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[bcredeur97]

1 hour ago, chaozbandit said:

@bcredeur97

 

 

https://kinja.com/rduncan5678

So that’s how your supposed to carry the tires. Lol

[Bitter]

Drive there and home on the race tires you wimp.

[bcredeur97]

29 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Drive there and home on the race tires you wimp.

“So how did you put your Miata into that guardrail exactly?”

 

tho I guess that doesn’t really make sense because you can’t have too down in the rain. At least not if you want the interior to survive lol

[chaozbandit]

48 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

“So how did you put your Miata into that guardrail exactly?”

 

tho I guess that doesn’t really make sense because you can’t have too down in the rain. At least not if you want the interior to survive lol

 

Get yourself one of these that fits four flat packed!

[bcredeur97]

1 hour ago, chaozbandit said:

 

Get yourself one of these that fits four flat packed!

I agree that’s best. With one of those little hidden hitches 

 

miatas actually have a stated towing capacity in the manual. I think it’s like 700 lbs or so. Actually pretty decent if you think about it  

[Blze001]

When I used to do autocross, there was a guy with a Gen 5 Corvette who had a hidden-hitch on it and then a custom made insert that would carry all four track tires. It was pretty slick.

 

It was literally just a bike carrier with the bars for the bikes removed and a cross bar welded into place that he could put the tires on, then he had plates with a padlock on either side to keep people from making off with them if he stopped for food.

 

EDIT: Or you could rig up something like this dude! 

 

[TVwazhere]

12 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

So that’s how your supposed to carry the tires. Lol

Necessity is the mother of Invention

[bcredeur97]

Not my pic.. found on reddit. Made me laugh tho

[Bananasplit_00]

Trying to mount some camping gear on my bike, it took a while to figure out how I wanted it but this ended up pretty decent. Just need to find more straps and do a road test once the wind settles down

 

Left side, tent and sleeping bag

 

Right side, sleeping pad

Ontop, bag with gas stove, gas, water and clothes(not all of that is in it atm)

[chaozbandit]

@MEC-777

 

[TVwazhere]

1 hour ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

Trying to mount some camping gear on my bike, it took a while to figure out how I wanted it but this ended up pretty decent. Just need to find more straps and do a road test once the wind settles down

 

Left side, tent and sleeping bag

 

Right side, sleeping pad

Ontop, bag with gas stove, gas, water and clothes(not all of that is in it atm)

Be mindful of how close you allow that sleeping pad to get to your exhaust. Dont want to sleep on a melted pad!

[Bananasplit_00]

1 hour ago, TVwazhere said:

Be mindful of how close you allow that sleeping pad to get to your exhaust. Dont want to sleep on a melted pad!

Its further than it looks and the muffler doesn't get all that hot anyway but yah, it's definitely a thing I'm worried about. Might make some sort of heat shield but I think it also might just be fine with the air flowing over it. Won't be much if any stop-start traffic

[TVwazhere]

Just now, Bananasplit_00 said:

Its further than it looks and the muffler doesn't get all that hot anyway but yah, it's definitely a thing I'm worried about. Might make some sort of heat shield but I think it also might just be fine with the air flowing over it. Won't be much if any stop-start traffic

I agree, so long as there's decent space between the two, the wind itself should act as a insulator between the pad and the muffler. 

[JoaoPRSousa]

5 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

Trying to mount some camping gear on my bike, it took a while to figure out how I wanted it but this ended up pretty decent. Just need to find more straps and do a road test once the wind settles down

Left side, tent and sleeping bag

Right side, sleeping pad

Ontop, bag with gas stove, gas, water and clothes(not all of that is in it atm)

 

Absolute goals my dude! I wish I had a bike

[iDeFecZx]

Well the new(ish) system is finally up and running. Jumped from a 4690k to a 9700k and 16gb so hopefully shouldnt be having issues with games crashing from running out of memory lmao. (Ignore the shit wiring its not 100% done yet, still gotta put a couple more fans in yet)

 

 

Old systems looking a bit sorry for itself now, remaining bits should be relatively easy to shift seeing as Z97 ITX boards seem to be commanding a premium at the minute

[bcredeur97]

My dad just texted me this... says it’s the worst blowout he’s ever had ever. Also sent “I hate New Orleans” (somehow he manages to break his car every time he goes there lol, last time it was some of the underbody panels)

 

How did this happen?? Tire wasnt that old and it’s continental for peat sake. It just like exploded violently 

 

also how the hell did the wheel manage to survive? 

 

 

[vetali]

 My car next to a savage beast. 

[Bitter]

4 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

My dad just texted me this... says it’s the worst blowout he’s ever had ever. Also sent “I hate New Orleans” (somehow he manages to break his car every time he goes there lol, last time it was some of the underbody panels)

 

How did this happen?? Tire wasnt that old and it’s continental for peat sake. It just like exploded violently 

 

also how the hell did the wheel manage to survive? 

 

 

How old is 'wasn't that old'? and was it properly inflated?

[iDeFecZx]

Also made myself another sizeable purchase yesterday. 3rd most expensive thing I've ever bought 

[Bananasplit_00]

11 hours ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

 

Absolute goals my dude! I wish I had a bike

It's all coming off because the trip isn't until a month from now but it's going to be pretty fun i hope. 10 trip down through Norway and up through Sweden

[711jrp]

3 hours ago, iDeFecZx said:

Also made myself another sizeable purchase yesterday. 3rd most expensive thing I've ever bought 

Those Nikes aren't cheap nowadays 

[bcredeur97]

7 hours ago, Bitter said:

How old is 'wasn't that old'? and was it properly inflated?

Tire code is 5116 so 2 and a half years? 

 

Inflation... that I don’t know. I find it hard to imagine my dad wouldn’t overly inflate a tire but he may not have been the one inflating it and I haven’t done it so that we just don’t know 

 

up up until then he has no TPMS complaints however. 

[JoaoPRSousa]

3 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

It's all coming off because the trip isn't until a month from now but it's going to be pretty fun i hope. 10 trip down through Norway and up through Sweden

 

Sounds fun, I wish... Still dreaming about someday making an Eurotrip, that would be soooo goooooood

Have fun!

[Bitter]

2 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

Tire code is 5116 so 2 and a half years? 

 

Inflation... that I don’t know. I find it hard to imagine my dad wouldn’t overly inflate a tire but he may not have been the one inflating it and I haven’t done it so that we just don’t know 

 

up up until then he has no TPMS complaints however. 

By the way the sidewall is gone too, I'll be it started there with a tire tiddy.

[bcredeur97]

11 minutes ago, Bitter said:

By the way the sidewall is gone too, I'll be it started there with a tire tiddy.

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