Threads going off topic

[BL_RV0]

Your entire family was invented by accident.

[PBO]

If you can't drive a manual - call it a shift if you like - you can't drive!

[redshift]

Originally Posted by PBO

If you can't drive a manual - call it a shift if you like - you can't drive!

Mmm you pose an interesting theory, it would go a long way explaining why MOST people can't drive... but things are messy enough no? Can you imagine 850 million dolts trying to learn it at once....... that sir spells apocalypse

[PBO]

I liken changing gears to car control and that in itself implies a basic level of thought during the act of driving

Talking on a phone, eating, smoking, picking your nose etc all become harder if you need to change gears...how many times do you see some goon doing one of the mentioned, drifting accross lanes, running red lights. It's a basic theory but in my experience it works

[redshift]

Haha that's good PBO.

Last summer I was coming home on a backroad, putzing for once on the bike. I see a headlight in my mirror, ok I'm thinking, dude wants to roll with me. So then he passes me.
Ok he wants to go by....... nope he proceeds to pull out his Blackberry and start texting with his clutch hand.

This is at night. This is on a road that is overflowing with deer, fox, turkeys, possum, raccoon, you name it. But all the while he is slowing down, apparently trying to ruffle my feathers. I'm thinking.. this guy can't be serious. Oh he was, and was obviously trying to impress me and/or whatever other form of wildlife that might bear witness to his awesomeness. I entertained the idea of rolling alongside and knocking the toy from his neanderthal hand. Better judgement prevailed however, and I simply passed the steam-powered-weekend-badass-poser. I then got up to 80ish, with a bit of distance in between, and locked the rear. Actually pitched it a bit, dirt-track style.

Guess what he had to grab, and guess what he had to drop to do it.... that's right the clutch, and the phone.

I then made a very effective depart by diving in the left lane as he went by and did the quickest U turn in history... I don't know if he pursued. All I cared about was the critters..

Yeah I may have maimed him (I didn't) but I may have saved his stupid ass at some point in the future.... he learned a valuable lesson. And yeah sometimes you gotta be a bit of an arrogant jackass to do it.

And I have truly seen it all......

[PBO]

Redshift, sometimes you gotta hit 'em between the eyes to make 'em see the error of their ways

[Metallover]

I wish I had a manual... Instead of simply pushing in the clutch, I shift to neutral to save gas when decellerating. Then sometimes I'm not sure if I'm in neutral or drive.... I do know that 2nd gear shifts at 12-15, 3rd gear is 20-23, 4th is 30-32. I try to drive low 20s on 25mph roads and just aboe 30 on 30-35mph roads. On the highway I keep a steady petal and see if I can draft behind a semi/other vehicle.

[riverat1540]

with that 318 i bet u do, and gas is on the uprise again

[redshift]

Well just now logging in I put in redshit haha except that would be scary....

ML drafting is a bad idea-- ever see a rig tire on the road after a blowout?

They are holding aound 90 psi, you wanna be behind that when it goes? Not to mention a 40+ pound mudflap cominjg loose.

But worst of all, you leave yourself zero reaction time should anything happen where the truck needs to panic stop.

As far as saving money the best thing you can do is simply find another area to conserve... obviously not RC , but largely you can't control fuel prices etc, cut back on something you can control. Buy one less pine air freshener---- you get the point.

[riverat1540]

so a black guy in a korean car pulls into a...... anyone want to take it from here?

[mopar1994]

[mopar1994]

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by riverat1540

so a black guy in a korean car pulls into a......

...drive thru funeral home and yells "I hear people are just dying to get in here!"

[Mentat]

sick

[snellemin]

That car got a RCM motor mount under the hood?