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Thanks! hermand posted:Heh, phone was my jacket. The nozzle was larger and, no it didn't fit properly, but I put that down to a bike thing. However, I was after BP Ultimate Unleaded - which is branded in a similar way to the Ultimate Diesel. That is almost identical to our branding but what the crikey gently caress is ultimate diesel?
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Trauma Tank posted:I have to say, the few times I've been lanesplitting here in the UK most people make space when they see you coming. I did have someone yesterday in a giant Land Rover move over just far enough to block me and stay there as long as they could, but they didn't actively try to kill me. It is very surprising how nice people are for leaving you a bit of room, I'll wave back or give a thumbs up for folk who do that and it feels awkward when multiple people in a row purposely make room, can't thank every one of 'em. There certainly are exceptions though; - Fartbox rice-mobiles will do whatever it takes to get in front of you, to which you sail past at the next lights - Blacked out BMW/Audi coupés will try and stop you getting into spaces like the impudent little worm you are - Land rovers and other road tanks will just impede your progress by their very presence
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Jun 7, 2015 21:45
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Super Slash posted:There certainly are exceptions though; The one time I have wheelied a bike on the street was riding in the right lane with no cars in front of me but my lane was ending in about 100 yards, and at the front of the left lane was a riced out, lowered, body kitted Civic with gigantic fartcannon. I gave a little throttle to pull in front and the Civic revved his engine and dropped a gear and started pulling out in front so I couldn't pass him and get over. Faced with an imminently ending lane not really wanting to have to come to a panic stop to try and find a gap to merge over into, I responded by whacking open the throttle on a literbike that likely puts down more HP at the rear wheel than his car makes at the crank and wheeleing ahead of him and getting well in front of Civicbro with plenty of room to get over before my lane ended. Why do so many bros in shittily body kitted Civics think they can out run a bike?
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Jun 8, 2015 01:23
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HotCanadianChick posted:The one time I have wheelied a bike on the street was riding in the right lane with no cars in front of me but my lane was ending in about 100 yards, and at the front of the left lane was a riced out, lowered, body kitted Civic with gigantic fartcannon. I gave a little throttle to pull in front and the Civic revved his engine and dropped a gear and started pulling out in front so I couldn't pass him and get over. Faced with an imminently ending lane not really wanting to have to come to a panic stop to try and find a gap to merge over into, I responded by whacking open the throttle on a literbike that likely puts down more HP at the rear wheel than his car makes at the crank and wheeleing ahead of him and getting well in front of Civicbro with plenty of room to get over before my lane ended. Clearly because of all of that phat aero, mang. It was designed in laboratories for SPEED (or on speed?). That's a completely awesome and appropriate solution to that situation, too. Don't just show them you are faster, do it in one wheeled style.
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Jun 8, 2015 02:41
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HotCanadianChick posted:The one time I have wheelied a bike on the street was riding in the right lane with no cars in front of me but my lane was ending in about 100 yards, and at the front of the left lane was a riced out, lowered, body kitted Civic with gigantic fartcannon. I gave a little throttle to pull in front and the Civic revved his engine and dropped a gear and started pulling out in front so I couldn't pass him and get over. Faced with an imminently ending lane not really wanting to have to come to a panic stop to try and find a gap to merge over into, I responded by whacking open the throttle on a literbike that likely puts down more HP at the rear wheel than his car makes at the crank and wheeleing ahead of him and getting well in front of Civicbro with plenty of room to get over before my lane ended. Even better, why do trucks think they can outrun bikes?
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Jun 8, 2015 04:22
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*edit* wrong thread but uhhh gently caress squids amirite
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Jun 8, 2015 04:50
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astrollinthepork posted:*edit* wrong thread but uhhh gently caress squids amirite So say we all
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Jun 8, 2015 05:28
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Marxalot posted:Even better, why do trucks think they can outrun bikes? IT'S GOT A V8 MAAAATE. Seriously, replace 'trucks' with 'commodores' and you have NZ.
