A new exhibit joins the Titanic

David and Chris Lynskey were riding buddies of my crew at the Pickle Barrel in Chattanooga around 1987-1989 when they were just transitioning from making airplane parts to frames. IIRC David was a beast of a crit rider, and he’d also lead us up Lookout Mountain on Saturday morning milk runs. I shoulda bought one of his frames then; I’m sure it would still be road worthy.

 

And, while reading, are asking Questions 67 and 68.

 

This thread …. You guys are My Inspiration.

 

Interesting to me that Titan and Titanic and titanium are all named for the same branch of early Greek mythology, the Titans - all of whom were overthrown, cast out, and consigned to the underworld.

Titan | Names & Myth

 

Continue to Make Me Smile.

 

Although I’m not getting into any mini sub, here’s a good analogy for calculated risks vs foolish endeavors:
I’ll ride rides at Disney, Dollywood, Carowinds, etc but I don’t get on traveling carnival rides.
The former is engineered, inspected, and insured. The latter … well, I spent too much time at county fairs in my youth watching those things being slapped up and torn down and the people who were doing it.

 

While I think that brilliant posts like these border on tasteless, I will concede that if I ever die in a manner such as these people did, I will deserve to be lampooned in a way similar to what these posts are doing. Keep ’em coming.

 

Some stoned carnie slapping together a Ferris wheel ain't the best idea.

 

You think they’re lugging iron from shitburg to shitburg?

 

Is this the end of the thread, or only the Beginnings.

 

While the Chicago-jack is amusing we should reserve this thread for posts about the mini-sub implosions and the Titanic et Cetera