> > From: "Christine Aguila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/05/30 Fri PM 04:07:43 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: Re: Don't leave home with out one. > > I never lost all my oil on my very little Suzuki 250, but I did lose my > battery cover once while going 85. While riding along, I just had the > feeling I'd lost something & happen to catch in my side mirror the battery > cover bouncing along the shoulder like a small tumble weed. My Suzuki was > my 1st and only bike. I bought it from another lady biker. I had it for 3 > years and used it to drive to work when I worked on Michigan avenue at EJL > advertising. I used to park it on lower Michigan ave near the Tribune > tower--a kind of makeshift parking space for bikers. When I left EJL to go > to grad school, my coworkers put together a little best wishes photo piece, > and the Creative director wrote: "I finally got to meet a biker chick, and > she leaves me." > > I left EJL in June, met my husband in July, sold the bike about a year > later, then got domestic. > > Cheers, Christine
You must be due a midlife crisis and a $30K Harley chopper built by a dysfunctional family somewhere in the Ozarks. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On May 30, 2008, at 10:18, P. J. Alling wrote: > > > >> You're lucky, a friend in college, (university to those with a real > >> system of education out there), was riding his Honda 350 back home for > >> the weekend when he suffered a catastrophic loss of oil pressure, (I > >> think the plug somehow came loose but he either wasn't specific or > >> I've > >> forgotten with the years. The engine quit and he coasted to the > >> side of > >> the highway where it promptly ceased. He related that his first > >> thought > >> was "Where did all the oil go?" > >> > > > > Precisely how I killed my '73 CB350K back in 1988 or so! "Where'd all > > the oil go?" right as I was attempting to pass someone in the far left > > lane I lost all of my power and just barely had enough time to pull > > the clutch and drift over to the right shoulder. Then I got to learn > > how to rebuild an engine. :-( > > > > Still not sure where it went, but I think I just leaked it/burned it > > quicker than usual because I found no holes in the case. > > > > Was fun when the big Harley guy pulled over (!!) and tried to help > > kick-start it. The engine was jammed so hard that even with his > > hundreds of pounds on the lever it just. did. not. move. > > > > -Charles > > > > -- > > Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Minneapolis, MN > > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
