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Speed - Guy Martin
Bought by a well meaning relative. It's exactly as you'd expect, loads of pictures of what you've already seen, My First Psuedo-Physics diagrams, and a couple of words from our Guy (or his ghostwriter), all blokey bloke, rather be working on a truck, matey mate.
Klingon Bird of Prey - Haynes manuals
All background. No troubleshooting, disassembly/reassembly guides, tools required, nothing even about self-sealing stem bolts.
A Short History of the Motorcycle - Richard Hammond
The copy-editing is a bit ropey and it's a little try-hard for the humour, but it is recognisably Hammond writing. It's actually packed with Teflonian reams of stuff from the Early Olden Days through to Very Nearly Now. Hammond is genuinely enthusiastic about his subject, is pretty insightful about bikey-biker motivations, and has done a fair bit of research. This one might not go straight into the next charity bag. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike |
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Rogerborg wrote: | A Short History of the Motorcycle - Richard Hammond
This one might not go straight into the next charity bag. |
Hmm, let us know when/if you become sure it's worth picking up? Not sure I'll be convinced though, after you've said:
Rogerborg wrote: | It's actually packed with Teflonian reams of stuff from the Early Olden Days through to Very Nearly Now. |
I mean, I've got lots of time on my hands, but maybe not enough for a whole book of Tef (are you sure you haven't just got the first volume? ) I am, after all, quite a way through this life of mine ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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It rattles along at a fair pace, I'd actually be OK with a few more asides about warm summer's evenings in ancient Greece Margate. I'm only up to the 1980s, I'll let you know if biking survives. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike |
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Rogerborg wrote: | It rattles along at a fair pace, I'd actually be OK with a few more asides about warm summer's evenings in ancient Greece Margate. I'm only up to the 1980s, I'll let you know if biking survives. |
Not too many spoilers, please! ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Quarter way through Stephen King's Needful Things - please tell me that it gets better Having read various reviews, I had high hopes for Stephen King.
So far, it's just a folksie ramble full of "clever" similies.
Having just finished Wolf Hall and The Secret History I was getting used to well written, interesting, books......
Or have I just picked the wrong "King" to start with? |
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Rogerborg wrote: |
A Short History of the Motorcycle - Richard Hammond
The copy-editing is a bit ropey and it's a little try-hard for the humour, but it is recognisably Hammond writing. It's actually packed with Teflonian reams of stuff from the Early Olden Days through to Very Nearly Now. Hammond is genuinely enthusiastic about his subject, is pretty insightful about bikey-biker motivations, and has done a fair bit of research. This one might not go straight into the next charity bag. |
I got that for Xmas too.
Currently reading this...
https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1396783468l/20579068.jpg
It is amazing, genuinely ridiculous how scientists played about with nuclear material. It seems like the manhattan project was a load of blokes treating Plutonium like Lego and every now and then someone dropped a bit in the wrong place, a few kilos went supercritical for a couple of seconds and a gave the bloke a Lethal dose.
My favourite bit was a guy experimenting with a Beryllium casing around a Nuclear core, The Beryllium would increase the reactivity the closer it was. How he should have done it was put it over the core, take a measurement of the criticality, then get a tiny about machined of the casing a repeat till he had the balance of stability and criticality. He couldn't be bothered with this so got loads lopped off the case and put it on the core but wedged a screwdriver under the case and lowered it by moving the driver. The driver slipped, the core went spastic and like most of the stories in the book it ends with "He died several agonising days later." ____________________ Well, you know what they say. If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
Skudd:- Perhaps she just thinks you are a window licker and is being nice just in case she becomes another Jill Dando.
WANTED:- Fujinon (Fuji) M42 (Screw on) lenses, let me know if you have anything. |
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - Cory Doctorow
Painfully pop-cultural paen to post-scarcity progressiveness.
