Cravats are going to make a comeback.
I've a watch or two that would go very well with his outfit.
Come on Fitz. I am getting bored looking at shite from the early last century.
This could be a new car owner.
That became evident when he reveled what he was considering. I had to do a cost model for replacing a commercial vehicle with electric nv200 van. There was one weekly run where it collected from 6 service depot's in Kildare dropped of the weeks load for specialized cleaning in the city centre then returned with last weeks load through the six depot's. We were pushing an open door , but included the detail for completeness, it's other people's money we were spending.
I have a few of those too, steel tourers for cycling to work and the ring of Kerry.
That guy probably doesn't need to worry about fuel costs if he's buying an etron
njburke: "I was on an FB EV group yesterday helping a guy decide between an EV and PHEV."
Pedal power is better.
I'ld say there's very little wrong with view from that seat. C'mon what you get?
I was on an FB EV group yesterday helping a guy decide between an EV and PHEV. Turns out he's trying to decide between a etron sport back and Q7. He tells me this after I ask he to put a quick spreedsheet together with his driving profile and cost of energy. Running costs may not be too of his list. They don't make what I want, an electric rover 75 estate.it had a lovely cream dial clock.
My brother is coming round with his new model 3 for a coffee and a spin, I'll need to choose a watch to wear.
On the subjects if other hobbies, I put my name down for a new AV receiver yesterday, home theatre has soaked some of my time over the last year. It's a two month wait for a receiver.
Update:
Just back from the spin in the Tesla 3. 450 HP to 4 wheels is a different world to the 204 HP to the rear in my wife's id3, not to mention the 115hp to the front of my Skoda. And the software, self driving, takes time to develop some trust by the driver.
My takeaway is my brothers Tesla 3 is twice the car my wifes ID3 is, at exactly twice the price.
From a 1970s Raleigh Ireland folding brochure.
It's mad how back then and before the interwebs where an idea in Tokyo can trend within weeks, even days, trends could take so long to transmit and how western cultures could remain quite local. The "racing bike" thing got here as a general thing more by the late 70's and we had the British Raleigh influence on top, where Choppers which had been an earlier trend in the US got here too. Of course with the success of Sean Kelly and Stephen Roche racers were "in". The mountain bikes started to get popular by the mid to late 80's, were they again took their time to spread from their origins in 70's California.
Except the sort of man who reads it for articles about the 'Bike Boom' in America in the early 1970s when there was a short-lived craze for lightweight road bikes especially among college students.
See nothing wrong with quartz
@Fitz II oh, a large portion of Stuttgart's finest!
Pictures, many pictures!
Electric or Combustion?
Enough with the foreplay Fitz, get to the ridin' π whatcha get?
And special it will be given what went the other way! Need pics.
I am buying a tonne or so of second hand rubber for my cows to sleep on tomorrow. Itβs the little luxurious thingsβ¦.
Like a lot of watch people I am also a big car fanatic. So today I turned my old car, a patek and two Rolex into something special.
You can spot some dickhead in this photo signing his paperwork
I'm not particularly interest in aviation but I have a few National Geographics from the late 1930s and early 1940s because they have articles related to cycle touring.
'Looking Down on Europe' is about a journey round Europe by air. Although this article was published in June 1939 from my experience normally articles in NG lag actual events by about 12 months.
This photo supplied by Lufthansa appears showing Tempelhof Airport with one Polish aircraft (SP) of American manufacture surrounded by German civil aircraft. The twin-rotor in the foreground is a Junkers JU86b and the others are JU52 tri-rotors. I'm open to correction as I'm no aviation expert.
I set up the bike trainer in the house and managed 2km on it yesterday.
Doesn't sound like much but I haven't been able to exercise at all since getting covid at the start of August. I'm hoping to build it up to where I was at before but I'll take it slow as I don't want to overdo it.
Happy to be back on the bike at all
Picked up a few ebooks of stuff I planned to get in the "real" form and one of them,
75 years of the Skunkworks, by James C Goodall is a veritable treasure trove of wonderful photos of some of Lockheed's finest work.
The joy of ebook is portability, but I look forward to my hardback being delivered. There is allusion to management structures and project management systems that is unfortunately not really filled in upon in this tome. That's not to detract from what is a wonderful and sometimes personal insight into the Skunkworks, it's just that some of those aspects in particular hold a professional interest for me.
Great haul!π
Β "I really want to get a pile of aviation books in their sale and I'd advise anyone oval to get in there for a browse before they finally close."
Went for a return visit to Chapters and got these four for just under β¬15.
I have a few of those in other editions. One of the very 1st autobiographies I ever read were Boy and Going Solo, they have a very sure place in my heart, Going Solo in particular tbh.
I'll keep an eye out for that collection tho. I keep meaning to head up to Dublin for a visit to Chapters before they close down, but health-wise I probably won't make it up before Feb. I really want to get a pile of aviation books in their sale and I'd advise anyone oval to get in there for a browse before they finally close.
Penguin do a series of these books in RAF blue commemorating 100 years of said RAF. I've got them and they're pretty good. I'll see can I find a photo of them to post.
Effortless Italian style. 1920s/30s postcard.
English publication 'promoting' cycle touring in Ireland 1990s.
When I was in the merchant navy I worked on Shell tankers for a number of years (1970s) and remember people from head office talking about Douglas Bader who apparently worked for Shell after the war, just that the general impression I got from what I heard was that he was a bit of an asshole.
A gift from my MIL that I am very taken with at the moment and that's ahead of the book the Mrs got me in the reading list π
"Duel for the Sky" by Christopher Shores, this is one of his more accessible books IMO. If one isn't into military history and aviation in particular this book is very easy reading. His usual style is far more technical and detail orientated.
Some lovely airframe views and beautiful paintings. A gift that is very much appreciated and will join my aviation library π
Just a re-print but where you going to get the original? 103 interesting pages of cycling history and advertisements.
I bought this cycling map because it was reasonably priced and in good condition. Normally I'd only buy if it was one of the Irish ones I haven't got.
Watering places refers to seaside resort towns. This one dates from around 1895, the ones that say 'For Motorists & Cyclists' are later and the ones where the illustration shows the woman on a tricycle and the man on a highwheeler are earlier.
There are two ads inside the cover one for a temperance hotel (a common type in Victorian times) and another for a patent medicine that contained cannabis and opium.
