It's a decent rule of thumb but it's not entirely true. The safety factor of a full-face SNELL 2010 or ECE certified helmet is fairly constant across the board, AFAIK. Most (maybe all) of what you you pay for on more expensive helmets are features and comfort. As long as you buy new.
Buying a used helmet is a horrible idea. I hope that is not how you got yours. It is the most vital item you wear and is easily damaged from mistreatment, rendering it useless.
Buying used for other riding gear is fine, although you may find it a bit smelly/dirty, both internally and externally. Also be aware of any weakened spots and/or holes from crashing.
Buying used for other riding gear is fine, although you may find it a bit smelly/dirty, both internally and externally. Also be aware of any weakened spots and/or holes from crashing.
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Riding a bike to save money is the wrong way to go about it. For one, unless you get something super cheap and it's your only vehicle, it's a losing proposition. You spend so much money up front for a second vehicle that requires far more frequent maintenance (valve adjustments every 20K miles, oil change every 2K miles, tires ever 8K miles) and all of the necessary riding gear that you may never recoup the cost, even with double or even triple the fuel efficiency.
If it is your only vehicle, you also lose out on a lot of comfort in poor weather and utility. To get some of that comfort back, you need to spend even more on gear. Granted, some people do get around the lack of utility by being creative (see riders in Vietnam).
Ride because you love riding. There's absolutely nothing logical about it.
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The new version of GP-Bikes, which is built on essentially the same code base, is looking very nice. There's a video of it in the GP-Bikes section of Piboso's forum featuring a Cagiva 500cc 2-stroke at Phillip Island.
Do you expect me to do your research for you? I gave you some links. Look around on those. Look up reviews for the stuff you find in your price range.
I told you what I use, and I also told you that what I use is very expensive. There is plenty of gear out there that is cheaper. I just put it out there as an option.
Gear is a lot cheaper than medical bills pretty much regardless of what you spend on gear. Think of it as an alternative form of medical insurance.
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Not just "crotch rockets." All motorbikes.
http://www.motorcyclegear.com/
http://www.sportbiketrackgear.com/
Heroic is one of my favorite brands. Their gloves are amazing, but priced accordingly at $300 for their top of the line gloves.
http://www.heroicracing.com/
Put these items on your immediate to-buy list:
leather jacket
leather gloves
leather boots
leather pants
If you have any objection to leather (religious or otherwise), you can easily find the jacket and pants in synthetic material (not mesh, avoid anything that says mesh). That might be a little more difficult for the gloves and boots, though.
Trust me, road rash sucks.
Are you pointing to the lack of integrated graphics on the 990X? I don't get it. You do realize you don't have to use it on Sandy Bridge, right?
32GB with Sandy Bridge, although you'd need 8GB sticks for that on currently available motherboards. And no, that will not be enough forever. The average RAM computers have pretty much doubles every 2 years. The average this year is approx 4-8GB.
http://ark.intel.com/products/ ... r-%288M-Cache-3_40-GHz%29
Whatever, though, it's your money. Feel free to waste it however you choose.
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What's your issue with LGA1155?
If you're dead set on going with the more workstation-oriented socket, why not wait for LGA2011?
If you're dead set on building a new system now, why not go with LGA1155?
You sound like you haven't really researched this thoroughly. LGA1366 is going obsolete in 2 months.
If you're dead set on going with the more workstation-oriented socket, why not wait for LGA2011?
If you're dead set on building a new system now, why not go with LGA1155?
You sound like you haven't really researched this thoroughly. LGA1366 is going obsolete in 2 months.
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Same here. Aviation, computers, bikes, engines, and to a lesser extent, cars. If I was interested in a topic, I also wanted to understand it fairly well, and that meant a lot of reading.
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And an S2000 motor ran rev to 8000 RPM under normal operating conditions without damage. Many stock, road-legal motorbike engines make peak horsepower at around 13000 RPM and continue to rev all the way to a 16000 RPM limiter.
