What do you drive?

[evil^milk]

how do you roll, yo?

This is the car I drive. It's old and stuff but it has AC (although it broke down for the 4th time this week... time for the AC repairman again) and it works well (despite the motor sometimes just going off randomly, and the gas pedal doesn't seem to work sometimes).

(Except mine's in red/grey).

what's your ride, yo.

 

[nofx]

bam fewl.

 

[Danimal]

Except, green and dented.

 

[Sui]

Although in all seriousness, I'm probably going to learn to drive during my upcoming gap year. Most of my friends are learning / have learnt to drive by now, but the whole concept gets me a little nervous. I mean, you're controlling this huge battering ram at high speeds with two pedals and a rubber ring, which doesn't sound that safe. On top of that, there's gas money, insurance and the price of the actual car itself...

For now I think I'll just stick with trainers and an mp3 player.

 

[Sam]

Although in all seriousness, I'm probably going to learn to drive during my upcoming gap year. Most of my friends are learning / have learnt to drive by now, but the whole concept gets me a little nervous. I mean, you're controlling this huge battering ram at high speeds with two pedals and a rubber ring, which doesn't sound that safe. On top of that, there's gas money, insurance and the price of the actual car itself...

For now I think I'll just stick with trainers and an mp3 player.

Um... that's 3 pedals.

Anyway, I'm learning to drive. Will drive (well, I go out in it with my dad at the moment) my mum's 1.7 diesel Astra. It's a lease car so the insurance costs us nothing, but a ?500 excess if I do crash.

 

[Sui]

Um... that's 3 pedals.

Hah, maybe I shouldn't try and learn to drive just yet ;P

 

[Sam]

Hah, maybe I shouldn't try and learn to drive just yet ;P

Brakes are for losers anyway.

Go for it I say.



















The slaughter shall be beautiful.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

I'll be taking driver's ed this school year and getting my permit by December. My mom wants to give me that since she wants a new car.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

 

[repiV]

Mine looks identical to that, except for some minor scuffs where the previous owner slid it along the ground. Just got it on Wednesday, love it to death.

Perfect handling, awesomely fun elastic powerband - nail back the throttle and it will slowly start to go and then all of a sudden it flies. It's also comfortable. :thumbs:

 

[sinkoman]

I enviously anticipate owning a 4 wheeled motor vehicle though. This thing is good fun and is a great means of transportation, but it's just so damn dangerous with all these stupid cagers on the road.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Mine looks identical to that, except for some minor scuffs where the previous owner slid it along the ground. Just got it on Wednesday, love it to death.

Perfect handling, awesomely fun elastic powerband - nail back the throttle and it will slowly start to go and then all of a sudden it flies. It's also comfortable. :thumbs:

Kick ass.

 

[repiV]

I enviously anticipate owning a 4 wheeled motor vehicle though. This thing is good fun and is a great means of transportation, but it's just so damn dangerous with all these stupid cagers on the road.

Improve your roadcraft dude. You should be doing the thinking for everyone on the road, not just yourself. Then you have the added benefits of riding safely and knowing how superior you are to all those braindead cagers.
It also comes with experience. When I first started commuting across London (traffic volume like you couldn't even imagine, abysmal standard of driving, ridiculously confusing road network etc.) I nearly got hit by some idiot every single day. After a while you learn to figure out what people are going to do before they do it, and you develop a kind of sixth sense.
Nowadays I hardly ever have a near miss.

On the other hand, I've had some scary moments trying to follow riders far faster and more skilled than myself. Worst was approaching a bend at about 70mph only to realise just as I was on top of it that it was a 90 degree right hander. Somehow managed to get round it by slamming the bars and hanging right off the bike.
But don't do stupid shit like that.

 

[TCfromBN]

Mine's dark green.

 

[sinkoman]

Improve your roadcraft dude. You should be doing the thinking for everyone on the road, not just yourself. Then you have the added benefits of riding safely and knowing how superior you are to all those braindead cagers.
It also comes with experience. When I first started commuting across London (traffic volume like you couldn't even imagine, abysmal standard of driving, ridiculously confusing road network etc.) I nearly got hit by some idiot every single day. After a while you learn to figure out what people are going to do before they do it, and you develop a kind of sixth sense.
Nowadays I hardly ever have a near miss.

Ah, maybe i'll stay closer to my neighborhood for the time being till I get a little better at riding and predicting situations.

I seriously can't believe how badly some people drive though, or just how god forsaken stupid some people are. I nearly rear ended a cop yesterday, because he had parked his car in the middle of the lane, right in the blindspot of a 90 degree right hander. I swerved into the opposing lane last minute to dodge the idiot, and he sorta stared at me with his jaw down :O, and moved his car.

Nice bike btw :thumbs:

I seriously wouldn't trust myself on a sports bike. I just know that my ego would swell to epic proportions, and that i'd get tboned trying to open the damned thing up on the highway.

