 Steve McQueen: what I like in a bike and why
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Steve McQueen: what I like in a bike and why "Why does a movie star who just received $750,000 for making The Sand Pebbles for 20th Century-Fox spend his time cow trailing on a motorcycle? 'It's the clean smell of the desert in the morning. The satisfaction of setting up a rig and having it work perfectly in every way.'" 43 years ago Steve McQueen wrote a dirt bike comparison test for Popular Science. Here it is in its entirety. http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2009/08/steve-mcqueen-what-i-like-in-a.html   
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You can also view the images here incase your blocked out of the other link.. picasa web album stevemcqueen
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Just couldn't read that due to not-like-they-used-to-be eyes, but I'm sure it was interesting.
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To enlarge hard to read print, hold down control on your keypad and roll the wheel on yer mouse, being a blind guy myself, all I could say when told of this trick, "What took you so long to share this?"
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To enlarge hard to read print, hold down control on your keypad and roll the wheel on yer mouse, being a blind guy myself, all I could say when told of this trick, "What took you so long to share this?"
Tried that but the image was too blurry.
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If you click on the page in the article that you want to read, that'll enlarge it a little bit, then use Ryks trick to make it readable, or if you prefer, there's my trick of control + on the number pad (- to shrink again)
BTW, I couldn't read a whole book at that size though
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Try this link guys !
http://www.popsci.com/results?query=Steve+McQueen
Thanks Mr. Old97 (not 98)! That works splendidly!!!
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Thanks Mr. Old97 (not 98)! That works splendidly!!!
Dang... I meant to say '38' not '98!' I was trying to be funny (sure blew that one!). But ya know... every time I see your handle I'm reminded of that old ballad "The Wreck of..." We discussed this in an earlier thread when you first registered here. Can't remember if I told you this but back in the '50s when I was just a boy, we found an old gramophone up in the attic of the house we just moved into. Along with the gramophone was a stack of 78s and "The Wreck of..." was in that stack. I can't remember who recorded it though... might have been Woodie Guthrie or Pete Seeger. Meanwhile.......
Thanks again for the link!
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I have a copy of that issue of Popular Science (November 1988). I paid $5 for it at a swap meet a couple years ago.
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