Burgerman wrote:Mostly hardley davidsons and honda gold wings and some small mopeds/scooters. And a lada and a lexus, and an odd jeep wannabe?
BM only knows 3 names Harley, Honda Wings, Lada, "small mopeds/scooters" is not a name. My five are Honda Cub, Honda 67, Vespa (Italia), Simson (East German), Minsk (Belarus).
It is interesting you recognized lada, a symbol of USSR. The light gray car is not lexus, it's a toyota crown. The odd jeep is an ancient 'Russian jeep' GAZ 69, my dad told me.
Burgerman wrote:Dont get me wrong, I did find that collection interesting. If only that he appears to collect weird random vehicles. Esp that russian jeep thingy.
did sidecars for many years before I got hurt...
Some virtues - there is nothing like a sidecar rig for slick surfaces like snow and ice... I used to blow the doors off of snow plows, and pass guys that had gotten their 4WD vehicles stuck in a ditch... As long as you kept the front wheel pointed in the direction you wanted to go, the rear wheel would end up going the same direction eventually - I could dump the clutch at a stop and see how many gears I could get before the back end hooked up, moving forwards and going lock to lock as the back end fishtailed....
One particularly nasty day I had missed the phone call saying they had cancelled work, and rode there. On a Guzzi the speedo and odometer run off the tranny, and I showed almost twice as many miles for that trip as I usually did, as the back end was sliding side to side most of the way...
I also felt like often stayed warmer and drier than the car people did - I would look out the window and see that it was cold and nasty out, and put on my cold weather gear... As a result I was warm and dry all the way to my destination... Meanwhile the car people would put on a light jacket, shiver all the way to the car and get wet scraping the snow off, then shiver most of the way to their destination while waiting for the heater to start working.... Then about the time they started to thaw, they'd get where they were going and have to get back out in the cold to go inside... (I get this experience now with my adapted van...)
It was also nice to have all the cargo capacity....
Burgerman wrote:So is bank robbery, drugs, and many other stupid things.
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