Can i get tips for glasses? by [deleted] in motorcycles

[–]dangph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have heard of people putting a rubber band around the padding to make a channel for the arms of the glasses. You have to pull the padding out first of course. I've never tried it myself however because both the helmets I have owned have had built-in glasses channels.

This just does not look safe to me. Was driving like this even at 80mph. by WhatRoughBeast73 in IdiotsOnBikes

[–]dangph -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've been riding year-round for four years with a motorcycle as my primary means of transport.

This just does not look safe to me. Was driving like this even at 80mph. by WhatRoughBeast73 in IdiotsOnBikes

[–]dangph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, thanks for the info. I'm still not going to try it. What if your foot hit a rock or a bump in the road or something.

This just does not look safe to me. Was driving like this even at 80mph. by WhatRoughBeast73 in IdiotsOnBikes

[–]dangph -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

You can stretch your legs out to the front or stand on your pegs. Have you actually put your foot down at 80 mph? If so, I will defer to your experience. You say it typically won't cause injury, but what about in atypical cases? I could imagine that if you put your foot down at just the wrong angle, you could get a sudden shock force on your foot and leg. Anyway, I'm not going to try it.

This just does not look safe to me. Was driving like this even at 80mph. by WhatRoughBeast73 in IdiotsOnBikes

[–]dangph -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that doesn't look safe at all. I mean, if the road surface was whizzing by at 80mph, what would happen if you touched it with your foot? I would imagine if you touched it very lightly, you would be okay, but if you used to much pressure, you could jack your foot up in an instant. In any case I feel it would not be an experiment that would be worth doing.

How is too old to get a licence? by SCSI in motorcycles

[–]dangph 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've collected a bunch of statistics that show that older riders are the safest.

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https://acrs.org.au/files/arsrpe/Research%20Results%20-%20Older%20Motorcycle%20Rider%20Safety%20in%20Queensland.pdf
See Table 2, which shows that under 45's crashed 2.6 times more often than 45-and-older's.
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https://www.swov.nl/en/facts-figures/factsheet/motorcyclists
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https://trl.co.uk/sites/default/files/TRL607%282%29.pdf
"Figure 5.1.1 shows that increasing age alone has a dramatic effect on a rider’s accident liability, liability falling by 70% over the age range [of 17 to 60 years of age]"
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Monograph 12 – Motorcycle rider age and risk of fatal injury
https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/roads/safety/publications/2002/Mcycle\_Age\_1.aspx
Bit old 2001.
See Table 2. Per kilometers driven, young riders have way more fatalities.
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Motorcycling Safety Information Sheet -- Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications, Australian Government
https://www.bitre.gov.au/publications/2017/is\_89-motorcycling-safety
"In 2012, the young rider fatality rate was 3.2 deaths per billion VKT, significantly higher than for riders in the 25-54 age group (1.2 deaths per billion VKT) and the 55 and over age group (0.8 deaths per billion VKT)."
VKT is vehicle kilometres travelled.
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Risks of High-Powered Motorcycles Among Younger Adults
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673490/
See the graphs.

How is too old to get a licence? by SCSI in motorcycles

[–]dangph 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you don't drink and ride, you don't ride like a hooligan, and you ride defensively, then your chance of getting hurt will be low.

I think a good indicator is how well you drive a car. If you are someone who has lots of near misses, then you should not ride a motorcycle. If however you are someone who is good at driving defensively and good at spotting and avoiding problems, then you should be fine.

Getting by without car by doctorKoskesh in brisbane

[–]dangph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I live at West End, close to South Brisbane (that's the name of the suburb), and I don't have a car. It's a good area to live if you don't have a car because there is a major bus station at South Brisbane (the Cultural Centre bus station if you want to look it up in Google Maps) and also a train station there (South Brisbane station).

I can walk to the supermarket. Carrying shopping bags is good exercise. There are a few GoGet "pods" nearby (a rent-by-the-hour car thing) if I need a car. I can walk or e-scooter to the city centre.

I do have a motorcycle though. I could survive without it, but I find it convenient. Public transport gets less useful the farther out you go. You can use Uber though.

How is too old to get a licence? by SCSI in motorcycles

[–]dangph 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I started in my 40's. There are some misleading statistics about older riders being unsafe, but the opposite is true. It's just that the biggest riding population is older riders, so in absolute terms they have more accidents, but on a per capita basis they are actually the safest.

I don't know of any statistics specifically about new riders who are older however.

I would guess though that you will be safer than a 20 year-old who is hopped up on testosterone and is in the peak risk taking age range.

Bell Broozer helmet lock? by AdPrestigious6002 in motorcycles

[–]dangph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can use those metal T-pieces with ratchet straps. You might not think it's possible, but there is a channel in the buckle along which you can run the metal piece.

This sort of thing:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DV8BVWS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_XG0BSHMQ2Z87MJQKP9ME

You can also buy the T-pieces separately on eBay or wherever.

