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PCOS Bill posted:Speaking of crashed and died, Nicky Hayden Cmon guy
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May 22, 2017 20:00
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Cmon guy http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2017/05/22/2006-motogp-champion-nicky-hayden-dead-at-35.html quote:American motorcycle racer Nicky Hayden died on Monday from injuries suffered when he was struck by a car while riding a bicycle in Italy five days ago, the Maurizio Bufalani Hospital in Cesena, where he was being treated, has confirmed.
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May 22, 2017 20:04
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PCOS Bill posted:Speaking of crashed and died, Nicky Hayden It's not FARK, it's SomethingIsAwful.com
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May 22, 2017 20:20
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PCOS Bill posted:http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2017/05/22/2006-motogp-champion-nicky-hayden-dead-at-35.html Yeah, I don't think that's what he meant by c'mon guy.
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May 22, 2017 20:25
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Someone needs to start a petition to have I-69 in KY named the Nicky Hayden Memorial Expressway. I'm serious. Pass it on.
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May 22, 2017 21:11
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King of the Beach posted:Someone needs to start a petition to have I-69 in KY named the Nicky Hayden Memorial Expressway. 69 runs about 30 miles west of Owensboro, Nicky's home town. I could see a petition like this going somewhere.
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May 22, 2017 21:20
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Jazzzzz posted:69 runs about 30 miles west of Owensboro, Nicky's home town. I could see a petition like this going somewhere. I'll boost it later then elsewhere, feel free to do the same!
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May 22, 2017 21:22
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MomJeans420 posted:It sounds like I'm paying too much in insurance, here's my current bike insurance: Oh my, I am paying 3 times as much for 0.1 as much $ amount. Ugh, may be I need to shop for another insurer. Although when I did a year ago, one of the quotes was 7k... E: Yeah, Geico wants 3k for equivalent of your coverage. And $2800 for min coverage. pokie fucked around with this message at 22:36 on May 22, 2017 |
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May 22, 2017 22:24
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Re: that triumph quote. I'm a brand new rider with 0 years of experience listed and got quoted $981 on the exact same thing you've got written up there. So probably not unless you're married with kids and over 30 with a house with a garage (all things I am not) then you're probably doing ok for your quote. But insurance rates vary tremendously.
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May 22, 2017 22:47
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I just got my new bill for the next period and it looks like my Daytona insurance is now $900/year, with no claims on any policy during the last period. I'm married, mid-30s, house with a garage, etc, but it sounds like that may be the Daytona + LA tax.
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May 22, 2017 23:04
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clutchpuck posted:I'm not prepared to agree that California is cool. Merge California's weather with New Hampshire's laws (plus lane splitting), and that's a state I'd move to.
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May 22, 2017 23:15
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Deeters posted:Merge California's weather with New Hampshire's laws (plus lane splitting), and that's a state I'd move to. Which part of California?
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May 23, 2017 04:18
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Deeters posted:Merge California's weather with New Hampshire's laws (plus lane splitting), and that's a state I'd move to. What New Hampshire laws? 
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May 23, 2017 14:42
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King of the Beach posted:What New Hampshire laws? Probably "no income tax or sales tax" but that just means the state rapes you, as a resident, instead of offsetting it by out of state revenue through sales. NH sucks, the Arizona of the North imo
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May 24, 2017 12:39
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Self inflicted first world problem rant but those times you have a camera but forget/don't turn it on and you make a really good/fast run of a road are the worst. I have a great Launch road run in my head but the cam died a minute in due to the battery running out.
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May 24, 2017 13:58
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Deeters posted:Merge California's weather with New Hampshire's laws (plus lane splitting), and that's a state I'd move to. Portugal?
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May 24, 2017 14:05
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MomJeans420 posted:I changed jobs and my new office building has a magnetic sensor that doesn't recognize my bike, which means my key card won't open the gate, and I can't just take a ticket to get in. Even better is the gates are not manned, there is someone in an office in the morning that can see me get stuck and open the gate for me, but at night I'm on my own. The gate (wood bar, whatever) is long enough that I can't get by, I tried one day, almost dropped the bike trying to lean it far enough to get by, then got it stuck on my side until the car behind me opened it up. Is there One Weird Trick (TM) to get around this? I'm tempted to just hacksaw off 1ft of the gate late at night. Just practice a bit and then do this every night? https://youtu.be/boI71KRxTTY?list=FLHvOhDBgZqoQg91sw57_-aw&t=97 The Bananana posted:What state has the most vehicle/motorcyclist accidents? Nidhg00670000 posted:That sounds INSANELY high. So I went looking for some stats.