 

[Mr. Banana]

I'll be driving one of these things once I have my full license. Except my dump-truck is like brown/gray.

 

[Alan00000]

Here are some recent pics Just before we went to a car meet . Apperently People were amazed when we got to the meet. ive seen better z's to be honest.

 

[repiV]

Ah, maybe i'll stay closer to my neighborhood for the time being till I get a little better at riding and predicting situations.

I seriously can't believe how badly some people drive though, or just how god forsaken stupid some people are. I nearly rear ended a cop yesterday, because he had parked his car in the middle of the lane, right in the blindspot of a 90 degree right hander. I swerved into the opposing lane last minute to dodge the idiot, and he sorta stared at me with his jaw down :O, and moved his car.

If you ride as if everyone is trying to kill you, you're halfway there.

Some important bits of advice I would give you:

Look as far ahead as you can see, not just at the car in front. That way you can spot upcoming situations and react appropriately in good time. If your awareness is up to scratch you shouldn't need to avoid a collision because you shouldn't let any potential situation escalate to that level.
You know those graceful riders who just seem like they effortlessly swim through traffic? They have a riding plan...

Expect every car to pull out on you. Position yourself so as to be more visible (often bikes can be completely hidden from view by the windscreen pillars, especially on those massive behemoths people drive over there), try and make eye contact, try moving around in your lane or using the horn.
Sometimes I weave from side to side as I pass a junction to make myself more obvious.

Make an effort to get really familiar with the capabilities of your machine...find the limits of braking, acceleration and cornering. That way if you know what the bike can do when you really need it to. For example a large proportion of motorcycle accidents are riders who crashed on a bend - often because they entered too fast and tried to grab the brakes instead of just leaning the bike farther over.

Other than that...well, I don't know what kind of level you're at so it's really hard to offer any other advice without being patronising or something. I also have no idea what kind of level they train you to over there.

But I do have a feeling that you tend to adopt a very unassertive riding position - in the gutter perhaps. If anything you want to be riding slightly towards the left hand side of the road (in the US, that is), as you have a better view of the traffic ahead and you are still asserting your right to your road space.

 

[sinkoman]

If you ride as if everyone is trying to kill you, you're halfway there.

Some important bits of advice I would give you:

Look as far ahead as you can see, not just at the car in front. That way you can spot upcoming situations and react appropriately in good time. If your awareness is up to scratch you shouldn't need to avoid a collision because you shouldn't let any potential situation escalate to that level.
You know those graceful riders who just seem like they effortlessly swim through traffic? They have a riding plan...

Expect every car to pull out on you. Position yourself so as to be more visible (often bikes can be completely hidden from view by the windscreen pillars, especially on those massive behemoths people drive over there), try and make eye contact, try moving around in your lane or using the horn.
Sometimes I weave from side to side as I pass a junction to make myself more obvious.

Make an effort to get really familiar with the capabilities of your machine...find the limits of braking, acceleration and cornering. That way if you know what the bike can do when you really need it to. For example a large proportion of motorcycle accidents are riders who crashed on a bend - often because they entered too fast and tried to grab the brakes instead of just leaning the bike farther over.

Other than that...well, I don't know what kind of level you're at so it's really hard to offer any other advice without being patronising or something. I also have no idea what kind of level they train you to over there.

But I do have a feeling that you tend to adopt a very unassertive riding position - in the gutter perhaps. If anything you want to be riding slightly towards the left hand side of the road (in the US, that is), as you have a better view of the traffic ahead and you are still asserting your right to your road space.

I started out on dirtbikes when I was 8, and that's pretty much the extent of my riding experience

What I try to do in terms of lane position, is if i'm in the far right lane, I move as far away from the driveways and junctions to my right, and as close to the traffic on my left, as safely possible. Then, I see what the traffic situation is like to my left, and make sure that i'm not riding side by side with any cars.

I generally try to avoid the middle lane altogether, unless there are any buses or other large vehicles to my left and right that would make me harder to see.

If i'm on the far left lane, the one juxtaposing the oncomming traffic, I stay slightly to the left of the center lane position, and then make sure i'm not riding side by side with any cars. I figure that if something were to go wrong in this situation, it'd be the driver to my right side's (as I may be in their blind spot), so better to distance myself from them than the oncoming, since the oncoming sees me for sure.

If i'm in the far right lane, the one that has all the cars trying to pull in front of me, I keep my finger on the horn button, just in case.

Thanks for the tips, I really DO have a bad habit of not watching the road far enough ahead of me. Hell, I catch myself staring down my front fender! I need to work on my targeting too. I don't pay nearly enough attention to what everybody else is doing either, but I think i'm getting better. Today, while I was just taking the bike out for a leisure ride, I noticed two guys weaving in and out that I anticipated to be trouble, and picked out a bunch of people on their cellphones, whom I immediately dropped behind.

