At 12' length it does get me some attention. An F-86D’s drop tank has the added benefit that I - being a GoldWing rider trapped in a Nimbus rider’s body - can carry lots and lots of luggage. I had planned to take to Japan again in 2020, which was postponed for well known reasons. The 2021 was cancelled and this year…

Was that when it was a solo bike, or after I added the sidecar? In case of the former:

That and the fact politicians stayed in D.C. over the weekends, attended the same parties etc. instead of flying back to the states they represented. It’s easier to work out politics if you also have a personal relationship.

The frame is a later type (1954 on), where the previously riveted section at the steering head was now welded instead. The original idea of using rivets was that your ordinary blacksmith would be able to replace a frame part, but as time went on this proved unnecessary. Looks better with rivets, though (me on Fuji Spee…

First legally registered electric motorcycle in Denmark was this 1930s Nimbus. Looked like shite (builder an electrical technician, and yes, that’s his Volvo), but an 5 kW engine from a floor cleaning machine and used batteries from a junkyard made it a cheap project.

Found this one while writing an article about former warplanes in civilian roles: ”I remember Air Spray Ltd. at Red Deer, Alberta had a highly modified A-26 [Douglas Invader] bought from the Mexican government, that had used it to fly around callgirls. The interior of the plane had a lush white shag carpet everywhere,…

The same people who’d buy stuff that once belonged to a prominent Nazi.

Point taken.

I can safely assume you haven’t ever used such a wiper: scraping water off a visor doesn’t scratch it.

I know the 1899 La Jamais Contente was not a car as such, but it was streamlined. And electric too.

The Mars may be larger, but the Caproni had 9 wings and 10 engines. And it did make a short flight....

Actually you do. Quite a few left hand motorcycle gloves have a rubber ‘wiper’ sewn onto them, for this purpose. At lest here in Europe. I’ve been using them for 40+ years.

Actually you do, and quite few motorcycle left hand gloves have a rubber ‘wiper’ sewn onto them, for this purpose. At least here in Europe. I’ve been using them for 40+ years.

Reminds me of poor old Abacha Tunde, Nigeria’s first astronaut who was unwittingly left on board a secret Soviet space station when the Soviet Union dissolved 31 years ago. According to the emails sent out, he was still getting paid for his years of ongoing solitary service, amounting to over $15 million. A cool 20…

According to the official Mercedes-Benz history, “From 1939 until 1945 Neubauer was responsible for organizing the company’s repair workshops before he set to work helping with the reconstruction of ‘his’ factory as of 1946.”

$20K is still a lot of money. For $700 you get an hour in a WW2 Boeing Stearman Kaydet, including 20 minutes of aerobatics off the coast of Long Beach, CA. Would definitely have been barf bag time, if I wisely hadn’t skipped breakfast that day. That was at the very start of a 2-month cross country ride, and I knew…

‘Ce n’est pas un...’. (I saw what you did there.)