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RadioPassive posted:Well poo poo, I have Progressive in Massachusetts and it sounds like I should switch. They quoted me like $70-something for state minimum liability on a Buell Blast. Then the lady on the phone discovered that they were somehow not allowed to write it for less than $95/year. I thought she said it was state law? Either way, $95 still sounded cheap at the time and I was in a hurry to get the paperwork together between work and the RMV closing. I should look into that. I think the first year it is insured it is typically more expensive. I think the first year I insured the Vectrix with liability only it was more like $100 or so. Can't remember the specifics but it has gone down a bit over the years.
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I don't understand how the new 405 HOV Toll lanes near Seattle are supposed to work for motorcyclists. Motorcycles get free use of HOV, always. The WSDOT is trying to spin it as "you can get a free pass" but you have to "qualify" by filling out a survey and state (truthfully or not I guess) that you live/work/play in Snohomish or King county. If you don't qualify or if you need one after they run out of "free" ones, you have to pay for a pass. That's not really free is it? The alternative is the pay-by-plate method where you're sent a bill. They say the pay-by-plate method cannot determine 100% if the vehicle is a motorcycle so you have to pay a toll if you don't carry a transponder. I call shenanigans. If they can look up my plate number, reference my vehicle registration info, and bill me at my address by mail, then that same registration information should tell them that it is a motorcycle and no further action is necessary. How does that work with riders who do not live/work/play in Snohomish and King counties or who ride in from out of state? I also don't understand how it is supposed to help traffic if everybody in german luxury sedans all clog the pay-for-HOV up for the buses and legitimate carpoolers. clutchpuck fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Sep 28, 2015 |
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Sep 28, 2015 19:26
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Bloated bureaucracies are great, aren't they?
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Sep 28, 2015 22:06
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clutchpuck posted:They say the pay-by-plate method cannot determine 100% I predict the system works 100% of the time when tracking non-payers, particularly if a 100% markup is involved. Oklahoma does not play, people.
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Sep 29, 2015 02:16
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In Maryland my Ninja250 is $312/yr for a first year rider with an >25mph speeding ticket on record from a year ago. This is with progressive. Geico quoted me at $1500/yr or some insane poo poo. I shouldn't have gotten the disappearing deductibles though.
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I gamed my disappearing deductible a little. The way it works with progressive is your deductible goes down 25% (from the base value) each year you have no comp/collision claims. After 4 years of no claims I am on the hook for 0% of the base deductible, so I upped it from $500 to $1000 and it saves $70/y (out of $500ish!) in premium. The extra premium for the disappearing deductible is like $14/y so as long as I don't make a claim, it's cheaper; I'm motivated in general to not make claims. After you make a claim your deductible comes back at your next renewal, so I'll just reduce the base deductible again for a few years if that happens. clutchpuck fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Sep 30, 2015 |
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Sep 30, 2015 20:28
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Sent my Roadcrafter back for some alterations. Just realized I left the only key to my bike in one of the pockets. gently caress.
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Springfield Fatts posted:Sent my Roadcrafter back for some alterations. Just realized I left the only key to my bike in one of the pockets. gently caress. That SUCKS. Maybe they can overnight the key back to you? Why don't you have more than one key how do you sleep at night? So, the groms on my craigslist have always been bone stock with 5000+ miles for $500 more than MSRP, or this kind of lunacy:  And for the privilege of paying 3k more than the bike is worth, you get a bike that has had this done to it for it's entire break in period (it has only 1200 miles on the odo):   No, it's cool bro. I would be happy to pay for your "more money than sense" 7800+inMODZ mistake. Since you are looking for a stuntable supermoto, now, this bike obviously completely sucks for what it was built for. What is wrong with grom owners?!
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Oct 6, 2015 00:43
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Grom owners are the smart car owners of the bike world.
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Oct 6, 2015 00:59
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To be fair to grom owners, that guy will ruin the next bike he gets, too
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Oct 6, 2015 01:00
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If every bike owner in the world was me, everything would be perfect, because I'd own every bike in the world.
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Man that guy bought a bike as a toy and had fun with it gently caress that guy
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Renaissance Robot posted:If every bike owner in the world was me, everything would be perfect, because I'd own every bike in the world. Could Erik Buell create a bike that he would not own? Makes ya think.
