|
HappyHelmet posted:Well scooters aren't even allowed to ride on highways in Taiwan so the freeways in LA would be empty! Easy: lower the speed limit to 35 mph.
|
#
?
Feb 27, 2015 20:16
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 12, 2024 06:47 |
|
|
hermand posted:Saw a teenager on a moped today - no gear apart from his helmet. He was riding along.....texting. End civilization, give another species a chance.
|
|
#
?
Feb 27, 2015 20:28
|
|
|
hermand posted:Saw a teenager on a moped today - no gear apart from his helmet. He was riding along.....texting. The hope is that medicine hasn't progressed far enough to save his life/reproductive organs in time.
|
|
#
?
Feb 27, 2015 21:00
|
|
|
HappyHelmet posted: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. But that would interfere with all the cyclists.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2015 17:06
|
|
|
Douche in an Audi is another tautological phrase. I'm not sure if they're worse than BMW drivers, but they're close.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2015 18:08
|
|
|
MoraleHazard posted:Douche in an Audi is another tautological phrase. I'm not sure if they're worse than BMW drivers, but they're close. BMW have long been dethroned in this. BMW drivers are malicious cunts. Audi drivers are malicious cunts too busy to notice you exist. Lexus drivers have no concept of other vehicles on the road, road rules or, sometimes, even the road itself.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2015 19:03
|
|
|
Audi "Challenge all givens" - this apparently applies to traffic rules. Lexus drivers: those RX SUVs are right up there with Subarus and Volvos as the scourge of the road. Subarus in particular are predictably unpredictable, you can almost set your watch to Subarus doing retarded poo poo.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2015 20:00
|
|
|
Slavvy posted:Lexus drivers have no concept of other vehicles on the road, road rules or, sometimes, even the road itself. My soon to be father-in-law drives a 6 figure Lexus. He regularly does 100 mph through residential streets in Los Angeles on his way home from the bar, with his wife and two children in the car.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2015 20:53
|
|
|
Chichevache posted:My soon to be father-in-law drives a 6 figure Lexus. He regularly does 100 mph through residential streets in Los Angeles on his way home from the bar, with his wife and two children in the car. How drunk is he?
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2015 01:32
|
|
|
VERTiG0 posted:How drunk is he? I'd say a beer or two plus one or two Cadillac margaritas is the minimum, that's below his average though.
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2015 03:56
|
|
|
Chichevache posted:My soon to be father-in-law drives a 6 figure Lexus. He regularly does 100 mph through residential streets in Los Angeles on his way home from the bar, with his wife and two children in the car. Sounds like quite the piece of poo poo. Hope when he kills the family in a horrid wreck you get some decent inheritance.
|
|
#
?
Mar 4, 2015 04:26
|
|
|
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. Hearing about these makes me wonder about the effects of the majority of American cars being automatic rather than manual, I imagine it's a lot easier to gently caress about when there's less attention needed to control the car's functions, not that it excuses retarded behavior though. However the three kings of douchebaggery still reign supreme on the road; Audi BMW Lexus Runners up include; Land Rover not in the countryside Supersized Mini countryman
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 20:54
|
|
|
Super Slash posted:Hearing about these makes me wonder about the effects of the majority of American cars being automatic rather than manual, I imagine it's a lot easier to gently caress about when there's less attention needed to control the car's functions, not that it excuses retarded behavior though. Fixed for Seattle. Maybe it's me, but I never really have issues with Lexuses? Lexii?
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 21:14
|
|
|
Pope Mobile posted:Fixed for Seattle. Pretty sure the reason you feel this way is one of the following: 1. There are no lexus dealers in your town. 2. You don't notice the lexus drivers trying to kill you because their cars camouflage themselves against a background of mediocrity so perfectly.
|
|
#
?
Mar 5, 2015 22:14
|
|
|
Slavvy posted:
It is this. Also I don't know how Toyota Sequoias were left off the list. All drivers of that model vehicle will try to kill you. Yes, I said 'try' because there is definitely malice involved.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2015 00:51
|
|
|
Chichevache posted:It is this. On the other hand, I had a dude in a Cube fold his mirror in earlier so I could get by him because the douchebag in the Q5 next to him was directly on the line. Also, for my rant: who loving knee that peacocks could not only fly, but we're also suicidal? I saw three of them on the side of the road, and thought nothing of it. Then one took off and would have went through my visor at 50mph if I hadn't ducked. As it is, the big loving tail hit me. WHY DIDNT I KNOW THEY COULD FLY
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2015 02:15
|
|
|
iwentdoodie posted:Also, for my rant: who loving knee that peacocks could not only fly, but we're also suicidal? I saw three of them on the side of the road, and thought nothing of it. Then one took off and would have went through my visor at 50mph if I hadn't ducked. As it is, the big loving tail hit me. WHY DIDNT I KNOW THEY COULD FLY They *fly*. I've never really seen them get any higher than to flutter up to light posts etc, growing up in a city where they are the city bird was terrible.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2015 02:31
|
|
|
Doesn't the Arcadia PD get pissed at you if you whack one and not report it?
