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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: johnr on June 10, 2016, 09:12:46 AM
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Trundled out to this annual affair earlier in the year in my pommie mates huge Landrover.
There were things of beauty;
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb116/johnr39/rolls.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/johnr39/media/rolls.jpg.html)
There was Guzzi Content (also a thing of beauty)
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb116/johnr39/850S.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/johnr39/media/850S.jpg.html)
There were things fondly remembered
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb116/johnr39/CIMG1512%20sm.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/johnr39/media/CIMG1512%20sm.jpg.html)
Things Old
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb116/johnr39/Crank%20up%20day%202016%20002sm.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/johnr39/media/Crank%20up%20day%202016%20002sm.jpg.html)
Quite a lot of them, including the one newly birthed on the left.
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb116/johnr39/Crank%20up%20day%202016%20006%20sm.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/johnr39/media/Crank%20up%20day%202016%20006%20sm.jpg.html)
Other displays of various types
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb116/johnr39/Crank%20up%20day%202016%20001sm.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/johnr39/media/Crank%20up%20day%202016%20001sm.jpg.html)
And then there was this!
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb116/johnr39/Crank%20up%20day%202016%20004sm.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/johnr39/media/Crank%20up%20day%202016%20004sm.jpg.html)
Better detail
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb116/johnr39/Crank%20up%20day%202016%20003a%20sm.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/johnr39/media/Crank%20up%20day%202016%20003a%20sm.jpg.html)
Neither old nor beautiful, but very interesting.
Someone simply has too much time on their hands.
It worked just fine incidentally.
It was a hot day.
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Kiwis are very inventive :bow:
Dusty
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Changed the heading to more accurately indicate the 'direction of travel' as it were.
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Sticking your arse over a boiler? Not this little black duck! :laugh:
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A steam powered cycle would clearly be an engine-cycle, as they are steam engines, not steam motors! :evil:
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A steam powered cycle would clearly be an engine-cycle, as they are steam engines, not steam motors! :evil:
As you say Sir. :grin:
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Sticking your arse over a boiler? Not this little black duck! :laugh:
Similar comments were heard on the day.
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What could possibly go wrong? :smiley:
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I didn't know "Gerry " made it so far south!
The RR is beautiful 😊
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Might be an application for a Stirling engine.
Interesting, fun design.
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A steam powered cycle would clearly be an engine-cycle, as they are steam engines, not steam motors! :evil:
But then we use gasoline engines, not gasoline motors. :tongue:
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But then we use gasoline engines, not gasoline motors. :tongue:
You are correct, sir - and sadly, we are all both currently and historically inaccurate. :shocked:
Then again, back when 'moto-cycles' were first created and named, most people had never seen an electric motor! :thumb:
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Well, "motor" comes from the Latin "moto", meaning "I set in motion", so maybe everyone is accurate and correct. :grin:
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I ride and own "Italiano moto". :cool: "enginecycle" doesn't sound right.
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You are correct, sir - and sadly, we are all both currently and historically inaccurate. :shocked:
Then again, back when 'moto-cycles' were first created and named, most people had never seen an electric motor! :thumb:
And the first one was steam driven, if it was actually built. I went looking for a pic and didn't find one. Found a plethora of other stuff about steam bicycles though.