DIY-HP-LED
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Repurposing an obsolete term for a station wagon!
Climate in the 21st Century
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OldMedUser
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When I drove cab in Calgary back in the late 70s - '82 I drove a lot of different land yachts and the Chrysler New Yorker was my fave until I bought a '78 Buick station wagon from a driver/owner that was quitting. Man that was a great car. 350ci with dual 4 bbl Rockchester carbs, dual exhaust and every possible option other than a power sun roof.
My 2008 Saturn Vue with the biggest V6 is a pretty sweet ride too tho. Just hit 140,000km. Thanks mom!
cannabineer
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growing up in the mid-Lannic I never encountered it except as a model name.
cannabineer
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In college I knew a young lady from the better bits of New Jersey. One day she let me drive her car: a great vast rectangular slab of Chrysler. Imperial I think. Thing was just off idle at seventy.When I drove cab in Calgary back in the late 70s - '82 I drove a lot of different land yachts and the Chrysler New Yorker was my fave until I bought a '78 Buick station wagon from a driver/owner that was quitting. Man that was a great car. 350ci with dual 4 bbl Rockchester carbs, dual exhaust and every possible option other than a power sun roof.
My 2008 Saturn Vue with the biggest V6 is a pretty sweet ride too tho. Just hit 140,000km. Thanks mom!
(edit) could a been a Newport.
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OldMedUser
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Now there's a sweet ride! Needs a couple more doors to be a cab but I'd love something like that. Just not a FORD fan and always preferred GM products until they moved manufacturing to Mexico a while back.
The only muscle car I ever owned was a '78 Dodge Cornet 440. How I survived that beast is still a wonder to me. lol
This is the beast I'm hot for now. Some guy has it up for sale on FB Marketplace for 10G and I'm thinking of getting a loan for it. 2 wheel drive go anywhere Ural motorcycle. The ultimate fishing machine to get me where I need to go!
Not made in Russia anymore thanks to PooTin's war. Made in Kasitstan? or somewhere now.
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cannabineer
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If I recall, the Ural copies the BMW 650 opposed twin.Now there's a sweet ride! Needs a couple more doors to be a cab but I'd love something like that. Just not a FORD fan and always preferred GM products until they moved manufacturing to Mexico a while back.
The only muscle car I ever owned was a '78 Dodge Cornet 440. How I survived that beast is still a wonder to me. lol
This is the beast I'm hot for now. Some guy has it up for sale on FB Marketplace for 10G and I'm thinking of getting a loan for it. 2 wheel drive go anywhere Ural motorcycle. The ultimate fishing machine to get me where I need to go!
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Not made in Russia anymore thanks to PooTin's war.
I’m a bit old and shaky for a bike, an old H-D fan, but had I had the cash, one of those Bim twins woulda been a sweet twilight ride.
Ozumoz66
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My brother had a Cordoba in the mid 80's, that he took my friends to the drive-in with it once. It wasn't good for the environment or climate change. He'd rigged the windshield washer fluid hose to feed into the carburetor. The washer fluid was a mixture of used oil and some kerosene.
On route home there was someone following quite close behind us. So my brother geared down, hit the gas and pressed the windshield washer button. The headlights behind us were suddenly not so close due to lack of visibility.
Yeah, it was a stupid/dangerous thing to do. Molson Canadian and hash were a source of many dumb behaviors back then. Haven't had a Molson Canadian for a couple decades.
On route home there was someone following quite close behind us. So my brother geared down, hit the gas and pressed the windshield washer button. The headlights behind us were suddenly not so close due to lack of visibility.
Yeah, it was a stupid/dangerous thing to do. Molson Canadian and hash were a source of many dumb behaviors back then. Haven't had a Molson Canadian for a couple decades.
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Roger A. Shrubber
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That looks like they ran out of front bumpers and just said "Fuck it, stick a back bumper on the front and send her out."
OldMedUser
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I just got a nice quad trailer after getting a trailer hitch installed on the Vue. I figure to haul that thing, if I got it or another like it, up to our cabin a long ways away and do some exploring like I did as a kid on foot or the old Honda step-thru bush bike that lives at my BIL's place now.
They are based on the BMW. Russia had to smuggle in 3 then reverse engineered them.
