...and again back from a fine bike-tour...!

Today, my buddy and me made a short visit to an amzing technical construction:

schiffshebewerk-scharnebeck.de/

A ship lift is a structure used to lower or raise ships from one canal, with a height difference of about 38meters, to another that goes further vthis way. The ships remain in their "own" water during this process! 
Every tub, with ship, or without weight 6000 tons !!!  - See link above!

     

Afterwards, we drove a total of about 180 km along beautiful winding roads, and then across the Elbe by ferry, and then again on very winding roads through an very nice nature...great days it was!!!

     

German mechanical engineering, what else.....

Saw a tv program about that ship transfer system on one of the cable tv science channels a few months ago.  Truly impressive engineering!

Makes the Uk canal locks look a bit tame😂

kimchella wrote:

Makes the Uk canal locks look a bit tame😂

Are you saying "manually" winding the handles on a 10 lock step "isn't" easier than "pushing a button" 

Yesterday I was out on my Kawa again and ended up at a good friend's house...a friend of his was visiting with a very nice 750cc Honda. I thought it was worth showing here, even if it's not a Kawa

 

 

Reminds me of the red 1976 Honda 750 I sold in order to buy my Z1.  Wish I could have afforded to have both!

The story of my life, Scotty: Back then, I always had to give up one thing in order to afford the other...So don't worry about it, we always made a decision!
 

I never regretted it - the Z1 is much better.