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Would it be possible to block some members from seeing your posts?
I've read of some members being stalked and harassed on the sight.
I thought if they could block their stalker from seeing their posts it might cut down on some needless drama.

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

No better resource for old thumper tech advice, local trail information, or RTW travel porn, though. Great deals in the flea market, too.

freebooter posted:

On that topic - anyone have any experience using the campsite host map?
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Q0E6b5HrOVBOhOY2IwJkErfWqQU&ll=34.181280453764224%2C-114.73617860312493&z=7

It looks like a great resource but is also full of people who put their place up about two years ago and haven't posted since. (I'm about to head off on a US/Mexico trip next week.)

Coydog posted:

Chris Knight posted:

Sorry for the tiny penis, I guess?

Slim Pickens posted:

Rocking an erection 24/7 because literally everything reminds me of attractive women, Ama

old man posted:

my bladder problems have worsened significantly, control is only conditionally and a little blood in the urine is also not good. Definitely time to visit a doctor.
...
I put the rain pants inside my trousers and put a towel around the family jewels.
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1 hour later, a doctor tells me that it is "just" a bladder infection, which could happen to older men, thanks for that, because the "entrance" can no longer be properly closed.

I still keep the contaminated motorcycle pants on, get me plenty of beverage, rinse and so, carve me from an oversized beverage bottle a urine container, move to my accommodation and wait for the things that come.

BloodRed posted:

http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/breakfast-with-keas-new-zealand-2018.1293837/

highlights of this riveting ride report;

Sagebrush posted:

Why

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Things on bikes like neutral lights and gear indicators are fluff for non bikers. Once you have ridden around the block a couple of times you get pretty good at figuring that out on your own. Really no need for another geegaw. Than again I like my bikes really bare metal and simple. The less electronics the better.

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I’ll also join this gang of cranky old men yelling at the whippersnappers to get off our lawn. Half the reason I commute on a motorbike is because I don’t need to disassemble the entire front end to change a bulb, or be ruled over by the haughty decree of an on-board computer, or read out cryptic sensor codes through the ODN or OBGYN or whatever the gently caress it’s called. It’s a bare frame with a fully exposed, dead-simple little motor which I can drop with a scissor jack and rebuild myself in a weekend. It’s got four or five gears, and neutral is in-between the first two so it’s really not hard to count. It becomes second nature. I detest even having a battery, what’s wrong with a kick-start and a magneto?

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For those with the skill to listen to motor sounds, I am tone deaf to music but have a personal connection to any machine I have spent a few hours with, it becomes a basic part of knowing the machine is OK and when to follow the emergency protocol tree.
From motorcycles, to hot-rodded 4x4s, to piston and jet airplanes/helicopters I get to know what sounds I should hear(even with a headset and CEPs in) when I do something. I of course am scanning the tach, oil pressure/temp and maybe exhaust temp gauges but my first indication is usually a weird sound or vibration.
That said especially during the getting to know you stage I want access to every bit of sensor data that can be displayed to correlate with an expected sound and is why I prefer old steam gauge airplanes and helicopters to say a modern rental car where I have to jack in an OBD to get anything beyond speed, tach, fuel fill, and check engine light, and a tach only when I can sift out a stick shift transmission.

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It’s nice to see hacks like this on hackaday, rather than “these scientists came up with this new thing, which is out of the reach of a normal hacker”. Or “this woman scientist was important for this reason”.
I’d like to keep the articles closer to a normal person.

Coydog posted:

Salt the earth.

Seriously , it's not even that they like things simple and bare bones. It's that they are afraid of any technology after they came of age, and too ignorant to learn.

That and the rampant blatant misogyny.

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

I constantly hunt for a 7th gear.

also where can you rent a stick car? None of the big names other than Turo have them

belt posted:

I've left my bike in the wrong gear at high speeds for embarrassingly long periods of time because it was hard to hear engine with ear plugs and all of the wind noise and I just didn't pay attention to my RPMs.

"Hmm, why's my gas mileage so poo poo? oh"

ADINSX posted:

Trying to shift into a non existent gear on the highway is as second nature to me as mindlessly trying to cancel my turn signals.

MomJeans420 posted:

My gear sensor is messed up and my bike often shows the wrong gear when I'm in first or second, and sometimes third. I think it may actually be worse than having no gear indicator, because there have been a couple of times where I thought I was in third, but was actually in second, then down shifted unexpectedly to first. I had the new part in hand, then moved, and after I moved I couldn't find the (small) part anywhere. I finally gave up and ordered a new one 10 days ago, but it's Bike Bandit + Triumph so who knows when it will arrive.

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and is why I prefer old steam gauge airplanes and helicopters to say a modern rental car 

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

I've got no need for a gear indicator at all, but the idea of getting all elitist at someone for making one or even just wanting one is beyond old man yelling at cloud.

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:

Gear indicators are good and all bikes should have them but those electronic aftermarket ones that run on RPM/speed sensors and aren't built into the gearbox are just the worst plebeian ghetto thing. Sad.