The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => General Announcements => Topic started by: trips on October 29, 2012, 10:02:32 PM
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Good or bad, not sure, but it ended well. My buddy and I warmed up the bike to change the oil, we left it running in the driveway and went in to get a cup of coffee. When we came out, well, where was the bike? We looked and the bike and side car were rolling down the hill, curved around a walnut tree, and headed for my pond! We ran after it, but it had a 50 yard head start and was gaining speed. My pond is almost 100 feet wide, my dock is 3' wide. What are the chances, the front wheel of the bike rolled straight into the dock, and bounced back a little, and stopped. Incredible freak luck, even if the side car hit, it might have stopped, but there would have been damage.I don't even want to think about what would have happened if it hit the water running. Didn't think to take a pic til after, but you can clearly see the tire tracks in the grass in the pics.
Body and seat mounted, my cousin in Florida is making me a new seat cover, I sent him the old one for a pattern. All that is left is to install the lights and wire them.
Ahh, damn, I lost/deleted the pics. Well, it's a good story, anyway.
Eurika! Wrong camera, I have the pics
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You should check to see if it has webbed feet ;)
:^)
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Lucky indeed!
Make sure to put a snorkel on it next time you park!
Nice garden too
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When I first moved into my current home in November, '94, I parked my Honda CRX in the garage the first day there, I have a manual transmission, so I left it in neutral and left the overhead door open .
Came back out 15 minutes later and my car was across the street part way in the neighbors front yard !!!!!!!!!!! :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
What I didn't realize, is that there is a drainage grade in the garage floor, about 3 inches (75mm) difference from the back wall of the garage and the front, plus, there is about a 12 inch (50mm) grade difference from the garage door, to the street .
All of the garages that I Had parked in before, were flat, no drainage grade in the floor .
I learned real fast, to leave all of the vehicles in first gear !!!!
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Lucky indeed!
Make sure to put a snorkel on it next time you park!
Nice garden too
Queen's English to American Speak... Garden = back yard
I love this same but different. Gimme more.
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I've tried to find a pic of what we call a 'back yard', but no luck.
I'll be popping out tomorrow so will stop somewhere to get a pic.
However that is certainly a garden!
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Lucky indeed!
Make sure to put a snorkel on it next time you park!
Nice garden too
Queen's English to American Speak... Garden = back yard
I love this same but different. Gimme more.
Dock...... Dock.... thats where you park your ship
that theres a Jetty
Lou.... oh i will see you in a Fortnight (work that one out Monte !!!)
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sometimes it is very, very good to be lucky! Perhaps you should buy a lottery ticket now just in case you still have a bit left in your system!
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LOL, I am very lucky at the lottery, too, I don't play much, but we have a Keno type game in the bars, I've hit for $600 on a $2 bet 3 times now. My friend has a sign in his bar that states the establishment is in the top 10% for winners, he claims it's strictly because of me.
Pretty familiar with British English, been there many times to visit my cousins.
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Lou, I bow to the master. ;D
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Pretty familiar with British English, been there many times to visit my cousins.
You can explain to Monte what a Fortnight is then.... when i used the term when last in Texas folk thought i was talking ga ga...
It was a stroke of luck when the jetty stoped the bike, if it were mine the bike would probebly have rolled onto it then into the pond..... hence the name "Lucky" Lou cause all my luck is usualy bad luck [smiley=nopity.gif]
Lou
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You can explain to Monte what a Fortnight is then.... when i used the term when last in Texas folk thought i was talking ga ga...
That's a good one Lou - not something I had thought of as being in such restricted use. Apparently there is no precise American equivalent so they won't find it in an American dictionary.
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Alright, I admit, I had to look it up, never really knew what the word meant !!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnight
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The Neiman-Marcus store in downtown Dallas used to stage a Christmas extravaganza that lasted a fortnight.
I always thought they used that "word" just so they could charge even more for their items... for a couple weeks. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
Lou, are you talkin' Lady Ga Ga?
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I will stop now Monte.....
Lou
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Don't stop yet! What you in the US call a transmission, we call a gearbox. What we call a transmission is everything between the engine and the driven wheel - clutch, differential etc. So what do you call a gearbox? Been wondering for years.
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Transmission is the most common term, but some people use gearbox .
Everything from the back of the engine to the rear wheels, is commonly referred to as the drivetrain .
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Here a transmission is an auto, gearbox a manual - as in automatic transmission, and manual gearbox.
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There are still some references of a standard transmission, a manual shifted gearbox/transmission, a throw back to the era when a manual transmission was standard on a vehicle and an automatic was an option .
I've never owned a vehicle with an automatic , the last time I drove one on the street, was a rental vehicle about 14 years ago, I was a 'fish out of water' in that vehicle . ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I've never owned a vehicle with an automatic , the last time I drove one on the street, was a rental vehicle about 14 years ago, I was a 'fish out of water' in that vehicle . ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
You be one of them there missionaries then, [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
Lou
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A manually shifted transmission/gearbox, is a great deterrent to people asking to borrow your vehicle .
The last time anyone asked to drive one of my vehicles was about 10 years ago, a female friend was thinking of purchasing a BMW Z3, she asked if she could drive mine , I handed her the keys and got in the passengers seat .
The look on her face when she finally realized that it was a manual transmission, made my day !!!
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There's a group of auto dealers about 2 miles from my home, they have just about every make represented there .
A coworker got a great deal on certified pre owned 2 year old Mercedes .
I went into the M-B dealer and looked at the pre owned vehicles they had .
A sales man approached me and asked if he help me .
My first question was, does M-B make any passenger vehicles with a manual transmission ?
His response was, "sir these are luxury automobiles, not 'farm implements' "
I couldn't stop laughing, the salesman got a bit defensive and inquired what was so funny .
My response was ,'that's exactly what Adolf Hitler thought of BMW motorcycles in WWII' !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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There are good reasons why most all MB's are auto. One is they used to make lousy manual boxes and also because they have a foot operated parking brake that makes hill starts with a manual box into a bit of a farce. My 190e is very unusual for a Merc in have a proper handbrake on the transmission tunnel.
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My C200 was a Manual as my wife wont drive an auto, it used to p*ss me off every time it went in for service/repair despite ordering a manual the courtesy car was nearly always an auto at which point i gave them the choice find what i ordered or i go to a MB dealer who will.... to add to my frustration this was the first car with the Infra Red security/locking system which was always failing i was back at the dealers every month, when the warranty ran out i bought a BMW.
Lou
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The 190e has been virtually faultless which is why I've kept it for 20 years. Mercedes quality and reliability went down hill fast from the mid nineties. It may well have come back up again now but I doubt it would be almost fault free for 20 years given the level of complexity. It matters not as I can no longer afford one.
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Don't stop yet! What you in the US call a transmission, we call a gearbox. What we call a transmission is everything between the engine and the driven wheel - clutch, differential etc. So what do you call a gearbox? Been wondering for years.
I generally use the same terms you guys do, thanks to having to look up the different sections in my shop manual for my '70 Bonneville.