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- Mon Dec 07, 2009 9:58 am
- Forum: for sale and wanted
- Topic: Biker's furniture for sale
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2548
Re: Biker's furniture for sale
Too late folks !The local charity made me an offer I couldn't refuse (Take it away for nothing, mate ?)R.
- Sun Dec 06, 2009 11:59 pm
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: Where was I ?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 114070
Re: Where was I ?
That might be Pont du Gard then ?A coconut to you, I believe.rustynuts wrote:Oui monsieur, il a porter l'eau à travers une vallée d'un fleuve.What did the Romans ever do for us? Well, they built this brige, or more like three briges, one on top of another.
- Sun Dec 06, 2009 12:24 pm
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: Sunday duck humour
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4625
Re: Sunday parrot humour
A burglar broke into a house and shone his flashlight around looking for valuables.He picked up a CD player when a strange, disembodied voice echoed from the dark saying:… 'Jesus is watching you...'He nearly jumped out of his skin, clicked off his flashlight and froze. When he heard nothing more he...
- Sun Dec 06, 2009 12:09 pm
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: Sunday duck humour
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4625
Re: Sunday duck humour
OK, MrB - a change of quack.Elderly gent, lying in bed and in the final stages of dying, feels compelled to confess and apologize to his wife about the liaisons he's had with her sister, her best friend and with her mother.The wife gently replies " Don't worry about that now, Dear, I understan...
- Sat Dec 05, 2009 4:34 pm
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: Where was I ?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 114070
Re: Where was I ?
south of Donnington circuit and predates it by a couple of milennia. Hello again - back from a windy bit of boating.A Roman aqueduct perhaps ?Not in the UK ?Gizzakloo !R.
- Sun Nov 29, 2009 10:24 pm
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: Sunday duck humour
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4625
Re: Sunday duck humour
A duck walks into a bar and orders a beer.The barman says, "Hey, you're a duck!""Nothing wrong with your eyesight," observes the duck,"Yeah, but I mean - you can TALK" says the barman."Nothing wrong with your hearing," answers the duck. "Now, can I have a...
- Sun Nov 29, 2009 6:01 pm
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: Sunday duck humour
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4625
Sunday duck humour
Duck Waddles into a pub and says to the barman "give me some bread"Barman Dont serve breadDuck Give us some breadBarman NoDuck Give me some breadBarman NoDuck Give me some breadBarman No Duck Give us some breadBarman If you ask for bread again, Ill nail your beak to the barDuck Give us som...
- Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:48 pm
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: Where was I ?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 114070
Re: Where was I ?
The wildest of guesses, since there aren't too many clues - the old bridge, now by-passed, at Donington circuit ?R.rustynuts wrote:This is a well known bridge, photographed from an unusual perspective.
- Sat Nov 28, 2009 12:08 am
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: Where was I ?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 114070
Re: Where was I ?
GIVE THAT MAN A COCONUT!! WELL DONE !And an honorable mention to TRL who spotted it immediately, but didn't want to spoil the fun.Where did he spot it ? In my Gallery, where you can see the complete bridge.R.rustynuts wrote:it is the Ballachulish bridge on the A82. .
- Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:07 pm
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: Where was I ?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 114070
Re: Where was I ?
Half right, it's certainly a bridge ! There was a branch line that went past the ????? Bridge to serve the slate quarry further up.R.Ian wrote:OK, I'll go for it.It's the Connell Bridge,Ian
- Fri Nov 27, 2009 9:53 am
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: Where was I ?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 114070
Re: Where was I ?
Just a whippersnapper then, then ?R.Interpol2471 wrote:Errmm well I am not going to say as I lived close by for six months but had to catch the ferry then
- Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:37 pm
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: out dated web site
- Replies: 40
- Views: 452688
Re: Much better, thank you !
This only took 39 secs to upload on my 'broadband-in-the-sticks' connection.But, after uploading your own snaps, don't click on the thumbnail 'just to have look' ; there's no way back to the post (that I can find) without starting all over again ! Browser 'Back' gets "Web Page has Expired"...
- Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:06 pm
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: Where was I ?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 114070
Re: Where was I ?
About 480 of them ? Don't be shy, give it a go !R.Whoever guesses correctly, has to provide the next 'Where was I?'Ian wrote:I think I might know too. Maybe a few miles north from London, perhaps...
- Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:03 pm
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: Where was I ?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 114070
Re: Where was I ?
Would I be correct in thinking that this is a road bridge , that once was a railway AND road bridge , the rails set in the roadway like tram tracks? If so, I have a sneaking feeling I might know where it is... Yours in colour, DC I think you may be in mind of a similar place. This one had a vehicle...
