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Corkcampbell
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My annual spring Bikepainting Day at a Beijing university where I was a professor for ten years. This was the first time a motorcycle was used instead of a traditional bicycle. We also painted bikes for Christmas and Halloween. Had trouble finding an orange bike for the Halloween one. I took the liberty of adding some photos of painting bicycles before the transition to motorcycles. Nice thread; thanks!
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"Knowledge is good." Emil Faber
Robotribe
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Awesome stuff.
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The only thing that surprises me with the bike painting, is that there are no "Hello Kitty" picturesMy annual spring Bikepainting Day at a Beijing university where I was a professor for ten years. This was the first time a motorcycle was used instead of a traditional bicycle. We also painted bikes for Christmas and Halloween. Had trouble finding an orange bike for the Halloween one. I took the liberty of adding some photos of painting bicycles before the transition to motorcycles. Nice thread; thanks!
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Although, the helmet got pretty close
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Definitely some unusual, rarely seen stuff in thereNice thread idea! Most of these are from the Auto Museum in Reno, Nevada
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Yeah, motorcycles are my favorite. Unfortunately, a couple of accidents over the last 7 or 8 years have taken a lot of the enjoyment out of it for me. Don't ride a fraction of what I used to.Motorcyclist and m43 user here. Some of my favorite subjects:
One of my bikes:
If you're a bike and car fan, more of my captures of cool bikes and cars here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/101235482@N08/albums/72157660666255942
https://www.flickr.com/photos/101235482@N08/albums/72157667794874163
https://www.flickr.com/photos/101235482@N08/albums/72157637293447275/with/18329736372/
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SpiralTower
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I will never have this kind of money, but if I would the only "useless" car I would ever buy would be one of that old Mercedes SL. Mind you, not that there are not a plethora of other very nice vintage models ...
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Corkcampbell
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Hello Kitty is Japanese, not Chinese. There are still a lot of hard feelings between the two countries. I don't remember ever seeing any Hello Kitty stuff in the classrooms or neighborhoods. That will probably change over time, and it might be different in other parts of China.
I had another bike (not shown) that I bought to try to ride from Beijing to Hong Kong (didn't make it) and they wrote anti-Japanese slogans on it so that the locals along the rural route would know that I was a friend. I'll see if I can find a photo taken before I removed most of them. Here's one (or part of one):
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I had another bike (not shown) that I bought to try to ride from Beijing to Hong Kong (didn't make it) and they wrote anti-Japanese slogans on it so that the locals along the rural route would know that I was a friend. I'll see if I can find a photo taken before I removed most of them. Here's one (or part of one):
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Great pics. Love the Corvettes especially. I've always told myself that if I ever had enough money to throw around restoring old cars, my first two would be a couple of old Vettes (a '56 and a '63 with that split rear window).
Maybe Frank has the kind of mindset I have about autos. The clutched autos used in Grand Prix cars are actually rather like one or two cars of yesteryear when they had what was known then as "preselector" gear change. The driver selected the next gear then it automatically changed when the engine hit a predetermined rev number.
But I do remember some terrible autos in the old days, but now they are hugely improved, particularity in the smaller cars.
I was a petrol head in my youth but gave up manual changes 30 years or more ago; who wants to be changing gear in tight traffic?
And in the parking lot, I would take the Miatta any time, thanks.
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Geoffrey Heard
Down and out in Rabaul in the South Pacific
http://rabaulpng.com/we-are-all-traveling-throug/i-waited-51-years-for-tavur.html
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Geoffrey Heard
Down and out in Rabaul in the South Pacific
http://rabaulpng.com/we-are-all-traveling-throug/i-waited-51-years-for-tavur.html
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Alfa Romeo, Austin 7 special, MG TC, and goodness knows what in yellow! Taken with the GX7 upside down and on electronic shutter to imitate the leaning effect delivered by the old 5x7 Graflex cameras with their agonizingly slow focal plane shutters (I think it took about 1/10th of a second for the two shutter curtains to scan over the whole 5 inch deep film or plate.
A Holden Torana
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This is a Bolwell, made in Australia. As a car, the Bolwell was not a huge success although it looked wonderful, but a certain American liked it, and asked the Bolwell man if he could make truck bodies. "Sure!" he said. And so you have the Kenworth cabs of today.
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Geoffrey Heard
Down and out in Rabaul in the South Pacific
This is the Holden Torana XU1 (I believe -- maybe the XU2, but I am influenced by the color, I had an XU1 "Yella Terra" in 1971 -- it marked the end of my petrol-headedness because I ran it into the back of an old Morris Oxford with an even older driver who had stopped at a pedestrian crossing right outside the Fortitude Valley police station in Brisbane at a time when I was admiring the extremely shapely legs of of an extremely mini-skirted young woman tripping along the footpath. Insurance covered the damage but the car was never the same and I couldn't afford to keep driving it, the insurance payments went up so high! I got an Austin Kimberley instead, which was like a mobile lounge room -- lovely car except for a tendency to overheat. It was yellow too, but a touch muted) photographed at Winton in north-eastern Victoria.
The Torana XU1 (for the benefit of all those who are of the great unwashed dwelling in the place of the outer darkness and the gnashing of teeth, i.e. not in Australia) was GM's answer to the Ford V8 muscle car dominance of saloon car racing in Australia -- a type of racing that hada vast following and directly affected car sales. Having tried their own V8s without dislodging Ford, GM brought in a Vauxhall 1600cc from England, lengthened the bonnet, and dropped in a straight 6 cylinder motor. The ordinary road version had a 2.2 liter motor, the XU1 had a 2.6 liter engine, three Stromberg side draft carburetors pouring gigantic gulps of petrol into it (I remember Strombergs, but am I mistaken now?) and no suspension to speak of. It was a terrible road car but did well in the hands of Peter Brock and Colin Bond on the track, cornering much better than the Ford V8s (even though the handling was actually pretty poor), stopping on sixpence (or a dime), and doing well on acceleration. The XU2 was a much more refined car with some suspension work, real handling, and a 3 liter (nearly) motor with quite a power jump. Then the next model Torana came along, and they put a V8 into that for the track. Vale Ford…
Speaking of the Torana XU1 and Peter Brock, here's an appallingly badly photographed model of Peter's Austin 7 that he used to thrash around the dirt roads of rural Hurstbridge and Doreen, north east of Melbourne, totally illegally when he was 14 year old or so, which is how he learned the skills which made him the dominant saloon car racing driver in Australia for quite some years.
Peter was my younger brother's best friend at school, so we all had a bit of a hoon in that car, but none of us could hold a candle to Brocky. We weren't silly enough -- and he was also (at that time) a little kid with big feet (he grew into his feet with a late spurt).
At home on our farm, my bro and I used to hoon around in an old Bradford ute -- 850cc side valve, two horizontally opposed cylinders. Me at the wheel:
Needless to say this is not actually an action pic -- the Box Brownie wasn't up to that!
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Geoffrey Heard
Down and out in Rabaul in the South Pacific
http://rabaulpng.com/we-are-all-traveling-throug/i-waited-51-years-for-tavur.html
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Ridiculous, but -- the owner of this one of a handful of cars made by Elfin in South Australia drives it only on the road.
The engine room.
The office.
is this a car or a top fighter plane? I missed an opportunity, actually -- if I had taken two more steps I would have seen a pair of skis lashed to the side of the thing. Imagine this in snow! LOL.
Where did that stupid helmet come from? Blokes stand around and tell lies! Well, augmented truth!
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Geoffrey Heard
Down and out in Rabaul in the South Pacific
