pethier Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 (edited) ... and hope they see you. https://www.flickr.com/photos/pethier/53932561666/in/album-72177720319624972 https://www.flickr.com/photos/pethier/53932561661/in/album-72177720319624972/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/pethier/53931658517/in/album-72177720319624972/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/pethier/53932804638/in/album-72177720319624972/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/pethier/53933008540/in/album-72177720319624972/ In Bob's Cycle Supply in Little Canada (yes, you folks in New England, here in Minnesota we have a city actually named Little Canada) to pick up an extra helmet, I saw they were selling dune-buggy flags for less than twenty bucks including sales tax. I had just been wondering where you go hereabouts to buy such things. This ain't Pismo Beach. The inside cut that I had had to saw out of the 1/4-inch aluminum plate for the cone-redirector (the outside cuts were all sheared by Metal Supermarket to my pattern) yielded a chunk from which I could fashion a place to mount it. When I first road-tested the flag (which is sold in two halves that the user is to simply press together) I wanted to test it on the freeway to see if it would stay together. it didn't even get to the freeway. I was cruising through Cherokee Park at about 25 MPH and it separated. This suggests the question: How slow do they think dune-buggies are? Did a U-turn, picked up the top section and headed for home. I made a little wooden block to drill a hole for a hair pin. I was astonished at how accurately it came out. The drill was only a few thousandths larger than the hairpin, yet I could rotate the shaft 180 degrees in the coupler and the hairpin still fit. I road-tested it again. At 30 MPH it waves all over the place, and I was a little concerned about the freeway. I needn't have worried: At 70 MPH on the freeway, it calmed down considerably. I have since knocked off another 5 inches so it clears the trailer and also is not too high for folks in pickups and vans to see. Edited August 26 by pethier typo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croc Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 Getting a note I need to be signed into Flickr to see these photos? Maybe me but.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pethier Posted August 26 Author Share Posted August 26 I forgot a step. Give it another shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croc Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 That seemed to work. Thank you! You can also share the image by embedding just by copying and pasting the link. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theDreamer Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 I’m colour blind and didn’t understand the first photo with the white pick-up or why you chose to mount your flag at the front. I've seen them on the rear one even added a light on the top. Then I went back to the first photo and saw the flag and now understand why it needs to be at the front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pethier Posted August 26 Author Share Posted August 26 1 hour ago, theDreamer said: I’m colour blind and didn’t understand the first photo with the white pick-up or why you chose to mount your flag at the front. I've seen them on the rear one even added a light on the top. Then I went back to the first photo and saw the flag and now understand why it needs to be at the front. I only had two places I could mount it. The rollbar was out, because I often have the top on. Either on the front or on the license-plate assembly on the rear. Because I wanted the flag to me seen from a car I was beside, the front won out. The parameters are not the same for a Seven in street traffic as they are for a buggy in the dunes. For a buggy in the dunes, the priority is lots of height, not placement on the buggy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher smith Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 I usually fly a Union Jack mounted to the rear of the roll cage and sometimes add a flag of Scotland - the yellow one. Too many stupid SUV drivers around here and I want them to at least notice me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pethier Posted August 26 Author Share Posted August 26 25 minutes ago, Christopher smith said: I usually fly a Union Jack mounted to the rear of the roll cage and sometimes add a flag of Scotland - the yellow one. Too many stupid SUV drivers around here and I want them to at least notice me. I have a big Red Ensign. I would like to say my Great Great Grandfather John Cavanagh nicked it when he was a merchant seaman working out of Liverpool but that would be a lie. I really got it from a Lebanese-American school librarian. I once left the flag at the TRF Summer Party, and a kind LBC guy mailed it to me. The bit about my Great Great Grandfather John Cavanagh serving under the Red Ensign is 100% true, though. It's on the 1864 birth record of my Great Grandfather John Cavanagh. The flag I got for free. The birth record i had to pay for. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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