A SAD SAD REALIZATION

[Justin]

I think it's hilarious that the less I respond to him to more he seeks out
all my posts just to reply with nonsense.

This must really be pissing him off!

Too funny!

 

[Adam Albright]

I think it's hilarious that the less I respond to him to more he seeks out
all my posts just to reply with nonsense.

This must really be pissing him off!

Too funny!

How do you manage to read my posts when you said you put me in your
kill file? I've dealt with trolls for probably longer than you've been
breathing. Trust me kid, you're nothing special. Just another garden
varity troll with a chip on his shoulder.

 

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Today, Stephan Rose made these interesting comments ...

Very true, not married after all. =)

There are girls though who have no problem with that. I used
to ride with this one girl occasionally that I could do stuff
like that all day long with her on the back no problem.

I should add that while power-to-weight is a BIG factor, so too
is final drive gearing, number of gears in the tranny, spread
between the gear ratios, and aerodynamics to name just a few. A
full-bore crotch rocket is fully aero including the rider but I
can't imagine they're very comfortable to ride in that position
with the unmuffled exhaust in your ears, but then, if you likes
it, you buys it and you rides it, just don't ask me to ride
behind you.

And, for them with more money than brains, you can start with
somee little POS rice burner coupe add $30K in engine mods and
another $30K in cosmetics and an ultimate sound system and also
beat most all performance sedans. But, there's more to life than
absolute performance under any definition. 99% of the time I am
in traffic where I can't go quick nor fast and can't show off
cornering, so what's the point?

 

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Today, Justin made these interesting comments ...

Or had a bike been hit

Oh wait, a biker would have zipped out of there right

Bikes are fun, I refuse to be the driver of anything with
major power. I do not trust myself. I'll get myself killed!
I've ridden a dirt bike a few times.

Saw a really neat video clip from a surveillance camera at a gas
station showing some idiot on a bike running head-on at what
looked like maybe 50 mph into a big truck. Truck stopped with
almost zero damage but the video showed the bike also stopping
and another of Newton's Laws of Motion pitched him at least 100
yards downstream, where he landed with arms and legs akimbo. His
brain was akimbo as well as dead. But, he sure showed that truck
what it's all about!

 

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Today, Adam Albright made these interesting comments ...

Can't you keep your stories straight? You just got done
telling us you paid $8,000 for a used replacement engine.

I asked for clarification on that as well and how come the standard
manufacturer's warranty didn't cover it, but it don't bother me
known that I didn't get a response, but it apparently does bother
you.

 

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Today, Justin made these interesting comments ...

Learn something new every day


The Grand Am. I was past two years and past 38,000 miles.
Out of warranty.


Out of warranty. Past 38,000 miles. Remember, this was my
warranty lesson

Hafta look at Mopar modern warranty periods, may be that short,
can't remember and haven't researched it. But, I do know that all
safety and emissions gear is 10 years/100,000 miles.

However, as I said, I opted for the used engine option. Lucky
for me someone rear-ended the same year (first year for this
engine) and totaled another Grand Am. I'm not sure if this
engine was used elsewhere.


Sssshhhh...I sense an American quip nearby

The Asians and Europeans subscribe to the same jargon because
that's what the car rags use, including the (in)famous Consumer's
Reports.

 

[Lang Murphy]

Justin,

That remark was sarcastic.

Lang

Oh really? Please explain how you know this.

 

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Today, Stephan Rose made these interesting comments ...

I honestly don't know the exact numbers either but whatever
the max numbers are, they are higher for cars than for bikes.

Me, neither, but it is pretty damn hard to radically deform the
tire(s) of a bike as in the really big racing tires on some
production performance cars but certainly the drag and circle
track cars, as well as road course cars.

That doesn't actually necessarily hurt the rider though. I
*have* hit a stationary object at 50 miles an hour before at
night time.

See another of my posts. I've seen videos of bikers vaulting over
a truck and I personally witnessed the aftermath of a bike who
tried to pass between two vehicles on an interstate. One of the 2
cars made a sandwhich out of him. Bike was destroyed and the
rider was just a blob of goo, and quite dead.

