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checy Volt
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 10:53:30 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote: I see a lot of Ford Edges around here. If your other choice was a Jeep you made the right choice. I hear and read about a lot of problems with Jeep vehicles. My wife's Lincoln is just an Edge with a better trim package. I think it may have a little better ride (advertised) but when we rented an Edge, it seemed the same to me. |
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checy Volt
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 13:21:38 -0500, wrote:
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 09:31:25 -0500, Poco Deplorevole wrote: On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 09:02:46 -0500, wrote: On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 07:21:21 -0500, Poco Deplorevole wrote: On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 03:34:56 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Last week went to LA for a sports show. Looked at a 2014 Chevy Volt as a 3rd vehicle, so I did not drive the crew cab truck around town and look for big parking place, and wearing out a truck that costs 80 grand to,replace. Car was in Hanford, couple hundred miles from home. Liked the car and color, not white or silver, and bought it. So far very happy. Have plugged it in twice to charge. Takes a long time on 120V. So may put a 240v outlet in and buy a level 2 charger. Have not used the gas motor since purchase. Did Uhaul trailer the car home. Quiet, smooth running. Signed up for the EV electric rate. 11 cents a Kilowatt hour at night, instead of 47 cents. VIP stickers for single person use of the carpool lanes. Thanks neighbors for subsidizing my electric use. So far happy with the car. Your Volt takes the place of my motorcycle. I hate using the truck for 'around town' trips. One of these days I'll get serious about taking the motorcycle to the golf course. Then the truck would just sit until it was time to go camping somewhere. I used to take my Harley skeet shooting. I did get a few looks with the shotgun rack on the front fork. I imagine I would get arrested in the current People's Republic of Maryland. I use my Prelude for errands but I could not justify the expense of an electric conversion for the little I drive. The payback was decades. I wanted to take the Mosin Nagant to an outdoor range about an hour away from the house. I didn't want to take the truck, but, like you, strap the rifle on my back and take the motorcycle. I stopped a cop at a grocery store and asked him if it was okay to do that. He said it was not against the law. But, he said that we lived in probably the most liberal county in America and someone would be calling the cops about every ten minutes reporting a motorcyclist brandishing a rifle. We, he continued, would have to respond to each call, even though you were doing nothing illegal. It would be a big pain in the butt for the cops and for me. But, I may one day take the Mosin apart and put it in a golf bag to tote out there on the motorcycle. I just welded up a bracket that bolted onto the forks. A Harley has some tapped holes there for a windshield that I never had. It was still banging around in the garage here for a while but I am not sure were it went. It may be in the shed. When I was going south to shoot with my buddies and I took my 97, I just dropped into the rack but on the beltway I had my skeet gun in a case. Your '97'? Was that the motorcycle or a gun? You had a gun case attached to the front forks of your Harley? I couldn't do that to the Guzzi. I use the windshield. Too pussy to spend hours with the wind beating me to death. |
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checy Volt
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 13:30:34 -0500, Poco Deplorevole
wrote: I took my 97, I just dropped into the rack but on the beltway I had my skeet gun in a case. Your '97'? 1897 Winchester. Bike was a 72 Superglide. Was that the motorcycle or a gun? You had a gun case attached to the front forks of your Harley? Yes I couldn't do that to the Guzzi. I use the windshield. Too pussy to spend hours with the wind beating me to death. I suppose you could use the same bolts if you got some 4MM or so longer |
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checy Volt
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 13:57:35 -0500, wrote:
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 13:30:34 -0500, Poco Deplorevole wrote: I took my 97, I just dropped into the rack but on the beltway I had my skeet gun in a case. Your '97'? 1897 Winchester. Bike was a 72 Superglide. Was that the motorcycle or a gun? You had a gun case attached to the front forks of your Harley? Yes I couldn't do that to the Guzzi. I use the windshield. Too pussy to spend hours with the wind beating me to death. I suppose you could use the same bolts if you got some 4MM or so longer This is an aftermarket windshield that has special-made brackets held on to the forks with muffler clamps and onto the handlebars with adjustable brackets. This one: http://www.nationalcycle.com/plexifairing-hd.html |
