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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Is that for real? Tesla autopilots are known to cross double yellows? How has Tesla not been sued or regulated out of business for such a homicidal software failure? That's like spectacularly bad Because it's the opinion of the US government that doing anything to Tesla will cause its investors to suffer and god knows we can't have that.
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Sagebrush posted:Tesla themselves have started DMCA'ing (lol) Twitter and Youtube videos that make them look bad.
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I was watching Alice in Borderland, a japanese series about being trapped in a malicious game world (no, not squid game, this one is a bit older). The protagonists need a vehicle, because an EMP wiped out all electrics. They find a 'special' bus that still has functioning electrics because of the game mechanics i guess, but can't start it because the tank is empty. They notice something about 'model year carburetor'. Then they found an Enfield. Very specifically said it's one on diesel. They decide to fill up the bus with the diesel (wait what, the bus had a carburetor? I mean, gasoline buses exist so okay). But they say they can't start the enfield because the electrics are gone. So they push the bike for like 6 kilometers. THE ONE DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC OF A DIESEL ENFIELD IS THAT IT WILL RUN EVEN IF AN EMP TOASTED ALL ELECTRICS. Sigh. YOU COULD HAVE RIDDEN THE GODDAMN THING BECAUSE IT HAS NO IGNITION AND YOU CAN KICKSTART IT. /rant
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Oct 7, 2021 21:23
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oh there was an enfield in that? i was too busy looking at tao's boobs
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Oct 8, 2021 15:28
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There are tons of hot guys in there too :3 but they were literally like "HEY DUDE! THAT'S A ROYAL ENFIELD IT IS A SPECIAL MODEL THAT RUNS ON DIESEL!" "OH YEAH DUDE, YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR BIKE STUFF" "LET'S WALK IT TO THE BUS AND THEN USE THE DIESEL TO START THE BUS" So i couldn't not-see it.
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Oct 8, 2021 17:30
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I looked it up because I wasn't aware that Royal Enfield ever made a diesel bike. The only diesel-powered motorcycle I was aware of that hit anything resembling mass production was that KLR they built for the USMC. The RE Taurus diesel does exist, apparently. It looks like it has a repurposed agricultural motor and it makes a reported 6.5 horsepower out of 325cc. Nice 
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Oct 8, 2021 18:24
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It sounds great, I want to ride one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae-dyLFk4wk At 12:35 he finally starts it up, then rides to a gas station where the attendant is incredulous that he wants diesel in it
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Oct 8, 2021 18:34
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Sagebrush posted:I looked it up because I wasn't aware that Royal Enfield ever made a diesel bike. The only diesel-powered motorcycle I was aware of that hit anything resembling mass production was that KLR they built for the USMC. I'd have used the fuel for the bus too.
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Sagebrush posted:I looked it up because I wasn't aware that Royal Enfield ever made a diesel bike. The only diesel-powered motorcycle I was aware of that hit anything resembling mass production was that KLR they built for the USMC. Weird, I was sure there were diesel-powered variants of the Armstrong that the British Army uses but I can't seem to find any evidence of it - might just be misremembering the USMC one.
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I think the 325cc thing is indeed the only standard production one, but there are relatively many people who shoved their own Lombardini (or chinese clone) diesel into a Bullet frame. Aside from that, Sommer makes partially Royal Enfield-based diesel bikes with real german Hatz engines in them: http://www.motorradmanufaktur.de/index.php They have a list of parts and where they came from somewhere on their site. But i think they used a normal bullet in the shot. i recognize the large cooling ribs on the cylinder. Usually those are hidden by fan shrouds on the diesel bikes.
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Oct 8, 2021 19:42
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Hopped on the hack rig to go down to the corner store and pick up a couple of 6 packs for football watching this afternoon. Old lady in a CR-V with her decrepit mother in the passenger seat starts to pull out from the pumps and nearly runs into the back end of my bike after I've passed by her on the way to a parking spot. I saw her start to pull out, juked to the right while cursing, and continued to park. "EXCUSE ME! YOU NEED TO WATCH OUT, I ALMOST HIT YOU!" Old lady yelling out her window while her mother death glares at me. Wouldn't have been her fault for pulling into me from a dead stop because she didn't look where she was going, no siree. I loving teleported in front of her. Did you hear what just came out of your mouth, lady? YOU almost hit ME. Why am I catching a lecture? Just took off my helmet, said "yes ma'am, have a good weekend" and went in to get my beer. Watch your asses out there, dipshits are trying to kill you.
