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How do you know when you've become an Old Fart?
- Thread starter YamadudeXS650C
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I felt a little worried yesterday and sure I was being stalked so snapped a quickie on my iphone:
No, false alarm - but close!
No, false alarm - but close!
You drive a modern car, computerized engine control modules, electronic ignition, fuel injection.
And still pump the gas petal before a startup...
And still pump the gas petal before a startup...
its almost as if you start getting brain disconnect some days.
As if your body has its own memory and makes its own choices of action.
A few months ago I pulled away fast across a dangerous T junction in first gear ...........
I snicked it into 2nd and for the thrill of it, accelerated hard in second gear and just when the exhaust note was perfect ...........
I slammed it into ..........1st again
There was an almighty bang ....a screeching noise and as the rear wheel came round level with my right handlebar I managed to yank on the clutch....phew !
Luckily I was close to home for a quick change of underwear.!
As if your body has its own memory and makes its own choices of action.
A few months ago I pulled away fast across a dangerous T junction in first gear ...........
I snicked it into 2nd and for the thrill of it, accelerated hard in second gear and just when the exhaust note was perfect ...........
I slammed it into ..........1st again
There was an almighty bang ....a screeching noise and as the rear wheel came round level with my right handlebar I managed to yank on the clutch....phew !
Luckily I was close to home for a quick change of underwear.!
Bob Kelly III
Ranch Kid from way back,.... that got Old !
LOL love it Peanut ! that just means you need to ride more !
... Your officially an old fart when You try to sell your bike on creg's list and say "if you try to jew me down the price goes UP !"
Bob...
... Your officially an old fart when You try to sell your bike on creg's list and say "if you try to jew me down the price goes UP !"
Bob...
its almost as if you start getting brain disconnect some days.
As if your body has its own memory and makes its own choices of action.
A few months ago I pulled away fast across a dangerous T junction in first gear ...........
I snicked it into 2nd and for the thrill of it, accelerated hard in second gear and just when the exhaust note was perfect ...........
I slammed it into ..........1st again
There was an almighty bang ....a screeching noise and as the rear wheel came round level with my right handlebar I managed to yank on the clutch....phew !
Luckily I was close to home for a quick change of underwear.!
Hi peanut,
I did that and I was only in my late 20's. Forgot my Bedford Dormobile's tree-shift was upside down to the one on my A55.
You know you’re getting old when the bands you liked when you were young are now playing at casinos.
When you make excuses to leave a party early so you can get home and get a good nights sleep.
When you throw a party and the neighbors never hear it.
When you make excuses to leave a party early so you can get home and get a good nights sleep.
When you throw a party and the neighbors never hear it.
nice one Fred !
was that the bedford that had the suicide sliding doors that tried to sever your arms when braking ?Loved those old Austins I had an A105 Westminster and that thing really shifted
nice one Fred !
Loved those old Austins I had an A105 Westminster and that thing really shifted
Hi peanut,
they were supposed to latch if you drove with them open. Which I had to do when driving a drunken friend home.
While clinging onto his belt as he ralphed out the open doorway.
My Canadian A55 story:- Young fella showed up at my place in Manitoba driving one.
Told him I drove one back 'ome and asked how he liked it.
"Got it free. POS not worth what I paid for it. Stalls out when I try to back it up, guzzles gas worse'n a V8 Hemi,
won't go faster than 55mph and it ain't even got a spare!"
So I took him for a drive, backed it down the road, took it up to 70mph on the highway and back to my place then told him:-
Reverse is down here, what you thought was reverse was 4th gear. Now let me show you how to crank down the trunk under-pan
to access the spare wheel.
Hey - didn't Michael Caine have one of those in the original 1969 Italian Job movie?
EDIT: there are actually two "pairs" of movies which are excellent viewing (for old f@rts) and each pair of them tell their respective stories very well (IMO):
The Italian Job (1969 and 2003)
....and the Flight of the Phoenix (1965 and 2004)
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Hi Pete.
the white thing that was blown up at #40?
Nah, may have been a Bedford van but it was too tall to be a Dormobile and didn't have the signature sliding doors.
Nope - the 1969 trailer doesn't show the vehicle unfortunately. The one that Caine had was blue and I am pretty sure it did have sliding doors - plus, he referred to it as a Dormobile.
Bob Kelly III
Ranch Kid from way back,.... that got Old !
one of my very first cars was a fiot 500 i think it was a 1953 ...2 cylinder motorcycle engine in the back
of 500cc small wheels and just a strange looking car you had to adjust the points on the thing each time you drove it
if you wanted to get back home .... it'ed do 50mph down hill with the wind at your back
but going back up that hill was 2nd gear max ! ( about 20 mph! )
not a car for american type driving ! LOL
Bob.....
of 500cc small wheels and just a strange looking car you had to adjust the points on the thing each time you drove it
if you wanted to get back home .... it'ed do 50mph down hill with the wind at your back
but going back up that hill was 2nd gear max ! ( about 20 mph! )
not a car for american type driving ! LOL
Bob.....
don't you just wish you'd kept that car and all the other early classics you owned ... We'd be rich now
You mean I should keep this for another 50 years and it’ll be a classic? 
Hi peanut,don't you just wish you'd kept that car and all the other early classics you owned ... We'd be rich now
not so much if you consider the half-century's rental of the giant storage barn you'd need to keep 'em in.
I wish I still had my '59 bug....Dad had a '58 Fiat 500 or 600. Bug eyed headlights and sunroof. Sometimes with 4 kids sticking their heads out as we went down our street. It was the mid 60's......