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It's like the shittiest, tiniest superduke. Also, I recently bought a pair of 900RR's from someone named Erik out by East Troy. I like to pretend it was Erik Buell himself, which somehow makes it funny when I discover things like shattered oil pan drain plug bosses, cut charging system wires shorting on the frame, etc. Yerok fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Oct 6, 2015 |
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People, please keep your animals contained. I hit a dog tonight and it died,  . I thankfully didn't go down, but I feel horrible about it. I was doing about 50 in a 45 and checked my blind spot, when I looked back I saw the dog right as my bike hit him. I went back but there was nothing I could do. 
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Schroeder91 posted:People, please keep your animals contained. I hit a dog tonight and it died, Loose dogs are such a bad mix with bikes. Normally they'll be afraid and just bark at you while staying back, but then you get some which are super interested in you and merrily waltz through traffic to come check you out and say hi.
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Seriously, my first "almost accident" since I started on scooters last year was a dog that ran out of an apartment complex, no leash, into traffic, after 10AM. Driving in the scooter lane/shoulder, with a car on my left, and parked cars on my right, car on my left suddenly hits his brakes and now I'm staring down a white Pomeranian. Thankfully it turned back around at the last second, but I stopped driving on the shoulder/scooter lane at that particular stretch of road. Technically not actually a scooter lane there, just a bit of shoulder wide enough for a scooter to go between traffic and parked cars relatively safely. Learned a few things that night.
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loving poms  
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Welp. First time I've ever worked on a vehicle where the factory service manual was wrong. "Fit the case splitter to the clutch side of the engine", my rear end. Ended up taking me like two hours too long because I couldn't figure out why the input shaft just wouldn't budge.
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I was riding at a modest pace through a residential area and someone apparently left the gate to their fenced garden open and their yappy little terrier ran out into the street to chase me. My first instinct was to speed up and outrun it, but I was coming up on an intersection and I didn't want to get the dumb furball run over, so I stopped and got off, picked the dog up and carried it back to its garden, closed the gate and dropped it over the fence. That's my sort of feelgood story.
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Collateral Damage posted:I was riding at a modest pace through a residential area and someone apparently left the gate to their fenced garden open and their yappy little terrier ran out into the street to chase me. My first instinct was to speed up and outrun it, but I was coming up on an intersection and I didn't want to get the dumb furball run over, so I stopped and got off, picked the dog up and carried it back to its garden, closed the gate and dropped it over the fence. A+ work. It's always good to be kind to animals.
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Festive-rear end dogs always getting entangled in spokes
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Sorry, I'm sure hitting a dog was traumatic but I couldn't help but think of this
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Sorry, I'm sure hitting a dog was traumatic but I couldn't help but think of this The skid demon! Love it, like a road gremlin.
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Earlier this year I was taking a bike to the local garage for an inspection sticker. The garage is at the end of a dead end side street and when I was basically in dooryard some big dumb pitbull comes out and gets in front of me. I am going like 5mph so I stop and the big retard dog starts mauling my tire. The owners stood there yelling at the dog that obviously wasn't listening, tried to pull the dog away, and he would just come back. I wasn't about to physically assault a pitbull and every time I tried to go he would just square off to the tire in front of me and maul maul maul. Eventually the dog got out of the way enough for me to get to the garage, where he loving followed me and continued to attack the tire while the mechanics and poo poo tried to get him to gently caress off. In the end, the dog hosed off and I got my inspection sticker but wouldn't you know, my front tire was flat a few hours later. The tire held air just fine for the year+ previous to that and sure it seems crazy to think that he popped but it sure is one hell of a coincidence.
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EX250 Type R posted:Earlier this year I was taking a bike to the local garage for an inspection sticker. The garage is at the end of a dead end side street and when I was basically in dooryard some big dumb pitbull comes out and gets in front of me. I am going like 5mph so I stop and the big retard dog starts mauling my tire. The owners stood there yelling at the dog that obviously wasn't listening, tried to pull the dog away, and he would just come back. I wasn't about to physically assault a pitbull and every time I tried to go he would just square off to the tire in front of me and maul maul maul.  what kind of hosed up pirate ship workshop has a dog like that just wandering loose? What the gently caress."Hmmm yes I really would like to make money from people walking into my workshop and this raging pooch wandering loose in maximum attack mode won't at all impact this strategy in any way"
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I dunno about you guys, but my dog (boxer) is generally poorly behaved. The bike, though? He respects the bike. I genuinely have no idea why it's the one thing he doesn't try to gently caress up. e: no, he's not afraid of it. Verge fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Oct 10, 2015 |
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EX250 Type R posted:Earlier this year I was taking a bike to the local garage for an inspection sticker. The garage is at the end of a dead end side street and when I was basically in dooryard some big dumb pitbull comes out and gets in front of me. I am going like 5mph so I stop and the big retard dog starts mauling my tire. The owners stood there yelling at the dog that obviously wasn't listening, tried to pull the dog away, and he would just come back. I wasn't about to physically assault a pitbull and every time I tried to go he would just square off to the tire in front of me and maul maul maul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fi0V-oCwvY
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Verge posted:The skid demon! Love it, like a road gremlin. Mods please name change me to either Skid Demon, Festive Dog or Vigorous Tooteler
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Go with skid demon so we get our fill of underwear jokes.
