Loud motorcycles dying?
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Most of the Harley owners I know ride maybe once a month, on weekends, if the weather is nice. I hardly ever have to deal with their ridiculous noise output. I do question the sanity of purchasing a $20,000 vehicle and only putting 200 miles a year on it though.
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@TimeBandit Yeah, I know, but in the UK, and especially in Laaaaaahndaaaaaahn, it's 100% true truthyness.
On my pushbike, for example, I had a bloke run me off the road at Shepherd's Bush, I picked myself up and made a somewhat rude gesture - He jumped out of his Merc with an axe handle, ready to do serious harm...
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@tufty That just more proof that they are a bunch of psychotics !
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@Vaire This reminded me of the day I was stopped by a cop because my muffler was broken and my car made too much noise. While the cop was talking to me, he stopped because a Harley passed by and we couldn't hear a thing (except the Harley). After it passed, I looked at the cop and said : and you think my car makes too much noise, are you are fuckin kidding me ?
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What happens if you do not wait 15 min to heat up that old motorcycle and just start riding instantly?
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@TimeBandit said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
After it passed, I looked at the cop and said : and you think my car makes too much noise, are you are fuckin kidding me ?
You didn't say fuckin
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@Adynathos It probably stalls.
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@dse said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
@TimeBandit said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
After it passed, I looked at the cop and said : and you think my car makes too much noise, are you are fuckin kidding me ?
You didn't say fuckin
Why not ? He was not in the language police
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@RaceProUK said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
But nothing compares to cyclists
You know, a cyclist rant is what caused one of the two longest comment threads on JWZ's blog.
I like riding a bike, but I disagree with how so many cyclists are entitled, arrogant assholes who think rules don't apply to them. Except for the one about riding in traffic. That's just stupid, at least in Dallas where nearly nobody walks so it's safe to ride on the sidewalks.
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@blakeyrat said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
I love it when they put that privacy tinting on their back windows, then turn on the rear defrost in winter and it all bubbles-up.
Is that was causes it? I always assumed it was incompetent DIY.
My car came with built-in tinting.
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@Vaire said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
I think that gets me out of the "mainstream loser" category, at least in the US
Yeah, it puts you in the non-mainstream loser category.
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@tufty said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
Anyone that tells you cyclists are irresponsible is a fucking moron.
Based on what you wrote before that, you're wrong--although it means they're insane/suicidal, not necessarily irresponsible.
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@mott555 said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
@Adynathos It probably stalls.
What terrible engine design, and that is supposed to be a vehicle offering superior mobility to a car?
Oh I would love to see that in an action film chase sequence:
"I will start chasing him in a moment, just need 15 mins to heat up the engine, he surely will not get far"
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@Adynathos said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
@mott555 said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
@Adynathos It probably stalls.
What terrible engine design
We are talking about Harley-Davidson after all.
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@tufty said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
Car drivers got their licences free with a pack of Shreddies
Here a driving license for a car is around 500 usd, about 2 months of minimal wage.
And only 34% of people that take the exams have sucess.
It's one of the dirtiest money grab the government do with us here.
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@FrostCat said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
@blakeyrat said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
I love it when they put that privacy tinting on their back windows, then turn on the rear defrost in winter and it all bubbles-up.
Is that was causes it? I always assumed it was incompetent DIY.
My car came with built-in tinting.
You were right, because mine was installed by the car dealer and never got bubbles, the defroster didn't do any damage to it. It's a normal tinted film glued to the window.
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@Adynathos said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
@mott555 said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
@Adynathos It probably stalls.
What terrible engine design
You've never driven a vehicle with a carburetor and a manual choke. Guess what most older bikes have? Late models of bikes tend to have all the fuel-injection, emissions-control bullshit you see on cars now, but they're a pain in the ass to maintain without going to the goddamn mechanic.
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@lolwhat said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
You've never driven a vehicle with a carburetor and a manual choke. Guess what most older bikes have? Late models of bikes tend to have all the fuel-injection, emissions-control bullshit you see on cars now, but they're a pain in the ass to maintain without going to the goddamn mechanic.
Most bikes have been fuel injected since 2000. The carbed ones are a little finicky when the intake tract is cold, but that goes away pretty quickly.
As for difficulty - fuel injected bikes are way easier to tweak. Changing carb needles is a total pain in the ass and you need a shit-ton of lengths and tapers to do any real experimentation. With fuel injection you just hook up a Power Commander and tune with a laptop.
