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Ola posted:Thanks guys. I read somewhere that the Scala Rider couldn't do this, but perhaps it was an older version or I misunderstood it. Tempted to roll my own somehow. Maybe a Raspberry Pi as hub, built in under the seat? Hmm going back and looking at the manual of mine you may be right. It mentions that all of the members can use it as a stereo headset as well as an intercom but doesn't say anything about everyone listening to the same thing. Thinking about it this might be a limitation of Bluetooth itself - I can certainly understand them not bothering to implement multiple streaming like that because it would need multiple radios, which would be a pretty big expense for an edge case. Why not have everyone listening to their own music anyway? What are you, some kind of music fascist insisting your passenger has to listen to what you are?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Thinking about it this might be a limitation of Bluetooth itself - I can certainly understand them not bothering to implement multiple streaming like that because it would need multiple radios, which would be a pretty big expense for an edge case. It is, and at the very least Sena makes such an expensive add-on to do just this. Halo_4am posted:There are some tech limitations in broadcasting audio like you want, and that's why you're not finding it on anything. As a BT enabled music player any phone following the specs can only play music out to, and accept commands from a single device. That device then would have to reconstruct and rebroadcast very quickly and without the full audio controls. Beyond that limitation, the headset has to know it's a low priority music broadcast and not a normal conference so it can cut it out for actual speaking, GPS, phone calls, etc. Other manufacturers probably have a not-out-of-the-box solution as well. As to listening to the same thing, it might be nice for the passenger to handle the tunes while you handle the bike. Also singing badly with others is age old fun. It's like singing kumbaya around a campfire, only with a better song, and instead of a campfire it's a combustion engine traveling at 80 miles an hour across the country. What's not to like about it? Halo_4am fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Apr 1, 2013 |
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I've just realised the new Caponord 1200 is probably going to be too wide and too long to fit into my garden. Another love affair shattered before it started. 
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If I'm understanding the lingo correctly, you mean your property's yard, correct? How small is your garden 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I've just realised the new Caponord 1200 is probably going to be too wide and too long to fit into my garden. Another love affair shattered before it started. clearly the solution is to move house.
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echomadman posted:clearly the solution is to move house. You beat me to it.
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AncientTV posted:If I'm understanding the lingo correctly, you mean your property's yard, correct? How small is your garden I live in the middle of London, it's a miracle I have a garden at all. It's about 4x3 metres but the layout (and narrowness of the gate) mean that the Shiver literally only just fits, and even that required modification of the gate and parking at an angle across. echomadman posted:clearly the solution is to move house. Getting a new house and still being able to afford a bike would involve moving the sort of distance out of town that would require an oil change half way.
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Apr 1, 2013 03:24
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I took my first "real" ride today. Just took off and aimlessly wandered around for a while. After about an hour, I found a church that I had no idea even existed (only 3 miles from the house, no less!) and used its parking lot to better familiarize myself with the bike. Nothing exciting by any means but I had a ton of fun weaving around the lot, pulling u-turns, panic stops, and feeling out the clutch action. After I was done, I just took off and kept going down the road. I kept going, and going, and going... Eventually I meandered back home to find my wife wondering where I'd been because my "quick trip" turned into a 4 hour joyride. Heh, whoops! Great day for a new rider though, can't wait to do it again tomorrow.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Getting a new house and still being able to afford a bike would involve moving the sort of distance out of town that would require an oil change half way. Hmm, either you don't live in the UK as I've been assuming all this time, or those Aprilias have an absolutely brutal oil change schedule. Even my old bike could theoretically make it from Brighton to Aberdeen, back to Brighton, and back up to Aberdeen on one set of oil. VVV Good to be back, got banned for some stupid rule that came into effect yesterday in PYF. What are these the something nice forums etc Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Apr 1, 2013 |
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Apr 1, 2013 04:45
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One of us, one of us, one of us ed: WB sagebrush
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Sagebrush posted:Hmm, either you don't live in the UK as I've been assuming all this time, or those Aprilias have an absolutely brutal oil change schedule. Even my old bike could theoretically make it from Brighton to Aberdeen, back to Brighton, and back up to Aberdeen on one set of oil. You're forgetting the mileage it'd rack up during the weekly stealing by chavs
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Snowdens Secret posted:You're forgetting the mileage it'd rack up during the weekly stealing by chavs You're making the grave mistake in assuming that chavs know how to ride bikes! ... I guess that's how they learn. 
