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People in general don't give a poo poo. It gets even worse when they're in traffic. Anyone getting in the way of their imagined progress is considered fair game. They're "in the way", "impeding traffic", "a hazard to other motorists" and "people who should have taken the bus", while the impatient driver obviously considers him/herself the paragon of efficient driving and rationality. Couple this with a latent streak of aggression and perhaps a bad day at work and some people snap. Then you get road rage or in most cases, people who act like the lady in your story. Thankfully it seems that people at least give driving school cars some extra space and time, but around here we have no way of indicating who's a completely new and inexperienced driver, and who's been on the roads every day for 20 years. The only way to win at traffic is to not be a part of it, as far as I'm concerned.
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I see people straddling the center line all the time, in all kinds of traffic situations. I don't know if they're just oblivious or if they're in fact not aware of how wide their vehicle is. It's especially bad when roadworks narrow the lanes. A car must by law not be wider than 2.55m and the most I've ever seen a lane narrowed down is to 3m wide. Plenty of space, yet people panic and straddle the center line. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Aug 28, 2013 |
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Aug 28, 2013 14:03
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Goddamn cagers  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kx2YlYdTZk
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Aug 30, 2013 09:53
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Goddammit I hate dealing with idiots when putting stuff up for sale. I have an ad up for my B6, I'm asking 29500DKK including a complete set of brake discs, two extra handlebars and various other bits (sparkplugs etc.). It's in good condition, well-maintained, no rust, I looked at other bikes for sale with the same KMs and condition, and priced mine in the same general price range. I renewed the ad yesterday and almost immediately I got a private message on the site. quote:20000kr That's all it said. That's so insulting, I don't understand why people do that. It has never worked, it will never work, why do they keep doing it?
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Sep 6, 2013 07:13
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My B6 is not quite as fast and nowhere near as finicky, but it's probably every bit as loud. It's magnificent on the rare occasions that I get to rev it out completely, the wail of a 4-cylinder on full tilt is addicting, but the only place I can really do it without endangering my driving license is an onramp, and I hate motorway riding. Or a track, I guess, but a Bandit is very much not a good track bike without a lot of work. It hurts to sell it, being my first motorcycle and all, but the XT I bought to replace it is just more usable more of the time. It also made me realize how stupidly stiff the clutch is on my Bandit, how agricultural the gearbox is, how weak the brakes are, how heavy the bike is and how much Suzuki skimped on the suspension. But the engine is a peach and there's always that 
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Sep 8, 2013 08:25
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Safety Dance posted:Didn't Kozmo almost lose his license for that? Nidhg00670000 posted:Well, there was some slight problem with the speed as well. Technically I did actually lose my license, but it was only conditional. I had to take a new license test, both written and practical. Which I aced, of course  But yeah, it was a combination of having 1 point on my license already and scoring 2 points at once by going over the double lines and doing 120km/h in an 80km/h zone. If I had been over the double lines for another 10-15 meters or so, or if I'd done 128km/h instead, either one of those would have given me a conditional loss of license by itself. In combination with the points, I would have lost my license completely for at least 6 months. It was pure dumb luck that I managed to avoid that. It was even more pure dumb luck that he didn't catch me doing 160km/h on that road, which I'd done the week before. I swear I'm never doing that again. And my license is only probational right now, if I rack up three points etc. again within a 3-year period, *boom* there goes my license for a full year. I'm a very careful rider/driver now  babyeatingpsychopath posted:Pull up at the far-right lane that ends just past the intersection, beat EVERYTHING off the line and merge in, thereby cutting off a line of forty cars stuck in the other two lanes? It would be more acceptable to be strangling kittens, right there in the road. Oh yes, I've gotten some downright murderous stares from doing that*. Fair's far though, as long as you're not doing it from a turning lane, I fail to see the problem. The most fun thing is when people in tiny econoboxes seriously try to race me. It's one thing in my car, it's a family car often driven by people who don't know how to hustle, so fair's fair, it's not like it's immediately obvious that I'm in the sportier version. But they do it even more when I'm on my bike, I have no idea what they're trying to achieve. *The right lane thing, not the strangling kittens thing, obviously. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Sep 10, 2013 |
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Sep 10, 2013 06:44
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nsaP posted:Could be other fans just trying to hear you rev it out. No, they actually floor it when the light turns green, instead of just revving at me. I have to go all the way to quarter throttle to beat them
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Sep 10, 2013 10:31
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The faster-looking the bike the crappier the car that tries to race you, in my experience. Like in 4 years on the Shiver pretty much the only things that try to race me are other bikes (especially Speed Triples for some reason). It's an XT660X, not exactly a fast-looking bike. Neither is the B6, for that matter.
