To the "Karens", and the "Carls" out there😂 Those riding dirty too.

[Djangodog]

Damn it, "fenders" are bass and electric guitars by Leo Fender
Innit, @DaveMatthews

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"Fender guitars, get out of this country!" Note the Poland's national colours in this meme

Still going strong. Timeless designs. They got it right, but I’ll keep my Martins.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Still going strong. Timeless designs. They got it right, but I’ll keep my Martins.

It was a joke, of course! I owned a Japanese copy of a Fender Precision Bass by name Greco Electric Bass 1978, and there was no better bass guitar I ever had!
I owned a Fender Telecaster 50th Anniversary. The guitar was not good for my style; replaced with a Pearl Custom Export 1979.

Both guitars perished in a fire...

You can shortly see my Greco in this video.

 

[PCeBiker]

It's "derail", my friend

It's deraille if you're French.

Or, "hijack"!

Hi Jack

 

[Stefan Mikes]

It's deraille if you're French.

I'm Polish. We name the derailleur a "przerzutka" in Polish. Literally: A flipper

 

[Djangodog]

I'm Polish. We name the derailleur a "przerzutka" in Polish. Literally: A flipper

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Flipper. I like it. I think that most Americans call it a thingamabob, doohickey or the bent thingy.

thingamabob
noun
INFORMAL

1. used to refer to or address a person or thing whose name one has forgotten, does not know, or does not wish to mention.

 

[PCeBiker]

Flipper. I like it. I think that most Americans call it a thingamabob.

thingamabob
noun
INFORMAL

1. used to refer to or address a person or thing whose name one has forgotten, does not know, or does not wish to mention.

I always thought Flipper was a dolphin ??

 

[DaveMatthews]

Damn it, "fenders" are bass and electric guitars by Leo Fender
Innit, @DaveMatthews

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"Fender guitars, get out of this country!" Note the Poland's national colours in this meme

 

[PCeBiker]

(Apologise for my British English! I still think it is a "mudguard" not a "fender" and a "flyover" not an "overpass")

I like the British words bonnet, boot and torch.
We say hood, trunk and flashlight.

 

[PCeBiker]

It's deraille if you're French.

Actually, Canada has French as a second language.
In the late 70's we switched to the metric system and we spelt "litre" because of the French Canadian influence.
It's pretty much spelt as liter now except maybe in Quebec?
We had to take French in grades 7&8.
I hated it, but I can still count to 10 in French.

 

[Tars Tarkas]

Actually, Canada has French as a second language.
In the late 70's we switched to the metric system and we spelt "litre" because of the French Canadian influence.
It's pretty much spelt as liter now except maybe in Quebec?
We had to take French in grades 7&8.
I hated it, but I can still count to 10 in French.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

In the late 70's we switched to the metric system and we spelt "litre" because of the French Canadian influence.

"Litre" is the British English spelling. Same as "metre"
I wonder how many people make the mistake of writing kph instead of km/h. "k" means "kilo" (one thousand), not a kilometre

 

[PCeBiker]

"Litre" is the British English spelling. Same as "metre"

I thought it was a French thing.
I don't remember "metre" in school, but we were British math before metric.
Our gallon was 4.54 liters, not 3.78 liters.

I wonder how many people make the mistake of writing kph instead of km/h. "k" means "kilo" (one thousand), not a kilometre

Kph is an accepted way of saying km/h here. We all do that.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Kph is an accepted way of saying km/h here. We all do that.

I do understand. Now, how would you shorten "metre per second"?

Our gallon was 4.54 liters, not 3.78 liters.

Now let us talk a pint of beer! The British pint is far bigger than the U.S. one! Good that you Canadians went metric and I don't mind "kph". We all understand each other!

 

[Te. S]

it is Sad
USA will change it laws about throttle E.Bike when more kids get ingerd or cause accident with pedestrian or cars, witch is to bad,
right now the kids are getting away with it because of lazy parents that just want give the kids an E. Motorcycle and say it's bike with providing the kids with no education about riding or rules of the road. I see it every day where I leave. It's scary what I see no helmets wheeling between cars and traffic not stopping at stop signs, not all kids I do see the good ones too that use the crosswalk and obey the rules.

 

[HyperJ]

I just got this MTB from GT. It was made in Taiwan . It will be a crazy ride with a Ba FAnd 620 mid-drive motor on it

 

[teskow]

Depends. Hub drive motors are perfectly fine for urban riding. That's not to say mid drive motors won't work for urban riding. Mid drive motors are equally suited for this purpose. Mid drive motors have roughly twice the torque of hub drive motors, and shine when it comes to hills.

The torque can be the same but mid drive torque can be multiplied at the wheel because of one's ability to do it through changing gears. There is only one gear from motor to wheel on a hub drive.

 

[HyperJ]

harken davidson built

 

[HyperJ]

unfortunately I gave this bike to a friend, someone cut the cable lock outside of his work and stole it from him. I always keep me bikes within sight or inside, many stores I walk in with them, I usually ask , they usually let me . sometimes not.

 

[knightrider]

Bicycles are in town transportation for me. I have access to things that excite me far more than bikes of any kind that I'd rather spend money. Chainsaws being one of them. I can also get an Arsenal AK, and 1,000rds of ammo for under $3,000. Ditto for a Benelli M4 shotgun.

What the hecks your rant dude. If you don`t want to spend the money on something don`t. If you want to spend it.

That`s called freedom of choice.

 

[knightrider]

Yes, and their sole purpose is to kill. Hand grenades are also inanimate objects. If you put them in the zoo with monkeys or primates who have no malintent they will still go off, just do to their presence. Guns kill due to their mere presence. There is also a psychological factor. Gun ownership makes people paranoid. And then they act like Gollum with the ring from Lord of the Rings. 2032 saw 656 mass shootings, almost two per day. That does not add to the security of a free State: the reason for the amendment. It makes us all less secure. Grade schools now look like minimum security prisons. It is nuts.

Are you a time traveler? It is only 2024