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Offline grumm441

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1905 on: June 11, 2011, 03:36:25 AM »
with a small seat to straddle (like a horse), with little bike handles protruding discretely to hang onto/steer with? In other words, sit on it, not in it?
Drewfus, I already PM'd him the saddle idea,

So more like this
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1906 on: June 11, 2011, 05:07:31 AM »
.or this?


or this.?....


I love that shot.
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1907 on: June 13, 2011, 10:39:35 PM »
I reckon handlebars can be pretty cool. Think Ed Daddy Roth Gearstick clutches crossed with extreme chopper and (as Roxette would say) you've got the look...

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1908 on: June 14, 2011, 07:55:01 AM »
my daughter has handlebar ribbons just like that.....that dude just needs a floral basket up front and then she'll race him for pinks
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1909 on: June 14, 2011, 08:27:02 PM »
First bike I've ever seen where you need to worry about scraping your knuckles on the roof of a parking ramp. 

That'll suntan your armpits.
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1910 on: June 14, 2011, 08:44:36 PM »
my daughter has handlebar ribbons just like that.....that dude just needs a floral basket up front and then she'll race him for pinks

I reckon they built that up from a scale model, they just miscalculated by a factor ...

First bike I've ever seen where you need to worry about scraping your knuckles on the roof of a parking ramp.

I'm pretty sure that guy would have some serious callouses on the back of his knuckles, actually I reckon he'd have pretty serious callouses on BOTH sides of his knuckles......
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1911 on: June 14, 2011, 10:38:56 PM »
Dr. G;

"I reckon they built that up from a scale model, they just miscalculated by a factor ..."

That isn't an unthinkable mistake. Where I worked years ago (the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, WV), one of our European scientists made a drawing of a small thing he wanted built and sent it to the machine shop. Unfortunately he had scaled it in millimeters and the shop built it in inches. Since he had not shown his scale in "mm" it was a natural error.  :-P

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1912 on: June 14, 2011, 11:02:00 PM »
I see where this is headed -

"I think that the problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf."

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1913 on: June 15, 2011, 12:13:46 AM »

Apparently that Mars lander thingy that hit the Mars surface very hard and was obliterated a few years back was an empirical misunderstanding between the UK scientists and NASA as well.

and

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You forgot the umlaut on the letter n.
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1914 on: June 15, 2011, 12:22:42 AM »
I keep coming back for some build diary, but am pleasantly surprised by humor. :-D

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1915 on: June 15, 2011, 01:13:40 AM »
I keep coming back for some build diary, but am pleasantly surprised by humor. :-D

Hey Troy,
There is some stuff going on in the shed...in fact the job I have on has similarities to the sleeve removal job I saw you guys doing a little while back.....I just made a 4ft long puller with a 3/4 inch thread on each end to get started on the differential housing transplant job............brutal and boring.

When you're getting annoyed at some guy standing around your pit at the salt making smart-asz remarks when you're trying to do something difficult come over and shake my hand I'm looking forward to meeting you guys.I'm hoping to see you do that BIG number when I'm there :-D :-D
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Re: the place (for what you think is the) Australian Belly Tank build diary
« Reply #1916 on: June 15, 2011, 05:28:41 AM »
I keep coming back for some build diary, but am pleasantly surprised by humor. :-D

Yep
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1917 on: June 16, 2011, 11:22:30 AM »


This is a SMALL lakester.

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1918 on: June 16, 2011, 12:36:03 PM »
 :?    For small lakes??
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #1919 on: June 16, 2011, 01:40:08 PM »
Would'nt that be a streamliner? The tires are enclosed.
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