Motodd engine protectors - RGS/RGA/SFC

bollocks, apologies all - my spam filter seems to have decided that the Laverdaforum is a source of spam: found an email from Admin (actually that looks like Lothar's first attempt to reach me) & 4 notifications of PMs in there...

... and I only went looking because I spotted an unread PM whilst writing a PM last night

right, back to the engine protectors - haven't sold them yet and I've had 3 people interested (2 making identical offers within 50 minutes of each other).

More pertinently, when I was in the shed at the weekend they weren't on the shelf I was expecting them to be on, so until I lay my hands on them I'm not going to finalise a sale. I feel a right muppet, advertising something using pictures taken in the Autumn then being unable to find the damn things to actually sell them. Wonder where I've put them  >:(

Watch this space
 
Laverdalothar said:
No Problem, Bob. If you find them, I raise the offer by 1 ?...  :D
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At current exchange rates that puts you 30 pence ahead  :D

You'd better hope I find them before your government & the Greek government manage to do anything stupid
 
  You'd better hope I find them before your government & the Greek government manage to do anything stupid
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Too Late - the bubbles fiddled their way in and the germans were so desperate to end up with a federal europe they foolishly let them in  :( :(
 
oh aye, something dire is going to happen, just so long as it doesn't affect the exchange rates so that Lothar's Euro price doesn't plummet with the exchange rates :)
 
Does this mean we now have a race between the discovery of Bobs' moveable assets and the Euro exchange rate
perhaps influenced by a German that keeps finding more money?

 
Hi Bob

Once you find the bits, I could go an extra 10 GBP over my initial offer if that makes a difference, but that would be as high as I would go. Plus shipping costs and payment by PayPal as per original offer.

Paul LeClair
 
Laverdalothar said:
it's always those rich Canadians...  >:(

I hold the offer from Paul - who was first? ;)
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laughing out loud, Lothar........

Bob said there are three offers, I have no idea where I stand in the rankings or who was first. :D I am going to be relying on Diane and I having gone out for dinner with Bob, Aileen, and Aileen's dad last time we were in Scotland, maybe the slight personal connection will tip the scale, or for that matter, Bob having actually met me, probably not :o

Paul LeClair
 
you buggers have put me in a right quandary here, I'll feel guilty* not selling it to whichever of you I don't sell it to

I'm off to the old Scouts dinner tonight so my hangover** & I can ponder on the issue while I'm turning the shed upside down tomorrow.

bob

* and, if you believe that, I've a bridge to sell
** our table won a bottle of Glenlivet in the raffle last year so we drank it
 
Hi Bob

laughing out loud..... my strategy is working, then......?

it would appear Lothar and I are the pair that are tied, then? I'll resolve the issue, hate to see you feel any guilt* over Laverda parts, happy to see them go to Lothar for a planned Motodd project bike, great proposed use, better than sticking them on my RGS Executive!

Paul LeClair

*laughing out loud yet again, let's discuss that bridge....... :o ;) would that be the Forth Bridge, over the Firth of Forth, near Fife.......?
 
When I was a kid, there was just the big old steel Forth* Bridge over that bit of water. And a what magical structure it seemed to a little boy. Although it's a rail bridge, I did get a chance to climb on it once, and I came back covered in soot that had been deposited on the bridge by the steam trains of the time. The bridge was very grimy.

But since then they've built another, horribly ugly bridge next to it, which is of course the Fifth Bridge in the ordinal numbering system of the logically-minded Scots. Bridges 1-3 were flimsy wooden structures built by the Picts, Vikings and Sassenachs in that order, but none of them lasted long. If the Romans had ever made it as far as Scotland they would have built a decent stone bridge. This is all absolutely true. Would I lie to you?

Anyway, given the solidity of the two bridges there now, I don't reckon they'll be building a sixth any time soon. So we are left with the filthy ferrous Forth and final frightful Fifth Bridge over the Firth of Forth near Fife. FFF

What has all this to do with Motodd engine protectors? Well, they share a fundamental engineering design principle. The The Forth Bridge is a cantilever structure, as are the Motodd engine protectors.


* Forth, fourth. The Scots were never too bothered by spelling. Just look at how they spell the place name that's pronounced "edinburra"

 
The Sixth Forth bridge is under construction at present.

This means the Fifth Forth Bridge will soon be surplus to requirements and will be available to the highest bidder for collection only (no delivery option specified).

In best E-bay style it will of course be advertised almost completely obscured by the Forth Rail Bridge with a tiny text disclaimer stating "Not the red one"

Cash payments only as Paypal charges are a deal breaker.
 
ah, well, the numbering convention is a bit confused.

To start with, Cam is wrong and the numbering was originally done on the bridges over the tidal section, so first was the old Stirling Bridge, where they had the battle, second was the new one just downstream, built by the Victorians, third was the railway bridge at South Alloa (across to Alloa, oddly enough) and then you had the big, iconic iron one (hence Forth).

They should have renumbered it to Fifth Bridge when they opened the one at Kincardine back in the 1930s, but the prohibitive cost of redesigning the souvenir tea towels and ashtrays precluded any change. As a result of this they completely screwed up the numbering scheme by counting back upstream as well...

so we now have heading downriver:
First bridge: the medieval Stirling Bridge, now pedestrianised
Second bridge: the Victorian Stirling Bridge (which is an interesting split number, doing rail & road on completely separate structures, don't ask)
Third Bridge - Kincardine (renumbered when the railway bridge at Alloa was removed after Beeching)
Forth Bridge - the big red one

then turning back up river we have:
Fifth Bridge - suspension, next the big red one
Bridge 3A - AKA Clackmannanshire Bridge, built to ease traffic pressure on Third Bridge
Sixth Bridge - carries the Stirling ring road, acts as bypass for Second Bridge
Bridge Zero - upstream from First bridge, carries the M9

With the new one currently under construction there is a controversy - should it be the Seventh bridge? Bridge 5A? Or should they renumber the existing Sixth Bridge as 2A to allow the new one to be Sixth for the benefit of the tea towel makers

In international understanding

Bob

PS this "Coffee plus" with added caffeine & gurana is good shit

PPS didn't do much rummaging in the shed for engine protectors, the subzero temperatures and gusting hangover put paid to spending much time out there


 
That's an interesting theory on the numbering system Bob. I stand corrected. Your local knowledge obviously exceeds mine.

Yes, the railway bridge at Alloa was a spectacular failure. The bridge builders evidently subscribed to the "Field of Dreams" school of optimism. "If we build it the trains will come" but they failed to consider the technical difficulties involved with driving trains across boggy fields. Some form of ironmongery leading to and from the bridge is usually required, but the nearest railway is at Stirling, about 7 miles away.

The farcical schemes of the Alloa town planners, typified by their useless rail bridge, were inspiration for the comedy BBC TV series, "Alloa Alloa". But after airing of the pilot program, the BBC was inundated with complaints from irate Scotsmen. Rather than face an invasion at Wood Lane by cudgel-weilding kilt-wearers, they change the program narrative to WW2 France and re-named it "Allo Allo".
 
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