Da_bang80
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quote:Originally posted by Fabrux: Gas here lately is hovering around $1.10-1.15 per litre. My current car gets 30 MPG, usually, so its not too awful bad. Although a motorcycle this summer for the commute to work would be pretty sweet.
Damn right it is! Although the best are those early morning Sundays when the traffic is almost nonexistent. Words can't describe the experience, it's almost like a total Zen kind of thing.
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My uncle took me on his bike around town when I was 8. Then he took me offroad and almost killed me. And the funny thing is, you're right, it was very Zen (although of course I didn't know that word then) and I was hardly scared at all even after we wiped out.
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quote:Originally posted by Fabrux: Gas here lately is hovering around $1.10-1.15 per litre. My current car gets 30 MPG, usually, so its not too awful bad. Although a motorcycle this summer for the commute to work would be pretty sweet.
^ The conversions necessary to make sense of that statement are horrid.
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I remember going to Canada a few years ago and seeing gas at .89 cents per litre.
You know what else I like about Canada?
Bags of milk. At the lodge we stayed in, we couldn't figure out what a strange looking pitcher was for ( we didn't know that it was for the bags of milk), and since we had brought our own milk up with us, we just refilled the jug with the milk from bags... It was messy.
BACK TO THE TOPIC...
I think I'll hate motorcycles as much as I hate Jet Skis, and Snowmobiles. Too dangerous...
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I like milkbags....
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Funny you should mention those conversions in the same few posts as milk... on another board I was on a few years ago a bunch of people were complaining about the cost of gas, and someone went in and said "What about a gallon of milk?"
Half of us rolled our eyes. The rest of the bunch were like, "you people buy milk by the gallon?"
But we spent a good while agonizing over the conversions, too...
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Yes I know, the conversions are horrid. But the metric way of computing fuel mileage doesn't make sense to me, so I convert to MPG.
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Ditto. It's about $2.15 a litre at the station down my road (maybe 5/6c cheaper nearby). That works out at about $8.65 a gal, with my car doing about 35 mpg (about 40 us gal per mile). About 85% of that is tax.
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Holy shit! $8.65 per gallon? Is that in USD, or CAD? And we complain that we have it bad at 3 bucks a gallon, which is also about the same price we pay for milk. I am always afraid that I will drop the bags of milk that we get from the IGA in Northbrook when we vacation, so I don't touch them. I also have a fondness for canadian hot dog buns, you know, the ones that look like mini loafs of bread sliced down the middle. THey hold condoments better.
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I got this in an e-mail a while ago. -------------------------------------- Just a little humor to help ease the pain of your next trip to the pump...
Compare with Gasoline......
Think a gallon of gas is expensive?
This makes one think, and also puts things in perspective.
Diet Snapple 16 oz $1.29 ....... $10.32 per gallon
Lipton Ice Tea 16 oz $1.19 .$9.52 per gallon
Gatorade 20 oz $1.59 .... $10.17 per gallon
Ocean Spray 16 oz $1.25 . $10.00 per gallon
Brake Fluid 12 oz $3.15 . $33.60 per gallon
Vick's Nyquil 6 oz $8.35 . $178.13 per gallon
Pepto Bismol 4 oz $3.85 .. $123.20 per gallon
Whiteout 7 oz $1.39 . . $25.42 per gallon
Scope 1.5 oz $0.99 ....$84.48 per gallon
And this is the REAL KICKER...
Evian water 9 oz $1.49..........$21.19 per gallon?! $21.19 for WATER - and the buyers don't even know the source. (Evian spelled backwards is Naive.)
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Da_bang80
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quote:Originally posted by Sean: I think I'll hate motorcycles as much as I hate Jet Skis, and Snowmobiles. Too dangerous...
You think Jet Skis are dangerous? You fall off and get wet, how is that dangerous?
Motorcycles are only dangerous in two instances. 1: When the rider is too inexperienced for the bike he's riding. and 2: When cage driving nitwits don't watch where they're going.
quote:Originally posted by Da_bang80: [QUOTE]Originally posted by Sean: [qb] Motorcycles are only dangerous in two instances. 1: When the rider is too inexperienced for the bike he's riding. and 2: When cage driving nitwits don't watch where they're going.
You forgot 3: When the idiot on the crotch rocket doesn't watch where he's going and/or drives like an idiot. (i.e. Cutting in and out of lanes, driving down the center, etc.) And there's also 4: When you're not wearing a fucking helmet.
I really try not to prejudge motorcyclists, but the fact is that a disproportionate number of them are absolute idiots.
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