>a 400cc artichoke sled<

Sudhir... what the hell is a 400cc artichoke sled???

Mick
Hilo, Hawaii

----- Original Message -----
From: Sudhir Desai <desa4622@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: Load in Van?

> At 08:07 PM 6/11/2001 -0600, Nick Ranone wrote:
> >I want to carry a 400lbs motorcycle in my van.  Do yall think that would
be
> >too much weight on the floor?
>
> Nick, NOT AT ALL.
> I've loaded an old-school(70's era) 250cc 2-cycle kawasaki trailbike and a
> 400cc artichoke sled into the van at one time with no weight problems
> whatsoever(i did have the v-6 installed at the time)... and space was
> really cramped.
>
> anyways, good luck, and use plenty of tie-downs.  in fact, you could do
> what i had done and install a quarter-inch stainless spacer in the
seatbelt
> bolts and use those as tie-down points. don't know if it was good
practice,
> but it worked well.
>
>
> peace, out.
> -sudhir
> Sudhir H. Desai desa4622@yahoo.com
> ICQ: 8255956            AOLim: rawsuds
> 1984 Vanagon Z34        1996 Jetta (soon to be race ready)
>
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