I used a Famous James Comet as a telephone stand in my living room for a number of years.  A Zundapp as a garden trellis doesn't seem that odd to me!    😎 ... View more

I had occasion to visit Paradise shortly after the fire.  The destruction was extensive and overwhelming.  How nice that something positive was able to rise from those ashes!  Kudos to Nick Haas for his generosity and artistry.   ... View more

The only reason a shovel 'loves to ride in a truck' is because its owner (or previous owner) didn't treat it right.    I've owned my shovel for over forty years, do all the work on it, and can count on one hand the times it has ever needed roadside repair, let alone a ride home in a truck!  They may not have all the bells and whistles of later model bikes but shovelheads are strong and durable, and that tractor engineering means even shade-tree johnnies like me can keep 'em running. 😄 ... View more

I understand and appreciate the thrill of accepting and overcoming an engineering challenge - for decades my thing has been building motorcycles for riders with disabilities - but I'm not sure there will ever be a useful application for the ingenuity deployed here.   But I could be wrong.  If folks are willing to spend stupid money for these things, I guess that's a 'useful appliaction' for the builder!   😄 ... View more

Power Break?  Power Brake?  Stupid people trick, IMO, no matter what you call it.    Anyhoo, that was a popular sport for the young 'uns hanging around the last service station I worked at, some forty years ago.  One night I watched a girl tear the drive-shaft out of her boyfriend's pickup doing that stunt.  He was royally POed, she was in tears, and we were all laughing at him for letting her do it!   Not something I see much nowadays, since I don't hang around the gearhead shops anymore, but just a few weeks ago someone did that right in front of my house, and left a rubber patch half a block long!  😄 ... View more

When I was a kid Corgi made a replica of the Bond Aston Martin that had the pop-out machine guns.  It may have had an ejector seat, too.  Anyway, it was a prized toy at the time and like so many things in my life - particularly motor vehicles and related - I wish I’d kept it.  As for Connery:  yes, the true James Bond, but one hell of an actor and an activist for Scottish independence.  What’s not to love? ... View more