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  1. The picture I posted was of a custom Rocket III, so I was correct in saying that it had a shaft drive not a chain.

    And I agreed some models had shafts. But what you said was that "they aren't going to put that much torque through a chain", ...and there you were wrong my friend.

    Shall we now complain about each other on Dr B's run to mummy thread :-)

  2. I think you will find that it is shaft drive, they aren't going to put that much torque through a chain!

    Nope! All the Triumphs were given final chain drive when relaunched some 20 years ago.

     

    The Rocket III Classic model also had, and still has, a chain drive.

    http://www.hermys.com/triumph/rocketiiiclassic/

     

    But admitedly, they did then start putting shafts on their range, and released a new Rocket III with shaft drive.

     

    I went for the Honda CB1000 'Big One' instead

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...000_Big_One.JPG

     

    And if gold keeps on doing what its doing these last 24 hours, we can all buy one of each! :)

  3. Hi bigtbigt, what should the people of those two nations do to protect themselves? From what you have said it would appear buying gold would at least maintain their purchasing power? Diversifying in to other currencies may increase their purchasing power? But what if the governments of those other nations also try to devalue? This is a significant risk as they all try to race to the bottom. From a longer term perspective gold looks the best bet here?

    2-4 years ago, I'd have said the smartest protection for US and UK citizens would be gold. Indeed, that is why I put 30% of my Sterling cash into gold. This doubled in nominal terms as GBP collapsed by 30% and gold rose steadily in other currencies. But I'm now down to only 6% in gold, because I am not sure it will anything like double again from here, and fear it may even have a serious pull back if/when deflation persists, the Tories get in, and some fiscal responsibility returns (once GBs scorched earth policy is no longer the key consideration)

     

    So today, and for next 2-4 years, I feel you need to get your GBP and USD cash into a spread of property, commodities, and energy stocks. A 'portion' remaining in PMs is obviously a good idea as well.

     

    After 4 years, I'll probably have upped my gold holdings (if there is a pull back), paid off my mortgage (high end UK, or certain places oversees), and hold a load of commodity and foreign stock market ETFs. ...as I think that the next 5+ years we'll experience an Asian-led bull market run which is accompanied by painful inflation in the West. Inflation linked bonds might also be a good bet - so long as you wait for the price to bottom first!

     

    At the end of that, we'll have a new global currency forced upon us all (so hold no cash then), perhaps some form of extension of the IMF SDRs ...but that might be too conspiratorialist for some readers :)

  4. Gold actually made an all time high London PM gold fix yesterday.

    I think this is big news as it shows how the cartel are starting to lose their grip.

    Not really. Since this gold price (like the oil price) is simply reflecting a weakenning USD and GBP (gold has not risen dramatically in most other currencies), I would say this 'big news' merely shows that these two countries are being very effective in executing a controlled devaluation of their currencies.

     

    The full implications of this are horrific for the people of these two nations, who just don't realise what is being done to them.

     

  5. Bring on the Truth detector !

    "The truth is out there" ...but its intertwined with internet content comprising 'basics', 'fact', 'analysis', and 'conclusion'

     

    My training/career is all about distinguishing these four;

    - basics: essential to learn and understand

    - fact: critical to keep up to date with

    - analysis: do your own analysis (think for yourself!), and use the analyses of others only as a source of possibilities

    - conclusion: ignore them all, as you will have reached your own conclusions by your own analysis

     

    This way, you'll not follow any Pied Pipers into oblivion, and you'll have a fighting chance of staying that critical one small step ahead of the herd

  6. I guess we all know this - but I want to put it on the table for comment

     

    Gold is not rising significantly, the Dollar and Sterling are falling significantly. ...so far they have lost 30-40% compared to other currencies in the last year or so.

     

    I note that the Icelandic Kronor has only lost 50% as a result of its country's economic collapse. So unless you believe we're due full blown destruction of the Dollar and Sterling then one has to wonder how much further these two currencies will fall before finding a base.

     

     

     

  7. Come on you cowards, say something!!! :lol::lol::lol:

     

    20 User(s) are browsing this forum (11 Guests and 1 Anonymous Users)

    8 Members: Adcott, cdswamp, bigtbigt, romans holiday, wren, spike, Schaublin, enrieb  

    Even though I agree with 90% of what you write, it could be that you say enough, loud enough, and patronisingly enough, for the rest of us feel its not worth the effort

  8. It's all there, you just have to look it up:

    Thanks

     

    My take on it is that the PoG increase in the early 70's was due to coming off the gold standard, and the brief spike around 1980 was due to high inflation coincident with someone trying to corner the silver market.

