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Friday afternoon safety meeting.

Trevor, are all of those bikes from the Victoria metro area? Crazy cross section of the last half century of motorcycle history.
 
dpep said:
Trevor, are all of those bikes from the Victoria metro area? Crazy cross section of the last half century of motorcycle history.
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Not only are they from Victoria but they are all from owners living within 10 miles of me....lol....the island has a very eclectic motorcycle community for sure.
And a few of them blocks from me. :)
 
Hey! You managed to get both of my bikes AND me in there! '82 GS1100EZ and '13 Super Tenere and the big guy with the long hair and tie-dyed shirt! :)
 
Another successful Friday Afternoon Safety Meeting...My friend Andy came over in his amazing 1957 BMW Isetta
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If they had, they would have included the 20mm cannon.
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Speaking of the Bofors and Oerlikons and Fokkers and such. Many many years ago a genial smiling old man would come to my liquor store cash to purchase two 12 bottle cases of beer. I forget the brands but one was for him and the other for his friend who could no longer physically make it into town.
Upu really take note of the decent folks in that sort of environment as the bulk are sullen snot nosed underage punks or drunken yappy arseholes.
Overtime with the scant few seconds you get to know people.

One day he explained why he carried the cases up one at a time. Holy crap its mid 90s and he was a convoy truck driver in the war and was strafed and hit by cannon fire in the opening days of the Normandy Invasion.
It was mind blowing. Was if a FW190 or a ME109? I dared not ask him. SO strange to meet a living remnant of such a horror who could smile and be polite in spite of living with permanent damage from a near death run in with explosives.

The messerschmitt little car like the BMW in the pic appears in the movie Brazil.
 
4th photo...dog is winking, but thinking, "you show this pic and I'll bite your leg off!" :eagerness:
 
A couple of weeks ago we had a rather interesting safety meeting...my buddy Andy with the Isetta brought over a couple of new guys to the meeting....Phil and Steve....older gents with a passion for bikes...Steve in his 70s was very interested in my bikes, especially my Cooley. He told me he has a 78 Z1000 amongst many other bikes including a early 70s Kawasaki 750 triple he just bought and was being sent to him from Toronto...he paid $20k for it. But it's mint!
Anyway turns out he was born in the usa bought he quit high school because of the Vietnam draft and "dodged" over to Canada where he stayed. He said he started several businesses and most of them failed....but one he started in 1979 stuck called "Dollar Financial Group"...which have birth to a little business called Money Mart....lol....he sold out his shares a few years ago for "Hundreds of millions..."....really super nice chill guy that really enjoyed hanging out with other gear heads in my garage.
The other guy was named Phil....retired from owning a auto mechanics garage. His hands were shaking as he has Parkinson's He is a drag racer.
But not just any kind of drag racer....lol...old school dragster....3500hp! 0-100mph in one second!
He raced in Bakersville Ca just a couple of weeks prior to him being in my garage....here is his car.
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I've always been surprised that the driver's massive balls can actually fit inside the cockpit of a slingshot dragster. ;)
 
Another good turnout yesterday....and a buddy gave me a new amp for the garage....A nice Harmon Kardon AVR435....he got other components he's going to give me as well....he's also going to set it up for me...should sound awesome!

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Love this pic of Kevin...member here....the dog's eyes...lol
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AV amps make good garage amps, I find. Loads of cheap power that sounds ok.
 
Grimly said:
AV amps make good garage amps, I find. Loads of cheap power that sounds ok.
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Cool....I don't know much about audio brands etc... so I'm looking forward to having my buddy's help....I'm willing to spend some money if I have to...I spend a lot of time in my garage and do lots of "entertainig"...lol...so it's worth it :)
 
Harmon/Kardon amps have a lot of protection circuity. I used to fix amps a long time ago. Get the schematic for that amp, and unless your friend knows a real lot about electronics, don't let anyone touch it. I've found these amps, with a Leak Detector, and an in circuit capacitor checking meter (hard to find know), a lot of times it's a Germanium Diode blows out, making appear that something major is going on. The Harmon/Kardon schematics have a page that points to all the protection components, and there are a lot of them. You can easily burn out a channel in that amp if it isn't done by a professional. These days you have to send them out. I have a Carver Cube that some of the components can no longer be found, but a guy out west has figured a work around. This amp ran my electrostatic speakers right off the back of the amp, no special circuity for the capacitive feedback. He will not touch any amp that has been worked on or opened. I am not an electronics engineer, so if the components aren't available, and you can't cross match one, doing a work around is above my pay grade.

You have to check what these amps are going for to see if it's worth it. I collect only tube amps, and have a nice collection of vintage speakers, including a pair of Wharfdale Speakers. It could be worth fixing, but it might not be. I couldn't read the model number on back, so I couldn't look it up. :)
 
Suzukian said:
Harmon/Kardon amps have a lot of protection circuity. I used to fix amps a long time ago. Get the schematic for that amp, and unless your friend knows a real lot about electronics, don't let anyone touch it. I've found these amps, with a Leak Detector, and an in circuit capacitor checking meter (hard to find know), a lot of times it's a Germanium Diode blows out, making appear that something major is going on. The Harmon/Kardon schematics have a page that points to all the protection components, and there are a lot of them. You can easily burn out a channel in that amp if it isn't done by a professional. These days you have to send them out. I have a Carver Cube that some of the components can no longer be found, but a guy out west has figured a work around. This amp ran my electrostatic speakers right off the back of the amp, no special circuity for the capacitive feedback. He will not touch any amp that has been worked on or opened. I am not an electronics engineer, so if the components aren't available, and you can't cross match one, doing a work around is above my pay grade.

You have to check what these amps are going for to see if it's worth it. I collect only tube amps, and have a nice collection of vintage speakers, including a pair of Wharfdale Speakers. It could be worth fixing, but it might not be. I couldn't read the model number on back, so I couldn't look it up. :)
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Thanks for the info! My buddy says the amp works great. He's pretty knowledgeable about electronics.....he started and built a successful comercial and residential security alarm company...that he sold when he retired. I will keep you posted with the progress of setting up the system.
Thanks again :)
 
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