old technology

The slant-six was a hardy engine, indeed.

 

Works well at the drive-in movies too!

It's not a once-in-a-lifetime experience if you live there!

 

Two good examples....not the norm. The Surplus Harleys never got to
100,000 at least without several rebuilds.

 

I managed to toast one. It was in a 65 Valiant. Not a bad looking car
with a slick paint job and some fancy chrome reverse rims.

One day in the auto parts section of some department store I found a
new super duper, space age slick, oil additive with "Teflon" in it.

Well I just had to have that stuff. It must have done something
because not long after my slant six was burning oil like crazy.
Beautiful blue smoke poured from the exhaust.

Twas a very expensive lesson for a young kid with no money to rebuild
the motor.

Too bad cuz it wasn't a bad looking car.
--


Don
RCOS# 7
Riding Again!

2000 - Yamaha Venture Millenium Edition

 

All over Europe, I believe. Prolly 'cause the cars get parked half on the
sidewalks and most streets are wide enough for *maybe* two-way hay cart
traffic.

 

What that says to me is there was no engineering obstacle at the time
and miracle that's happened since then. Build an understressed, well
cooled engine and it holds up well. Most significant improvement that
comes to mind since then might be oil. The Chevy 6 of that era wasn't
bad either.

Not familiar enough with HD's to really argue that one way or the
other. The Brit Beezer 500 singles were pretty solid from what I
understand. Besides, you started by arguing 50K, not 100.

 

Nothing special about that. Both my Hondas have that, as does my
Kawasaki. I think even my old 72 Yamaha has a position for parking
lights - or (since it is old enough) you can just turn the headlight off...

--
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Oh I know it's not that special, I was just trying to throw a little
motorcycle reference back into the thread. lol...

 

Well, I only lived there for 13 years. I miss the trees and the
mountains.

 

While performing an interpretive dance to Enya's Carribean Blue, Outback
Jon exclaimed:

But you'd end up cooking the coils and/or ballast resistors if you did
that.

 

On my 82 Virago, the parking light option is one notch further
counterclockwise on the ignition switch than the fork lock. I
inadvertently left the bike overnight with the taillight lit and ran
down the battery. Luckily I was parked on top of a small rise
(Collingwood @ Market) and was able to do a rolling start.

Rich, Urban BIker

 

I remember several storms like that in the Utah mountains. I miss the
mountains there too, but I don't miss the culture much.

 

My Suzuki Tempter is wired for parking lights on the left side, but the
ignition switch doesn't support the wiring. It's a weird bike.

 

My parents' first brand-new car was a '65 Dodge Dart. My family owned
nothing but Chryslers with the slant six until Chrysler started to build
crap prior to their Lee Iacocca days. The GM Iron Duke four was a pretty
reliable engine, but the way they crammed it into their 80's front wheel
drive models was infuriating.

 

I know what you mean. I once developed a carburator that got 400mpg,
and just as I was about to bring it to mark

 

Yeah ... the only place you can find that there is over in the dairy
section of the supermarket, in the yogurt.

 

Yeah you, me and a hundred other people.....

 

You could hardly call the American railroad interests benevolent
but the IC engined auto/truck managed to prevail. I've seen some
innovators succeed and some others fail because they richly deserved
to. Even really good ideas can be readily screwed up by a lack of
humility and/or clear vision.

 

Old tech sucks and is the very incarnation of laziness.


Bob Nixon 01 Sprint ST "RED" 53K "bought original"
Chandler,AZ with 330+ days of sunshine per year.
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Well, you should know, since you're riding a motorcycle that is CHOCK
FULL of old tech.