1. Diesel engines are built more robustly, as the compression is much higher (18:1 vs. 8:1) than a gas pot. 2. Diesel fuel has greater lubricity than gas, so the parts of the engine in contact with fuel wear less (tops of cylinders, valve guides), and engine oil suffers less from fuel contamination. 3. Lower gas temperatures are good for exhaust valves and turbos. 4. No electrical ignition system to wear out or maintain.
IANAE, so these four points will likely be pointed out as irrelevant.
well, if you know you are unappealing to the crowd, it is a good thing to hide your name. you could even hide under a bridge, if you are not already doing so...
the prius has a heater on the cat.
it is probably electric, no? ready source and all...
also, burning less fuel overall must reduce all emissions, even if the prius had the same performance as the competitor, it certainly burns less fuel.
but i think i am going with a tdi jetta. can't afford an e320.
Slow down a bit, give yourself more time to apply your Zen and hence make better use of it to better anticipate the unexpected, maybe enjoy a bit of the scenery. Save the fast riding for the track where you'll enjoy it far more, at far less risk.
I think it is fair to sat we have different perceptions of risk. Do you prefer life with no risk? Fair enough: I, however, do not. If I want to enjoy scenery, I will go for a hike or take my Moto Guzzi out for a cruise, not sit on a vibrating, uncomfortable sport bike.
No amount of zen will save you from the unexpected... No matter how good you are, one day you'll arrive at a corner and find loose gravel or sand where you need to brake
Not true: Zen has indeed saved me from the unexpected. I have encountered the very gravel you speak of: the Duffy is frequently littered with rocks from slides, and litter from accidents. It is a very dangerous road.
I'm presuming that you're like the guys I've seen who overtake on blind crests, overtake other bikes round corners, ie sports bike riders who are suffering from not-going-to-happen-to-me-itis.
Well, I don't ride in a pack, and I don't overtake on blind crests. If there is too much traffic, I usually turn back to Squamish and go climbing. As for not-going-to-happen-to-me-itis, believe me brother, it has happened to me. I take significant risk, more than the average bear, but it is calculated risk. I take it with my eyes wide open. Very very wide open. Yes, I am an adrenaline junkie. No, I am not a punk kid. Excitement enhances my life in a way that perhaps you do not require. Fine. Respect thy brothers trip. I have a lot of friends (male and female) who play with risk, and it enhances their lives, and some of them have payed the ultimate price (mostly mountaineers I have known). These unfortunate losses have not led to me or my friends adopting television and tiddlywinks as recreations. The main reason I have seen people give up risky pursuits is because they have had kids.
The worst thing I can image happening to me (believe it or not) is not a painful death. I imagine that you cannot understand that. Fine: don't try. Just don't assume that everyone around you is clinging so desperately to life that they are afraid to gamble it. And believe me, when one places a bet such as that, one does expect to win. Spare me the comments about death wish.
Whenever motorcycling, or climbing, or even windsurfing comes up in conversation with people like you, I have to hear this shit. Try to imagine that there are people out there who love life, yet still choose to face the consequences of crossing against the light, a low-side into an oncoming gravel truck, or whatever objective hazzard you might care to imagine.
Why add to the risks? No matter how good you are, one day you'll arrive at a corner and find loose gravel or sand where you need to brake, or you'll go round a corner and have a dog jump out at you or a car parked at the side of the road or a bit of oil on the road or a car cutting the corner.
I rode a URAL (Russian copy of the BMW) with a side-car for about 2 years as the only vehicle I and my (at that time future) wife had. I can honestly say that I wished it had had a reverse.
Kool. My other bike is a '75 Guzzi 850T3. Don't get me wrong: If I had the room/dough I would have a goldie. WITH a trailer! For my personal effects, of course. And a sidecar for the dog.
its the whole point of the HUD concept - keep your eyes on the target.
Sure, for fighter jets with a target indicator in the HUD, along with other useful information that cannot be physiologically intuited in time critical situations, such as angle of attack and airspeed. But WTF does a speedometer tell a motorcyclist that lean angle and wind buffeting does not? The motorcyclist will not find the HUD much use when inverted, or otherwise disoriented. He will use the seat of his pants, for information, or for landing gear...
Don't laugh. If it's (a) expensive and (b) lame someone will fit it to a Gold Wing. Just look at this: landing gear (or training wheels) for Gold Wings.
