1 minute ago, bluesofa said:

Reminds me as a kid, my mother saying, "knit one purl one," whatever that meant.

My Nan used to be like chairperson of the local knitting club ( guaranteed every Xmas hand knitted jumpers for us ) and the one I remember was " one in time saves nine " or was it " one in 9 saves time " .. can't remember it was so bloody long ago now .. 

 

4 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

My Nan used to be like chairperson of the local knitting club ( guaranteed every Xmas hand knitted jumpers for us ) and the one I remember was " one in time saves nine " or was it " one in 9 saves time " .. can't remember it was so bloody long ago now ..

It was 'a stitch in time saves nine', nowt to do with knitting though:
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-stitch-in-time.html

 

3 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

It was 'a stitch in time saves nine', nowt to do with knitting though:
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-stitch-in-time.html

 

Just as well I didn't pursue a career in knitting then .. Nan'll be rotating in the grave that I made such an elementary mistake .. 

8 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Indeed it was .. Good of you to drop in 'Sof .. we don't have too many visitor's apart from our regular con's .. Almost like a knitting club here its now .. 

 

And, while you've been having tea and scones with the visitor, I've been racing ahead

 

9 hours ago, bluesofa said:

That was the bike featured in the UK ITV series Boon with Michael Elphick:
https://www.smiths-instruments.co.uk/blog/bsa-lightning-motorcycle-star-of-film-and-television

A great TV programme, seven series back in 1986-92:

 

Another famous motorbike.  This one appeared in two different comedy shows.  Anyone care to name them?

 

 

 

Here's a better look at the bike, a 1933 Brough Superior 1,096cc 11-50hp Combination.  It sold at Bonhams' Spring Stafford Sale in April this year for £ 71,300.

 

 

Edited September 5, 20196 yr by ballpoint

37 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

And, while you've been having tea and scones with the visitor, I've been racing ahead

 

You've been busy B P I'm deeply impressed .. Is Trump into bikes as well .. ☺

 

26 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

Another famous motorbike.  This one appeared in two different comedy shows

Top one was George and Mildred which was classic 70's comedy .. ( bloody hell its near 40 yrs since those series and Yootha Joyce's premature passing ) .. The bottom shot looks like Dad's Army but I ain't 100% on that .. 

On the subject of combo's .. One for the left .. and right .. 

 

Matchless Typhoon .. 

Hawker Typhoon .. 

The Spit' , Hurricane , Lancaster etc were the darlings of the RAF WW2 but this plane played a significant role also .. 

Conceived as a fighter to operate alongside the Spit' it was way too heavy and unwieldy for that and problems with the airframe and the monstrous Napier Sabre engine during dev' seen it nearly strangled at birth when the War ministry wanted production concentrated on the Spit' and H .. not to mention its alarming tendency to crash unexplained later traced to Carbon Monoxide ingress into the cockpit from the engine which rendered the pilots unconscious .. this was remedied by different shape exhaust stubs to deflect the gas away .. Problems ironed out and too cumbersome for dogfighting it found its role as fighter bomber particularly effective at attacking armour and train's carrying them with cannon and direct fire rockets .. The losses and damage inflicted on the Wehrmacht by these after D day was immense and the Germans took to taking cover if they heard any of them flying about looking for targets their presence being made by the unearthly whine of the engine .. 

 

Edited September 5, 20196 yr by Justgrazing
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59 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

The bottom shot looks like Dad's Army but I ain't 100% on that ..

Yep.  It was Hodges the ARP warden's bike.

 

A beautiful little Bianchi 350 

Early 30's Galsubera 500 V8 stroker .. 

put this up before but that is a better pic' of a super rare  motorcycle .. 

 

Still beautiful after all these years..........

 

Huge (air cooled) Monster fan here.

Never been a big fan of any of the water cooled versions, inc the latest 821-1200's.

Too busy, not clean enough. Rads, hoses, fans, yada nada da bing.

However, IMO the greatest looking of them all, the S4R, particularly in the Tri Colore version. still looks stunning 12 years later... and certainly better than anything you can buy in 2019 showrooms.....

Raunchy bike porn ...

 

  

11 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

Still beautiful after all these years..........

 

However, IMO the greatest looking of them all, the S4R, particularly in the Tri Colore version. still looks stunning 12 years later... and certainly better than anything you can buy in 2019 showrooms.....

Amen to that.

15 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Early 30's Galsubera 500 V8 stroker .. 

I hope it sounds/sounded like this?

 

 

8 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

Raunchy bike porn ...

 

  

That is the rattiest looking ratbike I've seen in a long time Dam' .. 

GT750 Suzy sprinter .. 

