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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWA6O0NpxmY A year old but very appropriate given the storms recently. I miss my Bronco.
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InitialDave posted:If you have something with a solid bumper (or which you just don't care about), there is also the all-weather winter sport of shopping trolley curling. You can also do this by having someone lean out the passenger side (or rear either side) window holding onto it.
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My friends and I used to do car skiing. In the desert. We were not clever children.
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Negromancer posted:Are you saying that you have never gone car sledding before? Granted I always did it in big open parking lots without curbs or anything and on a sled that I wasn't held into. Was it stupid and dangerous? Of course, but I wouldn't say it was massive risk of death... the problem is when the car makes a turn and you die.
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Feb 13, 2014 21:29
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atomicthumbs posted:the problem is when the car makes a turn and you die. That's the fun part! I dunno about you but when I was 16-25 I was literally invincible. 
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Feb 13, 2014 21:33
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Chinatown posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWA6O0NpxmY stayhome_southerners.mov
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Feb 13, 2014 21:51
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Some more fine southern winter driving : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT5QpKmHcYo&list=UUg037u1P7ewOFjP67Sk_6CQ
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atomicthumbs posted:the problem is when the car makes a turn and you die. There was a running challenge for who could shake the sledder fastest. Taking corners is the fun part of it. We were kinda smart about it at least. The tow rope was not tied to the sled, you had to hold onto it, so if the drive got to crazy, you just let go and slide to a stop. Most of the time we also wore full face motorcycle helmets. If I remember correctly, top speed we hit was like 35mph when we found a huge parking lot. Maker Of Shoes posted:That's the fun part! Also this. Lets not even start on the stupid poo poo we did to entertain ourselves when I spent my summers on my dads work boat up in SE Alaska.
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Dr.Caligari posted:Some more fine southern winter driving : Good loving God. "This isn't working. I better just keep standing on the gas because.." Also I had to laugh at the "Oh hey, the only salt truck in the county! ..... He isn't even putting salt down!"
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Feb 13, 2014 22:11
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Feb 13, 2014 22:17
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JUST GIMME THE SALT MAN OR ILL FUCKEN CUT YOU
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Anybody know what this red car is? The picture was taken in Brazil, if that helps.
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Feb 14, 2014 00:36
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While it has some Lotus vibes to it, I'm thinking Fiero
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I'm gonna need this like a million times bigger. e: nevermind    ee: vvv http://jon-olsson.com/?p=14533 vvv Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Feb 14, 2014 |
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Feb 14, 2014 01:35
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Is Audi coming out with those painted like that? Or is it a factory wrap?
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Brigdh posted:While it has some Lotus vibes to it, I'm thinking Fiero If it's a Fiero then it's been chopped right into 'Why didn't you just build a tube frame?' territory. Look how narrow the cabin is.
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Negromancer posted:Are you saying that you have never gone car sledding before? Granted I always did it in big open parking lots without curbs or anything and on a sled that I wasn't held into. Was it stupid and dangerous? Of course, but I wouldn't say it was massive risk of death... Car sledding was a favorite passtime of mine on snow days in high school. We also had a quad with a snow blade, which was very conducive to making giant ramps in the street.
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Negromancer posted:Are you saying that you have never gone car sledding before? Granted I always did it in big open parking lots without curbs or anything and on a sled that I wasn't held into. Was it stupid and dangerous? Of course, but I wouldn't say it was massive risk of death...  ...and hauled me around the neighborhood. I was about three feet from the rear wheels wearing ski clothing, a bike helmet and motocross goggles - by then end, it looked like he was just hauling around a pile of snow. Good times.
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Big Red! I fell off one of these when half-way through a turn it decided to turn into a normal two wheeled bike and then I got run over by the back tyre! They were so dangerous! 
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If those things were never invented, AI would probably have double the readership it does now.
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Fuckin' Honda Big Red.  One of my neighbors in college managed to get one, and we spent all day trying to get the bastard to start. I told him about a hundred times it just needed a carb rebuild but he drat near tore the engine apart and then tried to put it back together badly. He still wanted to ride it, so his solution was to tie a rope to the handle bars and then attach that to the rear bumper of neighbor #2s Exploder so we could tow it around in the open field behind our trailers. Neighbor #2 declined to drive his truck in this configuration. There is no way this could end badly. Did I mention that neighbor #1 was literally the dumbest, most ignorant hick I've ever met in my life, and weighed over 300 pounds? Everything went pretty good until it came time for me to make a turn. I have never laughed harder in my entire life than I did watching, through the rear-view mirror, that fat rear end in a top hat get thrown off the trike when centripetal force made him its bitch. Since he was mostly blubber he was only a little bruised. The trike, however, was a goner. My neighbor had exceeded the weight capacity of the poor thing by a good 200 pounds and the frame was cracked near the handle bars Good times.
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Dr.Caligari posted:I like that said salt truck also gets a police escort Actually I bet the salt truck was escorting the cop...
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Preoptopus posted:Is Audi coming out with those painted like that? Or is it a factory wrap? Wrap, same dude with the Lamborghini that was wrapped you see pictures of with a big ski rack on. 
