Serious Annoyance...
 

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 18:38:01 -0500, Califbill
wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:15:52 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 4/26/16 1:07 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 05:42:54 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

I run through town in 3rd on my Guzzi. Get it out on the road and a
lot of times I'll do the 1-3-5 Dom a dead stop. Lugging isn't good. I agree

Lugging is not really a problem if you are spinning up 2500 or more
and with a useable RPM band of 2500-7500 (the redline) you don't need
that many gears to get a little car like mine going.
The V-tech doesn't even kick in until 5000.
If you are driving aggressively you probably try to stay between 5000
and 7000 and if you are not in a hurry you stay between 2500 and 5000,
In normal light to light, 1-3-5 seems to work fine and I end up using
2 and 4 when i am slowing down for turns and such. Four is probably
the least used gear. With the speed limits around here and some well
timed lights, I spend most of the time in 5.


I go through the gears on Mr. Blue when starting up from a dead stop,
and downshift through them to negotiate steeper hills and 90 degree
turns. First is pretty close to a stump puller, but the truck is not a
lightweight, so I use first to get rolling. I usually don't use fifth or
sixth unless I'm out on State Route 4 or better.


That is just a reflection of the Northeast thing. Your roads were laid
out when people were riding horses and they have fairly low speed
limits. In SW Florida the 2 lane blacktops are 50 or 60, Us 41 is 55
at the end of the feeder road to my street and the interstate is 70.
Most people speed, at least 10 over. The cops seem to not really care
until you are 15 or 20 over is you are not on a residential street or
s school zone. Unlike Maryland, they do not see speeding as a profit
center.
I have to say I am not really that conscious of what gear I am in most
of the time. I drive by the sound of the engine and the feel of the
road. After 15 years in this car, I just pick the gear instinctively.
I have been driving a stick all my life.
I was out today and 1-3-5 is not right. On US41 it was more like 1-2-5
on my little trip today
At 2500 RPM, 1st is 12, 2d is 22, 3d is 31, 4th is 40 and 5th is
faster than I could go from here to publix.
I downshifted to 3 from 5 to make the turn into the Publix lot road
(made the light) and hit 2d while I was in the lot itself.
I do hit these turns pretty hard tho. That Prelude still handles
pretty well, probably better than my 69 Corvette ;-)


I went to automatics for daily driver in 1968. After towing my
B-production vette in a hundred miles of traffic leaving Laguna Seca, and
the leg cramping from clutch usage, went to Automatic on next car. Other
than my VW Rabbit in the 80's no sticks required.

I was driving my daughter's old (auto) LeBaron around for a while but
when that one gave up the ghost I was ready to get back to a 5 speed
so I bought the Prelude.
My trucks have all had an auto and I think it is actually better for
towing but that was not like driving a fun car.
I have usually managed to avoid a whole lot of stop and go. When the
Beltway got to be a parking lot ion the morning and evenings I started
working midnight to 8. I got to see the cars backed up every morning
but I was going the other way.

Serious Annoyance...
 

On 4/26/2016 6:38 PM, Califbill wrote:
Ryan P. wrote:
On 4/23/2016 3:32 PM, True North wrote:
Mr. Luddite
- show quoted text -
"I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being shut
down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first
commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to
listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick
Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down
but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology."


I don't think there is a single am station left around here.

Interesting. The two top-rated stations up here are AM stations. One
is a news/sports station and the other is a news/talk.

Its kinda sad, actually... I worked for 10 years as a DJ in music
radio, and watched it go from Fun (the DJ's were allowed to have
personality and fun, which formed a "gotta listen" relationship with the
public) to Vanilla (minimal personality is desired because Corporate
wants the listener to like the brand, not the DJ).

Of course, outside of morning drive, very few music stations have a
live person actually in the studio. Assuming the show isn't
satellite-delivered, its either voice-tracked from another state (like
Entercom and Clear Channel iHeart stations), or the local DJ prerecords
it and while they are "on-the air" are really in a production booth
somewhere making commercials.





Rush Limbaugh originally started as a top 40 DJ in Sacramento. So
personality did matter then.

Actually, if you don't automatically hate everything about him because
of his politics, he's got a quirky lighthearted personality and makes a
lot of one-line jokes. Take off 30 years and I can certainly see him
being a DJ.

I hate Bill Clinton's politics, but I think he'd be fun to have a beer
with at a bar. :)

Serious Annoyance...
 

On 4/27/16 11:16 AM, Ryan P. wrote:
On 4/26/2016 6:38 PM, Califbill wrote:
Ryan P. wrote:
On 4/23/2016 3:32 PM, True North wrote:
Mr. Luddite
- show quoted text -
"I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being
shut
down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first
commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to
listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick
Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down
but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology."


I don't think there is a single am station left around here.

Interesting. The two top-rated stations up here are AM stations. One
is a news/sports station and the other is a news/talk.

Its kinda sad, actually... I worked for 10 years as a DJ in music
radio, and watched it go from Fun (the DJ's were allowed to have
personality and fun, which formed a "gotta listen" relationship with the
public) to Vanilla (minimal personality is desired because Corporate
wants the listener to like the brand, not the DJ).

Of course, outside of morning drive, very few music stations have a
live person actually in the studio. Assuming the show isn't
satellite-delivered, its either voice-tracked from another state (like
Entercom and Clear Channel iHeart stations), or the local DJ prerecords
it and while they are "on-the air" are really in a production booth
somewhere making commercials.





Rush Limbaugh originally started as a top 40 DJ in Sacramento. So
personality did matter then.

Actually, if you don't automatically hate everything about him because
of his politics, he's got a quirky lighthearted personality and makes a
lot of one-line jokes. Take off 30 years and I can certainly see him
being a DJ.

I hate Bill Clinton's politics, but I think he'd be fun to have a beer
with at a bar. :)


Well, hell, Mussolini made the trains run on time. :)