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Sagebrush posted:Hmm, either you don't live in the UK as I've been assuming all this time, or those Aprilias have an absolutely brutal oil change schedule. Even my old bike could theoretically make it from Brighton to Aberdeen, back to Brighton, and back up to Aberdeen on one set of oil. I was being a touch hyperbolic - even the sainted RS125 could make it from Lands End to John O'Groats and back between services. (The Shiver, at 12k miles, has the longest service intervals I've ever seen on a bike, and I assume that the 1200s have the same schedule) The point is that London house prices are so insane that even with the absolutely ridiculous money I get paid for doing very little, I'd still have to move a good distance out to get a house with a garage (because why bother moving if not to upgrade?), and having done >1 hour commutes in the past there's no way I'd want to go back to that.
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Move to Brisbane, never have to worry about cold weather/rain, ride year round and afford a house close to the cbd with a double garage :P
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theperminator posted:Move to Brisbane, never have to worry about cold weather/rain, ride year round and You mean cold rain right? Because as far as rain goes, we're having a pretty good run of having major flooding every two years. theperminator posted:afford a house close to the cbd with a double garage :P But a double garage isn't enough to hold all the toys!
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Well fine, Darwin or something. I would've recommended sydney but it's impossible to meet all of those requirements here.
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Plus Sydney is a shithole.
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Jealousy is a stinky cologne!
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Nah... its just poo poo. I seriously don't understand how people can stand to live there.
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Three ways: 1: Laziness 2: Not being a poor 3: Not drowning in floods On a serious note, I love Brisbane If I wasn't so lazy and was guaranteed to get a job there I'd make the move, one of my mates did it and never looked back.
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Thanks for the Bluetooth info guys. I'll give those expensive things a miss.
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Sagebrush posted:Hmm, either you don't live in the UK as I've been assuming all this time, or those Aprilias have an absolutely brutal oil change schedule. Even my old bike could theoretically make it from Brighton to Aberdeen, back to Brighton, and back up to Aberdeen on one set of oil. The distances involved are an April Fools joke right, otherwise I may be ludicrously overdue for an oil change. e: nm, misread implication, I've still got 2500 to go. Thank gently caress. Wootcannon fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Apr 1, 2013 |
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Ola posted:Thanks for the Bluetooth info guys. I'll give those expensive things a miss. I just ordered a Sena SMH10 yesterday, I'll let ya know how it goes.
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Fuckin' valve shims, man. I've been so used to the adjusting locknuts on my past 3 bikes and my buddy's CX that I didn't even think about having to order parts for the SV, and of course it isn't really something I can buy in town. Although, it makes the adjustment less of a pain, even if it means removing the radiator, carbs, tensioners, and cams.
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Wootcannon posted:The distances involved are an April Fools joke right, otherwise I may be ludicrously overdue for an oil change. e: nm, misread implication, I've still got 2500 to go. Thank gently caress. My 350's official interval is 1500 miles.
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AncientTV posted:I didn't even think about having to order parts for the SV, and of course it isn't really something I can buy in town.
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Some places will exchange your shim for a different size for free or a few dollars each. Most 600cc+ japanese bikes use 9.48mm shims IIRC so you can probably hit up any dealer nearby. Might want to buy a micrometer though just to double check or have them double-check their size using the shop's tools.
