actress, who just completed a stint on Desperate Housewives, and Jennings, lead singer of the band Hierophant, are already parents to a daughter, Alabama Gypsyrose, 3.
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MIAMI – A post Fourth of July dare involving fireworks morphed into a Halloween-like nightmare Sunday, with dozens of kids watching the horrific moment a 15-year-old's fingers exploded off his hand.
A mom in the neighborhood said it started as a dare -- a game of rock-paper-scissors, with the loser agreeing to hold a firework the kids called an "onion."
According to the consumer product safety commission, the most common fireworks-related injuries are to the hand and fingers. They reported that in 2013 fireworks were involved in an estimated 11,400 injuries treated in the U.S. hospital emergency departments. Sixty-five percent of those in the month surrounding the Fourth of July, and more than half were individuals younger than 20 years old.
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YouTube is home to plenty of scary videos of so called "onion" fireworks explosions. If the firework was indeed the same firework that teenager was holding, it is a haunting look at the explosive force that no doubt has changed his life and the neighborhood forever.
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The most notable introduction was the complete revision of New.FamilySearch.org. With the promising announcement that the release of Family Tree would be within the year. I will not go into details because I have just written two different blog posts on the subject. Additionally, since RootsTech is really big and complicated it is entirely possible that I missed some major announcement by simply not be present to win, as they say.
brightsolid (yes, it is spelled without a capital letter) announced their entry into the US genealogy market with the launch of a ground-breaking, "pay-as-you-go" site censusrecords.com. This is the first entry into the U.S. for this major United Kingdom genealogy company. brightsolid online publishing, a leading online provider of historical and genealogical content, also announced that top genealogist D. Joshua Taylor had joined its new US operation with immediate effect, as business development manager and media spokesperson. You can read more on their website.
MyHeritage, the huge online family tree provider based in Israel, also announced search developments. Quoting from the MyHeritage blog,
The opening day, our CEO/founder Gilad Japhet demonstrated the new MyHeritage Super Search technology. The new tool greatly expands search functionality and takes into account user errors, common name variations, and other important details which, in the past, have not been included in most ancestral searches. There are many options to filter results by collections, via additional refining, advanced search and filtering capabilities as demonstrated in his presentation. This tool is still under development.MyHeritage's chief genealogist Daniel Horowitz also highlighted the FamilyGraph API and its potential uses by developers and consumers.
A newer company, ReadyMicro Digitiaztion Solutions also introduced some of its prototype designs for two camera book scanner and its older product, one camera microfilm scanners.
Mocavo.com, the world's largest free genealogy search engine, announced several new product capabilities and content additions that will be demonstrated at this week's RootsTech Family History and Technology conference in Salt Lake City. New product capabilities include: free storage and sharing for historical records, iPhone and Android applications, and the new Discovery Stream. From Mocavo.com's blog there were even more announcements of new collections,
The new collections include the Allen County Public Library's Internet Archive records (one of the largest online genealogy collections in the world), the US Social Security Administration's Social Security Death Index, and the World Family Tree, developed by the popular Geni family tree service. With these three additions, Mocavo's search engine will be better than ever.Ancestry.com got into the act by not announcing but clearly referring to a new DNA related product. It was not clear if the new development would be part of the Ancestry.com website or a separate website.
There may be a trend in the genealogical software industry to announce upgrades and new products as they become available, but this might be because there has never been a venue like RootsTech previously. It remains to be seen whether RootsTech will take on the role of the venue for product announcements in a big way.


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I believe polyester or co-polyester strings have improved/changed quite a bit over the past decade. The experimentation with new additives to polyester made some of the new polyester strings more arm friendly. Many of these new co-polysters show their best playing characteristics when strung at a much lower tension than usually suggested on the side of your racket. In addition, recreational players can benefit from playing co-polys at a smaller gauge (18). They will still experience the crisp feeling of a poly string but due to its thinner gauge and additives they should have little to no negative impact on their arm. Of course, they will never provide the smooth feeling of a quality multifilament string like Wilson NXT Tour. In conclusion, if you are skeptical about poly strings give it a try at a 18 gauge at around 47 lbs and you might be surprised how well these strings play. I just recently found a new, great, arm friendly co-polyster reading this review: http://www.tennisthis.com/tennis-string-reviews/tier-one-tour-statu...
