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eyebeem posted:It's not a glorified trike. It's a trike. Are you too fat for a motorcycle?
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BlackMK4 posted:$20k will buy you a >200whp Panigale... or you could have $6k left over after you buy a ZX10R that needs a flash and full exhaust to make 200whp. Except you're not going to tote your frumpy wife around on the back of the Panigale while you go to the local biker watering hole for lunch before parking it again for a few weeks.
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Feb 17, 2015 00:30
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iwentdoodie posted:But that's not flashy enough for lay people to know he has money to waste. A panigale's plenty flashy for most people and doesn't look like a Tamya car. Baller Witness Bro posted:Except you're not going to tote your frumpy wife around on the back of the Panigale while you go to the local biker watering hole for lunch before parking it again for a few weeks. This is almost exactly what every ducati is used for. What's a base model Atom go for nowadays?
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Really the only trike worth getting is the Morgan and that's because it's a) a Morgan b) completely ridiculous in a way that conveys self-knowledge of its ridiculousness Even then, it would probably be better to get an Atom or a Caterham. That's what I would do and I have the best taste so there you go.
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Slavvy posted:A panigale's plenty flashy for most people and doesn't look like a Tamya car.  Baller Witness Bro posted:Except you're not going to tote your frumpy wife around on the back of the Panigale while you go to the
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Slavvy posted:A panigale's plenty flashy for most people and doesn't look like a Tamya car. Most people can't tell a Ducati from a Hyosung.
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Feb 17, 2015 00:43
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iwentdoodie posted:Most people can't tell a Ducati from a Hyosung. I ride a Ducati, I will tell you otherwise. Everyone knows what they are and think they are awesome, I have no idea why.
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Feb 17, 2015 00:44
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iwentdoodie posted:Most people can't tell a Ducati from a Hyosung. For most people, there are only two types of motorcycles: Harleys and crotchrockets. I've given up trying to explain what a sport touring bike is.
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Guinness posted:For most people, there are only two types of motorcycles: Harleys and crotchrockets. There are also dirtbikes, which apparently also includes adventure motorcycles.
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Feb 17, 2015 00:46
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BlackMK4 posted:I ride a Ducati, I will tell you otherwise. Everyone knows what they are and think they are awesome, I have no idea why. Really? No one I know who isn't into cars/bieks knows or cares what they are. Then again, you have a 749 don't you? Older ones seem much flashier.
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Feb 17, 2015 00:49
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That trike thing looks like a really ugly KTM X Bow.
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BlackMK4 posted:$20k will buy you a >200whp Panigale... or you could have $6k left over after you buy a ZX10R that needs a flash and full exhaust to make 200whp. It's also a completely different classification (I don't care that the DMV calls the Polaris a motorcycle) of vehicle. You can't be that stupid. I'm not fat, but I don't trust myself on a motorcycle nor do I have any real desire to own/ride one. I ride road bikes and mountain bikes to get my fix on two wheels.
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iwentdoodie posted:Really? No one I know who isn't into cars/bieks knows or cares what they are. Then again, you have a 749 don't you? Older ones seem much flashier. Nobody who isn't into cars/bikes knows what or cares what a Ducati is. My wife and I were at the San Diego auto museum on Saturday and she had never head of Ducati as a brand, let alone as anything "special." A $1,200 stroller in front of a 1966 Bizzarrini P538 and an (Arguably terrible car stuff) Dino. 
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eyebeem posted:Nobody who isn't into cars/bikes knows what or cares what a Ducati is. My wife and I were at the San Diego auto museum on Saturday and she had never head of Ducati as a brand, let alone as anything "special." I've had old ladies come up and tell me how beautiful my Multistrada was, and they didn't know what a Ducati was either. But it's red, and that's usually enough for most people. Part of the Ducati magic. Poor old dear, her eyesight must have been really bad.
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Linedance posted:I've had old ladies come up and tell me how beautiful my Multistrada was, and they didn't know what a Ducati was either. But it's red, and that's usually enough for most people. Part of the Ducati magic. The same thing happens with my stroller, but they are hot young moms. Stroller > Ducati
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BlackMK4 posted:I think he was being sarcastic, it doesn't get too much more flashy than a Pani Actually it was a joke that the panigale had no back seat but after google researching, I was totally wrong. My bad.
