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On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 22:43:05 -0500, c186282 wrote:

>    "Sales-speak" and objective reality are two different things
> 
>    Esp if selling to males, "bigger"/"stronger" is what you want to
>    convey to the rube ... er ... customer.

Works every time. The .38 Special has a bullet diameter of .357 but .38 
sounded better when selling it to the military. The later .357 Magnum went 
back to truth in advertising with a case 0.10 longer so you can't fire it 
in a .38. 9 mm is .356 so it's about the same although the ballistics of 
the three vary widely.

I had a Yamaha Seca 400 that was a hair under 400 cc to meet the European 
tiered licensing breakpoints. It didn't sell in the US because it was too 
small. I put a lot of miles on that too small bike, including a trip up to 
a trailhead on a road designed for goats. 

https://vividness.live/riding-solo-to-the-top-of-the-world

Great movie. At one point he's up around 18000' pushing the bike because 
it won't run. He's not running very well either but he made it. It 
definitely isn't a Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman trip with expensive 
BMWs and a film crew.