Not to go off topic but man it really is worrisome to see old world know how go. It does get lost. If you really look, every thing and I mean every thing we do MB wise, has been done before. The bicycles we put engines on were for the most part thought out and built in the 1800s and before. We really are just rediscovering/building the wheel. Every innovation I have seen in the last 5 yrs for MBs, can be found well in the past if you Google it. Cool part of our time is we can Google it. The 1903 Harley Davidson had pedals. (With a belt drive reduction gear) As did the 1869 steam powered MB.
For stocking stuffers at the holidays, I make key chains with string. I splice a monkey's-fist knot on a key chain loop. It was first made around 5,000 yrs ago in ancient Mesopotamia. It was made internationally illegal in the '90s. (The real ones are the size of softballs and lead weighted. You throw them ashore to dock workers who catch them, then they haul your dock lines. The problem was, when ya hit a guy in the chest with one, he fell down hard)
My point is, when I pass on, no one will know how to tie that knot. Change is scarry
But thanks to this thread and ones like it, and internet, our kids will be able to look it up!
Kinda cool and I have great hope!
How to tie a
Monkey's fist (Wut? is a really cool knot, snork)