Like you, I'm baffled by how people can make such unfounded claims about ICE operation without the slightest clue of what parts actually fail internally when an engine is over-reved and why.
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Agreed. It definitely feels like the original Deus Ex with another 11 years of technological advancement.
Without Infinity Ward developing the CoD series, I felt like it took a huge nosedive in quality with BlOps. As a long-time CS player, multiplayer in CoD (at least MW and MW2) always felt very disorganized with the random spawn points and multiple spawns per round, too. That's basically the same play style as CS
M, which I was not a huge fan of either.
I only played BF2 very briefly and it never quite caught on with me, being so used to the CQB, round-the-corner-and-shoot of CS and not the longer-range engagements of BF.
However, I later picked up BFBC2 and enjoyed that after a brief adjustment period.
So, I'd say I'm looking forward to BF3 the most between the two.
M, which I was not a huge fan of either.I only played BF2 very briefly and it never quite caught on with me, being so used to the CQB, round-the-corner-and-shoot of CS and not the longer-range engagements of BF.
However, I later picked up BFBC2 and enjoyed that after a brief adjustment period.
So, I'd say I'm looking forward to BF3 the most between the two.
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Gear reduction.
It's just turning left. How hard could it be?
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Needs to be warm enough to boil off any moisture. So no, 30C is not warm enough. 100C, or close to it, is, and probably for at least 15 minutes.
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One of the biggest issues that plagues many cars is being taken on only very short trips that do not properly warm the engine. You tend to get condensation in the oil and sludge buildup this way.
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Why does it seem like they have distinctly separate physics parameters for each car?
Why is it so hard to just have one set of physics parameters, and plug in the various aspects of the car like LFS seems to do? (e.g. physical dimensions, 3D mass distribution, suspension geometry, etc.)
In my mind, a clear disregard for basic laws of physics, like having the rear wheels always on the ground regardless of vertical force, is completely inexcusible and shows a very half-assed approach to the physics simulation. How do you screw up Newton's First Law?
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If you look at the left rear, it looks like it stops spinning as it goes light over the crest at the white line. That could just be an optical illusion based upon the framerate and rate of rotation, though.
I'm pretty sure it's simply not up to the safety standards, particularly with regards to lack of runoff. Same reason bikes don't go there.
No driver is perfect. Plenty have run into situations where they ran out of talent. Locking up the front brake is a pretty common one in motorbike racing, as is using too much throttle on exit and getting tossed. Championship contenders are not immune.
His rate of deceleration appeared to be consistent with a big, heavy car going downhill with the brakes locked.
There was room, behind the car ahead. The red car chose to be aggressive about it and the officials look the other way, probably because it gives a good show to the unscrupulous fans. That just strikes me as A) poor sportsmanship and B) poor officiating.
I never said other series are immune to poor engineering, only that this appeared to be an instance of such.
Would you like to get all your ad hominems out now or are you going to save them for the next time you get offended by something I say about nascar?
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What are you trying to say here?
Quote #1, Part 1: This was my impression based on viewing the video alone, prior to doing the research on what happened.
Quote #1, Part 2: I don't see how this is even debatable. The red car should have tucked in behind the car in front to avoid contact. Instead he just went where he wanted to be, despite there being a car in the way, and ended up taking the guy out, causing a huge wreck.
Quote #2: An honest question following some research into what happened. No mention was made of a stuck throttle in the articles I read. Furthermore, I've never heard of a brake line getting cut as a result of a blowout in any other series, thus my estimate that it must have been an engineering flaw.
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Who is able to understand the "common sense" of a vehement nascar fan like yourself? It shows your true character that you respond to questions with name-calling.
I'm not saying they're all like you, but apparently some are.
I'm not saying they're all like you, but apparently some are.
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An "ignorant troll" makes appeals to common sense with no cold logic nor solid evidence to support his claims.
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