Duane Ausherman wrote:My regular engine had so much torque that I could put it in 4th, top gear, and from a standing start, slip the clutch a bit and walk away while at an idle. You can't easily do that in first with the stock /2 engines unless the idle is set quite high.
That must have come in real handy a lot of times. (Sorry, Duane. My wise-ass gene made me say it.)
Ken
That was Duane's way of showing off for the chicks! None of that wheelie/stoppie stuff for Duane, no sir!
Starting off from a stop in 4th is how one attracts classy ladies like Linda!
Now you have to go and ruin a perfectly good conversation by bringing up the subject of "what impresses the ladies". As if that's anything that will ever be understood by men. We don't know. Women probably don't know. And that's what makes us such a comical species, and maybe the worst thing to ever happen to the earth. At least lots of good jokes are based on the difference between the sexes.
Major Softie wrote:The only thing I know about impressing the opposite gender is: whatever impresses most women, never impresses the woman you most want to impress.
I do know that what (some) women think would impress them if I would just do it, does not really impress them if I do it.
The guys from Top Gear did a riff on a similar theme in their last programme, it was all about the problem with electric hand bakes on modern cars, because they stopped you from failing to impress the ladies by doing handbrake turns.
Charles
Replica 1070 R90/S (based on 82 RT)
1975 R90/6
