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What car (in GTA) would you pick to use as you everyday ride in real life? If we look past the "I would pick the crome Adder and sell it and..." I would need a big 7 seater and would prolly get this one. Its discrete, could be powerful and probably safe due to the size. I would also get this house while I am at it.
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Last weekend the World Trial Championship came to Exeter, Rhode Island, home of Twisted Throttle. I'd seen trials on TV and as an exhibition at other motorcycle events, and I've even putted around on a real trials bike or two, but I'd never actually seen a trials competition in its natural habitat. With Twisted Throttle being an event sponsor I had a free ticket and no excuse not to go. Not only was this happening right in our backyard, but this was World Trial -- as in, the best trials riders in the world. Needless to say, I was pretty excited! Eight time World Trials champion Toni Bou from Spain is the Valentino Rossi of trials. I consider myself a pretty big mot…
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Silverstone F1 British GP
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Weather is great not to warm, enjoyed the pre races and having a wonderful day out. I will post some pictures later. Go hamilton
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I found this a bit amusing
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And I think some other car guys here might find it amusing too.
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Ernie went west to the Overland Expo and I went south to Rick's Eastern Rendezvous, a motorcycle rally in eastern Tennesse and very close to Bristol Motoe Speedway where they have the NASCAR race.. This is the 14th year of this rally but it was my first time. I went down there to represent Twisted Throttle and give away prizes in their Saturday night raffle. It was pretty easy work. The worst part (if there was one) was just the distande driving there and back. I drove down in this with my friend Huck. We call it Smokey at work. It's a 4x4 Dodge Ram dually with a Cummins diesel engine and it pulled the 13 foot box trailer with all our stuff in it like it wasnt eve…
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Some of you might be aware that I am unable to host my Thursday PS3 playlist, The Action Is GO!, for most of May. Well here are the reasons for that. This week I'm going to Upstate New York with my pick-up and trailer to help my Mother-in-law pack for a big move. She's lived in a big farm house with a shed, small barn and big barn for over 40 years. Forty years and all that space, she and my Father-in-law who passed away 3 years ago have a lot of stuff to downsize. The next week I'm going to a motorcycle rally in eastern Tennessee. I'll be representing the company I work for and having a good time with fellow riders. The week after that I'm going back to my Mother-in-…
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I have neglected this blog for a while and now that the snow has melted and temperatures have moved upwards from the freezing point I will once again be writing entries. Nothing much to say yet, I have moved my motorcycles into the general garage area and am starting to check them out for the riding season. I fear I may have to remove the carburetor from the Husqvarna and clean it. Not terribly difficult but it is a pain in the ass and could have been avoided. I don't ride it as regularly as the BMW so it can sit for day, even weeks, between rides. Due to the fu*king ethanol they put in gas (petrol for our EU crew) regular use is a must. If it sits the gas evaporates in…
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Why do I bet we see a spin off of this vehicle in GTAO at some point? On a serious note, holy fuck. Getting solid details on this car .. it's insane. http://www.leftlanenews.com/koenigsegg-regera.html
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Which Military Aircraft are you?
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http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?obj_id=983 I am a F-15 Eagle You are an F-15. Your record in combat is spotless; you`ve never been defeated. You possess good looks, but are not flashy about it. You prefer to let your reputation do the talking. You are fast, agile, and loud, but reaching the end of your stardom.
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Your longest non-stop flight and car trips
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What's your longest non-stop flight, and what's the longest you've driven in a car non-stop. Mine.. Fight: Seattle, Washington to Seoul, South Korea...11 hours Drive: San Antonio, Texas to Ventura, California...21 hours
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Post those dinosaur burning steel monsters, any you enjoy, be it muscle, racecar, prototypes, JDM, weird, girl cars... as long as you like it. I don't really like the sound of Armytrix but that car makes anything sounds good.
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2015.....the future is here?
