Viewing entries posted in February 2012
A day for strange occurrences.
The wife and an ex-wife were chatting happily together about me.We saw Liz and Phil.
I don't remember many unlikely events on previous leap days.
Are the laws of probability suspended today?
Roger.
Re: Nitrous Vincent
>>http://www.visordown.com/mark-forsyths-blog/video-180bhp-n2o-injected-vincent/20135.html>
>>Work safe, video (YouTube), sound recommended (bike sounds great),
>>sidecar content.
>
> What an excellently mad old coot. :-)
>
> flook.
>
I'm seriously jealous of that workshop!
Mark
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If I had a million pounds, I'd buy a submarine and fill it full of otters.
RE: retired
> Yesterday I went in to work and handed in my resignation.>
> <Martin Luther King>Free at last!</MLK>
>
> Oh, and I decloaked here in Ixion :-)
>
> Stuart
Jammy bugger! Enjoy! I'd do it tomorrow if I could afford to!
IanE
Re: retired
On 29 February 2012 09:55, Swixie <swixie@gmail.com> wrote:> Yesterday I went in to work and handed in my resignation.
>
> <Martin Luther King>Free at last!</MLK>
About bloody time. :-)
Andy
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http://andyc600.co.uk
Re: NTGHP, ignore if necessary Re: retired
> On 29/02/12 11:18, Neil The~Hippy wrote:> Mmm, I had retirement rather thrust upon me, what should I do to avoid
> boredom, after I have got even =A0better?
Long walks off short piers. :-)
Andy
--=20
http://andyc600.co.uk
Re: retired
Stuart said;> Yesterday I went in to work and handed in my resignation.
>
WOOHOO!!! Huge congratulations from here, I suspect that has lifted the
most enormous weight from your shoulders :)
Anne, Flymo & Benergetic
Re: Argghhh - my eyes...
On 29 February 2012 08:05, Clinton Gardiner<clinton.gardiner@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 28 February 2012 23:43, Mike Fleming <mike@tauzero.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Allen Lutz <redveetwin2002@hotmail.com> said:
>>>> Some people should be taken out and shot.
>>>> What a thing to do to a Monster, and he wants ten grand for it!!
>>>> http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1995-DUCATI-FORD-ST-ORANGE-TRIKE-/1607275992=
17?pt=3DUK_Motorcycles&hash=3Ditem256c1c8871
>>>
>>> I like it.
>>
>> What he said. Possibly a bit underpowered with just a 600, but hey,
>> looks great fun.
>
>
> The rear wheels are ridiculously over wide. I dread to think what the
> torsional forces are on the swinging arm bearings and their surrounding
> structure
I have no idea about the rear end, but I own a broadly similar ZZR1100 trik=
e.
On mine, with a rear end by The Trike Shop in Newport, the swingarm is
replaced with a rigid box-section member; off it, at the back, are 2
independent swing-arms to the assymetrically cut-down Sierra
transaxle.
It's pretty trick, with dual wishbone suspension and an anti-roll-bar,
and it works well.
> and the front end should really be something like a leading link
> system.
The Trike Shop use a conventional bike front end. Haydn, the owner &
boss at the Trike Shop, said to me personally that he's tried
leading-link forks (which I am familiar with - I have 'em on my
sidecar outfit) and he doesn't like them. Too much steering force,
basically - makes it scarily easy to roll or flip a fast, light trike.
And this is from a man who rides a Hayabusa trike & tows a jetski on a
trailer with it sometimes. I trust his opinion.
> The rear suspension just looks wrong to me.
I can't ID it from a vid but there are some complete cowboys in the
trike-building world. I've met some really clueless losers, it must be
said.
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Liam Proven =95 Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile
Re: Bah, Attempted Theft
On 29 February 2012 11:14, Fong Lim <drfong@doctors.org.uk> wrote:> Bah, 3 days and 2 fun rides after I bought the BMW F650 someone's tried to
> steal it. Must've seen it on my driveway parked up before going in the
> garage.
Anecdotally, I get the impression petty theft is a rapidly growing
problem. Eric's garage was attacked twice in the past few months,
after years of no issue, and several garages near mine were broken
into the week before last. I've lived at my current address for over a
decade, and there have been no previous garage break-ins there that
I've heard of. :-((
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Ric
NTGHP, ignore if necessary Re: retired
On 29/02/12 11:18, Neil The~Hippy wrote:>> Yesterday I went in to work and handed in my resignation.
>>
>> <Martin Luther King>Free at last!</MLK>
>>
>> Oh, and I decloaked here in Ixion :-)
>>
> Hoo-flipping-ray etc. Good luck with the rest of your life etc. What are
> you planning to avoid boredom?
>
Mmm, I had retirement rather thrust upon me, what should I do to avoid
boredom, after I have got even better?
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Neil The~Hippy http://www.hippyweb.me.uk
Re: retired
On 29/02/2012 09:55, Swixie wrote:> Yesterday I went in to work and handed in my resignation.
Now that's something worthy of celebration!
Now that you're a gentleman of leisure, it is your civic duty to wander
up to That London sometime soon so that we may all buy you a drink. :-)
Ben
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