I used to ride a Suzuki SV-1000S. I topped out at 135 in 4th gear, with 2 to go. Never had the balls to go faster on 2 wheels.
Friday POLL: Manual or Automatic?
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Own 6 vehicles, 5 of which are manuals, including a Jeep. Despite some benefits fading away (no longer get better mileage or performance with a stick), I still firmly believe they are better than automatics because they keep you involved in the driving experience.
My wife, obviously, drives a stick, and my son learned on one. My daughter will do the same.
One vehicle available with a manual no one has mentioned yet is the Honda Accord. The Sport model comes with a 6 speed and one of 2 turbo 4 cylinders.
My wife, obviously, drives a stick, and my son learned on one. My daughter will do the same.
One vehicle available with a manual no one has mentioned yet is the Honda Accord. The Sport model comes with a 6 speed and one of 2 turbo 4 cylinders.
I have, but only on a very wide open road with no other vehicles at all- northern Vermont
I learned on a PSU vehicle, a Chevy Luv four speed on the floor operated by the OPP and used by the School of Forest Resources in a summer job I had. In other summers back home after that I cut lawns and tarred roofs with a guy who had a 68 or 70 Chevy truck with the three on the tree which was easy by comparison except every now and then for no reason the linkage would fall out so you had to get out and get under the truck and put that back in. So I learned how to do that but other than change oil I never learned much else about fixing a car. Good times. We used to say that truck had a "wonder shift" because you always had to wonder what gear you were in.
When I was dating Mrs. Bell she had a Jetta with a 5 speed that was a lot of fun to drive. Then later we bought a Hyundai with a 5-speed. It got to be a headache in traffic on vacations so no more manuals but when I get a chance to drive one they're fun as a barrel of monkeys.
When I was dating Mrs. Bell she had a Jetta with a 5 speed that was a lot of fun to drive. Then later we bought a Hyundai with a 5-speed. It got to be a headache in traffic on vacations so no more manuals but when I get a chance to drive one they're fun as a barrel of monkeys.
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It doesn’t because they insist on every car being exactly the same. Let’s go back to actual stock-like cars.
One of the vehicles I routinely drove as a teen was a large delivery van -- the kind that you could easily stand in and still have extra head room. I think it had 4 forward speeds. Thing I remember most was that it was a stick in the middle of the floor about 30 inches long. There wasn't even a knob on it for your hand.
Decades later I rented a U-haul truck for one of my moves. It seemed really odd to drive a heavy truck with an automatic transmission.
These days I really wish I could have another car just for sport, but being retired and seeing that funds are limited I can't pull the trigger. Most people in my shoes probably would go for it. Guess I'm conservative with money.
Decades later I rented a U-haul truck for one of my moves. It seemed really odd to drive a heavy truck with an automatic transmission.
These days I really wish I could have another car just for sport, but being retired and seeing that funds are limited I can't pull the trigger. Most people in my shoes probably would go for it. Guess I'm conservative with money.
I’m a motorsport kinda guy - but never thought of IROC as anything more than a half-assed concocted novelty that it was... had all of the passion of an NFL pro bowl... thus never really was succesful...
yeah, a couple years you might be lucky to see the Unsers and Andrettis joining the typical NASCAR culprits, but rarely would you see any of the world’s best drivers (eg european Rally stars like Stig Blomqvist, Henri Toivonen / sportscar super-pilots ala Jacky Icxx ). IROC never amounted to much more than a NASCAR oval TV stroke-fest that would lend itself to be edited down to a half-hour for a segment on ABC’s Wide World of Sports
Max I've done on my CBR 600 was about 125 but was in 6th gear. I'm not sure how much more that 600 still had but I didn't have the guts to find out on the road I was on. I do still want to do a track day. I live near Circuit of the Americas which has 2 long straights, the MotoGP riders hit 205 mph on the longer of the two.
Helped a friend by putting a new battery into his 2011 LS3 corvette this morning. It's an automatic with the paddle shifters when in sport mode. Once the battery was in (and he could then also unlock the doors) he pulled it out of the garage and told me to hop into the drivers seat. Gotta admit that the auto with the paddle shifters was a fun drive. Makes me ALMOST want to consider an auto....
Riding on Circuit of the Americas would be awesome. My cousin had a GSXR 750 and we traded bikes one day while riding. He pulled over a couple miles down the road and said my bike was too wicked for him.
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Just get this. If you keep it in good condition it’ll be worth more than you pay for it. Prices are already creeping back up.