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2015 03:05
|
|
|
Angryboot posted:Doesn't the Arcadia PD get pissed at you if you whack one and not report it?
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2015 03:51
|
|
|
iwentdoodie posted:Also, for my rant: who loving knee that peacocks could not only fly, but we're also suicidal? I saw three of them on the side of the road, and thought nothing of it. Then one took off and would have went through my visor at 50mph if I hadn't ducked. As it is, the big loving tail hit me. WHY DIDNT I KNOW THEY COULD FLY They fly like chickens fly: short distances and only to hop a fence for food.
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2015 18:37
|
|
|
Angryboot posted:Doesn't the Arcadia PD get pissed at you if you whack one and not report it? Yeah supposedly. I bought a craigslist office chair from someone there who was moving; he had to for work or something but he was happy to be getting away from the drat birds. I saw like ten chilling outside his house. He said it was illegal to gently caress with them but "you won't see any swerving skid marks...." A now-deceased co worker had one jump in front of his beloved and very clean Acura TL and leave a scratch+ feather in his bumper. He was pissed. He said it walked away but he wanted to go back and finish it off, fines be damned. If I lived there I would have the most  of silenced pellet guns ever.
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2015 18:45
|
|
|
El Jebus posted:They fly like chickens fly: short distances and only to hop a fence for food. No, they can fly proper distances but there's not a lot of them in the wild outside of Asia, and domesticated ones normally have their wings clipped because they're loving expensive. (They prefer not to fly long distances because of their stupid loving tailfeathers but they can do >100 mile trips looking for mates)
|
|
#
?
Mar 8, 2015 21:06
|
|
|
So yesterday, I had a decent yin/yang of experiences riding home from work. It started with some prick in a Tacoma 4x4 who almost merged right into me. We stopped at the light in front of us, and I turned back to him making a "look at the sign behind us" motion. He rolled down his window and started yelling something, so I just gave him the jerk-off motion and rode off. Then, when I was reaching up to my Sena to change the track I was listening to, my glove snagged on the release tab and the bluetooth pod dropped to the road while I was driving on a major arterial through the city. While feeling crushed and extra pissed off, I pulled a quick U-turn, hoping to see it in the gutter or something and not already in a million pieces. A woman who was eating lunch in the median started yelling and waving at me as I rode by, with a black thing in her hand... my Sena. She said she watched it fall off and grabbed it for me, I told her she was awesome and "thank you so, so much" before I rode off as I was stopped in traffic. I think I gotta pay that one forward.
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2015 18:25
|
|
|
Radbot posted:eating lunch in the median So apparently this isn't the first time this phrase has been used in the history of the English language...
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2015 18:44
|
|
|
Marv Hushman posted:So apparently this isn't the first time this phrase has been used in the history of the English language... I know, sounds pretty weird. It's a huge, lush grassy median right next to the college, though.
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2015 19:58
|
|
|
Marv Hushman posted:So apparently this isn't the first time this phrase has been used in the history of the English language... It was a really common problem when they opened the M1. People stopped in the fast lane to have picnics.
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2015 23:19
|
|
|
Car exhaust goes great with baloney sandwiches.
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2015 01:07
|
|
|
Retarded Pimp posted:Car exhaust goes great with baloney sandwiches. Replace that with tacos and you just described LA to a tee.
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2015 14:23
|
|
|
Got a loving parket ticket on the bike, for the first time in the three years I've parked in the same spot. I guess someone was in a bad mood and wanted to pass it on. Now the question is is it worth fighting over 50 lousy euro or should I just do the Swedish thing and swallow the bitter pill then whine about it?
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2015 22:19
|
|
|
Isn't the swedish to blame immigrants and/or non-whites for your ticket?
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2015 22:22
|
|
|
Depends on whether you were parked illegally or not...
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2015 22:23
|
|
|
nsaP posted:Depends on whether you were parked illegally or not... Slavvy posted:Isn't the swedish to blame immigrants and/or non-whites for your ticket?
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2015 22:31
|
|
|
Collateral Damage posted:Nope. Was parked in a designated MC parking spot. I hadn't paid the parking fee, but you've never had to in the past because there's no place to put the paid ticket on a bike where it won't get stolen so it's always been one of those "technically you have to pay but we can't enforce it" things. Generate a PDF bank statement from one of your accounts, and illegaly forge it so that it looks like you made a payment for parking on the day in question, then lie to the city, telling them that someone stole your parking ticket and that's why you got a ticket.
