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That little indigan is really making me want to pick up an old two stroke 120-250cc to commute on. Sure it is stupid and the SV is a great commuter but look at that thing.
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NitroSpazzz posted:That little indigan is really making me want to pick up an old two stroke 120-250cc to commute on. Sure it is stupid and the SV is a great commuter but look at that thing. I know, seeing that little smoker has rekindled my desire to get my 175 Bantam rebuilt; Its largely in parts and I don't have a place to put it back together right now, but I'm about to pull the trigger on renting out a workshop on a permanent basis, and the weather is picking up and the OH GOD JUST loving LOOK AT THAT THING. Impetus found.
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Mar 20, 2012 18:36
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If I can get out of doing stuff with my wife later I'm going to start breaking down the Honda's engine. It needs about $200 in parts and probably about 6-8 hours in labor to get it all torn down with another 6-8 to re assemble it fully. I think the plan is still to offload the Honda and save for a bigger touring bike for 2 up riding. I REALLY want to keep it and cafe or scrambler it though...
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Mar 20, 2012 19:08
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Mar 21, 2012 02:12
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looks like that yammy is missing some textures, is that an ammo box on the side?
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Mar 21, 2012 02:16
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It looks like a BBQ place tablecloth. I want it
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Mar 21, 2012 02:17
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An observer posted:tablecloth That's exactly what I thought, too. I don't really know what he's getting at with "gently caress your prius" though. Are they really worth that much hate? It's kind of like "gently caress your golf shoes" or "gently caress your pottery barn end table" or something.
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Mar 21, 2012 02:21
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Sagebrush posted:That's exactly what I thought, too. I don't really know what he's getting at with "gently caress your prius" though. Are they really worth that much hate? It's kind of like "gently caress your golf shoes" or "gently caress your pottery barn end table" or something. Yes, Prius's are worth the hate. I've almost been hit by at least 8 Prius's. They simply give no fucks, they are saving the environment and the road is theirs. That was pretty much what one told me when I confronted him at a light for blatantly cutting me off. My boot may have touched his headlight as I split past him after that....
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Mar 21, 2012 02:26
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Sagebrush posted:That's exactly what I thought, too. I don't really know what he's getting at with "gently caress your prius" though. Are they really worth that much hate? It's kind of like "gently caress your golf shoes" or "gently caress your pottery barn end table" or something. I'm pretty sure that's a YSR-50, a 50cc 2-stroke, so he's probably getting good enough gas mileage to ridicule Priuses on that alone. But, mostly, gently caress Priuses.
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Mar 21, 2012 02:28
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Olde Weird Tip posted:Dazzle cam? Interesting look for sure, I agree on it looking like a table cloth.
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Mar 21, 2012 02:32
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Gay Nudist Dad posted:I'm pretty sure that's a YSR-50, a 50cc 2-stroke, so he's probably getting good enough gas mileage to ridicule Priuses on that alone. Thats an older R6
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Mar 21, 2012 03:37
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Sagebrush posted:That's exactly what I thought, too. I don't really know what he's getting at with "gently caress your prius" though. Are they really worth that much hate? It's kind of like "gently caress your golf shoes" or "gently caress your pottery barn end table" or something. My parents own a Prius, and after driving it I understand why they are so terrible, they have no rear visibility at all. That plus the mileage game, and it all goes out the window.
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Mar 21, 2012 04:14
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Z3n posted:My parents own a Prius, and after driving it I understand why they are so terrible, they have no rear visibility at all. That plus the mileage game, and it all goes out the window. The guy that almost hit me saw me and admitted giving no fucks when he did. Big jock douschebag looking joker, major anger issues. Although, if I was driving a Prius I'd prolly be angry too.
