woooahhh Single Track Single Seat Coaster---no Brakes!

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Re: woooahhh Single Track Single Seat Coaster---no Brakes!

Post by Amskeptic » Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:06 am

glasseye wrote:
Amskeptic wrote: You drove a VW bus in the Columbia Gorge . . .
Tell me about it. I can still hear the words, shredded by the hurricane-force winds:

"Let's book!" :bounce:

My knuckles haven't been the same since.
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Re: woooahhh Single Track Single Seat Coaster---no Brakes!

Post by glasseye » Fri Feb 15, 2013 3:49 pm

Oh!
You crossed the line, there pal.
We got issues.
There will be repercussions.
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Re: woooahhh Single Track Single Seat Coaster---no Brakes!

Post by tristessa » Fri Feb 15, 2013 5:42 pm

Should we have Mark set up a fighting cage instead of the stage at Maupin this year?
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Re: woooahhh Single Track Single Seat Coaster---no Brakes!

Post by glasseye » Fri Feb 15, 2013 6:44 pm

Absolutely! Clear the decks! There will be blood.

Well, lukewarm skim milk at least.
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Re: woooahhh Single Track Single Seat Coaster---no Brakes!

Post by Elwood » Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:28 pm

Ha Ha Im bringing my eggs :pirate:

Still have some tasty collector ones left from last trip in '08 I think. :cherry:

I would love to get in that ring---eye to eye--- to settle some things that I want to believe are misunderstandings. And then give more than a cyber hug.

Barb

ps ---I would ride that coster in a heart beat--- lifes short--- just do it!!!
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Re: woooahhh Single Track Single Seat Coaster---no Brakes!

Post by Amskeptic » Sat Feb 16, 2013 8:18 pm

glasseye wrote:Absolutely! Clear the decks! There will be blood.

Well, lukewarm skim milk at least.
Water. Pink Evian water to dab the furrowed brow of the water-cooled driver . . . "ooh ooh what's that cute little dashboard light, ooh ooh, it looks like a what? thermometer, like, thermometerrrrr?? What shall I do? What shall I do?"
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Re: woooahhh Single Track Single Seat Coaster---no Brakes!

Post by jimbear » Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:43 pm

Thread jack or reappropriation? :lurk: :yawinkle: Looking at that vid, it actually looks like the folks have a brake lever. Maybe?
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Re: woooahhh Single Track Single Seat Coaster---no Brakes!

Post by Amskeptic » Tue Feb 19, 2013 7:40 am

jimbear wrote:Thread jack or reappropriation? :lurk: :yawinkle: Looking at that vid, it actually looks like the folks have a brake lever. Maybe?
I think the ride-along shot was a how do you say? balls to the wall "we ain't using no brakes" until it arrived . . . and braked . . . in the "station".
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BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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