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Post by urbanmadness on Oct 15, 2014 1:12:44 GMT -5
Heck, I bummed I have to drive to work tomorrow. In the last four months, I can count on one hand the times I've driven to work. I ride at least 30 miles a day during the week and even more on the weekends. Mostly on the goldwing now, but it was the same when I was riding the scarebeo and before that, the 150 (even tho, I couldn't do the freeway on the 150 so it took 45 minutes on surface streets). I just enjoy riding that much. I put 6000 miles on the goldwing since fathers day (when I got it running) and only 300 miles on my Ridgeline in the same amount of time (I changed the oil on the ridgeline on fathersday as well so i know exactly how many miles I've put on it, LOL)
What got me started with scooters? Well, my buddies and I, got into gas bikes. We would go out and ride these mechanical messes until they would break. Usually about 20 minutes or so. I got tired of working on them, so did my buddies, so I tried riding one of my buddies scooters. I was hooked.
So off to craigslist I went. I found a great deal on a 150 and it just grew from there. Next was the 250, then the 500, then the Goldwing. 14000 miles of riding in less then two years. Yes, I actually had four bikes in the garage at one point, plus one or three I was working on for friends... It was a bit crowded to say the least. I'm actually down to two bikes now.
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Post by katastroff on Oct 15, 2014 6:43:08 GMT -5
Why did i get a scooter? I have no idea.
What i do know is that im badly addicted to them little buggers. I dont know what i love the most: sitting on it and ride, or getting dirty fiddling with it?
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Post by Jarlaxle on Oct 15, 2014 7:41:53 GMT -5
Got mine to save my Taurus, since nobody domestic makes full-sized wagons (heck, they don't make many compact wagons, either). I figure every mile on the scoot is one less on the wagon. And of course, ever since then we've had summers of rain, summers of massive wind-gusts, summers of workman's comp knee.... >'Kat Dodge built the Magnum until 2008. I had one...GREAT car! |
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Post by SylvreKat on Oct 15, 2014 7:43:21 GMT -5
Maybe it's a girl thing. But for me, they're transportation. There's not much diff between driving my wagon and driving my scoot, as far as how they make me feel.
Even in hs and college, I didn't tend to just drive around much just for driving around. Not that I won't stop and enjoy something neat, or take a little side-trip to see a neat thing. But it's a side-trip on my drive from point A to B.
>'Kat
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Post by SylvreKat on Oct 15, 2014 7:54:18 GMT -5
\Dodge built the Magnum until 2008. I had one...GREAT car! You're right, Jar. But I have an issue with one-foot windows. Seriously, what're they thinking? "Hey, let's have the glass taper so it's really narrow and cuts down the driver's range of vision! Screw safety, it'll look neat!" Me, I'd like a car that's all glass on top for maximum unobstructed vision. If only the engineers could figure how to make it unbreakable....  I once testdrove a Chrysler with the doorjamb smack in your blind spot. I'd check the side mirror, then look over and see nothing but my car frame. Horrible. I cut the drive so short, the dealer didn't even bother to ask how I liked the car. |
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Post by Jarlaxle on Oct 15, 2014 13:23:36 GMT -5
I actually found visibility to be fine...aside from the thick A-pillars that just about everything has now.
