Breakfast in Switzerland? How Much??? (1 Viewer)

[jongood]

Everything is expensive in Switzerland, but to be fair you we re eating in a revolving restaurant where almost everything was carried up by helicopter and only got built becase the film conpany subsidized it. We had lunch there once and one sidecwas in cloud and the other wasn't. Bizarre!

 

[David and Sally]

They’ll chase you out with pitchforks on them smelly (Castrol R ) noisy two strokes

Correct me….was R for four strokes?

 

[daveclare]

A747 for two strokes. Have used R forty years ago. Glorious smell, very sticky residue on piston rings though.

 

[WESTY66]

Correct me….was R for four strokes?

Nope, two strokes

 

[David and Sally]

Nope, two strokes

Both
What is Castrol R used for?

Known to all as the Castrol R

For all racing, 2 and 4 strokes, motorcycles, and cars, on and off-road, even garden equipment and can be used in racing engines, gearboxes, as a two-stroke mix, even added to one's petrol for normal 4 stroke engines

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[jongood]

Correct me….was R for four strokes?

Isnt it after shave?

 

[WESTY66]

Both
What is Castrol R used for?

Known to all as the Castrol R

For all racing, 2 and 4 strokes, motorcycles, and cars, on and off-road, even garden equipment and can be used in racing engines, gearboxes, as a two-stroke mix, even added to one's petrol for normal 4 stroke engines

I always thought it was for racing/tuned two strokes, but then again I am a little young to witness it first hand

 

[David and Sally]

Isnt it after shave?

Very distinctive smell. Loved it.

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

Isnt it after shave?

Essential for the woman in your life

 

[WESTY66]

So we’ve gone from Breakfast at piz gloria, to Castrol R, bloody brilliant

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[WESTY66]

Very distinctive smell. Loved it.

Doesn’t smell the same in the sump of a 4 stroke tho does it?

 

[David and Sally]

So we’ve gone from Breakfast at piz gloria, to Castrol R, bloody brilliant

You wait till it turns into a really interesting toilet thread.!

 

[WESTY66]

You wait till it turns into a really interesting toilet thread.!

I try not to get “bogged” down in those

 

[ElliesBoss]

Used to use Castrol R (veggies love it ) in our rally Minis. As previously said the smell was beautiful. Mind you I like the smell of transmission oil too.

 

[Yorick]

My ex S-I-L moved to Switzerland about 10 years ago.
I saw her at a family wedding in March in Truro.
At the wedding venue the beer was £5 a pint.
I nearly had a heart attack.
She and new hubby couldn't believe how cheap it was and kept buying rounds.

Apparently it's bloody expensive there but wages cover it.

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[dunnah01]

Used to use Castrol R (veggies love it ) in our rally Minis. As previously said the smell was beautiful. Mind you I like the smell of transmission oil too.

No way - Nobody likes the smell of transmission oil, I seriously mean nobody - you have Covid

 

[InvictaMoto]

Friend of mine on her first jump landed across power lines. Several months in the burns unit in Bristol

My uncle Joe didn't jump but went by glider to Arnhem. He later said that only an idiot would jump put of a perfectly serviceable aircraft... Never went in a glider again either!

Ah Switzerland. It's not just up mountains where it's expensive. I remember Chicken Kiev, Chips and a beer in an average diner. That'll be £70 each please! It did include green beans, carrot and some green stuff.

Eight years ago.

We rode there on 60 year old Lambrettas, so needed the sustenance.

I saw a group of old stinkwheels a few weeks ago when in Dinant on the Meuse. Off to a rally somewhere.

 

[Jackd]

I always thought it was for racing/tuned two strokes, but then again I am a little young to witness it first hand

I ran it in all of my motocross bikes. RM 250, YZ 250 and CR 500 with no problem’s at all.
Ran it in my DT 175 & DT 400 and it gummed the rings up rotten.

And you are well within the Castrol R era WESTY66

 

[dash300]

I think we're probably up to at least 30 skiing holidays been lucky nothing broken yet ( well maybe a rib or two never X rayd!.
Sadly the other halfs knees are about shot our skiing days might be over it's been great.

I think you need to start your own 'top trumps holiday' thread!

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

I ran it in all of my motocross bikes. RM 250, YZ 250 and CR 500 with no problem’s at all.
Ran it in my DT 175 & DT 400 and it gummed the rings up rotten.

And you are well within the Castrol R era WESTY66

Wonder what I can run on Castrol R

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[Jackd]

Is that a 250 & a 400? Are they the “E”?

Either way, they look stunning!

And your greedy!

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

Is that a 250 & a 400? Are they the “E”?

Either way, they look stunning!

And your greedy!

Yes they are the 400E
Have had the yellow one about 20+ years and use to restore them but gave up a few years back.
Unfortunately had a lack of judgment and sold the white one a few years back along with the IT 490 and Suzuki X7

 

[Rob Turner]

Did you stop at Jungfrau?

 

[The Wino]

I think you need to start your own 'top trumps holiday' thread!

I don't know about top trumps we're in the cheap seats and cheap places to stay. We don't do posh.

 

[daveclare]

From breakfast to making smelly smoke. I wonder too.

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[WESTY66]

No way - Nobody likes the smell of transmission oil, I seriously mean nobody - you have Covid

I do, hot transmission is ok, but gear oil, no way

 

[WESTY66]

Did you stop at Jungfrau?

No we’re at camping breithorn!

 

[Jackd]

Wouldn’t miss the X7, but the IT 490, that would be another story.

I dread to think what you would have to pay for an immaculate RD400 these days. Beautiful bike.

 

[Catpirate]

Used to work at the British Embassy in Switzerland (Geneva), my car was double stacked in the underground car park i.e. a car underneath or above. Was an amazing mechanism.

 

[Portland]

We pulled into a cafe in Interlagen in 1995 (yes we had cars then) we only wanted a coffee and sandwich so- this is how it went, we waited and waited and some but we picked up the menu to look at while passing time, WOW!! Swift exit

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