     

    In short, gold has on average kept its value over long time frame, and can spike up dramatically when inflation goes very high.

     

    Trouble is we do not have very high inflation in the near term.

     

  9. Big T did well to sell out last spring, but we only know that now.

    Yes - at GBP 660, having doubled my investment [he said smugly] :) ...but perhaps just an educated guess, and also driven by other plans for the money.

     

    I've since put 50% of the money into property, 10% back into gold (at GBP 570) and am taking on a substantial GBP mortgage (long term, offset - so can reduce payments with the remaining cash). This way, if/when gold tanks down to GBP 500-550 again (not at all impossible over next 6-12 months) I will put the remaining 40% back into gold. If not, then I've got property and a lovely big mortgage that will become steadily eliminated by the oncoming high inflation. Win-win.

  10. This could be a trap.

    The market will be headed towards a NY opening, with a big gap up in Gold,

    and gap down in the US dollar.

     

    We should look back the previous top in Gold to see what happened.

     

    If you were the US Treasury, and wanted to BURN THE DOLLAR SHORTS, what woudl you do?

    I fully agree. The conviction just doesn''t seem to be there in the price charts these last few days, especially if you look at multiple currencies.

     

    I still suspect this is a fake upside breakout after the recent shrinking trading range.

     

    ...even some on GEI are thinking of cashing in at these levels, rather than buying more

  11. Agreed, I couldn't trade this with any confidence. Triangle breakouts can do a 'pump and dump' false upmove before plunging. I believe this very thing happened to gold last Aug/Sep.

    A 'be careful' to the traders here (glad I'm not one of them).

     

    I couldn't agree more - I really do think this is a 'fake' to the upside!

     

    Just as you reach back to throw a ball forward, the market could be reaching up 50 USD (now complete) to throw the golden ball down hard.

     

    I've made a nice quick 5% on my purchase of 2 weeks ago, and whilst I never generally 'trade' the gold market, I am thinking of selling hereabouts. It all depends on how the next few trading days pan out.

  12. A quick look at the charts on bullionvault show that over the last quarter the price of gold in:

     

    CAD is down 3%

    EUR is down 5%

    JPY is down 3%

    AUS is down 6%

    CHF is down 3%

     

    Down yes but sliding down unabated makes it sound like gold is plummeting with no clear floor.

    Im not sure that this view is really backed up by these charts.

    For most currencies the drop occured at the beginning of June and price has seemingly stabilised some what since then range trading.

    I tried to be precise...

    "SLIDING" meaning gently, rather than FALLING, collapsing, tumbling

    "UNABATED" meaning steadily & without change, rather than erratically, mostly, generally

     

    But more to the point, I was trying to stress that gold is not globally on the rise. Instead, GBP and USD are (currently, transiently) on the fall

  13. I would be suprised if gold plummets here. As Goldfinger says, we had a correction to $700 in 2008. I remember it well, like the vasectomy operation. The charts look bullish to me as the long term trend still looks up and the QE continues as do the economic problems and the threat of war spreading, and there has been no massive peak in gold or silver yet. Even the pound looks set to go down against the dollar here. Gold has held $950 well, even in late summer so I would think now is a good time to buy if you havent already. Ive noticed that theres hardley anything offered for sale on ebay recently and what is offered goes for higher prices than CID, on both gold and silver. I guess that the sellers have sold. Does this reflect the whole market? Certainly I am not selling anything in either physical or paper unless im offered more sterling for it. bigtbigt and DrBubb did well to sell in the spring but I would be panicing about buying back in now if I hadnt already.

    Let's be clear: gold has been sliding down in all currencies, unabated, for many months now. It is only GBP and USD weakness that has seen gold occasionally drift upwards as well.

     

    So most people across the globe are NOT running to gold at the current time.

     

    It might not take much for some of them to decide the cost of carry is no longer worth it, when the alternative of the stock market is rising by >10% per quarter.

     

    Also, governments might raise base rates sooner than we all expect them to, meaning that several forms of risk-free investment will become attractive again, perhaps sucking more money out of gold.

     

    Then there's the very powerful manipulators, who do not want the gold canary to get any attention.

     

    So I'm still open to the possibility of another considerable leg down in the price of gold. ...but yes, I did start buying again at GBP 568 - just in case I'm wrong :)

     

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