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(Tom Seim) wrote in message . com...

Try reading your owner's manual, especially the part about towing weight limits.

2,000 pounds. Your point being?

Earlier, (Tom Seim) wrote:

Try reading your owner's manual, especially
the part about towing weight limits.

For my 4-cylinder Volvos (240 and 740), the specified weight limit is
about twice what my glider+trailer rig weighs, and I've done many
trips across the Sierra.

Bob K.

Liam Finley wrote:
(Liam Finley) wrote in message . com...
(Mark James Boyd) wrote in message news:4035b4c5$1@darkstar...
LOL. I bet you live somewhere a bit flat? Good for you...

Not exactly.

As much as I'd like to support yours and Greenwell's illusions, my
4-cylinder trailering experience includes trips of up to 1500 miles
covering mountainous terrain in the eastern Sierras and Nevada Great
Basin.

The lengths people will go to to rationalize the purchase of these
expensive underperforming little gliders!

Hehehe. Darn, you got my number. Can't get anything past these
ras guys :P

Yep, it's been a long winter...two more weeks to freedom for
me though! And I've heard rumors of thermals...

Liam Finley wrote:


better grade. Sure sure, on the flat roads and beaches of Santa
Cruz I'd tow a catamaran, but a heavy trailer of ski gear up
to Tahoe with four people seemed to like a nice big engine...


The lengths people will go to to rationalize the purchase of these
expensive underperforming little gliders!

Glider purchases can be rational? I'm reminded of Ed Kilbourne's song
that goes something like "Honey, I need a new glider, the one we have
now just won't do, they've come out with the new LS22. I knew you'd
agree, so I ordered one today,...."

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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA

Eric Greenwell wrote:

Liam Finley wrote:


better grade. Sure sure, on the flat roads and beaches of Santa Cruz
I'd tow a catamaran, but a heavy trailer of ski gear up
to Tahoe with four people seemed to like a nice big engine...



The lengths people will go to to rationalize the purchase of these
expensive underperforming little gliders!


Glider purchases can be rational?

I think they are as rational as purchases of expensive SUV's for driving
around town. Plus they hold their value better, and require less
maintenance. And certainly more fun. Not as good at impressing the
neighbors, though.

Greg Arnold wrote:
Glider purchases can be rational?


I think they are as rational as purchases of expensive SUV's for driving
around town. Plus they hold their value better, and require less
maintenance. And certainly more fun. Not as good at impressing the
neighbors, though.

Bingo! A pet peeve of mine. Though, as a motorglider owner who bought
the last time the dollar was weakish, I've probably lost an SUV in value
over the last 9 years, and it certainly has taken more maintenance. But
surely, a LOT more fun! And my wife goes along with the claim I bought
it because I love her, 'cause when I get hit by a bus and expire, she
can sell the glider and live extravagantly with the pool guy (and idea
she got from Pez), something she couldn't do if I bought a cheap glider,
whose sale would leave her destitute (I said she goes along with it, I
didn't say she believes it).

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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA

Plus they hold their value better, and require less
maintenance. And certainly more fun. Not as good at impressing the
neighbors, though

Try rigging it on your front lawn one day! sure as hell impressed my neighbours
even if it did block half the road