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Post by bandito2 on Oct 15, 2014 17:15:31 GMT -5
I once testdrove a Chrysler with the doorjamb smack in your blind spot. I'd check the side mirror, then look over and see nothing but my car frame. Horrible. I cut the drive so short, the dealer didn't even bother to ask how I liked the car. Most people set their side mounted rear view mirrors so that when they look out of their window, they see very close to if not just off the rear quarter panel....... that is wrong for the driver side because that is not where the so called blind spot is. Set your inside rear view mirror so the view is centered in the rear window and the horizon is across the middle of the mirror. Right (passenger side) exterior mirror should be set with the view just off the rear quarter panel with the horizon across the middle of the mirror. The left (driver side) exterior rear view mirror should be set to cover the area that you can't see by looking at the interior rear view mirror and just turning your head (not twisting your shoulders at all) and looking out and slightly back. A quick approximation of that setting would be to lean close toward the left window and set the mirror for the rear quarter panel. Now sit up right and normally. To test the setting, (in a parking lot perhaps) have somebody in a car come up from behind you as if they were slowly passing you in the next lane. First you should see them in the interior rear view mirror. As they progress, you should see them just as they start to disappear from that mirror while at the same time they should begin to appear in the exterior driver side mirror. Just as they are about to go out of view from that mirror, they should begin to appear in your peripheral vision or by just turning your head to look out the driver side window. No twisting around to look back is needed. Adjust your mirror until you get that outcome. It only works this way if you can actually see out of a rear window. Otherwise you won't be able to see them until they appear in the driver side rear view mirror. TRY IT and you will see!!!.... no such thing as a "blind spot" and no needless twisting around. |
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Post by wheelbender6 on Oct 15, 2014 19:20:51 GMT -5
"Got mine to save my Taurus, since nobody domestic makes full-sized wagons" 'Kat - Does your Taurus wagon have the fold out table on the rear? Those were a big hit at tail gate parties. "since nobody domestic makes full-sized wagons" The "shooting brake" is a more fashionable term for wagons these days. Mercedes has a "Flying Brake" model.   |
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Post by SylvreKat on Oct 16, 2014 8:09:43 GMT -5
'Kat - Does your Taurus wagon have the fold out table on the rear? Those were a big hit at tail gate parties. OMG yes it does! I used it this past July 4th while we waited for fireworks! Bad thing is my lift gate's hydraulics are shot, so I must prop it up. Makes using the picnic table a little dicey--reach in and bump the prop, and you might lose an arm  ! As for the two cars you posted, the first again has no butt. That's no wagon! The second, where's the back windows? WHY DO AUTO DESIGNERS THINK WE DON'T WANT WINDOWS?!??!!! >'Kat |
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Post by SylvreKat on Oct 16, 2014 8:17:00 GMT -5
Most people set their side mounted rear view mirrors so that when they look out of their window, they see very close to if not just off the rear quarter panel....... that is wrong for the driver side because that is not where the so called blind spot is. ... TRY IT and you will see!!!.... no such thing as a "blind spot" and no needless twisting around. Actually, I do have my side mirrors correct adjusted. No side of my car showing in either one. But even so, there's still the potential for blind spots. I'll check my mirror, then look out the window and there's a car that's just moving into the lane. Or there's a motorcycle that had moved around. That's why I now change lanes the bike way, even in my car--start across the line, pause and double-check it's still clear, finish changing lanes. But bandit's right, folks. No reason to be looking down the side of your car in your mirrors. You should already know your car's there.  It's the other cars you want to see! >'Kat |
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Post by xyshannen on Oct 16, 2014 8:19:26 GMT -5
WHY DO AUTO DESIGNERS THINK WE DON'T WANT WINDOWS?!??!!! >'Kat Because it's better for sales.. The more we wreck the more they sell. |
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Post by rockynv on Oct 16, 2014 11:46:25 GMT -5
This is a station wagon:
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Post by mspctech2000 on Oct 16, 2014 14:19:30 GMT -5
When I was younger a brother of one of my friends took me for the scariest ride ever on the back of his motorcycle. After that, I thought I would never want to ride again. Then as I got older, I got bitten by the bug after I rode with one of my friends on the back of a Harley. What a truly different experience. The opportunity to be uncaged and free without terror was wonderful. I noticed things around me that I had never noticed when I traveled down those same roads in a car. With some many friends that ride, I decided to step outside of my box and take the MSF course. It took two tries at the driving test, since I didn’t know anything about shifting on a MC or car. But after I passed the test, I bought my first scooter (TBX 260) and never looked back. It’s still new to me as it has only been 2 years and a little over 2,000 miles, but I have loved every minute of it. I still get a kick out of the expressions on people’s faces when they find out this computer geek is also a Scooter Diva !! I also loooove getting 80 mpg during the summer months.
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Post by 2wheelfun on Oct 16, 2014 15:52:40 GMT -5
Gas mileage has been brought up in many posts and that concern dumbfounds me. These 200cc or under get what as the worse gas mileage, 70mpg maybe? For $5 worth of gas you can thrill yourself for 100 miles...........anyways. Good thread.
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Post by Jarlaxle on Oct 16, 2014 16:45:50 GMT -5
My Qlink got mid to high 60s for mileage. My Burgman gets 48-58 (on 87 octane E10) depending on terrain and speed.
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