Great old songs

**Robby321** · 01-06-2010, 07:55 PM

Well, what can I say?

Its been this "Frankenthread"

, still front page daily, the "lounge", 3 months running today, as started Mark, 10-6

3884 post...getting into soon, 40,000 views!

Whouda thunk THAT!

I been thinking..(ouch)...that the second post, as "Great old songs"..well...shoulda been the following, as I know its in all our blood. Been kinda saving this for ya all.......

And from me..

May you life be long in years...

And short on tears...

And hope the best...to you and yers...

And when we do get old.....

Hope we still got good EARS!

Anyway, the best 10 minutes, ..of..."The PERFECT SONG!"

Enjoy!

**Robby321** · 01-06-2010, 08:19 PM

But heres my all time "Favorite..SONG"...as been at it 50 YEARS!..a "saddlerat"!

Never got close to the top fuel bikes, best me my old Harley Sporty motor, on gas. But the thrill is "amazing!"

Top Fuel HARLEYS RULE!

The dudes, and Dudettes, who race T/F Harleys, in AHRDA, have those T-Shirts, that simply say..

No Chute
No cage
No belts
JUST BALLS

Yep, even the girls got ..(inner stones!..and they are FAST

)

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**Robby321** · 01-06-2010, 08:32 PM

Gotta brag here a bit..as I built this bike, started 1990, frame up, good 4000 hours, 95% I did. Monster cam, Compression, need a push start..unless ya wanna try and kick it, and see how far ya fly over the bars, then can't walk for a month

Its behind me now, in the shop, pickled, but still ready to go...(just needs a YOUNGER RIDER!)...

**sunapeeboater** · 01-06-2010, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by Robby321

Well, what can I say?

Its been this "Frankenthread"

, still front page daily, the "lounge", 3 months running today, as started Mark, 10-6

3884 post...getting into soon, 40,000 views!

Whouda thunk THAT!

I been thinking..(ouch)...that the second post, as "Great old songs"..well...shoulda been the following, as I know its in all our blood. Been kinda saving this for ya all.......

And from me..

May you life be long in years...

And short on tears...

And hope the best...to you and yers...

And when we do get old.....

Hope we still got good EARS!

Anyway, the best 10 minutes, ..of..."The PERFECT SONG!"

Enjoy!

HAha Robby that was a great quote. Loved it and True

**sunapeeboater** · 01-06-2010, 08:41 PM

This has got to be one of the best songs ever

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**Robby321** · 01-06-2010, 08:49 PM

One more pic, my dragbike, and on the right, my Flatty..and ya can tell from the cover, there is a BIG OLD MERC..IL6, the back ..holding the cover up!
A pic I need to get a poster made out of, so when I REALLY get old and feeble, and some young spunk, says.."ya ever do weird stuff as a kid?"

HA!

**sunapeeboater** · 01-06-2010, 09:08 PM

Robby how much fuel does thatBike hold?????

**Robby321** · 01-06-2010, 09:28 PM

Originally Posted by sunapeeboater

This has got to be one of the best songs ever

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Yep, agree!

. I remember my mom, all excited, when found out a band named "Queen". Freddy Mercury did some great stuff, care less he went darkside, I don't judge others ways, just don't push the agenda on me.

And why she was so excited? Queen is my last name, ..used to be Mc Queen, long ago old, but my brother has done all research, "genealogy freak", the family. Has been back to Czechoslovakia, Old "Bohemia", saw where my grand parents were born, and the next trip, was to Ireland, where the wifes grandparents came from.
He has managed to put the whole thing together, and as my Grandpa, just about dropped all wife, kids, friends, long ago, got on a ship, $25 bucks in his pocket, and went the the good old USA. We have the ships logs, and shows all. Really COOL!
Anyway, the first stop, (duh), was Ellis Island. ..(that HAD TO BE A THRILL.. JUST TO SEE IT!)
Can you imagine, a dude with $25 in the pocket, jumps on a ship, weeks long, to come to America, out of war torn Europe...get some work..(EXCELLENT Brick Layer...when we did those magnificent buildings)..gets a job, and then saves ever penny, to get his family here?

Well, somehow worked. And he got the whole family here, just took time.

Now, Ellis Island has put up a "wall", dedicated to those old war torn Immigrants..looking for a better life. And the one's who made this country great...(sorry, going south now

Cost was $200, to get his name on that wall. But he's in stone now, Ellis.

Google search Ellis Island...Thomas Lejsek. Plus a wealth of info there...search yer old ..just do a name...

ANYWAY...Mark, I never listened to the words , Bohemian Rhapsody...maybe now, I will learn something?

I spent years Rocking, to the music, never cared what the "lyrics were!"..as so many hard to hear/understand!

I need to get the lyrics off it...(youtube ROCKS!..."front row seats!

**Phil's other half...Sue.** · 01-06-2010, 09:42 PM

cool Bike Robby and sick clips of those Bikes....

Mark, love that song also!!!!!

**Robby321** · 01-06-2010, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by sunapeeboater

Robby how much fuel does thatBike hold?????

Gallon 1/2, , stuffed. Its in the rear tail piece, ya can see the cap back there.
When I built it (tank).., I did a good 5 baffles , and tubes at the bottom, to let the fuel back to the front. where the fuel pick up is...never a problem. Actually, does a force flow, to the carb...on acceleration. The oil tank, is just under the seat..in front the gas tank..no sweat there either, oiled well.