Serial student Doctorow is oh-so-desperate to show how hip and down he was with the 1337 5p34k that all the cool nerds were using in 2003. His ostentatious use of "core dump", "grepping" and "public folders" have dated as badly as 1930s authors' rocket ships packed with vacuum tubes and teletype printouts (or TTYs as Doctorow would doubtless insist on jargonising).
I'm sure that he was oh-so-proud of "Whuffie" as a jolly clever concept, but an author more interested in telling a story rather than showcasing his manifesto would have just called it something like eKarma and every reader would have instantly grokked it without further tiresome explanation.
The character of wise-beyond-her-years Lil is a painfully obvious Mary Sue for some chick in his Ultima Online crew who wouldn't bang him and who probably never did.
There's doubtless some sort of a plot, but I couldn't discern it amongst the deliberately obtuse socio-symbology and tub thumping. I got about a quarter of the way through it and core dumped it from my public folder. It's not worth the price of grepping through the freeware license at the start. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike |
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Rogerborg wrote: | Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - Cory Doctorow
Painfully pop-cultural paen to post-scarcity progressiveness.
Serial student Doctorow is oh-so-desperate to show how hip and down he was with the 1337 5p34k that all the cool nerds were using in 2003. His ostentatious use of "core dump", "grepping" and "public folders" have dated as badly as 1930s authors' rocket ships packed with vacuum tubes and teletype printouts (or TTYs as Doctorow would doubtless insist on jargonising).
I'm sure that he was oh-so-proud of " Whuffie" as a jolly clever concept, but an author more interested in telling a story rather than showcasing his manifesto would have just called it something like eKarma and every reader would have instantly grokked it without further tiresome explanation.
The character of wise-beyond-her-years Lil is a painfully obvious Mary Sue for some chick in his Ultima Online crew who wouldn't bang him and who probably never did.
There's doubtless some sort of a plot, but I couldn't discern it amongst the deliberately obtuse socio-symbology and tub thumping. I got about a quarter of the way through it and core dumped it from my public folder. It's not worth the price of grepping through the freeware license at the start. |
I gave up on this too, not even sure I got to the end of the first chapter, but it was a year or 3 ago.
Currently reading The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub. I got bored of this about 20 years ago, so now it's time to try again. Think it's the only King book I have never finished. |
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Book 14 in the Charlie Parker series.Been reading this series since the first book came out. ____________________ Current Bike - 2000 ZX-7R |
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Gave up with the crime fiction as I can't find an author that holds my attention, so instead, I've gone with non-fiction.
Currently reading Gotti - The Rise and Fall, by Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain. Aka the 'Teflon Don', and the 'Dapper Don'. One of the highest profile mob bosses there has ever been.
Think I read this a while ago, but I'm fascinated by Mafia stuff. Beats any of the crime fiction I've read so far.
Got a few more in the same vein lined up:
The Masters of Murder - two book U.S. Mafia history. Strangely, don't know who the author is.
Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss, by Philip Carlo. Story of the Lucchese family boss, Anthony 'Gaspipe' Casso.
The Brotherhoods - true story of two cops in N.Y. who did dirty work for the mob.
Casino, by Nicholas Pileggi. The true story that the film came from; the mob in Las Vegas.
Murder Machine. The story of the DeMeo crew, among the most violent of hitmen for the mob.
Mob Boss: The Life of Little Al D'Arco, The Man Who Brought Down The Mafia. Underboss of the Lucchese family, he was the highest ranking mobster to turn government witness in 1991.
Should keep me going for a while ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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I buy a book every 3-6 months, read 20 pages and put it down to gather dust. The only books to have been finished in the last 5 years are:
Guy Martin (Autobiography pt1, 2 and 3)
Lois Pryce - Lois on the Loose
Lois Pryce - Rad Tape and White Knuckles
And that's it
Currently reading The Street Riding Years: Despatching Through 80s London - Chris Scott - Initially found his style annoying, so put it down. Picked it up a month later and laughing + enjoying it. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 7 years, 49 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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