Petrol head thread!!!

[billy rubin]

i think it already has, judging by the people trying to force it into society.

[Asmodean]

You can suffer consequences doing 45km in a 40 zone, I'd prefer that speedometers were designed with regard to reality.

I blame the Germans with their Autobahn and a occasional Freie Fahrt sign on it.

That said, some of it is standardisation. My speedo goes to 270-280, but the car is only good for around 220. The reason is that the more "long-legged" versions of the same model are good for 255.

Indicators.  Left turn blink blink blink, intention to cancel, right right right, no no no I'm not turning right, I just wanted to cancel the left!

I had a car like that. Nearly impossible to cancel indicators manually - you either had to do it by turning the wheel sufficiently, or just not engage the indicators fully (As in, when you press on the stalk, but not until it "clicks.")

[billy rubin]

well, i have just returned from driving 855 miles there and back to pick up thjis very nice piece of kit.



hard to see under the tarp, but theres  a method there.

more to come

[billy rubin]

time to paint that trailer too.

i have one child left at home. he needs to know how to mix paint and set up a spray rig

[Icarus]

That mysterious object under the tarp looks like it might be an elegant sidewagon.  What the living hell are you going to do with that on those dirt roads and backwoods?

[Asmodean]

i have one child left at home. he needs to know how to mix paint and set up a spray rig

Yes! The younger generations have to learn their place as free labour. The Asmo endorses.

[billy rubin]

That mysterious object under the tarp looks like it might be an elegant sidewagon.  What the living hell are you going to do with that on those dirt roads and backwoods?

i dont know.

youre asking a practical question, and i dont think theres a practical answer

[billy rubin]

i have one child left at home. he needs to know how to mix paint and set up a spray rig

Yes! The younger generations have to learn their place as free labour. The Asmo endorses.

hes already pretty good about it. no reason not to pile on some more

[Asmodean]

hes already pretty good about it. no reason not to pile on some more

Those are the best circumstances, are they not? When the younger generation does the free labour without even considering that that's what it is?

[billy rubin]

yes

i picked up a sidecar i bought yesterday. drove 855 miles there and back to get it. forgot to unhook tbe trailer. went out at 0500 this morning to go to work and started to back up. couldnt see the trailer in the dak so i turned the truck. still couldnt see it so i turned tbe other way. still not there. so i got out and the trailer wasnt there. he had taken it off himself without being asked. pretty nice of him. my kids are all so much better than i was

so i drove off and when i looked through tbe windshield i saw the whole front of the truck was covered in mud. so taking tbe trailer down to the warehouse clearly is a story that i will need to hear.

[billy rubin]

but here it is. took three of us to roll it off the trailer, because its only got the one wheel











its got this huge escape hatch because the stock windscreen sits up as high as an automobile's, and otherwise you cant get in or out.

i was going to put it on a BSA, but it came with all the mounts for a triumph 650. so im looking at my long-neglected triumph track bike project and wondering. i have everything to make a motorcycle except engine cases and little stuff like a headlight and cables, so maybe i can cobble up a bitsa

[Dark Lightning]

Batman lives!

Nice unit!

[Icarus]

That thing is gorgeous. Don't you dare get mud and dirt on it. 

I have a fantasy that is of a long gone day. If I had that sidecar attached to a nice quiet BMW or maybe a Goldwing, I would take my high school sweetheart to the prom with that rig. To hell with limousines. 

[Asmodean]

Indeed, it looks good. Motorbicycling with some class, is what it is.

[billy rubin]

dunno about class. im not really a class kind of person.

but heres the tug:



this is a 1966 triumph trophy, sort of . . . 

the numbered parts, anyway.

and heres most of the missing parts



from lots of years. i think when this is together it will encompass may ten or twenty previously functional motocycles that have sacrificed themselves for this task, among others

need a seat, a headlamp, front fender. i think i can cobble something together with no more than thta