I figured out how to do this with my Carradice Pendle. I also have a small blanket that will fit, although I don’t think I’d really want to sleep on it (a little on the small side). I do however think a lot of people will be green with envy when we finish Chilly Hilly this year and I whip out a motherfucking blanket.
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Australia Day celebrations at Aaron’s household. 24 beers in 24 hours*. These are a few of my buddies back home, car centric guys. Aaron and Shane are both pretty damn smart guys, which probably inspired not drinking the entire 24 all at once like some of my other friends tried to do.
Aaron rebuilt the clutch for his Supra without any help about a year and a half ago, taking photos of the entire process, with the clutch still going strong, and he drives it like it’s stolen most of the time too. Also came up with an Electric go-cart rig on his own, and makes his own biodiesel because he lives out in the middle of nowhere, as well as solved a bunch of problems related to the biodiesel mix that results from his local fish and chip shop.
Shane has a 1990’s MR2 that recently had an injector stuck open & took out the engine. He’s waiting on spare parts, but in true Shane fashion he’s fixing that himself too. He also wasn’t too happy with the stock ECU from Toyota, but rather than buy one, he decided to make one himself, mapping everything manually and then reprogramming it as he saw fit using his laptop. Perhaps the injector thing is related to the ECU thing :P (I kid, I kid…)
*Real beer, not the shit that Lance Armstrong sells.
Two people riding 100cc modernized Honda Super Cubs around the world. For those less familiar with the Honda Super Cub, it is the most successful selling motorcycle worldwide with over 60 million sold since 1958 (still in production today). You can find them in practically every market, they get 100 mpg (although they only have a 1 gal fuel tank), you can crash them, bash them, use cooking oil instead of engine oil and they’ll continue to run. They’re the Toyota Hilux of the motorcycling world.
There’s some incredible wisdom in their unconventional choice though. They will never have a shortage of people who know how to work on a Super Cub, nor will they ever have trouble getting spare parts. Their luggage solution was simple and ingenious - a lockable, no frills hard case and a SealLine waterproof bag on top of it. Less than ideal, but incredibly easy to continue using it even if either one of them broke (duct tape would solve a lot of the SealLine bag issues). There was a recent rider profile on the Soma bicycles blog about two riders who rode 3000’ish miles on fixed gear bikes who specifically mention that simpler is better, and only using gear that can be repaired. Finally, the loaded Super Cubs are only 200 lbs. Austin Vince, who led the charge to circle the globe by motorcycle for the first time, mentioned frequently in a presentation he was giving that lighter was definitely better when the going got sticky and muddy. Having just had to push my bicycle through over a foot of snow last week on the I-90 bridge, I would wholeheartedly agree :).
Pillow - Varanasi (by Maciej Dakowicz)
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This miiiiiiight be the best one I’ve ever seen.
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Battlefield 3 Panic Attack!!
#gaming #ROFL (strong language)
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ecaloshay replied to your post: Phones, as explained to my Dad (motorcycle enthusiast)
I had to look up ‘farkle’. I assumed ‘accessories’. Apparently it is also an addictive dice game.
Tommy Williams had to do the same thing, so perhaps an explanation is in order.
The word is generally accepted to mean a combination of “function” and “sparkle”, hence, farkle. That’s what I learned it to be. However, it’s also commonly accepted that it is F.A.R.K.L.E. — Fancy Accessory Really Kool Likely Expensive
Hi Dad,
Coralee told me you were looking for a smart phone. Here’s my assessment of the 4 major players:
Blackberry - It’s like owning a Hyosung. Inherent design flaws, cheap, and designed to be thrown away. Friends don’t let friends ride a Hyosung.
Android - It’s like owning a secondhand, restored CB500. It seems like a good idea at the time. It’s cheap. You get lots of stuff for cheap, and in general it works reasonably well. But you quickly learn that it’s outdated, it’s near impossible to upgrade or fix without doing some incredibly hacky stuff, and the inherent niggles that you didn’t know at the time only show themselves AFTER purchase, and there’s nothing you can do about it. (Android phones typically do not see a security update once they leave the factory.)
Windows phone (the new 7.5 Mango ones) - Like having a Triumph Triple (various engine capacities apply here too) with a service plan. It’s a wonderful piece of technology that will work great, gets good reviews, you’ll love it and it is as fun to use as it is utilitarian, but every time you need a service you’ll probably be waiting on replacement parts for a while. It’ll still function just fine without it, but there’s that lengthy delay. The end result is a good quality working bike though. There’s plenty of farkles out there, but not a HUGE amount.
iPhone - Like owning a Honda CBR series bike. You get one because your friends have one, everyone knows what it is, and because it puts a smile on your face every time you swing a leg over it. The Crème de la Crème of motorcycles. Generally a close call between this and the top tier competitors. Quickly gets outdated by the next latest and greatest model. Farkles galore that all cost money, high availability of parts, if you have an issue with it there’s shitloads of information on the web already, but designed to consume-consume-consume - that is, sucks gas like crazy and the real hit to the pocketbook is not the initial purchase, but the ongoing costs of servicing, tires and parts