We are talking about a motorcycle that has a reverse gear. What more can you say?
Perhaps that it actually needs a reverse gear!
The squid version: always ride with two twos over the rear brake, but don't let the flip-flop sandal fall off.
BTW: no bikers i know would even want to know/care the speed and deceleration of their heads hitting pavement. I believe the whole point of riding a bike is not to crash;)
Yeah, but the helmet manufactuers may find it useful. Also your doctor and insurance agent. G-force measuring earplugs, anyone?
My Turing test questions:
1. Describe an orgasm.
2. What does very cold ice cream taste like?
3. Describe you worst experience with anxiety.
My full Turing test question:
1. Would you like to go for a swim?
Speaking as a motorcyclist, I don't think this will be much use for me. When I am riding hard, the thing I might possibly be able to use in a head-up display would be a tachometer, not a speedometer. On straight roads, I can spare the glance down. If I cannot glance down because I am in traffic, or heading down streets with blind driveways, etcetera, I am going too fast for conditions, and my life expectancy will reflect that.
If I am on a twisty road, and going very hard (I am thinking of the fabulous Duffy Lake road, a very remote and senic one, famous within the sport rider community in BC, on which I have never seen any scenery), there is no way I am going to use a speedometer at all. In that case, one doesn't use the tach either. Though it is true that a rider at the limit is not easily able to use gauges (a very athletic activity that invloves moving your body aggresively forward, back, and to the sides to change the weight distribution of the bike), the pace of events is too fast for them to be of any use anyway. Race bikes don't have speedometers, and the tack is usually oriented such that at redline the needle is pointing straight up. With experience, you do not need to look directly at it.
An important skill for fast road riding (even more so than on the track) is a zen-like ability to scan your visual field without fixating on anything. Particularly when you 'see' something you must avoid. Looking at an obstacle will often result you riding right into it! Anything that adds distraction in that visual field is not useful. I hold that a rider at the edge needs less information (just the important stuff), not more.
Spare me the head up display. I can see it now, mounted on the helmets of Gold Wing riders everywhere, helping them know the speed at which they are adjusting their radio pre-sets.
That said, how about making that GPS provide you some route data? Arrows that flash left or right, according to a pre-planned route, with a heading? I think that might be more useful and safer than a tank bag map...
Remember: always ride with two fingers over the front brake. Unless your hobby is rock climbing, and you are on a CBR 900. Then use one. DOH!
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1. Diesel engines are built more robustly, as the compression is much higher (18:1 vs. 8:1) than a gas pot.
2. Diesel fuel has greater lubricity than gas, so the parts of the engine in contact with fuel wear less (tops of cylinders, valve guides), and engine oil suffers less from fuel contamination.
3. Lower gas temperatures are good for exhaust valves and turbos.
4. No electrical ignition system to wear out or maintain.
IANAE, so these four points will likely be pointed out as irrelevant.
but no longer.
well, if you know you are unappealing to the crowd, it is a good thing to hide your name. you could even hide under a bridge, if you are not already doing so...
the prius has a heater on the cat. it is probably electric, no? ready source and all... also, burning less fuel overall must reduce all emissions, even if the prius had the same performance as the competitor, it certainly burns less fuel. but i think i am going with a tdi jetta. can't afford an e320.
I think it is fair to sat we have different perceptions of risk. Do you prefer life with no risk? Fair enough: I, however, do not. If I want to enjoy scenery, I will go for a hike or take my Moto Guzzi out for a cruise, not sit on a vibrating, uncomfortable sport bike.
No amount of zen will save you from the unexpected... No matter how good you are, one day you'll arrive at a corner and find loose gravel or sand where you need to brake
Not true: Zen has indeed saved me from the unexpected. I have encountered the very gravel you speak of: the Duffy is frequently littered with rocks from slides, and litter from accidents. It is a very dangerous road.
I'm presuming that you're like the guys I've seen who overtake on blind crests, overtake other bikes round corners, ie sports bike riders who are suffering from not-going-to-happen-to-me-itis.
