Holyman

I was also thinking of the one wheel drive banshee but with 2 rear wheels. I figure a set of hubs could be made that would free spin like on the front but with a pin or other kind of lockout on each hub. So for street riding, you pull a pin or something and one of the rear wheels would spin free and the other would be a drive wheel. You get to an off road situation, drop the pin in both of the rear hubs and have fun. Most of your braking power comes from the front tires anyway and the rear tire has more contact than a bike tire so grip on the back shouldn't be a problem for stopping. Otherwise, how tuff could it be to get a street bike swingarm and get it to fit? If you got one that already used the banshee caliper, it would be a matter of pivot bolt, caliper, chain and shock.

This is kind of where it comes to a point. All humans have a conscience of sorts. Most people from all over the earth share a common sense of right and wrong. And it can't all be attributed to personal experience like... when I was a kid I saw Jimmy's toy truck looked good and when I took it he clobbered be so I now know that stealing is not a good idea. The conscience is built in. Where did it come from? If you don't believe in God you really come down to just a few options for how it is that everything we as humans experience came about... 1- I don't know and don't care. 2- I don't know but man the world is an awesome place. 3- I don't know but everything I make comes from me so someone much greater than me must have made all this great stuff. 4- I don't know but I'll make something up so I look like I know. For those that choose 3 there's the bible. #1 people ride the banshee til it breaks and throw it away because they never paid for it. #2 people ride the banshee and realize it has potential and is great to have around but don't do any more to it. #3 people ride the banshee, realize it's power, it's potential, and want to know more about how to make it do the most it can. They keep it going and repair it when it's getting weak. They tell other how to keep their banshee running at top performance. #4 people think they are too good for a banshee and so bad mouth it whenever possible. So as a #3 I believe that the precision of the entire universe from the tiniest molecule in my toenail to the clockwork of the planets in outer space is not a random mistake but the work of a superhuman designer. And because I am in complete awe of the complexity and infinite detail of everything I see, I am drawn to know more about such a person. Science does little more than disect what's already there and then call it a discovery. A kid who goes in the attic and finds an old chest filled with stuff he never saw before thinks he discovered something but really all he found was what was left behind by someone else. And as far as the church goers sense of right and wrong and yours, I doubt they are really that much different. The church goer has probably been conditioned to hate you for exercising your right to choose and you have been conditioned to hate him because he wants to make your choices for you. I'm curious to know where the 2 of you differ on right and wrong. As a side point the ark {yes I do believe in that } was 300 cubits long 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high it was 3 stories tall. A cubit was roughly 17.5" so using a foot and a half, the ark was 450 ft long, 75 ft wide and 45 ft tall. It could not house 2 of every animal. But it could house 2 of every kind as the bible says. The natural variations we see in animal life can be narrowed down to animals of a "kind" which would fit in such an ark. The ark was made of resinous wood covered with tar and took 40 years to build. It only needed to float and stay upright and anyone with a jon boat knows the box shape is hard to beat for that. And disrespect... call me crazy or whatever you want but don't call me late for dinner

#1-2-3... The bible says nothing specific about any of the creatures in the beginning before the flood and quite frankly not much about the creatures after the flood. You need to understand that the bible is an instructional manual and not a news paper. You need to understand too that Jesus was alive around 2000 years ago and Genesis {the first book of the bible} was written by Moses around 1500 years {1500BC} before that and Adam was alive around 1600 years {3100BC} before Moses began to write. So yes there was human life some 4000 years prior to Jesus. As you may know, God would communicate directly with selected humans like he did with Adam and many after him. Eventually {by Moses' time} books were being written to keep records of the lives and conversations and of course principles involved in the circumstances recorded. Some of the requirements made by God to the people of Israel at the time were completely retarded compared to the wisdom of the "educated" classes at that time. For example God required the burial of human wastes, washing before eating, quarentine for those who came in contact with a dead body etc. It wasn't until 150 years ago {literally thousands of years after the instructions were given} that it could be proven that microscopic bacteria could cause sickness from contact with human wastes and dead bodies. As far as how long it took for the whole universe to be assembled, the bible is not specific. There are 6 days which God worked creating the universe that we are familiar with. Man and animals were created on the 6th day. So the facts, as you have stated, that there was dinosaur life and human life together is not inconsistant with the bible. Since God lives forever a day to him is not just one of our solar cycles... 24 hours. The bible says that a thousand years for a man is 1 day to God. That again is not necessarily a hard and fast rule. The point is no human can live a thousand years so a persons whole life is only a few minutes to God. So why not enjoy your work? If you knew you were going to live to be 400 years old, wouldn't it be nice to make a banshee that had every detail completely perfect? So it takes you 20 years... you've got time. There are certain things the bible just does not go into and there is no reason for it to go into every aspect of everything. The bible is a moral guidebook that provides some scientific truths {earth is round and hangs on nothing, sanitation {as shown}, water cycle etc.} So for science, it will not answer all questions but for perfect morals, it is flawless. Adhering to those morals will always benefit the person applying them. And like any instruction manual, you have to have an idea that it will benefit you before you even pick it up. Like most instruction manuals there are parts you won't understand, but if you follow the instructions you still get the benefits even after the project is done. It's pretty simple you can read the book or wing it but each person has to decide for themselves.

