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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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They make air horn kits and stuff like that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9ZWYTSDb8w but relying too much on your horn isn't the best idea, imo.
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ElMaligno posted:There was frost on the Motorcycle today and tommorow its supposed to snow. 
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Oct 29, 2013 15:00
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Man, what the hell is it with people blatantly lying about the condition of bikes/parts? "The fairings are good, no scuffs or scratches or cracks or anything, the bike is fine" I come out there to behold a bike in the shittiest condition I've ever personally witnessed. Paint bubbles from gas spills on a good 50% of the fairings, cracks at mounting points, dents/scuffs/scrapes, and the metal parts of the bike were so thoroughly rusted you couldn't separate the individual parts anymore. It's like lying on a dating profile. The other person's not going to ignore the extra 150lbs when you meet. I went back and pulled this off the ad  "If I wish really really hard, maybe it will happen!" M42 fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Nov 5, 2013 |
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Nov 5, 2013 04:31
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Slavvy posted:This phenomenon is so widespread that when I recently sold a givi screen for an sv650 and described it as having no marks or damage, the guy actually walked back to his car and gave me three bottles of beer because he was so astonished that I wasn't bullshitting. Hah, that's awesome. Now that I think about it, that's probably why all my CL sells went so smoothly. I can't really fathom why you'd lie. The moment the buyer sees that you were playing opposite day when answering questions about the condition, they're gonna 180 and roll outta there. They don't know what else you may have lied about, and who the gently caress wants to make a deal with a dishonest jackass that doesn't respect your time? Ughhh 
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Nov 5, 2013 15:28
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I don't bother calling them out, I leave after a polite once-over because it's just not worth my time/effort. You won't change their mind, anyway. However, last night I really wanted to repeat "bike is extremely clean" over and over while wildly gesticulating at problem areas (the entire bike), eyes rolling violently M42 fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Nov 5, 2013 |
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Nov 5, 2013 18:25
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I dropped my bike while standing still/moving it with my legs a buncha times in my first months too, at the beginning I had a really hard time controlling it when I wasn't actually riding cause I'm fuckin tiny. Plus there was the time I rode into some sand and fell over cause, lol what is this off-road you speak of? Anyways that's normal, some people take time to get used to sitting on a 350+lb object that likes to tip to the sides. I beat myself up over it a looooong time, cause I kept thinking about how preventable it all was, and my fairings look like poo poo now but that's how you learn. And boy did I learn a lot  That reminds me, this dude I had classes in college with preemptively bought a new ninja 250 like a week ago. His msf is in march and he's not getting it delivered till then, but I feel bad - if he drops it, he's gonna poo poo pinecones in anger for weeks. Hell, I did the same, and mine's a beat up lil pregen. M42 fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Apr 25, 2014 |
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Hah, those are on the same level as mine. Time to commiserate! First time, like a week after I got the bike, I pulled a slow speed uie on a narrow street without accounting for the crown of the road, moved way faster than I wanted cause of downward angle, braked to avoid a parked car and stopped while leaned over. Down I went, broke the turn signal. Replaced the signal, and literally the next day I parked my bike with the kickstand not fully extended and it tipped over and broke the brand new signal. Then there was the time I parked in the wrongest way possible, pointing downhill with the kickstand on the uphill side, and the bike tipped over immediately. In front of a store full of people watching, too. I don't park like a dumbass anymore. There was also a bunch of times I just barely saved it from falling because I stopped where the road was tilted in all sorts of interesting directions. Really need to stop skipping leg day. I almost made it on my little offroad excursion too, but the front washed out, scratched the gently caress out of the entire left side and broke the turn signal again. That time, I couldn't find any parts on CL, so I built a complete signal out the leftover parts of the other two.  For the brake thing, find a parking lot and do a ton of braking practice.
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Jan 20, 2014 22:19
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Holy loving poo poo, what?
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Chichevache posted:If you're moving to California don't go south of San Jose or North of Oakland. What bullshit is this, berkeley rules. I am college-aged though.
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Jan 22, 2014 23:22
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Chichevache posted:and I miss NorCal so much it hurts   I've got a bunch of locations saved on the phone's weather app. I was looking at the forecast for the next week in polar vortex winter wonderland and accidentally tabbed over to the bay area one. I'm here to to say gently caress that particular feeling.
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 Christ, I thought NZ was cool, turns out it's just Outraged Geriatric No Fun Zone.Slavvy posted:My mother was born a soviet so I'm hosed if I know what she did. My parents, too. Getting a proper passport after the ussr collapse wasn't hard, they just... issued new ones pretty much. It's the dual citizenship process it fucks with.
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Feb 13, 2014 00:25
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Take a page outta top gear's book 
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Feb 13, 2014 01:28
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Immigrating in general is really hard unless have: a shitload of money, a really sought-after degree/skills, or familial ties. Like most countries won't even let you in if you're not in one of those three groups. Just move to CA.
