Cool runnings...

Last Saturday I had a vew erron to run; bringing the misses to the hospital for a MRI of het knees (!)... do some shopping, bring daughter to ballet but we were early so we took a d-tour. We went back and I said it might be a nice idea to go by the sea locks, the access point to sea.
And were we lucky, in the big locks a giant container ship (look how small the men are on top!) was about to close the doors behind her for another adventure on the seven seas. The road passes the ship on the front and we could almost touch the big red blub on the front. After the traffic lights I pulled over and too out my... cell phone... bummer, and made this shot.
On the next lock we were lucky again and saw a ship coming from sea on her way towards Amsterdam. Veeeeerrrrrryyyyyy slowly she entered the lock and after 10 minutes we could follow our route again. It was a nice treat for my son and daughter, they had a good time!

Cool (heat) escape...

This picture (I posted before) show exactly how I feel right now... Wanna get the hell outa here!! It's way to hot in this office/building, sun is shining outside and about 27 degrees Celsius... Sweating like a pig... but maybe that's too much information... Waiting for reply from a customer on a presentation project, projector is running in the main hall of the building (seems like I've been bombarded to a technical support guy... hell no!!) and just want to get out of here and have a nice cool beer...
What I'm doing tonight...? Fuck all!! Ha ha ha ha

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Here's acool picture of an old racing pit... Cool bobbing on the racing bikes...

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Cool Barr...

Here is another cool picture of another cool dude... David Barr, lost both of his lower leggs and still rides his Shovelhead around the world... how cool is that?

Cool weather for the beach...

Bagger Mate! Yesterday and today beautiful weather to go to the beach... guess what... Have to work...!

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Cool protective mom...

Is it a piggyback ride or... in this case a swanback ride. A swan mom with her five youngsters... she had her nest next to a bridge on the corner of our street... checking her and her eggs almost every day... now the nest is abandoned, only feathers remain. Here she was looking back to check if I wasn't following them... Cool mom!!

(Picture taken with my mobile phone...)

Cool panhead...

I ran into this beauty in a 22 year old biker mag I found again on the attics some time ago... I love the lines on thisone and the fact that it is a Panhead...

(Source: a22yearoldrelaxedbikersmagazinefromtheattic)

Cool detail...

Yes, there is an off-set ring between the engine and the (sanded and polished) primairy case... Also an off-set mounting plate for the transmission.

Cool Hummer ad...

Like this Hummer! Seems a Hummer is a saver after all...!! Only $20 in gas and oil...

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Cool Frensh bridge...

Thisone I took beginning of May, when we were in France...

Cool Ad...

Here's another cool, 65 year old, Harley ad. Like that: "First on my want list..."

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Cool reading stuff...

Over ten years ago, with much joy, I read this book... "4 years around the world... on a motorcycle...". Last year I watched the TV series Long Way Round (and this year Long Way Down) with Ewan McGregor on the BCC. Somewhere in Russia on a local market, they ran into... Ted Simon. Running through boxes on the attic I found this book again... Coming summer family vacation guess what is coming with us to France...? Yep, gonna read this book again!

(Counting the days...)

Cool year of riding...

Yesterday it was a year since I have my Transalp for commuting to Amsterdam (and other place to work on location...) and back home. The clock says I've done 8500 km's on this bike and I did about 2000 on the old American lady. Adding up I come to a 10500 km's for one year, not so bad they say...

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Cool new toy...

I bought my self a new toy yesterday, a 120 GB iPod... So that needs some figuring out and fuckin' around with it to get to know the damn thing... Great for commuting and also the family travelling (in the car) later this year...

(Need to copy 40 Gig of music to it... Pic source: theworldwideweb)

Cool border pica...

Think I have seen this state line as well in 2001, looked much more different than thisone. Bike and border...

Cool village passing... failed!

Last weekend in Germany, after a days riding, we tried to do a cool village passing way back to the campsite. Loads of people on the main street... Bas saw a couple of young girls in uniform and did something we still don't know what. His front break blocked and his bike ended up on the tarmac. Not only the bike got damaged but also his ego.
Later that evening we went to a local party and all the people there were the people from mainstreet... ooops... "Aren't you the guys from earlier today...?"

(Thank God Bas wasn't harmed after this painfull fall, thanx to his judo history...)

Respect to David Carradine...

Yesterday evening on the news, I found out that David Carradine died at 72 in a hotel room in Bangkok... The actor that played the monk in the series Kung Fu and who played '5 steps' Bill in Kill Bill.
Respect to this guy for some great acting!

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Cool heroes...

This month it's 65 years ago we had situations like this, when the rest of the world came to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany. Thanx to everyone who helped out to get rid of the crazy Jerries!

(Better late then never!)

Maintenance time again...

It's is time to get my hands dirty with grease and oil again... Last riding weekend I found out some parts of my sickle need TLC (Tender love & Care)... Suspension needs attatention, still bottoming out. The speedo cable broke on the way home, minor detail... The transmission is loosing more oil every day, mmm... prob the main axle bearing behind the primairy... The rearbrake lost oil on my back wheel, needs some attention as well! Anyway, time to play again!

(The only think I need to find is: the time to do it. Pic source: theworldwideweb)

Cool scooting weekend...

Finally after 3 other campsites we found one with room for four tents and 5 bikes. Near a small village called Dendeborn in Nationalpark Eifel in Germany. We had a very good riding weekend, only sun and no rain.

Cool pica of cool bike...

Johnny Depp in style on this vintage sidecar bike... Did he pick up the director of photography for work?

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