Night Owls Chatterbox - Part LX!
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Originally posted by stellazio:
why is chip moving on to motorbikes?she got tired of parking tickets on her car?
FYI my record's clean for the month.
That's because I explored the other car park. I think driving a car is completely different from riding bikes (never ridden, only pillion). You don't feel anything in a car, it's comfortable and that's the end of it. On a bike you're exposed to resistance and you lean with it. The feeling is prolly a hundred times better. There is so much more romanticism in the headless horse theory!
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Originally posted by soleachip:
FYI my record's clean for the month.
That's because I explored the other car park. I think driving a car is completely different from riding bikes (never ridden, only pillion). You don't feel anything in a car, it's comfortable and that's the end of it. On a bike you're exposed to resistance and you lean with it. The feeling is prolly a hundred times better. There is so much more romanticism in the headless horse theory!
wow, thats a big achievement, but the month is still early..like only 1/3 passed..
yeah it sure is, but i take the comfort over the thrill..of course there is the issue of safety and getting wet in a rain..
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LOL!! nice
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Good luck with your test, solea, and ride defensively! Bikes are a lot more susceptible to crosswinds and wheelspins and the grip levels and handling responses are different - have fun learning safely.
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Originally posted by stellazio:
wow, thats a big achievement, but the month is still early..like only 1/3 passed..
yeah it sure is, but i take the comfort over the thrill..of course there is the issue of safety and getting wet in a rain..
Yes I think it will be impossible to smoke, which will suck. But I see it as a back up plan, maybe one day I will no longer be able to afford the parking fines accumulated by the tin can, then I'll commute on a bike. I can store the bike in my living room so I save on season parking.
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Originally posted by soleachip:
Yes I think it will be impossible to smoke, which will suck. But I see it as a back up plan, maybe one day I will no longer be able to afford the parking fines accumulated by the tin can, then I'll commute on a bike. I can store the bike in my living room so I save on season parking.
just curious, have you ever calculated how much you've wasted on parking fines and summons etc?
is it in the 4 digit zone?
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
Good luck with your test, solea, and ride defensively! Bikes are a lot more susceptible to crosswinds and wheelspins and the grip levels and handling responses are different - have fun learning safely.
I don't know, maybe they will kick me out of the class this weekend because I don't know how to cycle? Forgot to check whether it's a pre requisite.
Now I Ieave big ass gaps on the right for bikes to pass through and have since begun observing ah peks and the way they park and ride at work.
Getting a bike license is a lot harder than class 3. The dynamics look so different. Tin cans are for pussies (no offence intended to anyone) and I feel like one when I'm driving. It's a lil pretentious and unnecessary. Give it 2 years then I will pass. You have one too?
Ok am really off to bed for good. Nites all dudes.
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a farking mozzie infiltrated into my room again, inspite of the aircon ! ..... again !
bit me once already and it's buzzing around under my light but I can't squish it ....
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Originally posted by Fatum:
a farking mozzie infiltrated into my room again, inspite of the aircon ! ..... again !
bit me once already and it's buzzing around under my light but I can't squish it ....
How can you let a mere mosquito get the better of you? Bring out the flamethrower, I say! -
I have a nice toy .... a little plastic gadget shaped like a little tennis racquet .... the mesh is electrified by an AA battery ... it's fun .... but I'm out of AA, even my aircon remote control's using AAA ....
so the mozzie's getting a default reprieve ... -_-
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Originally posted by Fatum:
I have a nice toy .... a little plastic gadget shaped like a little tennis racquet .... the mesh is electrified by an AA battery ... it's fun .... but I'm out of AA, even my aircon remote control's using AAA ....
so the mozzie's getting a default reprieve ... -_-
What happened to ingenuity?1. Cut the cord to any electrical appliance in your room.
2. Splice said cord to the battery terminals of your racquet zapper.
3. Seek and destroy airborne prey with 240 volts of handheld justice.
But have a fire extinguisher handy, just in case.
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bike magazines are aplenty, get the ones from UK and Oz.
the USA ones are... for choppers
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
What happened to ingenuity?1. Cut the cord to any electrical appliance in your room.
2. Splice said cord to the battery terminals of your racquet zapper.
3. Seek and destroy airborne prey with 240 volts of handheld justice.
But have a fire extinguisher handy, just in case.
they let you mess around with firearms and plane huh ...
Singapore's 230 volts too ...
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Originally posted by kopiosatu:
bike magazines are aplenty, get the ones from UK and Oz.
the USA ones are... for choppers
in north america, those kind of bikes she has in mind are called crotch rockets ....
a friend of mine just rode his suzuki gs500 from vancouver to saskatoon, that's about 1.5 days by car ...
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Originally posted by Fatum:
in north america, those kind of bikes she has in mind are called crotch rockets ....
a friend of mine just rode his suzuki gs500 from vancouver to saskatoon, that's about 1.5 days by car ...
insurance is a bitch too.
$3K per year.
i'm not forking that kind of money for an uncomfortable bike.
but as a newbie, everything is nice. soon the rider will realise how crap it feels to have a bike without storage space.
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I don't understand why fatum and kopio have to ruin it for a newbie. :(
Even if the imagery of ninja 14 is a figment of my imagination into the near future, I'm still entitled to thought balloons at this point lor.
Just found out I'm too short for a lot of bikes. Think I'll stick to a small honda first.
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I had my class 2 licence when riding test wasn't necessary. Those were the days when a highway code is equivalent to class 2. My first and my last bike was a 125cc Susuki scrambler.
It was fun riding the bike, racing against the wind. You feel free!. However bikes becomes a problem when it rains, especially my scrambler. The grip of the tyre becomes mininal during rainy days and it often buang when you do cornering or a right turn. I gave up my class 2 licence after an incidence with a container truck.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
wah.. learn to ride a bicycle first.. really...
you'll need that skill..
anyway, i'm going to sleep.. good luck with your lessons..
goodnight everyone
I agree with bear, learning to ride a bicycle will aid and expidite your riding lesson. especially you need to overcome the fear of falling off. But I admit I admire your gut going for the faster thing first. Anyway, it's more to do with your confidence and if you can overcome the fear, things will be easier.
Sole, do they make you crash the wall during training?
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Originally posted by Fatum:
they let you mess around with firearms and plane huh ...
Singapore's 230 volts too ...
They'll give firearm and pilot licenses to anyone with a pulse nowadays.
Sad, ain't it?
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
They'll give firearm and pilot licenses to anyone with a pulse nowadays.
Sad, ain't it?
hmmm... even... the terrorists?
at home.. pretty pleased with work today although i got hammered with some kind of shit to do... but that's tomorrow and i will try to water it down... i mean, i get to do the work while the asswipe who taichi'ed it to me gets the credit.. so why the hell should i do more than the bare minimum?
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today's ba gua (gossip) evening papers
they reported tat just beside Ah Bian's hse is a 'red light' house
also one char bor left Japanese Self defence force for e AV industry
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like that also nice to gossip about...
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ahahahaha...
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Originally posted by sbst275:
today's ba gua (gossip) evening papers
they reported tat just beside Ah Bian's hse is a 'red light' house
also one char bor left Japanese Self defence force for e AV industry
Hmm... any chance of a link to an image of said char bor?
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go search lah.. google is your friend