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Gorson posted:The crazy things you find in carb sets. Check out this GL1100 carb rack I bought off FB marketplace for $40: I mean that's like saying planes don't generally fall out of the sky and the counter example is 9/11 Idle to quarter throttle never forget
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Finger Prince posted:I went on a nice ride down to Deception Pass today. Nice pictures and that's a very nice drive. I trailer-camped in Anacortes for two weeks in 2015 (?) and biked all over the place there on a bicycle. Going over the Deception Pass bridge was by far my favorite. Not a lot of room tho and a lot of rubber-necking
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TotalLossBrain posted:Nice pictures and that's a very nice drive. I trailer-camped in Anacortes for two weeks in 2015 (?) and biked all over the place there on a bicycle. Going over the Deception Pass bridge was by far my favorite. It's a gorgeous spot. I went years ago when I was on some training in Seattle, been wanting to go back since. One of these days I'll actually spend some time in the park, go down to the beach, etc., rather than just stopping by the bridge to take pictures.
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May 20, 2022 04:43
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Gorson posted:The crazy things you find in carb sets. Check out this GL1100 carb rack I bought off FB marketplace for $40: Honda (or maybe keihin?) loved press in pilots  My solution was always taking a micro drill and clearing them out that way. I’ve never had any issues with boring out the pilot or anything like that
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May 20, 2022 13:24
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Get out of here you drat tourists
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May 20, 2022 20:23
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Goddamn Canadians, coming down here, eating our shrimp, shopping at our Trader Joe's!
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I bought my youngest a Suzuki JR50 last week. The PO stated “needs carb adjustment, doesn’t want to idle when cold”. I got it home and the air box cover is Swiss cheesed with 1/4 inch holes. Gee, wonder what could be causing the poor cold performance? Off to bike bandit to order a new air box cover. Of course because it is a Suzuki, it actually runs pretty well when warmed up after I richened it up on the A/F screw a turn and a half
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May 22, 2022 23:43
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Speed holes in my air box I know, I know It's serious
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May 22, 2022 23:49
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Me with the air box on a 50cc childrens bike that literally makes like 1.25HP
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May 23, 2022 00:37
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Why buy an air box when duct tape exists...?
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May 23, 2022 00:47
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Several dads down the street got minibikes for their kids last summer. After a couple weeks it was exclusively the dads riding them, and then they started modifying them. Now every few days one of them will blast up and down the street a few times. BrrraaaaaAAAAAP POP POP BANG POP POP braaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAP POP BANG POP POP POP BANG
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May 23, 2022 01:06
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Slavvy posted:Why buy an air box when duct tape exists...? Because it will inevitably get goopy and gross and then I’ll have to deal with that.
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Slavvy posted:Why buy an air box when duct tape exists...? Because life isn't Mad Max (yet).
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Steakandchips posted:Because life isn't Mad Max (yet). The way gas prices are we aren’t far off. 
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May 23, 2022 11:39
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Honestly, it surprises me a lot that there is not more gasoline theft here, with prices between €2,10 and €2,40 for a liter of Euro 95. A full tank of gas can be worth over 100 euro these days.
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LimaBiker posted:Honestly, it surprises me a lot that there is not more gasoline theft here, with prices between €2,10 and €2,40 for a liter of Euro 95. I've seen a lot of videos on social media sites of people having gas canisters stolen out of their driveways, and retaliating by filling another gas canister with water and leaving it in the same place. But nothing quite "heist on the Sunoco" level.
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Strife posted:retaliating by filling another gas canister with water and leaving it in the same place. 
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May 23, 2022 14:56
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Anita Dickinme posted:The way gas prices are we aren’t far off. You guys pay effectively 80p per litre so sod off! We pay 160p or more per litre!
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Steakandchips posted:You guys pay effectively 80p per litre so sod off! We pay 160p or more per litre! This is so un-American I don’t even know what you’re saying.
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May 23, 2022 15:43
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Sorry, I'll translate to American: Y'all pay 5 dollars a gallon for gas, so gently caress off! We pay 10 dollars a gallon or more for gas!
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May 23, 2022 16:04
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Much better, thank you. Get rekt skrub. 
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May 23, 2022 16:07
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I paid $7/gallon yesterday. Anyway direct price comparisons don’t really account for purchasing power, differing tax policies, transportation infrastructure, and the overall impact to standard of living of higher gas prices. It’s perfectly OK for Americans to complain about the price of gas, even if somewhere else has more expensive gas.
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May 23, 2022 16:30
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We can complain about the price of gas because the culture is: you go to work every day and sit in 4 hours of traffic if necessary to do it. They don't give us any public transportation options.
