Rant Zone: it has stopped fucking snowing

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knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

1000km service consisting of an oil change: CHF237 (exchange rate is 1CHF:1USD) :smith:

They didn't even give it a clean.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2018 20:46

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 07:38

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

Yeah I shouldn't be surprised labour costs are high I guess. It's a CBR1000.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2018 04:59

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

I just discovered the Aprilia 660 bikes exist. So depressing it's a p-twin

Also picked up the CBR from the garage which is now cured of its fireball tendencies.

# ¿ May 12, 2021 22:03

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

Phy posted:

Loose chips in the middle of the road, on a curving, downhill, elevated on-ramp, where people are accelerating when there's little traffic, has got to be a fatal highside risk and I'm actually kind of incensed about it. Someone could legit get killed by this and I'm gonna phone the city's 311 line later this morning.

That reminds me of a terrifying autoroute intersection I crossed near Milan. It is a curve through 90 degrees on an elevated road, and has solid metal plates which I guess are expansion joints every ~20m. The bike was obviously banked over a bit and at each joint the front then back tyre slipped sideways a decent amount. It must be awful in rain.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2021 09:21

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

Pls stop reminding me that my fuel gauge is a "litres consumed on Trip A" number

# ¿ Aug 27, 2021 23:36

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

Phy posted:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzawZQ4Btvo&t=167s

e: the embed doesn't timestamp :argh:

so head to 2:45ish

knox_harrington fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Oct 16, 2021

# ¿ Oct 15, 2021 23:05

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

Yeah it was the same for my YTZ7S - actually a bit more but the prices seem to have come down a bit. I got a non-Yuasa one, hopefully won't regret it when I fire the bike up again (or not)

# ¿ Mar 10, 2022 10:21

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

Finger Prince posted:

conflate 'referring to the continent of Africa' with 'that's racist'.

Several of my colleagues in the same office refer to all black people as "African-Americans". We work in Switzerland. It boils my piss.

(We work at a US company but this is in the context of global clinical research)

# ¿ May 15, 2022 11:12

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

For suncreamophobes, Daylong absorbs well and does what it says on the tin.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2022 17:33

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

There's a junction near me where there are multiple stop lines. Heading south you have to stop at the earlier one if you haven't crossed it when the traffic light changes for the pedestrian crossing.

Many junctions in residential areas have these markings. Nobody understands whose turn it is so everyone dithers until someone goes for it.

wow my most boring post ever

# ¿ Jul 13, 2022 21:19

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

Slavvy posted:

I test them all.

Fun fact: on a first get zx10, the 'speed limiter' consists of a digital speedo that simply can't read 3 for the first digit. Brilliant!

As I understand it this is a Japanese bike thing. Not going to be a problem for me anyway.

In another country I got up to 270ish but it was very windy and I didn't like it very much. Particularly because as soon as I turned my head at all the wind caught it, so you really have to get behind the fairing.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2022 21:27

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

Slavvy posted:

Oh it definitely is, it's just that most of them are actually limited instead of just not letting you see how fast you're going.

Recent Fireblades cap the display at 299 as well. This is the current one at 299 in 4th gear

e: 348kph though I guess a limiter could have been removed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko7ENRRxFVI

knox_harrington fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Jul 17, 2022

# ¿ Jul 17, 2022 16:39

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

Steakandchips posted:

Audis are driven by total bellends in the UK.

They also have a pretty high market share, 7% apparently.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2022 06:07

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

Shelvocke posted:

In my experience, as the relative wealth and value of vehicle goes up, so does the entitled indignation about being split by a motorcycle, or anyone, really.

In contrast, in the "poor" town down the road, people will cheerfully drive their beater in the ditch to let you through.

I used to work at a boarding school, and the flashy parents in Lamborghinis and Teslas would fall into the first group, whereas the old money multi-million/billionaires and/or titled gentry driving clapped out 60s land rovers and 80s ford escorts would be in the second.

Ehh maybe. Bimmer driver or Fiat driver, everyone will pull over for you in Italy and Spain. Switzerland everyone is too incompetent so I'm just happy if they don't just veer off somewhere.

In most of London everyone expects bikes, filtering/splitting is the norm and safe, all good. Then you drive down Whitechapel (not at all a wealthy area) and the normal rules of traffic don't apply and cars can come from any direction whether there's a junction or not.

Drive up to Birmingham and there are way fewer bikes, and even though the driving is generally OK it's way more dangerous, people just aren't used to looking out for bikes and filtering past people is an unwelcome surprise.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2022 16:47

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

Sagebrush posted:

Honda #1: pull slider, push lever, seat swings up

Honda #2: turn key, pull catch, seat lifts off

The idea that you might have to unscrew something to remove the seat baffles my mind

Fireblade: pillion unlocks, front seat is 2x bolts

Scrambler: one-piece seat unlocks and lifts off.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2022 07:16

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

Yeah you can plug this into the DDA connector that should be around somewhere, and plug your charger into that.

https://www.carpimoto.it/en-US/Bike...to-SAE-plug.htm

Or maybe this one idk

https://shop.ducatimilano.com/en/100532-adapter-cable-euro-5-charger-ducati-5101g732a.html

knox_harrington fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Oct 31, 2022

# ¿ Oct 31, 2022 23:19

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

Slavvy posted:

Trying to think of a bike with no redeeming qualities that is nonetheless everywhere and all I can think of is the Hyosung gt250

Harley-Davidson

# ¿ Apr 9, 2023 09:19

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

Geekboy posted:

Had what could have been a road rage moment, but I let it go.

Pulled out of a motorcycle show parking area, where there are motorcycles and signs about motorcycles everywhere you look. The traffic was stop and go. Moved a little further left in the lane than I normally do because there's a streetcar down there and the lane is shared, so I didn't want my tires too close to the slippery metal rails.

This SUV apparently decided lane splitting was legal because they just drove past me on the right side of the lane like I wasn't there. Based on how they continued to drive, they were just very bad at what they were doing and not paying attention. I kind of wonder if I'd have been rear ended if I had been in the middle of the lane to stake my claim on it.

I started to just move past them to take my spot back and then thought better of it. I honked and made some "whaddya doin' here!?" hand gestures and left it at that.

People are bad at driving!

I really don't think that's inattention, they wanted to push past you to get back at the annoying fast motorcycle. Assholes.

# ¿ May 2, 2023 07:47

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

Aahaha 68hp that's incredible

Or 59?

knox_harrington fucked around with this message at 13:46 on May 19, 2023

# ¿ May 19, 2023 13:42

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 07:38

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

For some reason the Fireblade has the indicator switch and the horn swapped from what I'm used to and I found that surprisingly difficult to adjust to. Also the trigger thing that should flash the lights is a lap time button which is annoying.

# ¿ May 21, 2023 12:04

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