The "bottle" off the down tube, was an idea .."run Nitrous", but as it was just a "project, to see what I can build"..I decided not to "bottle it", as the its a 72 Gearcase, and they had a weak side case, as the speedo drive on the old Sportys, was a ..well, "stuff the gears, out the side"

Normal Sportys, then did a good, under 40 HP. But they were very buildable.. hp, motors. Do the cams, bore to the limit..(you could do a old IronHead Sporty, at stock 61 CU, (when they went to a 1000cc) up too a good 88 incher! Balls out TORQUE MONSTER FUN! I'm probably kissing a good 100hp, bike weighs 300, do the math. Top fuel run 1500 HP, EASY!!

Port the heads, 3 angle the valves, "air in, gas,,BOOM out the back! Hardest is figuring the cams. If it "idles under 2000..?"...no good.

Ya want nothing but MASSIVE OVER LAP, cams, screw idle.. and THEN, after 2500 R's..**** HITS THE FAN. Gotta keep it "on the cams"...(and the pipes, its science...looking for the high R sweet spot)..And good too many R'S...thats the FUN!.. Ya wanna shift, but it STILL KEEPS PULLING!

Most Harleys dont see 6000 R's...this here, mine, is massive pistons, short stoke, and 8000 R's is cool. BUT ...still old school fun.

Sitting next to it is a 165 mph MONSTER, 91 Honda CBR 1000, kick its azz silly..but now WAY ..in hell..Ya ever get that Harley .."torque"..out my blood!

**Robby321** · 01-06-2010, 10:22 PM

[QUOTE=Phil's other half...Sue.;1867827] sick clips of those Bikes..../QUOTE]

Those dudes,.(and "etttes).. ride the fastest ...MONSTER ..bikes on earth...sometimes ya gotta wonder...

..."Dude, whats next?...

"Watch me next week!

Ya gotta love'em!

**Denny <><** · 01-07-2010, 03:05 AM

Hi Guys and Gals, been a while.
Don't know if you ever seen this, Just a little fact sheet about top fuel dragsters.

The
> following statistics are
> 100% true.....
>
> DEFINITION OF
> ACCELERATION
>
> 1. One top fuel dragster 500
> cubic inch Hemi engine
> makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows of
> stock cars at the
> Daytona 500.
>
> 2. It takes just 15/100ths of a second for all
> 6,000+ horsepower of an NHRA Top Fuel dragster engine to
> reach the rear
> wheels.
>
> 3. Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1-1/2
>
> gallons of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747
> consumes jet fuel at the
> same rate with 25% less energy being produced.
>
> 4. A stock Dodge
> Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to drive the
> dragster's
> supercharger.
> With 3,000 CFM of air being rammed in by the
> supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed
> into a near-solid form
> before ignition.
>
> 5. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock
> at full throttle.
>
> 6. At the stoichiometric (stoichiometry:
> methodology and technology by which quantities of reactants
> and products in
> chemical reactions are determined) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture
> of nitro methane, the
> flame front temperature measures 7,050 deg F.
>
> 7. Dual magnetos
> supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an
> arc welder in each
> cylinder. Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during
> a pass. After
> halfway, the engine is dieseling from compression, plus the
> glow of exhaust
> valves at 1,400 deg F. The engine can only be shut down by
> cutting the fuel
> flow.
>
> 8. If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned
>
> nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes
> with sufficient
> force to blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or
> split the block in
> half.
>
> 9. In order to exceed 300 mph in 4...5 seconds, dragsters
> must
> accelerate an average of over 4G's. In order to reach
> 200 mph (well before
> half-track), the launch acceleration approaches 8
> G's.
>
> 10. Top
> Fuel Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you
> have completed reading
> this sentence.
>
> 11. Top fuel engines turn approximately 540
> revolutions from light to light! Including the burnout, the
> engine must only
> survive 900 revolutions under load.
>
> 12. The redline is actually
> quite high at 9,500 rpm which is reached in less than a
> quarter second under
> full throttle.
>
> 13. Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the
> crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each
> run costs an estimate
> $1,000.00 per second.
>
> 14. The current top fuel dragster
> elapsed time record is 4.428 seconds for the quarter mile
> (11/12/06, Tony
> Schumacher, at Pomona CA). The top speed record is 336.15
> mph as measured over
> the last 66' of the run (05/25/05 Tony Schumacher, at
> Hebron
> OH).
>
> Putting all of this into
> perspective:
>
> Imagine are driving the average
> $140,000 Lingenfelter
> 'twin-turbo' powered Corvette Z06. Over a mile the
> road, a top fuel dragster is
> staged and ready to launch down a quarter mile strip as you
> pass. You have the
> advantage of a flying start. You run the 'Vette hard up
> through the gears and
> blast across the starting line and pass the dragster at an
> honest 200 mph. The
> 'tree' goes green for both of you at that
> moment.
>
> The dragster
> launches and starts after you. You keep your foot down
> hard, but you hear an
> incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums and within
> 3 seconds, the
> dragster catches and passes you, He beats you to the finish
> line, a quarter mile
> away from where you just passed him.
>
> Think about it, from a
> standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200 mph and
> not only caught, but
> nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a
> mere 1,320 foot long
> race course.
>
> ...... and
> that my friend, is
> ACCELERATION
>
>