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BlackMK4 posted:I ride a Ducati, I will tell you otherwise. Everyone knows what they are and think they are awesome, I have no idea why. It's the tambourine where your clutch is supposed to be.
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eyebeem posted:Nobody who isn't into cars/bikes knows what or cares what a Ducati is. My wife and I were at the San Diego auto museum on Saturday and she had never head of Ducati as a brand, let alone as anything "special." Look at all the cheap hard plastic. Shameful.
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That's the secret behind most, if not all, "upscale" brands. Same (or lower) production cost and quality as mid priced (or sometimes low priced) brands, significantly higher price.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:That's the secret behind most, if not all, "upscale" brands. Same (or lower) production cost and quality as mid priced (or sometimes low priced) brands, significantly higher price. I'm glad the only large component made out of metal is the main chassis beam. It's heavy enough. Now, when I can buy a stupidly expensive carbon fiber stroller.... I'm there.
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eyebeem posted:Nobody who isn't into cars/bikes knows what or cares what a Ducati is. My wife and I were at the San Diego auto museum on Saturday and she had never head of Ducati as a brand, let alone as anything "special." So where is that 1200 going exactly? For that kind of money I'd expect carbon fiber or something so that it's light enough for the wife to constantly lift in and out of the a SUV when taking the kids to Bristol Farms.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC1inKJhHEM Note the yellow line. I wish i could have grabbed the FB comments before it got deleted. Crustashio fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Feb 17, 2015 |
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Longinus00 posted:So where is that 1200 going exactly? For that kind of money I'd expect carbon fiber or something so that it's light enough for the wife to constantly lift in and out of the a SUV when taking the kids to Bristol Farms. I can't tell you how many thread derails have happened thanks to this custom title. 1) Luxury Tax 2) Style Tax 3) Unique design that puts the kid closer to the parent 4) Textile quality 5) Solid build "Luxury" strollers start at about $700, and for that you can buy an Uppababy Vista which is probably the best stroller on the market when you look at the entire package including cost. If you were to compare a high end stroller to one from, say, Target, you'd get the picture pretty much immediately. No wobbles, no funky difficulties getting the wheels to go where you want them, no sticky clasps, no creaks. Solid build is probably the biggest overall difference you will see right out of the gate. Our Stokke Xplory is a loving tank, and it rolls like the wheels are made out of clouds. It's amazing. Beyond the cost of entry of the Uppababy, you're really paying for style and brand cache. The Stokke pictured has the fortunate/unfortunate honor of being the stroller half of the celebrity parents are photographed in for People magazine, so they can charge more for it. The textiles ARE really high quality, and it does look like nothing else out there, so that's worth some amount of money to people that can't get over the looks (like my wife). When my wife saw one while out one day, she googled her keyword description of it to figure out what it was, having no idea how much it cost. She wanted it from day one. We also own a Bloom Zen, which was $1,100 or so all in : http://www.giggle.com/introducing-bloom%27s-zen-stroller-%26-yoga-newborn-nest/zen_landing.html It's more of an "off-road capable" stroller. Like the Stokke, it is unbelievably solid, but it also folds up smaller than you could loving imagine, has solar powered lights, amazing wheels and suspension (it's smoother than the Stokke. The kid won't wake up no matter what terrain you are on), and looks the business. We have the CMYK version, which looks loving awesome. Also, great attention to detail, build, etc. I have three kids. I've done the cheap stroller thing, and didn't even realize high end strollers were a thing until this new kid showed up. I thought it was silly that she wanted to spend so much on a stroller, but once I used one at the boutique, I realized that there really was a difference. Is the difference worth spending $1,000 more than the Chicco at Target? For us, yes. It's frivollous to a point when we could have bought a $700 Uppababy and had all of the tangible benefits, but to be honest, we can afford to spend extra on style, so we did. *edit* This is a really, really long post about strollers. I am terrible car stuff.
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Somewhere along the way we lost sight of the true villain here: snowmobile companies making road vehicles.
