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Pitching in on the no-texting, no-cellphone sentiment. Last night on our way home from my dad's house, we watched a sure enough sign of an idiot texting .. weaving back and forth on the freeway. Thankfully he was too distracted to keep track of freeway speeds and he was going a good 15 under the normal flow of traffic, so we got past him before he crunched into the side rail along I-94 just north of Minneapolis. A girl behind him wasn't so lucky; when his car ricocheted off the rail, she couldn't avoid him and got tangled up in his mess. Thankfully the police take accidents seriously in cold WX here .. we were out of there (we stopped as witnesses) in 45 minutes. I am not really for all-encompassing laws, I just wish there was enough enforcement on the roads to stop the assholes.
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M42 posted:Same. I've put together some winter gear I got cheap on closeout in the last month, but I'm still missing boots and gloves, so.... not this winter, I guess Even with winter gear, snow all over + less than 20 deg F, it won't make a difference. It's tauntaun or go home.
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I've ridden at 45 and been freezing, then worn less gear riding on the ice at 30 and lower and been warm. The real trick is ride hard enough you start to sweat 
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Saw a guy cruising around on a Katana yesterday. Nice red one, late model, had all of his gear on because... it was 18F with around a foot of snow and ice patches everywhere, in northern Illinois. Which one of you was it?
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Feb 15, 2015 01:11
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Riding on icy roads just means you're riding straight.
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Ok, this rant is directed at Rainbow Powersports in Enid, Oklahoma. You are the only OEM dealer within an hour, so I am forced to occasionally use your lovely dealership. 1. You have salespeople who guard the doorway and aggressively annoy every customer who comes in. When I am going to the Parts department, you follow me all the way there trying to talk me into a new sports bike. You tell me how easy it pops wheelies, and how sick the new model is (despite it being the same as the '13 and '14, WRT to the 636 ZX-6R) When I was forced to go yesterday, I followed a customer in who said "I'm just here to look." Your response of "Oh well I'm just here to sell" makes you look like greedy fucks. 2. Your parts department: I'm sorry I annoyed you by asking for a part. You had 1 of the 2 things I needed in stock. The worst part is how EVERYTHING is for sale at MSRP, or above. Copper crush washers were almost $6 each. You had zero interest in actually giving any tips/tricks for the parts I was buying... you acted like you wanted to get the transaction over with as fast as possible so you could go back to your phone. 3. Your service department sucks. Your tires are overpriced, and while I know you can't compete online, charging $50 per wheel OFF THE BIKE to mount and balance is ridiculous. $75 if it's on the bike! Your inability to come across competently on general questions or build a rapport means I'm never taking my motorcycle there even when it needs maintenance. I ordered my other parts online (even if it wasn't any savings) because your dealership sucks so much. I've lived here for two years and I dread going in there every time. In conclusion, get hosed and I hope you go out of business. xaarman fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Feb 17, 2015 |
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Feb 16, 2015 22:33
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So you're not a Rainbro then?
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The small Yamaha dealer a couple blocks up the road from me just sold me a battery for at least $50 less than every place I looked online and were pretty helpful. Had just found the place a couple weeks back, and it's a lot nicer than having to drive all the way across town to the other big Japanese bike dealership for parts and maintenance items, though their gear selection is a lot smaller. Sorry to hear of your troubles xaarman. 
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I don't know if you're forced to go there just because it's within an hour. Find out what you can buy auto parts stores instead. I get all my oil change stuff except for a quart of Harley fluid at Autozone. For the Harley fluid, I get to be a dick to the dick at the Harley parts desk twice a year, it's pretty nice.
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xaarman posted:3. Your service department sucks. Your tires are overpriced, and while I know you can't compete online, charging $50 per wheel OFF THE BIKE to mount and balance is ridiculous. $75 if it's on the bike! Your inability to come across competently on general questions or build a report means I'm never taking my motorcycle there even when it needs maintenance. Okay holy loving poo poo that's ridiculous. That's almost what I pay for an hour's labour at the place I go (and tyre replacement is free, ride in and ride out, if you buy the tyres from them, for about £10-£15 more than you pay for the tyres alone online). (I've pimped them here before but if you're anywhere near Central or East London go to Pole Position on The Highway; quarter-hour labour charges and they not only give you the old parts they took off (generally a good indicator of a reliable garage IMO) they even take pictures of the work in progress to show you where the money goes. Awesome guys.)