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Jun 8, 2015 07:15
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Frosty- posted:Same here, except when I realized most people aren't even being malicious, it made me so much more angry I can barely contain myself. If someone is a true dick, and sees me and tries to assassinate me on the road - or even just do something mildly rude - I just chalk that up to them being a dick. If someone has the *exact* same effect on the road through their own carelessness, it means they don't give a gently caress about anyone, and value whatever pathetic diversion is distracting them, or simply feel no motivation to improve their roadcraft to the point where it is merely adequate, in spite of the fact that they're endangering themselves and others or, at the very least, behaving like a cock on the road. Agreed. I can move away from some dumbass who's mad at me, I can't ever move away from everyone who's not paying attention or who just doesn't give a gently caress about anything.
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Jun 8, 2015 18:20
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Marxalot posted:Even better, why do trucks think they can outrun bikes? Everything can outrun my bike.
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Frosty- posted:Same here, except when I realized most people aren't even being malicious, it made me so much more angry I can barely contain myself. If someone is a true dick, and sees me and tries to assassinate me on the road - or even just do something mildly rude - I just chalk that up to them being a dick. If someone has the *exact* same effect on the road through their own carelessness, it means they don't give a gently caress about anyone, and value whatever pathetic diversion is distracting them, or simply feel no motivation to improve their roadcraft to the point where it is merely adequate, in spite of the fact that they're endangering themselves and others or, at the very least, behaving like a cock on the road. I missed this until Radbot quoted it, but I agree 100% The entire 'omg I didn't see you thing' is just infuriating. If you care so little about those around you that you don't even bother to look out the windows of your car, then of course you won't see anyone. Just because you didn't see the person/car/bicycle/motorbike doesn't make it an accident, it's willful negligence, and it makes you an rear end in a top hat and a piece of poo poo. Had a fun one recently. Over the weekend I was in the passing lane of our local expressway, passing, and I come up on a single car just parked in the far left lane of five. I bright flash her for a few seconds, figure she's not paying attention, and move over to undertake. As soon as I'm undertaking, she notices me and then swerves into the lane I'm now occupying without signaling or lookin, I suppose to get out of the way, forcing me over an extra lane. I look back and she's munching on a crunchwrap supreme and then automatically moves right back into the passing lane to continue impeding traffic.
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Jun 8, 2015 18:51
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I was nearly t-boned in an intersection by a red light runner last night, so here's a big fat gently caress YOU to all the people that drive distracted.
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Jun 8, 2015 18:59
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revmoo posted:Had a fun one recently. Over the weekend I was in the passing lane of our local expressway, passing, and I come up on a single car just parked in the far left lane of five. I bright flash her for a few seconds, figure she's not paying attention, and move over to undertake. As soon as I'm undertaking, she notices me and then swerves into the lane I'm now occupying without signaling or lookin, I suppose to get out of the way, forcing me over an extra lane. I look back and she's munching on a crunchwrap supreme and then automatically moves right back into the passing lane to continue impeding traffic. Some folks take flashing to mean "I'm letting you in".
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Jun 8, 2015 19:31
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In to what? She was on the far left of the freeway with no other cars around. This wasn't someone waiting to turn left across traffic.
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Jun 8, 2015 20:45
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Schroeder91 posted:I was nearly t-boned in an intersection by a red light runner last night, so here's a big fat gently caress YOU to all the people that drive distracted. Same, except I didn't almost get hit yesterday. Put your phone down dude, that text message can wait.
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Jun 8, 2015 22:09
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Slavvy posted:I might add that if there's ever a woman in MotoGP she should demand hunky bare-chested grid boys to stand around in hot pants holding her umbrella on the starting grid. I know I would, and I'm not even a woman! A couple of pages back, but Ana Carrasco has you covered. http://racermaniac.tumblr.com/post/90238463752/we-love-ana-carrasco-as-we-know-that-shes-the
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Jun 9, 2015 00:09
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Destrad0 posted:A couple of pages back, but Ana Carrasco has you covered. Teach me not to watch the three hours of grid fluff before each race!
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Jun 9, 2015 01:24
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I was hoping for/expecting gold hotpants. Or would that be too on the nose?
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Renaissance Robot posted:I was hoping for/expecting gold hotpants. Or would that be too on the nose? It would be entirely reasonable IMO.
