Cars and bikes I’ve come across in my travels

Alzero said:
Actually the IOM is on our list. I just didn’t want to go into detail until we got closer in time. We can only stay in the Schengen zone for 90 days out of 180 and have to be in Italy in early September to meet friends. Ireland and UK time does not count towards our 90 days. So working backwards we cannot arrive on the continent before late June or early July. It looks like we will get to Dublin in May.
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Well once you have a better idea of your itinerary let me know.
 
Alzero said:
How do you tell the difference between Indian and English? From the steering lock and controls it looks new so must be Indian, but I saw them in India in 1970 and IIRC they looked pretty ancient then.
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The ‘modern’ 500 single is essentially an evolution of the bike first built around 90 years ago. The first ‘Empire’ built versions, as my Enfield owning chum calls them, started around 70 years ago. So they have been in production in India for far longer than they were in England; and no wonder a 1970’s bike looked ancient as they were based on an ancient design. 🙂
 
The last of the Argentina pictures, a fancy Ford Falcon.

One not so fun fact is that the favored cars of the secret police/torturers were dark green Falcons which would typically pull up at your house just before dawn and “disappear” you or your children. They just created a museum at the army base where there were several maternity wards for prisoners who would give birth, be drugged and then be thrown into the sea from airplanes. The stolen children were then given to regime supporters. The 136th child, now an adult, was just identified and one of the Death Planes was found in Arizona with the flights to nowhere still in the logbooks, it too will be part of the museum.

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I was driving my car along a 2-lane (one each way) suburban main road earlier today when I got overtaken by a kid on an electric unicycle. I'd not seen one mixing it with traffic on the road before, so it was a bit of a surprise, especially as they're not road legal here. He was weaving through the 60kph traffic, overtaking cars on the left and right. I couldn't keep up with him and he soon disappeared into the distance. I wasn't aware they were capable of such speeds. The kid was dressed in t-shirt and jeans, with no helmet, so I figured he was a potential candidate a Darwin Award.

It got me thinking about how you'd manage to do an emergency tyre-screeching stop on one of those things. Physics would seem to indicate that it couldn't be done. So I did a bit of googling when I got home. It turns out that with a skilled operator on board, they have around 3 times the stopping distance of an average car. The tyre is in no danger of getting anywhere near the limit of adhesion. That Darwin Award is looking pretty likely. :rolleyes:

Sorry. No photo as I was driving.
 
Dellortoman said:
I was driving my car along a 2-lane (one each way) suburban main road earlier today when I got overtaken by a kid on an electric unicycle. I'd not seen one mixing it with traffic on the road before, so it was a bit of a surprise, especially as they're not road legal here. He was weaving through the 60kph traffic, overtaking cars on the left and right. I couldn't keep up with him and he soon disappeared into the distance. I wasn't aware they were capable of such speeds. The kid was dressed in t-shirt and jeans, with no helmet, so I figured he was a potential candidate a Darwin Award.

It got me thinking about how you'd manage to do an emergency tyre-screeching stop on one of those things. Physics would seem to indicate that it couldn't be done. So I did a bit of googling when I got home. It turns out that with a skilled operator on board, they have around 3 times the stopping distance of an average car. The tyre is in no danger of getting anywhere near the limit of adhesion. That Darwin Award is looking pretty likely. :rolleyes:

Sorry. No photo as I was driving.
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Don’t knock those kids, at our age you never know when you might need an organ donor!
 
Saw a guy locally doing 60+ passing cars using the bicycle lane. Saw another in Melbourne traffic on one, but full leathers, gloves, full face helmet. He was also bloody moving. First thing I wondered was how the hell you'd stop one in a hurry. They're definitely not legal. In fact any electric bicycle (so i assume, scooter and unicycle-thing) is limited to 27kph. Rarely see them going that slow!
 
Dellortoman said:
Here's a couple of bikes that you won't see very often. A very rare Panther and a Hondacati.
I think the bike behind the panther is a Harley., although it could be an Indian. I can't remember.

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Thanks Cam,
It's a DUCONDA! It's a K6 Honda 750 four sitting in an 860 GTS Ducati chassis. Seems like it's made for it. A Ducati that goes and a Honda that handles !!
1929 Panther 600cc Model 85
Cheers
Paul
 
wogbikes said:
Thanks Cam,
It's a DUCONDA! It's a K6 Honda 750 four sitting in an 860 GTS Ducati chassis. Seems like it's made for it. A Ducati that goes and a Honda that handles !!
1929 Panther 600cc Model 85
Cheers
Paul
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Sorry for getting the Hondacati - Duconda name arse about Paul. I dunno whether there's a convention, but I was following the Triton example in which the engine forms the first half of the name.

I have to agree it's a beautify done conversion. It looks like a motorcycle that came out of a factory, almost as if Ducati bought in engines from Honda and assembled it themselves. I can imagine people scratching their heads and asking "when did Ducati make a 750 four?"
Sounds nice with those pipes too.
 
Saw similar the other day when getting a bigger foot welded on the side stand of the Atlas, I forgot it's sad anime, spell check version of pseudonym, but it is a Gold Star 350 single in a feather bed frame, looked brilliant.
 
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