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It's 2015, the year that seemed so far away in 1989, the year Back To The Future II hit the big screen. This article shows what the film got right and what they got wrong (although technically the film specifies October 21st 2015, so there's still time for those things to happen)
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In just a few short days the greatest motorsport event of all time will be upon us! Starting Jan 4th from Buenos Aires, Argentina and ending in the same city on Jan 17th this year's route will cover over 9000km in 13 stages and will also have stages in Chile and Boliva. In my country, the United States, the Dakar Rally barely exists. Ask almost anyone and they will have no idea what I'm talking about however the rally is hugely popular in other parts of the world ant is televised in over 190 countries. Since I am in the minority here among motorsports fans I will use any excuse to tell people about the Dakar Rally because it is so freakin' epic! The Dakar Rally is what'…
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@Dodge
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Does this make you cringe, or does this make you cringe? http://www.leftlanenews.com/colorados-first-hellcat-hits-tree-near-dealership.html JUST A FEW MILES FROM THE DEALERSHIP!
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Turbo Club. Anyone install a turbo themselves?
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So how many of you have had the opportunity to convert an NA car into a turbo car? Turbo to bigger turbo? What was the result? Catastropic failure or is it still going? Got any idle clips or videos? Heres a few of the Camaro. Its much faster than it appears in the video, thats the ebrake handle rattling. Idle http://youtu.be/hKIQZuxhcJg?list=UUfCqaiwym-14VUW4m7LDCaw A couple quick pulls http://youtu.be/z_Tq7vGBHDU?list=UUfCqaiwym-14VUW4m7LDCaw Next proposed upgrade is a 60trim compressor wheel to replace the 45trim, and getting the housing machined. Somewhere around 20% increase in efficiency, cooler and denser charge, with the same 2500rpm spool…
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Beez' Blog of Moto Greatness - My Stable
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I thought I'd write about me this week and tell you about the motorcycles I currently have. My main bike is a 2005 BMW R1200GS that I bought new. It is an "adventure bike" but I think any bike can give you an adventure. It's just a category like cruiser or sportbike. Adventure bikes can loosely be defined as street bikes that have long travel suspension, 19" or 21" front wheels and have hard or soft panniers (saddlebags). They make good sport touring bikes with the ability to traverse dirt roads and even off-road trails, as long as you're careful. My GS has the traditional BMW boxer twin cylinder engine with 4 valves per cylinder, EFI, a 6-speed transmission and shaft d…
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Car with 7 (or more) seats?
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So I have tried the Ford S-max: A nice car to drive considering the size. But the 3rd row of seats was small and I felt bad for putting one of the family back there, inches from the rear window. Also, too small for a family of 6 if you want to bring a few bags. Right now i have this VW Multivan. So much space, even with a small table and turn-able seats in the second row. You are sitting up high overlooking traffic. But all car feeling is gone. But I love this car bus! If I could I would go for a Suburban, Tahoe or Navigator, but they don't sell them over here. I find the SUV-look more attractive that the bus-look. So I am interested in any reflections o…
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Crew color cars IRL 1 2
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If you see one post it I seen this Dominator...er huh Mustang at a local funeral home
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Everyday apex
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So i find myself working on my driving, taking curves and hitting the apex in the most efficient way for at least 20 minutes every day. I have been doing this for almost a year now, but I only recently noticed the potential for improvements, and since I also enjoy it even more. It does not matter that it is in a rather modest car, and the tracks is one travelled usually five times a week, but rarely on the weekends, I still enjoy it. How about you, anyone suffering from the same disturbing habit?
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American Greg Hancock clinched his 3rd FIM World Speedway Championship on October 11th with a 5th place finish at the final round of the series in Torun, Poland. Second place in the championship went to Poland’s Krzysztof Kasprzak. You might be asking, what is speedway? Speedway pits up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps on a smooth dirt oval track (like the oval by the casino in GTA5). Speedway bikes have purpose-built single cylinder engines that run on pure methanol and have just one gear and no brakes. Competitors brake by sliding their bikes sideways, power-sliding or broadsiding into the turns. The bikes also have purpose-built frames for this t…
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What kind of car are you? 1 2
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Take the test http://www.brainfall.com/quizzes/what-type-of-car-would-you-be/ I am a Stretch Hummer "You are as big and bold as they come. You get what you want, when you want, and you can run over old ladies without even knowing it." BustyRose is a Toyota Prius "You live life with practicality and innovation. You may not be the flashiest kid in town, but your quirkiness and smarts get you noticed."
