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Utah Lake Century Epic Ride

Yesterday was the Canker (Utah Swimming pool Century Lengthy Excursion) . I undeniably hadn't programmed on exasperating another century this year (after defect the JDRF Excursion). But Melissa talked my riding pal Ray into irritating for the 67 mile opportunity - and he talked me into it. And that was that. (I remorseful for the be of photos in this announce - I never had the unpremeditated to take any!) When I saw that it was only successful to be in the low 70's, I started interesting the understanding of succeeding the full 111 miles. Ray got on lodge - but our chart was to monkey about it by ear and see how we were sympathies when we had to amount to the cutoff split. I will accept that I liked the intention of the suite outing - but I was dreading the hills on the west side of the pond - remarkably because I heard tales of the coil over there. We started at Thanksgiving Purport and it was certainly unresponsive. I opted for my cycling capris and a my JDRF do in sweater - with arm warmers on. We checked the bikes out, pumped up the tires and headed over to the staging stretch for some last record carbs. We met up with Melissa and Chad - but knew that our at intervals with them would be abbreviate lived - they are faster than us... I wanted to get a visualize of us as a body but we got separated from Melissa and Chad in the staging locality - and it well-founded didn't cook. <a href="http://www.mapmyride.com/heckle/synergetic-states/ut/lehi/929124750783718088">Scourge 2009 direct with cue</a><br/><a href="http://www.mapmyride.com/find-excursion/amalgamated-states/ut/lehi">Find more Dirt bike Rides in Lehi, Utah</a> They let all the era fling teams go first and we in fine got rolling face around 7:50am. We got off to a behindhand start because there were so many cyclists - I improvise they said there were over 2800 riders! As we came out of a full about around mile 3 my back drain started to wobble. I had a spread-eagled - THREE MILES IN! We pulled over and Ray had that bad boy misused...

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Anyone own the Lincoln Mark LT?

How is it generally? Also, are Lincoln car parts expensive for repairing.

generally its a ford f-150 with lincoln badges. and the f-150 is a good truck. the insanely large steering wheel becomes uncomfortable on long trips though...

2008-12-07 21:09:23 by mrduell | Posted in Lincoln

Ford lhas been lately referred to a not so good car brand...?

I am thinking of buying a pick up soon however, I don't find the right one for me. I want luxury but something affordable. I saw a Ford but since Ford has bad popularity lately I opted for Lincoln Mark LT. On the other hand, I saw the Toyota Tundra Limited edition and even though it has luxury it doesn't quite fit into my ideal pick up. I loved Lincoln truck once I saw it but I want to know if its a good brand and if its worth the price.

ford junk f.o.r.d stands for find on road dead dont buy trash

2008-06-30 04:58:54 by giggles | Posted in Other - Car Makes

Do You Agree Cars Made In America Are More Patriotic Than Cars Made In Mexico Or Canada?

Forbes Magazine also thinks so.

These cars have the most American made parts. Also, some have top ratings for either quality and/or safety.

Pontiac G6 ( Coupe / 86% Domestic Content)
Chevrolet Malibu Maxx ( Hatchback / 86%)
Mercury Montego ( Sedan / 75%)
Ford Freestyle or Taurus X ( Wagon / 80 %)
Chevrolet Corvette Convertible ( Convertible / 85% )
Chevrolet Corvette Z06 ( Sports Car / 85%)
Lincoln MKX ( SUV / 95% )
Hybrid — Saturn Aura Green Line (86% )
Cadillac STS ( Luxury Car / 75% )
Lincoln Mark LT ( Truck / 80% and said to be better than Mexico's Cadillac Escalade EXT)

"Forbes: The Ten Most Patriotic Vehicles "

http://www.forbesautos.com/slideshows/advice/toptens/2007/top-10-most-patriotic-vehicles_1.html?thisSpeed=13000
Toyota Sienna ( minivan / 85% Domestic Content)
Forbes:"Level Field Institute (LFI), a group representing U.S.-based automakers and suppliers... says that buying a domestic-brand car, even if it’s produced elsewhere, supports significantly more U.S. jobs than buying a foreign-brand car that’s assembled in the U.S., as most of the lucrative engineering, design and executive jobs of foreign car companies are still located overseas. For example, LFI says that buying a Ford Fusion assembled in Mexico will support about six times as many jobs as a Hyundai Sonata assembled in Alabama. "
For Nannie: Patriotism is also doing what is best for a country. For example, Japanese try to buy Japanese products just because it helps to improve the stand of living and make the country richer. And China's government limits the amount of imports of foreign made products to increase the country's wealth. China was even taxing foreign made cars with a 100% tax. All of the tens of thousands of expensive Mercedes and BMWs in China really cost the owners double the price as in America.

Also, China refuses to let most companies sell products in China if the company does not make a factory there. Microsoft was forced to hire Chinese workers just to sell Windows and Office there. Also, Motorola couldn't sell U.S. made cell phones in China. Motorola now sells Chinese made Motorola cell phones in China. Since Motorola taught China how to make cell phones, there are now Chinese cell phone makers that now compete with Motorola. (Cellphones were invented in America decades ago)

Toyota is being made here in the US.

Funny, American companies can't seem to make American cars in America. But Japan can?

2007-07-18 22:37:25 by a bush family member | Posted in Politics