Selections from the retromuseum
Selections from the retromuseum
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Selections from the retromuseum
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JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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Pass the salt please...no...
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http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/ampins/ampins.htm
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If we learn from our mistakes I'm getting a great education!
RE: Selections from the retromuseum
Some of those early designs look pretty impracticable, and some downright dangerous. Of course, if we look at the Wright brothers first aircraft we'd think the same and look where we are now... if some of those monowheels carried on.... and they do.
There is one guy who has put a V8 engine in a monowheel (and you thought motorcyclists crazy) and I thought wow! just think of the gerbilling potential with a V8.
The videos show the rider has obviously had this pleasant experience in the past and apparently didn't enjoy it or enjoys living more.
Great term, "Gerbilling", worth the visit to the site just for the great visualisation that it conjures up.
The real joy is to know that no matter what their wives and neighbours may think there are still plenty of people out there ready to spend their whole lives doing crazy things or following crazy ideas.
Progress is where one in a thousand crazies hits the right loony note.
JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QtfBRA8xCGE&NR=1 and the unedited version here (where he shows some nice speed, considering):
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JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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The first clip though... The moronic (but very typical) voice-over makes me want to puke.
- Steve
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That is fun to watch and think it would be viable form of transportation. I have seen photos of similar working units from the 40's or 50's, neat stuff.
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RE: Selections from the retromuseum
As the second of four boys at mealtime, with manners that would have made wolves look like a British High Tea, I would have paid good money to have had a double barreled knife and fork when Mom served her fresh yeast rolls. It would have saved me from stab wounds and bites.
With that experience as a starting point, I'm willing to offer the idea that such flatware might have been useful for a traveler stopping off for a bite at the medievel version of Micky Dee's. I've seen movies, I know how wayside inns were.