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eyebeem posted:It's not a glorified trike. It's a trike. Y'know, there's a dude posting about the new Lambo he just bought, and DV obviously has his new Viper, I'm happy for both of them, that they bought awesome, expensive new toys. You; piss me off, mostly because of your snotty, abrasive, upper-middle-class, bourgeois attitude, you exude  P.S. my $2000 R1 is much, much faster than your overpriced toy, sorry you can't ride bieks. edit: see your post about why you drive an F-150 because ~that's what we drive~ in another thread for additional reasons why you're annoying.
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I recall watching a documentary on lions a long time ago where a pride of female lions was having a very hard fight with a pack of hyenas and suddenly the male lion showed up and layed waste in an incredibly impressive way. I am expecting a mod to fly in here at any moment and I envision it to be about the same in digital form.
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eyebeem posted:Some of you... jesus christ. There are products out there that are for people that aren't you. The closest competition the Polaris Slingshot has is the Morgan 3 Wheeler or T Rex. Both cost 2-4x as much, the Morgan is WAY more stylish, and I believe performance is about the same. It's a rough 3 wheeled toy that isn't going to blow the pants off of more sporty cars, but it's probably going to more fun than most of them, and anything else that costs 20 grand new. For $20,000 I could turn any one of my vehicles in a really fun and sporty vehicle. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Feb 17, 2015 |
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Elviscat posted:Y'know, there's a dude posting about the new Lambo he just bought, and DV obviously has his new Viper, I'm happy for both of them, that they bought awesome, expensive new toys. You; piss me off, mostly because of your snotty, abrasive, upper-middle-class, bourgeois attitude, you exude I drive an F-150, and it's "what we drive" because it's a company car, and that's what most people in my position (we) at firms like mine are given to drive. I think I made that pretty clear. I don't think I've been abrasive at all, but if I've come off that way in defense of a goddamn TOY like the Polaris Slingshot, I am sorry. I'd argue that those posting about how they know EXACTLY what a fun car actually is to everyone are the ones being smug and snotty. Not to mention your smug line about your $2,000 motorcycle. Are you serious? For the record, I never made any, any claim to the performance of the slingshot. It's not a fast car/trike/whatever. It's a plaything.
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It's more your general attitude that just screams "i have money pay attention to me". More so than owning a supercar does, because you brag and go on about a goddamn stroller and your company vehicle.
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Baller Witness Bro posted:Actually it was a joke that the panigale had no back seat but after google researching, I was totally wrong. My bad. Supersport back seats are so laughable it may as well not have one anyway. Linedance posted:Somewhere along the way we lost sight of the true villain here: snowmobile companies making road vehicles. Victory's alright if you like that sort of thing.
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Jesus Christ. Despite the  you assholes somehow managed to be worse. 
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Linedance posted:Somewhere along the way we lost sight of the true villain here: snowmobile companies making road vehicles.
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Stop trying to justify the trike in terms of fun. The reason someone would buy it is because he loving wants one. No, I don't use my Suburban's 10,000 towing capability, and no I don't often use the 9-person seating capacity, and no I don't actually need to go off road every once in a while... so why do I have it? Because I loving wanted one. That's it. That is all the reason there needs to be. That's as logical as it gets. So hush.
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Friar Zucchini posted:Stop trying to justify the trike in terms of fun. The reason someone would buy it is because he loving wants one. No, I don't use my Suburban's 10,000 towing capability, and no I don't often use the 9-person seating capacity, and no I don't actually need to go off road every once in a while... so why do I have it? Because I loving wanted one. That's it. That is all the reason there needs to be. That's as logical as it gets. So hush. Terrible rant stuff itt. Anyway, for content, proper AI strollers. 
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eyebeem posted:It's more of an "off-road capable" stroller. Like the Stokke, it is unbelievably solid, but it also folds up smaller than you could loving imagine, has solar powered lights, amazing wheels and suspension (it's smoother than the Stokke. The kid won't wake up no matter what terrain you are on), and looks the business. my parents just put me in a backpack
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BMW really have done a tremendous job of transforming themselves from a builder of driver-orientated executive missiles to a builder of upper-class tacky garbage, haven't they?
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atomicthumbs posted:my parents just put me in a backpack How long was it before someone came along and found you?
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Slavvy posted:BMW really have done a tremendous job of transforming themselves from a builder of driver-orientated executive missiles to a builder of upper-class tacky garbage, haven't they? They have, and it's a sadder world for it. *pours out some $20/l oil for the fallen ///M brand*
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