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What's your Holy Grail?
It would seem there are a few people fighting over their holy grail on Ebay UK at the moment http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Lewis-Leathers-Aviakit-Motorcycle-Jacket-/150959219173?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Clothing&hash=item2325dee1e5&_uhb=1 You can buy one of those jackets brand new and made to...- richie1958
- Post #123
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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A fine kettle I've gotten myself into...
I was only referring to a whistling kettle first thing in the morning. It could be just me, but I prefer a quiet start to the day...- richie1958
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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A fine kettle I've gotten myself into...
I've always been very serious about my tea drinking. I drink far more per day than can be healthy, and always have. Whether I'm at home or work, life is one long succession of brew-ups. When I bought my first house, I moved in with a pair of motorcycle panniers full of clothes, a sleeping bag...- richie1958
- Post #30
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Strange Superstitions and The Superstitious Among Us
As a seafarer, I tend to get dragged along with various superstitions. The important thing about living on a ship is to not annoy ones' shipmates. When you're living almost in each others' pockets, it makes sense to try and get along with everyone. So I NEVER whistle at sea, because some old...- richie1958
- Post #244
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
I have gone away to sea and worked on British scientific research ships ever since I left school. I remember on one of my first cruises, we were steaming along somewhere in the Atlantic, when for no apparent reason, we stopped. We were just wallowing around not going anywhere.... I went and...- richie1958
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What to Wear with a Deerstalker
Yea that's working well Captain Lex. The hunt for the perfect greatcoat is a perennial occupation of mine. I'm six foot four, 42" chest and 34" waist. I found an RAF greatcoat displaying those exact dimensions on the label on ebay. Having won it and tried it on, I realized that the RAF sizing is...- richie1958
- Post #41
- Forum: Hats
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What to Wear with a Deerstalker
Auld Edwardian check out the Stanley Holloway monologues on You Tube, starting with "Albert and the lion" Richie- richie1958
- Post #36
- Forum: Hats
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The Cap Faction
Not sure what it is; but I'm sure I can see teeth in one of the photos. I think it's probably too old to learn tricks though...- richie1958
- Post #2,957
- Forum: Hats
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Good riddance to vintage things that have disappeared in your lifetime
Here in the UK, little school kids used to get a third pint bottle of milk every day. That has stopped now (By Margaret Thatcher) which I don't think is a good thing; but our teacher insisted on lining all the little third pint bottles up on the mantle shelf above the pot bellied stove, which...- richie1958
- Post #21
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
I splosh Castrol GP50 into my old Norton. It was available when the bike was built in 1954; it's still made and even the gallon tins have hardly changed over the last half century or so. I buy new old stock KLG spark plugs as originally recommended by Norton Motors when they turn up. The last...- richie1958
- Post #2,474
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Your favorite toys as a kid?
It was Meccano for me. I had loads of gears sprockets chains and made many weird and wonderful vehicles, usually powered by a Mamod steam engine. I even made my own clutches using cardboard as the friction material on the clutch plates. However, my dad came home from work one night with a pair...- richie1958
- Post #345
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Cordova Handmade Caps / Johnny J's work
It's damp and cold in Hampshire UK at the moment seabass; and I'm at that age where I've got far more hair on my face than I have on the top of my head! I was only discussing my new Cordova cap with my also follically challenged brother last night. He will be so envious! I was working on a...- richie1958
- Post #361
- Forum: Hats
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Cordova Handmade Caps / Johnny J's work
Oh my goodness! That's wonderful Johnny! I can't wait for it to arrive! The beauty of Harris tweed is the more you look at it, the more colours you see; much like the Hebridean islands themselves...- richie1958
- Post #359
- Forum: Hats
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What to Wear with a Deerstalker
Where else but in dear old Blighty would a puppet show about a wife beater continue to captivate little children for three hundred and fifty years!! And he's not even English! He's Italian and was originally called Pulcinella! You can hear the little kids in the audience were loving the show...- richie1958
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- Forum: Hats
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
Thinking about it, the old Reliant three wheeler monstrosities weren't the only novel delivery transport in our village. There was a motorcycle shop that had franchises for Vespa and Douglas motorcycles. I remember this old codger who would either deliver new, or pick up motorcycles for repair...- richie1958
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What to Wear with a Deerstalker
The full hit ulster and cape look or similar, is always going to work with a deer stalker as well as fish with chips.... But unlike that English national dish, the look hasn't slipped seamlessly into the twenty first century. However, I don't believe that deer stalkers are sartorial dinosaurs...- richie1958
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- Forum: Hats
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
[/IMG] Not all the shops in our English village had glass in the windows when I was a lad. The green grocers and the butchers to name but two were open to the elements during the day, and were shut up with wooden shutters at closing time. I can't say I miss that fresh air shopping experience...- richie1958
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What to Wear with a Deerstalker
In an ulster and cape you could be accused of "over egging the custard".... How about a Filson Mackinaw cruiser in forest green?? Richie- richie1958
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- Forum: Hats
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What to Wear with a Deerstalker
I've always assumed a deerstalker has to go with a Norfolk jacket; however I don't think you have to go for the whole plus four suit thing. The Harris Tweed shop do a very nice Norfolk shooting jacket, but I'm sure less expensive ones can be found...- richie1958
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- Forum: Hats
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Show us your motorcycles!
So your present crank has done 150,000 miles. I've been led to believe over a hundred thousand from a Evo crank is nigh on miraculous. (Mine's never been rebuilt) However, I've never got to the bottom of why they fail. Apparently they go with a rush, which smacks of lubrication failure to me. On...- richie1958
- Post #408
- Forum: The Display Case