Well, I don't ride in a pack, and I don't overtake on blind crests. If there is too much traffic, I usually turn back to Squamish and go climbing. As for not-going-to-happen-to-me-itis, believe me brother, it has happened to me. I take significant risk, more than the average bear, but it is calculated risk. I take it with my eyes wide open. Very very wide open. Yes, I am an adrenaline junkie. No, I am not a punk kid. Excitement enhances my life in a way that perhaps you do not require. Fine. Respect thy brothers trip. I have a lot of friends (male and female) who play with risk, and it enhances their lives, and some of them have payed the ultimate price (mostly mountaineers I have known). These unfortunate losses have not led to me or my friends adopting television and tiddlywinks as recreations. The main reason I have seen people give up risky pursuits is because they have had kids.
The worst thing I can image happening to me (believe it or not) is not a painful death. I imagine that you cannot understand that. Fine: don't try. Just don't assume that everyone around you is clinging so desperately to life that they are afraid to gamble it. And believe me, when one places a bet such as that, one does expect to win. Spare me the comments about death wish.
Whenever motorcycling, or climbing, or even windsurfing comes up in conversation with people like you, I have to hear this shit. Try to imagine that there are people out there who love life, yet still choose to face the consequences of crossing against the light, a low-side into an oncoming gravel truck, or whatever objective hazzard you might care to imagine.
Why add to the risks? No matter how good you are, one day you'll arrive at a corner and find loose gravel or sand where you need to brake, or you'll go round a corner and have a dog jump out at you or a car parked at the side of the road or a bit of oil on the road or a car cutting the corner.
If you have to ask...
Kool. My other bike is a '75 Guzzi 850T3. Don't get me wrong: If I had the room/dough I would have a goldie. WITH a trailer! For my personal effects, of course. And a sidecar for the dog.
Sure, for fighter jets with a target indicator in the HUD, along with other useful information that cannot be physiologically intuited in time critical situations, such as angle of attack and airspeed. But WTF does a speedometer tell a motorcyclist that lean angle and wind buffeting does not? The motorcyclist will not find the HUD much use when inverted, or otherwise disoriented. He will use the seat of his pants, for information, or for landing gear...
This thing is a stupid distraction...
We are talking about a motorcycle that has a reverse gear. What more can you say?
Perhaps that it actually needs a reverse gear!
The squid version: always ride with two twos over the rear brake, but don't let the flip-flop sandal fall off.
Or the 85 pound girlfriend...
Yeah, but the helmet manufactuers may find it useful. Also your doctor and insurance agent. G-force measuring earplugs, anyone?
My Turing test questions: 1. Describe an orgasm. 2. What does very cold ice cream taste like? 3. Describe you worst experience with anxiety. My full Turing test question: 1. Would you like to go for a swim?
Speaking as a motorcyclist, I don't think this will be much use for me. When I am riding hard, the thing I might possibly be able to use in a head-up display would be a tachometer, not a speedometer. On straight roads, I can spare the glance down. If I cannot glance down because I am in traffic, or heading down streets with blind driveways, etcetera, I am going too fast for conditions, and my life expectancy will reflect that.
If I am on a twisty road, and going very hard (I am thinking of the fabulous Duffy Lake road, a very remote and senic one, famous within the sport rider community in BC, on which I have never seen any scenery), there is no way I am going to use a speedometer at all. In that case, one doesn't use the tach either. Though it is true that a rider at the limit is not easily able to use gauges (a very athletic activity that invloves moving your body aggresively forward, back, and to the sides to change the weight distribution of the bike), the pace of events is too fast for them to be of any use anyway. Race bikes don't have speedometers, and the tack is usually oriented such that at redline the needle is pointing straight up. With experience, you do not need to look directly at it.
An important skill for fast road riding (even more so than on the track) is a zen-like ability to scan your visual field without fixating on anything. Particularly when you 'see' something you must avoid. Looking at an obstacle will often result you riding right into it! Anything that adds distraction in that visual field is not useful. I hold that a rider at the edge needs less information (just the important stuff), not more.
Spare me the head up display. I can see it now, mounted on the helmets of Gold Wing riders everywhere, helping them know the speed at which they are adjusting their radio pre-sets.
That said, how about making that GPS provide you some route data? Arrows that flash left or right, according to a pre-planned route, with a heading? I think that might be more useful and safer than a tank bag map...
Remember: always ride with two fingers over the front brake. Unless your hobby is rock climbing, and you are on a CBR 900. Then use one. DOH!
Others have speculated that mandrake is due to be snapped up, perhaps by HP . Perhaps this is a good time to pick up a little Mandrake stock, no?