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The weather was perfect yesterday, so the GF and I took the motorcycle to Easter dinner. Went to catch a 6:45 ferry back to Seattle (the next one being 7:55 and the crossing takes an hour). The line was backed up by 50 cars from the booths and not moving. Were I in a car, the only option would've been to drive around. As I was on a motorcycle, this would not stand. I jumped into the bus lane and rode down to the booths. GF got off and talked to the ferry worker for a second. He scanned my pass and waved us through as cars were turning around because they were sold out for that sailing. Even made it down before they started loading so I got off first on the other side. Two wheel superiority 
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So, say I was to sell my car to get a small pickup truck. What would CA recommend for something that is cheap, reliable, automatic, V6, and will fit a 600cc sport bike in the bed? I may have discovered that Jennings GP is only 2 hours north of me this weekend and gotten a serious bug to buy a sport bike.
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BlackLaser posted:So, say I was to sell my car to get a small pickup truck. What would CA recommend for something that is cheap, reliable, automatic, V6, and will fit a 600cc sport bike in the bed? I may have discovered that Jennings GP is only 2 hours north of me this weekend and gotten a serious bug to buy a sport bike. My 4cyl Ranger is a great little truck. I've put 35k on it since 2010 without needing anything other than a fuel pump.
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I'd get one of the old toyota trucks (same truck as the ranger, essentially) in a 4 banger/2wd model. Reliable, cheap, and has towed my bikes all around CA, Oregon, and out to miller motorsports with no issues.
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I also would recommend something small and 2WD like a Ranger, S-10, B2300, etc. All the Rangers can handle around a half ton in the bed before they get overloaded, so even two 600cc bikes and a spare set of wheels for each should fit tightly. I loved our Ranger, a 2WD 4-cylinder 5-speed short bed 2-door. Absolutely the perfect size for carting around average mechanical hobbyist DIY type things, without having to deal with the excessive size and fuel economy penalties of a full-size. I resent that Ford has stopped building the Ranger. If I ever buy another pickup that's what I'll get.
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Ponies ate my Bagel posted:My 4cyl Ranger is a great little truck. I've put 35k on it since 2010 without needing anything other than a fuel pump. Seconded. Cheap, reliable. I can never get rid of mine. My long box will fit a Harley with the gate down; anything else you can latch the gate up. I haul two bikes to the trails in it.
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theperminator posted:Move to Brisbane, never have to worry about cold weather/rain, ride year round and afford a house close to the cbd with a double garage :P Yeah I'll get right on that once you sort out the spider situation. And the snakes. And the sharks. And the poisonous loving trees. Basically God wants Australians dead and it's one of the things that, this Easter, makes me think that He is both real, and righteous.
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I had a Mazda B4000 (Ford Ranger), V6, rock solid. Awesome truck.
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I traded my R1 for my ranger after I wrecked it. The wife made me get rid of it and I honestly don't regret it. Like Sagebrush mine is a 4cyl 5 speed stripper model, it's absolutely perfect for hauling bikes and bombing through trails.
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Any small truck will work good for hauling bikes, ranger/tacoma/b2200/etc. Another option is put a trailer hitch on your car and get a trailer. I put a hitch on my Golf and pull a 4x6 trailer for track days and dirt riding. Tows fine, gets great mpg (diesel) and I didn't need to buy a truck that wouldn't see much use. You just need to keep the towing weight reasonable and leave more space for braking.
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Or stick it in neutral, pop the front wheel in the boot, zip-tie the front brake and bungee cord the bejesus out of it.
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So, uh, holy crap? My MPG with the dyno map (which I called the guy and talked about and he kept repeating that it was a good-enough fix-it on a massively messed-up tuning job [which I also discovered had way-advanced static timing and too-hot spark plugs, since fixed]) was about 33ish... now that I got the race map installed I've been riding like a complete dong because it's running oh-so-smooth-and-buttery I went through a full tank - 3 gallons over 140 miles -> about 46.7 mpg. I might revisit my trip budget, because that's a huge difference in fuel cost over 4400 miles.
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