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Ouch. The law here is to stop at occupied crosswalks, so I think it's probably OK to go through. If you're up on the curb looking indecisive, you aren't occupying the crosswalk right?
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May 16, 2014 21:05
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What counts as a crosswalk where you are? In WA and OR at least, any street corner is a crosswalk even if there's no paint, bricks, raised walk, or anything.
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May 16, 2014 23:45
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Deeters posted:gently caress steel grate deck bridges, and especially gently caress whoever put them in the middle of the interstate. There's one over the Columbia River between Hood River and White Salmon that gives me the creepiest feeling. Might be the high winds, might be that I looked down. Don't look down.
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May 19, 2014 17:44
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You were... busy with the clutch.
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May 19, 2014 19:34
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I am bummed they are finally replacing all those Crown Vics. I don't know the Caprice headlight pattern yet!
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May 20, 2014 21:04
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I'd claim it, you aren't going to be dealing with a deductible since she was at fault. Her liability should pay you out 100% for what you need to fix. Heck insist to have it safety inspected and get a free checkup out of it 
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May 23, 2014 00:10
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Coydog posted:Today is the second day in a row someone has snapped over without looking and driven me off of the road into the gutter. Yesterday I was lucky to get free when they passed before I hit a mailbox sticking out. The guy didn't even react, and actually lost speed so even my braking was matched and I had nowhere to go. One day you'll develop the telepathy you need to see that coming in advance and not be there in the first place. I am not joking.
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Jun 4, 2014 22:51
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I usually try to be where I can see the other driver in their side view mirror. Not foolproof, some people will look directly through you, but I figure a rung on the safety ladder is a rung on the safety ladder. Besides if I can see them in their side view, they're far enough ahead to not be a big deal when they jump lanes.
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Jun 4, 2014 22:58
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It's the same here. In fact it's even legal to sit at a stop light texting and stuff as long as the vehicle is stationary, which is a recipe for suddenly realizing the light is green and running me over after I've given up waiting on their right of way. I like to use the law to my advantage by pleading moving violations down to cell phone tickets.
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Jun 5, 2014 00:46
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M42 posted:Went to get some food truck good eatin'. Standing there in atgatt awaiting samosas, this older dude's like "you hot in that? I don't even wear anything, just like a tshirt when I ride". I don't even say anything aside from "haha, yeahhh" anymore. There's a point where it's cooler to hide in your gear, I think it's like 90F or close to that according to some Iron Butt article I vaguely recall reading. Above that it's just hot whatever you do, but without gear the convection of the hot air moving over your skin just keeps warming you up. For me there's a pretty small window where wearing no gear is even comfortable, temperature-wise - like 80f-90f. And at that point, the sun will probably be out and burning me to a crisp unless I re-apply sunscreen twice between gas stops so it's easier to just wear the gear. e: here it is http://www.ironbutt.com/ibmagazine/ironbutt_1002_62-66_Hot.pdf clutchpuck fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Jun 5, 2014 |
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Jun 5, 2014 18:11
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captainOrbital posted:Sumo, Long-Distance and Fast/Urban. 3 Ulysseses?
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Jun 6, 2014 18:03
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Sagebrush posted:wait, do you have a Buell or something? 100% Safety Dance
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Jun 6, 2014 21:54
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Lynza posted:(bee in your skin, legs super-heated from the engine, sunburn). Given a sufficient quantity of miles, none of that is avoidable. I've had a hornet somehow manage fly up the sleeve of my leather jacket on the interstate and sting me multiple times and I've a horse fly go down the back of my jacket and begin feasting. On a separate occasion, I got stung through my mesh on my thigh. My neck and nose always burn on the bike and the rest of me does in 5 minute intervals at gas stations. And I can tell you a thing or two about leg burns through mesh 
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Jun 9, 2014 17:57
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It's like listening to a techsupport guy go on about his users - and just as annoying.
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Jun 10, 2014 22:03
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I split across the bay bridge on my vstar bagger. They're was room but it was a mirror slalom.
