Out And About

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[Rinkydink]

[Rinkydink]

[roadscholar]

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[wbw6cos]

Damage from water crossing, eh?

[Hosstage]

6 hours ago, roadscholar said:

Typographical error, but not necessarily factual error, If I know my drummers...

[Rougarou]

9 hours ago, Rinkydink said:

 

Shoulda been a picture of early Andrew Dice Clay!!

[Rinkydink]

[Rinkydink]

[roadscholar]

[roadscholar]

[Rinkydink]

Just fixing that flat tire. 
 

 

 

[roadscholar]

[Rinkydink]

Down and Out

[Red]

7 hours ago, roadscholar said:

I have a border collie.  Not out of the range of possibilities.  

[Joe Frickin' Friday]

These bananas are now two weeks old:

 

 

This picture was taken today, but it's exactly what they looked like when we bought them, including the black areas on them.  They are apparently immortal, as they haven't ripened one bit.  Weird.

[ESokoloff]

32 minutes ago, Joe Frickin' Friday said:

These bananas are now two weeks old:

 

 

This picture was taken today, but it's exactly what they looked like when we bought them, including the black areas on them.  They are apparently immortal, as they haven't ripened one bit.  Weird.

Something went wrong in the “Process “

 

 

 

[Rougarou]

[LBump]

[Rinkydink]

[taylor1]

Ha. I’m guessing most people don’t know what a capo is.  

[LBump]

[ESokoloff]

[roadscholar]

[wbw6cos]

[LBump]

[roadscholar]

[MikeB60]

12 minutes ago, roadscholar said:

And a Milllinnial Anti Theft Device!

[Rougarou]

11 hours ago, MikeB60 said:

And a Milllinnial Anti Theft Device!

 

Having both my girls first vehicles be sticks, can be a bad thing.

 

I was playing with some MGBs for a while, and my oldest daughter comes in one day and said the car was "fun to drive",......not knowing that she took it for a spin, I's like, "how'd you know where reverse was", she said, "oh, I figured it out".

[Rinkydink]

Bike week is getting wilder and wilder every year…

 

 

 

 

[wbw6cos]

He would have made it if it weren't for that trailer.   Just sayin'

[Hosstage]

Stoopid trailer

[roadscholar]

[Hosstage]

8 minutes ago, roadscholar said:

The first donk!

[Rinkydink]

[Joe Frickin' Friday]

On 3/11/2022 at 9:02 PM, roadscholar said:

 

About 15 years ago, one of our members posted a story of how he was driving his vintage VW bug when the throttle cable broke, somewhere near the pedal.  With the engine being in the back, that meant the cable was routed somewhere beneath the driver's seat to get to the engine.  So he got under the car and threaded the broken end of the cable up through the floorboards somewhere close to his seat and tied it around one end of his L-shaped lug wrench; he then wedged the other end of the lug wrench into some kind of pocket/recess on the floor, and was able to use the lug wrench as a hand-operated throttle to get home.  

[roadscholar]

Yep there's a small tunnel down the middle and nearly everything that needs to go to the engine compartment runs through it, shift linkage, heater cables, throttle and clutch cables, etc.

 

[RandyShields]

On that list of accessories the VW Beetle doesn't have, you can add: No Heat. On my early 1970s bug, you needed to engage a lever on the floor to open a vent to let air flow through a heat exchanger to be heated by the exhaust.  It theoretically allowed warmed air to then flow from the engine bay into the cabin when it was cold.  No fan or forced air (or if there was, mine was broken and I didn't have the money to fix it.)  Appeared to be a simple, efficient solution, but it didn't really work.  The colder it was outside, the colder it was inside.  Not a good winter car unless you had lots of layers on.  But it was better than my MGB, where I had to bring blankets along for dates during winter drives.  Lots of cold airflow through that ragtop. . . .

 

[roadscholar]

Went over Loveland Pass (before there was an Eisenhower Tunnel) in a VW camper, temp at the store on top was 40 below, chill favor 60 below. Painfully cold, no heat whatsoever.

[Hosstage]

My old CJ Jeep was warmer than the old VWs, but I wouldn't have called it warm.

I remember seeing more than one old VW with accessory fans on the dash to try and keep the windshield clear on the inside.

[9Mary7]

6 hours ago, Hosstage said:

old VW with accessory fans on the dash

Type 3 & 4 VW's had an available gas heater option that worked very well....... but not many folks bought them as they were shopping for a cheap car. My G-ma had one in her type 3 fastback and it kept the inside toasty, but she also had a/c which made that car slow when it was in use.

[wbw6cos]

On 3/12/2022 at 7:49 PM, Rinkydink said:

Bike week is getting wilder and wilder every year…

 

 

 

 

 

 

It turns out that  he was wiping his visor when he rode past the warning lights.  

 

DOH!!

[9Mary7]

I always stay far away from 'wingers with trailers

[Hosstage]

1 hour ago, 9Mary7 said:

I always stay far away from 'wingers with trailers

Any bike with a trailer, 3 wheelers too.

[Joe Frickin' Friday]

12 hours ago, wbw6cos said:

It turns out that  he was wiping his visor when he rode past the warning lights.  

 

That last bend in the road is about 700 feet from the barrier, and the speed limit there is 30 MPH.   Even assuming he was doing 40, that's a good 10-12 seconds before he hit the barrier with the flashing lights.  Those barriers were already down when he came around the last bend in the road, and there was also an overhead traffic light positioned 100 feet ahead of the barriers - and he apparently didn't see any of that for the entire 12 seconds.   Dude needs some Rain-X.  Or maybe he just needs to open his eyes.

 

For anyone who doesn't want to sit through CNN's 30-second ads, here's the bare YouTube video:

 

 

 

[Hosstage]

Or maybe just don't ride if conditions are that bad.

"I have a schedule, I just gotta get home."

[taylor1]

There's one born every minute

[wbw6cos]

That explains how he did not go for a swim. 

 

Wet bridge grating.  Check

Road surface pitching up.  Check

What could possibly go wrong?

[Rinkydink]