I was watching the ATP semis yesterday. There was a mention about poly strings and a slow motion video by John Yandell showing how the strings move, slide and snap back into position. Has anyone seen it?
stick with the tecnifibre for soft feel, I suggest you pre stretch as it loses tension quickly. NRG2 is better at holding tension than the 515. Benefits of Big Banger topspin players enjoy the durability and tension maintenance. Every company is making good strings if you want any recommendations contact me stringing professional since 1977
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1836 marked the beginning of continuous public library service in Western New York when the Young Men's Association (YMA) was created to acquire books of permanent or lasting value for its members. Although the YMA admitted its first female member in 1857, it was not until 1886 that it became the Buffalo Library, and later the Buffalo Public Library, as the result of a contractual agreement with the City in 1897. In exchange for sufficient funds to support its varied operations, this new institution transferred ownership of its books to the City of Buffalo and was re-established as a free circulating and reference library open to all City residents. Ownership of the building, however, remained with the Library.
A second library, the Grosvenor Library, had been operating in Buffalo as a non-circulating public reference library since 1871. During its proud history, the Grosvenor established a host of noteworthy collections, including patent information and military and legal documents. It also became a depository of the U.S. Circuit Court and Department of the Interior publications.
In 1947, yet another library, the Erie County Public Library, was created to provide bookmobile service to rural towns and villages, outreach service to the confined and centralized support services ― e.g., book ordering, cataloging, materials processing and consulting ― for the County's independent, autonomous community libraries, each with its own Board of Trustees.
As the second half of the 20th century began, the City of Buffalo experienced financial difficulties. Meanwhile, the County of Erie remained on relatively sound financial footing and expressed a willingness to undertake new responsibilities. In an effort to protect the two City libraries and provide improved library services for the entire region, the three library institutions were merged by New York State special legislation in 1953. The merger created one federated organization: the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (B&ECPL). Ownership of the Buffalo Public and the Grosvenor Library buildings and their respective book collections was transferred to Erie County. In 1963, these collections were integrated on shelves in the partially completed east block of a new Central Library building. The Central Library was completed in 1964 and officially dedicated on October 18th of that year.
Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, Erie County's economy remained strong. In addition to the development of System-wide services and community outreach programs, a total of 25 library buildings were constructed in Buffalo and surrounding towns. In 1976, however, the financial troubles experienced by the City spread to the County, and there was a need to retrench. For the B&ECPL, County revenue shortfalls resulted in service and personnel cuts, although small restorations occurred the following year and a portion of the furloughed staff was recalled. Since then, as the County's industrial base has continued to shrink, the B&ECPL Board and administration have struggled to sustain needed services, maintain adequate materials budgets and provide appropriate staffing levels.
In 1992, the B&ECPL asserted its independence under New York State Law in a court case that secured administrative and financial authority previously compromised by officials of Erie County government. In that same year, the Library Protection Act was adopted for the first time. This local law, enacted for either one- or two-year terms by the Erie County Legislature, dedicated a portion of Erie County's real property tax for Library purposes and guaranteed that funds appropriated by the Legislature could not be re-appropriated to cover mid-year shortfalls elsewhere in the Erie County budget.
From the early 1990s to the present, automated functions and electronic resources and services have become staples. In 1998, the Library established its presence on the Internet with its website - a new gateway to the online public access catalog that included more than three million items as well as an exciting range of subscription databases and other valuable user services.
Also in 1998, planning consultants confirmed that the B&ECPL maintained more library buildings per capita than any other community in North America, arguably more than it needed to serve a population of fewer than one million people and certainly more than it could reasonably afford over the long term. The recommendation to consolidate buildings and construct new state-of-the-art facilities on a leaner, more cost-effective frame met with nearly universal resistance when trustees and administrative staff delivered the proposal in a series of 22 public meetings across Erie County. The Library Board responded with the strategic plan, Expanding Horizons, which did not abandon the consultants' recommendations but indicated that the Library would pursue consolidations only in communities whose residents agreed to support the concept.
In ensuing years, the Board sought opportunities to advance consolidation projects, most notably in South Buffalo, but an economic crisis in late 2004 put all plans on hold. Thanks to the Library Protection Act, the B&ECPL escaped the worst of Erie County's "Red Budget/Green Budget" disaster of 2004/2005, but Library officials knew it was only a matter of time before the deep cuts that devastated almost all County services would be inflicted on the Library.