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Jun 13, 2014 02:13
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You don't like the battery-in-antenna design?
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Jun 17, 2014 01:47
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PVC rain suit
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Jun 19, 2014 04:18
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Slavvy posted:Yeah I got one of those. It's only waterproof for the first fifteen-odd minutes and after that it just holds the water in. But that's beside the point; my jacket has a waterproof membrane. Nothing I can do about soaking wet gloves. If it seeps it's not pvc, that stuff is nonporous, they make sewer drains out off the stuff. I've done hundreds of miles at a time though rain and a couple high plains thunderstorms in my cheapo pvc suit and it keeps everything it covers bone dry. My gloves, helmet, and boots on the other hand are a different discussion.
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Jun 19, 2014 22:39
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OSU_Matthew posted:Seems as though foot dragging is completely intractable, so why don't we talk about something we can all agree on? I put my side stand down for this job so I don't actually balance anything. I've never had the sensation of danger, CA is weird with fear.
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Jun 21, 2014 17:01
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Sagebrush posted:Your story sounds like it really sucks, so I'm sorry, but I just read this and have to go lol what the gently caress. Who designs a vehicle that way? That's as bad as the cab-forward Mopars where you have to take off the front wheels to remove the battery. It sounds scarier than it is, it's about an hour's labor round trip for an amateur. We did it to fix a rocker box leak on my friend's Uly. I think it's a small price to pay for riding one of the greatest motorcycles ever conceived. For perspective, when replacing the clutch cable on a Vstar it takes longer to get the tank, header, and all the doodad covers off and back on again. Anyhow this is why the Harley powered Buells are superior, you don't need to do a valve adjustment ever.
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Jun 26, 2014 17:33
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Snowdens Secret posted:This sounds retarded and unsafe. I figure I am just about as safe in the right lane if I pay attention at on-ramps. Besides, camping in the left lane is illegal (and highly obnoxious) in Washington, and I am pretty sure in California as well.
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Jul 23, 2014 16:52
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Do cops actually enforce the "left lane is for passing only" thing where you guys are? I have never heard of anyone getting ticketed, pulled over, or even warned for that around here. WSP had a campaign about it a couple years ago. http://www.king5.com/news/local/Left-lane-campers-get-watchful-eye-from-Washington-State-Patrol-117754594.html
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Jul 23, 2014 23:06
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Which insurance company? So we know which company to not get a policy with...
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Jul 24, 2014 20:30
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n8r posted:The internet greatly overstates how bad the stock suspension on the SV is and greatly overstates how much benefit the typical fixes are. I don't really know how you could overstate how bad the worst possible suspension is.
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Aug 8, 2014 00:02
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Akion posted:Go ride an Iron 883, then come back and say that. I sold it 3 weeks ago and my back still hurts. Ever rode an sv? Those are gut punchers without the benefit of a sporty's mass.
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Aug 8, 2014 02:41
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I am pretty sure you don't need to be outriding a lovely suspension for it to be lovely.
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Aug 8, 2014 21:20
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For reals though the suspension is the best part of a Buell. On paper they may have middling Showa components, but Erik really knows how to set up a bike that can handle. My SV650-riding friend's first words coming off my Uly for the first time was "so that's what a suspension is like". The next thing he said was "something something tractor engine" but it sounded more like "cluck cluck cluck" to me.
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Aug 8, 2014 21:57
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Not seeing a lot of resitance to lateral flex there unless the Harley gearbox and bottom end is really ridiculously overengineered, which seems unlikely given just how meaty the wraparound section of the Buell frame is. Fairly sure Harley engines aren't normally stressed at all, so gently caress knows what that does to things. I bet the Buell frame could be slimmer if it didn't need to hold 5 gallons of fuel.
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Aug 11, 2014 01:04
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Safety Dance posted:Yours holds five gallons? My holds a goddamn thimbleful. Yeah that was hyperbole, it's 4.5 from dead to brimmed. I think there's a quarter gallon that hides in the right spar too.
