You should work in local tourism promotion.Well, I dont live in cans. Filthy. drugridden, theiving, ugly place. I dont want it if you are giving it away.
Cans council even have parking meters on the public toilets !!!!. Thats truth!!!.
If you want hot, go to Townsville. Ive been in some pretty hot places in the mining industry, but never had heat like townsville.
Hottest place I have experienced was Phosphate Hill mine. Something north east of Mount Isa. It was 48 degrees C every day. BUT humidity was 10%.
They have people there that run around with lighning detectors. YES lightning detectors. Apparently one of the most active places on earth for lighning strikes.
FROM a perfectly blue sky. Its FLAT!!! so even your body height makes a good lightning arrestor.
What bikes you into joe?Thankyou gentlemen!!! I am honest at least :-).
Joe
Ha ha writting fact at the end just makes you a t..t not right. Who said July to Oct is summer. Rain in winter in far north Qld, yeah right. Sure you weren’t in England.What info? Summer in the Southern Hemisphere is not July to October. Fact.
I’ve been there twice as I stated. First time 7th July 2017, for two weeks. It ****** with rain. Fact
Second time 3rd October 2019, for three weeks. It rained every day. Fact.
Was told by my customer there to avoid December to March like the plague. Unbearably hot. Mid Summer. Seen numerous photos and posts on his website with the temperature well over 40c .Fact.
A quick google of “ Cairns average annual rainfall” will give you a figure of 1992mm. Fact.
Any other “ info ” I got wrong ?
Just to refresh your memory…Your response To me saying Summer is not July to OctoberNot sure where you are getting that info, it’s totally wrong.
One thing that did impress me was a bike shop in Cairns. Weird location ,almost in an industrial area but loads of old bikes from Enfields, Triumphs, BSA’s and even some of those strange looking Eastern block bikes with the boxer motors…I need win the lotto, BUT I wouldnt hesitate buying a new Royal Enfield.
Continental cafe racer probably, with lots of stuff bolted off.
Just got rid of a Yamaha viagra . Before that Yamaha TT 500.
I have had heaps of bikes over the years though. Nothing bigger than 750.
I only weigh 68 kilos :-).
Ive never owned a treadly which is what your avatar shows.
My son is the one to speak to for those.
Joe
Wtf are you smoking?Just to refresh your memory…Your response To me saying Summer is not July to October
The rainfall I experienced in Queensland must have all been in my head…on two occasions….for a total of five weeks
The internet is wrong in saying Cairns has an annual average rainfall of 1995mm a year, mostly in the summer
My customer who has lived there since 1979 is wrong. He is also delusional, also seeing things on his thermometer that aren’t there.
We all bow down to your superior knowledge
End of conversation….
a super manual printed in full Cyrilic and I think it was a prayer in Russian Orthodox, but I couldnt read it then, cant now, and dont really care.
Joe
That could be it. Apparently has a reverse gear as well?I think johnnybravo is talking about a Ural. Well thats what it was called when I bought them into my bike shop in 1976.
650 CC, weighed 650 kilos, did 65 Yaks ??? per hour and cost $650. Optional sidecar was an extra $48.
They did come with a full set of rings, the tools needed to pull whole engine down ( UNLIKE BMW !!! )
a super manual printed in full Cyrilic and I think it was a prayer in Russian Orthodox, but I couldnt read it then, cant now, and dont really care.
Joe
That’s very similar. Wonder if the ones I saw were new Chinese ones as well? We were stopped at the traffic lights and the shop was on my left.When I was in South Africa in January I came across a fleet of these down at the Cape. The Chinese version of the Ural. the CJ750, manufactured by the Chang Jiang company under licence. You can hire these with all of the gear to look like a real hard type, and go on a tour of the Cape, en masse.
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Going back late 60’s early 70’s I would think it was, the were one or two Urals running around here. Looked odd as the sidecar was on the wrong side. I seem to remember there was a spare wheel stuck on the back of the sidecar. I don’t think for one minute it was true, but the rumour was that if you looked carefully you could see where the machine gun fitted.I think johnnybravo is talking about a Ural. Well thats what it was called when I bought them into my bike shop in 1976.
650 CC, weighed 650 kilos, did 65 Yaks ??? per hour and cost $650. Optional sidecar was an extra $48.
They did come with a full set of rings, the tools needed to pull whole engine down ( UNLIKE BMW !!! )
a super manual printed in full Cyrilic and I think it was a prayer in Russian Orthodox, but I couldnt read it then, cant now, and dont really care.
Joe
There was one in Bedford I watched it off road at devils pitGoing back late 60’s early 70’s I would think it was, the were one or two Urals running around here. Looked odd as the sidecar was on the wrong side. I seem to remember there was a spare wheel stuck on the back of the sidecar. I don’t think for one minute it was true, but the rumour was that if you looked carefully you could see where the machine gun fitted.