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Tesla was right posted:Blairite council Stockport loss Jaeluni Asjil posted:Peter Cruddas day trade cost Brendan Rodgers posted:SAS, Alpacas, paintings of the queen. e: The sextant got its name because it forms one-sixth of a whole circle and not because of those messages it sent to Anthony McPartlin.
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The invasion of Iraq was a dead cat to distract us from the true atrocity that Blair committed in 2003, recalling and scrapping every last Invacar rather than letting owners and collectors keep them.
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Guavanaut posted:We didn't start the Covid, it's been two years burning, and now chuds deworming. 
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Guavanaut posted:We didn't start the Covid, it's been two years burning, and now chuds deworming. Seconding the appreciation of this brilliant post.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The invasion of Iraq was a dead cat to distract us from the true atrocity that Blair committed in 2003, recalling and scrapping every last Invacar rather than letting owners and collectors keep them. 
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NoneMoreNegative posted:/Looks up dawluhbawn 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The invasion of Iraq was a dead cat to distract us from the true atrocity that Blair committed in 2003, recalling and scrapping every last Invacar rather than letting owners and collectors keep them. Wikipedia suggests they were mostly government owned but privately owned ones are still around?
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Busy week for the SAS. Alpacas, paintings of the queen. The Special Alpaca Service
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Why isn't there a Formula series for little 3 wheel cars that just plays Yakety Sax for the duration of the race?
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Failed Imagineer posted:Why isn't there a Formula series for little 3 wheel cars that just plays Yakety Sax for the duration of the race? Be the change you want to see in the world.
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feedmegin posted:Wikipedia suggests they were mostly government owned but privately owned ones are still around? Very few though, and they're all renegade, operating beyond the law, which makes them actually pretty cool. Lord help me but there's actually a mini-effortpost in this which I'll come back to this afternoon.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Why isn't there a Formula series for little 3 wheel cars that just plays Yakety Sax for the duration of the race? Reliant Robin racing was a thing at Arena Essex and other banger racing circuits for a while. One of the most common performance enhancers was putting the baldest tyres you could find on them because if they had too much grip they'd just flip as soon as you went into a corner (yes yes that Clarkson clip, which obviously was extremely overstated, but was an actual problem if you steered too quickly even on the road).
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Why didn't they go with two steered wheels at the front with Ackermann geometry and one fat driven wheel at the back? The Robin geometry seems like the worst way of doing it, you still need a differential and you fall over.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Reliant Robin racing was a thing at Arena Essex and other banger racing circuits for a while. One of the most common performance enhancers was putting the baldest tyres you could find on them because if they had too much grip they'd just flip as soon as you went into a corner (yes yes that Clarkson clip, which obviously was extremely overstated, but was an actual problem if you steered too quickly even on the road). drat that sounds fun as hell
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Bobby Deluxe posted:it is so very late why did i make this Gdi lol
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Failed Imagineer posted:Why isn't there a Formula series for little 3 wheel cars that just plays Yakety Sax for the duration of the race? Formula E fills that niche already.
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Guavanaut posted:Why didn't they go with two steered wheels at the front with Ackermann geometry and one fat driven wheel at the back? The Robin geometry seems like the worst way of doing it, you still need a differential and you fall over. All of the "true" cyclecars (<250cc) were chain driven to a solid axle (or for the really cheap ones just to a single rear wheel) - the lack of a diff wasn't really a problem with the relatively low power, light weight, and tiny little wheels. This both reflects the original loophole they were exploiting (they were technically a motorcycle with sidecar rather than a car) and is also cheaper than a single driven wheel because you just use a motorcycle-style front end - a proper steering wheel and front suspension is a considerably higher component count than a live axle and diff. Specifically for the Invacar, a single front wheel allowed you to use handlebars rather than a steering wheel, which offers a much wider range of potential modification to suit disabilities.
