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SimplyCosmic posted:I feel for everyone living the in the Washington, DC area today with that Two Million Biker event. quote:did not release a route, citing "security reasons" Let's not get an overblown sense of our value to Islamic fundamentalists now.
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# ? Sep 11, 2013 20:59 |
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Giant parades of loud vehicles are the norm here though, it's not uncommon to see a motorcade with someone important in it block traffic for 15 minutes.
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# ? Sep 11, 2013 22:12 |
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hot sauce posted:Giant parades of loud vehicles are the norm here though, it's not uncommon to see a motorcade with someone important in it block traffic for 15 minutes. The 9/11 ride that went by my house was about 2300 bikes and that took half an hour. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near a group bigger than that.
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# ? Sep 11, 2013 22:30 |
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Deeters posted:The 9/11 ride that went by my house was about 2300 bikes and that took half an hour. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near a group bigger than that. I totally agree and avoid crowds here as much as possible. I was just kidding about waiting for them to pass, as it would be would be no big deal after sitting through so many police motorcades in the past.
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# ? Sep 11, 2013 22:42 |
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Dearest claim evaluator: You loving wish that the parts/tow/labor only came to $290. It's going to be exciting to hear your mewling when the shop calls you up with the revised amount. What a loving headache.
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# ? Sep 11, 2013 23:13 |
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M42 posted:Dearest claim evaluator: For a battery. If it stalled in the shop parking lot. Even then the estimate is a bit low from what shops charge insurance.
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# ? Sep 11, 2013 23:48 |
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My official estimate whenever anyone consults us for an insurance claim: A MILLION
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# ? Sep 11, 2013 23:51 |
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Slim Pickens posted:It helps to put heat on the sticker. Borrow the girlfriend/wife's hairdryer if you don't have a heatgun and blast it long enough to get it pretty warm. The adhesive will soften up and the sticker should peel off in one solid piece most of the time. I hairdryered all of them. The stickers had been on there for 2 years. All the heat did was peel the plastic top off the sticker and leave the paper and adhesive underneath. Oh well it's done now so whatever. Paint will be here tomorrow.
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# ? Sep 12, 2013 00:41 |
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Lighter fluid (zippo fuel) is the king of sticker removal. I learned this in my time working for an advertising agency and preparing product packaging for photography. It's enough of a solvent to soften the glue but it won't damage paint.MoraleHazard posted:My condo complex had a couple of nazis on the board who loved stickering vehicles that violated the parking rules. One of my neighbors showed me the above trick. I billed the local police department £~250 ($400) after they stuck a parking ticket to the clock on my KTM and it took all the anti-scratch coating off with the adhesive. The clock that came was the improved version that I would have probably ended up having to get anyway. I paid the ticket. ReelBigLizard fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Sep 12, 2013 |
# ? Sep 12, 2013 09:39 |
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I've used Autoglym tar & adhesive remover for the warning stickers on my bike. If you get the sticker off this poo poo will get the glue remains off it without destroying the paint. Great success!
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# ? Sep 12, 2013 10:12 |
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Was coming home from work in the dark last night, hissing down with rain. Visibility was appalling, mostly due to- - Drivers coming the other way taking a good 5-6 seconds to register another vehicle and turn their highbeams down, often needing prompting with a flick of my own, and - A mudless, pristine chelsea tractor sitting no more than 4 metres behind me for a good 13 miles, despite me giving ample opportunity for them to overtake and tapping my brakes regularly in an attempt to make them pull back Riding in the rain is the pits, especially on unlit, winding roads populated by road warriors and soccer mums.
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# ? Sep 12, 2013 10:54 |
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ReformedNiceGuy posted:Oh my loving God! How long does it take to decide if you're going to replace a loving zip or not! Quoting myself so I can retract this. While I was busy ranting yesterday it turns out they'd already sent me a brand new pair of boots without letting anyone know. So the dudes at TCX are awesome even if they're a little bit crap at keeping in touch!
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# ? Sep 12, 2013 11:16 |
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chia posted:I've used Autoglym tar & adhesive remover for the warning stickers on my bike. If you get the sticker off this poo poo will get the glue remains off it without destroying the paint. Pro tip: that is lighter fluid marked up to autoglym prices
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# ? Sep 12, 2013 12:06 |
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ReelBigLizard posted:Pro tip: that is lighter fluid marked up to autoglym prices Well gently caress me
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# ? Sep 12, 2013 14:06 |
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chia posted:Well gently caress me Sounds like someone already did.