- Thu Nov 26, 2009 10:05 am
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: out dated web site
- Replies: 40
- Views: 452688
Much better, thank you !
050182-01.JPG This only took 39 secs to upload on my 'broadband-in-the-sticks' connection.But, after uploading your own snaps, don't click on the thumbnail 'just to have look' ; there's no way back to the post (that I can find) without starting all over again ! Browser 'Back' gets "Web Page ha...
- Tue Nov 24, 2009 5:40 pm
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: Where was I ?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 114070
Where was I ?
A new game ! Identify the location.R
- Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:12 am
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: out dated web site
- Replies: 40
- Views: 452688
Re: out dated web site
Johnny,Describes me to a T ! Thanks for that , I'll sleep easier tonight.R.MrB wrote: .It's invariably the simple things that cause the most confusion! .
- Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:03 am
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: out dated web site
- Replies: 40
- Views: 452688
Re: out dated web site
Am I losing whatever marbles remain ? It's all changed !Nice one, Graham.Nighty night.R.
- Sat Nov 21, 2009 9:10 pm
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: out dated web site
- Replies: 40
- Views: 452688
Forum / Gallery access
Apologies if I'm being a bit thick red face , but can someone explain, preferably in words of one syllable, what the problem is ?When I enter http://www.rotaryownersclub.co.uk, I get what have been calling the homepage. At the top of this is a banner with ten rotors pictured with Rotary Owners' Clu...
- Sat Nov 21, 2009 7:45 pm
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: out dated web site
- Replies: 40
- Views: 452688
Re: out dated web site
I assumed (stupid, I know) that everyone found the web site by using http://www.rotaryownersclub.co.uk, 'cos that's all I know.Accessing the site that way gets the home page that I was talking about earlier.R.
- Sat Nov 21, 2009 2:19 pm
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: out dated web site
- Replies: 40
- Views: 452688
Re: out dated web site
As for comments on the site, I can't say I find the links to things like the photos site easy to find - Richard puts a comment in some text saying have a look at blah blah blah - can I ever find where to look?? This is how I do it :On the home page, top centre ; click on 'Members Gallery'New page a...
- Thu Nov 19, 2009 5:35 pm
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: turbo
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3980
What you want is..........
......... one of the little beauties I've just added to the Gallery !Driven by toothed belt from a pulley fixed on the O D of the generator rotor at about a 7 : 1 ratio and the outlet ducted to the normal air inlets.Outlet from the centre plate ducted to a muff around the silencer to disperse the s...
- Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:31 pm
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: Even quieter on the Donington front
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2023
Even quieter on the Donington front
I hear that the circuit operator, Donington Ventures Leisure Ltd, has gone into administration.DVLL promotes the race meetings, pop concerts, trackdays, etc., and leases the circuit from Wheatcroft & Son Ltd, owners of the circuit.You may recall that Wheatcroft was in the process of taking lega...
- Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:07 am
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: New Norton Accessories
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3701
Clock time ?
Meant to mention it before - but we seem to be running double Summer Time on here.
- Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:04 am
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: New Norton Accessories
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3701
Re: New Norton Accessories
Tee Hee ! 
- Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:55 am
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: out dated web site
- Replies: 40
- Views: 452688
Re: out dated web site
'Morning Graham,Thanks for your reply - I didn't appreciate how much up-to-the-elbows you are in the site. Careful though, don't become a geek ! There's one on the yachting forum who has (mostly) objectionable views on life, the universe, etc., and isn't afraid to share them.I note that rogerdodger...
- Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:41 am
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: out dated web site
- Replies: 40
- Views: 452688
Re: out dated web site
In my naivety, it hadn't occured to me that there are costs involved in running this site and, more importantly, that Graham is paying out of his own pocket. It's very humbling to realise another person's hidden generosity.If there are 300 (?) members of the ROC, 150 registered users of this site, ...
- Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:35 pm
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: F1 Sport in Gulf livery
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7617
Re: F1 Sport in Gulf livery
It's in the post, honest !
- Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:39 am
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: F1 Sport in Gulf livery
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7617
Re: F1 Sport in Gulf livery
I remember nothing ! But I believe everything I read.
- Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:38 am
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: IP2 strip advice
- Replies: 43
- Views: 29831
Re: IP2 strip advice
quote="gripper"The caustic soda did a good job of loosening the carbon ( and the top of my head) You're not supposed to dip your head in it ! I haven't managed to get enough heat into the end plates to remove the main bearing housings. Heat is not necessary when dismantling ; a normal benc...