 

1 hour ago, Justgrazing said:

That is the rattiest looking ratbike I've seen in a long time Dam' .. 

avec car tyres.....

3 minutes ago, thaiguzzi said:

avec car tyres.....

Well spotted Guzz' .. my gaze had been drawn to the full on rust look .. For that you have won a couple of Ducati singles .. 

 

 

4 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

avec car tyres.....

There's quite a large group of Rocket owners who swear by using a car tyre on the rear.  It's called going to the "dark side".  They claim they are cheaper and provide more grip, particularly in the rain, while still allowing high speed cornering, and whole forums exist to discuss the best tyres to use.  I've never been game to try it on mine, but I wouldn't mind having a ride on one to see what it's like.

2 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

There's quite a large group of Rocket owners who swear by using a car tyre on the rear.  It's called going to the "dark side".  They claim they are cheaper and provide more grip, particularly in the rain, while still allowing high speed cornering, and whole forums exist to discuss the best tyres to use.  I've never been game to try it on mine, but I wouldn't mind having a ride on one to see what it's like.

To a degree I can understand the thinking behind using car tyres on the rear as the tread profile across the tyre is flat which would translate to a bigger contact patch with the road surface as opposed to a bike tyre which is more convex across the the width and has that much smaller contact area .. It is the leaning over to any great degree and the lateral loads imposed on the sidewall that would make me wary .. Gentle slight lean probably wouldn't be too much of an issue but Motogp style lean angles maybe not .. Maybe the best way is get another rear wheel with a car hoop fitted for you're bike and give it a go .. Go easy on Marquez style cornering until you've got some feedback though .. 

Just now, Justgrazing said:

Go easy on Marquez style cornering until you've got some feedback though .. 

But it's the only way I know!

17 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

There's quite a large group of Rocket owners who swear by using a car tyre on the rear.  It's called going to the "dark side".  They claim they are cheaper and provide more grip, particularly in the rain, while still allowing high speed cornering, and whole forums exist to discuss the best tyres to use.  I've never been game to try it on mine, but I wouldn't mind having a ride on one to see what it's like.

A very good friend of mine in the UK, (we go waaaaay back), has had a Rocket 3 for a good few years now, put quite huge mileage on it, been all over the place with it, rides it, er, with gusto, and reckons 3,000 miles tops on a rear tyre. Maximum...

On a Euro run he will plan ahead where to get a tyre changed.....

It's the torque guv. Addictive....

 

Doesn't seem to worry these guys too much:

 

4 minutes ago, thaiguzzi said:

It's the torque guv. Addictive....

Tell me about it...

 

And, with a 240/50R16 tyre approaching 20k baht, and more than that for some brands, it's a lot of dosh to be coating the road with.

 

 

Edited September 6, 20196 yr by ballpoint

4 minutes ago, thaiguzzi said:

A very good friend of mine in the UK, (we go waaaaay back), has had a Rocket 3 for a good few years now, put quite huge mileage on it, been all over the place with it, rides it, er, with gusto, and reckons 3,000 miles tops on a rear tyre. Maximum...

On a Euro run he will plan ahead where to get a tyre changed.....

That's one nice bike.

Handmade 14 pot radial engine using Yam' Road Warrior barrels and heads to give a combined capacity of 11.9 ltrs .. And he's one of the static engine demonstration corps looking at it on the trailer .. I've seen Spit' engines just mounted on a trailer with a prop' up front at motor rallies and such .. They just fire 'em up and give it some big rev's for everyone to get deafened by the noise of an open piped legend .. Folk pay good money for this sort of thing .. 

BMW 801 is a real 41 litre 14 banger radial and was fitted in numerous German WW2 planes inc the FW190 .. 

Credited with being the first engine with an engine management system abeit not digital like today's systems but all critical engine settings like mixture , ign , engine load/speed and boost on forced aspiration versions were managed by one control .. At a time when pilots might have to adjust the mix' and timing separately and perhaps feather the prop' and at numerous times while concentrating on flying and dogfighting with you're foe having an engine that pretty much did it for you must have been a godsend .. 

 

43 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

That's one nice bike.

Yeah, tis.

Innit.

Off the net, in my computer files, i put it up here a while ago.

Lots of guys ran 15 inch car tires on their Pans and shovels back in the day

avec car tyres.....

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Graceful tuned length R front pipes .. 

Turbo's are never easy to make look neat on a motorbike but that is quite a tidy installation and I'll wager torquesome .. 

New Rocket .. love those slash cut pipes .. 

 

2 hours ago, ballpoint said:

But it's the only way I know!

Made me laugh as can relate to what you are saying! I have quite an aggressive riding style, now at 64 years old quite often I think to myself <deleted> are you doing!