Seen in Austria this weekend

[rogerzilla]

Some of these should be in other threads like Caption It, CDC or Dead Bikes, but I'll get round to it later.


Could anything be more scary?



A local beat combo, I believe.  Who pronounces it "Toord", though?



Bromeliad bike.



Dead bike in the crystal clear Zeller See near Zell am See railway station.



Hotel restaurant was OK, we didn't fancy the Indian menu.



The wick makes this all the more disturbing.



Just round the corner from the hotel, not one but two erotic superstores.



Tonight, trad jazz and real ale.  Tomorrow we overthrow the capitalists.



Nutty, don't even think about it.



None of your council gritters with a blade stuck on the front.  This is what you need halfway up an alp in winter.



Radial spokes and disc brakes.



This is Salzburg's Friday Critical Mass, all of it.

[Exit Stage Left]

A Prinoth Everest I do believe.



I'm most impressed by the newly developed electronic management system of the engine and hydrostats which ensures optimal hydrostatic performance with low fuel consumption, and the resulting lower operating costs and decreased emissions.

I'll leave comments on the Seaman's Pump to someone better qualified.

[Torslanda]

don't care what it is. I just want one!

[hellymedic]

Indian menu appears to have been translated by computer.
Maybe dhal should not have been translated at all.

[mattc]

Radial spokes and disc brakes.

Yup, those are the 2 fastest unicycles in the Alpes.

[Jaded]

Nice arse.

[Thor]

A local beat combo, I believe.  Who pronounces it "Toord", though?

That'll be the Metal Umlaut...

[rogerzilla]

I am reliably informed that the snow-moving device is in fact a piste-basher and not a plough, which would explain the hydraulics to push down the rear squeegee.  It has to be one of the biggest piste-bashers on the market, looking at pictures of others.



Apparently a lot of people want to drive these things, to the extent that they have sort of "track days" for them.  I assume it was parked there because it had just been delivered (it's very obviously brand new) and they're waiting for the snow to get deep enough to drive it the remaining 2000 feet or so up the Schmittenhöhe mountain.

[Exit Stage Left]

There are of course forums for them. http://www.dameuses.com/   About the only chance to get a ride in one in England is at Yad Moss. They are fairly cheap when they get to the end of their lives, there being a limited secondhand market in Britain.
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[rogerzilla]

I always wondered what they made in Austria (which has a big manufacturing industry but exports practically nothing to the UK), and now I know.

€360,000 is a bit steep for sorting out the local toboggan hill once every few years.

[Kim]

Nice stickman in peril, there.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Indian menu appears to have been translated by computer.
Maybe dhal should not have been translated at all.

Depends whether the hotel thinks its customers - who may be reading the English menu even though they do not speak much English, what with it being Da Worlz Langwij - will know what dal is. Lenses = lentils, same word really - the pulse being named for its lenticular shape. The menu also shows the same confusion between v and w found in India itself. Not sure about the vegetable spit though.

[Exit Stage Left]

Indian menu appears to have been translated by computer.
Maybe dhal should not have been translated at all.

Depends whether the hotel thinks its customers - who may be reading the English menu even though they do not speak much English, what with it being Da Worlz Langwij - will know what dal is. Lenses = lentils, same word really - the pulse being named for its lenticular shape. The menu also shows the same confusion between v and w found in India itself. Not sure about the vegetable spit though.

Actually lenses are named after lentils. The genus they come from is Lens.

The word lens comes from the Latin name of the lentil, because a double-convex lens is lentil-shaped. The genus of the lentil plant is Lens, and the most commonly eaten species is Lens culinaris. The lentil plant also gives its name to a geometric figure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_(optics)

[clarion]

I'm guessing the vegetable spit may be a kebab.