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DD

Last fastpitch tourney for my daughter's team this weekend. My phone fell out of my pocket yesterday and the girls found it. Dang Apple and it's access to the camera while the phone is still locked. 2 summers in a row they've got me this way. At least this year it was only 20 photos or so vs 180

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I'd say you lost a penny and found two.

No ride yesterday...

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Passions
 

"Ah, I see someone has bought themself a brand new Cockster!"
- Jeremy Clarkson

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^^^^^^^
That's pretty!!!

Unfortunately, not mine. But I drove a 62 Mini imported from Bermuda, senior college year. Right hand drive, no heater, rusted body panels.
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Naw, that's the 'vertible you're thinkin' of. And it's spelled with a "B". And an "x". But otherwise, yeah, it rhymes.

Thanks. Well, in fact, I've driven sports cars all of my driving life. Recently sold this (not the bike) and a Spitfire:
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My sweetie and I used to take some fun trips in them:
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But my sweetie was finding them uncomfortable. I got tired of them being so noisy and smelly, wanted something that meets modern clean air standards. Hence, the, um, upgrade.

This car really is comfy and fast, and it corners like it is on rails. Even better, it can get mid-30's mpg on the highway if I can keep my foot off the rightmost pedal. That's one of the benefits of having a slippery shape. Porsche claims a top speed of 170, which I suspect I will never see.:eek:

It's official name is a 718 Cayman. A co-worker who is an Audi enthusiast referred to it as my mid-life crisis. My neighbor laughed at that and said I should hope so! (That' means I'll live to 138. I think I could live with that, if I survive that long.)

Great pic!

I guess I shouldn't just automatically assume that all gearheads are familiar with "Top Gear" or Jeremy Clarkson. Now I have some `splaining to do...

When the BBC program Top Gear tested the Porsche Cayman for the first time, the "ringleader" of that show Jeremy Clarkson dubbed it the "Cockster", in reference to a "Boxster" variant that would be bought by a certain kind of Type-A personality; one who couldn't afford, but desperately wanted, a 911. That program was so widely popular that it didn't occur to me that you might not get it. Sorry for any confusion...


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Ah. Thanks for the 'splaining. No, I don't watch Top Gear, saw maybe half of one episode, probably while building a wheel in the living room. I don't have time for much TV (though we do sometime put on the Red Sox games while doing other stuff), and wouldn't necessarily have seen that episode if I did. I figured Jeremy Clarkson was some comedian I had never heard of.

I don't think I am a type-A and really don't want a 911, never have, actually prefer the Cayman because it is lighter, a bit shorter, less common, is mid-engine, and doesn't carry the macho-look-at-me connotation of the 911. But the coupe appeals over the Boxster because its shape is so pretty and because we got used to coupe-ness from driving the GT6. (And Boxter is such a silly name, let's face it.) Our frequency of driving the Spitfire top-down had dropped to zero, as my sweetie was becoming more aware of sun exposure. We spend enough time on the tandem that it's something to think about always.

There is a certain implication by some folks that any male who drives a car like that does so because he feels deficient in a certain biological way, sort of like not having a sufficiently long cage on your RD, if you take my meaning. (I do confess to being deficient in knowing pop culture.) But I have always been interested in small, agile cars. If you have to drive, and sometimes you do, it might as well be in an interesting car. This is my second mid-engine car, the first being an X-1/9 a long time ago. It is even my second Porsche, the first being a '63 912 even longer ago. It is the first with this much ability to give me a speeding ticket though. And I'm loving every minute of it.:)

Love the Bonanza!

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My Raleigh at the sidewalk library. What a great idea. I've ridden this road hundreds of times, and never noticed it till now. White Oak Ave., Northridge, CA. I went back on the old Raleigh, dropped off three books, came home with two "new ones".
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Couple of days ago. Summer in California.https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...234f3a3b43.jpg

A few from today's rambly ride.
This sculpture was recently erected in downtown Fort Worth. The iconic last known photo of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang (as shown in the movie) was taken in Fort Worth.
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Mid-afternoon view down Houston Street in downtown Fort Worth
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First day open at the new coffee shop
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Hope you stayed close to that bike. One "Little Free Library" not far from our house has doubled lately as a free bike drop-off. My wife picked up an '83 Collegiate there a week or so ago, mostly complete. I just grabbed a mystery late-century Raleigh step-through comfort bike there, "Swan" frame design, I think? Both tubes from the head tube to the seat tube are curved, and they're brazed (?) together along the midsection. Truly ghetto rattle-can paint job, several missing parts, an old steel-on-steel nutted Roadmaster rear wheel, but plenty of other good parts.

Oh, yeah, pic. Creepy abandoned beach house at Illinois Beach State Park, on Lake Michigan just south of the Wisconsin state line.
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Locked to the rack at work.https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...aa8f7a6f3.jpeg