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Post by wtrfwlr on Aug 5, 2013 11:44:11 GMT -7
A haircut and a shave and some new threads...ok, but it looks to me like you could use a rinse-out on that water bottle That's my bike bladder....I'm a long distance rider!
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Post by angelhelp on Aug 5, 2013 12:14:04 GMT -7
Bladder, huh?
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Post by tjwilhelm on Aug 6, 2013 10:43:12 GMT -7
Actually, if that home-brew wooden bicycle really works, I think it's pretty impressive as a primitive skills project! No foolin'!
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Post by wtrfwlr on Aug 6, 2013 10:58:46 GMT -7
No doubt about it! I'm a pretty decent fabricator but that sure caught my attention especially if you sit back and imagine what tools he had to work with! From looking the whole photo he probably didn't have much.
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Post by thywar on Aug 6, 2013 16:27:48 GMT -7
Oh come on Wtrfwlr you know the Snap On Truck goes by there every other Wednesday. What they don't have on their truck I'm certain he can pick up at the Sears tool store.. maybe even a Harbor Freight if he's saving some money.
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Post by angelhelp on Aug 6, 2013 17:01:02 GMT -7
That seat's a vast improvement over what's usually seen.
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Post by woodyz on Aug 6, 2013 18:21:42 GMT -7
I have to get side tracked, just a little. In the late 70's I worked as a patrolman an investigated the disappearance of an entire Snap On tool truck and all of the tools in it. The driver went into a quick sack to by a drink came out less then a minute later and it was gone.
I know what you are thinking, he left the keys in it. Nope he had them in his pocket, but he had also locked the doors on the truck.
More than 10 years later and 700 miles south, I had an ex brother n law and a couple of his distant relatives break down in a bus built into a motorhome near me. I went and pulled them to my house where they could work on it. They stayed several weeks and even went to work for a while where I worked.
The point of this story is a complete set of snap on tools on the truck, I mean every tool in the catalog was there. When I commented on the nice tool sit up the owner of the bus told me they came from a snap on truck he had stolen in 1977. It took about 30 seconds to conclude the tools where from the truck I took the report on.
The truck in question stop once a week at an auto repair place where the bus owner worked. Everyone was friends with the driver, he was a good old boy and made good deals for his friends. The snap on driver got interested in a girl that worked with the bus driver and he arranged for them to meet several times on the bus while the bus owner watched the truck for him. Nothing was ever missing and everything was cool....... except the bus owner made a copy of the keys on the key ring, with the intent of stealing from the truck sometime. But he and the driver got to be good friends and the girl was a relative and her and the driver were getting serious so he never used the keys.
SIx months later the driver and the girl got married and moved to Utah and the snap on truck stopped coming to that shop.
One day what does the bus owner see but that same snap on truck with a new driver. He follows it to a business stop and goes to see if he has the keys any more. It takes a few days but he finds them so he gets it all sit up. On the right day he waits for the truck to come back to the business and he does so he starts following him around town, the second day he takes his chance and when the driver goes into the sack and save he hijacks the entire truck. He had it all planned, it went to a barn where everything with any use was unloaded and then early in the Am drove the truck off into a 300 foot deep rock quarry, where it was never seen again. The buss owner became THE MOBILE MECHANIC the guy who would come to you with all of this tools and fix your car.
It is so very weird how small the world can be.
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Post by wtrfwlr on Aug 6, 2013 19:10:37 GMT -7
Oh come on Wtrfwlr you know the Snap On Truck goes by there every other Wednesday. What they don't have on their truck I'm certain he can pick up at the Sears tool store.. maybe even a Harbor Freight if he's saving some money. Nah, I doubt that cat needs any Snap-On Tools. He has all he needs looks to me like, a pile of sharp rocks I reckon! Oh and this... I got a report today the Audi bike went out with a test rider for some high speed runs. Apparently the rider, being overconfident like all test riders/drivers/pilots are, shifted into top gear and the cycle instantly burst into a spectacular fireball! Here is what is left of the fine machine.
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Post by mrmike on Aug 7, 2013 14:46:39 GMT -7
Meanwhile in Maine
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Post by wtrfwlr on Aug 7, 2013 14:57:11 GMT -7
Those cats are headed to Sturgis!
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Post by angelhelp on Aug 7, 2013 16:30:41 GMT -7
Very cool
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