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xaarman posted:Ok, this rant is directed at Rainbow Powersports in Enid, Oklahoma. Rapport. 
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Blah, you're right, edited.
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Most big bike dealers just tend to suck it seems like. The little shops are ok but they don't seem to last very long. I tend to buy everything I need in bulk from so I pretty much never need to go to a store. A four pack of filters from ebay is less than the dealer is charging for one if they even have anything in stock for a not late model bike. The crush washers you can buy from Harbor Freight in an assortment for $10. That's enough for a lot of oil changes on a bunch of different vehicles. Oil is Walmart unless your lucky (unlucky) enough to work at a place where you can get it for free/cheap. The few times I've needed a part NOW and gone to the dealer (only to be told that they would have to order it anyway) I was shocked that it was 3-4x more expensive than the same part online. I know that the place needs to keep the lights on and to keep the bros to hold the chairs down in the parts department but gently caress me if you think I'm going to be the one paying for it. EDIT: This is coming from a person who works at a car dealer so I'm a huge hypocrite but whatever.
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I go to Western Honda, the dealer I bought my bike at for my parts. Their online is cheaper, and same price as hondapartshouse, so I just ask to price match if I'm ordering in store. The first time I tried that they said they can't do that, but after that it was all good, guess guy was wrong. I get a 15% discount too because I bought my bike there, but it doesn't stack, so I just get whatever is cheapest option. I do my big services there and stuff like tires and chains at a small shop that is only $30/hr compared to their $80. I dont know if I trust the small shop to do engine work compared to the dealer. They seem decent but I dunno I go to BlackMK4 to do fork seals 
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I'm pretty lucky I guess. The local powersports dealer here will order parts for nearly the same as what you'll find on RonAyers. Free shipping. The only problem is that you'll probably have to wait 2 weeks to get the part
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Amazon is way faster
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nsaP posted:Amazon is way faster Normally I'd agree, but-    The thing to note with that last pic is that I live in Texas. So far they've gone about 2500mi in the wrong direction.
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Feb 17, 2015 09:17
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At least you can complain and get a sizeable Amazon credit.
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Amazon is really good about giving you free poo poo when you complain. Sadly the only two times I've gotten screwed by a shipping mistake where before two long trips. I had to make do without nice earphones the first time and a laptop on the other. I got a free set of the same earphones delivered to my destination and a $20 gift card from the laptop using only a few disappointed sounding emails to customer service.
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The post office lost one of my returns (one of those $70 digital pocket oscilliscopes), so Amazon refunded me fully. Then, a month later, it showed back up in the mail.
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I would be happy if Amazon Canada just wasn't disappointingly crap in general, no gift vouchers required. Canada's e-commerce sophistication seems to be somewhere on par with Australia, without having the excuse of being a day's flying from anywhere and surrounded by oceans.
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I'm not sure what the point of raging onto my rear end while I'm indicating to turn into a parking lot is, Mr Dodge Durango. But gently caress you. I indicated with plenty of time and didn't slam my brakes. If turn into the lot and look back- oh you're on a cell phone. Allow me to reiterate: gently caress you. Idiot in the BMW X5, hang up your phone and pay attention to the loving road. You were in the right turn only lane, with your indicator on, and about to make the turn when "WAIT I WANT TO GO WEST NOT EAST" and, without looking, hard left it into the center lane. I almost end up in your rear left quarter panel. Even after laying on my horn and flashing my headlight you just keep on trucking. No "oh poo poo my bad" wave, just "I'll get milk from the store you pick up the kids this conversation is too important to wait for later." gently caress you. Hang up the goddamn phone.