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Oct 9, 2021 20:11
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many women are competent drivers (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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right arm posted:many women are competent drivers Go back to ADVRider
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Oct 10, 2021 18:57
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Jazzzzz posted:Hopped on the hack rig to go down to the corner store and pick up a couple of 6 packs for football watching this afternoon. Old lady in a CR-V with her decrepit mother in the passenger seat starts to pull out from the pumps and nearly runs into the back end of my bike after I've passed by her on the way to a parking spot. I saw her start to pull out, juked to the right while cursing, and continued to park. Thanks, I hate it. Really impressed with your not escalating that. Some heroic self control there. Stuff like this is why I've maybe ridden 300 miles max this YEAR.  Afraid to get on the bike until hospitals go back to normal.EDIT: After this post I went out and washed the bike, did chain maintenance, and took it for a ride. 
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Oct 10, 2021 19:05
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https://i.imgur.com/NTfA6LO.mp4 hell is other motorists
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Oct 15, 2021 01:26
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Why don't you go faster than the cars...?
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Oct 15, 2021 02:10
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I don't want a speeding ticket.
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Oct 15, 2021 02:34
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loving end me now. Finally putting my swingarm and rear suspension back together and I’m missing two weird spacer plates. I’m 100% certain I said “hey I’ll just put them here so I don’t lose them” two days ago but I turned the shop upside down and they’re nowhere to be found. I can order a new set from Suzuki dealer but goddamn this is M A D D E N I N G I might as well look through the reassembly instructions to see if I’m missing anything else, if I have to go put in an order
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Oct 15, 2021 02:37
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Go to bed and look again tomorrow before you order the parts.
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Oct 15, 2021 02:43
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For sure. I’m like 100% certain I wouldn’t have thrown them out, they’re not something I was expecting to be in the replacement kit. I’m also 100% certain they’re right under my nose. If I have to pay fifteen to twenty canadian dollars to replace each one, I’m going to go bananas.
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Oct 15, 2021 02:54
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Martytoof posted:For sure. I’m like 100% certain I wouldn’t have thrown them out, they’re not something I was expecting to be in the replacement kit. I’m also 100% certain they’re right under my nose. They are in your toolbox
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I’m still saving for a good single toolbox so if they are they’re in one of the twenty individual plastic boxes containing the tools  Well I looked through probably ten of them so I’ll check the rest tomorrow. If you see my make a “well i put my swingarm together” post in the “what did you do today” thread just assume that they were someplace so stupid that I’m too ashamed to post about it. If you see me posting about my swingarm in two weeks you can safely assume I had to order the part 
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Oct 15, 2021 03:16
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They're under the shop manual
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FBS posted:https://i.imgur.com/NTfA6LO.mp4 Why wouldn't they just pass in the left lane that was completely open?
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Finger Prince posted:They're under the shop manual You joke but I literally just got out of bed after I read this, went outside and turned the lights on in the shed and shook out the manual to be sure. They weren’t, but that was actually a good guess.
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MomJeans420 posted:Why wouldn't they just pass in the left lane that was completely open? Truck in that lane wasn't going fast enough to suit them.
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Martytoof posted:You joke but I literally just got out of bed after I read this, went outside and turned the lights on in the shed and shook out the manual to be sure. Would have freaked me the hell out if they were though!
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As someone with a lifetime experience of being an idiot and losing things from tiny irreplaceable screws to an entire 5U full-depth server[1] this way, I've found the best thing to do is pin/tape everything to a bit of scrap paper or card, with what it is clearly labeled and the component traced around. Also mark on the card if you end up having to use a second card and where you put that. This is particularly handy if you do it in the order you take stuff out so you know what way it all goes back together. [1] I did actually find it and it wasn't "lost" through my own stupidity, a colleague helpfully wheeled it off to a secure area because I'd left it out while I went to get the big lift needed to help me put it in the rack, but as far as he knew some idiot had just left a massive trip hazard just laying around. Twat didn't think to tell me when he first saw me standing there swearing and convinced I *had* somehow just forgotten where I'd put 50 kilos of metal, and only put two and two together when I reappeared with security for the data centre because I had to assume that it had been stolen from the shared data centre we were in.
