Posting this for a friend
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/m...98895.html
http://www.dcsportbikes.net/forum/showth...hp?t=23385

Red 2005 Suzuki Katana600. The bike is in good condition, has very low mileage, and is garage kept.
If interested you can email me at <!-- e --><a href="mailto:SunShineS4L@yahoo.com">SunShineS4L@yahoo.com</a><!-- e -->. I live in the Silver Spring Area. Asking price is $4900

At least I THINK it's a CRX. Pics stolen from GA bimmerforums, spotted in ATL. Obviously a player.

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Life is too busy and as much as I truely love and appreciate the bike, there's not time nor justification to spend the money to keep it on the road.

Here's the details:

Beautiful 2004 CBR 600 F4i. $6,000.00. Only 3400 miles. Dropped once, replaced right side faring and mirrior with 100% OE Honda Parts purchased from Honda. Super comfortable, well balanced sport bike. Fuel Injected (no pesky carbs!)
No modifications. Had routine maintenance preformed and changed oil twice at Honda shop. Have extended warrantees. Have all original paperwork from sale, all warrantee paperwork, etc.
Garage kept, waxed, and babied.
Selling due to lack of time to ride.
eBay user ID is fastone44, 100% positive feedback!
Email with questions, I'll get back to you ASAP. Thanks!

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these are some great prices on great tires. I just got new tires for both my cars (d'oh) but if i needed new tires, i'd be all over these. i thought i'd post up in case anyone else was lookin for tires

This year the Summer X-Games are adding Rallying to the competition, featuring multi-time WRC champion Colin McRae and multi-time Moto-X champion Travis Pastrana, both driving Subarus.

Other notables include Nicky Grist (Colin's WRC champion co-driver) and several regulars from the Rally America series such as Lauchlin O'Sullivan, Tanner Foust (D1 Drift driver too I believe), and Rhys Millen (also a D1 driver).

Unfortunately this year's Supermoto race conflicts with AMA Superbike so none of the AMASBK riders could compete this year, which is a shame because both of the previous the lone road racer did well* This year Alex Hoffman from the D'Antin Ducati Moto GP team will be the only road racer competing.

X-Games Rally: Saturday, August 5th @ 3 pm on ABC
X-Games Supermoto: Sunday, August 6th @ 3 pm on ABC

*Ben Bostrom won the first X-Games Supermoto on a Honda CRF450. His brother Eric finished 4th last year after running 2nd for most of the race (KTM450SMR).

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Pocono East

that is a saturday - anyone up for it?

I can't believe they did it.



Adverts for x-ray specs have tantalised kids throughout the decades. Sadly the reality is always a pair of useless plastic glasses, but this could all change due to a breakthrough made at Imperial College London. By exploiting the way that atoms move in solids the researchers have made solid materials turn completely transparent. 'This real life x-ray specs effect relies on a property of matter that is usually ignored that the electrons it contains move in a wave-like way', says Chris Phillips. 'What we have learnt is how to control these waves directly'.

The secret to this breakthrough at Imperial College London is specially patterned crystals made up of nanoscale boxes that hold electrons. 'Basically we have made 'designer atoms'', says Chris. 'By choosing the size and shape of our little boxes, we can use the rules of quantum mechanics to choose the energy levels of the electrons that are trapped inside them'. When light is shone on these crystals it becomes entangled at a molecular level rather than being absorbed, causing the material to become transparent. 'You can think of the effect as similar to the way that the peaks and troughs of water waves cancel each other out to create calm water', explains Mark Frogley. 'In the materials created it is the wave patterns of the electrons that cancel each other allowing light to travel through the material and making it transparent'. At the moment the effect can only be produced in a lab under specific conditions but future applications could include seeing through rubble at earthquake sites, or looking at parts of the body obscured by bone.

Despite the almost magical feat of making solids transparent the key finding of this research is the fundamental physical effect creating the transparency. This effect has potential in the development of new efficient lasers, data security and quantum computing.

A stumbling block for the development of lasers has always been the need to create something called population inversion in the material that amplifies the light, normally glass or crystal. 'Einstein showed that, to make lasers, you need to excite the molecules into this population inversion condition, where they no longer absorb light', explains Mark. The breakthrough at Imperial College London demonstrates that light can now be amplified without the need to create population inversion. This contradicts Einstein's long-standing rule, and opens up the way for the development of a whole new range of lasers.

Data security could be improved due to the discovery that as light passes through these crystals it slows right down and could potentially be stopped and stored. Chris explains, 'When we send information as light pulses down optical fibres, it can only be accessed by making a form of measurement, which disturbs the information. This technology means we could send light signals through a network without having to disturb them ourselves. So, if confidential information was being spied on, the disturbance would show up and we could nab the eavesdropper with 100% certainty'.

Dr Mark Frogley and Professor Chris Phillips
Imperial College London

Dr James Dynes
University College London

Dr Mattias Beck
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Prof. Jerome Faist
University of Neuchatel, Switzerland

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I am trying to organize a trip early Sunday Morning to get to this event early to have lots of time to beat up on these poor mazdas. Will be from Harrisonburg. Whos in?





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