SteveFord
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Hope he has a great future ahead of him, he's excellent.
I think I was bashing out Smoke On The Water at his age.
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I always really liked him.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/27/entertainment/tom-smothers-death/index.html
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It's not quite that much, I think 138.
There's no riding modes or ABS on this one so I really had to think hard about getting it. I know it's fully capable of driving me into the ground like a tent peg.
I hate when that happens.
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Thank you, gentlemen. I'm pretty sure England is a small island packed full of very polite psychos.
I hope everyone had a great Christmas.
Time to eat turkey and watch football through my eyelids.
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In exchange for a six pack of beer and a corn dog he brought me a Bug Eyed Monster.
A Triumph, just not one from the 70s.
You know you're getting old when you put the baffle in the muffler because the damned thing's too loud...
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We're getting closer, I just listed to Christmas At K-Mart by Root Boy Slim.
Hope Santa comes through for everybody. Last year he went past and flipped me the bird, the fat bastid.
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If you get a new pot and it's loose put a small piece of paper in the knob to take up the slop.
They'll snap if you look at them funny.
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I don't know what the 70s ones were like but the current Flying V is really good, I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Here's mine, I think it's a 2019.
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Two humbuckers, ebony fretboard, Varitone, center block to help cut back on feedback - it'll do anything you want aside from no whammy bar.
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I believe it's a 2005 model.
The wood pattern extends to the back, it's a handsome guitar.
Physically, it would dwarf the 339 series so you'd have to play them both and see which one fits you.
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When you're talking to a co-worker and she doesn't remember when AT&T was a monopoly.
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The body on the 137 is much larger - picture a giant Les Paul shape.
The 339 is a shrunk down 335.
I bought a 137 Custom as it had the VariTone, ebony fretboard, cats eye fret markers and I like the 335 body size the way it is.
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That Guitar Chimp place is all over eBay, I wouldn't worry about a fake.
They want top dollar for everything, just so you know.
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That IS striking, good for Santa!
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65 crabby years old.
Get the &#@$ off my yard, ya snot nosed punks!
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I broke down and ordered Frank Zappa OverNite Sensation box set.
What the hell, I've been good.
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There are a couple on reverb right now but the prices are up there.
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Beam yourself up, Scotty, your playing sucks!
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I friend goes MIA with his phone disconnected. You have someone else track him down and he's been put in a nursing home.
Not a humorous post, I'm afraid.
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You can't do much better than that black Custom, can you?
Congratulations!!!
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Yes, barely - one cylinder keeps cutting out.
I think I paid $1200, they keys were taken away from the previous owner as he was hitting the side of the garage trying to back up.
My first car was the fun one, a 67 Mustang with a 289, puke green with a blue front panel for $400. That thing could do some serious burnouts!
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Now that's what I'm talkin' about.
Four cylinders of Ford Focus Fury, oh yeah.
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100 HP out of one of the Meriden Bonnevilles? Triumphs race team managed 65 HP but they blew up pretty regularly. This is an old design, basically pre WWII.
As this one old Triumph and Norton employee put it, "You can not put any more wine into the bottle". Norton didn't listen and came out with the 750 Combat motor and then they spent 1973 rebuilding motors under Warranty. That was only making 54 HP at the crankshaft, I think Norton claimed 60. Back then, a 750 Norton with the Combat motor was about fast a bike as you could buy - the Triumph Trident, Honda 750-4 and Kawasaki's 500 and 750 2 strokes were right up there, too.
It looks like the racing John Player Nortons made 78 HP at the crank but then the gearboxes and cylinders were breaking.
The old Norton/Triumph/BSA models were originally designed to be 500cc, the US was their largest market and we kept asking for larger motors with more power. This is a big country and you can go like hell in the Western states.
When the British were the world's number one motorcycle supplier the management ignored their engineers (and the Japanese factories), and they squandered the money instead of developing new motors. When the collapse came in the early 70s it happened really quickly, too.
You'd need a current Bonneville Thruxton motor with the fuel injection, water cooling, OHC and 4 valves per cylinder and do some work to it to get 100 RWHP to have something you could actually run on pump gas and be reliable.
As this is a Buy American thread, the old air cooled Harley Sportster motor can be made to crank out 100 RWHP in a street bike. I don't know how long they would hold together, though. The Harley guys say a Sportster is a girl's bike but it was their answer to the British and they can be made to perform.
What new music did you get?
in The Gibson Lounge
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Speaking of albums, got two showing up today by Imelda May, Love Tattoo and 11 Past The Hour.
For albums, it depends on the quality of your playback gear. If you get something good enough, only reel to reel sounds better.