Tomorrow I'm fitting a new camchain to my GPZ900R. BTH
In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:08:20 +1000 I recall an article about a bod who did an observed reliability run from Sydney to Melbourne in the late 20s early 30s. The idea was the bike never had the engine off the entire time, was observed by a bloke from another motorcycle club travelling in the sidecar. (And don't forget - this is well before the roads were paved or really all that much like "roads") Anyway, on the way the primary chain between engine and gearbox broke. He replaced it with motor still running, and continued on his way. So many people disbelieved it that he did it again on the steps of the town hall as a demonstration. Zebee
Fortunately, I learned from that experience. $135 for the new camchain, $14 for a new tube of gasket goo, and 5 hours of bruising, skinned knuckles and swearing later the machine is transformed. Now it only has the usual amount of rattles and clanks common to a 22-year- old GPZ900R, rather than sounding like a half-full tin can of ball bearings being kicked around a Stalingrad tractor factory in December 1941[1]. Just to further dispel the CBR1000F hoodoo, I took a test ride at about the same time of the evening, to the same place[2], parked in the same space, had the same meal[3], and returned home by the same route as last time. I'm happy to report that nothing untoward happened this time though. I'm looking forward to a little ride to Wollongong on Saturday - Minx and I will be attending the matinee performance of "Macbeth" by the Bell Shakespeare Company. See, I told youse I was cultured! :-D BTH [1] I hope you appreciate how hard worked hard on that simile! [2] Red Rooster, Wanniassa [3] Bacon fillet burger meal
Oh, I am so envious! I love Bell Shakespeare's stuff, and Macbeth is one of my fave Bard Bits. When I was teaching, I used to get freebies when we took groups of kids to see plays in Canberra, and I was often inspired enough to pay for a ticket to another performance of the same play... PLEASE - a review would be great! Have a fab time! betty
Funny thing about MacB many actors feel there is a curse and wont say the plays name >odd information for your edification
We worked through McBeth, Othello, and Twelfth Night at high school, and I still don't see what is so bloody great about Shakespeare. One of those blue ones please mate. Ta Theo
I read the unmodified version of Chaucer as a lad , I still retain some remnants of ye old speech . Perhaps that was my stint in the army though.
I rather liked the Mel Gibson/Glenn Close movie version of Hamlet, and that version of Romeo and Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio in it was very cleverly done. BTH
I didn't say "great movie", I said "cleverly done". It was a neat bit of scripting to change the scene to be a 1990's era city and keep the original dialogue intact, by doing things like labelling all the handguns "Rapier" so that "Look out, he's drawing his rapier!" still made sense. You grumpy old bugger! BTH
I'd really rather not, I'm expecting to be waking up screaming with nightmares of it for weeks to come! Sure, why not? 6pm is late enough to start... ;-) BTH
What I really liked about it was that it made it so much more accessible to the kids I taught - the setting and the characters' mannerisms/intonation (like an episode of Miami Vice) were so familiar that the kids "got" the story without having to struggle with the language (they got enough of that when we read it). I thought it was really clever.... (although it was kind of disturbing when, instead of talking about "the balcony scene" they talked about the "swimming pool scene" - even though we READ the play as well as WATCHING the fillum...) betty
You need to go to a few Bell Shakespeare productions, Theo! You'd probably enjoy it a lot more now... I avoided Shakespeare all through Uni (did Chaucer instead) - and nearly died the first time I had to teach Shakespeare to kids, without having studied much of it myself... That was probably to my advantage, coz I could empathise with the kids, and thought of all sorts of ways to make it all less painful. The bottom line with Shakespeare is that it's bloody hard work - but it's SO worth it! betty
Dear girl If you want a different view on the Bard can i suggest you read C.J.Dennis' "The Play", one of the Sentimental Bloke series. The Bloke takes Doreen to see Romeo and Juliet. Bit sloppy in parts, but a very funny view through the eyes of an early 20th century uneducated rough. SteveB
Dear bloke ;-) Read it...... in fact, used it in class! And yeah, it didn't quite scan in a lot of places, but was good to use with a good class (the less able kids didn't quite "get it") For a totally Off The Wall bard bit, I wish I could bloody remember where the hell I got a 'punk' version of Hamlet..... it was BRILLIANT! I'm sure I kept a hard copy of it somewhere, even after I left teaching, coz I thought it was so damned clever..... will try to find..... betty
Betty, you have to catch these guys: http://www.ozact.com/ So far I have seen "The Tempest" in the Loch Ard Gorge "Midsummer Night's Dream" in the Naracoota Caves "MacBeth" and "King Lear" in the Grampians Great productions, and the locations make them even more spectacular. Not to mention being able to sit with an esky of chilled wine and nibbles and watch the production! Currently, they are trying to get the use of the Queenscliff fort - "Hamlet" with real ramparts! Cheers Goaty -- _--_|\ John Lamp - in beautiful downtown Highton / \ IRC: DoD#:1906 Ulysses#:10185 Vulcan Nomad \_.--._/ http://www.gorider.cjb.net/ Phone: 0409 512 254 v mailto: Fax: 03 5227 2151 Hear no Evo, See no Evo, Fear no Evo
Yep, Lear! If you liked that get out "Ran!" on video. Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's version of it set in medieval Japan. Sensational an many levels! Cheers Goaty -- _--_|\ John Lamp - in beautiful downtown Highton / \ IRC: DoD#:1906 Ulysses#:10185 Vulcan Nomad \_.--._/ http://www.gorider.cjb.net/ Phone: 0409 512 254 v mailto: Fax: 03 5227 2151 Hear no Evo, See no Evo, Fear no Evo
And for a fab Jap take on Macbeth, check out "Throne of Blood" while you're at it!!! Oh, and thanks for the ozact info, Goaty - looks brilliant! I can feel a few more trips to Victoria coming on.... betty
