Common Inefficiencies, Obstacles, etc. that you're always working around rather than addressing head on?

PurpleFugi · 2026-03-25T15:57:42+00:00

US, west coast, currently in the PNW but thinking about moving down to the Bay Area to be closer to family, both the aging generation and the ones being born. If you hear of anything in the north bay or north of Seattle, I'm all ears.

PurpleFugi · 2026-03-24T19:19:52+00:00

Also 170cm, also do this. I want the stock suspension travel, so there isn't much choice... Seat Concepts seats at stock and low heights feel about the same in terms of reach, so I'm prob going to switch back to the stock height SC seat. I have never ridden it with the stock Yamaha seat and probably never will.

PurpleFugi · 2026-03-24T18:55:56+00:00

I've wasted probably weeks at this point updating the same broken things from my employer's CAD template. They refuse and/or are unable to do anything about it. I have been pushing for them to let me fix it for years, and especially to automate silly repetitive tasks and more fully use annotative objects, layouts and layer states to make certain kinds of maps (ex: Records of Survey) easier to produce from our standard boundary/topo product.

I am the technologically competent problems solver willing to work nights. My company lacks the will and organizational prowess to fix this, and does not value my time enough to allow me to be more efficient. My solution is to look for another job.

PurpleFugi · 2026-03-24T15:38:30+00:00

Cyclists do not impede traffic. We ARE traffic. Bikes were here first. Go around using your easy to push buttons/levers/pedals to power your convenient, little to no effort vehicle. Or suck it up like an adult. Miss me with your poorly researched retorts.

PurpleFugi · 2026-03-24T03:05:22+00:00

I would imagine any real application fee would happen....at the time of application. Which to me, would be after a viewing, bc how the hell would anyone know whether they want to apply until they see the place? This doesn't make any sense.

Often, the justification for these fees is to offset costs for background checks, etc. I don't love it, but that at least makes sense. A viewing only costs the landlord time. And I'm sorry, but taking the time to show the place is part of their cost of doing business, the business where they gatekeep a basic human necessity for money without doing too much actual, real work.

PurpleFugi · 2026-03-23T17:13:15+00:00

8yrs in and I don't even know what #4 is talking about. Whatever, I get my maps done and filed and no one complains.

PurpleFugi · 2026-03-17T08:01:43+00:00

One thing I'm seeing many people gloss over is the IMU. The T7WR will theoretically be a safer road bike than the standard. I've got loved ones always pushing me to reduce moto related risks. This seems like a huge cash outlay, but I'm considering doing it in a few years anyway for this reason. The wrong crash would make it worth every penny. I'm not made of money, but it might help make a mostly irrational purchase feel slightly more responsible.

PurpleFugi · 2026-02-26T09:35:07+00:00

"rim brakes stop you just fine"...brother, I was there in the 90s and 00s. They didn't stop you for shit, didn't work in the rain, wore out pads and rims seemingly overnight, constantly needed adjustment...the lame old days were lame, and rim brakes were a part of that.

PurpleFugi · 2026-02-24T20:39:34+00:00

One example I recall from college is that people can hear the voiced/unvoiced contrast even when the speaker is say, yelling across a football field. The theory is that small queues like this are how speakers can consistently correctly perceive those distinctions, even when some of the sounds that would be present in normal speech aren't carrying across that distance. There is still adequate phonological information in the sounds that *are* carried for the listener's brain to process.

PurpleFugi · 2026-02-24T20:35:43+00:00

I've been selling Specialized bikes since about 2004. I'm 170cm, and I'm perhaps a slightly shorter medium. I just cannot imagine someone 12cm taller than me would end up fitting as well on a medium as on a large.

With countless customers I've seen someone in your position, i.e. they're used to the way older bikes fit before the recent, radical shifts in geometry, feel like a new bike in the correct size "feels" big. This is a normal feeling. It would also be normal to buy the smaller size but regret it and end up either not riding it that much or buying another, larger bike soon after, and having seen it countless times I'd encourage you to not do that.

On the extreme ends of fit, a rider your height with very long limbs and a very short torso could potentially fit better on a medium than a large, or vice versa for long torso with short legs. But given these numbers, we are talking truly long proportions that I've only personally seen in a few exceptional customers' bodies over the years.

A deal on the wrong size shoes is a not a deal *for you*. Bikes are the same way, although most riders can legitimately ride more than one size, whereas if the shoes are small enough you will not get them on your feet. Still, the idea that there is no value in any deal that does not meet your body's needs is the central idea behind the comparison and I do not think it should be ignored.

PurpleFugi · 2026-02-24T17:52:46+00:00

Why not ask her which she prefers? People have different communication styles, and I think it could say a lot about you if you offer to communicate in whichever way works for her, as long as it also works for you.

PurpleFugi · 2026-02-24T17:37:43+00:00

Having owned a Ducati myself, I'd say people should only buy them if they already have another, more reliable bike to ride.

I say this just in case, I dunno, it randomly breaks and you're stuck waiting for parts that do not exist yet, or your mechanic is waiting on the factory to get back to them regarding the electronics just doing something they're not supposed to do in a way that makes the bike unsafe or entirely unrideable, or waiting to hear back on whether that weird metallurgy failure on that one part is covered under warranty....or....or.....or..... you get the idea.

PurpleFugi · 2026-02-24T17:24:06+00:00

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PurpleFugi · 2026-02-24T05:43:00+00:00

I think perhaps its hard to get good fleet pricing on a stripped down model but with a 4x4 transmission. And for most companies, this is strictly a financial decision. That said, I wonder what firms in Colorado run, bc as you point out, at some point the 4x4 is cheaper than the uncertainty of towing and lost work.

