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Re: Videos - Rides

Postby Mind The Gap » 28 Dec 2019, 17:38

Hi All. Interesting video hope you enjoy, lovely scenery.


youtu.be/y0E0is4ND1A
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Re: Videos - Rides

Postby Burgerman » 28 Dec 2019, 21:20

Nice roads. The bike is a big old tank of a thing though. All pose and no handling and low power to weight. Peronally not my thing. I would be happier with my drag strip refugees with 3 to 500 hp. And broken windows and car alarms when you fire it up. I do like some go. And I like it to handle and stop as well though. If I bought a modern stock bike the Kawasaki If you rode that bike in the vid fast you would get yourself into trouble very quickly. Ruining the enjoyment, and endangering the rider.

There are many roads around europe, in italy, spain etc that are great like that on big bikes. I was fortunate in that I got to do all that stuff before my accident. Many never do.
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Postby snaker » 29 Dec 2019, 10:15

Maybe you have not seen this kind of boats. It has a small motor fitted inside and can move 25km/h, faster than our chairs :oops:


youtu.be/a3JAHg6Ksio
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Postby Burgerman » 29 Dec 2019, 11:54

How do they decide which is the front?

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Re: Videos - Rides

Postby snaker » 30 Dec 2019, 01:28

The rear has a screw-propeller fitted, the front is the opposite direction.
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Postby ex-Gooserider » 31 Dec 2019, 01:58

I remember photos I saw of boats from that area that were more conventionally shaped, where they mounted a V-8 car engine in a pivoting fork on the stern, with a prop on a shaft sticking straight out the back (I don't think there was any sort of gearbox) = worlds simplest outboard....

There are also folks down in Cajun Louisiana that simply throw a trash pump in the bottom of their pirout and us it for jet propulsion....

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Re: Videos - Rides

Postby Mind The Gap » 28 Jan 2020, 16:18

Hi All another Video
Greenwich Peninsula


youtu.be/64y3KTbNWIY
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Postby snaker » 26 May 2020, 08:11

Maybe I am the only one go out this time :cussing

It was a hill riding. Everything was green and plenty of fresh air.


youtu.be/gu4ja0AmgrU
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Postby expresso » 26 May 2020, 16:37

both nice videos - its time to ride now :thumbup:
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Postby Mind The Gap » 02 Oct 2020, 14:05

Hi All. Managed to get out for a day the other week.


youtu.be/BqOaNZujaaw
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Postby Burgerman » 02 Oct 2020, 15:07

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Postby biscuit » 02 Oct 2020, 16:12

Some rough terrain you were hitting there in Bromley!
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Postby snaker » 06 Oct 2020, 02:31

A friend of my family has an interesting collection of ancient vehicles. He bought them from everywhere, most were in bad state like junk of metal. Then he recovered them like new. All are able to operate perfectly. That day, he went travel, I did not met him so I could not record all his vehicles in details.

A challenge, can you call out the names (brand?) of the vehicles in my short video? I know 5 names, 3 from my childhood memory, 2 through characters printed on their fuel tanks :lol: I am dumb in automotive :oops:


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Postby Burgerman » 06 Oct 2020, 10:38

Mostly hardley davidsons and honda gold wings and some small mopeds/scooters. And a lada and a lexus, and an odd jeep wannabe?
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Postby foghornleghorn » 06 Oct 2020, 10:47

Sidecars seem to be popular in that collection. Not seen one here since I was a child.
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Postby Burgerman » 06 Oct 2020, 10:51

Thats because they have all the disadvantages of a car and a bike rolled into one vehicle.
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Re: Videos - Rides

Postby snaker » 07 Oct 2020, 01:47

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.
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Postby Burgerman » 07 Oct 2020, 05:40

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).

Hardly because a harley is hardly anything like a motorcycle. Over here we call them hardleys.

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.

Lada is used here as an example of the result of socialist economics. They sold them here very cheap. And they were truly crap. The butt of many jokes. "Why does a lada have a heated rear screen?" Answer, to keep your hands warm while pushing... And many similar ones. Terrible things. As for the scooters and mopeds they are all the same... And no interest here! And the toyota crown was sold here, but I thought it looked like the toyota built lexus... Because they are basically the same thing with a rebrand... Out of the same factory. But yes I see it now. A toyota crown.
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Postby Cornbread » 07 Oct 2020, 18:15

Very cool collection. Like seeing eclectic gatherings of vehicles that mean something to the person owning them. Really like the side cars. Thankfully not everyone thinks the same as BM. Some comfy rides there in that collection. Imagine when he rides they are a little out of place in Vietnam.
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Postby Burgerman » 07 Oct 2020, 21:12

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.
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Postby Cornbread » 08 Oct 2020, 00:10

Nah, I was talking about the dislike of side cars nd Harley's.
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Postby Burgerman » 08 Oct 2020, 01:05

Well I have no idea what benefit anyone would get from a sidecar.

