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Sagebrush posted:axle gently caress off, pedant mother fucker.
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:
lol if you can't get a house that isn't an hour away from civilization
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Oct 26, 2016 21:29
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the apartment life ain't for everyone
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i went to the nethercutt collection in LA and they had a bunch of shiny old cars A+++ would recommend if you like looking at old cars and also old music players/orchestrions also i like cars and after almost killing myself riding around the desert on an ATC i will probably never touch a motorcycle protip: dont try to turn around if you dont think you are going to make it all the way up that dune this applies to jeeps too
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Oct 26, 2016 21:35
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Shaman Linavi posted:also i like cars and after almost killing myself riding around the desert on an ATC i will probably never touch a motorcycle ATCs are probably the only wheeled vehicle even more dangerous than a motorcycle. i had thought they were illegal to sell tbh
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Oct 26, 2016 21:38
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Jonny 290 posted:every time somebody mentions mpg in here im going to idle my v8 for 10 minutes Dont overheat it lmao
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Oct 26, 2016 22:56
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I'm recovering from a broken leg caused by falling off a vespa so I'm going to be sticking to public transport and enclosed 4 wheeled vehicles from now on. I do like driving though but not in traffic, gently caress that
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Oct 26, 2016 23:04
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how did u get a picture of Mr. Burns' house???
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Oct 27, 2016 04:57
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Panty Saluter posted:a cvt holds at peak power when u accelerate, its p. cool tbf CVTs in the US are generally designed to fake having gears because someone once tried what they did with Minis in Europe where you put it in Drive and the engine just sits at 4500rpm at all times and then stupid baby americans lost their goddamn minds
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Oct 27, 2016 05:00
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Jimmy Carter posted:how did u get a picture of Mr. Burns' house???
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Oct 27, 2016 05:01
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Jimmy Carter posted:tbf CVTs in the US are generally designed to fake having gears because someone once tried what they did with Minis in Europe where you put it in Drive and the engine just sits at 4500rpm at all times and then stupid baby americans lost their goddamn minds europeans: priapic for the "WHAT GEAR ARE YOU IN?" "GEAR?" scene in Dumb and Dumber since 2009
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Oct 27, 2016 05:19
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:got into my car 2 months ago and the battery was dead, still haven't done anything about that. Can't say I miss it. his used to happen to me and then I installed a battery tender.
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Oct 27, 2016 05:36
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you can even get one with a little 10w solar panel, throw it in your windshield + your battery stays happy forever idk why cars dont all have this
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Oct 27, 2016 05:37
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Modern OEM batteries can probably last the entire warranty period, so a solar charger isn't a good value proposition it'd be a good idea on a bike battery though. You're lucky to get two years out of one of those
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Oct 27, 2016 06:08
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Sagebrush posted:Modern OEM batteries can probably last the entire warranty period, so a solar charger isn't a good value proposition Incorrect. i bought a $225 battery for my car and it had poo poo the bed in 18 months due to it sitting. Solar panel on a motorcycle is a smart move, considering that it'll be parked for 3 or 4 months a year while you're in the hospital and physical therapy
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Oct 27, 2016 07:38
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well uh 18 months of sitting without any form of maintenance or charging is going to kill any lead-acid battery, no matter how much you spend on it. you ought to know that. that doesn't count as a normal use pattern for a new car under warranty, either. also you have a bmw and while i know it's an older one i still am gonna lol @ the thing where current bmw cars deliberately kill their batteries every 12 months in order to save like .2mpg by turning off the alternator and maintaining the battery at a lower SOC
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Oct 27, 2016 07:50
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Everything has a loving microcontroller dulling the sensors and playing logic gate now, trying to be smarter than you are. hell even my temp needle has a buffer in it so if it moves off center, you've already warped the aluminum head its meant to stop you from obsessing over the temp gauge wiggles, so instead we unlock our dash clusters and pull the sensor up on the info display and sperg on that instead.
