I believe a lot of the bike folks think that loud is good as it makes
them more noticable.
Drivers do not pay enough attention and it is easy to miss a motorcycle.
I can say that I have heard bikes coming before I have seen them.
Randy who would not want to ride one the noisy ones very far
PS
Corectly should have a k
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com
wrote:
Noticeable
Weird
Noisey
Two out of three are spelled corectly above
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I believe a lot of
Noticeable
Weird
Noisey
Two out of three are spelled corectly above
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I believe a lot of the bike folks think that loud is good as it makes them
more noticable.
Drivers do not pay enough attention and
Dimitri wrote:
Priapism.
Gerry wrote:
If I buy a Prius I'll put a Mercedes star and a 300D insignia on it so people
will think it's just another brain fart from Mercedes designers in Germany.
Few people can identify a car by it's shape.
Gerry
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Speaking of ID'ing cars... When taking long drives in the wee hours, has anyone
(else) taken to guessing car make/model etc by the head/tail lights?
It does have some practical purpose... I bet that you learn to spot American
SUV's (particularly Ford) and American full-size sedans first...
--
John Reames via Mercedes wrote:
Speaking of ID'ing cars... When taking long drives in the wee hours, has anyone
(else) taken to guessing car make/model etc by the head/tail lights?
It does have some practical purpose... I bet that you learn to spot American
SUV's (particularly Ford) and
Careful, you might get beaten up by MB owners in a parking lot.
I always threatened to put HD logos on my old Goldwing and tell people
who were clueless that it was HD's experiment with flat water cooled
engines but I was reluctant to encounter some of the HD folks who might
not think it was
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Careful, you might get beaten up by MB owners in a parking lot.
I always threatened to put HD logos on my old Goldwing and tell people
who were clueless that it was HD's
Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
I had a Kawasaki LTD 454 that was often mistaken for an HD Sportster which is
hilarious as it had a transverse inline twin, was liquid cooled and so quiet...
Is there a law requiring all Harley owners to remove all the exhaust baffles
where you live too?
I tried to distinguish sedans and found it near impossible to tell a Benz from
a asian anymore. Same head and tail ends.
clay
On Sep 9, 2014, at 3:04 AM, John Reames via Mercedes wrote:
Speaking of ID'ing cars... When taking long drives in the wee hours, has
anyone (else) taken to guessing
I find that I cannot distinguish between brands of cars sitting next to
me in traffic unless I can see some symbol. There are often logos in the
wheel centers.
They all have about the same profile anymore. Wind tunnel testing? or
just copying each other?
RB
On 09/09/2014 2:56 PM, clay via
.Written as somebody who has obviously never been in a Prius
before...
I've had one Prius ride which was a taxi with 140K miles on it. Yes, lots
room in the back but.
The ride was so hard I wondered if it had wooden wheels and the road noise
was terrible. And the thing rattled like
And why would anyone want to be in a Prius anyway? I call it Priapism:)
Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 18, 2011, at 7:40 PM, relng...@aol.com wrote:
.Written as somebody who has obviously never been in a Prius
before...
I've had one Prius ride which was a taxi with 140K miles on it. Yes, lots
'Just saw a Prius with 4 Buick port holes.
BTW, elec vehicle makers are scrambling to find, build and install noise
makers on their vehicles to improve low-speed safety for pedestrians. A
clothes pin and a playing card worked pretty good on our bikes. ;
Wilton
I saw some sh**box the other day with $2000 worth of rims and tires,
with *4* portholes on each front fender. I think it really attracted
the wimmins, and all the homies thought the driver was fly, too, yo. Word.
--R
On 7/7/2010 2:36 PM, WILTON wrote:
'Just saw a Prius with 4 Buick port
mallory sonalert's also work wonders...
On Jul 7, 2010 3:44 PM, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote:
'Just saw a Prius with 4 Buick port holes.
