"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Peregrin said:
I had a 1968 Triumph GT-6 in the early '70s. It was yellow, just like this one! Mine had the wire wheels with knock off hubs too. I wish I could find a pic of the dashboard. I loved that walnut dashboard!
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One of my brothers had a GT-6. It was a '67 or '68. I remember as a kid seeing a manual transmission for the first time and thinking, "It's over. I'll never figure this out."
 
btb01 said:
Not enough wheels…





Too many wheels…

Just right. 😎

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That makes me think of this:
 
waynorth said:
A 1966 Bonneville was the only brand new Bike I owned. Bought from Fred's Cycle in Syracuse!! Wish I still had it also, Gary - Wonderful bike!!
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Great minds, Charlie! ;) Mine was used. Bought in Utica in 1969. My first bike was a little Honda that I got in 1966. I was 16 and that was the first year that New York State required a separate motorcycle license. Prior to that if you had a driver's license you were good to go on a motorcycle.

My buddy had his driver's license, I only had a motorcycle permit, which required that someone be driving behind me.

We were riding in the New Hartford shopping plaza parking lot one Sunday. Back in the day there was no shopping on Sundays. The local police stopped us, and asked to see our licenses. I thought I was toast! He looked at my buddies drivers license and told him he was driving illegally, and would have to be escorted home. He looked at my learners permit and announced "see here's a motorcycle license! That's what you need!" I drove off into the sunset while my buddy went home with the police following!
 
Just Tom. said:
How about British cars? I had one just like this back in the day:

Wire wheels with knock-off hubs, SU carburetors, an oil cooler - great stuff.
When the ignition switch broke, I rigged a push-button starter from parts I got at the local Radio Shack. I’m sure everybody knows the old joke about Lucas electrical systems…
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Do you mean the one about why Englishmen drink warm beer ???

Harry
 
Old Engineer said:
Good . Now you need to tell everyone the Joke .
Harry
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You should have said “OK Tom, do you mind sharing what’s so funny with the rest of the class?”

So the old joke goes:
Q: Why do the English drink warm beer?
A: Because they have Lucas refrigerators.

The explanation:
Lucas was a company that manufactured electrical components for British cars, and those parts were notoriously unreliable.

Don’t feel bad if you didn’t get it - as the old saying goes: “He who laughs last, had to have it explained to him.”
 
Just Tom. said:
Lucas was a company that manufactured electrical components for British cars, and those parts were notoriously unreliable.
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They also made them for British motorcycles, which is why you had to often bump start them and even then it was a crap shoot. 😜
 
Modoc ED said:
Cindy and I on our Honda Goldwing Aspencade. Put about 80,000 miles on that bike before selling it. It was our last motorcycle. My knees went South and I haven't ridden in 30-years. If Frank knarfeng knarfeng is seeing this, this is when we lived on Coleman Ave..

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So, I have to ask, when you lived on Coleman, did you happen to know a Navy vet by the name of Bill Lonegan? He lived in the area and sometimes hung out at the IB VFW.
 
euroken said:
Oh the Greatest non-escape ever!!! 😁 Love that scene.

Steve McQueen used to do many of his own driving and motorcycle stunts!

Don't mean to divert it away from motorcycles but another one of his greatest!!!

A little long but the you can skip to 3:22'ish when the things heat up!

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Yes, always great watching him ride or drive. In that chase scene in The Great Escape, he also played one of the pursuing German motorcyclists 👍
 
Jack Black said:
Yes, always great watching him ride or drive. In that chase scene in The Great Escape, he also played one of the pursuing German motorcyclists 👍
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You’ll notice that he starts off on a German BMW that magically turns into a Triumph for the stunts. I had the pleasure to ride my BMW up Mansell street on my way to work. It was used in the car chase in Bullet, lots of steep hills. 😃
 
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