Your Today in Pictures...

[Chip Gelmini]

[Graham Ritchie]

Well its back into the winter session of rugby, with my grandson Connor number 9 today at his game, thankfully it didn't rain, but it was close. Last night both Connor and Steven were up to the wee hours putting his Darth Vadar Lego together.

[Steve Klare]

WHAT the.....????
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I saw this intriguing vehicle at my job today. The building is so big that we have a fleet of adult trikes to get from place to place. At first I saw it and thought that somebody had rebuilt one of them into kind of an oversexed shopping cart: a basket on wheels with brakes! -useless to transport a rider!

-then I saw the guy actually riding it!

It seems that block between the wheels is actually the seat and the rider sits far astern and reaches way forward to grab the handlebars, kind of like Easy Rider!
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So at least until the Safety People catch him out cruising, this may just be the most Radical adult trike ever to exist! (You give an electrician an adult trike, some ty-wraps and some spare time, and amazing things can result!)
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"Ride to live! Live to ride!"

[Brian Fretwell]

That would certainly smash my knees!!! Not even a recumbent bike as seen in Brainstorm, the worst of both worlds.

[Steve Klare]

I saw him peddling kind of nesting the basket between his knees. Fortunately it's not that wide.

I think the biggest fault here is the seat: there is no back support and the only thing really holding him in place is his grip on the handlebars. If he loses that he'll lose control of the thing and maybe fall off too.

(If my office chair disappears, I know exactly where I'll go looking!)

I have to (-maybe even grudgingly) admire the creativity he's shown here.
-maybe even admit if I'm there sometime at very late hours and nobody is looking, maybe I'll take a ride myself!
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Back Support is Essential!

[Chip Gelmini]

One of my other hobbies is swimsuit photography the goal at one time was to get my work published and hopefully work for sports illustrated that never happened but I continue to dabble in it over the years here we have a shot of Vanessa who shows the red white and blue and she's just super gosh darn adorable I thought it would be OK to put it here for Memorial Day weekend

Nikon FM2
Sunpak fill flash
kodachrome 64 slide film
summer 1992

[Graham Ritchie]

A couple days late, although its winter at the moment the weather has been so far pretty good, last Saturday we were at a place called Dunsandel for the rugby. Afterwards it was back to there clubhouse for presentations drinks and eats that they put on .

Grandson Connor No 9 was very happy scoring a try, its great to see everyone getting on well together from both teams. and enjoying themselves, that's really what its all about, plus getting the odd win

[Steve Klare]

-a nice night: Ride down to the Harbor after dinner, get some ice cream, take a walk out on the dock and watch the sun setting!

(I really love this time of year: it makes those times I had to bust our cars out of the snowdrifts seem somehow worth it!)

[Graham Ritchie]

Its great to see parents take some video "taken below" a couple of weeks ago today the weather was great, so we were out and about watching another one .

[Graham Ritchie]

I did take one picture today afterwards, Yvonne wanted one, so she had to offer him some "space man fruit sticks" to get it , as long as he is interested and enjoying himself then I think that's great, they certainly learn to work as a team and seem to get on well together, both on the field and at school, even playing other teams they all seem to know each other with country rugby. Its nice that the coaches also offer prizes afterwards, to the opposing team as well, who "they think" a particular player deserve it, as well as handing out to there own, plus the highlight being eats and drinks afterwards but not the parents they are excluded , only the team players.

[Graham Ritchie]

Anyone remember Datsun? hard to believe I still have that old Datsun certificate, its now been 50 years last month At the time I was the only Datsun qualified mechanic at the garage, and this particular certificate hung in the office until I left in 1973 .

A few months ago, I was asked when parking our car at the mall, if I could help the person I was parked next to, if I could help with a jump start. I did, but it wasn't until the engine started I really looked at the car, and was amazed to see it was a Datsun 260c. I asked the owner if I could have a look at it? which he was fine with. I said this car is in really good condition from the 1970s and now worth a bit of money. I also said, I used to work on Datsun and had not seen one in years.

So there you have it, you go out for a coffee to "Muffin Break" and land up drooling over some old car instead,..... amazing

[Ed Gordon]

Anyone remember Datsun?

I had no idea Datsun manufactured buses!

[Graham Ritchie]

The garage is to the left "David Blane and Son" , I wish I had a camera back then. This is the only photo of the place, I found it on the Paisley Facebook page. When I replied to the photo I got a reply from one of the eight apprentices that had worked there at the time. He said he wondered how I got on in NZ and added that in his words...I was one of the good guys that he had worked with......and that's after almost 50 years. I thought I was the only one that looked back, but not so. It was great to catch up. The place is long gone, but often wondered how everyone got on after I left they were a good bunch.

[Mitchell Dvoskin]

I remember Datsun. My first summer job while in college in the 1970’s was as the manger/projectionist of a rural country drive-in located in southern Ohio. The job came with a company Datsun pickup truck. I learned to drive stick shift on that truck.

A few years later when back home in New Jersey I carpooled to a job with a guy who had a Datsun 240Z. I loved his car, but it already had rusting problems.

I read somewhere that Nisson brought the Datsun name back for a line of budget cars in a few 3rd world countries.

[Steve Klare]

Ah Yes!

Datsun B210! I remember it well!

When I was about 12 years old I rode in one from Long Island, New York to Syracuse. New York: 6+ hours, late at night. Two older family members got the front buckets but as they said "You can have the whole back seat.". -turns out I couldn't: it was either one side or the other! (Let me explain!)

This car had the tallest transmission hump I've ever seen: the back seat kind of bent a foot in the air to climb up and over. There I am: bone tired about 2 or 3AM being held bolt-upright by this human-sized socket. When we finally got to Syracuse, they found me a bed and I've never been so grateful for a night's sleep before or since! I mean: before Finals at College I did a couple of all-nighters, but at least in those cases I had the adrenaline of a potential "F" to keep me motivated!

-and the lesson for us all, is unless a little car is some kind of high-performance machine: front wheel drive is certainly the way to go! Sharing the back seat with a drive shaft doesn't exactly enhance passenger comfort!

Today I am literally a foot taller: I doubt I would have made it to Syracuse without some kind of medical attention!😁