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Dirk Hadler was his name, a high time helicopter pilot who started his commercial career flying Bell 47s in The arctic. ( actually started his flying career delivering newspapers for the Medicine Hat newspaper flying a Piper J3 cub and throwing them out as he circled the local farm/ranches houses in southern Alberta, (you can't make this stuff up), Was a HD ride
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I happened to be speaking to my brother in law today and he thought that he may have heard Dirk's name mentioned but that he never had the opportunity to meet him. He's over in Idaho doing his thing in the Herc at the moment.

He was at the helm when he had to deal with this little inconvenience.

Electra's have exceptionally rare but documented cases of the landing gear not "locking in".

 
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Wow! That's a nice job of a belly landing - do they scrape the tarmac or use the grass area? Can't tell from the vid.

I've got a photo somewhere of me and my brother from around 1960 walking across the tarmac with the Electra in the background that we'd flown from Adelaide to Melbourne on, hand in hand with the TAA stewardess ... unbeknowns to my mum who took the pic, but possibly 'sensed' by the stewardess, I had a well-dead toadfish (pufferfish) in my blazer pocket :eek: :ROFLMAO: Luckily the landing gear had worked OK!
 
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Wow! That's a nice job of a belly landing - do they scrape the tarmac or use the grass area? Can't tell from the vid.

I've got a photo somewhere of me and my brother from around 1960 walking across the tarmac with the Electra in the background that we'd flown from Adelaide to Melbourne on, hand in hand with the TAA stewardess ... unbeknowns to my mum who took the pic, but possibly 'sensed' by the stewardess, I had a well-dead toadfish (pufferfish) in my blazer pocket :eek: :ROFLMAO: Luckily the landing gear had worked OK!
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That was on the tarmac. Had to scroll back through the phone quite a ways to find these pics.
 

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Touring around Exmoor today with the wife and her Corsa (unfortunately the Vauxhall version - although we are lugging around a very nice TTF1 crank in the boot so that compensates a little) in extremely nice mid autumn weather. Spent a bit of time in Lynmouth before heading over to Appledore to admire the view over the Taw estuary.IMG_0330.jpeg
 
Three in the afternoon becomes two in the afternoon so it gets dark an hour earlier ... liners back in the jackets ... Bob Heath anti-fog visor spray at the ready .... sun like a bloody searchlight in your eyes ............ here we go ........... :( ...............
 
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Three in the afternoon becomes two in the afternoon so it gets dark an hour earlier ... liners back in the jackets ... Bob Heath anti-fog visor spray at the ready .... sun like a bloody searchlight in your eyes ............ here we go ........... :( ...............
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I need a good anti-fog for the Shoei - atmospheric conditions yesterday saw my visor greyed out inside almost immediately - to the point of being danegerous - i clicked it open the first mini click and it cleared, but then allowed drips from top of visor ... but at least i could see. i haven't yet installed the pinlock - must try that, but am a firm believer in a good anti-fog.

Now looking for a set of fully waterproof overs. DriRider padded overpants were utterly WetRiders yesterday!
 
Brought a dry jacket for commuting when living in Sydney. Totally useless.
I referred to it as the wet rider also.
Im still using my Rukka oversuit I brought in San Francisco back in 1982
and it's still 100% water proof.
Was expensive at the time but has turned out to be the cheapest bit of kit I've ever brought.
 
I`ve tried pinlocks , and the old Fog City which you stuck on the inside of the visor , but never really got on with them .......

Although the Fog City`s also came in dark tint , which kind of defeated the whole object if you think about it ...... but it did mean you could get a dark visor for a fraction pf the cost ........ What are dark Arai`s now , 45-50 quid ( 80-90 AUD ) or something like that ?

The cheapo helmet I use at the moment is great , and has a flip down internal sun visor that can be deployed and retracted again at a moments notice , which is handy this time of year here in the UK when the sun suddenly appears from behind the clouds ......

The only problem is the main visor doesn`t have a just open position , so it`s either fully closed or open a bit too much ........

The Bob Heath anti-fog visor spray works quite well ....... I wear specs so it goes on those too !
Not sure what`s in it but it`s highly flammable , classified as an irritant ..... and I would imagine you could get quite high on it if you inhaled enough of the fumes ..........

Maybe that` s why it comes in a really small can ......... I`m going to have to stock up on more of it ..............
 