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@Jaime OK, but what happens if the electronics go TU? Besides, the older bikes generally last and last and last with a modicum of TLC.
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Harley has been falling for yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaars now. This is nothing new.
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@FrostCat said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
@Vaire said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
I think that gets me out of the "mainstream loser" category, at least in the US
Yeah, it puts you in the non-mainstream loser category.
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@Weng said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
Harley has been falling for yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaars now. This is nothing new.
Don't take this away from me, I need this
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@RaceProUK said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
But nothing compares to cyclists. To a cyclist, red lights are optional. Fuck, to a cyclist, being seen is optional; they'll happily ride at night with no lights whatsoever. Fucking suicidal they are
I ride bicycle almost everywhere and even I get annoyed with other cyclists who seem to think there’s no such thing as traffic regulations, turning on their lights in the dark, or even looking at what’s going on around them in traffic.
A route I regularly take has a point where a bicycle track crosses a minor access road. Most cyclists going in one of the two directions on the bicycle track there will turn onto the road because it leads to common destinations. More than once, I’ve done my best to overtake a cyclist ahead of me there just at the point where they’re going to turn onto the road. Why? Because virtually none of them signal a turn or even look behind them before making it, so I’m just hoping for that wide-eyed stare and swerve/emergency braking maneuver when they realise there’s someone next to them, and which might just teach them that they’re not alone on the road.
Then again, I have this bad habit of giving other people too much credit.
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@Gurth said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
I’ve done my best to overtake a cyclist ahead of me there just at the point where they’re going to turn onto the road
Have you crashed yet?
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@Vaire said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
Someone in my neighborhood has one of the things, and I swear to god, he lives 4 houses down, and 3 streets up, and I can hear that fucking thing like I am standing next to it when he fires it up. That wouldn't be so bad, except that for some reason he likes to fire it up, and then just SIT THERE for like 5-10 minutes doing FUCK ALL while revving the engine. It is a good thing for him there are laws against setting people on fire.
Sorry, I am not normally this cranky in the morning. Christ, where's my coffee =_=
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I think you should need third party insurance to ride a bicycle on a road, the same as for a car. It wouldn't even be that expensive since you're probably not going to do much more than dent the bodywork of the car you hit, but it might make people take a bit more care.
Get hit by a cyclist: it's their fault, you couldn't do anything about it. But since they're the vulnerable one in the collision, you still get to feel that you almost killed someone (unless you're really unlucky...). And they don't have to pay for the damage.
Not that I paid for the damage, but only because my car is far too old and battered to patch up dents.
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@lolwhat I don't think I've ever actually heard of an ECU dying before, on any vehicle. I'm sure it happens but it can't be common.
Affordable fuel injection has finally made its way into dirt bikes. My fuel-injected bike runs so much better than my previous carbureted bike. Only maintenance it needs is oil changes and an occasional new chain. (And new handguards when dumbass me buys cheap ones that break every time I drop the bike in the woods, but that's not the bike's fault...)
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@flabdablet Serves him right for living in NYC[1] and/or living in a place that doesn't used Dumpsters. My apartment complex runs a truck through a couple times a week. It spend less than a minute making noises as the machinery unloads it.
[1] Back when Texas had the "he needed killing" defense, I can't imagine a jury in the land would convict.
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@CarrieVS said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
Get hit by a cyclist: it's their fault, you couldn't do anything about it.
BULLSHIT! I hit a car once. When they hooked me on a corner. There wasn't shit I could do about it. Except hit them. And then hit the ground hard when the accelerated away. It cracked my helmet. (Luckily, no concussion.) They never stopped.
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@dcon said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
they hooked me on a corner. There wasn't shit I could do about it.
I consider that to be them hitting you, then.
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Like I said, been a bicycle courier. In most cases, although not all, when a bike hits something, it's because that something was looking the other way. 2 bent bike frames down to that - one due to the very common "pulling out of a side road directly into your path" and the other due to "reversing out of a parking space into the flow of traffic", both of which resulted in passable superman impressions and the old classic
Sorry mate, didn't see you
In both cases what I could see in the instant before colliding with the vehicle was the back of the driver's head, so it is hardly surprising they "didn't see me".
There's also a common misconception that as it's only a bicycle, it can't be going very fast (this is the one that gets pedestrians clobbered). In London, at least, where the bicycle is the single fastest method of getting from A to B within the confines of the North Circular, this is patently untrue - the bicycle, especially if it has a courier on it who is paid by the delivery, will almost always be travelling faster than surrounding traffic.