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Mar 21, 2012 06:17
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50% of people admitted in Consumer Reports that the reason they bought a Prius is because it "identified with their personalities". At least half of Prius owners are literally douchebags
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Mar 21, 2012 06:29
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Bike with sidecar goes up Mulholland Drive. http://youtu.be/dH1GO4pJ5H0
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Mar 21, 2012 08:11
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Xovaan posted:50% of people admitted in Consumer Reports that the reason they bought a Prius is because it "identified with their personalities". There is actually a blog article about how Prius owners only buy them so they can act like jerks. I've lost it so I can't link it. My #1 hate is female drivers. No offense, but holy poo poo at women in SUVs. Get the gently caress off the road!
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Mar 21, 2012 08:45
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Drunk Pledge Driver posted:Bike with sidecar goes up Mulholland Drive. I could do that but I don't wanna Odette posted:There is actually a blog article about how Prius owners only buy them so they can act like jerks. I've lost it so I can't link it. The male equivalent is a cabbie.
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Mar 21, 2012 08:50
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Drunk Pledge Driver posted:Bike with sidecar goes up Mulholland Drive.
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Xovaan posted:50% of people admitted in Consumer Reports that the reason they bought a Prius is because it "identified with their personalities". I can agree, gently caress Priuses and the people that drive them. Nearly all of them drive like poo poo, and there's almost as many of the loving things in Seattle as there are Subarus. 
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Mar 21, 2012 09:26
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Odette posted:
Apparently, last time I checked, 49% of all accidents on the road today are caused by females ranging from 16 to 26 in age but the number fluctuates a lot (see link below). I've found that lovely old econoboxes (Hondas/Toyotas/Taurusses) drive the absolute worst (slow, can't stay in lane) but I've found that SUV and truck drivers are overly aggressive, never signal, and tailgate like crazy. I also avoid "the white poof" of faded hair of America's elderly in Buicks and Oldsmobiles. And Jettas. Guaranteed daydreamer on a cellphone. http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/women_worse_drivers_more_crashes_than_men_less_driving.html Getting a Prius is basically admitting your life is forfeit and you enjoy not having fun doing boring things. It's like these people wake up eat dried shredded wheat and sand by the brickload then have coffee so they don't fall asleep from lack of stimulus driving to work. My friend inherited a fully loaded '09 Prius and I imagine the experiencing anything less to be the feeling equivalent of eating at Coco's for the rest of your life Knot My President! fucked around with this message at 09:54 on Mar 21, 2012 |
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Mar 21, 2012 09:52
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I'm not so sure about that study. Insurance companies make men (especially 16-25) pay a LOT more in insurance, and I imagine a multi-billion dollar industry has spent a shitload on researching it. Of course, there's always the possibility that they simply want an excuse to charge one gender significantly more, and would get a whole lot of poo poo from feminists if they chose women.
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My understanding of accidents by gender is that men cause more expensive accidents, while women cause more frequent but less severe incidents. Jack the smack/mootmoot, for example!
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Mar 21, 2012 13:34
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It's the mileage game plus GPS. Yeah, you can't see out the back, but drat, Prius drivers are never actually looking at the road because they're either making sure their mileage is as high as possible or they're reading the GPS.
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Mar 21, 2012 13:54
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Gullous posted:My understanding of accidents by gender is that men cause more expensive accidents, while women cause more frequent but less severe incidents. Jack the smack/mootmoot, for example! Sat with some insurance exec a few years ago and that came up in discussion. He told me pretty much the same thing. You women have far cheaper insurance than young men, but in general it is still higher than mature and experienced drivers.
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Z3n posted:My parents own a Prius, and after driving it I understand why they are so terrible, they have no rear visibility at all. That plus the mileage game, and it all goes out the window. Someone I worked with at a previous job blew like $40k on a fully loaded Prius. She got totally taken by the dealership, but said she was ok with it because she was "doing her part in the war against terrorism."
