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[hard10]

For anything else it's hauled, no; it's been ok.  ...

Bigger trailer?

[cuthbertss]

Bigger trailer?

ah yes, great minds and all that

[110tHunDer]

Bigger trailer?

One that can haul 2 bikes, no doubt.

[SBB]

One that can haul 2 bikes, no doubt.

Like this,

[SBB]

or this

[miker]

What size tires are those on the trailer Chip?
I dig those wheels, mine are getting rusty, time for them fancy alooo-mini-um ones

[MUFFMAN]

Good looking scoot. I have always thought about owning an  RG.

[ccr]

really, really looks like a great bike.  Congratulations.  I did not know you were looking, but sounds like you thought it would be a good idea if you could find one you like close by, and voila, you looked, found and conquered all in a day.  Love it when a plan comes together without a hitch.  So are you or are you not going to Sedona?  If we stopped by Joplin on our way West, will we get to see the Road Glide in person? 

[miker]

Now the brandywine serk......for a set, maybe the red switchblade too   

[porthole]

What size tires are those on the trailer Chip?
I dig those wheels, mine are getting rusty, time for them fancy alooo-mini-um ones

The wheels are pretty much standard alulimn - allulimmin -- alunmm ---- light grey, light weight standard trailer upgrade wheels.

[SPIDERMAN]

Aluminium   


Actually, it's Aluminum   

but then again, that's why Neal added spell check awhile back

[Chief]

Aluminium   


Actually, it's Aluminum   

but then again, that's why Neal added spell check awhile back

Well, not quite.....

Nomenclature history
The earliest citation given in the Oxford English Dictionary for any word used as a name for this element is alumium, which Humphry Davy employed in 1808 for the metal he was trying to isolate electrolytically from the mineral alumina. The citation is from his journal Philosophical Transactions: "Had I been so fortunate as..to have procured the metallic substances I was in search of, I should have proposed for them the names of silicium, alumium, zirconium, and glucium."[22]

By 1812, Davy had settled on aluminum, which, as other sources note,[citation needed] matches its Latin root. He wrote in the journal Chemical Philosophy: "As yet Aluminum has not been obtained in a perfectly free state."[23] But the same year, an anonymous contributor to the Quarterly Review, a British political-literary journal, objected to aluminum and proposed the name aluminium, "for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound."[24]

The -ium suffix had the advantage of conforming to the precedent set in other newly discovered elements of the time: potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, and strontium (all of which Davy had isolated himself). Nevertheless, -um spellings for elements were not unknown at the time, as for example platinum, known to Europeans since the sixteenth century, molybdenum, discovered in 1778, and tantalum, discovered in 1802.

Americans adopted -ium to fit the standard form of the periodic table of elements, for most of the nineteenth century, with aluminium appearing in Webster's Dictionary of 1828. In 1892, however, Charles Martin Hall used the -um spelling in an advertising handbill for his new electrolytic method of producing the metal, despite his constant use of the -ium spelling in all the patents[20] he filed between 1886 and 1903.[25] It has consequently been suggested that the spelling reflects an easier to pronounce word with one fewer syllable, or that the spelling on the flier was a mistake. Hall's domination of production of the metal ensured that the spelling aluminum became the standard in North America; the Webster Unabridged Dictionary of 1913, though, continued to use the -ium version.

In 1926, the American Chemical Society officially decided to use aluminum in its publications; American dictionaries typically label the spelling aluminium as a British variant.

[miker]

Engineers!

[Twolanerider]

really, really looks like a great bike.  Congratulations.  I did not know you were looking, but sounds like you thought it would be a good idea if you could find one you like close by, and voila, you looked, found and conquered all in a day.  Love it when a plan comes together without a hitch.  So are you or are you not going to Sedona?  If we stopped by Joplin on our way West, will we get to see the Road Glide in person? 

Thanks Candy.  It does seem to be a nice bike so far.

The plan is to go to Sedona.  Real life can always intrude.  But right now Sedona is on the schedule and nothing else is.  Whether I'd be going or not if you're coming through Joplin the bike would be very disappointed if you didn't stop to say hello .

[Twolanerider]

Trailers?  TRAILERS??  A two bike trailer? 


Nope, nada, nyet, not going to happen.  My little Excalibur trailer is just fine.  The goal, after all, is that once the bike got home it doesn't see the inside of the trailer again anyway.