Bike flipped in mid-air twice and I got launched a few hundred
feet through the air. Walked away with a few scratches and a
few sore muscles for a few days, largely thanks to my gear I
was wearing and knowing how to not hit the ground like a rock.
Bike was actually still skidding by the time I was back on my
feet.

So, now you're Evil Knievel?

You're generally fine as long as the impact is to the *bike*
and not to the rider in the process. That is the key
difference there. If my bike gets hit and I get thrown off as
a result, I'll be allright as long as I don't hit an object in
the process.

Maybe you're above average skill or above average lucky, but the
injured and killed for bikers on a per capita or miles driven
bases are FAR more than cars, and FAR, FAR, FAR more than big
trucks and SUVs. It really IS hard to repeal the laws of physics
even with a $100K bike.

To me the most dangerous impacts I can have on a bike are side
impacts as those will hit me physically. Front or rear impacts
have a much higher chance of launching me off the bike without
physically hitting me.

That's what door side guard beams and side airbags are for.

Well any company that sells warranties isn't doing it for the
customers good or they'd go out of business. They are doing it
to make money after all.

So ultimately, just like insurance companies, they have to
take in more money than they pay out.

Extended warranties of all types use similar "actuarial"
mathematics as any other kind of insurance to calculate the
premiums and deductibles. No real mystery to any of this, save
exactly who you buy one from and how much coverage you want,
read, how much you want to pay.

 

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Today, Justin made these interesting comments ...

True. It's all a gamble. They made money off me with the
F-150. But had I gotten it for the Grand Am I would be way
ahead of the game

People spend a lot of tax dollars on cops and firemen but hope
fervantly that they never need their services. Much cheaper to have
a warranty and not use it than vice versa - IFF you really do want
to drive the car into the ground.

 

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Today, Justin made these interesting comments ...

Oh know! Someone specific has rubbed off on you too

Look, there's plenty of personal stuff floating around both the XP
and Vista NGs, so I prefer not to get in the middle between any of
the warring factions.

 

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Today, Justin made these interesting comments ...

I can't get my wife on the back of a jetski going 20 MPH.

she's a woman wise beyond imagination

 

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Today, Justin made these interesting comments ...

The purchase sound normal, why was your investigation
fruitless?

No unbiased review places I could find and I wanted a specific
set of features which the Panasonic something-or-the-other had.
It has performed very well, so I bought another one just like it
for my wife. When I get ready to buy something that involves both
research and personal testimonials, I weight each of those at
only 5-10% each, with the rest what I can see and touch myself.
And, for things that can be returned no questions asked, if it is
DOA, I return it. Cars are another story and while someone posted
how to get a refund on Windows, friends who've tried it had great
difficulty. Don't really know, just talking out of my ass.

Very good. First time out and they're solid. So the whole
"wait" advise, for cars anyway, is bunk. Or like you said, no
longer valid. I can't speak for cars prior to my first
professional job.

As I elucidated, today's cars are pretty damn good but there are
still early production issues. Some boil down to cosmetics or
annoyances while other really do need to be repaired. That said,
all the world's car makers test, test, and test some more during
development, prototype builds, pilot builds, pre-production
builds and early production builds. Lots to that, can talk about
it if anyone really cares, but suffice to say that it is still
wise to be an informed buyer of even them Japanese brands that
everybody knows are 100% great and never break at all. Except for
those that do ...

What's reasonable? You didn't have a "very long" time period
for the Charger or Prowler. I had two weeks for the HHR and
one week for the Nitro. No other choice other then not to buy
it.

Don't know.

At least with Vista you have 45 days.

For what, to just get the purchase price back? Even if I could
get that who will pay for my time, effort and grief if I have to
go back to XP? Better to wait for me, you do what you think best
for you, though.

 

[Justin]

I asked for clarification on that as well and how come the standard
manufacturer's warranty didn't cover it, but it don't bother me
known that I didn't get a response, but it apparently does bother
you.

You didn't get my post?

Here it is again. What made you think the car was in warranty?:

 

[Justin]

Hafta look at Mopar modern warranty periods, may be that short,
can't remember and haven't researched it. But, I do know that all
safety and emissions gear is 10 years/100,000 miles.

If it was, they never told me. My manual and service book said 3/36,000
across the board.