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@Adynathos said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
Have you crashed yet?
Not yet. Once almost, but since I’m the one who sees it coming, I make sure I can swerve at the very last moment yet stay close enough that it’s a near-crash.
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@CarrieVS said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
I think you should need third party insurance to ride a bicycle on a road, the same as for a car. It wouldn't even be that expensive since you're probably not going to do much more than dent the bodywork of the car you hit, but it might make people take a bit more care.
Or less, because they know they’re insured for any damage they cause.
In this country, the cyclist is seen as the “weaker” side and so motor vehicle insurance doesn’t usually cover damage from car–cyclist collisions even if they’re caused by the cyclist. I’m not sure many non-car-owning cyclists even realise this, but I can certainly see it contributing to the bad traffic manners of cyclists who do.
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@Gurth said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
I can certainly see it contributing to the bad traffic manners of cyclists who do.
You what? You honestly think cyclists work on a "I'm not going to have to pay, so I can do what the fuck I like" attitude? You don't deliberately get into altercations with more than a tonne of steel driven by what you have to assume is a psychotic halfwit when the only protection you have is a helmet. Because you might not have to pay for damage done to a motor vehicle, but there's an extremely good chance you'll fuck up not only your own ride (which might well, incidentally, be worth more than the vehicle you hit, and will also not be covered) but also your life.
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To everyone here who complained that Babymetal is noise:
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@RaceProUK said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
four rings, the driver's a total anus; a lion on its hind legs, the driver's a braindead moron
And when the badge is a griffin they made a poor choice?
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@Vaire said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
@FrostCat said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
@Vaire said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
I think that gets me out of the "mainstream loser" category, at least in the US
Yeah, it puts you in the non-mainstream loser category.
What's that comma doing there?
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@tufty said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
You what? You honestly think cyclists work on a "I'm not going to have to pay, so I can do what the fuck I like" attitude?
No, I said I think it contributes — because they know subconsciously. Drivers wearing seat belts take greater risks than ones without; soldiers wearing body armour take greater risks than ones without; if I’d have to guess, I’d say people who know they don’t have to pay for something probably take greater risks than ones who do.
the only protection you have is a helmet.
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your own ride (which might well, incidentally, be worth more than the vehicle you hit, and will also not be covered)We’re coming from different bicycling cultures. About the only people wearing helmets on bicycles here are little kids (as in toddlers, plus maybe a few years beyond that) and as for a bicycle worth more than a car, I don’t see many of those in the places where I tend to park mine:
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What about us that want that kind of a bike (not specifically a Harley, but a "classic" chasis one) because we find them both pretty and more comfortable to ride than other kinds? Should we suffer as well? :(
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@Onyx said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
Should we suffer as well?
Yes. All motorcyclists shold be punished.
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@loopback0 I'm also a Scooter fan, does that mean I'm going to a special circle of hell?
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@Onyx said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
a special circle of hell
Yes, the one that contains PHP and Asterix
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@Luhmann said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
Asterix
What's the problem with that? Unless you mean they only have the movies but no comics/cartoons?
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@Onyx
Still planning on visiting the theme Park ...
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@Luhmann said in Loud motorcycles dying?:
the one that contains PHP and Asterix
The one that contains a PHP interpreter implemented as Asterisk config files, surely.
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It would be so much fun if you tried driving or riding motorcycles/bicycles on Indian Roads. Oh Boy the kind of rants we'll have around here. There is absolutely no road sense here and I get "almost killed" atleast twice a day when I fucking WALK!!!. The pedestrian crossings are mostly there for namesake and nobody gives a fuck about safety. It is like a Mad Max movie running endlessly. Fuck!
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@stillwater On the plus side, there's a fair chance that the machine that looks like it's about to mow you down is a Royal Enfield Bullet, and will therefore seize up before it can hit you.
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@stillwater Is the Indian driving test still 'drive down a deserted road for 100 yards, then stop'?
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@flabdablet No Good sir, we mostly have cheap vehicles that usually stop only 2323132 seconds after the brake was pressed. There is a good chance of getting mowed down. Also you get called names even if it is not your own fault just so that you don't start calling the other person names first. If that makes any sense. It is all so fucked up I'd wager people from the west come here and just go WTF all the time here out on the roads. Or they prefer not to come at all !