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Title: the salt flats Post by mick on 08/26/10 at 23:27:57 Ok guys this is one thing on my bucket list that I will forfill next year 2011 in August. I am at this time asking anyone who wants to come along,I am not going to organize the whole thing ,if you want to go just book a room in Wendover Nevada,I have stayed there before and it's a very nice little place. I'm asking anyone who feels like going,and - or might be retired ,like Midnightrider,Serowbot,I will call Gort and invite him, I have e mailed the guy that runs things and asked if I can race a buddy who has a 250 Ninja, I will tell you his response when I get one. It's pretty thrilling to know we are racing on hallowed ground,can you guys emagen ,we will actually be riding and driving the same sand that Burt Munroe raced on. I WILL be going next year come hell or high water,please join me. |
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Title: Re: the salt flats Post by mick on 08/26/10 at 23:33:49 please do not respond by saying "Oh I would love to go but we worked it out and my wife is having her period that week" or I would love to come but it is not convenient etc etc . If you think you can make it say so,remember it's next August 2011. I would love to see some other members . |
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Title: Re: the salt flats Post by justin_o_guy2 on 08/27/10 at 03:20:09 I hope you see records broken & have a great time. It would be EXREMELY cool to be allowed to run on the salt flats! Thats Hallowed Ground right there. I'd love to go, but ( Fill in with whatever you find to be an irritating excuse). |
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Title: Re: the salt flats Post by Oldfeller on 08/27/10 at 03:51:13 Mick, It is better for those that wimp out to post it so YOU KNOW THEY AREN'T COMING rather than for them to go silent on you and then not show up on the day (leaving someone holding their cabin/room/apartment advance cost as has happened just this past year). In any internet forum there are those whose only connection to riding reality is the fingerprints they leave on their keyboards. Such will disappoint you every time .... |
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Title: Re: the salt flats Post by justin_o_guy2 on 08/27/10 at 07:48:40 Allrite! Worst I can do is disappoint 90% of the time! Im missing a finger.. |
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Title: Re: the salt flats Post by mick on 08/27/10 at 15:06:25 Ok guys,let me put it this way. I am going to to the salt flats next year .if anyone goes I will see you there.If you don't go I don't give a tinkers cuss. |
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Title: Re: the salt flats Post by JohnBoy on 08/27/10 at 21:12:14 Mick, go down there driving a Zamboni. You could set the world land speed record for Zamboni and help repair the divots caused by past racers at the same time. |
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Title: Re: the salt flats Post by Serowbot on 08/28/10 at 03:02:00 153037311D30265F0 wrote:
Now that's thinkin'!... ;D ;D ;).... |
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Title: Re: the salt flats Post by Midnightrider on 08/28/10 at 06:36:45 Mick its a great idea. I'll start saving some money [smiley=thumbsup.gif] |
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Title: Re: the salt flats Post by mick on 08/28/10 at 16:50:51 5C78757F787679656378757463110 wrote:
the zamboni thing might just be our speed ,I bet no one has raced one before,so a record woul be a shoe in. I wonder what the top speed is 20 -30 hardly enough to blow your hair back, ooops do we have to wear a helmet ? We can carrie a big ice chest for our cocktails,and beer. |
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Title: Re: the salt flats Post by Midnightrider on 08/28/10 at 18:22:40 What the Hell is a Zamboni? Does it have 2 wheels or four? Does it have a Carb? Will we need Lancer? I still have my racing leathers, I might be able to get into em. Dont have to worry about blowin my hair back ;D ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: the salt flats Post by Demin on 08/28/10 at 18:37:09 Some friends from another site are at Bonneville right now. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9QJkZkMeRmc/TGynj338S7I/AAAAAAAABC4/AAcPz51U5aE/s1600/bonneville818 http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FpkTOcH-8RQ/TGtctKA6UtI/AAAAAAAAAM8/OfmlgEsScts/s1600/bonneville817_4.j That would have been an cool run to watch. Tyler from Lowbrow did 121.675 mph on his second run on it (2mph short of the record) but when Wes (from Four Aces Cycles) got on it for a run coz he's 35lbs lighter......"Unfortunately one of the Amal GP carbs pulled out of the manifold just a mile or so down the track and on top of it the mag gear spun off, killing the spark." The gremlins have been playing hell with them out there but it seems they're starting to get the upper hand on it. The Salt Ghost |