Trustees and staff took advantage of that one-year "reprieve" to plan for those inevitable cuts, devoting most of 2005 to an exhaustive and objective evaluation of the System to identify those libraries that had the greatest capacity to deliver the most in services and resources to the largest number of County residents. After weeks of data collection and analysis and subsequent meetings with elected officials and the public, the B&ECPL Board adopted a plan that, based on available funding, would support only 36 of the former 52 libraries. Because some of the libraries that were to remain open would not receive enough financial support to meet New York State standards, they would need to raise supplemental revenues independently.
All told, Erie County's fiscal crisis cost the Library System one-fourth of its annual support. That loss forced the closing of 15 libraries; reduced hours of service at almost every remaining location; cost more than 225 full- and part-time Library employees their jobs; took bookmobiles off the road for the first time since 1947 and decreased book, subscription and media purchases to a trickle.
In the aftermath, 2006 was devoted to stabilizing, fundraising and advocacy. Many local communities came to their libraries' aid to offset the reduction in financial support from Erie County. The B&ECPL established an internal development operation to raise funds from multiple sources, improve the Library's visibility and coordinate advocacy efforts. Thanks to persistent and persuasive communication and the urging of many stakeholders, the County Legislature approved a $500,000 increase in the Library's 2007 operating appropriation, allowing some libraries that had failed to meet State standards to meet them and improving hours and services at other locations. Further, by unanimous vote, the Legislature made the Library Protection Act a permanent local law, ending 14 years of temporary renewals.
Also in 2006, the Library System celebrated the promise of the future when the 20,000 square-foot Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Library opened ― the first new library constructed in the City of Buffalo since 1986! This handsome facility, reflecting an African village motif, has tripled the circulation of the library it replaced and is second only to the Central Library in registered computer sessions.
Given the "funding roller coaster" the Library has been on since 2000, including in 2010 when budget cuts forced a reduction in service hours (98.5 total per week), plus cuts in programming and staffing, the Library System Trustees voted to pursue becoming a Special Legislative District Public Library (SLDPL) in September 2011. In April 2014, the Library System Board of Trustees determined the Library would end the process of becoming a Library District. At the time, Library Board Chairman Jack Connors said, "We realized the timing (for the LDI) was not right when the Erie County Legislature passed a resolution indicating it would not provide a "home-rule" message demonstrating support. The funds expended and the work completed from this project is very important to us and can be used in the future should conditions change."
The mission of the Library has stayed the same and is as vital today as it has been in the past: Connecting our diverse community with library resources that enrich, enlighten and entertain. Much has changed over the course of the years, particularly in technology, which now plays a major role in how the library delivers information, materials and even training programs. Libraries provide free WiFi access to the Internet. There are public computers in all libraries and classes are offered on computer use, software training, online career searches, resume writing and social media, to name a few.
The Library System's website www.BuffaloLib.org offers a portal to many of the Library's resources including: the complete catalog of materials for borrowing, book, eBook, downloadable music and videos, research databases, subject guides, Common Core and STEM information, homework help, senior service guides, program and event calendars, computer training tutorials, media releases, policies, along with both monthly and annual Library System Operating Budgets, statistics and charts.
We are proud of our legacy, for 180 years, the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library has provided a variety of services and programs for families, children, teens, adults and seniors focusing on available information and resources about literacy, community, culture, and health and wellbeing to meet the ever-changing needs of Erie County's residents. The 37 libraries—including the downtown Central Library, eight City of Buffalo branches and 22 contracting member libraries which operate 28 facilities—reach the County's 919,866 residents (2013 estimated census figure) by being innovative centers of information, education, culture and entertainment. Today, the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System has more than 2.6 million materials available for borrowing including books, eBooks, DVDs, music and more. In 2015, more than 7.1 million items were borrowed and there were 3.1 million library visits system wide. There were 751,181 public computer sessions and individual WiFi sessions reached over 242,000. Click here to see 2015 statistics. The Library has more than 550 community partners and provided free programs to more than 180,000 individuals last year. 2015 also saw the opening of Central Library's Launch Pad, the first MakerSpace room dedicated to learning, discovering and creating through new technology and traditional materials. The Launch Pad has 3D printers, a recording studio, green screen, 3D books, an audio egg and more. Additionally, a rare books exhibition called "Milestones of Science: Books that Shook the World!" featuring more than 30 first edition and rare books went on display in a newly restored Gallery at the Central Library.
With dedicated trustees, conscientious and talented staff and many residents who value everything that libraries contribute to the vitality of the community, the possibilities are limitless for the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries.
To members of the community who use the libraries, we truly appreciate your support and will continue to work hard to serve your needs.
