01-08-2013, 09:46 PM | #85 |
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Not my thing, but i can respect the work and engineering going into them.
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01-08-2013, 09:47 PM | #86 |
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You would be crazy to track either of those bikes! Way too nice to wreck.
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01-08-2013, 10:43 PM | #87 |
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01-08-2013, 11:07 PM | #88 |
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I lifted my truck so the bumper is at a height that bypasses crash compatibilities and would be sure to cause massive head trauma to other motorists even in a mild t-bone accident but that's ok because I'm much more careful than everyone else and I'm just one guy...
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In 2009 I was getting ready to pull out of a gas station into traffic when got hit from behind (I was in a Chevy Astro). The guy behind me was in a lifted Toyota truck. His bumper cleared the bumper of the Astro by about 4 inches and smashed in the barn doors. He was very apologetic and then said his wife was going to be pissed. Apparently they had had a "heated debate" over him lifting his truck, she had finally given in and he had just finished the work "yesterday".
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02-11-2019, 08:56 AM | #92 |
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Hah! I noticed the day (01/03) but didn't register the year of his post!
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02-11-2019, 10:13 AM | #94 |
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Not going back to read the whole thread so will just consider it new on these last couple of pages.
We don't have a lot of lifted trucks around where I live but a few minutes drive out of the city and they are everywhere. I normally don't care too much about them one way or another but there are a few things that I will say. Why do the diesel drivers have some sort of pathological need to coal roll any small car? If I come up behind one I make sure my windows are up and my HVAC off because sure as shit at some point the are going to floor it and engulf me in an immense could of black sooty smoke. There is only about a 2% chance they will not do it as soon as they get a chance. They are almost impossible to control at any speed. I have driven a couple and even the easiest of tasks such as parking or low speed turns are made difficult. No doubt they get used to it but even then basic accident avoidance maneuvers such as swerving or heavy braking just will not work no matter how well you can handle the beast. People that heavily modify small cars by engine swaps, lowering or other changes that impact the safety devices design are taking an accepted risk for their own safety. Jacking a truck up 4 feet in the air is taking a risk with everybody else's safety. What could be a minor accident with the same truck at stock height all of a sudden turns into a multiple fatality. It takes a special kind of arrogance to say "fuck everybody else on the road". All in all I am glad I do not have to deal with them on a regular basis.
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It floods every year where I live. If my honda ridgeline won't make it through, then we use our F350 as the "ferry."
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I just wonder how people get in and out of some of them.
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