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Offline Milwaukee Midget

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #930 on: February 26, 2012, 04:59:01 PM »
Chris, who is LeRoy?

Max - did you ever see the movie Spartacus?   :wink:
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #931 on: February 26, 2012, 07:40:51 PM »
Chris, who is LeRoy?

I'm fixin' to fill the webcast bandwidth with Honkitonitis if allowed back at The Shootout in September.

Grumm, I assembled bicycles whilst attending university in Germany, including building wheels, 'cept the head mogo kept the truing stand on his office desk and would always say, "Jah, jah, I'll teech you, but now, pleeze, I am too busy."  I think he was afraid I'd marry his daughter.  Got back to Seattle eventually and built wheels at Poke's Cycle to become proficient.

Might have to order a few more Milwaukee's finest CDs to give to my local community radio station to bring on the twang.



It is funny the overlap between bikes, cars, motocycles and airplanes happens with the REAL gearheads! 15 years working in the bicycle business in the last 20 myself.

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #932 on: February 26, 2012, 07:56:54 PM »
Chris, who is LeRoy?

Max - did you ever see the movie Spartacus?   :wink:

Leroy Anderson, The Phantom Regiment?  Needs more cowbell.  Or the chuff & puff of my long gone recalcitrant Matchless G80.
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #933 on: February 27, 2012, 05:12:15 PM »
Chris, who is LeRoy?

Max - did you ever see the movie Spartacus?   :wink:

Leroy Anderson, The Phantom Regiment?  Needs more cowbell.  Or the chuff & puff of my long gone recalcitrant Matchless G80.

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #934 on: February 27, 2012, 06:22:53 PM »
Alles in ordnung!
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #935 on: February 27, 2012, 06:40:18 PM »
Ah, the premises for the hit game show "To Tell the Truth".
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #936 on: February 28, 2012, 03:27:57 AM »
Chris, who is LeRoy?

Max - did you ever see the movie Spartacus?   :wink:

Leroy Anderson, The Phantom Regiment?  Needs more cowbell.  Or the chuff & puff of my long gone recalcitrant Matchless G80.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=I%20am%20spartacus


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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #937 on: February 28, 2012, 07:36:49 PM »
"Bruce here teaches classical philosophy, Bruce there teaches Haegelian philosophy, and Bruce here teaches logical positivism. And is also in charge of the sheep dip."

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #938 on: February 28, 2012, 09:15:12 PM »
I don't believe we can show that particular clip o. The teev
In Aus anymore. Non PC
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #939 on: February 28, 2012, 11:50:11 PM »
I don't believe we can show that particular clip o. The teev
In Aus anymore. Non PC
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5000 people pose naked for an hour in front of the Sydney Opera House, and it's called "art", but a 40 year old Monty Python script that ties the words "G'day" and "sheep" together is non grata.

Seems we've misplaced "sense" somewhere between "sensational" and "sensitive".

Packed off the head to APT in Riverside - they've got a fix for my valve guides, and I'm going to have them re-index the valve depths and maybe skim a few thou.
 
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #940 on: February 29, 2012, 01:05:47 AM »
... Seems we've misplaced "sense" somewhere between "sensational" and "sensitive"...
I'll keep repeating that line until it rolls effortlessly off my tongue...
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #941 on: February 29, 2012, 01:17:01 AM »
Seems we've misplaced "sense" somewhere between "sensational" and "sensitive".

and a serious lack of "common"!!

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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #942 on: February 29, 2012, 03:27:04 AM »

5000 people pose naked for an hour in front of the Sydney Opera House, and it's called "art", but a 40 year old Monty Python script that ties the words "G'day" and "sheep" together is non grata.

Seems we've misplaced "sense" somewhere between "sensational" and "sensitive".


Nudity is fine
And it's even OK to use all of the curse words except the "C" word on free to air television here
However the aforementioned clip makes "unacceptable" references to homosexuals and Aborigines, and therefore contravenes both the race and the sexual discrimination act, making it unacceptable for the Australian censors.
Did I mention that in Australia we do not have the right of free speech
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #943 on: March 07, 2012, 08:40:43 PM »
Just got off the phone with Dave Anton at APT – they’ll be starting work on the head this week – new valve guides for sure, hoping to even up the valve depths and a bit of a shave off of the face.  He needs to take a closer look at the head, but the initial diagnosis is that it’s all pretty routine.

I also ordered up a new set of adjusters, and here’s why –



There’s no indication of any wear in the cup of the pushrods, but I’ve got 3 adjusters that look like this.  They should have been harder than this, but running at .025 lash certainly didn’t help.  Details.
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Re: Milwaukee Midget
« Reply #944 on: March 08, 2012, 05:38:14 AM »
Do they coincide with the valve guides that looked like they copped the worst pounding?

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