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Got a (bad) pic of my baby from the Insurance yard today. gently caress motorcycle thieves.  Before: 
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Send it to off the old farm where it can frolick and wheelie in the fields, and take the offered compensation.
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Akion posted:Got a (bad) pic of my baby from the Insurance yard today. gently caress motorcycle thieves. I've seen poo poo like this a lot, also happened to my neighbor (bike was seen riding around with the rear subframe ground off) and I never get this, why don't they part the bike out or sell it and instead just gently caress it up. Meth?
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High Protein posted:I've seen poo poo like this a lot, also happened to my neighbor (bike was seen riding around with the rear subframe ground off) and I never get this, why don't they part the bike out or sell it and instead just gently caress it up. Meth? Well, this dude got popped with: Motor Vehicle Theft/Agg 1 <20K - Class 4 Felony ID Theft - Poss w/intent to use - Class 5 Felony Crim Poss Fin Dev 4 or More - Class 5 Felony Detective says the bike basically led them to his U-Haul full of stolen DL's, Passports, and Credit Cards. Sounds like he's gonna have a bad time. As an aside, my buddy brought his new Monster over for me to take a spin on yesterday and god dammit I miss riding.
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Holy gently caress, what kind of brain dead monkey does that sort of damage?! Even ignoring that you had one of the best looking DRZ's I've ever seen, picture or otherwise, what they did to it is just beyond the pale. It shows a lack of respect of people having nice things to steal other's things, but this is a complete lack of being ok with nice things even existing. Why would you go through such chaotic effort to ruin something so completely?! What is the point?! Glad that guy is going to get reamed by the court system. He deserves it.
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Went to leave on a trip on Saturday and went to attach my GPS to my bike and noticed that my Ram mount had been stolen. I commute and park my bike very day but rarely use the mount so it could have been stolen a while ago. I ended up using google maps on my cell phone speaking directions to me on my Sena bluetooth headset. Who the hell steals a Ram mount?
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Akion posted:Well, this dude got popped with: See, this is why police need to take vehicle theft more seriously. Maybe all you get at the end of the breadcrumb trail is some clean living kleptomaniac. But if there's any sort of enterprise behind it, who knows what you'll find? Drugs, guns, shipping container full of smuggled humans... all because you followed up on a guy's stolen bike.
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Word to the wise: don't go anywhere near the Forks Of The Credit during leaf-peeping season, you will have no fun and just end up behind a long line of people driving their SUVs at 10 under looking at leaves and wondering why the road is so windy. Then when you pass all the fun parts going too slow, you'll spend 10 minutes trying to get onto Highway 10 because none of them can accelerate their suburban tanks fast enough to make it into the rare gaps in the traffic. Ugh. Cagers ruin everything around me.
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This is why I swore off hitting the mountains on weekends between 8am-3pm. Even outside of leaf season, it's nothing but slow moving trains of the same kind of car or motorcycle as enthusiast groups pretend to have fun in a slow moving wagon train through the best roads.
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Chris Knight posted:Word to the wise: don't go anywhere near the Forks Of The Credit during leaf-peeping season, you will have no fun and just end up behind a long line of people driving their SUVs at 10 under looking at leaves and wondering why the road is so windy. Then when you pass all the fun parts going too slow, you'll spend 10 minutes trying to get onto Highway 10 because none of them can accelerate their suburban tanks fast enough to make it into the rare gaps in the traffic. Been there done that got the t-shirt. Pretty sure it was on Thanksgiving too. "oh I'll just go for a drive down the forks, should be quiet, everyone is at grandma's eating turkey" Oh gently caress everyone's grandma lives in belfountain it turns out. This was ~10 years ago, can't imagine it's gotten better.
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