Question for the "old guys"...Is it just me or are there others?

[Rock Home Isle]

Apparently, you are not sure.

No…the thread has ventured so far away from topic…just trying to lasso it back in.

 

[SOLANCO]

No…the thread has ventured so far away from topic…just trying to lasso it back in.

14 Pages later I had to go back to the OP on page one to see what we were talking about!

 

[TFoley]

I believe your RAF upper heyford (I've never heard of before) probably needed a set of spark plug wires. I had a Chevy 350 that lit up like a Christmas tree on a wet night......Wally

RAF Upper Heyford was a USAF base here in England, not a motorcycle.

 

[JeffWLee]

While I understand the "desire" I am more of a realist and accept that what i did when I was 40 I am not doing when I am 72. It is what it is. I prefer to go out on top of my game. I just adjust and fine other things to do, that are less strenuous and easier on the 72 yr old body. I played hockey in the Phila farm system, I raced motrocycles (road racing)and attended the 1968 World Championship in 68, I was a Marine Officer,then I was a govt agt, I earned two MBA's and other Post graduate degrees and certifications, ya da ya da ya da...that was then, it is certainly not now! I refuse to live in the past that i can do nothing about, preferring the here and now, because I never know what tomorrow will bring either. Just one man's opinion. I like to study history, not try and relive it!

Oh, goodness, Snake, you've got the wrong idea of my comment. I am indeed a realist. I no longer try and do an Ironman triathlon in the same time I did when I was 40. My body has aches and pains today that probably got started from activities in my 30's - and I don't play hockey, was in the military or race motorcycles. But at 64 I seem to have grown a maturity gene that I didn't have at 25 or 35 and now appreciate things more that in the past I took for granted. I study history. I too don't try to relive my history . . . but I sure like paying attention to some of the things of old that people sometimes think are beyond use. Like that old double-bit axe head, the flintlock, and the 'hawk. (I just don't collect buggy whips!)

 

[vintovka]

RAF Upper Heyford was a USAF base here in England, not a motorcycle.

Not all bad memories. The Cooper was better than my Morris but both seemed to have a penchant for dying near pubs in town. Ever try to sleep it off in Cooper???

 

[Snake Pleskin]

The heck with the rest of this thread, this statement is what interests me. The fact that @Snake Pleskin felt it necessary to tell us that he attended something in the same year it happened hints at his ability to time travel. Like he could have attended the 1968 World Championship yesterday. Kinda like he can reenact history if he wants to. Unless of course he meant he attended it in 1868 (he doesn't specify the century) a hundred years before it happened, which would still be time travel but now he can see the future. @tenngun he might be able to answer your questions about why short rifles came into existence after Rendezvous times.

I do not have a clue what you are ranting about The 1968 WC in the ISle of Mann was won by Giacomo Agostini on a 4 cyl MV Agusta...one of the first. I was fortunate enough to be able to be there...like thousands of others?No time travel involved ,jsut a cheap tkt on Lufthansa Airways, where you could still smoke on board!

 

[Snake Pleskin]

Oh, goodness, Snake, you've got the wrong idea of my comment. I am indeed a realist. I no longer try and do an Ironman triathlon in the same time I did when I was 40. My body has aches and pains today that probably got started from activities in my 30's - and I don't play hockey, was in the military or race motorcycles. But at 64 I seem to have grown a maturity gene that I didn't have at 25 or 35 and now appreciate things more that in the past I took for granted. I study history. I too don't try to relive my history . . . but I sure like paying attention to some of the things of old that people sometimes think are beyond use. Like that old double-bit axe head, the flintlock, and the 'hawk. (I just don't collect buggy whips!)

Sounds like it works well for you. Good

 

[Snake Pleskin]

Not all bad memories. The Cooper was better than my Morris but both seemed to have a penchant for dying near pubs in town. Ever try to sleep it off in Cooper???

OMG, the original Mini Cooper was truly a Mini. Had tires the size of a go cart!!!

 

[Snake Pleskin]

14 Pages later I had to go back to the OP on page one to see what we were talking about!

just so you're having fun that's all that really matters

 

[vintovka]

OMG, the original Mini Cooper was truly a Mini. Had tires the size of a go cart!!!

Yes and kiddy seats to match.