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Every year since 2007 I have been going to a 4 day rally in Vermont called the CroMag Rally. It is one of the regional rallies that is part of the motorcycle forum Adventure Rider.com. We stay at a campground at Silver Lake State Park in Barnard, VT which is closed for the season. We have an agreement with the rangers to use it after the end of their season so the campground is all ours. Last year we donated $3000 to the park. We also bid on the few lean-tos and have a BBQ dinner on Saturday night and all the money from that is donated to the Vermont Food Bank. We drop some serious coin in the Barnard General Store and the guy who supplies out fire wood. But the most im…
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Infiniti Modifications
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About a month ago I bought a 2005 Infiniti G35 coupe. Anyone that has ever driven one or something similar (Nissan 350z/300zx) knows that the "drive" is addicting, and the drive for more power is even more addicting. I decided to do all of the low cost performance mods (and other fixes) and keep track of them here...like anyone cares So far - I have bypassed the coolant that goes through the throttle body (not needed unless it gets really freaking cold, otherwise it just heats the intake air) - I replaced the stock air intake tube with one from a 350z. It doesn't have sound baffles like the stock (about a 5 whp increase). Also, being made of plastic it serves as a b…
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This entry was going to be a little of my history on motorcycles but I want to also keep things timely and on Labor Day I went to watch some friends race old bikes so that's what this is about. I got rolling around 7am and like an idiot I missed the correct ramp for 128 North which meant I was headed straight for Boston and nowhere to get off The Pike for several miles. After I back-tracked and got on the right road I was half hour late to meet my friend Huck for breakfast. The ride to the track was nice and there were few cars on the road to impede our speed. First we said hi to Andrew (#91) and Mike (#280). They both race BMW airheads and Mike also races a Yamaha FZ…
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What I Watched This Week #172 (Apr 14-20) Alien dir. Ridley Scott/1979/1h57m One of the greatest sci-fi horror films of all time, Ridley Scott's Alien stars Sigourney Weaver as a member of a deep space mining crew who takes a detour to an SOS message on the long journey back to Earth, finding a crashed ship full of eggs. My favourite thing about this film after seeing it so many times is how worn and lived in the ship is. I totally believe that it's real and functional and that this crew has spent months living in it. The opening sequence where we explore the empty ship while the crew is in cryosleep not only builds tension but allows us to take in the incredible details in the production design. Speaking of design, H.R. Giger's design for the xenomorph is the best in movie history (though the lil guy who bursts out of John Hurt's chest is kinda cute and goofy looking). The aggressively ph*llic look of it works well with the very male perspective fear of r*pe and childbirth. The whole cast is excellent, alongside Weaver and Hurt you have Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton and Yaphet Kotto, the latter two making a great comedic double team. 9.5/10 Lime's Film of the Week! Now You See Me dir. Louis Leterrier/2013/1h56m Now You See Me tells the story of a group of Las Vegas magicians known as the Four Horsemen (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco) who rob banks live during their show, distributing the money to their audience. They are being tracked by Mark Ruffalo's FBI agent Rhodes who is determined to uncover their secrets. Totally forgettable fluff, there are some nice moments in here, and I liked the twist at the end even though you can see it coming a mile away. The big trick showpieces are entertaining in that artificial Vegas way that also feels hollow and meaningless. My biggest gripe here is with the four main characters and that I didn't like any of them. Like real magicians I found them to be annoying and so far up their own *sses that I was actively rooting against them every step of the way. The exception is Harrelson, though he comes close at times. There's solid support from Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, with Ruffalo giving the best performance in the film. This is the definition of inoffensive cinematic background noise. 5/10 Cinderella dir. Georges Méliès/1899/6m Georges Méliès here with some more ground breaking work from the dawn of cinema. Not only is this the first film adaptation of Cinderella, it's also the first film adaptation of any fairy tale and also the first film to use dissolves to transition between scenes (with this being his first film with more than one scene). Watching this is to watch the evolution of film in real time, and, like the rest of his work, it's nothing less than magical. This is Méliès becoming more innovative and inventive with his films becoming more complex and technically demanding. The sets and costumes are beautifully detailed and like illustrations come to life. It's amazing to me that a film from the 19th century can still be so magical. 