The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Wu Wei]

Interesting think occurring in my area, that is directly related to the Covid Pandemic stay at home stuff. Private businesses, with larger offices and multiple employees are realizing that their staff is working rather well from home and that they do not need the large office space they were using, so they are down sizing. This is good for them, less overhead, but not so good for large office rentals.

 

[Wu Wei]

The Indian & the Sahara have class.
If you have knee trouble, buy a lighter bike...not a trike.

The Sahara, has. side car, side cars are for old men, hen pecked husbands, and pantywaists, such as yourself.....unless they have a machine gun mounted on the side car...then they are ok.... and you do not understand my knees. It is not lack of strength to hold the dang bike up, it is the sudden onset of unexpected pain that makes it stop working....and that is when heavy...and light bikes...and people just standing there on their own two feet....fall over.

 

[Revoltingest]

The Sahara, has. side car, side cars are for old men, hen pecked husbands, and pantywaists, such as yourself.....unless they have a machine gun mounted on the side car...then they are ok.... and you do not understand my knees. It is not lack of strength to hold the dang bike up, it is the sudden onset of unexpected pain that makes it stop working....and that is when heavy...and light bikes...and people just standing there on their own two feet....fall over.

Sidecars are cool.
I put one on my 1970 Triumph TR6R (650).
This way, I'd never have to ask Mrs Revolt to ride on the "b1tch seat".

 

[Wu Wei]

Sidecars are cool.
I put one on my 1970 Triumph TR6R (650).
This way, I'd never have to ask Mrs Revolt to ride on the "b1tch seat".

Like I said...they are for old men, hen pecked husbands, and pantywaists, such as yourself.

If you want a new motorcycle, that looks old, that is mechanically sound, affordable, and manly, then you need to get one of these, actually the Enfield, if you are talking the most mechanically sound retro looking bike, may be the top of that list

Harley-Davidson Iron 1200
Royal Enfield
BMW R nineT Pure
Indian Scout Sixty
Harley-Davidson Iron 883

But even with those, you slap a side care on one, without a machine gun....then it to is for old men, hen pecked husbands, and pantywaists, such as yourself.

 

[Revoltingest]

Like I said...they are for old men, hen pecked husbands, and pantywaists, such as yourself.

If you want a new motorcycle, that looks old, that is mechanically sound, affordable, and manly, then you need to get one of these, actually the Enfield, if you are talking the most mechanically sound retro looking bike, may be the top of that list

Harley-Davidson Iron 1200
Royal Enfield
BMW R nineT Pure
Indian Scout Sixty
Harley-Davidson Iron 883

But even with those, you slap a side care on one, without a machine gun....then it to is for old men, hen pecked husbands, and pantywaists, such as yourself.

Of those, only Royal Enfield has bikes that actually look classic 1960ish.
The Bullet 500, Classic 500, & Continental GT 650 work for me.
(I once had a Bullet, but sold it before riding it.)

But my dream bike is the Velocette Venom
(More practical than a Thruxton.)

A Velocette Enduro was once my daily commuting bike.

 

[Stevicus]

Fixed.

It's actually L' America:

 

[Wu Wei]

Of those, only Royal Enfield has bikes that actually look classic 1960ish.
The Bullet 500, Classic 500, & Continental GT 650 work for me.
(I once had a Bullet, but sold it before riding it.)

But my dream bike is the Velocette Venom
(More practical than a Thruxton.)

A Velocette Enduro was once my daily commuting bike.

I always wanted a Norton 850 Commando

But the dream bike has always been an Harley Davidson KHK

Of course I would not turn down an Old Indian Chief if someone wanted to give me one

 

[Revoltingest]

I always wanted a Norton 850 Commando

But the dream bike has always been an Harley Davidson KHK

Of course I would not turn down an Old Indian Chief if someone wanted to give me one

Yes, the 53 Chief with the hydraulic front forks is one of my all time faves.
Norton Commandos are nice.
Harleys never did it for me.

 

[Revoltingest]

The pre-toaster BMW R69 is another fave.

 

[Wu Wei]

Yes, the 53 Chief with the hydraulic front forks is one of my all time faves.
Norton Commandos are nice.
Harleys never did it for me.

I, for some reason, ever said I was a little kid, like the KHK. The old Moto Guzzis were nice too, but I based that purely on the looks of the bike, know nothing about them mechanically

But the bike, I absolutely would give your right arm to have, but I will never find, and even if I did, I could not afford....a BMW R32

Or for that matter any BMW motorcycle from the 1920s

 

[Wu Wei]

The pre-toaster BMW R69 is another fave.

I hate it when we agree on things

These ain't bad either (old R60)

 

[Wu Wei]

From am restoration POV, the BMWs of the 1960s are a good place to start

1965 BMW R60/2

 

[Stevicus]

 

[sun rise]

Such anger, such violence about a poor, innocent car. It winds up in? on? a dump truck.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

Interesting think occurring in my area, that is directly related to the Covid Pandemic stay at home stuff. Private businesses, with larger offices and multiple employees are realizing that their staff is working rather well from home and that they do not need the large office space they were using, so they are down sizing. This is good for them, less overhead, but not so good for large office rentals.

I am strongly doubting that the new work-at-homers are being adequately compensated for having to set up their office at home, with phone, internet, etc. And I suspect that the IRS still requires any expenses for the at-home worker to apply to dedicated spaces and equipment, services, etc.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I want to see a show about Brock Samson's 30-something great grandparents who were Viking raiders.

 

[Wu Wei]

I am strongly doubting that the new work-at-homers are being adequately compensated for having to set up their office at home, with phone, internet, etc. And I suspect that the IRS still requires any expenses for the at-home worker to apply to dedicated spaces and equipment, services, etc.

The business still has internet, still has an office, that is where the boss is, the employees work form home. And if you run a virtual desktop server all they need is an internet connection to connect to their desktop at work. Or is you don't want to do that, you just need to give them remote access rights and again, all they need is an internet connection to get to their work PC. Phone no issue either, set up forwarding from desk phone to iPhone/Android/etc. They are not setting up anything at home beyond their current PC at home or an office issued laptop, Chromebook, iPad, etc. Overall, it appears to be lowering the "private" owners overhead. All they need is a small office to run the business and their employees can work from home. But this of course is highly dependent on the type of business,

We have set up a lot of home users and it has cost them virtually nothing. I am in a government office and a government owned building. But looking at the hundreds of folks that are working with home with little of no cost to themselves and looking at what the rent would be for a building this size. You could run it in a facility 1/4 of the size of this one.

Basically these business are not asking folks to purchase anything, they are using existing infrastructure, just moving it to a much smaller facility. And for the most part, most of the employees seem to prefer not going to teh office and working form home

 

[Brickjectivity]

Sometimes announcements just don't pay.

 

[Revoltingest]

I picked out hickory cabinet fronts for the kitchen
rehab of the apartment at the self storage facility.

 

[Wu Wei]

Oh, I have 80GB of personal files on my PC....why is the hard drive so full....