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2015 22:43
|
|
|
captainOrbital posted:Generate a PDF bank statement from one of your accounts, and illegaly forge it so that it looks like you made a payment for parking on the day in question, then lie to the city, telling them that someone stole your parking ticket and that's why you got a ticket. This works wonders at most city governments. The desk jockey doesn't actually want to do any work, so "throw this one out because they're successfully trying to fight" is easier than proving that you actually failed to pay.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2015 03:28
|
|
|
Collateral Damage posted:You're thinking of the Danish.  yeah you're right.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2015 06:52
|
|
|
babyeatingpsychopath posted:This works wonders at most city governments. The desk jockey doesn't actually want to do any work, so "throw this one out because they're successfully trying to fight" is easier than proving that you actually failed to pay. With Tower Hamlets Council simply sending them an email is enough to get your complaint thrown in that pile. It's worked for me 5 out of 6 times, the sixth time I had to actually write them a letter. Unless you're the (very short-lived) new manager in our IT security department and park your dumb BMW X5 in a business permit holder bay right outside the front door of the office (that we're not allowed to use because we have our own parking spots, but he didn't qualify for one) every day for 4 months and taunt the parking wardens that they're not allowed to tow your car because it's too heavy for their lifter. Then you get the very personal service. (He didn't lose his job for that, but that sort of attitude is pretty much why he did. Also by our reckoning he owes them at least £6k in parking fines without factoring in the court and recovery fees that bailiffs like to tack on. Hopefully it scales up to enough so that he ends up having not actually earned a penny working for us, the wanker)
|
|
#
?
Mar 15, 2015 15:46
|
|
|
The last time I had an illegitimate parking ticket (was out of state and had plain tickets to prove it) I e-mailed and called the court house a couple counties over and I never made it past the bitch answering the phone. I learned I would have to discuss the matter with the judge, I could do this over the phone but that would be a waste of the judges time and my call would only make the judge more angry. I tried politely to schedule a call to the judge, or somehow mail the plane tickets or other proof to the judge but no matter what I tried the secretary kept bitching saying she knew it was a waste of time. Faced with either driving a hundred miles to court (to really waste then judges time. . .) or paying a ticket I admitted defeat and added the secretary to the list.
|
|
#
?
Mar 15, 2015 17:40
|
|
|
Crotch Fruit posted:The last time I had an illegitimate parking ticket (was out of state and had plain tickets to prove it) I e-mailed and called the court house a couple counties over and I never made it past the bitch answering the phone. I learned I would have to discuss the matter with the judge, I could do this over the phone but that would be a waste of the judges time and my call would only make the judge more angry. I tried politely to schedule a call to the judge, or somehow mail the plane tickets or other proof to the judge but no matter what I tried the secretary kept bitching saying she knew it was a waste of time. Faced with either driving a hundred miles to court (to really waste then judges time. . .) or paying a ticket I admitted defeat and added the secretary to the list. The courthouse may be 100 miles away, but how far is the secretary's house? 
|
|
#
?
Mar 15, 2015 19:04
|
|
|
It's time to talk about Hyosung throttles. The throttle design on the GT250 is the worst piece of 'engineering' I've ever seen on a motorcycle. It's a design that shouldn't be on anything capable of attaining the speed limit. Diagram. The cable sheath comes down and perches in the loop bracket thing, #36. When it rains, and because the cable is a little bit old, water makes the cable bind slightly. On a normal bike you'd feel this as a slightly heavier throttle. The hyoshit is a single cable system, so when the cable binds, it lifts the entire sheath out of the bracket and causes the throttle to stick open. This is most prone to happening when you're turning and using the throttle because the cable is at full stretch due to the position of the bars. There is nothing holding the sheath in place besides the tension of the cable, and there is no method of adjusting the tension. Today is the second day of hurricane Pam hitting NZ so I had a real fun commute. Oh and to make things worse: the shinko I put on the rear is less grippy in the rain than the 10 year old, mostly bald pilot active that was on there before. I'm not exaggerating when I say that any throttle at any lean angle causes the rear to step out. This sounds fun but I'm terrified of riding in the rain because I don't know how to judge how much grip I have left and loss of traction happens loving instantly.
|
|
#
?
Mar 15, 2015 22:23
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 12, 2024 06:47 |
|
|
Throw that bike off a loving cliff already. You know, before it does it for you while you're riding.
|
|
#
?
Mar 15, 2015 22:28
|
|
