What if it Snows?

Funny..
And here I was thinking it was just more idjits out here screwing up the highways when it's just more of em stoned.

 

Yeah..read that.
And it has risen 2 straight years.

 

No Boom Boom...

 

7-year-old 'garbage and recycling enthusiast' taken on dream garbage truck ride along
Pretty cool story.

 

Doing the cut and paste thing for @Rocks here:

Salgados brazil

On any busy street in Brazil you'll find at least one snack bar that serves delicious quick bites like the one on the picture below. A foreigner may find them odd at first – especially because of their greasy apearance. But if during a trip to Rio you come across one of these places, don’t hesitate: try one of the famous Brazilian salgados. To help you choose the one that suits your taste best, we’ve made a guide of the most popular salgados in Brazil.

First of all, let us tell about the culture of salgados. They are usually eaten between meals (mid-morning or the mid-afternoon) – though many people think they are heavy enough to replace a meal and make it lunch. A salgado is generally accompanied by soda, juice or caldo de cana, a drink made of sugar cane – very sweet, as you can imagine. It is very common to find combos with a salgado and a caldo de cana for around R$5. Also, as they are most often fried, they make a good pair with a cold Brazilian beer.


It is uncertain when the tradition of making this kind of Brazilian fast food began, but some things changed with time. Before, there were only fried options; now it has become easier to find baked salgados that are healthier. Also, Brazilians have incorporated eating habits from some immigrants and things like the arab sfiha are very common now.

Caldo de Cana and pastel: a perfect match!
So, enough said about the habit of eating salgados, let’s go to the food itself. Here’s a list of the most famous Brazilian salgados:

Coxinhas: the most famous one. It’s hard to find a Brazilian who doesn’t like this fried piece of heaven. They consist of a filling of chicken surrounded by dough made of wheat flour and baked potato. It has a curious teardrop shape that comes from the time they would surround the chicken thigh with the dough and fry it directly.

Coxinha: Number 1 Brazilian salgado
Pastel: originally, there were only fried versions of it, but now you can have them baked (similar to an Argentine empanada). There are a huge variety of pastel flavours that can go from the most simple (like cheese or meat) to the most elaborated ones (like brie cheese and apricot), also some sweet versions (like chocolate and strawberry).

Joelho: if you have already been on a trip to Rio, you probably already know this salgado by its Rio name. However, if you cross the bridge to Niterói, they will call it “italiano”. In other places in Brazil, like Bahia they say “enroladinho”. But it whatever the name: you just need to know it is good! It is a baked dough roll with a ham and cheese filling – perfect for a mid-morning snack.

Famous salgado cariocas call “Joelho” (knee)
Kibe: like the arab sfiha, kibe got famous with the influence of the Syrian-Lebanese immigrants. It is basically a eye-shaped meatball that Brazilians tend to eat with ketchup (like other salgados, by the way) and may even put some cheese inside it.

Salgadinhos, the smaller version of salgados, are usually served at parties.

 

Figured I would ask you since you have a lot of experience with these things. My other bike is a 05 sporty. 1250 kit, big cam, big carb, 2 into 1 etc....a real ####ing ripper. I do better wheelies on it than most guys do on sport bikes lol. This bike seems to run pretty good but needs a tune. It has some pops and crackles on downshifting so I have a appointment at the local Indy Harley shop to put it up on the Dyno and make it run good for now. My main question is....is it worth throwing any money at it trying to make any power? This is easily the slowest bike I've ever owned. Don't take that as a complaint because it really isn't...I actually love the thing and put 900 miles on it this week lol. I'm just wondering if the money is well spent trying to get a lil more power out of it or just accept it for what it is....a big heavy bike. I have also found out that I can clutch it up in first and hold the front wheel up thru 3rd lol. I haven't tried to push it past there because I want power to come back down so it doesn't slam down. There is something about doing wheelies on something that may have stopped people for doing the same thing in its previous life that is fun.

 

Well, a engine will give you power.

However like in aviation or big trucks when your engine is all out balls to the wall (Old steam governors balls came out until the engine is governed.) and whatever is on that output is what you got.

Now I suppose you can tune, you can love on it, you can supercharge it or whatever and get more power. But a engine will give you that amount and not any more.

I used to be a terror on go karts, when I apply my truck skills to say a twin engine go kart its quite something. Same with go boats in a closed ocean course at the park. You only get so much power and shes all out. There used to be a half mile road course near Hanover as the crow flies where they had good carts.