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  1. 47 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

    People who speed up as you try to pass them should be set on fire.

    This is the weirdest, most baffling shit, and I see it every time I get in my car. Some more subtle, & some just blatantly obvious, like the fucker in the right lane on sb Mopac the other day who decided that, for whatever reason, he just didn't want me passing him in the middle lane. Dude was just cruising about 65 by himself in the right lane as I approached in the middle lane going about 80. As soon as I got near him though, dude damn near wrecked himself trying to stay ahead of me or keep up. Changing lanes all over the place, cutting people off, etc. Fucking bizarre shit.

    Then you have the left lane blockers who'll speed up just a tad when they see you behind them, but won't move over even when they have plenty of room. They'll do anything but move the fuck over. Gotta have that left lane.

  2. 3 hours ago, Chuychanga said:

    The cocksuckers in my neighborhood who slow to 5 mph to go over those big rubber speed humps.  Fuck off with that.  I have kids that play outside too and I don't speed on residential streets but those humps are made to go over at the speed limit.  Going over them slow is a fucking beating of a rollercoaster.  Going over them at 25-30mph lets your suspension absorb the bump and is much smoother.   

    I hear ya. I've seen the faster bumps like you're talking about, but there are a lot around town (probably not in your hood) that are definitely not made for the speed limit, but more like half the limit or even less. That's a big beef I've had with those bumps since they started installing 'em - that there are a lot of them you can't take at the speed limit without launching all your shit all over your car & bottoming out your suspension. It's bullshit to give me a 10 mph speed bump in a 30 mph zone.

  3. 6 hours ago, SmokeyBear1861 said:

    Yeah its changed names. There are different formats for different spots. Usually it's 4 men heats with the top two continuing and the 3rd guy has to surf and win another early heat to continue. Then head to head for the last couple of rounds. 

    I wish I could watch it more, I typically watch most of the action on heat analyzer. 

    Driving down the sea wall in Galveston now. Wind is blowing onshore still. Waist high + and sloppy. Front is supposed to hit and flip the wind before 9. Hope it gets good for a few hours. 

    Cool, kind of a winner's & loser's bracket kinda thing.

    Get ready for that front. It's a cold one. & strong. 45 degrees here in Austin right now.

  4. On 4/7/2018 at 1:09 AM, Papa Johnny Road said:

    I can’t stand dickheads that use the shoulder of the road or emergency lane to pass slow/stopped traffic on the way to work. Then they flip the bird when I dont let them back onto the highway when that lane ends. 

    Saw a chick the other day southbound on Manchaca Road, blowing by a bunch of stopped rush-hour up traffic, using the right shoulder as a lane. Traffic was backed up all the way from the light at Slaughter, well past the one at Monarch. She was going at least 50+. Up ahead was the light at Monarch and I saw a northbound SUV about to make a  left turn at the light, from Manchaca onto Monarch. Right then I told my boy there's about to be a wreck. She never hit her brakes or slowed at all as she approached the light on the shoulder. The SUV turned, & she t-boned him in the right side, sent him airborne, and into the front end of a pickup that was waiting at his red light on Monarch. BIG hit. Thankfully nobody was hurt too bad. Crazy bitch was totally clueless, oblivious to the fact she had even done even the slightest thing wrong. I was happy to be a witness for the pickup & suv drivers. Got calls from their insurance reps & both said the chick's insurance was trying to claim 50/50 responsibility, but with my statement, they had her dead to rights. 

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  5. That whole thing with people (mostly chicks) who have their noses in their phones at every stop light ... that shit has hit epidemic levels. At practically every stoplight now there's at least one of these dipshits in front of me, slowing everyone down. Getting away from a light has become such a beating. It just blows my mind that otherwise seemingly intelligent people are so easily addicted that they can't put down their got damn phone for a little while and just drive the motherfucking car.

  6. ^ Autosport guys are saying that Merc & Ferrari are already saying the downsizing would be painful. "Good", I say. Come to think of it I do remember some talk on the Sky FP2 broadcast (iirc) about giving the teams two years to reduce staffing levels. I was only half listening tho...

     

  7. 34 minutes ago, BottleRocket said:

    I took this pic around late 90s early '00s.  I also have a video of driving down South Congress around the same time.  I'll see if I can find it.  I'm sure it's a .mov file which I have no idea what to do with.

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    Yeah I lived a few blocks from there about that time. Boring AF back then.  Continental Club is about the only thing that hasn't changed.

  8. 2 minutes ago, Anton Chigurh said:

    I wonder if the $150m includes personnel salaries (I know driver salaries aren’t included). Also, how are the PU manufacturers affected there? Mercedes, Renault, and Ferrari can just create lots of “PU Optimization Engineer” positions.

    That translation of the AMuS article I posted says it does not include Drivers, executive salaries, or marketing expenses. No mention of other team personnel, so who knows. If it doesn't include the hordes of people back at the factories, then that's a huge break for Merc & Ferrari, imho.

  9. 3 minutes ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

    How much?  Should we organize a Surly track day?  Whats better than a day on hot tarmac watching guys in cargo shorts driving their f150s around a track?

    It varies from company to company, starting at several hundred dollars minimum iirc. But I haven't checked in a while. I sure wish I could justify that expense, but I can't.

  10. LMFAO at The Elderly Fan calling Toto repeatedly while the Sky guys interviewed him.

    Toto: That number will not be achievable. We need to find a compromise that's something sensible.

    OK Toto.

  11. 6 minutes ago, Anton Chigurh said:

    I think the minimum driver+seat weight thing was already passed.

    I hope so. I know they've been talking about it for a while, with driver ballast being placed in a certain area right around the seat. Makes so much sense, and people have been calling for it for a while. 

  12. I only bodysurf, but I love watching 'real' surfing. Just such a beautiful and amazing sport. So, I guess the WSL is what used to be the ASP, right? Is WSL competition strictly head to head with just two guys in the water, unlike the old way where you had several guys out there competing for waves and racking up scores?

  13. Boom.

    Also, from the other day, proposed rule changes for 2019...

    * Airbox fin stays as it is
    * Load tests for the attachment points of the noses are tightened
    * Height of the exhaust pipes is reduced
    * Exhaust pipes must not be angled upwards
    * Bigger rearwing flap
    * Ban of slots in upper part of rear wing endplate
    * Increase of the slotgaps to the main wing
    * Simplification of the front wing and ban the cascades
    * New bargeboard dimensions
    * DRS everywhere on the track
    * 80kg min. weight (driver+seat)

     

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