I'm pretty sure the RD/RZ was air cooled before 82/83. And the earlier ones didn't have the powervalves

Good line of thought. Heaven though is only open to those that can express faith. Animals can't. 1Corinthians 15:50 says that flesh and blood cannot inherit God's kingdom and in the context of this scripture it's talking about the heavenly kingdom. The breath of life is exactly that, which is where alot of the confusion comes in. The original word rendered "breath" in Hebrew means breathe or wind or air. A lifeless body will continue lifeless without it's breath and one of the easiest ways of checking a body for life is if it's breathing. The Hebrew and Greek words rendered "soul" also mean many things but all of them pertain to the person himself or being itself or the desires or actions of that being. In fact the same word used in much of Genesis that is rendered soul is also rendered creature and is usually prefaced by the word "living" indicating that it is not a dead soul {one without the breath of life} but a living {breathing} soul. As I've re-read most of these posts I see that alot of people who have no outward belief in God have been either corrupted or abused by the religions they were forced to attend as children. And it's not hard to understand why a person would adopt that attitude. Women that are beaten by fathers or boyfriends tend to either keep a distance from men or avoid them all together. Children that are abused by parents often keep as far away from the abuser as possible. People who have been mentally or physically traumatized by religion directly or who see the hypocracy in the church will naturally avoid it. All I would say is this... their are people that will tell you anything to get your money... God doesn't need your money. God also doesn't need rituals. Most of the guys on here who are experienced Banshee mechanics and who KNOW how to keep a banshee in top shape will often tell a newbie... "get a Clymer manual, read it and then if you have any other questions, let me know". You will always get some jerk that saw a banshee one time or had a friend who let me ride it once who is going to give all sorts of advice, and unfortunately there seems to be 10 of them to every 1 of someone who knows what to do. All I'm saying is that to have an idea of what a belief in God CAN do for you, you need to read the manual. Then ask the questions. I can only speak for myself and say that I'm glad I did.

So what you're saying is that I can fill my banshee tank with concrete and as long as I kick it over for a couple million years it will turn into premix gas and run? Or I could take out the plugs and put in wood dowels and a couple billion kicks later it would fire right up?

Gotta say these questions are great... #1- The bible never says that the soul is some fluffy thing that floats around in you or after you die. This is a misconception taken from the words used in the King James bible. #2- The heavens are never given a dimension in the bible. So the heavens that God is in contain the universe. The heavens that God is said to be in is called the heavens of the heavens which is said to mean outside of our universe. So our entire universe would be like a grain of sand in Glamis to God. #3- There will be no St. Peter at the gate. The desriptions of pearly gates and walls made of various gems are a way of trying to explain something to humans they could never understand. Kind of the way an adult explains something complex to a child. #4- There is no firey hell where God tortures people forever. This concept was created by the Catholic church to scare the less educated people they were oppressing into becoming converts. Hell is simply the grave. #5- Nothing physical can ever be in heaven. Only spirit creatures. #6- No animals in heaven. See #5 #7- Those that go to heaven are selected to be there. Not everyone gets to be a VP... not everyone goes to heaven. #8- Those who were/are not knowledgable enough to make an educated choice, get a second chance. They are put on a probation of sorts. #9- Floating on clouds and playing harps for all eternity and/or hunting with your ol' dog are not in the bible. And since there is no reason or indication that all humanity will go to heaven, there's no reason to think it's full. Also see #2. The bible also says there are leigons of angels already in heaven which equates to millions and millions. #10- According to Cheech and Chong it was magic weed.