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BlackMK4 posted:Wrap, same dude with the Lamborghini that was wrapped you see pictures of with a big ski rack on. Snow dazzle is one of the best car paint jobs.  I can't tell which thread to put this in. 
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Feb 14, 2014 06:48
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Hahaha, reminds me of when I was in downtown LA last month. I parked my GSXR in a metered spot, paid the meter, and came back about an hour later to find some fucknut in a Fit had managed to wedge themselves between my bike and the car behind my bike to jack my meter.
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BlackMK4 posted:Wrap, same dude with the Lamborghini that was wrapped you see pictures of with a big ski rack on. GentlemanofLeisure fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Feb 14, 2014 |
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Feb 14, 2014 07:46
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Freshman year (of college so this is either less stupid or more stupid than you are thinking) we took a big rubbermaid tub and attached the bottom of it to a roughly 2'x4' piece of plywood and then attached caster wheels to the corners of the plywood. Who needs ice? 
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Wasabi the J posted:Snow dazzle is one of the best car paint jobs. Slow dazzle.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:If those things were never invented, AI would probably have double the readership it does now. I had one in the 90's and my ankles still hurt.
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My dad used to race motocross and the honda 3-wheeler was the first non-dirtbike he ever got. Mom says he had a different problem than most-- he would stick his feet down and run over the backs of his legs during sharp turns. Ankles weren't much a problem.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Hard to decide but despite the massive risk of death, I'm gonna slot this one in here. And some pictures Dad found recently...Me and his 535i  My brother and the 911 the day they picked it up 
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:I'm gonna show my age here, but one of my fondest memories was the ONE time it snowed in my town when I was a kid, my dad tied one of those metal disc sleds to the back of one of these: I absolutely loved my Big Red and glittery gold flake helmet. No matter how many times that three legged rear end in a top hat tried to kill me in new and exciting ways, I kept going back to it until my parents finally sold it and got a Honda Foreman. Sucked legs under rear tires, flipped it over multiple times, lost the brakes going down a steep hill, rolled it so many times I was a master ninja of jumping off of and pulling out of poo poo in the nick of time before I hit puberty. And if you were light enough, it could float.
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1. Is that a drum brake on the front? 2. Is there a differential? My gut says no. 3. Why would anyone buy that instead of a quad? Simplicity?
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1. drum. 2. solid axle. 3. no idea. I still have scars on my ankle from ditching one as a child. so many fond memories of crashing and stalling that fucker out and 2 wheeling it everywhere.
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`Nemesis posted:Actually I bet the salt truck was escorting the cop... Cop cars are surprisingly good on ice for RWD sport sedans. Just go easy on the throttle. A few years ago when NE Texas got a lot of ice, the cops and I (newspaper photog driving a former DPS cruiser) were the only people on the roads. I don't know if it's the weight or what, but it was perfectly stable on its wide summer tires in the ice. Of course, I did the Ken Block thing through downtown on the way back to the office. Floor it on ice, and weight and positrac and sticky tires be damned, it will step out on you. But it'll spin the way you tell it to, and will hook up when you let off the gas. I guess it comes down to knowing the car and knowing how to drive it -- I'd rather take the Interceptor out in the snow than my roommate's Honda Civic. The Honda is better for rational people who use it to get from Point A to Point B; it might lose grip, but it'll keep going in a straight line. The Crown Vic, on the other hand, tries to spin if you give it more than the slightest touch of throttle, but I know what it does when it breaks loose and use that to my advantage; I've never driven the Honda to its limits, so I wouldn't trust it in slippery conditions. Totally going to take both cars to the parking lot of the city park across the street and hoon it up if it gets icy enough for them to slide, though -- roomie can learn how a RWD car handles, and I can pull the handbrake on the FWD car. (The cop car can light up the tires and/or be convinced to step out on dry pavement, but it's hell on the tires) Slavvy posted:3. Why would anyone buy that instead of a quad? Simplicity? Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Feb 15, 2014 |
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Knowing nothing about quads or bikes, surely the steering hardware associated with 2 front wheels is much more complex and expensive than just a bike.
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Yeah it is significantly more complex and has more moving parts so I assume cost/complexity would've been a factor.
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Does anyone else find trikes (of the bike front end mated to a car rear axle type) to be a complete mystery as to the appeal of them? Bikes I get, two-in-the-front-one-in-the-back ( ) 3-wheelers I get, but trikes? Not a clue.Delivery McGee posted:inherent instability is a good thing, up to a point
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InitialDave posted:Does anyone else find trikes (of the bike front end mated to a car rear axle type) to be a complete mystery as to the appeal of them? Bikes I get, two-in-the-front-one-in-the-back ( Does having an axle in the back mean you can tow a trailer with a trike that you can't with a bike or a two-in-the-front-one-in-the-back? That seems like it would be an advantage as long as you don't try to stop or turn. These things are everywhere(well, mostly on their sides in the ditch) in China. available with a choice of bed lengths and cab styles.        I would be partial to the 1x4x4 configuration with the 26" bed and the...landaulet? barchetta? town Car? cab. Throatwarbler fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Feb 15, 2014 |
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