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Roger A. Shrubber
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I've been looking at one of these, they've had time to work the kinks out, they get good reviews, and with my carpal tunnel, i can't run a clutch all day.
I actually like the model from 3 or 4 years ago better, and they sell for less, but i couldn't find a pic at the moment.
https://www.hondasuzukiofwarren.com/Motorcycles-Honda-NC750X-DCT-ABS-2020-Warren-MI-20667f84-c335-4b1b-9e46-aafd0039509d
found a pic
I actually like the model from 3 or 4 years ago better, and they sell for less, but i couldn't find a pic at the moment.
https://www.hondasuzukiofwarren.com/Motorcycles-Honda-NC750X-DCT-ABS-2020-Warren-MI-20667f84-c335-4b1b-9e46-aafd0039509d
found a pic
cannabineer
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not like anyone would notice! The two ends were in separate zip codes. Street parking the New Jersey was a cadmium-plated bitch.
OldMedUser
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Crotch rockets were never my bag. The last bike I had and crashed in '83 was a 1970 650 Triumph Bonny I customized with a hardtail frame that extended the length 5" and lowered it 4. All chrome exposed spring front end with 6" extended legs not slugs with 6" dogbone risers and flat bars. Black cobra seat and I painted it all black wrinkle finish from cans and it came up with lots of big wrinkles in the cool basement. Got the guy at the local gas station to bend me up some TT pipes with the right size muffler pipe and painted them hi-temp black. Man it was loud. Rebuilt the whole thing over the winter of 82 and got lots of good rides in with buddies before the crash in Sept. 83. Compression fracture of the L1 and tho I used to be 5' 9.5" I was 5'8" even after.
Shattered my left elbow and that was wired up for 6 months and won't go fully straight now. Got off lucky.I also ripped off the original wiring harness and just used black wire for the few things that need wire on one of those. Plus an octagon oil tank and real small battery to clean up the midsection.
I do have one pic of it somewhere parked in front of the Maple Leaf Tavern in Sumas, WA. No helmet laws at the time so would stop there, drink a pitcher of beer, leave my helmet with the barmaid then do a white knuckle run up the back road to Mt. Baker. Have a few more beers at a small biker bar up there on the road, shoot some pool then usually find a guy or few who wanted to race back to Sumas. Used to cross the border to go home just pissed. Would even push the bike a block to the customs then push it up a ways before firing it up. Never got hassled once. Then just take backroads along the border to home. We lived 1 mile from the US border and just 3 miles from the crossing that goes down to Bellingham, WA. The Sumas one was about 20 miles further east. Now I'd need a passport to cross FFS.
Roger A. Shrubber
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that's actually considered a cruiser, you can sit up straight pretty comfortablyCrotch rockets were never my bag. The last bike I had and crashed in '83 was a 1970 650 Triumph Bonny I customized with a hardtail frame that extended the length 5" and lowered it 4. All chrome exposed spring front end with 6" extended legs not slugs with 6" dogbone risers and flat bars. Black cobra seat and I painted it all black wrinkle finish from cans and it came up with lots of big wrinkles in the cool basement. Got the guy at the local gas station to bend me up some TT pipes with the right size muffler pipe and painted them hi-temp black. Man it was loud. Rebuilt the whole thing over the winter of 82 and got lots of good rides in with buddies before the crash in Sept. 83. Compression fracture of the L1 and tho I used to be 5' 9.5" I was 5'8" even after.
I also ripped off the original wiring harness and just used black wire for the few things that need wire on one of those. Plus an octagon oil tank and real small battery to clean up the midsection.
I do have one pic of it somewhere parked in front of the Maple Leaf Tavern in Sumas, WA. No helmet laws at the time so would stop there, drink a pitcher of beer, leave my helmet with the barmaid then do a white knuckle run up the back road to Mt. Baker. Have a few more beers at a small biker bar up there on the road, shoot some pool then usually find a guy or few who wanted to race back to Sumas. Used to cross the border to go home just pissed. Would even push the bike a block to the customs then push it up a ways before firing it up. Never got hassled once. Then just take backroads along the border to home. We lived 1 mile from the US border and just 3 miles from the crossing that goes down to Bellingham, WA. The Sumas one was about 20 miles further east. Now I'd need a passport to cross FFS.
cannabineer
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Maybe thirty years ago Harley had a ride-our-new-models event not too far away. I had a big twin on the FXR frame at the time. I remember one bike mag journalist describing it as a scaled-up UJM. Wonderful sit-up ride, but let’s gently say the ‘80s drivetrain had lotsa soul.
