LucyLastic

@LucyLastic@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes a bicycle so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Poor camparison, Superbike championship and the TT etc use the frame and engine (and quite a few other bits too). A stock bike in the right hands can get reasonably close to their lap times, and one with light mods (say, €1000 extra and a bit of elbow grease) can be halfway between the two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes a bicycle so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the one.

  It’s all just horseshit, if you want a motorbike with character, get a classic one. Hell, even my '82 Montesa manages to be reliable, yet has character out the wazoo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes a bicycle so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Learn how to do bicycle maintenance and find a good second hand bike that needs a little love.

  I have a Giant hard tail that was €1200 new, but I got it used for about €100. Serviced the brakes, put on a new chain, cleaned/oiled/greased everything mechanical and it’s like a new bike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes a bicycle so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Superbike championships use road bikes with a change of fairings and upgrades to things like exhaust, brakes, and suspension.

  Hell, Isle Of Man TT lightweight class has used stuff like the ER6f as a base which is a budget commuter bike, lol

  A halo model super sport is basically a street legal race bike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes a bicycle so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, nah, Ducatis are like the carbon road bikes of the motorcycle world - all about dick waving. A little while back one of the larger YouTube channels took the latest Ducati to a track and put it up against a cheap 7 year old Suzuki, and the Suzuki was still faster … and if you buy a Japanese sport bike it’s not going to have the mechanical problems of a Ducati either.

  Source: I have owned, ridden, repaired and raced a lot of motorbikes, including some fast-ish ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Demand to reverse Brexit hits ‘highest ever level’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just “Cheggers” to his mates

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's like they know...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I got a basic reader about 10 years ago, for what would be €20 in today’s money. It’s saved me hundreds.

  Only problem is motorbikes don’t have standard ODB2 ports so I have no idea why the light is on on my little 125 :-/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flame Wars: 1840⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Where did it come from Cotton Eye Joe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just that easy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Protip: Live in Europe and you don’t even need to go anywhere :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unions work.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also the grammar and layout are terrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Review of Hair (1979)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Brain fart, I was thinking of Easy Rider because it features the song Born to be Wild prominently!

  Vanishing Point is pretty out-there, they cut a scene where the protagonist sleeps with an angel for example, but it does have a lot of metaphors in regards to freedom from oneself vs freedom from outside forces

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Review of Hair (1979)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s always nice to see people finding positivity in art and wanting to share it :-)

  For film deconstructions of the effects of the summer of love, how do you view Born to be Wild and Vanishing Point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I tame my frustration toward my aging parents?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was gonna say, my Mum’s starting to get a bit like this but she’s 86 so it’s not a surprise … 57? Hard yikes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks to the Internet Archive I played the original Streetfighter 2 and Outrun arcade games, I’m sure Gauntlet and Bubble Bobble are on there too ;-)