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May 24, 2017 18:08
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i call cars smith machines
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May 25, 2017 02:10
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Every time I'm at a motorcycle meetup, it's always the sportbike guys with almost no exhaust just revbombing all over the place. You'll be having a conversation and then all of a sudden everything is drowned out for five seconds while some jerkoff in no gear slams a cold bike against the limiter. This happens once a minute towards the end. It doesn't even sound good. Just loud.
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May 25, 2017 03:16
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Lol
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May 25, 2017 03:18
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Coydog posted:Every time I'm at a motorcycle meetup, it's always the sportbike guys with almost no exhaust just revbombing all over the place. You'll be having a conversation and then all of a sudden everything is drowned out for five seconds while some jerkoff in no gear slams a cold bike against the limiter. This happens once a minute towards the end. That's why you don't ride with other people. I rode with the first person that wasn't my kin last week and it was a lurker here.
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May 25, 2017 03:40
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nsaP posted:That's why you don't ride with other people. I rode with the first person that wasn't my kin last week and it was a lurker here. This reeks of a fedorist saying he doesnt have sex out of choice, hes just waiting for the right woman.
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May 25, 2017 03:56
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Would be true if you could have sex better by yourself.
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May 25, 2017 04:07
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EX250 Type R posted:This reeks of a fedorist saying he doesnt have sex out of choice, hes just waiting for the right woman. I've been thinking about gluing a tiny fedora to the top of a helmet. M'cycle.
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May 25, 2017 04:08
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nsaP posted:Would be true if you could have sex better by yourself. I have sex the best by m,yself just ask Sarah
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May 25, 2017 04:10
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EX250 Type R posted:I have sex the best by m,yself just ask Sarah Sarah Palin?
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May 25, 2017 04:20
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Coydog posted:Every time I'm at a motorcycle meetup, it's always the sportbike guys with almost no exhaust just revbombing all over the place. You'll be having a conversation and then all of a sudden everything is drowned out for five seconds while some jerkoff in no gear slams a cold bike against the limiter. This happens once a minute towards the end. No poo poo...seriously, just no please stop. I'm pretty sure I already posted this take in another thread but holey moley are motorcycle exhaust videos absolutely terrible and useless (when it comes to using them to figure out what to buy) because this is what they all are 3/4 of the time...as if the concept of being 'under load' was just completely lost upon these people who seemingly haven't progressed much since they were born from being under their father's load. It doesn't even sound good either and more than half the time the engine is cold. Impkins Patootie fucked around with this message at 04:41 on May 25, 2017 |
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May 25, 2017 04:38
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King of the Beach posted:this is what they all are 3/4 of the time...as if the concept of being 'under load' was just completely lost upon these people Right??? Jesus Christ, it's next to impossible to find someone recording the sound of the exhaust when the engine's actually, you know, driving the bike. No, let's have thirty seconds of shaky-cam with heavy mouthbreathing, followed by starting the bike up and immediately pinging it off the limiter in neutral with zero load so that even a 1000cc V-twin sounds like a power drill. I honestly doubt those people have even noticed that the exhaust sound changes with throttle position independently of RPM.
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May 25, 2017 07:33
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That's why you search for "<bike model> <exhaust model> flyby" instead.
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Coydog posted:Every time I'm at a motorcycle meetup, it's always the sportbike guys with almost no exhaust just revbombing all over the place. You'll be having a conversation and then all of a sudden everything is drowned out for five seconds while some jerkoff in no gear slams a cold bike against the limiter. This happens once a minute towards the end. nsaP posted:That's why you don't ride with other people. I rode with the first person that wasn't my kin last week and it was a lurker here. King of the Beach posted:No poo poo...seriously, just no please stop. I'm pretty sure I already posted this take in another thread but holey moley are motorcycle exhaust videos absolutely terrible and useless (when it comes to using them to figure out what to buy) because this is what they all are 3/4 of the time...as if the concept of being 'under load' was just completely lost upon these people who seemingly haven't progressed much since they were born from being under their father's load. 
