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JStump

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  1. If you have the peice that broke off, I bet you could epoxy it back on and avoid buying new plastics.
  2. I would have been stopping WAY quicker than that!
  3. It's in the tail on triumphs
  4. I liked it because of that reason, I like the first person perspective. But mounting on the bike is nice too because you can see how the bike is moving and how far you are leaning into corners.
  5. Yes but it sounds like for every picture added after the first one you get half the points, then the next one gets half of those and so on, so after 3 pics it's almost worthless, granted this depends on how many people are playing.
  6. Don't know why I didn't think of that. I have one and it works great for getting buddies to pay up on debts they owe there is still a 2.75% fee though.
  7. GOT IT! Didn't even need to put shoes on lol Next one is at a Fiat dealer. Those still seem to be a bit of a rarity but I have seen a couple so I know someone can get this.
  8. I don't know if that would be fun. If there are multiple forums playing there will be a ton of people which will make it impossible to play since pics will be posted in 20 seconds.
  9. There is so much to read! It looks funny but I am lazy.
  10. Wow, good for him and the dad as well for training him.
  11. Make the deal at a bank, they can check the money, notarize the title, and deposit your money all at the same time. Also eliminates shady people trying to rip you off.
  12. How do you do this though? There are no instructions.
  13. Also check into how much you are allowed to transfer to your bank per month, I think regular users is like $500 max per month.
  14. Most effective and most safe in this case are at the opposite ends of the scale. Just because it is the most effective does not mean you should be doing it. This method is really just an accident waiting to happen. But I am not going to argue this anymore, my method is safe and effective, might not be the most effective but for real world every day driving/riding it works best.
  15. And how many hardcore hypermilers are there here? I am just giving advice for real world driving which normal people can use to save gas. Telling people to shut of their engines does not fit into this category. I can see the headlines of the local paper now "Woman dies from not being able to negotiate corner after turning off engine".
  16. Again, I am not going to argue against the "turn your car completely off" method because it is impractical and dangerous. Edit: I guess by saying this I am in fact arguing against it, BUT I am not including as an option for best real world gas saving.
  17. The engine is NOT off when in N, it is idling which is using gas. I am not even going to acknowledge the "turn your car completely off" method because it is impractical and dangerous.
  18. Yes you would coast further in N but you are still using gas the entire time. My method uses no gas what so ever.
  19. As I stated before, when in a low enough gear you use NO GAS. You have to pick the appropriate gear for this to work. I have found for my car, if the RPMs are above 2000 I max out my MPG which is basically saying I am using no gas since the computer does not have the ability to say I am getting infinite MPG lol. Also, putting it in N then turning off the engine would be extremely dangerous and you would get the same result as I stated above. I know it is hard to understand how an engine can run on no gas but what is really happening when engine braking is the wheels are driving the engine instead of the engine driving the wheels, its not until the wheels are slower than the engine that you start to use gas again.
  20. Yes, it would cause you to slow down, but if you are doing down hill you are gonna want to slow down anyway(depending on the hill). This is really a case by case thing because if the hill is tall or long enough this will save more gas than if the engine was idling down the hill. The gas savings of one method over another are negligible when talking about a bike probably but in a car it is much higher since the the heavy car will keep momentum and will not stop as quick. There is a hill I encounter on my way to work where if I leave my car in 4th while going down the hill I max out my "Current MPG" gauge at 99.9mpg and I can watch my "miles till empty" gauge increase 2 to 3 miles since I am not using gas for probably half a mile. However, when I put it in 6th gear on the hill my MPG is around 50 because the engine is actually running slow enough it needs gas to stay running and I am using my brakes a lot more which is wasting energy. This method is also how you should slow down as well. Instead of shifting into neutral and coasting to a stop, leave it in gear and as the engine slows down, down shift to the next gear and so on until you are stopped. This will not only increase the life of your brakes, it will give better gas mileage and I believe it is even illegal to be in neutral when moving(unless in an emergency situation such as hydroplaning or something) because you need to be able to react to things in an emergency.
  21. Not entirely accurate, modern engines actually use no fuel at all when engine braking so it is more efficient to actually leave it in gear when going down hill or coming to a stop but just let off the throttle.
  22. More 675s please one of these days I will pull the trigger haha.
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