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veedubfreak posted:Can someone please explain to me why so many stupid cars have these grenade stickers on them in the last few years? It's not the SA grenade or anything, its just a stupid loving grenade, usually made out of a skeleton hand or something similar. Its a snowboarding-or-something company. I work in the x-games-sorta-stuff but what we do doesn't involve snow sports. Our rider support dude called them up just to shoot the poo poo and see if they wanted to do any industry-deals. Not sure what he got, but along with it they sent down a box with an assload of those stickers, and this was :hipster: before everyone was throwing them on. Probably a viral marketing deal, they dumped a shitload of money into free stickers and now they're everywhere which isn't uncommon in the industry. I will say they are a total bitch to remove.
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Perhaps similar to the Fox head stickers you see absolutely everywhere? You know, these: 
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Shifty Pony posted:Perhaps similar to the Fox head stickers you see absolutely everywhere? Yeah, well, I was running their riding gear before I bought these board shorts! :hipster: 
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Dec 11, 2012 00:32
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Dizman posted:'Vette-wave'  
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blugu64 posted:I want a Corvette. you want pantera then
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Godholio posted:Losing a wheel is exactly the reason I got the fake knock-offs on my 66. The external hardware is exactly the same, but the spinner doesn't actually hold the wheel on, there are normal lugnuts underneath. Yeah I'd probably be fine, but I've seen more than enough pictures of what happens when one decides to escape (they tend to take large sections of fender with them). It was a fairly prepped car from years ago.
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Giblet Plus! posted:you want pantera then Definitely this 
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Giblet Plus! posted:you want pantera then Knowing the kind of person who paints their car up flag-style, probably more like Garth Brooks.
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EightBit posted:Definitely this The correct choice, 100% of the time. Pantera is the best driving music. Well, I guess it depends on your music taste but nothing beats blasting Cowboys from Hell or Vulgar Display of Power and giving a car the lead foot. Is there a driving music thread, or is that better suited for NMD?
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Fermunky posted:Polk county FL, doesn't surprise me. I know you can find MUCH more out there. But I'm in Upstate New York. I think he drove here to bang a trashy girl from our office. Don't you have those in Florida?
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CharlesM posted:That doesn't seem like a wise idea... He's okay! He's got about 3 - 4 more inches until he hits the air intake!
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NoWake posted:'Vette-wave' My hats off to you sir. I actually got a chuckle out of that.
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SierraEchoBravo posted:The correct choice, 100% of the time. Pantera is the best driving music. What about Pantera in a Pantera?
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Octopus Magic posted:They always think they're so above the water guys. okay that was good
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LongDarkNight posted:But I'm in Upstate New York. I think he drove here to bang a trashy girl from our office. Don't you have those in Florida? It's Florida, so the answer is obviously "yes". Sorry though, assumed you were also in the Lakeland area, but every tag was blacked out.
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veedubfreak posted:Or an ACVW. Although AAA was always my savior. Pay the extra for the 100 mile tow package vs the 4mile package Also just so you know, since this is the terrible thread, AAA doesn't consider a motorcycle a vehicle, and will pretty much tell you to gently caress off if you call needing help while riding. I believe the exact words were along the lines of "If you want help with your toys, buy the RV package."
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Seriously? I've never needed it while riding but I've always felt extra comfortable on my longer rides that if something went wrong I have AAA. I don't think I like how this makes me feel... I mean, for a year I only had a bike (no car) but I kept my AAA just in case. I guess I would have been SOL?
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Willfrey posted:Its a snowboarding-or-something company. I work in the x-games-sorta-stuff but what we do doesn't involve snow sports. Our rider support dude called them up just to shoot the poo poo and see if they wanted to do any industry-deals. Not sure what he got, but along with it they sent down a box with an assload of those stickers, and this was :hipster: before everyone was throwing them on. Ok, this makes sense as I live in CO where everyone thinks they are a pro snow boarder.
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An AMA membership comes with a pretty good tow package for motorcycles, and most owners groups do too.
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Giblet Plus! posted:you want pantera then I'm thinking dueling banjos. Or maybe the guitar solo from freebird.
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veedubfreak posted:Ok, this makes sense as I live in CO where everyone thinks they are a pro snow boarder. This. The larger the sticker on the Xterra, the more likely it has something to do with snowboards.
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Faerunner posted:Also just so you know, since this is the terrible thread, AAA doesn't consider a motorcycle a vehicle, and will pretty much tell you to gently caress off if you call needing help while riding. I believe the exact words were along the lines of "If you want help with your toys, buy the RV package." The difference between 'Classic' and 'Plus'(where they'll do motorcycles/RVs) is only $30/year. That also bumps the tow distance from 3 miles to 100 miles. I've got the Premier RV AAA package. One 200 mile tow a year and 100 miles for all other tows. When your newest car is now 22 years old, it's a must. It's only $100/year and pays for itself in one tow. I'm also a bit of a map geek and love raiding the office for random maps to hang on the garage walls. 
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Godholio posted:The oil world is even worse. That's too well crafted of a burn, I admit defeat. My original typo stands. 
