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Re: I am Licensed to Drive (you crazy)!
« Reply #25 on: September 12, 2005, 03:59:45 PM »
Yeh, anybody who's man enough to use 7th gear doesn't need to go backwards.

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Re: I am Licensed to Drive (you crazy)!
« Reply #26 on: September 12, 2005, 04:02:03 PM »
Heheheh, I meant that's where a hypothetical 7th gear would be.  Also, in VWs (here in Canada, at least), they have the reverse under the 1st gear, so you press down, left, then forward.  I think that's a pretty good way of a sploding your clutch though, if you accidentally go to reverse when you want to go to first, or vice versa.
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Re: I am Licensed to Drive (you crazy)!
« Reply #27 on: September 12, 2005, 04:04:22 PM »
It's also a better one, because you only have two directions to move to switch between reverse and first (up, right, up) rather than three (down, right, up). I've never seen a car like that though.
Well, grab a Ferrari then, you'd have to push a button twice, and nothing more  :)
Or, on the other end of the spectrum of coolness, a tractor has 3 sticks: one is the normal gear shift, one is the reduced speeds (when you need great pulling strenght) and the last one is for forward or backward motion - all you have to do to switch between first and reverse is moving the stick down or up).

BTW: then you need also a quick maneuver for 5th -> 3rd shifting (for when you really need to stop in the closest space possible, so it has to be super-fast), ever thought about that?  :)

Hey, maybe you can't break speed limits with them. :)  I once chased down a BMW that almost killed me to give him the finger and slam his hood.  True story*.
I am able to do 10 km in 15 minutes in heavy traffic and city environment. Can you do that in a bike (= keeping an average speed of 40 km/h, and that's with stopping at the red lights and all).
Once I hit 15 km in 7 minutes in town, respecting traffic lights (but then again I'm a pervert and hit 140 km/h in a town)
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Re: I am Licensed to Drive (you crazy)!
« Reply #28 on: September 12, 2005, 04:05:42 PM »
Heheheh, I meant that's where a hypothetical 7th gear would be. Also, in VWs (here in Canada, at least), they have the reverse under the 1st gear, so you press down, left, then forward. I think that's a pretty good way of a sploding your clutch though, if you accidentally go to reverse when you want to go to first, or vice versa.
Well, the push thing is supposed to help avoiding such problems  :)

And, you never inserted 2nd gear at 140 km/h, so don't talk about ruining a clutch  :)
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Re: I am Licensed to Drive (you crazy)!
« Reply #29 on: September 12, 2005, 04:11:38 PM »
Hey, maybe you can't break speed limits with them. :) I once chased down a BMW that almost killed me to give him the finger and slam his hood. True story*.
I am able to do 10 km in 15 minutes in heavy traffic and city environment. Can you do that in a bike (= keeping an average speed of 40 km/h, and that's with stopping at the red lights and all).
Once I hit 15 km in 7 minutes in town, respecting traffic lights (but then again I'm a pervert and hit 140 km/h in a town)

I'm pretty sure that was a joke.  I agree with you, as I'm almost entirely positive that, yes, cars can go faster than bicycles.

Well, the push thing is supposed to help avoiding such problems :)

One of my friends told me a story of a woman ahead of her who was trying to go forward, but kept putting her car into reverse, backing up a bit, realising she was backing up, trying again, failing, etc. until she was almost bumper to bumper.  I speculate that her problem was in part that the reverse was under the 1.
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Re: I am Licensed to Drive (you crazy)!
« Reply #30 on: September 12, 2005, 04:19:09 PM »
I'm pretty sure that was a joke.  I agree with you, as I'm almost entirely positive that, yes, cars can go faster than bicycles.
No joke - I'm crazy at times. (and, you said that somebody could break speed limits in a bike, so I was telling that you can do that better in a car)
And then, when in college (such as now) I move by bike, and by direct comparison I discovered I prefer driving a car  :)

One of my friends told me a story of a woman ahead of her who was trying to go forward, but kept putting her car into reverse, backing up a bit, realising she was backing up, trying again, failing, etc. until she was almost bumper to bumper. I speculate that her problem was in part that the reverse was under the 1.
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Re: I am Licensed to Drive (you crazy)!
« Reply #31 on: September 12, 2005, 04:26:08 PM »
No joke - I'm crazy at times.

No, no, I meant that I was joking.  I was also joking about you not getting my joke, since anyone who doesn't have oreos for brains knows that cars go faster than bikes.  I'm pretty sure neither of us have that condition.

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I, uh... yeah, I'm not touching that. :P
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Re: I am Licensed to Drive (you crazy)!
« Reply #32 on: September 12, 2005, 04:28:59 PM »
No, no, I meant that I was joking. I was also joking about you not getting my joke, since anyone who doesn't have oreos for brains knows that cars go faster than bikes. I'm pretty sure neither of us have that condition.
Uh, OK, I'm rather slow-witted, so this is to be expected.

EDIT: I mean slow-witted for jokes, not slow-witted not to guess that cars are faster. I hope  ::)
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Re: I am Licensed to Drive (you crazy)!
« Reply #33 on: September 12, 2005, 04:31:24 PM »
Oreos for a sense of humour?  ;D
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Re: I am Licensed to Drive (you crazy)!
« Reply #34 on: September 12, 2005, 04:38:28 PM »
If I get to eat them, then yes  :D
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Re: I am Licensed to Drive (you crazy)!
« Reply #35 on: September 14, 2005, 08:39:45 PM »
Stick shifts (big ones), shifting, drive shafts, engines (that purrrrr) oh how exciting.  :D
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Re: I am Licensed to Drive (you crazy)!
« Reply #36 on: September 15, 2005, 01:09:54 AM »
LOL ^^^

Seriously.  You haven't driven a stick until you have driven a truck with a cranky 4-speed with a shifter about a mile long and a 200-pound return spring on the clutch.  Also you never use first gear because it is what is called a "bulldog gear" but may go by other names, that means the truck goes 2 MPH but develops enough torque that it could pull your house down.  The vehicle in question also has no power steering and the brakes are the wonderful "air-boosted hydraulic" type that combine the disadvantages of both pneumatic and hydraulic brakes... 

The rule of shift patterns is that mostly European cars put reverse in the "Up-and-left" spot while in American and Japanese cars it is precisely the opposite location.  Furthermore I also loathe any difficult to deactivate reverse lockout.  I broke three fingernails on my buddy's Merc Cougar, and I'm a guy! ???
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Re: I am Licensed to Drive (you crazy)!
« Reply #37 on: September 15, 2005, 02:36:31 AM »
No, no, I meant that I was joking.  I was also joking about you not getting my joke, since anyone who doesn't have oreos for brains knows that cars go faster than bikes.  I'm pretty sure neither of us have that condition.

Actually where I live bikes are much faster than cars. Hell, walking is faster than cars. Cars are metal boxes made to be sit in for hours in the middle of the street contemplating things like "the guy who invented the wheel is turning in his grave".
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Re: I am Licensed to Drive (you crazy)!
« Reply #38 on: September 15, 2005, 02:38:08 AM »
Some time ago one of the Car Companies (I think it was Ford) appointed a Female Design Director. The first thing she did was make all the male designers wear fake nails and try to operate the car they were designing. Needless to say it went back to the Drawing Board.
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Re: I am Licensed to Drive (you crazy)!
« Reply #39 on: September 15, 2005, 06:28:26 PM »

 Holding hands and driving a stick is incompatible. :)

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Re: I am Licensed to Drive (you crazy)!
« Reply #40 on: September 15, 2005, 06:38:30 PM »
Plus it gets in the way if you want to sit close or well never mind on that.  :P
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