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Mar 21, 2012 15:15
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orthod0ks posted:Someone I worked with at a previous job blew like $40k on a fully loaded Prius. She got totally taken by the dealership, but said she was ok with it because she was "doing her part in the war against terrorism." I mean, she's sort of right; reducing your country's need for petroleum products would hopefully lead, eventually, to a less aggressive foreign policy*. I doubt she was thinking that deeply into it though. Until "No blood for lithium" becomes a thing I guess.
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ReelBigLizard posted:I mean, she's sort of right; reducing your country's need for petroleum products would hopefully lead, eventually, to a less aggressive foreign policy*. I doubt she was thinking that deeply into it though. I thought it already was: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html?pagewanted=all http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2010/06/no-blood-for-lithium-us-discovers-vast-mineral-reserves-in-afghanistan/
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Prius drivers can be smug, but I've never had a single problem with one on the road. They all seem pretty considerate to me, really, but I guess you get to think a lot when you're hypermiling your shitbox. The most dangerous people are college aged girls, compounded by the tendency to look over and "target fixate"  I've had more cut me off and nearly merge into me in daddy's Z3 than anybody else.
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Bixington posted:Prius drivers can be smug, but I've never had a single problem with one on the road. They all seem pretty considerate to me, really, but I guess you get to think a lot when you're hypermiling your shitbox. So those COEXIST stickers do count for something?
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Here's a real winner of a Prius driver. Not all Prius drivers are this way! But some of them are. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oSzLS0j9fY I've always thought the best solution isn't petroleum, and it isn't battery-electric, but biofuel. You can convert a gasoline engine to run on ethanol and a diesel engine to run on...well, any oil pretty easily. Renewable liquid fuels keep the same fueling infrastructure, the same (or nearly) energy density, the same rapidity of refueling, the same range as we have today, but because they're biological they're sustainable and carbon-neutral. Plus, technologies like the direct-methanol fuel cell suggest that you could run a completely electric car on exactly the same renewable hydrocarbon, gaining the efficiency of an electric motor and the ability to sequester the CO2. The only problem is of course MAKING the fuel in the first place, but I have confidence that we'll eventually figure out how to make cellulosic ethanol and lipid-producing microalgae and harvest all our fuel from a cordoned-off plot the size of Texas floating in the Pacific. Aand that is my hippie boondoggle daydream for today.
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Sagebrush posted:Here's a real winner of a Prius driver. Not all Prius drivers are this way! But some of them are. Yea, I hate the idea of a hybrid. Twice the power sources, twice the potential maintenance.
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Sagebrush posted:Here's a real winner of a Prius driver. Not all Prius drivers are this way! But some of them are.  E: OMFG,I just watched that video. If that'd been me on the bike it'd be like: Turn that piece o.. REVREVREVREVREVREV WHAT? I COULDN'T HEAR YOU! I said, Turn that piece o... REVREVREVREV WHAT!?! I CANT HEAR YOU OVER MY GAS GUZZLING ENGINE! 
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I'll take an inattentive, slow Prius driver over the shitheads that go 55 in a 35, needlessly tailgate, and swerve between lanes. Staying 3 feet from my back bumper isn't going to get you there any faster. We're lacking pics/vids here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ncxO3ETzmI
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 Some dude's cafe project I saw at uni today. CB750?  Absolutely beautiful 1930's Harley w/sidecar. Owner rides it every year for our local POW-MIA rally and takes a veteran along in the sidecar during the parade. Wish I had better pictures, this really doesn't do it justice.
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-Inu- posted:
My god, it's awesome! This will be my new wallpaper at work now, thank you!
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Mar 22, 2012 05:46
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What a badass.
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I keep humming this when I ride my Triumph, I don't know why. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914&ob=av2e
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NurSpec posted:
yup. I'm diggin the missing caliper and speedo drive.
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Isn't it hidden there behind the fork? I really thought that R1 pic was a photoshop at first. Yamaha seems to be the go to bike for crazy riders: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eJL4Z8ROX4#t=2m39s
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