| Author | Message | ||
     Torquehd |
You turn the heel band over so you can slip the shoes on without bending over to use your hands. I always thought moccasins were cool, My dad used to wear knee-high fringe moccasins when he was on the road playing country music. I hope some day to own a pair. Why just have one RPM? I like to have lots of RPM's. It used to annoy me when people used apostrophes in instances like my previous sentence. They're supposed to be used for either contractions, or to indicate ownership. Not to indicate plurals. Or plural's. However, the misuse is so commonplace that I've just come to accept them. | ||
| Hootowl |
I never accept abuses of English; I simmer with rage for a moment and move on. | ||
| Crusty |
Shouldn't it be R's PM? Or RsPM? | ||
| 1313 |
But, if you are German it is:  Guess the bike this tach is on - if you want... | ||
| Etennuly |
Crusty, you may be correct. RPM stands for Revolutions Per Minute. RsPM would seem to stand for speeds above idle. Right?  | ||
| Court |
I'm guessing that tach is from a König somewhere around 1970. If I remember right they were running them at the Dutch TT in Assen. Memory could be bad though . . . | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
The crazy outboard motor-powered racer? http://www.ozebook.com/compendium/photoblog/49.htm l | ||
| Fast1075 |
I knew a retired engineer named Mr. Nobles that worked for Mercury Marine at one point and then worked at Evinrude. He collected and raced rare outboard motors. His collection even included one of the supposedly crushed Evinrude 3 rotor rotary prototypes. He introduced me to the world of high performance 2 stroke engines with a Konig twin outboard. rotary disc induction, 14K rpm with variable tuned chambers. When he saw my interest, he introduced me to a book by a fellow named Jennings which is literally "the book" on 2 stroke performance. I love the smell of castor in the morning. | ||
| Aesquire |
Obscure engine trivia. Allison built giant 2 stroke engine prototypes for the Navy to use on Airships, as a higher performance alternative to the big Daimler or Mercedes diesels then used. ( They bought a Zeppelin after WW1, as well as having a war prize Zeppelin ) The engines worked well, but the Airships used giant condenser units to take the water vapor out of the exhaust, to use as ballast replacing the weight of the fuel burned. ( otherwise they'd have to valve off lifting gas ) The Two strokes had much more exhaust volume needing bigger condenser radiators, offsetting the power to weight gain of the engines. So....project cancelled. Pity..... We could have had turbo supercharged two stroke airplane engines in WW2, if development had continued. On topic, I'm bugged by bad history stories that have fatal technical errors. Like blaming Allison for not making supercharged engines, and that's why the P-40 was a failure..... All Allison V-1710 aircraft engines were supercharged. The Air Corps insisted on single stage supers, boosted by turbos, but in the end, only the P-38 Lightning ( that many of your bikes were named for ) went into production using Allisons & turbos for high altitude performance. Plus.... Obsolete at the beginning of the war, the P-40 served multiple countries from beginning to end, and are still prized as awesome handling warbirds. ( albeit with killer stall characteristics ) From killing Zeros at Pearl Harbor, the Flying Tigers high kill ratio against the Japanese in China, Service in the Pacific over New Guinea, the African desert, in Russian hands on the Russian front.... It was never the fighter we wanted, but it was the fighter we had, and shot down the best the Germans, Italians, and Japanese sent against them. I've also got a rant on the P-39. And on how the most highly rated fighters were often badly flawed. And another on how stupid the government ( any country's ) is when refusing to fix fatal flaws in military hardware. Example? The Firefly tank. | ||
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| Ducbsa |
Wow, the shriek of a 2 stroke engine on a P-51 or a B-29!! Hearing protection technology would have been hard-pressed to keep up. Or would the turbos quiet them down? | ||
| Aesquire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Crecy Two strokes are small, right? | ||
| Aesquire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Lion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_R Way more obscure.... BOTH of these engines, in succession, owned the world speed records for planes, land vehicles, and boats. All Three records. In the case of the Lion, the SAME engine. | ||
| Marksm |
1313, at first I thought that sticker said Camel Toe.. One of my biggest peeves are the idiots that match your speed when you overtake them. Most of it is subconscious but I've had a few that do it on purpose. | ||
| 86129squids |
I'm good with camel toe, but please, no moose knuckle...  | ||
| Crusty |
ROAD HOGS bug the **** out of me!!! (Message edited by Crusty on June 15, 2018) | ||
| Ducbsa |
Seeing "$100 dollars" typed. Why the extra work of typing "dollars" when the $ tells the tale? Reading questions on a forum where the guy hasn't bothered to look on his own for the most basic info. I have internal debates on this, though, because everyone was a noob once, but you need to look up stuff, too. The side benefit is that you might see something else that helps you. When I got my XB, I read through the shop manual to get a feel for things and was impressed by how much red loctite you were supposed to use. People at the gym that stand close to the front of the dumbbell rack and block access for others. | ||
| Ratbuell |
TV listings on my cable tv preview channel that call out "MLB Baseball". Overall, we as a culture/nation have GOT to get a handle on our English language. This is sad. No wonder the rest of the globe thinks we're fat, stupid Americans! | ||
| Ratbuell |
People who come to a complete, 5-second stop for a speed bump....but roll right through stop signs. | ||
| Airbozo |
Stop signs don't destroy undercarriages... But yeah, I hate that too. | ||
| Mnscrounger |
Speaking of TV listings, when I select "free to me" in the guide why does Xfinity still show me pay per view, and subscription channels? Technically, NONE of it's free if I'm paying a monthly fee, but I only want to see in the listings what I've already paid for ...... (rant continues)... | ||
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| Airbozo |
I stand corrected Hoot... | ||
| Hootowl |
Took me forever to find that... | ||
| Ratbuell |
You have to go into a menu (I forget which one) to make it show you "free to me" every time you turn the set on. Otherwise it resets every time. Pissed me off too till I found that. | ||
| Ratbuell |
And a speed bump doesn't get anywhere close to the chassis of a 6" lifted Duramax 2500. | ||
| Rick_a |
I'm really annoyed when the people you honk at for nearly running you over get mad and expect an apology. Nope. You and the hooptie you rode in on suck. | ||
| Etennuly |
It takes "for ever to find something" yet it is found and you stopped looking for it. | ||
| Ducbsa |
I have been noticing people in blogs, etc. typing things like "$30 million dollars". Why type "dollars" when you already typed the wonderful "$"? Also, "300$" bugs me. |