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Guavanaut posted:Why didn't they go with two steered wheels at the front with Ackermann geometry and one fat driven wheel at the back? The Robin geometry seems like the worst way of doing it, you still need a differential and you fall over. It was to do with how the Reliant evolved. They started out being made by Raleigh (of the bicycles) as lightweight urban delivery trucks based around the front end and drivetrain of a motorbike but with a solid twin-wheel rear axle. When Raleigh decided to stop making motorised vehicles, their chief designer bought the rights and founded Reliant (named so he could re-use all the existing parts with 'R' cast into them). After sticking with motorcycle-based engineering for a while Reliant bought the rights to the Austin Seven's drivetrain in the late 30s when Austin stopped making it and so developed its 'one wheel at the front, conventional live axle with a diff at the back' layout. For vans and light cars propelled by an Austin Seven engine it was fine, but once you get into (relatively) heavier, faster stuff like the Regal 3/30 and the Robin it becomes a bit of a liability, although the instability has been greatly overstated in pop culture. But there is a reason why the 'sporty' three wheelers from Morgan etc. all had the single wheel at the back.
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That explains why they were able to classify them as covered motorcycles.
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Guavanaut posted:That explains why they were able to classify them as covered motorcycles. That looks narrow enough he could lean it like a bike. Wonder if he can get his knee down.
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Guavanaut posted:That explains why they were able to classify them as covered motorcycles. That's basically a motorised rickshaw
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Yeah I got strong tuc tuc vibes from it. I always thought those came about from a milk float crashing into a Vespa  
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http://www.piaggiocommercialvehicles.com/it_IT/modelli/ape/
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If they're gonna call it an Ape, at least put an RSV4 engine in it (This is an incomprehensible joke to 99.9% of the thread and I don't care)
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goddamnedtwisto posted:If they're gonna call it an Ape, at least put an RSV4 engine in it lol Not exactly right but reminded me of this classic https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wobUkf4zwzs
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Pictures of the Queen? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT67eMT499E biglads fucked around with this message at 11:26 on Sep 3, 2021 |
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Westminsters plans for Queens death revealed: - no retweeting - gently caress the flag as quickly as possible - no extra holidays, gently caress you https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/revealed-the-uk-security-operation-planned-for-queen-elizabeth-s-death-1.4664098 When she eventually dies of COVID or vCJD contracted from a stag or whatever, I'm gonna catch a plane over to cropdust the body as she lies in state
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Failed Imagineer posted:Westminsters plans for Queens death revealed: what the gently caress
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Praying for a message from Gibbo.
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What do they say if actual London Bridge falls down
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Sanford posted:What do they say if actual London Bridge falls down "No not that one, the other one"
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Sanford posted:What do they say if actual London Bridge falls down Queen dead, so what
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Sanford posted:What do they say if actual London Bridge falls down Operation Maj
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Sanford posted:The secret documents, codenamed Operation London Bridge and seen by Politico, reveal the scale of the plans for the funeral and British government anxieties about whether the UK has the resources to execute them. 
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A lot of those vehicles really bring to mind how the whole definition of 'car' legally has fringes. Reminded of that Top Gear episode where they try out a ton of vintage vehicles to try to find out who was the first to have what would become the standard manual control scheme, with three pedals and a gearstick. Quite a few had very weird controls. (the Model T being no exception) And one of them actually had a setup that would become standard for quadbikes.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:A lot of those vehicles really bring to mind how the whole definition of 'car' legally has fringes. This is why you can only successfully sue a car by trying it as a Boat Upon The Land
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That's the real reason They don't want you to know about why Liverpool banned the yellow buses.Ghost Leviathan posted:Reminded of that Top Gear episode where they try out a ton of vintage vehicles to try to find out who was the first to have what would become the standard manual control scheme, with three pedals and a gearstick. Quite a few had very weird controls. (the Model T being no exception) And one of them actually had a setup that would become standard for quadbikes. I imagine it'd be a complete pain on the roads but that never stopped any of the other horseless carriage designs.
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Guavanaut posted:Were there ever any that were operated like the Cessna/light aircraft layout, where engine speed and braking is by hand and you steer (on the ground) with your feet? Youd need long legs to reach the tarmac tho
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I bet you could steer by dragging your boots with a couple of well placed holes.
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