 

[xcellerate]

VW GTi
H&R Race Springs
Bilstein Struts
VR6 Strut bushings/bearings
Polyeurethane control arm/sway bar bushings
28mm Autotech rear sway bar
2.25" TT tuning exhaust w/ borla muffler
steel braided brake lines
TT tuning short shifter
Rebuilt shifter (bushings and junk)
ATE slotted rotors
port/polished head
Autotech 8k rpm valve springs
New OEM hydraulic followers
Autotech titanium retainers
EuroSpecSport tapered guides
TTtuning 270* cam
280mm Momo Team Steering wheel

Audi S6
Dahlback Chip

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

Like this but without the suit and the Italy and different color and looks different and leaking everywhere and stuff.

 

[CyberPitz]

By cyberpitz, shot with Canon PowerShot A630 at 2007-06-09

By cyberpitz, shot with Canon PowerShot A630 at 2007-03-28

By cyberpitz, shot with Canon PowerShot A630 at 2007-03-28

 

[sinkoman]

What's with the "By Pibercyts, shot with his awesome camra" tags?

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

He's showing off his camcock. It's so huge.

 

[The Monkey]

I don't own a car myself, but my family has two cars that I drive regularly.

Citro?n BX 16V (1991):

Volkswagen Golf Mark 4 (2000):

 

[Instinct]

 

[repiV]

I started out on dirtbikes when I was 8, and that's pretty much the extent of my riding experience

What I try to do in terms of lane position, is if i'm in the far right lane, I move as far away from the driveways and junctions to my right, and as close to the traffic on my left, as safely possible. Then, I see what the traffic situation is like to my left, and make sure that i'm not riding side by side with any cars.

I generally try to avoid the middle lane altogether, unless there are any buses or other large vehicles to my left and right that would make me harder to see.

If i'm on the far left lane, the one juxtaposing the oncomming traffic, I stay slightly to the left of the center lane position, and then make sure i'm not riding side by side with any cars. I figure that if something were to go wrong in this situation, it'd be the driver to my right side's (as I may be in their blind spot), so better to distance myself from them than the oncoming, since the oncoming sees me for sure.

If i'm in the far right lane, the one that has all the cars trying to pull in front of me, I keep my finger on the horn button, just in case.

Thanks for the tips, I really DO have a bad habit of not watching the road far enough ahead of me. Hell, I catch myself staring down my front fender! I need to work on my targeting too. I don't pay nearly enough attention to what everybody else is doing either, but I think i'm getting better. Today, while I was just taking the bike out for a leisure ride, I noticed two guys weaving in and out that I anticipated to be trouble, and picked out a bunch of people on their cellphones, whom I immediately dropped behind.

No problem. It sounds like you have the right idea when it comes to riding in traffic, so keep that up. I can guarantee your problems are pretty much all caused by not looking into the distance though - knowledge is power.
When you're cornering, do you look straight ahead or at the exit of the bend? You always want to be looking where you want to be, not at where you don't want to be. The bike will go where you look.
You don't want to be the guy that crashed into a hedge because they were looking at that rather than the exit of the bend.
I heard about someone actually who had a fatal accident on their CBT because there was a lorry in the opposite lane, they just stared at it and ended up with a deadly case of target fixation - steered into and got run over by the lorry. Complete and utter waste of a life.
When you get better at being aware of developing hazards, you'll feel a lot less stressed when you get to your destination and you'll enjoy the ride a lot more too. Just force yourself to look at the horizon line and it will come naturally. You could try talking to yourself about what you can see and what it means aswell.

 

[lePobz]

Still got my trusty old veccy ... the MX3 plans are on hold till I get a new job (was made redundant).

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

and

 

[xcellerate]

Volkswagen Golf Mark 4 (2000):

That's a picture of a mkIII

 

[The Monkey]

That's a picture of a mkIII

So it is. I just googled for mark 4 and didn't study it very well.

This is a Mark 4... I think:

 

[CyberPitz]

What's with the "By Pibercyts, shot with his awesome camra" tags?

Oh, something new imageshack is doing. I'm too lazy to edit it off, though.

 

[Markdude]

2000 Honda CR-V.

 

[darsh999]

i drive HONDA ACCURA TSX .... although its pretty old but still i love to drive it !!!!!

 

[Tyguy]

 

[Kula Meenur]

I dont, ride instead. zx10 kawa makes the world a better place to speed in

 

[Krynn72]

Screw you guys and your nice cars.

 

[Zeus]

1997 Honda Accord sedan

 

[ailevation]

I drive a '99 BMW 328i but, I am soon going to get rid of it and pick up a '98 Subaru GF8(Wagon).

 

[Tyguy]

im getting a new one soon: