Show Me Your Ride!

[MacSimoin]

Former rides:

The M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle (though that's not me)



Wings Flight School and a 1999 Cessna 172 Skyhawk SP (6 hrs. shy of my permit and had to quit)



Current ride:

2003 Kia Sorento LX (I've gotten boring)



I wish:

Sabre 42' Flybridge Sedan Motoryacht (a guy can dream, can't he?)



Even better (definitely a 'lottery boat'):

MCP 85' Global Fast Trawler

[ccga3359]

Here is what I got around in for 8 years while stationed on the Texas coast line in the US Coast Guard.



41' UTB--Twin Cummins Diesel Turbo Charged Engines

Okay now I'm jonesing something other than kilts. At least yours has a head!

[Fearnest]

Argyle kicks - nice!

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Porrick, I love the older English sports cars. Verry nice rice!

[Kilted_John]

1983 Volvo 240 Turbo wagon with 330,000 miles on it. 4-speed manual with electrically-operated overdrive 5th gear. Spent some time in Arizona, hence the missing clearcoat on the roof.



Taken during the mid-January snow event. Sorry, no kilted pic with the car. Usually on the other side of the lens anyway.

-J

[porrick]

Porrick, I love the older English sports cars. Verry nice rice!

Thanks, though I did anger a few people in the Triumph circles in the US by taking this original San Diego 22' miles car out of the country in 2003... Not many Stags in such a concdition left in the US now, and with the cooling problems easily sorted, the Triumph V8 is a great engine. Though a small V8, there is arguably not a sweeter sounding one...

[Eujeankilt]

OK, my two rides.




then there's.....




Dale

[Scott Gilmore]

OK ... then there's.....

Ah, yes, good ol' late 70s/early 80s big-bore BMWs. Had an R100-S myself, bought new. Steering head bearing like butter, charging system as sturdy as fine Venetian glass and a main seal like a cheap condom - just a careless half quart too much oil on fill up and she'd give way like a fy-dollah-ho (I'll tell you the story of Gila Bend And The Thanksgiving Day Puddle Of Oil some day over a beer, my friend). But oh, such fun to ride (when one gave in and rode with Teutonic acquiescence). Talk about love and hate.
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[Eujeankilt]

Ah, yes, good ol' late 70s/early 80s big-bore BMWs. Had an R100-S myself, bought new. Steering head bearing like butter, charging system as sturdy as fine Venetian glass and a main seal like a cheap condom - just a careless half quart too much oil on fill up and she'd give way like a fy-dollah-ho (I'll tell you the story of Gila Bend And The Thanksgiving Day Puddle Of Oil some day over a beer, my friend). But oh, such fun to ride (when one gave in and rode with Teutonic acquiescence). Talk about love and hate.
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Scott,

Next time I'm in Sandy Eggo, I'll buy you that beer. I'd love to hear that story and more.

Dale

[Scott Gilmore]

Scott,

Next time I'm in Sandy Eggo, I'll buy you that beer. I'd love to hear that story and more.

Dale

Thanks Dale, but if I have my way I'd like to drop in on you in Eugene (U-jean??). The Pacific northwest is the one section of the country I've not visited that I really feel I've missed. (Mind you, there is one other broad area of America I've not visited, but I don't feel like I'm missing anything.)

Back on subject though, my compliments on the nice, tidy, clean beemer. I know from first-hand experience how much effort it takes to keep one's single-track-vehicle polished. It ain't like a car you can hose off and wipe down in ten minutes and be done with it.

I like the low bars on your R90, too. So many people seem to think that unless you are sitting in the same position you sit in to watch TV, you'll be uncomfortable on your motorcycle. Curiously, they seem incapable of accounting for the omnipresent 75 mph wind that is usually absent from most living room TV-watching experiences. Contemporarily, those bars were called "European." For discussion purposes here, let's call them Scottish, waddayasay?
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