CADmonkey

joined 1 year ago
[–] CADmonkey 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm going to download the uber app when I'm not on some miserably slow internet connection and do the math, because I'm curious if it's cheaper or not.

Right now, worst case scenario is if I have to drive my Samurai to work. It gets ~20 mpg. With insurance and gas and maintainence put together I'm spending about $4.13 to drive to work for one day.

[–] CADmonkey 4 points 11 months ago

$1300 for 6 months of car insurance

Yikes. I pay $1400 for six months of car insurance on two cars, both of which have comp, collision, and uninsured motorist coverage.

[–] CADmonkey 3 points 11 months ago (8 children)

I have plenty. And I'm not lonely. But when I try to defend lonely fellas online, you say things like "get a hobby".

[–] CADmonkey 11 points 11 months ago (9 children)

You guys are missing my point. Im not talking about incels, I'm talking about people who just call all lonely guys incels. The way everyone is happily downvoting me when I say this are proving me right.

[–] CADmonkey 4 points 11 months ago

It was able to get onto the trailer under it's own power, and I drove it to work the following Monday... it needed a water pump to be "driveable" but I ended up doing a few other things to the car. It was an old Geo Metro and I wanted one to tinker with. I spent about $600 getting the car like I wanted it.

[–] CADmonkey 12 points 11 months ago

Nope, I removed that option last January.

[–] CADmonkey 11 points 11 months ago

I used to have a motorcycle that would give a couple of pops out of the exhaust if I closed the throttle too fast. I wonder how many Nextdoor conversations it started?

[–] CADmonkey 3 points 11 months ago

Pay them for it. How much does one get billed for a pint of blood?

[–] CADmonkey 16 points 11 months ago

Doesn't that list also include Iran?

[–] CADmonkey 20 points 11 months ago (16 children)

I don't have to like it, but it's sort of a sound strategy. The Red Sea is on the way to the Suez Canal, and the world had a demonstration a few years ago about what happens when you block the Suez canal.

[–] CADmonkey 6 points 11 months ago

I have some chickens, I haven't had to wait on eggs. I have had to give some to the neighbors though.

[–] CADmonkey 29 points 11 months ago

I'm reminded of Bender:

"This isn't even about you"

"That's impossible!"

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New Bike Day (self.motorcycles)
submitted 1 year ago by CADmonkey to c/motorcycles
 

I bought a 2023 Nightster, and I love it.

I traded an old amd cantankerous DR650 and a nice 750 Street Rod in on this. The SR was starting to need some parts, and it was going to be a long time before I was able to get them. So I had two bikes, one which needed a belt and fork seals (which I couldn't get unless I waited) and another that I could get parts for, but I was constantly having to fix.

Now I have one nice bike I can actually ride. It's smooth, quiet, fast, and reasonably comfortable. I've never had traction control or ABS brakes before, that may take some getting used to. The bike is so effortless to ride. It's nimble, its fairly light for a cruiser. (and it's feather-weight compared to any other harley) The suspension soaks up the bumps, and I've never ridden anything that felt so firmly planted on the road. It has a 975cc engine that sounds nothing like a "typical harley", but it still sounds good. Here's hoping I don't have the only one left four years from now, like what happened to my Street Rod.

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