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General Information => Smoke Tales => Topic started by: Pre95 on June 17, 2009, 01:25:25 pm
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This was in my old Ford F350, 7.3 IDI diesel w/ Banks sidewinder turbo kit (tons of stuff done, propane injection, shift kit etc).
Sitting at a light, a bicyclist rolls up beside me and is staring in my window like he has something he needs to tell me. I roll it down and he starts lecturing me on how bad my truck is for the environment, and how I should consider getting a newer vehicle that doesn't pollute so much. Then on to asking what kind of mileage and how the truck should be a gross polluter taken off the road etc etc etc... I kindly tell him thank you for your insight and roll up the window.
Light turns green, I gas her through the light (Running a straight pipe, angled out behind the passenger door) and leave him in a black cloud so thick, when he came through the other side I noticed he had his face stuffed in to his shirt to avoid breathing the lovely fumes...
Me: 1, Yuppie roady: 0
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Amazing! ;D
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owned.
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so you had to PROVE you were a gross pulluter? nice. ::)
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The woman even laughted at that one lol, that is classic
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Had he not suggested you buy a new vehicle he probably would have been right. Haha I think I would have done the same thing
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Yess... awesome
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I miss the ol' girl... off and on the gas pedal would let me send smoke signals... Ahh well, I am on the hunt for a new diesel for the stable ;D
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Scrapping your old car and building you a new one would pollute far more than the one you have now ever could. At least I know thats true of the "average" car. I dont know about a 7.3l beast, but I'd say it still holds true.
Jesus, though, 7.3l? The smaller buses in Dublin city are only using 6l cummins engines. Is something like that actually fast on the take-off or is it just about pulling power? Im just curious cause Ive never driven anything that powerful.
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Scrapping your old car and building you a new one would pollute far more than the one you have now ever could. At least I know thats true of the "average" car. I dont know about a 7.3l beast, but I'd say it still holds true.
Jesus, though, 7.3l? The smaller buses in Dublin city are only using 6l cummins engines. Is something like that actually fast on the take-off or is it just about pulling power? Im just curious cause Ive never driven anything that powerful.
they can move. my brother had one in a cube truck and he raced some ricer, and destroyed him. there wasn't much smoke either. but its more of a pulling engine. i think the 7.3 powerstroke has about 400 hp or more and gobs of torque. completely ridiculous, but used less fuel than a V-10 triton engine. i love diesel! ;D
i can't wait for some new 2 stroke diesels. those things will walk all over silly gassers ;D i hope they decide to put them into cars. a 1.6L two stroke diesel would be the equivalent to a 2.4L diesel or so.
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The V10 tritan would out pulling the cummins on flat stretchs but It would loose going up hill, both towing 37 foot 5th wheels on A twin highway
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Scrapping your old car and building you a new one would pollute far more than the one you have now ever could. At least I know thats true of the "average" car. I dont know about a 7.3l beast, but I'd say it still holds true.
Jesus, though, 7.3l? The smaller buses in Dublin city are only using 6l cummins engines. Is something like that actually fast on the take-off or is it just about pulling power? Im just curious cause Ive never driven anything that powerful.
they can move. my brother had one in a cube truck and he raced some ricer, and destroyed him. there wasn't much smoke either. but its more of a pulling engine. i think the 7.3 powerstroke has about 400 hp or more and gobs of torque. completely ridiculous, but used less fuel than a V-10 triton engine. i love diesel! ;D
i can't wait for some new 2 stroke diesels. those things will walk all over silly gassers ;D i hope they decide to put them into cars. a 1.6L two stroke diesel would be the equivalent to a 2.4L diesel or so.
Ohh yea, the thing felt like a freight train (whole lotta truck hauling a lot of butt!). It'd light the duallys across intersections if I felt like wasting tires.. Last step for the truck was propane injection but I sold her to a guy looking for a tow rig (go figure) so she's back to being a work horse instead of being a toy.
Speaking of toys, picked up a 1.6 diesel rabbit today... Im stoked :)
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I totally second the whole "buy a new car and leave yours at a junk yard to save the enviroment" is total BS.
Some people are just genuinely moronic and, i know it's hard but, you have to face the truth sometimes.
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I would have just told the biker how stupid he was for paying a few grand for 10lbs worth of aluminum.
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I would have just told the biker how stupid he was for paying a few grand for 10lbs worth of aluminum.