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Feb 13, 2014 22:36
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Check your eternal spring privilege
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Mar 5, 2014 02:01
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My hands (and nothing else) turn into blocks of ice below 54, it really limits my riding in spring and fall. Wish there was a way to get some bark busters onto a ninja 250.
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Mr. Eric Praline posted:
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Slavvy posted:Mother of god! I don't know how well that would scale down to AV size though.   Motorcycles?!!? In MY middle earth??!!1
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Apr 30, 2014 22:59
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Slavvy posted:At the risk of being a dumbass: how do you get an AV bigger than 125x125? I want to make the larger one mine so as to reward your sterling efforts but it won't let me upload an image that large.  I always make that mistake. Z3n posted:Post moments from today's commute! Have you ever gotten stuck
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Apr 30, 2014 23:25
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Gingerbread men in my household.
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Elviscat posted:and the guy must have thought I wanted to race In the same vein, I'll sometimes WOT for a second to get out of a car's blind spot on the highway. Half the time it'll flip some "omg biek wants 2 race" switch in the lizard brain of whoever's driving, and they'll speed up too, putting me squarely back in their blind spot.
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Sagebrush posted:That's not a very impressive WOT then Two fiddy 
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May 15, 2014 01:27
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Linedance posted:This has always freaked me out about Alberta /BC, coming from Toronto. As a pedestrian, if you even look like you might want to cross the road, traffic in both directions comes to a halt. The first time it happend to me, I was in Golden BC, and I literally thought it was some sick game the locals played on tourists. I was so used to just judging the gap and making a break for it, it didn't even occur to me that motorists would actually yield to pedestrians, even if there wasn't a crosswalk. Same, but with Berkeley CA. Coming from boston, it was like "what the gently caress are these people stopping for? Is there a wheelchair-bound old lady on the other side?!?"
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I wave at everyone, even scooters. That's right, dominos guy. I'm waving at you Also an actual wave at little kids.
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May 19, 2014 21:56
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Most of the navy people at the CT base are submarine dudes. Submarine dudes are crazy about safety in my experience.
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May 24, 2014 23:51
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Sagebrush posted:My first avatar (on this account, anyway) was some anime bullshit with the word POUTINE below it and I still have no clue what it was, who bought it or why. I like the theme you've got going on, besides that one
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May 30, 2014 03:26
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Covered scooters are the doofiest looking things in the world. Look at it. 
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Frosty- posted:he loves to get his knee down because he can really feel it catch the wind and help him turn like some kind of airbrake I will never stop laughing
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This is a pretty good list of bikes for shorter people: http://www.nebcom.com/noemi/moto/sbl.sbl.htmlSafety Dance posted:I know you can put lowering links on a Ninjette, although as a tall guy I don't see how one could get any shorter. FWIW my ninjette came lowered, and only when I returned it to stock height did I realize how lovely it handled before because the geometry was way out of whack. If you're lowering the back, lower the forks as well. E: pull the forks up I mean. Though now that I think about it, I don't even know if you can do that on the ninjette. M42 fucked around with this message at 06:12 on Jun 1, 2014 |
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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. It is loving hot in gear though, that's the second part of my rant 
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Haaaa, I knew someone would pick up on that 
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Jun 5, 2014 18:14
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Schroeder91 posted:18k miles in less than a year on the bike Sheeeeeeit, I forget, where do you live? Cause if it's not in constant-summer-cali, how the fuuuuck did you manage that
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drat! I was gonna say, that's doing one of the major maintenance milestones every month. You could do the maintenance yourself to save money, but then that'd take like a week out of every month of riding.
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My bike had to hibernate for nearly 5 months this winter, and I risk heat stroke if I ride above 85 in the summer. Which is all july and august here. "I'm not bitter," I say, bitterly, with a bitter expression
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Oh, it's fine when I'm moving. It's when I'm stopped the heat becomes a problem, and we have some of the worst traffic in the country. Mesh gear wouldn't help that much when you're just sitting.
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hot sauce posted:I've lived in DC my entire life and still not used to the humidity we have here. When riding in August just stick with back roads earlier in the day. We've gone on long rides when it's over 90 - you just have to stay hydrated. Ugh yeah, I'm never gonna get used to it. Early morning seems to be pretty cool on 85+degree days, you just gotta avoid traffic (so basically, no weekday early morning rides) I've resigned myself to getting a ticket for splitting in the summer - I mean, it's better than passing the gently caress out on the street. Maybe I should just do that in front of the cop. "Do you know why I stopped you?" *faints*
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What a bitter asswipe.
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drat pork, that sounds like a mess, sorry you had to go through that. If we're gonna do some kind of contact thingy, I agree a (closed/private) FB group would be way better than a spreadsheet.
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