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Sep 10, 2013 22:05
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Spiffness posted:"I choose not to race!" "The only way to win is not to play" Applies to any sort driving on public roads, really.
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Sep 11, 2013 16:43
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I wish I could get my hands on whoever invented chip-sealing, so I could pour boiling asphalt down his throat and chase it with "finely graded aggregate". They've resurfaced a bunch of the local roads around here with the stuff and it's basically just a huge middle finger to anyone riding on two wheels. I nearly lost it coming round a bend because the bastards used aggregate that's the exact same color as the real pavement and didn't bother to put up signs. It was only when I saw the piles of loose rock off the side of the road that I realized what was going on. I thought you were supposed to sweep the road after chip-sealing, but I guess they couldn't be bothered. Not to mention that it eats tires, breaks windshields and is noisy as gently caress to ride on. Goddamn lovely low-cost no-effort bastard cunts.
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Oct 5, 2013 20:08
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Reborn wannabe-professional bicycle riders are the worst, I can't decide whether I hate the sanctimonious mountain bikers or the desperate-to-be-just-like-Lance road riders the most. We've had a real scourge of mountain bikers bombing down forest trails around here, even trails that are clearly marked that bikes are prohibited. They've hit children, become tangled up in dog leashes and generally just have absolutely no respect for that fact that people don't like mountain bikers flying past them at breakneck speeds while they're out for a quiet walk. Not that the people on the other side of the argument are any better, mind you. They've put out boards with nails in them, strung fishing wire across popular mountain biking trails and so on. It's a goddamn war out there. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Oct 8, 2013 |
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Oct 8, 2013 21:53
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It's much easier when the bike already has a name. "I'm going for a ride on the Bandit" makes it completely irrelevant to further name it. The XT is just "the Ecks-Tee" 
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Oct 10, 2013 09:14
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Snowdens Secret posted:Where does a KLR land on the misery index? On a scale of 1-10? Around 15, I'd say, just from reading CA. I've never ridden one myself.
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Oct 12, 2013 07:48
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I met a lot of those on my ride today. Annoying, but gives me a chance to open it up and BRAAAAAAAAAP past them when the road opens up, so in a way I can live with it.
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Oct 12, 2013 19:29
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I don't do group rides because I hate traffic and I hate being stuck behind someone else when I'm out riding for fun. Even if they're averaging the same speed that I would like to go, they don't slow down for corners and accelerate out of them at the same pace as me, whether it's faster or slower. Riding alone lets me set my own pace and ride how I want to ride, sometimes I want to attack corners, sometimes I just want to cruise. Finding someone else with matching pace is practically impossible, never mind finding a whole group of riders with matching pace. Riding alone, the only rider I have to keep up with or wait for is myself.