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Oct 27, 2016 07:53
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C.H.O.M.E posted:his used to happen to me and then I installed a battery tender. I should do this, I have to see if there's an outlet near my spot Jonny 290 posted:you can even get one with a little 10w solar panel, throw it in your windshield + your battery stays happy forever Wouldn't do me much good, it's parked in the garage most of the time. Honestly, if fat bike racing season wasn't coming up and I'd need a way to get to them I'd seriously be considering getting rid of my car all together. I bike/walk most places, work is 3 blocks away, Uber is finally out near me if I need a ride downtown or something, and for $10 the grocery store delivers.
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Oct 27, 2016 13:25
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Jonny 290 posted:europeans: priapic for the "WHAT GEAR ARE YOU IN?" "GEAR?" scene in Dumb and Dumber since 2009 >_> not sure if bait
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Oct 27, 2016 13:41
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Sagebrush posted:get a motorcycle. they're basically all still manual and there's something super viscerally satisfying about shifting with your foot. it's like digging in the spurs on a horse. I have one, moto guzzi v7. I don't even own a car these days since the bike is in my parking spot, I bum rides off my fiancée's car when I need to
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Oct 27, 2016 21:13
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if you are rich enough that you have a loving garage for your car and you drive it so little that the battery dies, yeah, up against the wall, no pity Bike shifters seem like they'd wear out your foot with that downshift motion.
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Oct 27, 2016 21:19
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Jonny 290 posted:if you are rich enough that you have a loving garage for your car and you drive it so little that the battery dies, yeah, up against the wall, no pity I actually find upshifting a lot more unnatural a motion, made worse by my motorcycle's criminally bad transmission
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Oct 27, 2016 21:23
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Jonny 290 posted:if you are rich enough that you have a loving garage for your car and you drive it so little that the battery dies, yeah, up against the wall, no pity if everything's dialed in right the actual movement is very small. on my hawk gt it's about an inch up or down at the toe, which works out to like a 6 degree rotation of the ankle
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Oct 27, 2016 21:31
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My garage is full of stuff I can't fit the cars in
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Oct 27, 2016 22:27
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:My garage is full of stuff I can't fit the cars in A collection of ride on mowers and other grass cutting tools?
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Oct 27, 2016 22:38
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Sagebrush posted:if everything's dialed in right the actual movement is very small. on my hawk gt it's about an inch up or down at the toe, which works out to like a 6 degree rotation of the ankle Yeah and i guess if you've got boots on (AS YOU SHOULD), you've got a big old heavy mass at the end of your leg and its just a click. Just seems like it'd get that top of your foot bit screaming.
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Oct 27, 2016 22:51
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Jonny 290 posted:if you are rich enough that you have a loving garage for your car and you drive it so little that the battery dies, yeah, up against the wall, no pity eh, it's an apartment, everyone gets a garage spot. I spend too much on bikes to be considered rich.
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Oct 28, 2016 01:33
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Jonny 290 posted:Yeah and i guess if you've got boots on (AS YOU SHOULD), you've got a big old heavy mass at the end of your leg and its just a click. Just seems like it'd get that top of your foot bit screaming. dedicated motorcycle boots usually have a stiff rubber pad on the upper surface where the shifter sits, both for comfort and so you don't wear out the top of the boot. you definitely feel the peg digging into your toe if you ride in sneakers or w/e.  those are the boots i have. you can see the shifter pad on top. the ankle support structure only allows about 30 degrees of rotation forwards and backwards, and no movement to either side. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Oct 28, 2016 |
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Oct 28, 2016 01:57
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Jonny 290 posted:if you are rich enough that you have a loving garage for your car and you drive it so little that the battery dies, yeah, up against the wall, no pity only one of my cars has had that happen
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Oct 28, 2016 02:52
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Sagebrush posted:well uh 18 months of sitting without any form of maintenance or charging is going to kill any lead-acid battery, no matter how much you spend on it. you ought to know that. that doesn't count as a normal use pattern for a new car under warranty, either. ~the ultimate driving machine~
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they died for me when they started putting turbos on their cars, and i buried the corpse when they started piping fake engine noises in.
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