I never saw any other numbers. If that's a standard, they sure don't
advertise it very well.

 

[Stephan Rose]

See another of my posts. I've seen videos of bikers vaulting over
a truck and I personally witnessed the aftermath of a bike who
tried to pass between two vehicles on an interstate. One of the 2
cars made a sandwhich out of him. Bike was destroyed and the
rider was just a blob of goo, and quite dead.

Oh yea, that can happen.

So, now you're Evil Knievel?

Naw, that guy would do stuff like that intentionally. I did it as an
accident =P




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Stephan
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[Stephan Rose]

I should add that while power-to-weight is a BIG factor, so too
is final drive gearing, number of gears in the tranny, spread
between the gear ratios, and aerodynamics to name just a few. A
full-bore crotch rocket is fully aero including the rider but I
can't imagine they're very comfortable to ride in that position
with the unmuffled exhaust in your ears, but then, if you likes
it, you buys it and you rides it, just don't ask me to ride
behind you.

Actually I am perfectly comfortable on my R6.

And, for them with more money than brains, you can start with
somee little POS rice burner coupe add $30K in engine mods and
another $30K in cosmetics and an ultimate sound system and also
beat most all performance sedans. But, there's more to life than
absolute performance under any definition. 99% of the time I am
in traffic where I can't go quick nor fast and can't show off
cornering, so what's the point?

Difference is that due to my increased acceleration and agility I can far
easier pass vehicles in traffic.

Back when I used to live in Orlando...time to go to the office from my
apartmet:

Car -> 45 minutes
Bike -> 20 minutes

And no, I wasn't speeding with the bike. I was simply not stuck in traffic
with it.

But as far as performance goes, that is why I ride an R6. Getting an R1, no
matter how sexy of a bike that thing is, not even here in Germany could I
truly ride that bike to its potential. German highways are about the one
and only place where I'd like an R1.

Back-roads...I'd prefer the R6.

In the US, both the R6 and R1 are beyond overkill at 70 miles an hour...

Ultimately the point though is...I enjoy riding bikes so I do. =)


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[Guest]

Take a look at this car... it's far from slow.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/bugatti.htm

 

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Take a look at this car... it's far from slow.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/bugatti.htm

I don't ordinarily go to blind links, but I assume this is the
Bugatti Veyron (sp?), a world-class sports car in the same class
as a Ferrari Enzo and other Italian ultras, and some one-off cars
built both abroad and in the U.S. I will concede to the OP that a
state-of-the-art race bike and/or a max performance ultra bike
CAN exceed ANY car's performance for standard runs like 0-60 and
standing 1/4 mile. Perhaps, even exceed any cars top speed, I'm
less certain of that. Let us therefore ALL concede that PROPERLY
DRIVEN, there ARE both cars AND bikes that can get to times
unheard of only a decade ago. And, let us also concede that none
but the very BEST drivers can attain these levels of performance,
or should even try. Incidentally, when magazines such as Motor
Trend or others catering more to Euro cars perform road tests,
they ensure optimal conditions, ensure the car is tuned
correctly, AND, they take many practice runs in the straight, the
slalom, and road courses. Then, when doing acceleration runs,
including the vaunted 0-100-0, they take as many as 10 or more
practice timed runs, and do not average them nor do they take the
last one. They take the BEST one. And, for them that do not know,
a 0-100-0 isn't. It is a practiced series of 0-100 sprints, then
a series of practiced 100-0 banzai stops. No human has the
reaction time to exactly notice when their digital speedo hits
100.0 and it is time to whack the brakes.

 

[Justin]

I don't ordinarily go to blind links, but I assume this is the
Bugatti Veyron (sp?), a world-class sports car in the same class

Yes.

1000 AND ONE horsepower. "How do you make the worlds most powerful car?"
Add a ONE to the last record.

It still can't out drag a crotch rocket.

 

[Justin]

Today, Justin made these interesting comments ...

Look, there's plenty of personal stuff floating around both the XP
and Vista NGs, so I prefer not to get in the middle between any of
the warring factions.

That's perfectly understandable. Then you might want to note that the term
"'Nuff said." can cause issues thanks to D. Spencer Hines It'll
certainly make someone look up your headers. Hehehe.