Yeah those guys get me too for what they spend on a damn bicycle. You can go to Wal-Mart and spend a hundred or less dollars and get one with about a million gears, full suspension and everything. Then the first thing they do is change the seat {which is already too small to begin with} to one of them things that cost a couple hundred dollars that's about like sitting on the edge of a razor blade but it's about an ounce and a half less than the other one and think they got a bargain. Then get a set of handlebars that about drag your knuckles on the ground, put on one of those little helmets that looks like something out of Jurasic Park and some spandex pants that look like they're about 4 sizes too small and think boy am I ever cutting down on wind resistance here and I'm doing almost 12 mph. ;D
My bicycle when I was a kid looked more like a scaled down Harley full Dresser with all the extra crap I had bolted on it including the vacumcleaner extension pipes from my Mothers vacum cleaner.
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Me: 1, Yuppie roady: 0
hate fords, but this is a GREAT story!!!
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I would have just told the biker how stupid he was for paying a few grand for 10lbs worth of aluminum.
Yeah those guys get me too for what they spend on a damn bicycle. You can go to Wal-Mart and spend a hundred or less dollars and get one with about a million gears, full suspension and everything. Then the first thing they do is change the seat {which is already too small to begin with} to one of them things that cost a couple hundred dollars that's about like sitting on the edge of a razor blade but it's about an ounce and a half less than the other one and think they got a bargain. Then get a set of handlebars that about drag your knuckles on the ground, put on one of those little helmets that looks like something out of Jurasic Park and some spandex pants that look like they're about 4 sizes too small and think boy am I ever cutting down on wind resistance here and I'm doing almost 12 mph. ;D
My bicycle when I was a kid looked more like a scaled down Harley full Dresser with all the extra crap I had bolted on it including the vacumcleaner extension pipes from my Mothers vacum cleaner.
You guys are a riot. Not only that, VERY off the mark. I take great offense to your remarks, being a competitive cyclist in my earlier days and now cycling for recreation. Here you are, comparing a basic made in China POS to a quality made bike and trashing a group of people for having hobbies you don't understand, at all. Not unlike comparing a basic inexpensive-but-technologically-challenged small car to an Audi TDI. Bikes are like everything else - to get quality and better components you pay more.
Tell ya what - bring your Mal Wart special by, and we'll go ride some local trails - I on my [made in USA] Cannondale, you on the made-in-China 50-lb obese throwaway bike. After (or before) we can sit down and discuss the merits, engineering, components, parts choices and whatnot and then maybe you'll have a clue. Making fun of others' hobbies and trashing that they spend money for quality toys just seems a little rude. ::)
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You guys are a riot. Not only that, VERY off the mark. I take great offense to your remarks, being a competitive cyclist in my earlier days and now cycling for recreation. Here you are, comparing a basic made in China POS to a quality made bike and trashing a group of people for having hobbies you don't understand, at all. Not unlike comparing a basic inexpensive-but-technologically-challenged small car to an Audi TDI. Bikes are like everything else - to get quality and better components you pay more.
Its a frame, wheels, brakes, a chain, gears, a handlebar and a seat. The only thing complex about them is the metallurgy of the ultralight frames. My 15 year old Trek 700 suits me very well, I put 150 miles of on and off road distance on it last year. I could spend $3000 on a new bike and gain what, 14lbs less weight? ::)
Comparing bicycles is like comparing a VW Passat to an Audi A4.
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It's like anything. You get what you pay for, and if you want to go after performance it cost more. I used to ride a bit. Still have a nice Bianchi. It is not carbon fiber, Ti, or aluminum. It is Italian steel, and done very nicely. It was not top of the line, but I dropped almost a grand for it almost 14 years ago. I geeked out a bit and added some lightweight parts. Did I ever really need everything my bike had, no. Was I happy I did when I rode up Lookout Mountain in TN, or some of the other big hills I tried over the years, damn skippy. Did I need the best brakes out there everyday, nope. The one time I did a flat out full sprint speed run down a twisty mountain road and passed 55mph I thanked god I had them.
On a 50 mile ride, those biker shorts keep nasty chafe off some personal parts I consider highly important,(and if you don't have a fat butt, chicks dig em! :D) and my road bike helmet had a shark fin on the back and teeth painted on the front. You can wear spandex and still man up.
That all being said, I think the original poster was right on. Givin the smoke was such a classic response to a pompous douchbag diatribe. I wish it was on youtube. HaHa Ha!
By the way, vacum cleaner extension pipes on a bike (say, an old Schwinn Stingray) would kick ass, especially if you had one of those rev up handlebar grips that sounded like a motorcycle. They would be the perfect place to slide some roman candles into for some action after the street lights came on.