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by David Zipf
If you're already planning to skip this article because it includes the word "Doodlebug" in the title, then I implore you to read on. What we stumbled onto is no kid's toy: some deranged individual took a cheap, Walmart bike and then strapped an actual go-kart racing engine to it, lost interest, and put it on Craigslist. And then we picked it up because if it's one thing a man needs in his life, it's an interesting story to have told at his funeral.
by Dan Barnes
It was an epiphany when I walked into a race shop and saw the interior tin work of an under-construction Rolex GT car mocked up entirely in white illustration board, clecos and blue tape. I made a mental note: I can do that! I can even afford that! Now my projects turn out better with the use of old cereal boxes, scissors and tape.
by Mike Kojima
If you are a long term reader of MotoIQ you have probably seen some of our stories on karting. We think that karting provides excellent low cost training for racing cars and for some of us it's actually harder than driving a car.
So we have several karts in our palatial shop, everything ranging from 100cc air cooled HPV karts to 125cc senior Tag karts. These karts are all pretty good and the 125's are really fast. So of course we had to do something even more extreme by building a shifter kart. Not just any shifter kart but an open class ICC kart.
Project Honda Ruckus - Part One
by Jeff Naeyaert
Enjoy a Throwback Thursday to one of our very first projects! In typical MotoIQ fashion we decided that our Ruck was going to need some help in the suspension, handling and brakes department before we increased the power to help keep things safe. We had almost rear ended cars due to weak brakes and ended up doing a flying W by hitting a water dip at 35 mph on the street. Although this sounds somewhat comical, it was not safe and had to be addressed.
Project Husqvarna TE610 Part 7: Baja Designs Racelight with Boatman H4 Conversion
By Dan Barnes
The TE610's stock 25/30W enduro light makes the bike legal for an enduro event and road use in all 50 states. At night, it helps other drivers see you. However, it does little to help you see anything else. Baja Designs is the leader in lighting technology for off-road racing, with a full range of LED, HID and halogen technology solutions. They can help the TE610.
Christa's 2013 Ride- 2013 Top Kart Twister
By Mike Kojima
Karting is perhaps one of the best training aids for racing. Karts are much cheaper to operate than cars and it's usually a simple deal to get your kart ready for a weekend of fun compared to your race car. Most of us agree that Karting is probably harder than cars as well, more akin to a formula car than a sedan. The MotoIQ crew goes karting frequently to get a speed fix without spending a lot of money.
Karts are also good training for future drivers that are too young or small to drive a full sized car! Christa Kojima has been karting ever since she was about 8 years old, starting in a 50cc kids kart, then moving up to a 100cc clutch kart at the mandatory age of 9. Now as she approaches 12 she will have to move up again from her current class of HPV-1 to Jr's.
DROWsports Grand Axis Two Stroke Powered Ruckus
The Honda Ruckus is a small 50cc scooter that has for some reason become the darling of the modified car crowd. You would never think that car people would have become enamored of a 100 mpg, 35mph small scooter but nevertheless the Ruckus is huge. MotoIQ has a project 50cc Ruckus that is probably the fastest stock engined Ruckus built so far.
Of course in our circle, if some is good, too much is always better. Andrew Horn, owner of DROWsports in Signal Hill is part of the MotoIQ crew and has helped us with many of our small powersports projects. We helped him with the construction in his quest to build the ultimate Ruckus, check it out!
Project Husqvarna TE610 Part 6: Horsepower and Handlebars
This might be a record among MotoIQ projects for number of articles before engine work to improve performance. Reliability and durability were higher priorities, but the TE610's stock silencer is big, a bit heavy and leaves some performance on the table without being really quiet. Plus, we wanted to clean up some rideability issues.
Project Husqvarna TE610 Part 5: Dual Sport Adventure Bike Day Trips
The Husky has been getting more miles on it and has received a little love to make day trips safer, more comfortable and more convenient. A fresh battery, a new and improved seat and just a little bit of carrying capacity make the bike all-day capable, as long as there's gas in it.
Finally, we're going to start the fun stuff: upgrades! Having a bike fit you properly makes everything work better and is safer, especially in the dirt. In spite of its overall bigness, the TE610's cockpit is only of average size, and some details are more cramped than typical, so there was work to be done to make it fit this 6'4" guy.
More so than with any other vehicle I've experienced, it's proven necessary to strip all the covers off the Husqvarna TE610 and inspect everything, top to bottom. Every detail is an opportunity for a problem, and buying a brand-new bike would only have gotten us off the hook for a few parts and maybe an oil change. No one part of it took much time or money, but it all needed to be done.