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checy Volt
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checy Volt
On 3/11/17 10:21 PM, Alex wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/11/17 9:02 AM, wrote: On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 07:21:21 -0500, Poco Deplorevole wrote: On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 03:34:56 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Last week went to LA for a sports show. Looked at a 2014 Chevy Volt as a 3rd vehicle, so I did not drive the crew cab truck around town and look for big parking place, and wearing out a truck that costs 80 grand to,replace. Car was in Hanford, couple hundred miles from home. Liked the car and color, not white or silver, and bought it. So far very happy. Have plugged it in twice to charge. Takes a long time on 120V. So may put a 240v outlet in and buy a level 2 charger. Have not used the gas motor since purchase. Did Uhaul trailer the car home. Quiet, smooth running. Signed up for the EV electric rate. 11 cents a Kilowatt hour at night, instead of 47 cents. VIP stickers for single person use of the carpool lanes. Thanks neighbors for subsidizing my electric use. So far happy with the car. Your Volt takes the place of my motorcycle. I hate using the truck for 'around town' trips. One of these days I'll get serious about taking the motorcycle to the golf course. Then the truck would just sit until it was time to go camping somewhere. I used to take my Harley skeet shooting. I did get a few looks with the shotgun rack on the front fork. I imagine I would get arrested in the current People's Republic of Maryland. I use my Prelude for errands but I could not justify the expense of an electric conversion for the little I drive. The payback was decades. As my wife doesn't usually drive to work, I use her Camry for errands. Six speed auto, 36-38 mpg on the highway, 31-33 mpg around town. Truck, six speed manual, gets 21 mpg around town, 24-27 mpg if I'm careful with the accelerator on the highway. Less in the occasional bumper-to-bumper traffic I encounter. Only had one opportunity so far to use the truck's 4WD in snow, and it was just fine, better than I had anticipated for a pick-me-up truck. If we lived in the real south, I would have skipped the 4WD. What compelled you to post that? It has zero to do with the topic. It's great that you own two Toyota's! Perhaps I wanted to see if you were still Pavlov's doggie. Woof for us, Alex. Oh, wait...you did. |
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checy Volt
Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/11/17 10:21 PM, Alex wrote: Keyser Soze wrote: On 3/11/17 9:02 AM, wrote: On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 07:21:21 -0500, Poco Deplorevole wrote: On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 03:34:56 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Last week went to LA for a sports show. Looked at a 2014 Chevy Volt as a 3rd vehicle, so I did not drive the crew cab truck around town and look for big parking place, and wearing out a truck that costs 80 grand to,replace. Car was in Hanford, couple hundred miles from home. Liked the car and color, not white or silver, and bought it. So far very happy. Have plugged it in twice to charge. Takes a long time on 120V. So may put a 240v outlet in and buy a level 2 charger. Have not used the gas motor since purchase. Did Uhaul trailer the car home. Quiet, smooth running. Signed up for the EV electric rate. 11 cents a Kilowatt hour at night, instead of 47 cents. VIP stickers for single person use of the carpool lanes. Thanks neighbors for subsidizing my electric use. So far happy with the car. Your Volt takes the place of my motorcycle. I hate using the truck for 'around town' trips. One of these days I'll get serious about taking the motorcycle to the golf course. Then the truck would just sit until it was time to go camping somewhere. I used to take my Harley skeet shooting. I did get a few looks with the shotgun rack on the front fork. I imagine I would get arrested in the current People's Republic of Maryland. I use my Prelude for errands but I could not justify the expense of an electric conversion for the little I drive. The payback was decades. As my wife doesn't usually drive to work, I use her Camry for errands. Six speed auto, 36-38 mpg on the highway, 31-33 mpg around town. Truck, six speed manual, gets 21 mpg around town, 24-27 mpg if I'm careful with the accelerator on the highway. Less in the occasional bumper-to-bumper traffic I encounter. Only had one opportunity so far to use the truck's 4WD in snow, and it was just fine, better than I had anticipated for a pick-me-up truck. If we lived in the real south, I would have skipped the 4WD. What compelled you to post that? It has zero to do with the topic. It's great that you own two Toyota's! Perhaps I wanted to see if you were still Pavlov's doggie. Woof for us, Alex. Oh, wait...you did. Nice try, narcissist. |
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