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Pope Mobile posted:Idiot in the BMW X5
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Being on the phone is bad enough, but texting/whatever makes me absolutely rage. It's just so utterly selfish and self centred and I have to confess that I near enough always call people out on it. I'll probably get stabbed one day, but gently caress it, people need telling - especially when near 100% of the time you can tell just by following them for 3 minutes. Overtook two people who were all over the place recently and found they were on the phone. The one simply threw the phone to his passenger and threatened to kick my head in. The second had a kid in the car and I finished my rant with "what are you going to do when you hurt your child with your idiocy" to which she responded with "it's not your child so mind your own business". These things should carry super severe penalties on par with drink driving. Just for balance though, my worst recent experience is also my best. Despite doing a lot of driving its incredibly rare I actually have any kind of near miss, but I was well and truly forced into the shoulder last week when a guy on the phone realised he was missing his junction. Because of the proximity to the junction I had to follow him off, so I stopped next to him and tore a strip off him. Bloke absolutely couldn't apologise enough...! hermand fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Feb 27, 2015 |
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I had a moment going across the bay bridge a few weeks back when it was raining and high winds (up to 40mph gusts, IIRC), and I look over and next to me there's a guy that's got both hands through the steering wheel, texting. I pull up to him, honk, give him the palm up "wtf man" gesture, and he looked ashamed and tossed it on the passenger seat. Fair enough, but seriously? My bike was getting pushed around pretty well, wouldn't you want to keep your hands on the wheel? 
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hermand posted:Being on the phone is bad enough, but texting/whatever makes me absolutely rage. It's just so utterly selfish and self centred and I have to confess that I near enough always call people out on it. I'll probably get stabbed one day, but gently caress it, people need telling - especially when near 100% of the time you can tell just by following them for 3 minutes. Severe penalties don't stop drink driving either, trust me.
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I almost got pushed out of the lane by an old lady today. I saw it coming and her lane change was really slow, so I hung in there to see what was going on in there. She didn't move a single muscle. Kinda neat to see someone so loving zoned out if it wasn't dangerous.
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KARMA! posted:I almost got pushed out of the lane by an old lady today. I saw it coming and her lane change was really slow, so I hung in there to see what was going on in there. She didn't move a single muscle. Kinda neat to see someone so loving zoned out if it wasn't dangerous. Same to me this morning, but it was some douche in a BMW who was shaving. Two lane road, that adds a third lane on the right side. I was in the right lane, he was in the left. As the third lane was added, he just said gently caress it and cut his wheel right. I ended up across both lanes and onto the shoulder to get away from him. He never even noticed.
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Slavvy posted:Severe penalties don't stop drink driving either, trust me.  edit: In all seriousness DUI or texting while driving should just be defined as reckless endangerment. Collateral Damage fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Feb 27, 2015 |
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Collateral Damage posted:It does if we make it carry a death penalty. Attempted murder. iwentdoodie posted:douche in a BMW What's the word for when two words mean the same thing? Not redundant. It's a bit more of an academic term. I think.
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Chichevache posted:What's the word for when two words mean the same thing? Not redundant. It's a bit more of an academic term. I think.
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That's the bunny!
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The first rule of the tautology club, is the first rule of the tautology club.
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Everyone who drives in a car by themselves should have it taken away and given a motorcycle. If you can't shift a manual Honda makes some nice automatics.
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Coredump posted:Everyone who drives in a car by themselves should have it taken away and given a motorcycle. If you can't shift a manual Honda makes some nice automatics. Just give anyone who doesn't want a manual a scooter. Problem solved. If they can't get to work because of the weather make them carpool, or take transit. Life in the USA just got 100% better.
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I carpool and ride a motorcycle. Best two ways to commute. I'm either having fun, or asleep.
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HappyHelmet posted:Just give anyone who doesn't want a manual a scooter. Problem solved. If they can't get to work because of the weather make them carpool, or take transit. Life in the USA just got 100% better. Can you imagine if the highways in LA were full of scooters like in Taiwan? Would be awesome.
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Coredump posted:Can you imagine if the highways in LA were full of scooters like in Taiwan? Would be awesome. Well scooters aren't even allowed to ride on highways in Taiwan so the freeways in LA would be empty! If everyone had them in Seattle getting around the city would be SO much easier. Hell, I'd be happy if they would just allow lane splitting.
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Saw a teenager on a moped today - no gear apart from his helmet. He was riding along.....texting. There is truly no hope.
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