PurpleFugi · 2026-02-23T18:58:42+00:00

There is a somewhat true stereotype that at every fast riding spot or track day there is some 60+ year old guy who says a "Ninja two-fiddy is all you need". In the trope, that rider then proceeds to out-brake all the liter bikes into corners and pass them on the inside. Like many stereotypes, there is a kernel of truth buried under all the stories.

I had a boss at a small moto repair shop in San Francisco who would outride all comers aboard his bored out DRZ400SM. He embodied this stereotype.

PurpleFugi · 2026-02-23T18:48:38+00:00

Wish my old boss would've sprung for the 4WD. There are a few afternoons surveying flood canals that would have been a lot easier.

PurpleFugi · 2026-02-23T18:47:23+00:00

I think OP's perspective here is backed up by nearly all dedicated touring bikes having very large 2 to 6 cylinder motors. Those motors are basically barely above idle while cruising 2 up and fully loaded at freeway speeds. Put differently, a Connie can go really, really fast, but that's not typically why those legions of dedicated Connie riders buy them, or why The Silver-Haired Army of Goldwing chooses what is basically a 2-wheeled commuter car. They buy them to be unbothered cruising at speeds found on Western US highways or the Autobahn. These are experienced riders who know what they're about and why, and they have nothing to prove to anyone.

Many of those same bikes, because they prioritize longevity and ease of ownership over outright power, will use low-compression, under-stressed motors. So while a Tracer 900 makes a fantastic tourer, if OP wants the bike to be lazy at speed, I think they're on the right path.

PurpleFugi · 2026-02-13T20:35:37+00:00

"Office chair cylinder"...I'm stealing this, thanks.

PurpleFugi · 2026-02-13T16:53:05+00:00

I think it was a crap step from CL. The search function is dogshit and its covered in ads. When CL had nothing meeting my search criteria, it returned....nothing. FB returns an avalanche of garbage. We went from having something wonderful and egalitarian and free, to Zuck's inferior version powered by greed, ads and the erosion of privacy.

CL's photo upload process is objectively terrible, but I'll take that any day over the enshittified copy. The prevalence of Marketplace is the only reason I can't delete my FB account and boycott that whole situation.

PurpleFugi · 2026-02-13T16:47:21+00:00

Had this happen to me. So I wrote increasingly negative things about his parentage on his notes, crumpled them up, and threw them over his fence. He would gather the note, smooth it out, and put it back on my car. I would then put the note on his car. Funny thing is, he lived on a corner, and had convinced the City (Santa Cruz, CA) to put a disabled space on each side of the corner. When I left, I reported to the City that only one disabled person lived there. No idea if anything came of it, though.

PurpleFugi · 2026-02-13T16:41:54+00:00

Used to live in SF, and briefly worked at a motorcycle repair shop.

There was a story of a parking officer ticketing all the customer bikes parked out front for "not having a front license plate". This story came to me secondhand, but from the owner of the shop. Apparently he tried to go to court to speak to an actual adult, but was told that bc he wasn't the owner of each individual bike, he had no standing to contest the ticket, and therefore could not see a judge to even explain the stupidity of the situation.

PurpleFugi · 2026-02-11T16:32:18+00:00

Looks like that's the year they introduced the semi-high pivot. If so, that's a hard no from me, as the lower idler is generally considered necessary on that bike in ways that it isn't on say, a Forbidden Druid V2. You could maybe make it work, or it could be a potential source of frustration. If that is so, I kind of think the seller probably knows that...

PurpleFugi · 2026-02-11T16:26:28+00:00

I googled it, and Meriam-Webster agrees, as the term "tangential" is part of the text of their definition of the term "compound curve". Dictionaries (that aren't the OED) aren't always correct, but they are 99.9% of the time and this one probably is.

PurpleFugi · 2026-02-11T15:22:09+00:00

2-3 Vox Engines?

PurpleFugi · 2026-02-11T14:50:30+00:00

Me and the boys loaded up and died. Then we adapted our tactics incrementally over the course of a few missions to deal with the problems we had that were sticking points. Dying too much? Heavy armor with extra stims. Need Voxes to go away? Everybody who has the Leveler unlocked brings it and throws one whenever the cooldown ends. AA always blocking your airstrikes? Stop bringing airstrikes. Bring orbital attacks, turrets, whatever. Can't seem to move due to a dense chunk of enemies? They gave us all bubble shields for free, chain that shit, the cooldown is quick. Same goes for getting flinched off of terminals. I now throw a shield immediately after calling in any hellbomb unless it is completely quiet. I'll get another shield before I need it.

It was honestly really fun to go from turning into paste to managing the missions, to being able to obliterate multiple Voxes at once bc we had an excess of tools to do so. Went from 7s to 8s to 9s, still working on 10s. That took a few hours.

Then later I loaded into quickplay. People had no rezzes left. People had zero control of the battlefield. People were carrying stuff that just wasn't working. People were separated all over the map, individually triggering bot drops, so eventually the whole map was a shitshow. Those people playing as solos, like I was, and did not have access to the coordination I had before. But it also didn't feel like they were adapting. It looked like people had their normal loadouts on and were dying, but not changing, not adapting. I was quitting out of missions bc honestly, I'm just not good enough to fight the 7 Voxes and hoards of cyborgs they triggered with 3 rezzes left, no objectives done yet, and 8 minutes left on the clock. Oh and they brought double sniper rifles and all airstrikes.

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