 

[Collector54]

Just my 2 cents here. When the kids were young I'm 67+ ,we went out in our yard and picked greens to eat. My kids would ask to gather food that way every week. We had chickens, turkeys ,goats and sheep that we ate. Both my wife and I worked off farm but I always felt the farm kept us grounded. I taught anyone that would listen how to find food in the forest or in their yard. As I get older I am harkening back to years before my time to try to be more self reliant. It just seems to make sense to me, especially, given the current state of affairs we are living thru. I was taught by a neighbor in town when very young what plants I could eat out of the yard. My teacher was a widow who lived thru the Depression and survived that way. Her husband was a dentist and if he worked he was paid by barter. So they often had to rustle grub (living in town), anyway they could. My folks too were depressionera kids that tried very hard to teach me self reliance and frugality, which I had tried to teach our kids to do. So, yes by way of Alaska, I too am yearning for the days gone by as one does for good memories, but I do look to the future and trust the Almighty does have this under control. He does not though ,want us to be uneducated about how his world works and how to have the knowledge to help others. Learning the old ways both to preserve history as well as gaining new skills are very important and from the comments here ,from way back in 2013, seem to indicate we have many fellow travelers on this journey.

 

[Okie Hog]

That was not the case when Unions destroyed the Car, Steel and Manufacturing sectors of the USA!

Unions had very little to do with the destruction of those Industries. The US steel industry steadfastly refused to modernize their plants. The Trump administration put tariffs on imported steel and US companies raised their prices to match. But that was not enough as US steel companies cancelled plans to modernize their plants.

Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton teamed up and shipped US manufacturing overseas; mostly to China.

Now the US is caught between rock and a hard place as the Chinese communists are saber rattling about taking Taiwan and also threatening Pacific countries.

 

[1BadDart]

Unions had very little to do with the destruction of those Industries. The US steel industry steadfastly refused to modernize their plants. The Trump administration put tariffs on imported steel and US companies raised their prices to match. But that was not enough as US steel companies cancelled plans to modernize their plants.

Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton teamed up and shipped US manufacturing overseas; mostly to China.

Now the US is caught between rock and a hard place as the Chinese communists are saber rattling about taking Taiwan and also threatening Pacific countries.

I agree. The scary part is that if china cuts off the U.S., we will come to a standstill, just look at what covid did us. Plus, we no longer have the manufacturing capability to sustain a large-scale war.

 

[deerstalkert]

Not all bad memories. The Cooper was better than my Morris but both seemed to have a penchant for dying near pubs in town. Ever try to sleep it off in Cooper???

my daughter may have been conceived in the back seat of a Morris 2000!

 

[Snake Pleskin]

Just my 2 cents here. When the kids were young I'm 67+ ,we went out in our yard and picked greens to eat. My kids would ask to gather food that way every week. We had chickens, turkeys ,goats and sheep that we ate. Both my wife and I worked off farm but I always felt the farm kept us grounded. I taught anyone that would listen how to find food in the forest or in their yard. As I get older I am harkening back to years before my time to try to be more self reliant. It just seems to make sense to me, especially, given the current state of affairs we are living thru. I was taught by a neighbor in town when very young what plants I could eat out of the yard. My teacher was a widow who lived thru the Depression and survived that way. Her husband was a dentist and if he worked he was paid by barter. So they often had to rustle grub (living in town), anyway they could. My folks too were depressionera kids that tried very hard to teach me self reliance and frugality, which I had tried to teach our kids to do. So, yes by way of Alaska, I too am yearning for the days gone by as one does for good memories, but I do look to the future and trust the Almighty does have this under control. He does not though ,want us to be uneducated about how his world works and how to have the knowledge to help others. Learning the old ways both to preserve history as well as gaining new skills are very important and from the comments here ,from way back in 2013, seem to indicate we have many fellow travelers on this journey.

Knowledge of how to do things is always good, being able to actually do those things is even better(IMHO)

 

[Snake Pleskin]

my daughter may have been conceived in the back seat of a Morris 2000!

are you a "contortionist"? : )

 

[vintovka]

are you a "contortionist"? : )

You STOLE my comment before i could post. I think i still have back damage from a long cold rainy night somewhere on back alley (?) in Oxfordshire. Next day i could not get out of the cockpit without help.

 

[deerstalkert]

are you a "contortionist"? : )

nope, just WAS young and horny!

 

[1BadDart]

nope, just WAS young and horny!

Where there's a will, there's a way!

 

[SPQR70AD]

Honda never made a 450 four, the 450 twin came in 1966 I think. Honda SOHC fours were made in 350, 400, 500, 550 and 750 ccs. I grew up eating drinking and sleeping motorcycles. I bought one of the new Honda 750 fours, it was a motorcycle milestone but had no personality. My kick starting Triumphs did in Spades

yes it was a 400 4 cyl. I had a750 82 kawasaki GPZ had the kick starter and electric start. I could use my hand on the kick starter to start it