It ruins the freedom and leaning fun. It ruins the ability to slip through traffic. It allows you to be cold and wet and bounced around. It ruins the fuel efficiency and performance. It has no redeeming features that I can think of. They were popular in the 50s and 60s because you can get more passengers in and can drive it with a bike licence. And because it was then cheaper than a car and its insurance. But thats no longer true. So you just dont see them around today. My freind now sadly dead (died while they were doing a biopsy for a throat cancer under the anasthetic at 40) never used a car. He was brought up in the woods in a shelter. Didnt like warm houses. Didnt like caars and was ill and claustrophobic in one. He had a russian twin based on the old BMW flat twin in rust/baige/mat green complete with sidecar, and a (fake) metal machine gun. He used that for all of his life. Was held together loosely with ropes, bits of other things and bolts, and some small carbs of a car. Sounded terrible. Looked terrible. Rattled and leaked. Brakes were for decoration mostly. And the police learned that he was a bit odd and left him alone. It was heavy as hell as it was all full of tools, engine and other parts. Open face german style helmet obviously. And a fighter pilots gear from ww2. He never wanted anything else. Had 2 gears I think. May have began as a Ural brand.

Hardleys are not really bikes but a lifestyle thing. A decorative ornament for a certain type of person or lifestyle. But to me they are not really serious bikes. Maybe in the US where theres no traffic or bends and a 55 limit. But look silly in the EU or UK.

Theres a biker gang around here that have them. They are called the warlocs. Affectionately known by many of the rest of the biking fraternity as the roadblocs.
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Postby snaker » 08 Oct 2020, 08:01

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.

We easily see he was very carefully in recovering those ancient vehicles. He tried to keep them original as much as possible. He did not 'randomly' collect them, each had its own reason or even a story, a history. And it is not about weirdness, it is about true values in the past that he admires and respects. E.g the Russian jeep, you would easily understand the reason if you knew he was a soldier and passed through 2 bloody wars. He fought against Americans but also understood the good American values, so Jeep, Harley appear in the collection. Ancient Japanese or East European mopeds recall an unforgettable memory for Vietnamese people who spent the hard time 1980s. And so on ....
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Postby ex-Gooserider » 13 Oct 2020, 02:14

I 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....

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Re: Videos - Rides

Postby Burgerman » 13 Oct 2020, 08:26

did sidecars for many years before I got hurt...

As I say all the bad stuff from cars and bikes rolled into one...

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....

1 wheel drive, and obviously cannot compete with a 4 wheel drive car or truck... Or a motocrosser with decent power to weight and a very off road tyre. Its worse than both.
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...

But if it was really bad a motocrosser or a 4x4 car would have been far better.
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...)

Buy remote start. Let it run, warm up, melt all snow, and go to work in comfort and safety while you have breakfast.

It was also nice to have all the cargo capacity....

I can get more in my van, or a car... And it stays warm, dry, and I dont need to wrap up like santa clause! Although I have that choice.

As a biker I know how cold you get in winter. No matter what you wear. Its horrible. Its also horrible to have to wear all that stuff at all! I maintain that a sidecar is all the disadvantages of a car and a bike rolled into one terrible compromise! Your mileage may vary. I just dont get it!
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Re: Videos - Rides

Postby greybeard » 13 Oct 2020, 12:05

< I just dont get it! >

Because it's fun?
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Re: Videos - Rides

Postby Burgerman » 13 Oct 2020, 17:47

So is bank robbery, drugs, and many other stupid things.

But saying its fun is one thing. Claiming its got any advantages over a car, or a bike rather than having all the disadvantages rolled into one massive compromise is entirely another! eatcursor :beef
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Re: Videos - Rides

Postby expresso » 13 Oct 2020, 17:51

Burgerman wrote:So is bank robbery, drugs, and many other stupid things.


yeah but it can still be fun - even if you think its not - i wouldnt feel comfortable in a side car at all - but it can be fun to try - different view - usually i seen them in older movies with the Girl on the side care - i would think its scary though for the person in the side car and harder to navigate the whole bike -

who says bank robbery isnt fun these days - and profitable sometimes - :lol:
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Re: Videos - Rides

Postby Burgerman » 13 Oct 2020, 18:02

Just dont drop the soap. :o
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Postby expresso » 13 Oct 2020, 19:32

:lol:
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