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I have worked from home since 2017 pretty much full time and 100% full time since 2019 I think. Even when I did commute before those dates, I have never paid for fuel for commuting; just used trains. All my petrol/diesel/EV juice money has always been for funsies, never commuting.
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Steakandchips posted:I have worked from home since 2017 pretty much full time and 100% full time since 2019 I think. Even when I did commute before those dates, I have never paid for fuel for commuting; just used trains. This is not an option for like 90% of americans So ya, petrol there is priced more like a luxury good than a necessity. The price of an (american) gallon of gas is more than our federal minimum wage in some places right now.
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I got an electric car about 4 years ago I really haven’t noticed  At least the bike has a small enough tank you don’t really notice it all at once
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LimaBiker posted:Honestly, it surprises me a lot that there is not more gasoline theft here, with prices between €2,10 and €2,40 for a liter of Euro 95. here if it can't be siphoned they'll drill the tanks. nice brotruck, not only is it hilariously easy to cut the catalysts off, its easy to separate it from its [checks notes] 50 gallons/190L of fuel.
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65 litres of diesel for my car is about £115, i.e. to fill it from empty. A 190 litre tank for a brotruck would £342 to fill from empty in  . I think one fillup at that sort of price would make me switch to electric in short order.
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cursedshitbox posted:here if it can't be siphoned they'll drill the tanks. Lmao jokes on you I already removed the cats so I can roll coal
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TheBacon posted:Lmao jokes on you I already removed the cats so I can roll coal [reports u to the gov] Steakandchips posted:A 190 litre tank for a brotruck would £342 to fill from empty in Its about three hundo american to fill my hooptie up from empty. even at double that, its still one of the smaller line items in cost of ownership. Its not a daily and its use-case is outside that of what current evs provide. Its eventual replacement will be a parallel hybrid of a medium/heavy duty variety. Had a ev, sold it in 2020, I don't commute far enough away to justify another vehicle purchase. my 'fuel-efficient' ride is a bicycle.
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TheBacon posted:The price of an (american) gallon of gas is more than our federal minimum wage in some places right now. I didn’t even make this connection before now. 
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Gorson posted:We can complain about the price of gas because the culture is: you go to work every day and sit in 4 hours of traffic if necessary to do it. They don't give us any public transportation options. Fifty Three fucked around with this message at 22:15 on May 23, 2022 |
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I live twenty minutes from work. Public transportation? Well...
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I work remotely but see clients regularly at their offices. I cover all of New England, but a lot of offices are central to Boston or Burlington. I'm about 45 minutes' drive from Boston, and maybe 20 from Burlington. In a day I could leave at 9 for a 10AM meeting in Boston, hit a 1PM meeting in Burlington, then I'll get home around 2:30 and spend the rest of the day dealing with email and admin stuff. Via public transportation it's 2 hours and 45 minutes to Boston, so I'd have to leave my house at 7 to get to that meeting on time, and if I wanted to be in Burlington it would take, uh, 7 hours and 55 minutes from Boston, and then 1:45 to get from Burlington to my house. Public transportation doesn't exist in the US.
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Lots of things suck rear end in the US.
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Steakandchips posted:Sorry, I'll translate to American: You pay $10 USD per gallon of gas, we pay $30 per gallon of gas because we need to fund the behemoth that goes and robs other countries for their gas to sell to us for $5 a gallon of gas. Also if you get hurt maybe sit in a corner and hope you don't die because medical care will ruin you. Rolo posted:Lots of things suck rear end in the US. quote for truth
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Coydog posted:Also if you get hurt maybe sit in a corner and hope you don't die because medical care will ruin you. Being in the military I never truly realized how truly awful our healthcare system is until I became a civilian and found out about copay. It was a huge culture shock. Thank goodness I have free healthcare from the VA because I can’t imagine paying bills for basic human healthcare needs.
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Anita Dickinme posted:Being in the military I never truly realized how truly awful our healthcare system is until I became a civilian and found out about copay. It was a huge culture shock. Thank goodness I have free healthcare from the VA because I can’t imagine paying bills for basic human healthcare needs. This is why I love it when vets post poo poo like "forgiving student loans would be a slap in my face, I joined the military and served my country so I could get a college education", because in my head that translates to "I'm all for taxes funding a paycheck, education, and healthcare (although the VA is complete poo poo) but only if you're OK with the possibility of being sent into combat" To be clear I'm not directing this post at you - your post just reminded me of some BS that went around social media a few weeks back. Don't mean to turn this into D&D 
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Anita Dickinme posted:Being in the military I never truly realized how truly awful our healthcare system is until I became a civilian and found out about copay. It was a huge culture shock. Thank goodness I have free healthcare from the VA because I can’t imagine paying bills for basic human healthcare needs. Lol now imagine being a type 1 diabetic (me). america rules
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