Cars and bikes I’ve come across in my travels

nick7 said:
Hamish, tried Valencia, or Madrid? Or San Sebastion, come to that🙂
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Been in all of them, Nick, including Madrid in Summer. Even the Royal Family decamped to San Ildefonso to avoid its atrocious heat.
San Sebastian is far too small, for me.
Valencia has much to commend it but it's got a much less cosmopolitan atmosphere than Barcelona, in my experience. Not to mention Barcelona's excellent public transport system or Gaudi.Antoni Gaudi, The dragon face rooftop of Torre Bellesguard, 1900-09.jpg
 
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The Sock said:
Been in all of them, Nick, including Madrid in Summer. Even the Royal Family decamped to San Ildefonso to avoid its atrocious heat.
San Sebastian is far too small, for me.
Valencia has much to commend it but it's got a much less cosmopolitan atmosphere than Barcelona, in my experience. Not to mention Barcelona's excellent public transport system or Gaudi.View attachment 70406
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....and a very motorcycle museum in the old quarter 🙂
 
Alzero said:
Would these be the gullideckel manhole covers?
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Nope, those are baroque rims (Barockfelgen) which are original starting at W108/109, made by Fuchs (as in Posche 911)
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This is Gullideckel (W126)
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henrywillms said:
The old ones around here turn by the front skis only. Most have a wood stove to keep warm when its not running and the guys are working the nets. Also most have a PTO driven ice auger for drilling holes for the nets.
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How do you catch a polar bear?

Drill a hole in the ice, place a green pea on the edge of the hole. When a polar bear comes up for a pea, you kick him in the ice hole.
 
sfcpiet said:
You ain't seen nothin' yet... BMW C3, thankfully now discontinued.

Pic generously donated by german bike mag "Motorrad".

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As a BMW dealer we had to pre purchase a number of these ( so many per dealer) they had two levers to operate hand brake/ centre stand- operate them in wrong order and the cable brakes, stand stays down
I went on new product course and got told that these gave BMW brownie points for being ultra efficient which in turn offset production of more profitable gas guzzling super cars, they were a means to an end not an answer.
The plus side was our demonstrator was admirably up to the task of bringing back fish & chips for everyone in the workshop- hurrah!
 
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