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i'm kinda with subsonic and westyventures on this one. trashing another hobby shows no class at all. I ride a bike AND I drive; depending on how I feel that day. If you want to start bashing people, start with yourself, because you were driving a ford. ;D
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Amazing! ;D
love it more smoke the better i like it
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good story.
i have a mate who is an avid cyclist and vw diesel head too. (mk1 m-tdi). i also ride a little (not enough the pinch test tells me) and i gotta say cheap bikes dont last at all. i dont like the roads much, i prefer more to ride down big hills in the bush, and i used to do it on my cheap crap bike, until it was totally dead.
my new bike is proving a LOT harder to kill - and its not cheap crap.
just goes to show, you oughnt lecture what you dont know.
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I do a lot of downhill here on the west coast.
I too agree that if you don't know what you're talking about it's best you don't say anything at all :P
My bike was $1,000 4 years ago and it still rides the same as the day i bought it. Haven't had to replace a thing except for the pads on my disk brakes and 1 tube that I popped.
If i saw someone going up the mountain with a walmart bike i'd already be dialling the ambulance on my cell phone. I'll just say that much.
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It seems silly to me that guys who are car enthusiasts and probably really like to buy high quality car parts would just assume that all bicycle parts are the same. The bicycles at department stores aren't even assembled by mechanics, so bearings, brakes, and shifters go out unadjusted. And that's not saying anything about the heavy, flexy, energy-sucking frames or shotty components. You guys know you get what you pay for, right? Department store bikes are disposable bikes.
Sincerely,
your friendly local bicycle mechanic
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It seems silly to me that guys who are car enthusiasts and probably really like to buy high quality car parts would just assume that all bicycle parts are the same. The bicycles at department stores aren't even assembled by mechanics, so bearings, brakes, and shifters go out unadjusted. And that's not saying anything about the heavy, flexy, energy-sucking frames or shotty components. You guys know you get what you pay for, right? Department store bikes are disposable bikes.
Sincerely,
your friendly local bicycle mechanic
the problem with most roadies is that they think their poop don't stink.
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I took a crappy tire Mountain Bike for a trail ride this summer....made it a whole 1km on the trail before I broke it ::)
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Boys and Girls, I can side with both the cyclist and motorist, being a hardcore cyclist in the past, Walmart=crap, I could snap solid rear axles no problem, even now, with a 3 year old $2000 Giant full suspension bike, you would think it's indestructible, I've already wrecked the crank bearing set, under a 100 hours riding... Then again when you live downtown, and the Cops have personally booted me off the sidewalk, there is no love on the road, so I am conscience of where I am as not to impede traffic, thankfully we now have designated bicycle paths painted on a majority of the downtown roads... On the other hand, we have these stupid lines that cut traffic down to 1 lane for these cyclists, effectively doubling my commute time for the sake of a handfull of cyclists on a nice day? I keep the Duramax stashed unless I need it, sure I love 450hp at my right foot, but Jettin in the Jetta saves everything from wear and tear, $180 oil changes, $100 fillups for half the mileage....
Now this brings me to a story of driving along behind a courier cyclist, at the time I would see her randomly through the downtown core, one time she was stopped on her bike behind my parked truck at one of my sites, I was courteous to warn her I was about to start the truck and didn't want to soot her (4" turbo back), a dirty look and away she went... Later that day, I found myself driving behind her as she hogged a whole lane of traffic marked to turn 3/4 of a block away, I gave a blip of the horn to have her turn around to give me a dirty look... Needless to say, it wasn't courteous cycling, and placing myself in her seat, I know there was plenty of room to ride by the parked cars, my evidence:
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=9ave&sll=51.044603,-114.062244&sspn=0.000735,0.001725&gl=ca&ie=UTF8&ll=51.0446,-114.062049&spn=0,359.998275&z=19&layer=c&cbll=51.044603,-114.062244&panoid=PQ4IPYi1LH3-cLJdYEbJPA&cbp=12,112,,0,5 (http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=9ave&sll=51.044603,-114.062244&sspn=0.000735,0.001725&gl=ca&ie=UTF8&ll=51.0446,-114.062049&spn=0,359.998275&z=19&layer=c&cbll=51.044603,-114.062244&panoid=PQ4IPYi1LH3-cLJdYEbJPA&cbp=12,112,,0,5)
Tonnes of room between traffic and the green mini van... Two car lengths past the van, I went wide and hoofed it past her, wow, with the tuner turned up a bit, she smokes, and good!! Well let me tall ya, when she came through the cloud, she was not looking very impressed, kinda matched my feelings on things...