As outlined in Part 1, if a Husqvarna TE610 matches the description of the bike you want, then there really isn't any other bike that does. Things didn't go the way I expected when I got the Husky home to my garage and started going over it. The plan was to get the bike home, change the oil, clean the air filter and chain, and go ride. But with the grease and dirt removed, I could actually see the chain guide. There was work to do.
Buying a semi-obscure Italian motorcycle and riding it out to the middle of nowhere may not seem to be a well-thought-out plan, but really, there was some thought. I swear. An off-road bike is ridiculous fun, but it's also kind of like having a track car that needs a trailer. The goal of this project is a go anywhere, do anything bike.
By Jeff Naeyaert
Although the Ducati Hypermotard S is a pretty light bike from the factory at 390 lbs. we figured that we could always make a good thing better by getting rid of some of the weight. For 2010 Ducati freshened up the Hypermotard model with the Evo SP which weighs only 379 lbs. This is mostly due to lighter engine cases, flywheel, alternator and crank.
With the specter of high prices once again looming over our heads, we bring you yet another fuel sipping project; Project Aprilia RS50. You might wonder what an RS50 is; it is really a very unusual machine. It is a street legal, two stroke 50cc GP replica bike.
It was bound to happen sooner or later, while riding Project Ducati Hypermotard; we had the unfortunate opportunity to crash the bike. Although it was a very minor low side while going slow, our bike got off really lightly thanks to some crash protection we had the foresight to install and what got damaged allowed us to put a few more cool new bits on the bike.
Project CRG Go Kart: From Basket Case to Bitchin
Lately the MotoIQ staff has been Karting a lot to get our speed fix for few bucks. Running MotoIQ is an expensive endeavor and we have had to mostly give up racing cars for now to keep MotoIQ growing and strong. Looking for cheap used Kart parts on Craigslist one day, we happened upon an ad for what seemed like a lost cause.
We have brought our high tech Aprilia SR50 scooter from a fairly low powered urban runabout, whose direct injection stratified charge 50cc two stroke was designed as much for greenness as for performance to a practical suburban commuter whose acceleration and 55 mph top speed are fast enough for serious riding in cut and thrust morning commuter traffic.
What do guys like Billy Johnson, Dai Yoshihara, Joon Maeng, Tyler McQuarrie and other Pro Drivers do to keep sharp in between events and during the off season? Karting. We know that most of you like track time, however track time is a precious commodity that is getting harder to come by in this sluggish economy. As we get older, family and career commitments take away more and more time that used to go to race car maintenance and prep. Some of us move out of family garage space and have less room in apartments and condos. All of these factors make owning a race car more and more difficult.
In the last edition of Project Aprillia SR50, we had upgraded our little 50cc high tech scooter from an in-town runabout to a serious 60 mph capable commuter capable of handling rides on the fastest crowded main streets and parkways without cowering in the slow lane. Now to build a balanced bike, since we upped the speed and acceleration, it was time to address the brakes and suspension. The SR50 is blessed with some excellent Grimeca hydraulic disc brakes from the factory but we set out to improve them.
To see the other segments of this project click here!
To give our Ducati Hypermotard more power, we had AMS Performance once again help us out with the mechanical aspects by installing a set of Ducati Performance cams. Since the Engine uses Ducati's famous Desmodromic valve control system where one cam lobe opens the valves and another closes them, cam design is very difficult, beyond what the aftermarket can typically come up with. Due to the complexity of the valvetrain we made the easy decision to stick with factory engineered parts.
To read part one click here!
In our last installment, we had greatly improved the power of our Aprilia SR50 by installing a Malossi big bore kit ported by AF1. The big bore kit brought our displacement up to 68cc and improved our acceleration by a bunch. However our top speed didn't change a whole lot, despite our gains in hp and torque as our redline was only increased by a few hundred rpm. Our top speed was a disappointing 55-56 mph and we were hoping to see 60. We were also annoyed by a distracting check engine light on our digital dash due to compatibility issues between the Malossi ECU designed for Euro versions of this scooter and our USA spec dash.
To read more about our project click here!
In our efforts to build the ultimate Honda GET 50cc engine for our Honda Ruckus, we have learned a few things with our first iteration of our modded engine, lessons to make our second one better we hope. In our quest to get even more power out of our little Honda we are going to build another engine, this one is going into another Ruckus in our stable. Our goal for engine number 2 is to surpass the 58 mph of our first engine and reach 60 mph with the Honda engine that came with the Ruckus.