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May 25, 2017 14:39
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hot sauce posted:rrrrNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINNRRRRrrrrNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNING
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May 25, 2017 19:02
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Skreemer posted:
I had no health insurance and just the bare minimum insurance on my bike when I crashed the first time. I got a ride home and to the hospital and after about 3 hours there with pain meds and multiple x-rays on my twice broken arm I think I paid about $400 while there and then got a bill for $50 for the x-rays and my doctors bill (who I talked to for about 5 minutes) was $700. A month later they sent me a new bill for 50% off because it was Christmas, if paid in full. This was in Phoenix (Tempe more specifically.) How they hell do you rack up $26k for x-rays?!
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May 25, 2017 19:25
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Insurance. It's a loving racket if they know you are insured and will charge up to the maximum amounts of coverage. If you pay out of pocket in cash, it's much more reasonable.
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May 25, 2017 19:30
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Although often the insurance companies have negotiated better rates, so people with no coverage pay full "bend over" pricing.
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May 25, 2017 19:42
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The entire surgery on my radius bone including the plate and 7 screws ($20k alone) was billed to insurance at $46k. I am pretty sure none of the x-rays were even over $5000. I've come out of pocket for some X-rays in the past in the neighborhood of $500. I'm not saying a $26k set of X-rays is impossible but that sounds more like MRI territory. Edit: looking at the bill, the insurance company negotiated the actual cost of $75k down to $46k. The way they make it sound, if I had no insurance the surgery would have been $29k more billed from the hospital. rally fucked around with this message at 19:59 on May 25, 2017 |
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May 25, 2017 19:52
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The_Raven posted:Word. I bitched them out in a reply to a survey the other day. gently caress the 20 dirtbags on dirtbikes that are restricted from riding 1/1000 of this gagnormous land mass, gently caress the graybeards and their prehistoric iron garbage that won't run E10. How about actually PROMOTING MOTORCYCLING by making commuting a more attractive option? It will get more people on bikes if they can filter through the shitstorm of commuting fucktards! The AMA is just like the NRA - an organization that represents manufacturers and patronizes owners, using them as muscle for their lobbying efforts on behalf of the manufacturers. The only reason I'm a member is for the cheap roadside assistance. Motorcycles were originally banned from HOV lanes. It's the AMA who helped with the "Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991" which is the reason why motorcycles can use HOV lanes. As far as lane splitting goes, the AMA supports responsible lane splitting: and in fact lane splitting is the first position statement listed in their list on on highway position papers. https://www.americanmotorcyclist.com/About-The-AMA/lane-splitting-1 And that they supported Washington State's lane splitting legislation efforts https://www.americanmotorcyclist.co...ashington-state Yuns fucked around with this message at 05:53 on May 26, 2017 |
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May 26, 2017 05:12
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The lane splitting proposal in Washington was garbage. That aside, doing and/or supporting some good things in the past doesn't absolve the organization from being poo poo in its current form.
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Yuns posted:Sorry I don't agree with your anti-AMA rant. I've been a member on and off for decades and the AMA has done a ton of lobbying work over the years to prevent motorcycles and motorcyclists from treatment as second class citizens on the road. Not sure if you are too young to remember but the AMA was instrumental in laws designed to prevent employers from denying healthcare benefits based on participating in motorcycling. See HIPAA's provisions on barring companies from denying health insurance based on participation in legal activities. The federal agencies then interpreted the law to mean that insurance had to be offered but coverage could exclude those activities. The AMA lobbied to change that interpretation through legislation. If it weren't for the AMA in part, motorcyclists wouldn't get health insurance even at work. The AMA had a lot going for it for quite a long time. Running the racing series, they sold it off. Selling scenic tours around the US, simply fired all of the staff and closed it down. Plus a few other things. All of these are gone now and replaced with AMA: we're a lobbying group only now. You are correct, they are a great lobbying group but they used to be so much more. Now that they focus almost 100% on the lobbying side.
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Go to mechanics to get my chain tensioned and some new brake pads put in, because everything's seized and I'm a weak lazy babby. Get quoted £25. Nice! Aaaaaaand they found a nail in my rear tyre.  £171 like for like replacement (PR4, and because the front wheel has to come off too to fix a seized valve cap). I only had the thing put on last August, barely any wear on it  Non rant: salesman suggested putting a Pirelli Angel ST on there instead, brought it down to £134. Also payday was yesterday, so it's not as bad as it could have been. But fuuuuuuck 
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