Not bad, but the steering wheel's on the wrong side
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I can. My brother let a GPZ 900 sit in a garage for 20 years, the tank rusted out, like big sections missing in the side, the forks, rims, everything alloy corroded into white powder and pushed the paint out. It was a mess, a total @#*#&%. I sold it with his estate, I got $300 and considered myself lucky.
lol, I just went back through a HHD looking for pix I took, nothing, I must have deleted them after I sold it.
Classic machine. Cam chain on the side for straighter intake tracts as I recall.
I was mentioning this to the wife the other night while watching the Taronga Zoo show...
I said Canada was settled by mostly Europeans primarily from the UK yet we don't a Britishesque accent, we don't drive on the righthand and many of our traditions aren't English......we flew the Union Jack on our national flag up to 1965 but have since gone to the Canadian flag....
And our country is as old or older than some other British colonies.......yet Australia and New Zealand have a sort of British style accent and drive on the righthand side of the road.....
Even the US was a British colony once and it too threw off it's British roots......
Kind of strange how that worked...I guess Canada along with the US are rebels.....
Deep thoughts.
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We drive on the lefthand side of the road
Unless you're on a 'busa and overtaking a line of 6 or 7 cars... then we're on the right
We drive on the lefthand side of the road
Unless you're on a 'busa and overtaking a line of 6 or 7 cars... then we're on the right
Say, are your side stands on the right side of the bike then? Throttle and brake on the left, clutch and shifter on the right?
To a degree.
He can dissolve the government if he chooses, it happened once in Australia. So you gotta ask yourself, if the king's representative holds power greater than that of the Government, who ultimately controls the nation?
I do the modern version of window shopping, which is, spend too much time on Facebook market place looking at everything from neumatic tire changing machines to old Apache trucks to restore and even save the ad knowing I have no intentions of buying them yet, I still feel bummed when they sell.
However, you sit on the right side of the vehicle....that's what I think of when I say drive on the right hand side....We drive on the lefthand side of the road
Unless you're on a 'busa and overtaking a line of 6 or 7 cars... then we're on the right
We still are under the British Commonwealth but that is as far as it goes, we drive on the left hand side of the vehicle, don't have a British-like accent, we gravitate more towards the US than the UK.....and are going more towards that direction with the lessening of immigration from the UK....
We still play "God save the King" at our Remembrance Day ceremonies and try to hold onto a few traditions but those are quickly fading away....
An excerpt from the Governor General office:
The Governor General is more of a figure head than a governing body.
"While the Constitution Act (1867) places executive power in The King, in practice this power is exercised by the prime minister and his or her ministers. The governor general acts on the advice of the head of government but has the right to advise, encourage and warn."
I do the modern version of window shopping, which is, spend too much time on Facebook market place looking at everything from neumatic tire changing machines to old Apache trucks to restore and even save the ad knowing I have no intentions of buying them yet, I still feel bummed when they sell.
I'm glad it's not just me
lol
Naturally, you are an independent nation now, not a colony. Personally I think it's a good thing to have the crown backstopping things, it no doubt prevents the more egregious felonies at the Federal level. Just look at that outgoing US President, he and his son have done despicable things like their financial dealings in the ukraine. He should have been impeached for that but no one raised a whimper. And all those Presidential pardons, including his degenerate son, that's real Nero stuff and should never have been allowed but their system has little in the way of checks and balances. The fox guarding the hen house.
It's interesting too to see how much financial control the crown exerts over places like Australia. The royal family itself has huge stakes in mobs like BHP, and the banks no doubt. You look at the boards of the major corporations and you'll find a lot of Knights of the Realm among them. Again, this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, it was their colony once after all and it only makes sense that they wouldn't just up stumps and walk away from all that treasure.
As children, many of us took delight in joy of physical activities. Riding bikes or skateboards. Swimming or flying kites. Simple things really. But the bliss of physical activity was priceless. And often free. As I age I keep coming back to this.
Today I went on my annual ski outing and was reminded of the joy brought about by physical activity. Of sport. Of using my body as it was intended. The sound of the skis chattering across the surface of the snow. The thrill of coming over a rise a bit faster than I had intended, the breathless exertion of hammering a long descent. Each bring an unparalleled thrill as one speeds down a glacier. So cool.
And this glee will stay with me for a time. I can relive it for a few weeks. “Why is that man smiling..?” Because he just recalled riding in a snow cat nearly to the summit of Mt Hood on a sunny day. Not a bad way to spend the afternoon.
Today I went on my annual ski outing and was reminded of the joy brought about by physical activity. Of sport. Of using my body as it was intended. The sound of the skis chattering across the surface of the snow. The thrill of coming over a rise a bit faster than I had intended, the breathless exertion of hammering a long descent. Each bring an unparalleled thrill as one speeds down a glacier. So cool.
And this glee will stay with me for a time. I can relive it for a few weeks. “Why is that man smiling..?” Because he just recalled riding in a snow cat nearly to the summit of Mt Hood on a sunny day. Not a bad way to spend the afternoon.
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