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Old 08-18-22, 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Eric F
The car we just bought for my daughter is an '07 GTI. It's s ton of fun to drive, and I'm a bit envious that she gets to drive it more than I do. Like me, my daughter gets joy from driving a car at a rapid pace on twisty roads. Her skill set is improving quite quickly, and the GTI is wonderfully compliant in going exactly where you point it. She's figuring out that real-world forces are a lot different than what she experiences while playing the F1 video game - LOL.
The MKV style? That was the first car I bought myself! Very nice but had "issues".
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Originally Posted by datlas
La Vuelta starts tomorrow. I was hoping my GCN+ would allow me to watch it, but not in USA. I either need a VPN or will have to cough up some $$$ for a Peacock Premium subscription.
At $5 a month, I think it can be found on even Saturn budgets.
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My LBS has a ladies ride on Thursday mornings and some of the women have been asking my wife to attend but it conflicts with our regular T-Th group. For some reason, she decided to go today and asked me to ride over to the ride (9 mi.) and then I would do my own ride while she rode with the ladies and then meet up afterwards to ride home.

We ride over (had a flat but no biggie) and the shop owner grabs me and asks me to the lead the ride because he had pressing shop business to attend to. I mean, there are worse things to do than lead fit women on a 20 mile ride.
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GP5000 just arrived. 53.00 dollars each on amazon.

Kind of bummed that excel won’t give me a tracking number, they allow me to track it on their website but the information is very limited. It left denver and arrived in denver yesterday. No action today.
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
$5 per month? We get it “free” with Comcast but I have to pay if I use a streaming device which I weird.
They want you using their box, I assume.

Much as I love the TV, these apps are pissing me off and I'm borderline to turning the desktop back on in the evenings because they're all unusable messes.
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
My LBS has a ladies ride on Thursday mornings and some of the women have been asking my wife to attend but it conflicts with our regular T-Th group. For some reason, she decided to go today and asked me to ride over to the ride (9 mi.) and then I would do my own ride while she rode with the ladies and then meet up afterwards to ride home.

We ride over (had a flat but no biggie) and the shop owner grabs me and asks me to the lead the ride because he had pressing shop business to attend to. I mean, there are worse things to do than lead fit women on a 20 mile ride.
When duty calls. of course the women in my area would just drop me.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
GP5000 just arrived. 53.00 dollars each on amazon.

Kind of bummed that excel won’t give me a tracking number, they allow me to track it on their website but the information is very limited. It left denver and arrived in denver yesterday. No action today.
I just ordered a pair for my wife’s bike from the Bike Closet for $108 including shipping and Illinois sales tax. Base price was $89.98 for a pair.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
When duty calls. of course the women in my area would just drop me.
They did.

Or at least a few of them did.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
What a dad! I’m sure it’s a lot more refined than the ‘86
The shifting feel on my MK 7 seems about the same as the shifting feel I remember on the MK 2 we had BITD.
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
At $5 a month, I think it can be found on even Saturn budgets.
Especially for only one month.
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Originally Posted by gnome
I brought my first car in high school. A 56 Beetle. I should have kept that car. It would be worth something these days. but it had rusty A-pillars and I was a very broke student. My parents brought my second car for me: they felt bad about the VW. It was a Triumph Herald. that started the rot: I continued to buy old english or french cars and spend a small fortune keeping them on the road. I often had to bike through winter at university as I was saving money to repair the current old car.
Mrs. rjones28 drove a Triumph Vitesse (Herald variant) Mk II for a while, in the 1990s. It perished in a fire at a mechanic's shop.

Not her actual car.
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
I just ordered a pair for my wife’s bike from the Bike Closet for $108 including shipping and Illinois sales tax. Base price was $89.98 for a pair.

I saw that, but with amazon when I ordered it said they would arrive yesterday. So it would have been less than 24 hours order to delivery. Of course for what ever reason it was delivered a day later. I am not known for my patience.


I actually hate ordering anything online. I usually will pay the high price in a store to get it then instead of waiting. I know I’ve wasted a lot of money that way, but I enjoy going to stores. I draw the line when my LbS is going to charge me 170.00 dollars on two tires when I can get them online for less than 110.00.

If they would have done 120.00 I would have bought them, but they wouldn’t budge.

I do the red eye from PHX Sunday, so should be at my house Monday morning. I hope the pedals are there so I can give the ritchey a make over.
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
My LBS has a ladies ride on Thursday mornings and some of the women have been asking my wife to attend but it conflicts with our regular T-Th group. For some reason, she decided to go today and asked me to ride over to the ride (9 mi.) and then I would do my own ride while she rode with the ladies and then meet up afterwards to ride home.

We ride over (had a flat but no biggie) and the shop owner grabs me and asks me to the lead the ride because he had pressing shop business to attend to. I mean, there are worse things to do than lead fit women on a 20 mile ride.
The view is better if following and not leading.

Just sayin.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Mrs. rjones28 drove a Triumph Vitesse (Herald variant) Mk II for a while, in the 1990s. I perished in a fire at a mechanic's shop.

Not her actual car.

I hope that’s a typo.
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Originally Posted by Eric F
In that era. my best friend had a Scirocco. I always thought a GTI-version of that would have been spectacular. Apparently, they existed, but not in the US.
I kind of want a Mk I Scirocco.
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I perished in a fire at a mechanic's shop.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
I hope that’s a typo.
Nope. Burned to the ground. Miraculously, the more exotic cars in the shop got pushed out in the nick of time.

Along with the mechanic's tool box.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Nope.
Anything we can do to help you along? You seem to be having trouble moving on.

Reread your post carefully...
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
My LBS has a ladies ride on Thursday mornings and some of the women have been asking my wife to attend but it conflicts with our regular T-Th group. For some reason, she decided to go today and asked me to ride over to the ride (9 mi.) and then I would do my own ride while she rode with the ladies and then meet up afterwards to ride home.

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Originally Posted by cat0020
Is there a monthly subscription for the spark plugs?
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
Anything we can do to help you along? You seem to be having trouble moving on.

Reread your post carefully...
Oops.
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Originally Posted by gnome
I brought my first car in high school. A 56 Beetle. I should have kept that car. It would be worth something these days. but it had rusty A-pillars .
I had a 56 Beetle. A friend borrowed it and got drunk and crashed it. I don't know how much a 56 would be worth but VW Beetles are very hot right now.
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Oops.
I mean, I was sad. But, the insurance settlement paid for a semester of college.
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Originally Posted by big john
I had a 56 Beetle. A friend borrowed it and got drunk and crashed it. I don't know how much a 56 would be worth but VW Beetles are very hot right now.
Speaking of hot, my 72 Beetle had an engine fire. It wasn't fatal (to me or the car), but I got rid of it.
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