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Oct 17, 2013 09:22
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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:The absolute best you can hope for is to find one who is honest enough to underwrite his own incompetence, but when dealing with these small shops who boom because of forums it's way more likely that you'll hit them after they've become overwhelmed and stopped giving a poo poo. If they're not malicious enough to lie to get you off the phone, then they're careless enough to be mistaken. An established specialty shop that builds race engines or whatever can buck this trend by charging a fortune and doing a smaller volume of work on a narrower range of equipment. Reading through people's accounts of how lovely mechanics can be just makes me appreciate my mechanic even more. It's a small shop, only 5 people including the manager, but they really, truly, honestly know their poo poo. The manager used to build race-spec Peugeots, I don't know if they actually do that anymore, though. His son races Peugeots and does hillclimbs and that sort of thing. The main guy at the shop even used to drive a 406 exactly like mine, he knows all the little faults and common issues, like their appetite for oil, commonly-missed worn parts in the suspension, all that stuff. Last time I was there, he basically gave me a rundown of the state my car was in and which parts I would probably need to have replaced within the next 1-2 years or so. I fully trust them to do a 100% job on my car, which is why I drive 150km each way to have it serviced there. (and to visit my parents who live almost next door to the shop). KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Oct 23, 2013 |
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Oct 23, 2013 14:40
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Covert Ops Wizard posted:"Oh, man, I could never ride a bike, I'd just go way too fast all the time", the insinuation being you're just way too much of a wild man to own one. I absolutely hate this. One of my colleagues is a an otherwise cool kinda guy. He goes hunting, practices karate at a reasonable level for someone nearing 50, outdoorsy type. But talking about bikes, it's all "yeah, I'd never get a bike, I'd just end up killing myself". No, that's not the reason, it's probably your wife who won't let you get one, just admit it. My cousin is the exact same way, and I KNOW it's his girlfriend who's stopping him. But she's the best thing that's ever happened to him, so eh.
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Nov 2, 2013 08:52
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MoraleHazard posted:Among the sea of stupid comments I was really flattered the other day at the supermarket when two checkout girls 10 years my junior started fawning over me and calling me a sexy badass for riding in the cold and my Teiz suit. The most hilarious is they both wanted one even though neither rode. I asked why and they said, "It looks really warm." Silly man, they obviously wanted to get into your suit 
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Nov 4, 2013 19:29
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Bugdrvr posted:The other day I was in my garage doing my ritual Sunday maintenance when a family walked by. Their little boy (about 8 or so) started yelling "WOW, he's got motorcycles in there! Nice bikes! Wow!" which quickly led to him just standing at the door staring in with awe. I let him go in and poke at the bikes while I chatted with his parents. I park on the street, so a lot of people walk by while I'm doing stuff with my bike. Lots of kids too, most of them just gawk at the weird orange bike sitting there with all the white/gray/black cars. Some of them get really excited and point and go "motorcycle!" or make engine noises  Even better when their parents think it's cool too and let them gawk for a couple of minutes while I finish gearing up and ride away. I haven't had anyone actually come up and poke at it or anything, but I'd totally let them try sitting on it if anyone asked. Properly supported by a parent, of course, it's a pretty tall bike.
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Nov 5, 2013 15:04
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I've put in the ad for my B6 that it has a dent in the tank and some wear and tear on the seat, because it's immediately obvious to anyone coming to look at the bike and I'm not interested in wasting anyone's time. But I'm not going to put stuff like "clutch lever is a bit stiff" because that's really minor stuff, and I'm pretty sure it's just a matter of lubing the cable. It's a 13-year-old parts bin bike that was pretty inexpensive when it was new, anyone looking to buy it needs to have at least a semi-realistic expectation of what they're going to get. Unlike the doofus who insisted that I produce a complete service log for the bike and couldn't understand that I do all the maintenance on it myself. Yeah sure, like I'm going to get totally ripped off by a mechanic for basic maintenance on a bike from 1996 that has had 2 owners before me 
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Nov 5, 2013 15:44
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More like a gene puddle or a gene wet stain, then.
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Nov 19, 2013 20:56
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I'm a manager  Or more accurately, I'm a process manager for a bunch of IT applications. It's all monitoring, incident/problem management and improvement planning. No people skills needed. So yeah, another IT goon, but one that lets other IT goons do all the dirty work when poo poo goes wrong or needs to be improved. In the last 6 years or so, I've been an IT specialist, a process control manager, an application manager and a process monitoring engineer before my current title. The company loves to give people fancy new titles without the hassle of actually giving them a pay raise. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Jan 31, 2014 |
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Jan 31, 2014 22:03
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Covert Ops Wizard posted:And no helmet hair. And it's less than $35 for a decent trimmer if you don't need a battery (you don't).