So my question to you then is if you think that aliens may have populated the earth somehow, did they just drop people here or did they put all of the animal life on the earth? I'm not trying to back anyone into a corner. I came to religion because the other explanations didn't pan out. Yes I had a religious upbringing but each person is obligated to make their own decisions based on the knowledge they have at the time. I feel though, that to really have an opinoin, ALL other opinions need to be anylized against the thoughts I have right now. I have no attachment to ANY belief to the extent that I will continue to trust it beyond the facts. And I constantly compare what I learn with what I know and adjust as needed. So from what I'm seeing, a person who believes that Aliens MAY have populated the earth is not that different from a person who believes in God. Really it all comes down to the definitions. An alien is something that is not indigenus to earth, has powers beyond what we can fully grasp and a purpose that is not completely understood. Really how is that different from God?

First of all offending me is almost impossible. Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs and they are also entited to speak their beliefs. Speaking of ones beliefs is not ramming it down someones throat {as some have seemed to say} so saying what's on your mind is part of the joy of life that should never be denied. So speak on Now to the evo topic... To jumpstart the process to the "big bang" with planets and earth and matter and space and heat and sun and water is really getting way ahead of the beginning, but even at that the question comes up... Why is the universe so organized. The planets are in such sync that mathmaticians can make space travel possible because the planets are timed so precisely. They can tell where the planets were 2,000 years ago and 2,000 years from now. So a simple explosion cannot explain the order of the universe. In fact many evolutionists are saying that the big bang was not so much a super dense material that simply blew up but there was such a filling of the knowable universe that it was an explosion of matter in an instant. It wasn't there, then "bang" there it was. The algae turning into this that turned into that that turned into something else just doesn't work. Many things go thru a metamorphasis but they never go thru a true evolution. This is where over time the use of the word evolution has changed from it's original meaning of "this was this but now is not that at all" to "this was this and now it looks, acts or behaves differently". True evolution would be for a bird to turn into a cat or walrus or elephant or even back to algae. Evolution is coming to be known as a yellow bird turned into a brown bird. The second is simple adaptation. I heard the other day that city birds actually chirp louder than their country relatives because there is more noise in the city. Will the bird evolve a microphone and amp to help it yell over the traffic? No way. The bird is still a bird, just louder. The other thing about evolution too is that in spite of all the chaos that it claims started everything, there is a specific order everything must go in or it simply won't work. For example just sticking with the cow... imagine that everything happened in pairs so reproduction could occur and the grass and air and water and all the necessary other things to keep life going were there but the cow had not completely evolved yet. So one cow has a head growing out of it's foot, one has a fish tails where the teeth should be, one has the genitals of a sparrow etc. {which doesn't include the internal organs and necessary processes for a body to function and the inborn need to mate} and the whole world is full of "cows" and only cows in their various forms of development. You still need the 2 cows that are equally developed to "hook up" properly and produce offspring so the 2 simultaniously evolving cows would have to be in the same place and produce lots and lots and lots of offspring. This again doesn't take into account disease, accidents, preditors etc. which by the evolutionary rule would also be developing. And if the whole world was covered with cows so as to assure that there were only cows to mate with, what happened to all of the carcasses? There would have to be thousands in each of their various forms. The cow with the fish teeth couldn't eat and would die. The cow with the head on it's foot and the other deformed animals would all eventually die. To hurry up and evolve into something else would be impossible and mating to bring about offspring would be impossible. Now repeat that with all of the other species that are simultaniously evolving. The only way evolution could even come close to working is based completely on reproduction in enormous numbers. And even with that the deformaties would be so severe that the animals would certainly die from starvation, weakness or from the deformaties themselves. The sheer numbers are staggering. And because of that, even if you start with the cow in the blender, it is impossible to end up with a cow even if you are trying to put it back together. Every hair, every cell, every spot exactly where it was before you ground it up. Alot of times it is said that this happens over millions or even billions of years. This increases the odds but doesn't account for the lifespan of the animals. If a cow lived for 100 years and produced hundreds of offspring that were in various stages of evolution, the odds are that over an enormous amount of time it would be more likely that "improved" offspring would be produced. The problem is that cows don't live that long and random is just that... random. You would have to assume that the cow would continue to produce cows that trended toward being cows and not a blend of cows and crows. In short the only way to improve the odds of something happening is to increase the numbers. Either alot of cows have to produce alot of offspring or a few cows have to produce offspring over a much longer period of time. Either way, the evolutionary concept just doesn't stand up to the math.

The Taiwan ones {Pantera especially} are junk. My friend bought one for his nephew. They sell them at the local Pep Boys for about $900 out the door. It looks like a Honda 90 engine copy but that's where the good part ends. It has no low end power, goes too fast, the steering is really jerky and very difficult to control at higher speeds, doesn't shift well, never ran worth a crap, choke lever fell off, battery cover fell off and the rear shock is leaking oil. Total ride time... less than 1 tank full. If I was to buy I would look for the Polaris. They are as simple as you can get, use alot if not all American bolts, no shifting and you could take a 90 and throttle it down enough to keep a little kid from going too fast but a bigger kid {me } could probably have some fun on it too. If you want to try a Taiwan quad, I know someone that would let his go for ZERO profit and send it down the road.