8/10 How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies dir. Pat Boonnitipat/2024/2h7m This family drama/comedy from Thailand stars Putthipong Assaratanakul as M, a lazy young man who has dropped out of college to try and start a streaming career ("wow four viewers" his mother chides early on). When he learns that his grandmother (Usha Seamkhum) has cancer he thinks that he can weasel his way to the top of her will by moving in with her to care for her. A tender and gentle film that also surprises with some pretty dark humour, I found this to be incredibly charming with two excellent lead performances from Assaratanakul and Seamkhum. Seamkhum is particularly impressive in her late in life film debut as the wily old woman who sees through all the bullsh*t from her grandson, but also sees something of herself in him. The plot is fairly predictable - of course the two will grow closer to each other and form a real bond by the time she dies - but the journey to that point, and the touching epilogue, I really enjoyed. There's a lot of family drama with the grandmother's children but it always feels close to reality and not emotionally manipulative or overly melodramatic at any point. 9/10 Shock Treatment dir. Jim Sharman/1981/1h34m Shock Treatment is a sequel to one of my all time favourite films, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and picks up with Brad and Janet (now played by Cliff DeYoung and Jessica Harper) a few years later with their marriage now on the rocks. To rectify this they appear on a TV show with the result being Brad getting committed to a psychiatric hospital run by Dr. Cosmo McKinley (Richard O'Brien) and Janet getting groomed for superstardom. This is perhaps even more bizarre than Rocky Horror, certainly more cynical, with the world now seeming to exists as a series of TV shows, a live studio audience never leaving, sleeping in their seats as the film happens on screens all around them. It's a strange dystopia that seems to predict the dominance TV would have over our lives to an even greater extent in the era of commercialism and Reganomics. If there's not a camera on you then you don't exist, like the antithesis of Rocky Horror's theme of "don't dream it, be it". Many of the Rocky Horror cast returns with the exception of Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick as Janet and Brad (though DeYoung and especially Harper do an excellent job in the roles) and most notably Tim Curry. I kept imagining him in the role played by Barry Humphries (most famous for playing Dame Edna Everage), a garishly sleazy host called Bert Schnick. Humphries is great, but we all know Curry would have been better. Another slight let down for me is the soundtrack. As a musical this doesn't really compare with Rocky Horror, though there are some catchy tunes in there, the main theme still popping into my head occasionally. 9/10 #21xoxo dir. Sine Ozbilge, Imge Ozbilge/2019/9m This animated short from Belgium shows a girl (Indra de Bruyn) and her experiences with online dating, hooking up with several men before finding a genuine connection. The most striking thing about this film are the visuals, with the film being rotoscoped, a process where live action footage is traced over by animators giving it natural movement, a process used by Disney for Snow White back in 1937. Here it's given a thoroughly modern makeover, with the screen bombarded with text and images and memes representing the experience of being chronically online. The aesthetic also calls to mind pop art of the 60's, showing that the digital world may be new but the problems of finding a partner are anything but. It's at times overwhelming, purposefully so, but there's still a cohesion between all these elements. The ending is a bit on the nose but it's well done, wrapping the whole thing up maybe a bit too neatly. 7/10 Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves dir. Chintis Lundgren, Drasko Ivezic/2019/18m Another animated short, this time from Estonia, this tells the story of Toomas (Drasko Ivezic), a wolf who is fired after turning down his boss's advances. With a wife and children to support he turns to prostitution and then gay p*rn. Meanwhile, his wife Viivi (Chintis Lundgren) is learning some things about herself thanks to militant feminist Alexandra Horn-Eye (Lee Delong). This reminded me a lot of Bug Diner, another charming and cheeky animation about sexuality and relationships starring anthropomorphic animals. That was stop motion while this is animated in a simple yet effective style, the linework wobbling between frames like Doug, the 90's cartoon. Like Bug Diner, this is also a very mature film with more human characters than a lot of live action films that tackle the same subjects. 