Omega Speedmaster winding questions

Slipstreamer · Oct 12, 2016

Archer
My wife took my car today - manual transmission. She drove one exclusively for the first 10 years we were married, until we finally scrapped it. Is your wife not interested in learning?

In short, no. Our club have a lot of women driving stick and they have been egging her on to drive my car (the Lotus) but refuses to learn (even though she's pretty aggressive driving on the streets). She likes riding in my car as a passenger during practice though. One of these days...

Foo2rama · Oct 12, 2016

Slipstreamer
In short, no. Our club have a lot of women driving stick and they have been egging her on to drive my car (the Lotus) but refuses to learn (even though she's pretty aggressive driving on the streets). She likes riding in my car as a passenger during practice though. One of these days...

Funny story about the Elise. I was pretty close to getting for a track toy. I'm 6'4 and fit in one but my knee is between the wheel and shifter so I'd need to do some modifications on the seat rail to fit comfortably. My GF at the time was 4'11. She oddly did not fit as she could not see over the dash lol. Oddly one of the smallest cars out there was to big for her.

Slipstreamer · Oct 12, 2016

Foo2rama
Funny story about the Elise. I was pretty close to getting for a track toy. I'm 6'4 and fit in one but my knee is between the wheel and shifter so I'd need to do some modifications on the seat rail to fit comfortably. My GF at the time was 4'11. She oddly did not fit as she could not see over the dash lol. Oddly one of the smallest cars out there was to big for her.

I'm 5'11" and the seat has a few clicks to spare (about 4). 6'4' might be stretching it but should work with minor modificationa. Not a very easy car to get in. Much harder to get out, lol. Yup, car sits very low and you can barely see the hood, even for me.

Wools · Oct 13, 2016

JimInOz
Even as a kid I knew how to wind a watch, it was almost instinctive.

We now have questions from a generation of people who have no idea what goes on inside their watch.

Not denigrating the originators of these posts, just a sign of the times I guess.

I was born in 1984, owned Quartz watches all my life but at the grand old age of 31, I'm only beginning to get close about pulling the trigger on a mechanical watch. It's not just the kids of today, it's kids of the 80's too! 😀

FedFod · Jul 22, 2020

I was looking for when is best to wind my Speedy and stumbled in this discussion.

just wanted to say that in Europe manual stock is the norm and automatic is very rare.
I have driven both and have to say that the automatic is really practical, although it takes away a lot of the fun of driving.
But in the traffic is definitely priceless

Evitzee · Jul 22, 2020

FedFod
I was looking for when is best to wind my Speedy and stumbled in this discussion.

just wanted to say that in Europe manual stock is the norm and automatic is very rare.
I have driven both and have to say that the automatic is really practical, although it takes away a lot of the fun of driving.
But in the traffic is definitely priceless

Is this still the case for new cars? I thought most cars are using dual clutch transmissions (DCT) or CVTs now for efficiency. In the US I think full manual cars only account for 1 or 2% of sales. Most people don't know how to drive a manual, and they don't want to learn.

ExpiredWatchdog · Jul 22, 2020

I wouldn't marry a woman who didn't know how to drive a manual (was going to say stick, then my better angels took control). I taught both kids to drive a stick; we had an automatic at the time but I insisted on them learning manual first. One of the cars was an '82 Celica GTS and it could really scoot. I remember my kids getting off one of those vertical acceleration rides, like Tower of Terror at Disney. My son turned to my daughter and said "Kinda like the Celica, huh?".

We finally went automatic by choice when we purchased two Subaru Impreza Sports. The selling feature was the driver assist features (our daughter pretty much needed them) and they were only available in an auto. But the upside was that they actually got 6 mpg better on the highway.

Pazzo · Jul 22, 2020

FedFod
I was looking for when is best to wind my Speedy and stumbled in this discussion.

just wanted to say that in Europe manual stock is the norm and automatic is very rare.
I have driven both and have to say that the automatic is really practical, although it takes away a lot of the fun of driving.
But in the traffic is definitely priceless

Not where I'm from. The younger generation all drive an automatic car.
Reason being, the driving tests to get the licence are difficult to pass.
Some have to go through it twice, three or more times to finally make it, spending a good amount of money.

I've always driven manual and hope to continue to do so as I can't stand automatic.
No, it does not take a lot of fun out of driving.

It takes all the fun out of driving!

Omega Speedmaster winding questions

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