The people who have to ask aren't smart enough to give the keys to. The ones that know how to ride don't ask. And since I make my machine to fit my riding style, I have no reason to get off of mine and try yours. There is the occasional person that asks to "borrow" one of my machines because they want to "go up north and ride/ hunt/ etc." These are always met with a single, loud, good natured, HAH followed "man there is just no way that's gonna happen". And then I tell them that for about {a percentage of the cost of their most prized posession} they could probably get one of their own. This usually helps them get perspective. I never get repeat requests.

I'm not about to make a retarded argument like evolution can not mathematically exist and not explain the equation, the principle, or theory in mathematics that disproves it, or why it wont back the theory up. Thats a bullshit argument with no explanation. And it aint that friggin hard to figure out how monkeys, apes, and/or other prime mates along with humans can co-evolve from the same or similar genetic roots and end up different. But to fully understand how genetics and reproduction can take a variety of grass and breed it over generations to result in a stalk of corn, or a week like vine and genetically evolve through generations to produce tomatoes, you would need a slight bit more education than the high school "intro to biology" class that you obviously slept through. Since this seems to be directed at me to explain, I will. The theory of evolution was that from a vacuum {a complete state where nothing at all exists} microscopic life began which eventually changed from its original form to every form known today. This is not only logically impossible but mathmatically impossible. Allow me to demonstrate. It's what I call the cow in the blender. I won't make you start from nothing {a vacuum}, I will give you a living cow and I will give you a blender that functions. You grind the cow up to the point that it is nothing but seperate molecules. No 2 are stuck together. Then thru random acts of whateverness, the cow would have to become reassembled. If you put the cow in a container with no other outside influences like disease, decay, heat, cold, etc. and randomly jiggled it or turned it or electrified it or heated it or cooled it or even had teams of thousands of geniuses or hundreds of thousands of computers working on it would you ever put the cow back together to be a complete cow? No. What makes evolution even more impossible is that the cow would have to have a complete reproductive system. But that would not be enough. Because it would simultaniously need to have evolved a cow of the opposite sex to reproduce. But that too would not be enough because it would have to eat. So grass would have to simultaniously evolve with it's own reproductive system which needs soil and air and sunlight and the seasons and water and insects to help keep the soil aerated and dispose of the wastes that would accumulate provided the animals lived. In addition to all of that we don't just have a functioning mechanical cow, we have one that can see, hear, taste, process thought, feel pain, and has a nervous system, circulatory system, cooling system, and digestive system which in themselves have millions and millions of connections. And if you think that all of that can happen in trillions and trillions of years by itself with no influence what so ever beyond sheer randomness then consider this... There wasn't even the cow to start with. There was no light, no air, no soil, no minerals, no electricity, no heat, no cold, no nothing. The mathmatical possibility of something as insignificant as a single cell with all of it's complexity evolving would be far less than one person living to be 10,000 years old and winning every states lottery every week for 10,000 years and all of that without ever buying a single ticket. That sir is impossible. Any mathmatician will tell you that even if you do play the lottery and use the same numbers for the rest of your life the chances of you ever winning back the money you spent on the tickets is mathmatically impossible. That's rolling a few balls in a barrel and randomly picking out a few. The theory of evolution is that by randomly rolling a few balls around in a barrel you will get a brand new #### which has never existed before and a brand new **** which has never existed before and a brand new ++++ which has never existed before and when all 3 roll out, they are all different and yet work perfectly together.

How much did it cost you and what did it include?

I'm not tryin' to rack your nads or anything here but how do you believe in God "just in case"? And how is Evolution even a viable option when it is mathmatically impossible. It is simply impossible for evolution to have ever resulted in anything. This is one of the reasons Darwins theory has been all but abandoned by scientists but not renamed. It's still called evolution but it's nothing like what evolution was said to be. It just makes more sense to believe in a creator. That's my take on it

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Well you can't get cheaper than throwing it away, in fact you could probably put in on eBay and get a couple bucks for it. The second option is zip tying it behind the bumper. Zip ties are about as cheap as you can get. I don't recommend hacking up the stock airbox because you can sell that too and help fund your new clamp on's.

