The Wordless Picture Thread

punkin

I used to be pretty good on em when i was on them all the time, same as a bobcat, excavator, crane or backhoe your skills get rusty.

Teaching my 8 y/o grandaughter to drive it last week.

Fiji_Spirits

@CothermanDistilling said: But can you drive it as good as a child? Chinese Workers - Crazy! @ Vimeo

Yeah. Can. Kids an inefficient operator and scary. Never looks when he drives. Can't fill his bucket, inefficient movements. Just needs to be taught better.

But he is a wee kid making a machine do work, so credit for that. Lol. Better than most folks!!

1vertical

Kapea

GD50

@1vertical. We get those slow fat slugs also. The only time they are quick is when they strike. They are patchy. A few k south and also north there is a few but none around our house. I always used to knock them at my previous place of employment as they are quite territorial and would hang around on the lawn between the two satellite dishes trying to land a sparrow or two. Definitely a problem for the technicians walking around at night.

punkin

Sunshine

after buying this bike you had no money for shoes left :(|) :))

1vertical

punkin

@Sunshine said: after buying this bike you had no money for shoes left :(|) :))

Could still afford drugs back in those days though.

Pa_bon

Hell, a man has to have priorities, right?

punkin

Well drugs were cheap back then. Glad i'm not growing up now. Worst things we had to worry about were flashbacks.

rossco

True that punkin. I remember those old 1.1s they went good in a straight line. I had a GS1000s back in the day. Blue and white chain drive really fast with no stability in a straight line over 240.

punkin

Yeah you could feel the frame flex round the corners on the big old girl when pushing it. Couldn't match it with the sports bikes in the twisties but i could keep them in sight OK. I'm not a great rider though, so i was happy with what i could get out of her.

rossco

@punkin said: I'm not a great rider though, so i was happy with what i could get out of her.

Either.
Just acquired an '83MHR Duke. Its kinda red. :))

punkin

Nice, i'd ask for a photo but they all look the same. :D Been thinking for a while about buying a Ducati, but a recent model one.

rossco

Yeah they pretty much do. Thinking a duke might be a bit hectic for an easy rider like you, maybe something like this?

Pa_bon

I think I could enjoy riding that one

NiceBikeToo

punkin

@Pa_bon said: I think I could enjoy riding that one

NiceBikeToo

My thoughts too, except the bike being nice.

Yeah, Rossco i'd never get anywhere near the potential, but i like the looks of some of the modern ones. I would buy a 955 Daytona as i test rode a T595 back when the guzzi was on the road and loved it. But i just can't bring myself to buy a modern Triumph :))

Unsensibel

I'd go scrambler if getting a bike again...

Pa_bon

Think I could ride that one till somebody's wheels fell off.

kimbodious

my ride, in better days, first model of the Yamaha FZ6 (2004) with the 03 R6 donk in it, all luggaged up for a trip!

Kapea

Eating breakfast next to this pool 17 years ago or so was the first and last time I tried Vegemite...

Kapea

Meanwhile, out in the last timezone (UTC -10):

Kapea

Anything less than 6 is just entertainment...

Kapea

Kapea

One of my girls gathering pollen from a malabar chestnut blossom.

SDeurope

Kapea

SDeurope

CothermanDistilling

Japanese ‘Kusari doi’, or 'rain chain'.... now to make one out of ProCaps...