Re: re CalcPlus - FREE from Microsoft.
From: Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\) (mike.hall.mail_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 02/03/05
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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:10:34 -0500
Who said anything about getting drunk?.. I had to make sure that a
motorcycle weighing in on the wrong side of 500lbs stayed more or less
upright.. :)
Re. Triumphs.. loved Bonnevilles (650 pre-unit) especially in Triton
format.. was it tappet rattle, piston slap, or a finely tuned duet?.. always
had a hankering for a DBD 34 Gold Star, but watched too many disable
themselves during the starting procedure.. also disliked the idea of weekly
rebuilds and getting red Hermetite on my hands, hence the CB750..
Canada has electricity now, so we use block heaters (a small version of an
immersion heater).. problem is that if you use a cover to protect the
connection plug being eaten away by salt, it very often freezes in place..
but as the tires have frozen to the bricks (also frozen to the driveway)
that one uses to prevent the vehicle sliding off of the driveway, who
cares.. :)
-- Mike Hall MVP - Windows Shell/user http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Yabbadoo" <lsdolby@ignore.ntlwor.com> wrote in message news:RqgMd.1342$al3.285@newsfe1-win.ntli.net... > Didn't take much to get you drunk! 1n 1969 - 1 gallon at 6s8d left you > 3s4d change out of 10 bob - don't recall beer price in 1969 but on > "decimalisation day" (Feb 1971) it was 3s (15p) a pint, though, as now, > prices varied regionally. So, out of 3s4d you got drunk AND had supper on > the way home? WOW!! (Think your telling me porkies - you had a whole QUID > to spend!) > > Less of the old - I'm only 62! (g). Owned 26 m/bikes 1959 - 1972, have > driven >250 (lost count now). Mainly British, didn't like Triumphs (too > much tappet rattle). Alas! moved to London from Yorkshire, essentially > forced into cars, cities no good for bikers. > > Accept your point about increased fuel density in Canada, but surely > that's only worth 2-3 mpg improvement (and don't you lose that by having > to put some in a pan, light it and put it under the sump to fluidise the > frozen oil on a winter morning?) > > Cheers! Len. > > "Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" <mike.hall.mail@sympatico.ca> wrote in message > news:uwvsEwVCFHA.3784@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl... >> >> "Yabbadoo" <lsdolby@ignore.ntlwor.com> wrote in message >> news:OB7Md.365$Dm5.250@newsfe2-win.ntli.net... >>> Hi, Mike, you're an MS-MVP. I'm just a pleb, unqualified to comment on >>> your first para ...on your head be it! >> >> lol.. >> >>> >>> Re petrol in UK sold in litres ... changed so many years ago, I >>> disremember whether it was a UK Government initiative, or a Brussels >>> directive rubber-stamped here (as so many changes are) >>> BUT - the effect is not only to hide the real cost of a gallon, that's >>> cosmetic.. The REAL cruncher is the hidden tax hikes. >> >> I am all for Brussels directives (except for the perfectly straight >> bananas and all mange-tout peas having to be the same size crap).. there >> is no doubt that supplying in litres made it look way better for HMG.. >> have you noticed that HMG only applies Brussels directives that will make >> HMG employees look less like legalised bandits?.. >> >>> >>> When the Chancellor announces "2p a litre tax rise" on fuel, it's not >>> 2p, it's 2p PLUS VAT at 17.5%. Fuel has to be delivered, and by the time >>> the add-on costs are calculated (adding VAT at 17.5% at every stage) and >>> rounded up, it's not 2p but 3p (or more) at the pump, to the consumer. >>> One can understand the Chancellor not wishing to announce 9 pence a >>> gallon tax hike, with 13.5 pence the actual increase! >>> Some-one somwhere will no doubt have the actual figure, but, in round >>> terms, total UK taxes on fuel is about 300%. >>> >>> (Same thing happens with beer - 1p a pint on duty becomes 3p a pint or >>> more, at the bar, same rationale). >> >> >> And don't you love the way that the Chancellor places tax on stuff but >> not for a year maybe, and then when the time comes for all to pay up, he >> sticks another tax increase in payable from midnight.. :) >> >> >>> I had to smile, a while back, at a US news item - the furore when petrol >>> increased to $1 a gallon - on today's (approximate) exchange rate, >>> that's about £0.55 a gallon.(£0.46 per US gallon). The last time petrol >>> was 55 pence a gallon in UK was about 1974/5 (the first "oil crisis"). >>> I worked for a US multinational (retired 6 years ago) did some >>> comparative work on transport costs - US inland freight rates were a >>> quarter of those here (based on standard miles). >>> >>> Today's pump price is £0.83/ltr, that's £3.77 a gallon or, $6.03 per US >>> gallon (using CalcPlus, and exch rate $1.92 = £1) Bet you're glad to be >>> 'tother side of the pond, in this respect at least! >> >> >> Canadians get hussled in the same way as Brits.. our gas is sold by the >> litre and is presently 80¢ per litre locally and a gallon here is a UK >> gallon, not the smaller US gallon.. in real terms, the US price advantage >> is not as good as it appears,but still a whole lot better than the >> UK/Euro.. >> >> Gas (petrol) consumption is affected by a few factors, one of which is >> temperature.. this evens the balance more still as colder air found in >> the Great White North and the UK, being more dense, improves efficiency >> over those living in hotter climes to the south.. in this way, the deal >> that some US people get is worse still. :) >> >>> >>> When I first started motoring (1959) petrol was 2/- (two shillings, = >>> £0.10p) a gallon. Happy days! >> >> Wow, you are old.. :) .. my first recollection of gas prices was paying >> 6s 8d for a gallon of five star back in '69.. for 10 'bob', I could get a >> gallon of gas for the CB750, get drunk and top it all off with a pork >> batch from Brookies (a locally famous butcher/pork batch shop in Earlson, >> Coventry UK) >> >> >> -- >> Mike Hall >> MVP - Windows Shell/user >> http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm >> > >
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