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# ? Sep 13, 2013 01:11 |
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I know, I'm Autoglym(tm)'s bitch. Just yesterday I washed my bike with Autoglym(tm) soap and waxed with Autoglym(tm) wax. Ooooh shiny.
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# ? Sep 13, 2013 06:51 |
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Why does my ignition have a "drain battery overnight" setting WHAT THE HELL IS IT USED FOR
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 18:58 |
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Phy posted:Why does my ignition have a "drain battery overnight" setting Draining your battery overnight?
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 19:26 |
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Phy posted:Why does my ignition have a "drain battery overnight" setting It's a parking light, don't leave it on that overnight or you'll drain your battery. Leave it on "off".
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 20:11 |
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clutchpuck posted:It's a parking light, don't leave it on that overnight or you'll drain your battery. Leave it on "off". Then put it halfway around the barrel, not 5 degrees. I dry-lubed up my barrel to keep it from sticking, and now the key just slides into "SCREW YOUR BATTERY" with nary a detent. I have to actively pull on the key as I'm going down to lock to make sure it pops out early enough. This is so not a feature, and unfortunately it's all internal to the lock cylinder, so it's not like you can just cut a jumper and it'll be OK.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 21:21 |
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Check your wiring diagram, you might be able to disconnect the wire that is paired by the parking position.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 21:28 |
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Then put it halfway around the barrel, not 5 degrees. I dry-lubed up my barrel to keep it from sticking, and now the key just slides into "SCREW YOUR BATTERY" with nary a detent. I have to actively pull on the key as I'm going down to lock to make sure it pops out early enough. FWIW I know for sure that if you have LED tail lamps, it can last days on Park and not kill the battery.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 21:42 |
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Z3n posted:Check your wiring diagram, you might be able to disconnect the wire that is paired by the parking position. I just quadruple-checked it. On the fifth time through, I found the right wire. I'm off to disassemble this stupid thing and delete that wire. No joy. It disable the park, but also disabled daytime tail lights on. Enabled brake light flashing, though. The tail tidy is hurting me now, not enough lamps to do what I want. babyeatingpsychopath fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Sep 16, 2013 |
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clutchpuck posted:It's a parking light, don't leave it on that overnight or you'll drain your battery. Leave it on "off". Oh, hi dad! I didn't know you had an account. Srsly tho my bike decidedly does not have LED taillamps. Gonna dig out my charger when I get home. And maybe this is a failure of imagination on my part but I'm having a hard time figuring out a chain of events that would lead to me cursing the designers for NOT including a way for me to lock the steering and pull the key but have the brake lights stay on. I mean, I know about the park setting, I've avoided it for years but I must have had a braino last night.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 23:27 |
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Phy posted:Oh, hi dad! I didn't know you had an account. I was bitching about this very same thing about a month or so ago. It happened to me again the other day, luckily at work again so a battery pack was not far away. It is a terrible design and I don't know what anyone was thinking when they came up with it. It's like having a device that lets the air out of your tires if you don't have you steering on full lock when your park. I've never had a problem with it on previous bikes, but previous bikes didn't have such a stupid ignition cylinder.
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# ? Sep 22, 2013 08:46 |
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God dammit I don't know what it is about the street sweepers in this city, but the block my apartment is in must be a street sweeper thoroughfare. It's always wet, and they're polishing the blacktop to a mirror finish. If the city would outlaw those drat horse-and-buggy tourist traps that move 3mph and poo poo everywhere, they wouldn't need to sweep the streets so goddamn much.
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# ? Oct 4, 2013 03:57 |
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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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They did that on a bunch of county roads around me too. They were nice enough to put up loose stone signs. They tend to clear off in a week or two, but the road is still poo poo because they didn't do any leveling to smooth out ruts or potholes.
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# ? Oct 6, 2013 14:13 |
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KozmoNaut posted: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". Buddy of mine almost died because of that this spring. Did a long sweeping turn and when they came out of the turn, a bunch of that poo poo was just scattered loose everywhere. No signs or anything. Both of them took a header and needed to get out via medi-vac. He just got out of the hospital a few weeks ago (happened in May).
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# ? Oct 6, 2013 18:43 |
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I'm glad that some people like motorcycles, but they need to stay on their side of the road: I guess it's time for a new GoPro if neither his face nor license plate was visible.
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# ? Oct 6, 2013 18:55 |
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I'm so sick of people almost merging into me. Check your loving blind spot people! E: And it's not like I'm flying up on these people and passing them at the last second, either. I'm usually following a good distance from the car in front of me and going a reasonable speed. How hard is it to look to your right or left before turning?