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Aug 11, 2014 05:02
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I'm pretty much done being mad at retard bicyclists, if they want to buy me a new bumper or pay my medical bills, their next of kin can be my guest.
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Aug 11, 2014 20:01
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Smudgie Buggler posted:My problem isn't with the fact that it's an objectively good idea to take every precaution possible short of not riding a motorcycle at all in view of the fact that many drivers are malicious idiots, but with the idea that it's our fault if we get hosed up by someone else's stupidity. This fucker was straight-up victim-blaming motorcyclists for falling prey to arsehole drivers. It's the idea of assuming moral culpability for your own injury if you didn't take every conceivable precaution that gets me. It really is the same as "well you shouldn't have been walking alone at night if you didn't want to get mugged." No, that is a stupid comparison. You choose to take a risk and get on that bike, women don't choose to be women. And have fun with that moral superiority when you have a crushed leg and the driver's door got a new parking lot ding. With motorcycling, it's either your fault for loving up or your fault for being there when somebody else fucks up.
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Aug 19, 2014 15:40
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Smudgie Buggler posted:So if I get mugged it's my fault for being where I was when the mugger decided to mug? Have fun with that lawsuit when you still can't walk and the driver is uninjured. The lesson your instructor is teaching is to actively avoid being in a position where somebody even can plow into you. That is something you can have control over for the most part. You are better off absorbing your instructor's message than dwelling on every  incorrect thing he says.
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Aug 19, 2014 17:50
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Sagebrush posted:I still think that telling people "act like they're out to kill you" is stupid. If all the car drivers on the road were actually out to kill me, I would not leave my house. Or I'd buy a humvee with a machine gun or something. Very few people are actually going to be aggressively bad and try to run you off the road or door you or whatever. While I think that's still nit picking the context of the lesson, you get it. Moral high ground this and civil suit that just distracts from the practical application of "don't even be there when somebody fucks up". I mean is winning a lawsuit going to mean much when half of you is smeared across main street?
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Aug 19, 2014 23:20
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Smudgie Buggler posted:The thread's called the echo chamber/padded room... Congrats on defending the smug ramblings of a senile victim-blaming halfwit Are you still not getting it? If you get hit by somebody, then there's a better place on the road you could have been to avoid being hit. You are hard to see on a motorcycle. Even if it's their fault, it's your fault for being where they didn't notice you, and you are complicit. Easy peasy. You can use all the weak crime parallels all you want, but you actually do have a reasonable expectation of not being the victim of violent injury off of a motorcycle. On a motorcycle, different story, you have to own the situation all the time. If you think civil or even criminal penalties are going to prevent people from running you over, you are already as good as dead.
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Aug 20, 2014 18:06
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Akion posted:So, I'm sitting at a stoplight in the middle of the night, and a drunk guy comes barreling out of the bar right next to the intersection and turns me into a pancake. Not on the motorcycle in the middle of the night is where I would be. I've posted before that I avoid riding in the dark. But you could add "not on roads where there are bars" to the mix.
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Aug 20, 2014 19:17
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Yeah. The best riding I've seen is in places like rural Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, New Mexico, and Nevada. Basically where people aren't.
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Aug 21, 2014 01:17
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Elviscat posted:Sometimes it feels like the only thing that keeps me going is the fantasy of hopping on my bike, blasting out through the desert at 100+, then just riding up and down the Rockies, Cascades/Sierra Nevadas, and the West Coast for months at a time, living off of my bike like a hobo... I'd do this if I didn't like my cat.
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Aug 21, 2014 05:08
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My wife and I are talking about doing it in a couple years. Maybe taking sabbatical for 3 months and going wherever. We've discussed finding places to hang out and be lazy for a week or so here and there, like San Antonio or Cape Cod.
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Aug 25, 2014 18:24
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You guys are killing me. Happymarriage.jpg:  2500 miles from home, day 5 of 15. The problem with taking a two-week trip like this with the wife is that you come home talking about the month-long and then 3-month long trips you need to take together. I guess that's not a huge problem.
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Aug 25, 2014 18:43
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