Thursday Trivia

Keepa offa my driveway

Where did you get a picture of my driveway?

Re: Thursday Trivia

A Harley-Davidson Bridge! ;-)

Bridge On The River Kwai? ;-)

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hint

The name is related to something it sorta looks like.

Guess...

I'll wager a guess...a trestle bridge?

Tommy

Re: Bridge Over Troubled Waters

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Re: hint, guess

a track bridge??

A low water bridge........

....that's all I've ever heard them called.

Used to be one on the Chatooga river that was just laid on the rocks and cabled to trees on either side of the river. ...and below there was Earles ford.

Another hint

You would find its namesake on a farm that raises a particular animal. Sometimes used to describe those that are greedy;-)

Re: Another hint

Not a hog bridge?

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WAG, pig or pigging? personally I'd call it a suicide brigge

Close enough;-)

It is called a hog trough bridge.

Re: A low water bridge........

Basil,

We call a cement slab with a few colverts in them a low-water bridge. Low water bridges like the ones I meantioned are quite common, on the back-roads around Eastern OK. You don't want to drive across them after a "toad-strangler" rain, : ' >.....Dale

I must have been too subtle

Most of my friends ride 'Hogs'. I'm more of a Cinelli kind of guy.

Doh;-)

I should have known that one. Sorry about that. I have had a few Harleys over the years. Just wasn't thinking. I sure wish that I had the first one I ever had. It was a 1942 hardtail springer 45 flathead with the suicide clutch.

Must be like west Texas then.

Years ago as a teenager, me and daddy was out in west Texas visiting relatives. I was driving along, more like flying along, a pretty good country road, long, smooth and straight. I saw a sign that read "DIP AHEAD". Around here that means there's a little dip or bump in the road, a minor inconvenence, a slight disturbance to your smooth ride. Daddy told me, "Better slow down". I just let up a little bit and he repeated what he said. I just let all the way off the gas but didn't use the brakes. Then he yelled, "YOU BETTER SLOW DOWN". To late, I sailed off into that "DIP" like one of the Dukes of Hazzard. Daddy had been out there before and knew what "DIP AHEAD" meant, I didn't.

Seems that due to so little rainfall back then at least on what we call secondary or farm to market roads, they didn't bother to build bridges in west Texas. If they had a big rain and a flash flood, it was all gone shortly. They just paved right on down into the streambeds and out the otherside.

Today whenever I see a sign that says "DIP AHEAD", I think about west Texas.....LOL

Answer a "45" question for me.

As a teenager in the early 60's, a buddy of mine had an ols military Harley 45 of WW2 vintage. The rear was solid and the front had springs and worked much like the "knee action" on a bicycle didn't it?

I'm trying to settle an ongoing feud I have with a much younger Harley rider.

Also, I once had a 50's model Harley 2 cycle 125. Looked very much like the HOG of that period. I just threw the leather saddlebags away last year (talk about a pack-rat)It was actually built by another company but had the Harley logo and was sold by them. It had 3 large rubber bands on the forks for the Knee action. No use to even mention those to a modern day Harley rider.

Re: Answer a "45" question for me.

Not sure what his question is, but that sounds like the one that I had. It had a solid rear end, and the fron end had exposed springs, and If I remember correctly, it had some linkages. Very similar to the Schwinn bicysle front ends. It also had the foot clutch and hand shift, with the timing controlled by the left grip and the throttle by the right. I bought it at a police auction as a basket case for $10. I actually didn't plan to ride it, just bought it to take apart to see how it worked. When I got into the motor, there was basically nothing wrong with it, so I rebuilt it and rode it for a couple of years. I sure wish I still had it;-) I also had a flathead 74 with a sidecar for a short time, and an 80 cubic inch Indian chief (1948). Later, I bought a 500cc single cylinder Royal Enfield that I rode for a few years. After that, I basically rode Rice Burners. At present time, I don't have one, but my wife has a little 305 Kawasaki that is kind of fun to play with.

80 inch Indian.

My uncle rode and raced Indians until they quit making them.

I was a little fellow when he had his last motorcycle. I remember one of his motorcycles had a reverse gear. Was that the 80" one?

On the 45. Yep, that's it, foot clutch, hand shift and only 3 speeds if I remember right.

I had a few BSA's, Triumph's and one Norton in my younger days. Got married and ex-wife put a stop to that. I think her and my daddy were in cohoots on that one....LOL