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From: S'mee on 18 Nov 2009 09:45 On Nov 18, 12:19 am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman) wrote: > S'mee <stevenkei...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > <blink, blink> > > > How could one NOT know that RD350/400/500's are 2smokes???<boggle> I > > might as well have been raised on the motorcycle version of a turnip > > farm adn I knew that they were 2 stroke... My world is destroied, > > illusions shattered. I'm off to join a cult to hide from this horrible > > thing that has happend. > > Let me guess. Its name has the mysterious sigil T500 in it somewhere.... > nope...may just give up and walk everywhere from now on.
From: Rob Kleinschmidt on 18 Nov 2009 13:02 On Nov 17, 11:21 pm, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman) wrote: > Robert Bolton <robertboltond...(a)gci.net> wrote: > > Yeah, I'd never heard of an RD before this thread > > I'm amazed, actually. True, the RD series went out of production in the > early-1990s and hadn't been imported into the US for more thandecade > before that, but I'm still amazed that people haven't *heard* of them. IIRC, the RD 400 was manufactured slightly before the popularizing of the internet and slightly after the invention of the knapped flint hand axe. Right ?
From: S'mee on 18 Nov 2009 23:23 On Nov 18, 11:02 am, Rob Kleinschmidt <Rkleinsch1216...(a)aol.com> wrote: > On Nov 17, 11:21 pm, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older > > Gentleman) wrote: > > Robert Bolton <robertboltond...(a)gci.net> wrote: > > > Yeah, I'd never heard of an RD before this thread > > > I'm amazed, actually. True, the RD series went out of production in the > > early-1990s and hadn't been imported into the US for more thandecade > > before that, but I'm still amazed that people haven't *heard* of them. > > IIRC, the RD 400 was manufactured slightly before the > popularizing of the internet and slightly after the invention > of the knapped flint hand axe. Right ? Correct...but before starbucks.
From: Bill Smith on 19 Nov 2009 00:29 >IIRC, the RD 400 was manufactured slightly before the >popularizing of the internet and slightly after the invention >of the knapped flint hand axe. Right ? What do think we used for tools working on the things? A flint axe in the right hands was an awesome thing to behold. All you get now is crude Chinese reproductions, but the best were made by Snap-on, handy, just the right balance. A sad loss, real quality no longer matters, it seems. Bill Smith
From: TOG on 19 Nov 2009 05:10
On 18 Nov, 18:02, Rob Kleinschmidt <Rkleinsch1216...(a)aol.com> wrote: > > IIRC, the RD 400 was manufactured slightly before the > popularizing of the internet and slightly after the invention > of the knapped flint hand axe. Right ? <fx: stern look> My 400 Four is even older, I'll have you know. |