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:Seriously? I've never needed it while riding but I've always felt extra comfortable on my longer rides that if something went wrong I have AAA. I don't think I like how this makes me feel... An AAA driver told me to tell them you're having car trouble, then when the driver calls tell him you have a motorcycle. That's what I've done twice, that and slipped the driver a 20 for getting my busted rear end motorcycle home for me.
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I have NRMA Premium or whatever they call it now. A bloody ripoff but it's the only service that even comes close now. It's been cut down to something like a 100km maximum tow radius. in remote areas or 50km elsewhere. Used to be able to get towed home. 100km is useless. Especially when driving a car with parts made out of cold forged unobtainium. I've travelled an awful lot further than that just for a doctor's appointment. gently caress you NRMA and your cost cutting because you were stupid and sold your insurance division.
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Dizman posted:Yes it is. I actually like Corvettes so I always toss the 'Vette-wave' to any one that I see, but I never get a wave back from the newer Vettes. Heh. It's like me wearing leather + helmet on my Harley. I rarely get waves back from helmet-less Harley guys. I also rarely get waves back from sport bike guys because I'm on a Harley. GUYS I JUST WANT YOU TO WAVE AT ME
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angryhampster posted:Heh. It's like me wearing leather + helmet on my Harley. I rarely get waves back from helmet-less Harley guys. I also rarely get waves back from sport bike guys because I'm on a Harley.
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There's a hierarchy among the cliques with waving. While on my Enfield, most people except for some sportbike riders wave me back. While on my Honda 650, most people except Harley riders wave me back. While on the scooter, nobody from either wave back  . The only exception to the rule is a Harley rider with pillion: they never wave because. (In their mid-life-crisis minds) it would look bad to their trophy-wife if they interacted with the 'plebians.' Or they're too preoccupied with stroking their egos to notice other people on the road (they certainly drive like that's the case). Either/or, really.
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 From "The Worst Things For Sale"
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JP Money posted:I would never wave at a scooter. I would wave at scooters, because gently caress the haters.
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Yeah......we use those for specific circumstances in vehicle extraction. That style would be called a "high lift" bag and it's one we have but never want to use (we mostly use larger surface area low lift bags, even prefering to stack them on top of each other rather than using one high lift). We also inflate them in a very controlled manner while cribbing on at least two sides every 4 inches or less. The idea of getting under something resting on a $1000 kevlar shell lift bag....never mind a $200 recycled plastic one...without any sort of cribbing is more terrifying than crawling under something using the spare tire jack in a muddy field.
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These things are fantastic in sand, and I thought that was their raison d'etre. You couldn't pay me to use one for any other reason, though I can see how some people might be daft enough to try.
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I don't know how common it is but probably nearly 20 years ago now I knew someone with a Land Cruiser 75? series with a tray back that had one of those bags under the tray sitting on a platform. The tray had a pivot on the back and there was a valve in the exhaust to divert flow to it. Are exhaust powered tipper utes a thing, or was this a one-off? It worked well either way.
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Kill-9 posted:The difference between 'Classic' and 'Plus'(where they'll do motorcycles/RVs) is only $30/year. That also bumps the tow distance from 3 miles to 100 miles. We're Plus members, and they told us in no uncertain terms that they will absolutely not do RVs or motorcycles, just cars and personally owned trucks smaller than a box truck. After being told no on motorcycles my fiance made them clarify exactly what they wouldn't do with a Plus membership. There's Plus RV, and that's what you'd have to upgrade to to get RV/motorcycle towing. Oh hey look, they even have a page for it! http://eastcentral.aaa.com/membership/types/plus_rv_details.jsp quote:AAA Plus RV Optional Upgrade
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ElMaligno posted:I would wave at scooters, because gently caress the haters. I'd wager 90% of the scooters I see are kids wearing flip flops, gym shorts and a t shirt with no helmet. Maybe the last 9% have a harley style brain bucket on with the same attire above. The last 1% are the old men on the mondo-big scooters with maybe a ragtag collection of gear. I'd happily wave at those in at least a little bit of gear. I do the same to harley's and such, if you're going to be an idiot with no helmet and a sweet cutoff you probably won't mind me not waving back anyhow.
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Not for nothing, but this is basically how big towing operators flip over heavy loads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWPYNhdeyWw
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JP Money posted:I'd happily wave at those in at least a little bit of gear. I do the same to harley's and such, if you're going to be an idiot with no helmet and a sweet cutoff you probably won't mind me not waving back anyhow. I had a full face helmet, boots, jeans, and a windbreaker on when my scooter took a pothole traveling 50 mph. I suffered a right humerus that snapped clean in half, neck bruising, and a minor case of road rash. Who knows what would have happened without that gear on? Edit: The scooter was a Yamaha Vino 125
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I rode one once. Most of the 50cc ones will barely do 45 with a tailwind. They're sketchy as gently caress too, I can't imagine hitting a bump on one of those things topped out. The fact that you don't need a license for most of them makes the owners even more of a liability in my eyes.
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