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I don't know if this counts as a rant or a whine or even a boast but it's really annoying me (and the fact that it annoys me means I'm a big whiny baby which annoys me even more) but I've got the money, right now, to buy almost any bike I want... and I don't want any. Every bike I've bought up to this point I've gone "Yeah that one" pretty much the moment I've seen it and everything else has just been details. There are two bikes currently in that category - the V4 Tuono and (don't laugh) the Guzzi V7 Racer, but some boring part of my brain that seems to have developed over the last few years is telling me that I almost never use full throttle on the Shiver and so I'd be just wasting the Tuono's potential, while also telling me that I really don't want to drop that many horses just for the looks of the Guzzi. Every other bike I've looked at has been deficient in some way - for ages I was convinced my next one was going to be a Monster Dark, but the moment I saw one in the flesh I just went "Nope". It's a good looking bike but somehow in person it's just... I dunno, not all that. With the old Monster I could appreciate it was a good-looking bike even if it wasn't to my taste, but the new one is the exact opposite - it's bang on my tastes but I just don't like it. Similarly, bikes I've really liked the looks of even in person, (Striple, Thruxton, GSX-750, CB1000R) have just completely failed to light my fire when I've actually ridden them. I know that if I owned any of them I'd never be actually disappointed, but they just don't give me that same rush that the Shiver does. It's getting bad enough that I'm seriously considering just buying a new-model Shiver even though I know that won't actually scratch the itch, especially as it's not actually going to be any better in any important way. Maybe I should just see if anyone's willing to swap it for a V2 Tuono (still my actual dream bike) so I can get bored of that, then save the money for when that inevitably develops a bit too much character. Basically someone needs to stop me before I do something really loving stupid like lock the money away in a savings account.
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Jun 10, 2015 22:19
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Contact EBR and offer to fund their next bike.
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Jun 10, 2015 22:21
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Get a 690 duke. Or an rsv4.
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Jun 10, 2015 22:35
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Angryboot posted:Get a 690 duke. Or an rsv4. All the new-model Dukes look like utter poo poo to me. RSV4's no use to me because most of my riding is urban and sports bikes are murder for that.
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Obviously it's time to take the next step: clear out some garage space and start building your own bike 
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Jun 10, 2015 22:42
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Have you looked at MV Agusta? Seriously Actually you're probably one of the few people I don't need to say "seriously" to when suggesting an MV.
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Renaissance Robot posted:Obviously it's time to take the next step: clear out some garage space and start building your own bike My nephew has access to a CNC mill. I wonder just how much billet could go missing from his stores before someone notices...
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Linedance posted:Have you looked at MV Agusta? You know I hadn't... the Brutale they bought out after Tamburini (PBUH) left was so ugly I sort of edited them out of my mental map of the motorcycle world, but the current ones... hmmm...
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Jun 10, 2015 22:49
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I agree with Digital_Jesus. Do it for the greater good 
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Jun 10, 2015 22:50
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There's no pleasing the twisto... GROM! That's 1 bike that you can wring the ever loving poo poo out of. I do hope they revamp the shiver at some point. Getting kinda dated.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:RSV4's no use to me because most of my riding is urban and sports bikes are murder for that. That's why they make a Tuono V4.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Basically someone needs to stop me before I do something really loving stupid like lock the money away in a savings account. It would be dumb to put that much into a savings account anyway; invest that poo poo. in biek Chris Knight fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Jun 10, 2015 |
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Slavvy posted:That's why they make a Tuono V4. I've talked myself out of that for the sort of stupid boring reasons that would have stopped me buying all but two of the bikes i've ever owned.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I've talked myself out of that for the sort of stupid boring reasons that would have stopped me buying all but two of the bikes i've ever owned. So what you're telling me is you've almost never bough a bike for sensible reasons and now that you want to buy one for sensible reasons you can't find anything you actually want? Just buy a V4 tuono or a brutale.
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Jun 11, 2015 00:12
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Buy me a Tuono and I guarantee you that I will appreciate it. Tyvm.
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Go for something smaller where you can use all the gears while driving in the city. ninja 300, drz 400sm, or a sidecar!
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The dragster is a great bike, just has massive starter sprag problems. Also go test ride a 1290 duke.
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Jun 11, 2015 02:21
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Super duke is the correct answer to all questions.
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Spiffness posted:Super duke is the correct answer to all questions. If the question is "What would it look like if you designed a bike on an overheating Radeon", then yes.
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Spiffness posted:Super duke is the correct answer to all questions. Something super simple for my dumb rear end to work on?
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mrking posted:Go for something smaller where you can use all the gears while driving in the city. ninja 300 Hah I wish. Ninja 300 hits 90 in 5th. Try using that in the city
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