I tried out the Softail Springer, which was the new hotness. Night and day! I was placed into a sort of laid-back recline. It was easier to steer that thing with my butt than the bars.
My last bike was a dresser. I had trepidations about buying an Old Man’s Bike (I was in my early 40s and blissfully unaware of what aging really is) but maaan. I could go longer in that cushy saddle than in any car, and that half-ton of front end was limber and balanced and responded to one finger of pressure. The bike had almost no soul … it started and ran faithfully and capably under awful conditions. (I could say something climate-y and tell about the time I wiped out on the divide in New Mex.)
Three bikes commonly called cruisers. three very different rides.
*just realized! I rode it home Valentine’s of ‘03. Twenty years and two days! It had the centennial badging.
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Roger A. Shrubber
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I'm looking for something I can take a comfortable posture on, but that I can also lean into and haul ass when the mood strikes me.
This seems to fit the bill pretty well.
This seems to fit the bill pretty well.
Dr.Amber Trichome
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I miss Mt Baker. Oh those beautiful trails and sweeping majestic views. The views at the summits on the northern trails looking into Canada were mind blowing. All the snow capped jagged mountains went on forever.Crotch rockets were never my bag. The last bike I had and crashed in '83 was a 1970 650 Triumph Bonny I customized with a hardtail frame that extended the length 5" and lowered it 4. All chrome exposed spring front end with 6" extended legs not slugs with 6" dogbone risers and flat bars. Black cobra seat and I painted it all black wrinkle finish from cans and it came up with lots of big wrinkles in the cool basement. Got the guy at the local gas station to bend me up some TT pipes with the right size muffler pipe and painted them hi-temp black. Man it was loud. Rebuilt the whole thing over the winter of 82 and got lots of good rides in with buddies before the crash in Sept. 83. Compression fracture of the L1 and tho I used to be 5' 9.5" I was 5'8" even after.
I also ripped off the original wiring harness and just used black wire for the few things that need wire on one of those. Plus an octagon oil tank and real small battery to clean up the midsection.
I do have one pic of it somewhere parked in front of the Maple Leaf Tavern in Sumas, WA. No helmet laws at the time so would stop there, drink a pitcher of beer, leave my helmet with the barmaid then do a white knuckle run up the back road to Mt. Baker. Have a few more beers at a small biker bar up there on the road, shoot some pool then usually find a guy or few who wanted to race back to Sumas. Used to cross the border to go home just pissed. Would even push the bike a block to the customs then push it up a ways before firing it up. Never got hassled once. Then just take backroads along the border to home. We lived 1 mile from the US border and just 3 miles from the crossing that goes down to Bellingham, WA. The Sumas one was about 20 miles further east. Now I'd need a passport to cross FFS.
cannabineer
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Off-topic … 
www.nature.com
Outcry as scientists sanctioned for climate protest
Researchers have asked the American Geophysical Union to reverse actions it took against scientists who demonstrated at a December meeting.
www.nature.com
OldMedUser
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On the highway the leaning forward position with the flat bars was pretty comfortable as the wind lifted a lot of weight. Not that I have a lot of weight to lift still only 140lbs the same as I was back then. At the time of the crash I had put a set of ape-hangers on it which I was planning to change back as the steering felt sloppy in comparison.
The first of three Bonnys I got was also a '70 that was stock other than 6" slugs in the front end and I was in grade 11 at high school. The biggest other bike at school was a crotch rocket Kawasaki 500 triple. When I showed up with the Triumph suddenly girls that would never give me the time of day were interested. Good times.
The 2nd one was a '69 stone stock unit.
Roger A. Shrubber
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seems like a pretty related topic to me.Off-topic …
Outcry as scientists sanctioned for climate protest
Researchers have asked the American Geophysical Union to reverse actions it took against scientists who demonstrated at a December meeting.