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Title: Re: the salt flats Post by mick on 08/28/10 at 19:13:34 Very nice lookin triumphs,nice pictures ,Midniderider as far as I know a Zamboni is a machine that goes around a ice skating rink cleaning and resurficing the ice,to make it smooth for the second half. This is the time of year when all the crazy's come out and try there hand at breaking world records,both 4 wheels and 2. the Famous Burt Monroe did his thing on "The worlds fastest Indian" Lots of history ,I did drive by a few times when I was trucking. Wendover is just over the Utah / Nevada line,and a nice place for a few drinks and a little gambling. I did speak to Gort and he said he couldn't make it ,had some peronel issues to take care off,he has been there a few times ,and says it would be a fun trip. Still it's a year away, they also have stuff going on in Utah I'm not sure of the name of the place ,but they have vintage bike racing , I would give my left nut to hear a Manx Norton with an open megaphone and burning "Castrol R" , I don't even know if they sell that any more ?,if they do I'm going to get a quart and drop it on my Bar-B-Q a teaspoon at a time,Ah music to my nose. |
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Title: Re: the salt flats Post by drharveys on 08/28/10 at 19:14:49 5B5F555D425E535A5F5B534F360 wrote:
Actually the phrase is "not worth a tinker's dam" spelled like the engineering, not the theological, variety. A tinker's dam is a little mound of mud put on a pot or kettle being repaired to control the flow of the molten solder going into a crack or pit. I learned this from the Mormon dental students, who would loudly shout out "This project's not worth a tinker's DAM!" while the rest of us would have used saltier, and briefer, language. When I inquired, the above is the explanation I received. However, even though they acknowledged that "half fast" is a nautical term*, they could never bring themselves to use it in the lab! ;D ____________ * A line (or rope to you landlubbers) is half fast when a single turn is taken around a cleat or bollard. It's not "fast" (fastened), so it must be tended or you may be swimming after the bitter end! |
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Title: Re: the salt flats Post by mick on 08/28/10 at 19:35:37 Interesting Doc,I wonder if Tinkers cuss is diferent from a tinkers dam ? I asked my Mum what it meant many years ago, we lived in Oxford England there were many Gypsies around ,they would go and knock on doors trying to sell odds and ends mostly pots and pans,clothes pins (wooden) ,generally they were nice people with very bright clothing ,however if you did not buy the smallest thing like a box of matches for a penny ,they would put a curse on you and your family, these curses were concidered quite lethal and to ignore them was taking a big risk, they would go so far as to put secret markings on your fence that only other gypsies could read,the to would ad to the curse . So if you really did not care a tinkers cuss ,you put your self way out on a limb.And you really really did not give a sh1t.. Ps, A tinker is a door to door salesman,usually selling household items. usually Gypsies. |
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Title: Re: the salt flats Post by Phelonius on 08/29/10 at 19:26:20 Not all tinkers were gypsies. By definition, a tinker was a traveling repairman who could fix most anything on the American frontier. He could gunsmith a little, blacksmith a little, carpenter a little, sew a little, and yes a tinkers dam was a clay ridge to hold molten metal that was poured to effect a fix. Once used , it was not valuable at all, just hard clay again. He was a jack of all trades and some times even a master of some. In Europe they may have been predominantly Gypsies but not here. Phelonius BTW ever wonder about the phrase, " tinker with it?" |
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Title: Re: the salt flats Post by Serowbot on 08/29/10 at 19:37:50 Zamboni burn-out :-?... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-wRqcnAvG0[/media] |
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Title: Re: the salt flats Post by mick on 08/29/10 at 23:43:20 Phelonius,you must remember this is a very young country,sh1t even my local Pub in London was a hundred years older than the US. Gypsies came mostly from Hungrey,we were also told that they would kidnap children if they were short of labor,I think that might be an old wives tale to keep us kids away from them. Not long ago there was a big family of Gypsies working the San Diego area,they would sign you up for a roofing job,pay the half in advance ,and you would never see them again. FYI A pub is short for "Public house" even if a traveler had no money the publican was oblidged to offer some bread and cheese,and somewhere to sleep,even if it was the barn. |
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