914Driver said:Abandoned caboose in a shipyard was used as an office. Then a guy bought it....
Not nearly as rough/decrepit as the Pennsylvania Railroad caboose that some guy dragged out of the woods and is restoring currently.
The seller was asking $2500 and said "Needs rehab" which is understatement of the year
914Driver said:1906 Zenith Bi-Car.
Early predecessor of the Bimota Tesi; a much earlier example of hub center steering.
NickD said:
Appleseed said:I actually prefer the series 62 Fleetwood hardtop from 1960. That roofline is fantastic.
My Man, that is a beautiful Cadillac. How did I miss this? Probably because I was focused on 2-doors. But the 4-doors are beautiful too.(Sedan deVille). Thanks! Beautiful styling! That roofline and those fins are absolutely stunning! Harley Earl would be proud! What a boat. What a summertime cruiser!
Any idea what engine that is?
Jesse Ransom said:
Early predecessor of the Bimota Tesi; a much earlier example of hub center steering.
The Yamaha GTS1000 didn't stick around long, were there issues?
In reply to 914Driver :
Only with sales as far as I know. "Funny front ends" are a hard sell in Motorcycling, which tends to be really conservative. It's also true that anything that doesn't feel like you're used to is harder on a bike than a car, even if feeling different is part of improving what the bike can do. Traditional forks apply all their forces through long tubes loaded in bending; even huge, modern stiff forks bend enough under braking (in racing, anyhow) to bind up the bushings, and then you've got to put that load into the chassis way up high... The hub-center bikes carry the loads much like one corner of a double-A-arm car suspension. Teleforks are pro-dive, geometrically putting some of the braking force into collapsing themselves, but riders are used to that dive, and a lot of FFEs maybe go too far in terms of having anti-dive, so even though they have way more grip available, they feel so different the riders can't take advantage of it.
I think BMW have had more adoption with their Duolever implementation of the Hossack design, probably much because it looks less different from teleforks than the GTS1000.
I got to be behind this celebration of death this morning. No tailgating.
I don't understand.
Just got one of these at work:
In reply to Appleseed :
Want!
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