To read about our previous engine build click here for part one and here for part two. To see all of our Honda Ruckus stuff click here.
What does a 9 year old girl want, a pony? An all-you-can-carry gift certificate from Hello Kitty? No, apparently she likes carbon fiber. OOOH! Carbon fiber! My daughter Christa squealed when she saw the Noonan Racing foot box that I got so she could reach the pedals on her Top Kart, racing go kart.
We would like to introduce our first motorcycle project, Project Ducati Hypermotard. The Hypermotard is the opposite of a Supermoto bike. Where the Supermoto bike is a Motocross bike modified for the pavement, the Ducati Hypermotard is more like an ultra high performance street-touring bike modified for dirt use with some full on road racing technology thrown in. Its like the parts from a Honda CRF 450, a Ducati Monster naked street performance bike, a Ducati Multistrada sports touring bike and a Ducati 1098 sports bike were thrown in a pot to create a very unique bike that doesn't really fit into any category other than its own.
In our last edition of Project SR50, we had reached the limits of simple bolt on modifications which left us with a nicely running Scooter, capable of just over 50 mph with acceleration good enough to keep up with traffic and 115 mpg. With more time, we are really taking a liking to the refined Aprilia SR50, which rides, handles and brakes better than any scooter in this displacement category. We also like its sporty looks. The SR50 is the king of urban commuter scooters and we are going to take it to the next level.
See Part 1 Here!
In our last installment of Project Ruckus we got our super motor tuned and running well, however although our acceleration was vastly improved, we did not see much of an improvement in top speed, only gaining about 3 mph before hitting the 10.500 rpm rev limit. To make matters worse, our Ruckus is now always topped out on the rev limiter. Doubling our power has enabled our bike to zoom right on up to its top speed but once that speed is reached, the engine is screaming at 10,500 rpm continuously. This probably is not the best bet for long life!
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By Sarah Forst
If bling isn't your thing, you can skip some of the pretty stuff and save about $600 but to get to the 50mph, open your wallet. READ ON...
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Project Aprilia SR50: 100 mpg Madness Part 1, Basic Bolt on Stuff
Our new two wheel project is a very unique machine; it is an Aprilia SR50, perhaps the highest tech scooter on the market. It uses a full of tech, Orbital engine to combine the compactness and power of a two stroke engine with the fuel economy and low emissions of a tiny four stroke. The Aprilia engine uses licensed Orbital technology which is basically An ECU controlled, directly injected, stratified charge two stroke. Two strokes by nature produce pretty low NOX emissions due to their low operating cylinder pressures but are terrible for hydrocarbons as they tend to blow raw fuel out the exhaust port on overlap.
In the previous installment of Project Honda Ruckus, we worked with Dan Paramore of DPR racing to go where no one else had gone before by carefully porting the head of the Honda GET engine to maximize flow, improve combustion and raise the compression ratio. To follow the progress of Project Ruckus, click here!
In part 3 of Project Ruckus we applied a bunch of bolt on mods to our bike to reach our goal of 50 mph with decent acceleration. Now that we have hit 50, we still have some shortcomings to our project. We feel that 50 MPH is the minimal top speed any street driven machine should have, any less and you end up being a hazard, cars tailgate and road rage may ensue. At the least, you might get cars tailgating and cutting you off, giving you the finger.
Project Honda Ruckus part 3, 50 mph or bust!
When we last left Project Honda Ruckus, our first performance mods which included a Yoshimura pipe and a Bowls PC20 big bore carburetor kit had increased the top speed of our Ruckus from a pathetic 37 mph stock to a more reasonable 45 mph. However this was not fast enough to safely cruise on the fast streets of Orange County. The acceleration to reach this top speed was pretty lame as well. We had to get more speed, for safety and to be able to smoke the snobby Vespa riders in our area that would turn up their noses at our little Honda.
Project Honda Ruckus Part 2 - More Stuff, the Next Stage
In our Last edition of Project Ruckus, we worked mainly on getting the handling and braking of our bike up to a standard of reasonable safety, safe enough to handle the mean streets and venture beyond the safety of suburban neighborhoods and the pits at the track. Our bike is still far from our goal of it being able to handle itself on main streets though. For one it's pitifully slow being barely able to creep up to 37 mph. At this speed the poor Ruck will get run over on the crowded, fast main streets of the South Bay where our office is located. It is also not as cool looking as we would like. So in this edition of Project Ruckus we are going to spiff up the looks of our ride and start working on the issue of power.
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