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elcoholic said:
Friday night our 2 day scenic CA1 trip home intersected with these guys touring the same on 5 sweet Vincents in Cambria. In the morning they were joined by 20-30 more British bikes including a lot of Nortons. No loose parts, just the requisite oil slick. :)
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Back in the mid fifties, near my school in Mitcham Surrey, there was a motorcycle shop.
I was sixteen and thinking about buying a BSA Bantam as my first bike.
The owner had his own bike parked outside the shop. It was a Vincent 1000cc Black Knight.

I asked him what it was like to ride. He said "It's really good, except that when you go round a corner, the frame turns, but the engine feels like it really wants to go straight on."
 
Doghouse said:
Back in the mid fifties, near my school in Mitcham Surrey, there was a motorcycle shop.
I was sixteen and thinking about buying a BSA Bantam as my first bike.
The owner had his own bike parked outside the shop. It was a Vincent 1000cc Black Knight.

I asked him what it was like to ride. He said "It's really good, except that when you go round a corner, the frame turns, but the engine feels like it really wants to go straight on."
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In the morning I was informed by the exuberant REDHEAD rider of the Comander, her boyfriend (orange Comando) was passing a kidney stone and she was itching to continue (catch up) ASAP. Her downed boyfriend’s friend (the Vincent) stayed behind with his fallen comrade. Being completely gobsmacked as I was, I did not possess the presence of mind to ask if her name was Molly.
I proceed to regale the rapt redhead with my story of riding up the McDonnell Douglas Aircraft rail spur to the Norton AJS uncrate and get ready facility in north Long Beach. A half dozen of us 8th grade hooligans from the 250 unit low income, aka the “Green Apartments”, rode our minibikes up the tracks a couple miles to Norton a few times.
They let us hang around as long as we stayed out of their way. Possibly 40, shapely, redhead Molly by now, asked me what minibike I rode. 70 year old me says a Taco 44 with a 3 horse Briggs. And she says ‘yeah with the front brake, jack shaft and suspension.
I fell in love with Molly.
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Mystic said:
NB: The thing about Nairobi is that YES it sits about on The Equator but -- BUT -- it sits at an average elevation of 6,000 feet above sea level ... and is located downwind from Mt Kenya, a volcano that is snow-capped year round. The savannah here is COLD, ain't no tropical jungle in Kenya. There are hot spots - Chalibi Desert, Luo land near Lake Victoria, the coastal regions of the Indian Ocean like Malindi and Mombada - but in the central high plain adjacent to the Great Rift Valley it is more then often chilly.
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50 years ago I visited Caracas Venezuela. School Vacation . Took a cable car from the city over Mount Avila down to the coast. Only way to get there. It was around 50 degrees at the top of that mountain, about 5000 feet up. 10 degrees latitude north of the equator. In May. I found it startling. 80 at the bottom.
 
Sharpstik said:
50 years ago I visited Caracas Venezuela. School Vacation . Took a cable car from the city over Mount Avila down to the coast. Only way to get there. It was around 50 degrees at the top of that mountain, about 5000 feet up. 10 degrees latitude north of the equator. In May. I found it startling. 80 at the bottom.
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One summer day, our fam was up in Flagstaff, AZ and while my wife was at a seminar, I took my then young sons up the chairlift at Arizona snowbowl. We experienced those same temperatures and were freezing up top! But the view was spectacular.
 
Sharpstik said:
50 years ago I visited Caracas Venezuela. School Vacation . Took a cable car from the city over Mount Avila down to the coast. Only way to get there. It was around 50 degrees at the top of that mountain, about 5000 feet up. 10 degrees latitude north of the equator. In May. I found it startling. 80 at the bottom.
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Yep. Now imagine sitting approximately 1,400 feet higher than 5,000, not for a brief visit but Day After Day After Day for months. Oy, as I type it is 57 F outside my house and 55 F inside my kitchen. It has been warming the last few days, to around 75, but there is always The Breeze we call (in Maasai language) nkijepe which cuts, a wind chill like in, say, Chicago during the autumn, winter and early spring. Thus, even 75 F feels cooler, especially under shade. Yesterday I went out, toted a lawn chair to my rooftop, and basked in direct sunlight ... but that is WAY dangerous for a mzungu (Caucasian) cuz UV index is stupidly high at the equator, so there <i was under ball cap and slathered in zinc oxide paste.
 
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