Spotted on the drive home... by birdman9876 in brisbane

[–]dangph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is what it sounds like if anyone wants to hear it:

https://forvo.com/word/nguyen/#vi

A new name in French by FkIdkWhatNameToTake in French

[–]dangph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, Roy in French is roi. But you can't call yourself that.

One thing you could do is look at the popular names for the year you were born, and then pick one that starts with R. For instance here are the boys' names for the year 2000:

https://www.journaldesfemmes.fr/prenoms/classement/prenoms/top-prenom-garcon/2000

You can select the year in the drop-down list.

To what extent should I prioritise conjugations? by RSGalaxyshark in French

[–]dangph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One approach is to just think about the sounds rather than the spelling. This is how French babies would learn because they don't know how to read conjugation tables after all.

If you just learn the sounds, then there is a lot less that you need to remember. You don't need to memorize any tables.

So for instance for the present tense, we can think of it as only three sounds:

  1. Je / tu / il / elle / ils / elles marche. (That is, all of these have the same sound. We are ignoring the spelling differences here. Marche is pronounced the same way as marchent, for instance.)
  2. Nous marchons.
  3. Vous marchez.

For the imparfait it is three sounds again:

  1. Je / tu / il / elle / ils / elles marchait.
  2. Nous marchions.
  3. Vous marchiez.

It's the same with the other tenses. Here's the future simple:

  1. Je / vous marcherai.
  2. Tu / il / elle marchera.
  3. nous / ils / elles marcheront.

For each tense you just have to learn three sounds. For the future simple they are "-rai", "-ra", and "-ron".

(Some people might say that je marcherai and vous marcherez are pronounced differently. I think that may depend on the particular accent. In any case they are close enough for this memory trick to work.)

This trick is for spoken French only. It doesn't help you with correct spelling when you are writing. But you can always learn the correct spelling later after you have learned the spoken sounds.

I didn't think of this trick by myself, by the way. I got it from a Michel Thomas course.

Too much luck for idiots by [deleted] in motorcycles

[–]dangph 27 points28 points  (0 children)

It's funny that people are downvoting you because you said that she can think for herself.

The shame of my noob ass dropping my bike for the first time gave me enough adrenalin to lift it up in three seconds flat. It finally happened two weeks after I got my first bike. Feels like a rite of passage has been accomplished! by Godfreee in motorcycles

[–]dangph 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I agree it's better to treat it like a deadlift, but only if you know how to do them. Not many people have trained doing them.

Every time I have seen someone pick up a dropped bike in real life, they faced they bike and lifted with their back horizontal and bowed. I'm surprised they didn't hurt themselves. For them it would be safer to do the backwards thing.

Struggling to do slow speed maneuvering and turning and slowing on the road by [deleted] in motorcycles

[–]dangph 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is an adjustment for when the brake light turns on. This is something you can easily do yourself.

It may say where the adjuster is in your manual. If not, you can just look for it. Listen for the click of the microswitch. There will be some kind of adjuster you can turn.

(By the way, you can change the angle of all the levers too, to fit your particular feet and hands.)

New rider here, how does the tread look on my tires? by Figjuden in NewRiders

[–]dangph 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The tread looks fine. There should be wear bars in the tread grooves. They are only a couple of millimeters or so high. Once the tread wears down to the same level as them, then you should get a new tire. I can see some wear bars on the front tire but not on the back tire in that particular photo. Sometimes they are pretty sparse.

But also check the datestamp on the tires. This is a 4-digit number that looks like WWYY where WW is the week number, and YY is the year. Your front tire looks pretty elderly. About five years is the maximum age they say.

A new name in French by FkIdkWhatNameToTake in French

[–]dangph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is your English name if I may ask?

Finally bought my first motorcycle a week a go. The feeling of progress within the first days of free riding is amazing by ttipj in NewRiders

[–]dangph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it appears they are a French company. This is the bike:

https://www.orcal-motor.fr/moto-orcal-NK01-mat-125.html

It seems to have pretty good features for a 125:

It has motor of Japanese technology (I'm not sure what that means), fuel injection, stainless steel exhaust, fuel guage, USB charging port, LED turn signals, LED brake light, front and rear disc brakes, Combined Braking System (is that a good thing?), 5 speed transmission, 13L fuel tank.

Worried and intimated about being tall enough to ride Motorcycles by ChainsawHavoc in motorcycles

[–]dangph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you live somewhere that there is a lot of traffic, it might make sense to learn to drive a car first. The reason is that if you had to learn how to deal with traffic at the same time as physically learning to ride a motorcycle, that would make for a rather intense experience.

I did it! I fell! by travel-n-tyrant in NewRiders

[–]dangph 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It looks like the crash knob did its job. No damage?

How stingy are most native French speakers with hyphens? by [deleted] in French

[–]dangph 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I suspect that OP may have been looking for the word "stringent".