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ChrisB wrote:Picking it up afterwards is another thing....I pulled my back out really back trying to pick it up. Is there a easy way or any tricks to picking it back up?

Depending on how heavy the ride is...

Lightweight - Transfer your lid to your lefthand, slip your right under the rear of the petrol tank and flick it on to its wheels.

Mediumweight - Turn the bars out, one hand on the bar nearest to you, one under the tank and lift. Remembering to keep your back straight and lift with knees.

Heavyweight - get a friend, if you can't get a friend - turn wheel out form a basket with your hands below the bar end and lift using knees

Very heavyweight (Rocket III's etc) - Call a tow truck...

Sevulturus wrote:

t_bonee wrote:

camthepyro wrote:

VermilionX
PostPosted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:00 am Post subject:
t_bonee wrote:
2 times standing still, 0 while riding.

Speaking of sink holes. I read in the news a couple months ago out in Cali some dude was chilling in his living room when he heard the rumble noise. He jumped up and before he could get 5 steps, a huge sinkhole opened in his house, right in his living room. Killed him.


damn! what are the chances of that. that's insane.

And how did they know he took five steps?

His wife was upstairs and started coming down when she heard the noise. Seen him get outta the chair and take some steps and BAM! sinkhole opens, in he goes. Coulda been four or six steps but you get the jist.

So... the livingroom was in the basement?

Or do you just mean that the floor gave way and he fell into the basement, which isn't actually a sinkhole. More like shoddy construction or poor maintenance to the house. And if the floor just gave way the house should have been condemned.

Sounds like an urban legend to me.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nati ... death.html

Sevulturus wrote:So... the livingroom was in the basement?

Or do you just mean that the floor gave way and he fell into the basement, which isn't actually a sinkhole. More like shoddy construction or poor maintenance to the house. And if the floor just gave way the house should have been condemned.

What are you talking about 'basement'? There is ground... there is a slab of concrete above the ground... there is a house on top of the slab. That's how houses are built. We are a little beyond the age when you must dig a latrine under your house.

Seriously... In 30 years of living in SoCal I've seen exactly ONE that had a basement... and that was more a legal fiction than anything else... the house was dug into a hill so you had to go up a stair to get into the "basement"... but 2 story + basement is easy to permit, 3 story needs to meet higher standards.

I never understood why Cali houses never had basements. I was in Houston and noticed the same thing. I don't notice it out east in Virginia or NY. You'd think that a nice cool basement in southern climates would be ideal.

I think the general thought went something like, "if you don't need a furnace, why have a basement"?

I don't understand it myself. Then again... that one house I mentioned that does have a basement... when I saw it I bought it. Even that legal-fiction "basement" is by far the most comfortable part of the house 9 months out of the year... warmest in the winter, coolest in the summer....

Simple. Basements cost money to dig and it also makes the substructure of the house more complicated.

When you can already get $500,000 for a basic starter house in California, why bother with the added expense of a basement?

Besides, a lot of the construction "norms" in SoCal were set in the late 40s/early 50s when SoCal was pretty much just a dumping ground for wwII vets with no place else to go. Thousands of "postwar dream" bungalows were built... 800 sq. feet of horrible government-commissioned misery disguised as a single-family dwelling. They didn't have basements because they were cookie-cutter pre-fab housing for surplus soldiers who couldn't afford to live someplace nice and the budget didn't allow for basements.


Oh, and there are no tornadoes to shelter from.

i dropped a bike when i was out with my instructor the day before i had my bike test, i was going about 3 miles an hour, turning left and had to stop- stupidly i grabbed a handful of front brake and, well, the front end dived and i toppled over. my instructor had to pick the bike up because my foot was stuck underneath

and i had a spill off my xj600 too, straight road, 25mph, lightly braking and then i don't know what happened cos i just got flicked off onto the ground...

yeah that day there was a bit of drizzle, so maybe some diesel or something?

I'm in Southampton...