* this thread needs YOU ! *, Which car/motorbike/tractor/drone/plane/skateboard/surfboard/boat/train is the coolest ever

i love steam trains. totally amazing pieces of technology and engineering. How they managed to build some of the trains still amazes me today. 

added trains to the thread name

i love that skateboard and the all-terrain bike. the skateboard is really cool i miss those days. i still have sore knees :)

Or...guitarist? I get a buzz from guitar Gods.  Often drag hubbie along to gigs. He's even driven the Delta Blues trail with me, right through Mississippi. This probably  has nothing to do with my Asperger's, I just like a guitar shredder

“We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's heartbeat inside your head.”

― David M Clark, Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

It would be interesting to give some of these a personal anorak rating; zero to five anoraks. But perhaps not everyone would appreciate that. But it does perhaps beg the question of how much humour you all see in your own ob ....... interests. I sense it is quite a lot for most posters here.

But we haven't done locomotives yet. I would give my own interest in that only a two anorak rating  I lived through the supposed end of steam. But, of course, there are still plenty of funky steam locos about. I would myself include the Garrett articulated locos at the Welsh Highland Railway, and the Double Fairlie Tank Engines of the Ffestiniog railway, neither of which I have actually ever seen F2F. Heritage diesels are just a tad too boring for me; despite my interest in driving diesel tractors.

Yet again, I have quite a few subject yarns up my sleeve here. The main one, I can't really repeat, because it would give my ID away when there are still some good reasons not to share it with everyone. But the other one is something that almost all train nuts will understand. In the late 60s, I passed through Barry Dock. Unexpectedly, I came on this view of hundreds of locos, head to tail, on sidings about 6 lines deep that went on for well over a mile. Also loads of cargo wagons. It was the famous Dai Woodham's scrapyard, which actually ended up only scrapping a few locos. He deliberately saved most of the locos now used on UK heritage railways. Never seen anything like it!

But actually, my five anorak rating probably goes to disused railways. I'd love to drive a steam loco, and I've met people who still do, but I'm not really very interested in hardcore stuff like wheel configurations.

i was thinkin of a new second thread , like  a restart. But what will we call it ? then we call all move to it.

• " the DC appreciation society "
• "the car thread"
• "petrol heads"
• "adrenaline junkies"
• "why Disambiguating Cynosure is cool"
• "is AC better the DC ?"        ---- get it ?

what do you think DC, plastic, anyone else ?

Is that  one of the Solent's forts? Or something else?

Not really when it involves the Solent. So much traffic, big and small, all mixed together in a comparatively small area. And probably the same in the air, as lots of land and sea transport options must also pull in quite a lot of exec and expensive service industries. I worked overlooking it for a few months. Never a dull moment, really! You should see it when Cowes Week is in progress. Loadsa money! Loadsa spills & thrills!

Well, I deliberately left out some further details, to avoid making it too obvious where I'm from. I have recently discovered that the place has always had a bit of a rep for frequently going off on a tangent. And the cop could be quite outspoken about the system under which he operated; though locals, of all political persuasions, could agree he was the right guy for the job. Not long after this story happened he got caught up in a high-profile murder case. He probably figured quite highly in the investigation, as he would have undoubtedly noted some significant goings-on before the event. And it might also have inspired his kid (exceptionally bright) to pursue a very successful career in special investigation.

There were actually a whole load of bright kids in that neighborhood, but the local education system seemed to have deliberately singled them out as failures; perhaps because they believed our teachers were not really producing the sort of kids they thought necessary for a more academic ed. They got that completely wrong; although in my own case they perhaps had a point. And I'm now wondering whether one of the local factories was in some way responsible for creating a 'hotspot'. (But I'm not the greatest fan of fringe theories.)

aidie said:

did you up the adrenalin in your life to try and fit in ?

Nope ~ to get away from it all mostly but met up with others that did not fit in either, with the 'coolest' (or most functionally perfect) BMX for me (back in the eighties and nineties) being the DP Firebird Freestyler, but not in the following colours:

And the most functionally perfect skateboard deck (back in the nineties) being the Daune Peters (9 1/4"x 32 .5") on Think boards ~ which was a totally solid and flex free deck with only the tail wearing down rather than the deck cracking or snapping in half or at either end (which otherwise happened alot). The deck appeared exactly as depicted aside from the signing under the name.  