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Have mentioned thios before. Driving my 1968 Holden station wagon home from a day ski trip to Mt Buller (3 1/2 hrs east of Melbourne). The primitive heater wasn't working. The trip there, leaving at 4.30am was in below zero temps and saw ice forming on the inside of the windscreen - my brother drove and had to scrape the ice away to enable vision ahead. I actually sat there warapped in a doona - I had a really bad cold and was coughing crap up from heavily congested lungs - GP had said 'no, not a good idea to go skiing tomorrow!'. I was enthusiastic - and actually had a great day skiiing.

Trip home at night and the windscreen immediately fogged up big time (no heater, remember). We'd found a little tube of fog-free stuff in a cafe at lunchtime (label written in German) that we'd used on our goggles. So we thought 'why not' and smeared a little on the windscreen with a tissue - that glass was crystal clear all the way home and beyond, and I applied it several times over subsequent weeks. No idea what that stuff was (soap and alcohol) but it was astonishingly effective. A brilliantly simple but effective product. I must search for something similar for the Shoei.

I like the sound of your expensive one-piece, Rob. Time to do some scouring - birthday this week!!
 
Pin locks have a secret that I learned when mine got fitted at Motorcycle Supermart. The actual pins that hold them in can be adjusted so that the pinlock shield has equal pressure completely around its edge. The pins are not round; they are shaped in a cam eccentric shape that you can rotate. If the pinlock shield doesn't completely seal evenly on its edge, they're practically useless. The design works like a double-glazed window or high-end ski goggles. So use a jeweller's slotted screwdriver to turn the pin to even out the pressure along the edge and seal it completely where it meets the main visor. Q that product might be Cat Crap; it was the best stuff I found for glasses inside a helmet. It's mostly lanolin; you apply it to glasses and polish it off. Not needed now; I dont wear glasses after cataract surgery on both eyes.
 
I knew a bloke that was given a bag, on the way out the front door with his girlfriend, on the way to the drive in theatre.

The girlfriends father (who had a wicked sense of humour) said he’d cut up some potatoes, to smear on the inside of the windscreen because it was a natural antifog.

Turns out, after smearing the inside of the windscreen with potato juice…. they couldn’t see a thing through the windscreen for the rest of the night 🤣
 
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I knew a bloke that was given a bag, on the way out the front door with his girlfriend, on the way to the drive in theatre.

The girlfriends father (who had a wicked sense of humour) said he’d cut up some potatoes, to smear on the inside of the windscreen because it was a natural antifog.

Turns out, after smearing the inside of the windscreen with potato juice…. they couldn’t see a thing through the windscreen for the rest of the night 🤣
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You just beat me to it ......... I was going to mention that back in the ` sixties a potato smeared on your goggles or visor was the way to go ......... Also washing up liquid was supposed to be worth a try as well ......... Hands that do dishes can feel as soft as your face with brand new Fairy Liquid etc etc ......


Talking about coping with seasonal differences ....... To deal with condensation forming on your bike during winters spent in an un-heated garage , a former member of the ILOC who went by the name of Henry Morgan advocated using incontinence pads stuffed into various nooks and crannies around the bike to help to absorb the excess moisture .......

The only problem was dealing with the concerned / startled expressions of the staff and other customers in the pharmacy when he asked for and then marched out with a large box full of the things under each arm .........
 
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Surprising thing about the fog-free liquid was not only how little was required, but keeping the area dry - so no condensation would reform, which eventually happens with detergent-only stuff. Maybe it's the alcohol content?

I'm looking at Alpinestars Hurricane V2 overs - either jacket and pants or a one-piece. If anyone has dire experiences to report, please do so asap!
 
I use Dryrider overpants, but I ended up needing a 7XL to fit over my usual riding gear. They double as a bike cover as well, or at least they're big enough to.
 
I've ordered some Alpinestars Hurricane V2 stuff - the big prob with online - which is almost the std these days - is having absolutely no idea whether overpants and jackets are sized to fit over riding gear, like my trusty 30yo DriRider jacket. I can se myself having to send stuff back for exchange. But I can't see anyone wearing a thin waterproof jacket in the rain wearing only a T-shirt underneath, so i'm hoping they're designed as over-wear.

Also ordered some Oxford waterproof overmitts - lee and I had Belstaff overmitts back in the 70s and they were truly brilliant - warm if not raining and warm and dry if torrential.
 
My wet riding strategy usually works. I avoid riding if it's wet. If I do get caught out, I head home and change into something dry when I get there.
It's not a reliable system when on a multi-day ride, but at 75 years old I dunno how many of those I have left in me.
 
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