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# ? Oct 6, 2013 19:15 |
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Pope Mobile posted:I'm so sick of people almost merging into me. Check your loving blind spot people! Stop hanging out in their blind spots. Blind spots are one of those places that should be like hot lava to motorcyclists.
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# ? Oct 6, 2013 20:20 |
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Z3n posted:Stop hanging out in their blind spots. Blind spots are one of those places that should be like hot lava to motorcyclists. I'm pretty sure he's been here long enough to read a few paragraphs of your's on the matter. Maybe assume he's not hanging around in blind spots and the drivers might just be dumb instead of handing out the sage wisdom? I don't waste any time in blind spots and I still have occasional lane changes into me.
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# ? Oct 6, 2013 20:25 |
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Dellikose posted:They did that on a bunch of county roads around me too. They were nice enough to put up loose stone signs. They tend to clear off in a week or two, but the road is still poo poo because they didn't do any leveling to smooth out ruts or potholes. A good rutted corner you could rail would be pretty awesome/terrifying.
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# ? Oct 6, 2013 20:31 |
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nsaP posted:I'm pretty sure he's been here long enough to read a few paragraphs of your's on the matter. Maybe assume he's not hanging around in blind spots and the drivers might just be dumb instead of handing out the sage wisdom? I don't waste any time in blind spots and I still have occasional lane changes into me. I guess if you live in the conservative paradises where freedom acts like lane splitting are illegal that might be a possibility. But I dunno, I haven't had someone merge into me in ages because I work really hard to minimize the time I spend in around cars, and by extension, their spots. Sometimes that means finding a gap in traffic and moving to the slow lane and doing the speed limit because that's what maintains the best safety buffer. "Drivers be dumb" is just an excuse for not paying better attention and planning better. If you're in a place where you can anticipate what's about to happen, you can do something before it happens to avoid the situation. If you're expecting them to look to their right or left before turning, you're doing riding wrong.
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# ? Oct 6, 2013 20:38 |
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Z3n posted:Stop hanging out in their blind spots. Blind spots are one of those places that should be like hot lava to motorcyclists. I don't "hang out" in blind spots. I'm either passing someone or being passed. I also have keep in mind cars behind and in front of me. It's impossible to avoid the blind spot. You have to be in it at some point. I've almost been merged into two times in the past week while passing on the freeway and once while being passed. Each time, I was in the blind spot when they started to merge. It wasn't me just sitting in their blind, it was them not paying attention to what's going on around them. Had I not been watching them, I'd have been hit each time.
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# ? Oct 6, 2013 21:07 |
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Pope Mobile posted:I don't "hang out" in blind spots. I'm either passing someone or being passed. I also have keep in mind cars behind and in front of me. The reason I said that is because you said this: quote:I'm usually following a good distance from the car in front of me and going a reasonable speed. If you're "A good distance from them and going a reasonable speed" how are you anywhere near their blind spot or having to take evasive maneuvers to avoid accidents? Lane choice, speed choice, moving through traffic to find the gaps in groups of cars, are how I avoid these things. Most of the time if you're doing it right, after a mile or 2 on the freeway you can find the gap in the traffic pattern.
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# ? Oct 6, 2013 21:31 |
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You are so tedious, Z3n. Pope Mobile - ya, I feel you. It still happens even when you try to stay out of the bad places. I understand what you're saying, even if our resident autist doesn't.
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# ? Oct 6, 2013 21:40 |
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Drivers absolutely don't pay nearly enough attention to the world around them, but I also think many riders underestimate the size of blind spots in the average car, and overestimate their visibility in mirrors and quick head-checks at highway speeds.
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Backov posted:You are so tedious, Z3n. You know what's tedious? Driving to pick up someone's crashed bike because of an accident blamed on "dumb drivers" rather than just avoiding the situation entirely with some forethought and awareness. The number of accidents that would have never happened if riders would just loving let their egos go about being first or "owning their lane" or the rest of the bullshit that gets them into pissing contests with cars that they're guaranteed to lose eventually is staggering. Related: Video in GBS with the range rover guy. It's one of those things where the number of "near misses" you have goes down dramatically when you start looking at the things that led to a situation where someone merged into you. Someone comes flying up on you on the left and you're near an offramp? Maybe it's best to slow down a bit because they're probably going to cut you off. You're passing someone on the left? Maybe it's best to wait if they're coming up on a car as well and see what they're doing first. It's one of those situations where it goes past blind spots and into planning when and where you even enter those blind spots. Of course, the dirty secret is that being a safe rider is very tedious and boring. Z3n fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Oct 6, 2013 |
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