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Slavvy posted:Why don't you go faster than the cars...? I always feel like I'm speeding, but there are usually cars passing me, especially on the highway here (75mph limit, but real pace is like 80-85). I just don't want to go that fast sometimes especially between big 18 wheelers.
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Now I'm picturing twisto in the victorian data mines, covered in soot, smashing huge server slabs into place with a giant mallet and lubing all the network cables with an oil dripper. E: on small bikes it's one thing but being on a big bike and somehow getting passed by a car is so, so foreign and strange to me that you may as well be riding on mars. What's even the point??
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Oct 15, 2021 04:12
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Prior to that clip I had been doing 12-15 over in the left lane and there were still people behind me. When I could I switched back to the right lane and slowed a bit with the idea of letting faster traffic pass. I get that I'm a pussy for letting cagers pass me but I don't really see the point of risking a huge speeding ticket on a boring highway to prevent it.
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Russian Bear posted:I always feel like I'm speeding, but there are usually cars passing me, especially on the highway here (75mph limit, but real pace is like 80-85). I just don't want to go that fast sometimes especially between big 18 wheelers. To be honest passing semis/box trucks/HGVs is the one time I think speeding is totally appropriate and worth the risk of getting pulled over. I think if you sped up, passed, then slowed back down to the pace of traffic, you'd just be having some bad luck if a cop wanted to ticket you over it.
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A few years ago I lost my engine mount bolts. I got some new ones with a set of crash bars I was installing so no big deal. About a year and some change later, I went to put some parts in my Berrymans chemical dip bucket and found them in the dunk basket.
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One time I replaced the window wiper mechanism on a Hilux and lost my 12mm spanner. I put off replacing it for so long, eventually the Hilux came back for a service six months later and there it was, sitting on the cowl just under the bonnet line.
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FBS posted:Prior to that clip I had been doing 12-15 over in the left lane and there were still people behind me. When I could I switched back to the right lane and slowed a bit with the idea of letting faster traffic pass. I have learned that no matter how fast you go, you'll always get a white F350 a yard off your rear tire with the driver drumming his fingers on the loving steering wheel
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Slavvy posted:
Yeah but you live in a country where the average car is a 1.2L Volkswagen or something. In America you can be going 80 mph in the left lane and in no time you'll have a stack of angry Karens in 300-horsepower full-size SUVs behind you trying to go 90. Also riding fast on the interstate sucks. It's just noisier and the only benefit is that you get to leave the interstate sooner. If I feel like going 55 I'm going to ride 55 and everyone around me can gently caress off. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Oct 15, 2021 |
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Slavvy posted:Now I'm picturing twisto in the victorian data mines, covered in soot, smashing huge server slabs into place with a giant mallet and lubing all the network cables with an oil dripper. You're not too far off the mark, which is why I'm very much confined to the office nowadays and have to ask permission in writing before so much as plugging in a fibre. You black out the entire country's internet for an hour just the once and you're branded for life.
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Sagebrush posted:Yeah but you live in a country where the average car is a 1.2L Volkswagen or something. Yeah this could have happened while riding at 80, 90, 100. Modern cars are disturbingly easy to drive at high speeds and if that wine-mom or weed-dad in a Yukon XL has the angst and ability to pass you they will. These days I'll do whatever needs to be done to get away from hyper aggressive drivers; slow down, pull over, just do whatever you can to create space. poo poo's going feral out there and behavior is really unpredictable, don't tempt fate.
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Toe Rag posted:To be honest passing semis/box trucks/HGVs is the one time I think speeding is totally appropriate and worth the risk of getting pulled over. I think if you sped up, passed, then slowed back down to the pace of traffic, you'd just be having some bad luck if a cop wanted to ticket you over it. I agree, if it's clear ahead I'll wring the lil mt03 for all it's got to get away from semis. My local situation on the 17 is it's a divided interstate with two lanes on each side with a ton of semi traffic so often several semis just get stacked up in both lanes offset and create a rolling block. And cars love to tail gate semis because car drivers have poor risk management I guess. So I just slow down to get a pocket of empty highway around me as much as I can not filled with steel boxes.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:You're not too far off the mark, which is why I'm very much confined to the office nowadays and have to ask permission in writing before so much as plugging in a fibre. You black out the entire country's internet for an hour just the once and you're branded for life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vywf48Dhyns
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