I find that all the people I have talked to on the subject of religion {literally hundreds} believe in something greater than themselves. Often times they have a hard time difining it. Without a belief in something greater than ones self a person has no goals. Even an athiest has goals... something they don't have now that is better that what they do have now... that they try to achieve. Because of this everyone has a God of sorts. Whether you call that God... Jesus, Bhudda, The Great Spirit, Nature, Aliens, Money, Education, Sex, Recreation, Self indulgence, Politics, Nationalism, or others, everyone gives worship to something. Many {certainly not all} of the people who "believe" have tried these various lifestyles and devotions and have not found happiness and thus have moved on to a belief in an all powerful God. Unfortunately because people in general are also lazy and like to hear what is pleasing, religions as a whole have set themselves as a one stop shop for truth or at least one stop shop for what you want to hear. Because of this you can find churches that believe almost anything. There are religions that believe in everything from complete self deprivation {basically no happiness of any sort for the "believer"} to complete self indulgence {basically anything that you want to do is OK with God} and everything in between. In spite of all these various beliefs that claim to be approved by God, God has his own rules. I may "believe" that going 70 on my Banshee thru a school zone is OK, but the real authority in this case has definite rules about such behaviour. I may be able to do this repeatedly without consequences or being caught. I may do it for the rest of my life and never be caught. That doesn't change the rules. I may encourage others to do the same thing and may even get groups of people to believe it's OK. But the fact remains, it is illegal. Almost all of organized religion works the same way. And since they feel that God will not come down and correct them, they get away with it. So churches promote hate, materializm, greed, rebellion, and more often than not the leaders not only monetarily {money wise} but also physically molest the congregation. All of this still does not change the rules. The unique perspective of God is that he has 2 advantages that humans do not have 1- everlasting life and 2- the ability to correct mistakes. The problem with humans is their lack of desire to do anything beyond the present... what's in it for me NOW. Because God will live beyond our human lifetime, he has the ability to see not just the big picture but the WHOLE picture. And because he is all powerful, he can correct the mistakes that we individually make and make them better even if that includes bringing us back to life under perfect conditions. Most people will acknowledge that if they were givin God's powers, there would definitely be people on the "recycle" list and those on the reward list. And most people would agree that no matter what other people thought, since you are God, you make the rules. And you may decide to give some consideration to someone who is pleasing to you more than someone who is not pleasing to you. So basically you would reward those who do what you want and punish those who don't. It's that simple. God is the same. And no matter how often someone complained or whined or said how bad they have it, you {as God} know how it will turn out in the end and you will make the final call. If God stepped in every time someone stubbed their toe, people would never learn to walk... they'd let God do it for them. An experiment was done on mice. They put a mouse in a bucket of water with no way for it to rest. It had to swim to stay alive. Just when it gave up and began to drown, it was rescued. Once the mouse was fully rested, it was placed back in the water. Because it expected to be saved, it without exception, would only swim half as long. It would give up expecting to be rescued. Alot of people say that there is no God because they expect to be pulled out of every negative thing they get themselves into and when something goes well, they puff out their chest and brag that they did it by themselves. If you had an employee, a student, or even a child like that you'd feel like smacking 'em. Why would God be any different. All I'm saying here is that many say they don't believe in God and God gives us that right, but much of what is said about God is based on inaccuracy, put out by people who neither know nor appreciate his gifts and who would rather use him as a club to beat you up for your wallet. The real God is ALWAYS loving. And the only way to find that out is learn more about him.

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WOW a religious subject in a Banshee forum two of my favorite subjects I could do the long version or the short version but I guess I'll try to hit middle ground. God- yes God= Love- Yes God= Jesus- No Trinity- No Praying to Saints- No Burning forever if you sin- No Creation- Yes Evolution- Mathematically impossible so... Evolution- No Santa Claus/ Christmas- Non Christian belief adapted by Church to get people to join Easter Bunny- Non Christian sex ritual adapted by Church to get people to join Devil- Real Devils home- Not under ground somewhere, not red, no pitch fork, no tail, probably rides a Honda Dinosaurs- Obviously existed and the Bible obviously doesn't go into detail Moses was the one who lead the Jews from Egypt, Noah was the one who packed up the animals in the ark.

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Back in around 1986 I had the chance ot buy a car that looked just like this one with a worked hemi in it for $2600. That's right a hemi for just about what you'd pay for a beat banshee now days. I'm still kickin' myself for that blunder Within 6 months I saw the new owner turning down offers of over $10,000. Man kids can be stupid

Nothing beats cubic inches. I like being able to beat mosquito cars that would fit in my trunk.

TORS problems will do that... idle all day but won't run or stalls when you hit the gas.

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