Coils and spark intensity

[Anonymous]

Hey, are you guys making fun of me? 8) You better be careful or I may just lose my santification.

Lose your sanctification.....we can't have that! Everyone loses their sanity here, but not their sanctity.

Tell you what, if you can come to Toronto tomorrow afternoon, we'll put it right for you. You can be right up here with the Pope! 8)

I just remembered toronto --in 1968 my wife and i were riding my R60 beemer from chicago back to long island NY via detroit michigan and the queens highway(i think it was the queen highway)--we stopped in toronto where we saw the most impressive government buildings---((they were shaped like 2 half moons facing on another and off set a bit--- I checked into a hotel after removing my leathers and donning a sport jacket that was stuffed into one of the saddle bags and the bell hop and desk clerk choked when i had the guy come out with his wagon and load my 3 saddle bags onto his cart--the desk clerk was trying to worm his way out if me staying there but well when we are 25 years old we all can be a bit sparky--- I loved the fact that it had trolley cars and a china town--whats the city like 35 years later???

[Anonymous]

I've been to Toronto for work the past couple of years. It's a nice city, but very hectic.

Now about the Pope... oh never mind.

Roger in Seattle -- riding 3 days so far without problems. Thanks guys!

[Anonymous]

Hey, are you guys making fun of me? 8) You better be careful or I may just lose my santification.

Steady, your supposed to be shaken not stirred!

[argonsagas]

Hey, are you guys making fun of me? 8) You better be careful or I may just lose my santification.

Steady, your supposed to be shaken not stirred!

Now, if we unexpectedly played a stirring march, VERY loudly, do you think he'd be shaken?


Scotty: 35 years later Toronto IS Chinatown! With the hand-over of Hong Kong, we had an explosion in immigrant numbers. Chinese are now the greatest per centage of the population, and I have heard this is the largest concentration anywhere outside of China, including San Francisco.

Street cars/trolley cars are still here, but they have some new ones that are guaranteed to foul up your radio/television signal every time they pass.

The building you mentioned is Toronto City Hall. The Provincial Government/Legislature buildings are a few blocks north and west of there, and (I'm not certain of their dates) are about 100 years old.

Toronto hectic? Well, I've been in worse places, but it sure isn't like it was 35 years ago. Highways are more in number, and several lanes wider...but quite frequently , nothing moves.

Today, with the visit of the Pope...much of the City is completely stopped.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Ron
When I was there Chinatown was about 2 blocks long and had almost no people walking on the street. The city was extra clean but not busy at all.
thanks again

[argonsagas]

Scotty: The Chinatown you saw is gone. Still a bit of it exists, but mostly it shifted west and got much larger. All the later versions of David Carradine's Kung Fu were filmed there. Chinatown also split into other areas of the city, mixed with Korean and Viet Namese shops. The city has been re-amalgamated, to make a larger single entity...now you drive 45 miles on the freeway to cross Toronto itself, and even longer if you add in the connecting municipalities. Highway 401 (east-west) across Toronto was 4 lanes and brand new then; today it is 12 in parts, and traffic moves slower.

Hmm....35 years ago I was just getting into biking, riding a Jawa 250. No cross-country touring on that, but I drove it about 25-30 miles to work, and then back, and played with it afterwards and on weekends.

I even tried 2-up driving a few times. Bit difficult on the highways, but it worked. (Both of us were light). What a difference with the GS1100!

[Anonymous]

Hmm....35 years ago I was just getting into biking, riding a Jawa 250. No cross-country touring on that, but I drove it about 25-30 miles to work, and then back, and played with it afterwards and on weekends.

I even tried 2-up driving a few times. Bit difficult on the highways, but it worked. (Both of us were light). What a difference with the GS1100!

I HAD A JAWA 250 AND SO DID MY BUDY BIGDADDY--ONE WAS A TRIALS AND ONE WAS AN ENDURO--I DONT REMEMBER WHICH ONE I HAD BUT IT WAS THE TAME ONE THAT WAS EASILY RIDDEN AT SLOW SPEEDS AND IN THE DIRT--THE OTHER ONE WAS A BEAST AND WOULD WHEELIE WITH JUST A BIT OF THROTTLE AND ALSO WOULD STALL IF YOU TRIED TO DRIVE IT EASY

[argonsagas]

Jawa 250

I had neither of those. Just a little street bike that never knew the meaning of wheelie, except when I took it over the top of a little knoll at about 40mph. and it got a bit of air. A great first bike. It stood up very well to my driving, and it was pushed hard, and often.

It wasn't even mine, actually. A friend who had been on bikes forever wanted me on one, and gave it to me to learn on. I had it for two years, then bought the Triumph I wrote about in your post " Now the Forum's are up and running". I don't remember ever going down with the Jawa, but with the Army Triumph ....adventure time!

That bike taught me a lot of respect for British soldiers. The Triumph proved indestructible, but it treated you like a western rodeo horse: if you made a mistake, you were either off it or under it (I've been both). Those soldiers had to be tremendously good riders to stay on it and ride like hell in war zones. Hat (and helmet) off to them!