8.5/10 No Home But Cinema: The Spaces of Chantal Akerman dir. Jessica McGoff/2025/14m (no trailer for this, so here's one for a similar film) This short essay film explores the films of Chantal Akerman through her use of space and locations, how she films them, how she moves through them and what they represent. McGoff doesn't narrate this film, rather her essay is presented as text on the screen over clips from films that illustrate her points. I like this approach and how it's executed. The text isn't presented in blocks but line by line and is edited with the rhythm of the film clips so that they're unobtrusive and allow you to fully immerse in the various worlds of Akerman. This doesn't go too in depth with any of her observations as they are things you will pick up on by just watching the films, but it would work as a good introduction to her and what to look out for in her work. 7/10 Hotel Monterey dir. Chantal Akerman/1973/1h3m (no trailer so have an extended clip) Staying with Chantal Akerman, Hotel Monterey is an observational documentary in which she explores the titular hotel, a cheap one in New York where she stayed when she first moved to the city, from the lobby to the roof. It starts off at night where her camera captures people milling about in the lobby, taking the elevators up and down. She then prowls the corridors like a ghost, her very formally structured compositions bringing out the textures of the grimy yellow walls. Methodically we move upwards until we are on the roof, it is day now, and the feeling of escape is palpable. We do this all in silence, and I mean total silence. No music, no background noise, nothing. Not only does this make us even more aware of what we're seeing on screen, but it also makes us aware of our own environment. An exploration of space is happening on the screen and in real life at the same time and it's kind of amazing once you notice that. It's like Akerman speaking out of time saying here I am, where are you? This also feels like a prelude to her masterful film News From Home, in which she takes the same approach but expands it to the whole city, though this time with sound. This totally isn't for everyone, it's not even close to what you'd call entertaining, but if you give it a chance you'll get so much out of it. 8.5/10- 1
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Local Hero (1983) dir Bill Forsyth A great early 80s British light comedy drama. Peter Reigert (who I have never seen in anything else) plays Mac, a lawyer / accountant / fixer working for Texas based Happer oil. The CEO, Mr Happer (Burt Lancaster), sends Mac to oversee the purchase of an entire Scottish fishing village that they want to demolish to build a new oil terminal. Mac expects at least some of the villagers, led by their lawyer / accountant / hotel manager Gordon Urquart (Denis Lawson - Wedge from Star Wars), to put up somewhat of a fight. But they are not quite the simple folk he expects. They already know what is going on and Urquart intends to squeeze as much cash as possible from the big oil company. It also co-stars a young Peter Capaldi, almost unrecognisable at times, as Oldsen, a Scottish Happer Oil employee assigned to help Mac and Jenny Seagrove as marine biologist Marina, working for them in what she knows is really just a job to generate good PR in case of environmental problems. Marina has slightly webbed feet, making her seem a bit like a mermaid as she swims, which her job requires a lot of. This is possibly a nod to the Jerry Anderson puppet show Stingray that had a mermaid called Marina. (And maybe having watched Team America last week this is what subconsciously made me decide to watch this film that I have seen many times before). It also features a host of other faces, mainly Scottish actors, familiar to anyone who has watched a lot of British TV over the years, like me. But sometimes it takes a while to recognise them, because this was made over 40 years ago. One of the non-Scots is Christopher Rozycki, who is great as the captain of a Soviet fishing trawler that makes frequent visits to the village. He quite clearly is not a believer in the political ideology of his homeland. He has a great line I wish I could remember word for word, but at one point he says to Mac something like “Don't look so worried. You are doing a great thing here. You are making people very rich!”. It is a beautifully made film, technically very, very good. It's set mainly in the village, but starts in Houston and switches back there a couple of times and has some stunning scenes of the Scottish countryside and coast. There's no great tension to the story, no massive plot twists. It's quite a gentle tale of Mac falling in love with the village he has basically come to destroy, but the locals just wanting the money. Forsyth got a well deserved BAFTA for the direction and a nomination for the original script. It also got a number of other worthy nominations including Chris Menges' cinematography and Mark Knopfler's modern score that includes the iconic “Going home” guitar – saxophone instrumental that accompanies the end credits. The only acting one was for Lancaster but the rest of the cast are very good, even down to some quite minor roles. I do have to pick it up on a couple of factual issues. The village is shown on a map in North West Scotland, but the oil is (was) all on the east, in the North Sea between Scotland and Norway. And I know, from a friend who used to live there and remembers the filming, it was mainly filmed on location in various villages on the east coast. The other thing might have been a deliberate joke at the expense of Hollywood. This is when Marina is showing Oldsen a colony of what are described as grey seals, but what we see on screen are quite clearly sea-lions, the sort you might well see in California but certainly not Scotland! Those don't really detract from the overall film though which is one of my all time favourites. 10 / 10- 2
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