On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 11:10:29 -0700 (PDT), Doug Landau
wrote:

On Monday, September 4, 2017 at 12:27:34 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2017-09-02 07:56, wrote:
On Saturday, September 2, 2017 at 7:49:34 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2017-08-30 18:00, John B. wrote:
On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 10:41:49 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 3:31:55 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2017-08-29 14:38, wrote:
On Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 11:45:45 AM UTC-7, Joerg
wrote:
On 2017-08-29 09:42, sms wrote:
On 8/28/2017 3:59 PM, AMuzi wrote:
On 8/28/2017 4:28 PM, wrote:
On Monday, August 28, 2017 at 1:59:20 PM UTC-7,
Joerg wrote:
On 2017-08-28 13:43, sms wrote:
I replaced the chain that I broke on Saturday
with one I had in my garage that I must have
purchased five to ten years ago.

It has a connecting link and it says "Taya" on
it. It's for 6,7,8 gearing. It seems okay, but
I think that this is the first time I've used a
chain with a connecting link since childhood. I
looked up Taya and it's a big Taiwanese chain
manufacturer.


I still have a Sachs-Sedis 7-speed chain on my
road bike which I bought from a friend as NOS,
for $6 which was the old sticker price (the
sticker had already turned brownish). No link,
mounted with hammer and anvil as usual. To my
utter amazement it doesn't show any measurable
stretch after over 2000mi and sometimes I really
put the coals on because of our hills. Even the
old Wippermann chains could not rival that. I am
very religious about chain cleaning and lube
though.

The old 5-6-7 speed Sachs chains wore out three
days after the bike was junked.


The Sedis (later Sachs-Sedis) material and Delta
hardening process was not only exceptional but
unsurpassed down to today except for possibly Record
chains. That ended with SRAM.

You can still find some NOS (new old stock) of the
Sedisport 6/7 chains. About $25.


I saw a lot of them on EBay at that price range stating
"pre-owned" in the ad, meaning used and who knows for how
many miles or whether properly maintained.

The topper I ever saw was "pre-owned" underwear. Yikes.

What if they were pre-owned by Elizabeth Taylor?


It was men's underwear ...

What makes you think that Elizabeth Taylor didn't wear men's
underwear? She got pretty large near the end.

In a less humorousness vein, did you know that "back in the day"
runners used to wear women's panties?


I remember a cowboy on horseback telling us something similar and
it was a real manly John Wayne style guy. "Now I'll let you in on a
secret on how to avoid rashes from very long rides, but don't ya
tell your mama or anyone for that matter, ya hear?"

Speaking of manly - virtually every single star in Hollywood after
the mid-40's had been in the service and many of them (often the guys
that played bad guys) had silver stars and purple hearts. Even Soupy
Sales and Ernest Borgnine. The one exception was, surprisingly, John
Wayne, who volunteered three times but they wouldn't let him in
because of a bad back or something.

Today we have these guys playing heros that don't even know what a
hero is.


John Wayne could certainly play them right. On Sunday we saw "Flying
Tigers" for the umpteenth time.

What was one of his sayings? "Courage is being scared to death but
saddling up anyhow".

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

Uhm... OTOH, we have him saying to a Viet Namese 6-y/o, at the end of 'the green berets': "You're what this is all about." Yea, rite. Uh-huh.

But of course He didn't say it. The script writer said it, He just
repeated it :-)
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Cheers,

John B.