Popsmacked! Moves like who? The Renaissance of Sir Mick
, A sleazy ode to 21st century partying that included the unlikely lyric “the dudes are lining up ’cuz they hear we got swagger, but we kick ’em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger.’’Wait a minute — Mick Jagger? The 68-year-old Rolling Stones frontman, who rose to fame in the free-livin’ ‘60s with his androgynous stage moves, surrealistically oversized tongue and authority-baiting drug busts?
The rooster-strutting chameleon who morphed from the slithery Prince of Darkness — “Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name’’— to a spandex-clad disco dandy to a leeringly flamboyant archetype for every rock star who followed?
I must be imagining things, I remember thinking — not that I don’t like the “swagger-Jagger” rhyme scheme.
But this rubber-lipped British upstart hasn’t had a hit in a quarter century, and The Stones have been missing in action since, depending on your point of view, (a) the end of their ’07 world tour or (b) 1972, when they put out their last really “good” album (yes, I know— Some Girls
Factor in spats with guitarist Keith Richards — who painted his musical partner as a megalomaniac control freak with tiny genitals — and his ascension, biologically speaking, from swinging jet setter to craggy-faced grandfather of four (though comparisons to Grandpa Walton seem highly exaggerated) and whatever street cred he once harboured seems to have evaporated like profits in a Ponzi scheme.
And yet, here he is, back again. And again — if not cool, exactly, then timeless, enduring and somehow iconic.
“Take me by the tongue and I’ll know you,’’ croons Maroon 5’s Adam Levine on the current chart-topper Moves Like Jagger paints the mega-mouthed belter as a symbol of ageless attitude: “Swagger Jagger,’’ she yelps. “You should get some of your own.
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Unlike, say, Billy Joel, David Crosby and late-career Elvis — who morphed into Papa Smurfs, Michelin Men and Pillsbury dough boys — Jagger gives the appearance of being unravaged by the perils of time. No grandpa gut on this geezer.
Yamaha C3 – Performance Followup « Loobin' the Tubes
I ended up ordering two new sets of weights – one 5g and one 7g (again, 15x12mm to fit in the stock variator) – in order to experience first hand how they altered performance. The 7g weights caused the scooter to bog badly – at that gear ratio, the bike simply wasn’t generating enough torque to accelerate well or hold top-end speed. The 5g weights worked well to improve acceleration up to about 30mph; after that, the acceleration drops off but is functional to get me up to the peg (about 44mph) on a flat surface and faster on any downhill. The 5g weights also hold speed better when going uphill. I now have a better understanding of why that is from www.scootnfast.com , which has a great explanation of the dynamics of the CVT in their 2-stroke section. Basically, there is a large spring, the contra spring, that pushes the rear pulley plates back together when speed falls off, essentially “opposing” the roller weights in the variator in order to reduce (increase?) the gear ratio to adjust for speed. Now that the front weights are lighter, this spring will push back more quickly when speed drops off, which causes the gear ratio to change more quickly and give more power for maintaining speed. This dynamic also explains the “floaty” feeling I was getting with the 4g weights, as they were not heavy enough to oppose the contra spring and thus could not maintain top-end speed. I’m going to order a set of 6g Dr. Pulley weights and compare those to the 5g – I should have a phone with GPS today, so I should be able to take some speed measurements. With the 5g weights, I was able to ride to my brother’s place in Raleigh in just over 30 minutes, which is a significant improvement over my previous time.
Tires – I ended up doing quite a bit of research on this, most of which was a fruitless search for rolling resistance specifications from manufacturers. It came down to either the Michelin Bopper or the Pirelli SL26. I decided to go with the standard 120/90-10 Bopper on both front and rear, as someone on a forum had graded the rolling resistance on those tires as “A”. That person was absolutely right. With the Reggae, I felt like the bike was fighting me, especially uphill – if you got slow enough, you could actually feel the tires bumping, and when you let off the throttle, the deceleration was swift and decided. The Boppers are quieter and during yesterday’s ride I had to use the brakes much more than normal because the bike really felt like it wanted to roll.
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