BTW, elec vehicle makers are scrambling to find, build and install noise
makers on their vehicles to improve low-speed safety for pedestrians. A
clothes
A Prius owner almost back into me while walking in a parking lot yesterday,
and damn near ran me over. I really do try hard not to think of all Prius
owners as idiots, but they're not giving me much to work with.
They're always complaining about me wasting all the oil, running my
Porsche. Well
I waiting for some dork to put portholes in the front fenders of a 911.
Only a matter of time, someone will do it, and even worse, think it's cool.
hee hee Like when a bunch of people used to put snows on the rears only,
when FWD were making it onto the scene.
Ed
300E
On 7 July 2010 15:49, Rich
Prius sucks *ss! Those cars annoy me to no end.
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On Jul 7, 2010, at 3:55 PM, E M pokieba...@gmail.com wrote:
A Prius owner almost back into me while walking in a parking lot yesterday,
and damn near ran me over. I really do try hard not to think of all Prius
owners as
A group of us was cycling a couple weeks ago, a Pious on battery passed
us too closely (dumbass driver too, imagine that), and no one heard it.
It was sorta scary and surprising, this thing just materialized right
next to us, very close. It was kind of an Ohsh** moment for all of us.
Around here when the bikes hear a car approaching they bunch up in a pack and
take up the whole lane. And just this summer I've seen three near-collisions
cause by bicyclists blowing thru stop signs.
There are jerks on both sides when it comes to bikes/cars sharing the road.
The noise issue
Driver of the one with 4 port holes on each fender was little bald-headed
guy 'bout 65.
Wilton
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To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ
On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:36 -0400, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote:
BTW, elec vehicle makers are scrambling to find, build and install
noise makers on their vehicles to improve low-speed safety for
pedestrians.
Maybe they should have a sound like a chorus of angels to underscore the
holier than
WILTON wrote:
Driver of the one with 4 port holes on each fender was little
bald-headed guy 'bout 65.
Probably bought a Pious to overcome latent guilt over driving an Electra 225 in
his youth.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Prius port holes
A group of us was cycling a couple weeks ago, a Pious on battery passed us
too closely (dumbass driver too, imagine that), and no one heard it. It
was sorta
- Original Message - From: Rich Thomas
richthomas79td...@constructivity.net
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Prius port holes
I saw some sh**box the other day with $2000 worth of rims and tires, with
*4
rig a playing card to rub against a tire tread. ;))
Wilton
- Original Message - From: Rich Thomas
richthomas79td...@constructivity.net
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Prius port holes
A group
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Prius port holes
Around here when the bikes hear a car approaching they bunch up in a pack
and take up the whole lane. And just this summer I've seen three
near-collisions cause by bicyclists blowing thru stop signs.
There are jerks on both sides when it comes to bikes/cars
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:58 PM, E M pokieba...@gmail.com wrote:
Like when a bunch of people used to put snows on the rears only,
when FWD were making it onto the scene.
A lot of tire shops will tell you htat if you're only replacing two tires on
your car, regardless of whether it's FWD or
I think the general thinking is, an understeering car is safer than an
oversteering car, which it is, for the average driver. Putting the better
tires on the rear, will just accentuate this, in most cases. However, 30
years ago, such wisdom didn't play into it, they were just dumb. hee hee.
I like the idea of an automatically advancing card on the spokes. It
is simple and some of us remember the cards on bike spokes, so it
kind of deflates the pious owners pious ego to some extent.
On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:36 -0400, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote:
BTW, elec vehicle makers
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To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Prius port holes
Around here when the bikes hear a car approaching they bunch up in a
pack and take up the whole lane. And just this summer I've seen
three near
...Makes me wonder why the brakes on a Pious could not stop the car --
the
gas engine is not that powerful, but perhaps if regen braking is
generally used in addition to mechanical means and that did not kick in,
or maybe the pad brakes are wimpy?..
You may be onto something here. Those
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