And since the nineties or 2005 in fact as far as mountain-bikes go ~ the DMR Exalt but not quite as coloured or quite as follows as I had triple clamp forks on mine:

Being a member of the adrenalized big jump, air and drop brigade was not though helping me avoid having stress induced seizures at all, oddly enough, although it did take me rather a long time to work out the connection there ~ sort of thankfully as I did rather enjoy exerting myself in those wheeled ways for all those days over four decades or so.

I could never though get into doing motorized things involving bikes or cars as my body gets really freaked out by powered rpm stuff ~ it gets anxious or scared even of the washing machine!!!

I would not know, since I do not drive. More Women are needed here, but it might be too late. But the weekend is coming, so, this Thread might go another week. & Tomorrow *might* be the last day for changing the title, but I am not sure. (...And only in editing this reply might I see that I perhaps *might* have used the word "might" a bit too much...)

S'Me again... as I say, I might be wearing out about Vehicles, now. It was good to find out about Travel Sickness, though. ('Sit as if Driving' do not relax as if a Passenger.) 

I am here now taking oppertunity to post a long moaning -- 'Rant' alert! About a certain Helicopter... Twin-Rotors, huge, noisey... Yes, the CHINOOK. I have no favourite Helicopter, but I do have a least favourite, and the Chinook is it. Why? Because I live in London, but  I (am Autistic) like quiet and Wildlife...

These things are now as if the vehicle of the wealthy, used as the 'limousine of the skies'. Whenever someone really important is arriving, (e.g. Trump,) they seem to think that no-one notices this massive roaring monster blasting overhead. I appreciate  the engineering of a Chinook, but not the way they are used in domesticity - they scare the *%©¢¡%¡® out of all birds and wildlife wherever they fly. If over where I am indoors, all windows and doors will rattle horribly.

My complaint is that... every single time... I am quite certain that everyone in these things (except for the pilot) thinks that *no-one* else notices all of that! 

(Anyone else here know what I am talking about?)  

can i have one please ?

i noticed that as well. all vehicles to me are female. I dont know why. 

apparently this is why ( 5 second search )

"Vehicles play a role of caregiver and provider. They are therefore seen as a she.

Another reason is that men have strong bonds with their trucks and guns. So they describe them as she, because it’s an intimate bond. "

is this true for women ie DC ?

I found it interesting that I remark of this Car as a "He", yet You refer to it as a "She"...

I am glad, in later retrospect however, that I also posted the picture below of the HARRIER. I sort of delay posting here, to sort of gaze at both the Aventador and that Harrier picture... 

...a 2 minute or more respectful silence...

........

..Sorry, got lost in thought, there. Um, Moving on! Anyone...?

i like your replies you have quite an inventive mind may i say

Disambiguating Cynosure said:

An Eagle that has decided to fly off with Your Xmas Turkey

that is good enough for a Christmas cracker

actually all 3 are !

just for clarification here are the 2 jokes together

what has 4 wings and flies? :            answer: 2 birds

what has 4 wheels and flies? :            answer: a bin lorry   

aidie said:

what has 4 wings and flies ?

(...This again, yes...)

An Eagle that has decided to fly off with Your Xmas Turkey.

...More likely though, is a Seagull that has stolen someone's "KFC Hot Wings" takeaway.

...Also, common to very rich Arabs, is a Kestrel being transported from England to Arabia in a Private Plane. Back on topic for this Thread, would be a disassembled Cessna being transported by a Cargo Plane. This could go on and on...(!)

it does sound crazy when explained , there is so much room !  

lovely story. I love the orchard bit as I just love old orchards. The love your account of the bobby. That bobby seems quite a nice guy and a real character. In them days they weren't paid much so you almost had to have a vocation to do the job. You could face anything from telling a wife her husband is dead to arresting someone you know. 

I think I have seen an F4 at an airshow but I was very young and it went by so fast.

The problem is flying by VFR - visual flying rules - everyone uses the same altitude and make their flight plan using the same ground markers - so everyone comes at you head on +/- 50 feet!    It's terrifying!     Air traffic control tell you to watch for another aircraft - so you strain your eyes looking for something coming directly at you at 300mph!