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Feb 1, 2014 18:41
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Phy posted:I haven't been on the bike since November. I put on my helmet and gloves just to feel like a real human and my fiancee looked at me like I had just tried to introduce her to my best friend the three-foot talking spider with lamps for legs. There's a new Cyriak video out?!
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Mar 4, 2014 22:21
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I wish it was more like Mario Kart and I had a couple thousand blue shells.
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Apr 2, 2014 19:46
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Does the TL1000R have the same rear suspension setup as the TL1000S? Because if that bike truly has 187hp and that rotary damper poo poo, that's a widowmaker if I ever saw one.
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Apr 4, 2014 20:48
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Slavvy posted:No, that one's long gone. Also not sure what masculinity has to do with being timid on bikes. Or are fast bikes only for tough manly men, or something? Or women with prominent Adam's apples.
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Apr 9, 2014 12:54
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Outside Dawg posted:I swung a leg over one of these at the local HD shop once; "The all-new Boss Hoss Spread Eagle™!"
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Apr 13, 2014 17:28
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Safety Dance posted:You get to a point where 18 is miserable, anything north of 32 is nice, and mid-60s is uncomfortably warm. Sounds like dating tips for MILF hunters.
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Apr 15, 2014 17:29
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 of NZ.
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Apr 29, 2014 08:13
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Chichevache posted:I do it because my ear plugs work really well and I can't tell if my bike is running sometimes. Get a thumper and you won't ever have that problem again  (I blip the throttle because the big-rear end piston makes it feel like the bike is jumping a bit and because it makes the exhaust pop)
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Apr 30, 2014 20:00
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ReelBigLizard posted:As a Brit visiting PA as my first real taste of the USA, the state of the roads and infrastructure made me wonder if all America's posturing as the A Number One First-World Epitome of Civilisation had actually been an extremely elaborate and successful North-Korean-style propaganda exercise to lure foreign investment into the pockets of a despotic regime. I'm pretty sure it is.
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May 2, 2014 12:55
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Collateral Damage posted:I got stuck behind some rear end today who decided he had to sit with his wheels 5 cm from the curb so I couldn't filter past him. I got frustrated and said gently caress it, moved to the left and rode in the bus lane past the entire line of cars.. Halfway past I see a police car in the opposite lane. As a general rule, police are required to stop you (and any law-breaking in progress) as quickly as possible after witnessing the first infraction. For instance, they can't sit behind you for miles and miles, recording you while you rack up a speeding ticket for every speed limit sign you pass. If they didn't turn around and give you a ticket on the spot, you're not going to get a ticket. YMMV of course, but that's how it is around here.
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May 20, 2014 11:53
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May 20, 2014 18:51
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It's a spoked wheel, so there's a tube in there. Right now I'm looking for a shop that'll take it and patch the tube and possibly put one on the inside of the tire as well. That ought to do it.
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May 20, 2014 19:40
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Well, at least now I have a reason why I will never ever let Fisker MC touch my bike ever again:  I've never balanced a wheel before in my life, but I'm pretty drat sure I could do a better and less mangled job of it than whichever semi-trained monkey did this.
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May 23, 2014 16:05
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Keep in mind that the stuff that looks like scratches and rim damage are just remnants of tire lube. But still, I have no idea how they managed to mangle the weights that badly. I know I should probably go back and demand and explanation or something, but I've already mounted it, and it's hot as gently caress outside right now. I think I'll just settle with correcting their poo poo myself and never go near that shop again.
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May 23, 2014 16:27
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Yeah. Real, proper spoke weights are installed with a special hammer, not with a goddamn pipe wrench.
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May 23, 2014 19:29
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apatite posted:Spent all day doing calculations and analysis, those weights are now off by 0.0025g +/- .0001g each. That bike is completely unsafe and should not be ridden until this horrifying error is corrected. It's more a question of how unprofessional it looks and the fact that those weights may not be tight on the nipples, so they could potentially move around.
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Some dude has started riding around my neighborhood on a street-legal ATV (registered as a car, so no speed limiter) at breakneck speeds with a completely unmuffled engine, it sounds like it's got a straight pipe on it and nothing else. Goddamn it ATV dude, stop making people hate you, you're ruining it for the rest of us 
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