Ah, so they were related to the UK's Lucas Electrics
Ya ya D., I've heard that fairytale told over and over by the jealous import riders.
I put an average of 2k miles on my two cars. I much-much prefer to ride my motorcycles, and my everyday ride is a somewhat tricked-up Piaggio MP3 500. I have a 400hp sports car, and yet I find it somewhat boring even compared to the MP3 500.
How do you like your MP3?
Nope absolute truth. I was there with a friend who kept going by and wanting to buy a Harley. I convinced him to buy a BMW instead. He was dead set against a rice burner. He sold his car and only had the BMW for about 5 years. It was during the terrible AMG HD era, but it was true. One of my Hondas is still in my garage. Worth 10 times what I paid for it. Not likely worth what a Harley from then is worth. But hey, it still doesn't leak. Not like I don't give Harley credit. They made state of the early 1950s art motorcycles.......all the way into the 1990s.Ah, so they were related to the UK's Lucas Electrics
AKA "The Prince of Darkness" LOL
Ya ya D., I've heard that fairytale told over and over by the jealous import riders.
I know what you were really doin at the HD dealer, drooling. Maybe that caused all the wet spots?
Where are all those old Jap bikes now? They went in the crusher.
While those coveted old "leaky" H-Ds sell for big money anywhere in the world. LOL
Actually (IMHO) Magneti Marelli S.p.A. were slightly better (a slight step up, perhaps) than Lucas (Lucas refrigerators are why Brit's drink warm beer) {and no relation to Lucas}.
It must be empty by now.
Thousands of miles per summer. Almost all of it on dirt in the woods in NW Wisconsin. Below are my tracks for the last year, of which I've been over most of these multiple times.
I love the MP3! It is super practical day-to-day - there's all the storage room and you never have to bother put a stand down, just push a button and it stays upright.How do you like your MP3?
I have a Piaggio Fly 150 and it's great for just running around the park, a small grocery run, etc.
It's an 2006 and the last year they were still built in Italy, before they moved construction to China.
And those two fronts mean you can really trust the front end on (pathetic) California roads. It also has enough umph off the line and can cruise at 90mph all day. Here's two out my my 3 bikes...
They're such an unusual and interesting design, I always liked the idea of being on something a bit different.
Speaking of CA, today they must have heard me cursing the California Air Resources Board all the way to the Pacific shores. How can anyone force the passing of a law so stupid and ineffective as the 2009 gas can design order? Without even a shadow of a doubt, these cans have caused more fuel spillage and vapor emission escape than ever was the case
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Speaking of CA, today they must have heard me cursing the California Air Resources Board all the way to the Pacific shores. How can anyone force the passing of a law so stupid and ineffective as the 2009 gas can design order? Without even a shadow of a doubt, these cans have caused more fuel spillage and vapor emission escape than ever was the case
with the old cans. Far from my first experience with these damned things, but just went thru the PITA of trying to bypass
the shutoff system internal to the spout again with a new can. They may be used in a relatively decent manner on a large stable vehicle like a car, but for anything else their operation is a circus and very possibly highly dangerous.
I've run into very few more ridiculous edict from CARB and the EPA.
"Soap doesn’t work. Toilets don’t flush. Clothes washers don’t clean. Light bulbs don’t illuminate. Refrigerators break too soon. Paint discolors. Lawnmowers have to be hacked. It’s all caused by idiotic government regulations that are wrecking our lives one consumer product at a time, all in ways we hardly notice."
How true.
The Epic Failure of the Government Gas Can
I quickly learned what many, particularly outraged boat and outdoor forum folks, already knew. You need three hands to operate today's gas can spouts. It’s like a giant joke, a societal dribble-glass prank imposed on the entire population.
1000+ on this. The gas can thing is like one of those Kafkaesque situations. You want to force whoever made these decisions to come out and refill their lawnmower with one over and over and over while you stand there smack them in the head for every drop they spill while yelling, "Safe, SAFE, you idiots call this SAFE!?" Sisyphus' gas can.They're such an unusual and interesting design, I always liked the idea of being on something a bit different.
The only place I've ever seen one in the wild was on the local dealers floor but never actually on the street or knew
anyone that owned one. They must offer a very different perspective on riding, I know my Ryker has made me change every riding habit I ever developed over 60 years of riding. Still working on the developing the proper style and reactions.
Thanks so much for the reply.
Speaking of CA, today they must have heard me cursing the California Air Resources Board all the way to the Pacific shores. How can anyone force the passing of a law so stupid and ineffective as the 2009 gas can design order? Without even a shadow of a doubt, these cans have caused more fuel spillage and vapor emission escape than ever was the case
with the old cans. Far from my first experience with these damned things, but just went thru the PITA of trying to bypass
the shutoff system internal to the spout again with a new can. They may be used in a relatively decent manner on a large stable vehicle like a car, but for anything else their operation is a circus and very possibly highly dangerous.
I've run into very few more ridiculous edict from CARB and the EPA.
"Soap doesn’t work. Toilets don’t flush. Clothes washers don’t clean. Light bulbs don’t illuminate. Refrigerators break too soon. Paint discolors. Lawnmowers have to be hacked. It’s all caused by idiotic government regulations that are wrecking our lives one consumer product at a time, all in ways we hardly notice."
How true.
The Epic Failure of the Government Gas Can
I quickly learned what many, particularly outraged boat and outdoor forum folks, already knew. You need three hands to operate today's gas can spouts. It’s like a giant joke, a societal dribble-glass prank imposed on the entire population.
1000+ on this. The gas can thing is like one of those Kafkaesque situations. You want to force whoever made these decisions to come out and refill their lawnmower with one over and over and over while you stand there smack them in the head for every drop they spill while yelling, "Safe, SAFE, you idiots call this SAFE!?" Sisyphus' gas Zcan.
I haven't seen one yet capable of a decent sized lawn.
Because of STUPID, IGNORANT, GOVERNMENT MANDATED DESIGN? (No, that would never happen, right?).Thanks for the link, I had already ordered something similar off ebay.
There's about 10 billion out there for sale.
I wonder why.
Would be political suicide, but jacking up the gas price high enough is the most effective policy: you just leave the market figure the economically viable alternatives—such as electric,..
