Just for fun...

[Chargeride]

And youve only just got home.

 

[PCeBiker]

And youve only just got home.

I don't have a single actual picture of my 1983 550 Nighthawk.
The closest thing I've got is a picture of my girlfriend and I posing for a picture on Christmas day with the new front tire I got for my motorcycle.

It was a Dunlop tire with a Really Cool tread design !!

Pictures were expensive in those days.
You had to pay for every click of the camera, then wait forever to get the pictures developed, involving two trips to the store.

I could never sit still and smile long enough to have a proper picture taken.

The tread pattern of the tire really bothered me though.

It had sips cut in it that didn't make mathematical sense.
Tire sips are supposed to channel water away from the center of the tread using a V-pattern, but my tire had straight diagonal cuts across the tire like this,..

I tried to not let it bother me, but it was like getting two left shoes for Christmas, and I forgot whether I was supposed to be more careful turning left or right if the roads were wet?

 

[spokewrench]

It was a Dunlop tire with a Really Cool tread design !!



The tread pattern of the tire really bothered me though.

It had sips cut in it that didn't make mathematical sense.
Tire sips are supposed to channel water away from the center of the tread using a V-pattern, but my tire had straight diagonal cuts across the tire like this,..

I believe the grooves in tires sold in the Great White North are to channel mice.

 

[PCeBiker]

I believe the grooves in tires sold in the Great White North are to channel mice.

Yeah, drinking metric beer was a real challenge for us Canucks when we switched to the metric system.

 

[spokewrench]

Yeah, drinking metric beer was a real challenge for us Canucks when we switched to the metric system.

St. Johns had lots of brands, and they all tasted the same. Elsinore reminded me of the St. Johns brewery, up on a hill. The didn't talk like Bob and Doug. They sounded Scottish and Irish.

 

[PCeBiker]

I remember buying a special TV antenna wire splitter in the late 70's so that I could get more channels.

The VHF dial ran out at 13, but our TV had a UHF dial to get more channels (like City TV from Toronto)

Then I could watch Sha-Na-Na in 1978.

 

[spokewrench]

I remember buying a special TV antenna wire splitter in the late 70's so that I could get more channels.

The VHF dial ran out at 13, but our TV had a UHF dial to get more channels (like City TV from Toronto)

We had a mast on the roof with 3 antennae aimed at 4 Boston, 3 Burlington, and 9 Plattsburgh, all very snowy. Three 300-ohm leads came down to a switch on the back of the TV.

I never saw the Collins Kids. Their show was live at 10 PM Saturday night in Los Angeles and it wasn't taped, but some survived, recorded for the Armed Forces Network. You could have seen them. After powerful creeps blacklisted them in America, they were regulars on Star Route out of Toronto.
Are they singing about a custom e-bike?

If you could get American Bandstand you might have seen Eddie Cochran sing about his souped-up 1941 tandem e-bike.

 

[Chargeride]

How old are you lot

 

[Chargeride]

Here we go, this is real.

 

[PCeBiker]

How old are you lot

I just turned 60.
I think spokwrench is older because American Bandstand was a bit before my time.

All I remember is Huge affros and bell bottom polyester pants.

I remember wearing polyester pants myself, but I switched to Lee jeans ~grade 4 and have been wearing Levi's since grade 5

Levi's used to be really thick canvas that took years to wear out.
I had to buy Carhartt Duck jeans to ride my ebike to get adequate protection for sliding down a gravel road on my ass.

 

[PCeBiker]

Here we go, this is real.

I like how that video was narrated by a robot.

 

[Roamers]

 

[Chargeride]

I just turned 60.
I think spokwrench is older because American Bandstand was a bit before my time.

All I remember is Huge affros and bell bottom polyester pants.

I remember wearing polyester pants myself, but I switched to Lee jeans ~grade 4 and have been wearing Levi's since grade 5

Levi's used to be really thick canvas that took years to wear out.
I had to buy Carhartt Duck jeans to ride my ebike to get adequate protection for sliding down a gravel road on my ass.

Ive noticed cheap jeans thesedays are really thick and strong..until the first wash and whatever they spray on them fades away and theyre like teacloths.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

 

[PCeBiker]

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I hope you have a dog, or I'm telling your wife what you called just her.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

I hope you have a dog, or I'm telling your wife what you called just her.

Oh, that's not about my wife. She rarely watches me go potty.

 

[PCeBiker]

Here we go, this is real.

This one is real too !!
Only $4392.11 CAD with shipping.

Apparently she's a policewoman that is either a Chinese speaking girl or lady or an English speaking American/European women (dual spirit or non-binary I guess?)

And she (or they) are Edible !!!
But don't eat the children. They are poor quality and don't taste that good I guess?

"minors (below 1b are hidden) are not of full quality. please place childrens products in minors that cannot be placed in orange slots"


I'm gunna have brush up on my Chinesium, at least before I eat it anyway.

I don't want food poisoning!!

I'm not sure if it smells or tastes like chicken or fish, and I don't know what a high quality rubber woman is supposed to taste like??


Here's another one, but they just send a random version,..

I want the double stuffed version.

 

[spokewrench]

Ive noticed cheap jeans thesedays are really thick and strong..until the first wash and whatever they spray on them fades away and their like teacloths.

In school, I’d scratch up the money to buy Dickies. They were durable, wrinkle-free, loose enough to be comfortable in winter and summer, and stain-resistant.

They were the kind the legendary Maytag Repairman would wear.

In the 1950s, new jeans had an odor I found heavenly. Whatever the chemical was, jeans no longer had it in 1963, when my mother bought 3 pair of white Wrangler stretch jeans and told me to wear them to school. Jeans violated the dress code, but the city’s unwritten law was that that mothers were always right, so I had to wear them.

I’d freeze in cold weather and they weren’t comfortable in any weather. Anything in a pocket made a lump. Grass stains were conspicuous and wouldn’t come out. All three pair were soon covered with conspicuous little holes because any time I tumbled across the pavement, the point of initial impact would leave a hole. I was glad when I wore my "pantyhose" out.

That’s how I learned that there are two kinds of denim. This thick, soft stuff that burst into fluffy white holes seemed to be what women demanded, for themselves and for men.