Cages - meh

D3V!L

I'm sure a lot of you have a car and a bike. It's common enough.

After spending 21 years on bikes I decided to take the leap and bought a nice SUV with the missus. Ive only ever had a learner's permit and it long since expired. The last car was hers and she did all the driving in it. A recent health (life or death) scare made me change my attribute to learning to drive a car.

I know the controls and took to the whole car thing like a duck to water so it was no big mystery but by f*ck is it boring !!! Doesn't compare to bikes at all does it.

Am I doing it wrong or something ?

listermint

Your meant to get it up onto two wheels . That's where the craic starts.

Del2005

D3V!L wrote: »

I'm sure a lot of you have a car and a bike. It's common enough.

After spending 21 years on bikes I decided to take the leap and bought a nice SUV with the missus. Ive only ever had a learner's permit and it long since expired. The last car was hers and she did all the driving in it. A recent health (life or death) scare made me change my attribute to learning to drive a car.

I know the controls and took to the whole car thing like a duck to water so it was no big mystery but by f*ck is it boring !!! Doesn't compare to bikes at all does it.

Am I doing it wrong or something ?

You bought an SUV. Just like bikes there are fun cars and boring cars, you got the boring car.

Skill Magill

Prepare for giant pain in the hoop. You’ll have to do the theory test and take a shed load of lessons if you’ve let it expire. I was couriering for 20 years and failed the theory 3 times and the test twice, thought I new it all!
Drive both now, but only use the car for shopping, giving lifts. Tried driving into work in the car and it added nearly an hour to my journey, never again.
It’s a micra by the way :cool:

enrique66_35

You're not wrong. I've the inverse experience, driven a car for a long time and only finally threw my leg over a bike last year and almost every one of the 1000 or so miles on the bike was more exciting/enjoyable than any of the couple of hundred thousand on four wheels.

True, there are a fun cars but even if you could afford them (Ferrari, Porsche etc), Irish roads will not get the most from them so bike for fun, car for function.

beauf

enrique66_35 wrote: »

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True, there are a fun cars but even if you could afford them (Ferrari, Porsche etc), Irish roads will not get the most from them so bike for fun, car for function.

You don't need 200mph supercar to have fun in a car. That's like saying you can only have fun in a car on track if you have a F1 car.

Mjolnir

beauf wrote: »

You don't need 200mph supercar to have fun in a car. That's like saying you can only have fun in a car on track if you have a F1 car.

This.
Imprezas are good craic especially when you drive them hard through corners, there are some low end cheap cars that are great craic.
Same thing with bikes, if you gave me a 125cc or gold wing I'd hate every second. Love my cbr, my e90 318d is a lovely car but dull as dish water to drive. Swings and roundabouts.

blade1

My car has rear wheel drive and factory sport suspension and I like how it clings to the road but I stick to the speed limit and couldn't ever consider it anything resembling fun even though it is a sport version :rolleyes:
Still like it a lot though.

beauf

There's been a move to rock hard suspensions, and sticky Tyre's in the modern era, which is all about increasing speed in ideal conditions, like a race track, at race track speeds.

There is a counter movement about lightness, skinny tyres, and softer suspension. A more nuanced approach.

So when people put a supercharger and dropped suspension in their MX5 they are largely missing the point.

Not that out right performance doesn't have a its place. It certainly does.

Max Headroom

If this was that other site yed all be in Buswalds.....and rightly so....:P

H_Lime

D3V!L wrote: »

I'm sure a lot of you have a car and a bike. It's common enough.

After spending 21 years on bikes I decided to take the leap and bought a nice SUVwith the missus. Ive only ever had a learner's permit and it long since expired. The last car was hers and she did all the driving in it. A recent health (life or death) scare made me change my attribute to learning to drive a car.

I know the controls and took to the whole car thing like a duck to water so it was no big mystery but by f*ck is it boring !!! Doesn't compare to bikes at all does it.

Am I doing it wrong or something ?

Whenever I hear a person living in Ireland referring to their car thing as an suv I'm always simultaneously reminded of svu law and order, which is ****, and oversized cars stuck in traffic with angry mothers wearing shades on top of their heads.
Enjoy yer svuing and post a pic of you in it wearing shades on top of your head for a larf:)

BarryD2

D3V!L wrote: »

Am I doing it wrong or something ?

Dunno - but I hear it's called staying alive......

H_Lime

BarryD2 wrote: »

Dunno - but I hear it's called staying alive......

How's yer own motorcycle treating you Barry in d2?

blade1

H_Lime wrote: »

How's yer own motorcycle treating you Barry in d2?

Maybe its Barry and he owns a D2

H_Lime

If our barry in d2 owned that beautiful ol thing I'd say he wouldn't be on here with so many opinions about so many things;)

blade1

H_Lime wrote: »

If our barry in d2 owned that beautiful ol thing I'd say he wouldn't be on here with so many opinions about so many things;)

He only mentioned Staying Alive.
Personally I prefer Night Fever but yeah Staying Alive would be one of their better ones alright.

Hotblack Desiato

Learned to drive and passed the test in my mam's car, 1994, got my first bike the next year and passed the full A test the year after.
Our family car is in the wife's name.
I've never actually owned a car and I'm kinda aiming to get through life without ever having done so

Hotblack Desiato

blade1 wrote: »

He only mentioned Staying Alive.
Personally I prefer Night Fever but yeah Staying Alive would be one of their better ones alright.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar3wkC8U6LA

Hotblack Desiato

- Over Macho Grande?
- I'll never get over Macho Grande.

- A hospital? What is it?
- It's a large building with patients, but that's not important rgiht now.

- Surely you can't tbe serious.
- I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.

- The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.
- The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.
- The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a white zone.
- No, the white zone is for loading. Now, there is no stopping in a RED zone.
- The red zone has always been for loading.
- Don't you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for unloading.
- Look Betty, don't start up with your white zone shít again. There's just no stopping in a white zone.
- Oh really, Vernon? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.

- Jacobs, I want to know absolutely everything that's happened up till now.
- Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it.

- Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up amphetamines.

- Excuse me, I speak jive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0j2dVuhr6s

zubair

BarryD2 wrote: »

Dunno - but I hear it's called staying alive......

Oh look, Carol Baskins has a boards account.

Is ‘cage’ commonly used by motorbike owners or is it just the idiot ones?

blade1

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Is ‘cage’ commonly used by motorbike owners or is it just the idiot ones?

I never heard of it in 32 years of owning my own bikes other than on here and even then mostly refering to some other website.

blade1

blade1 wrote: »

I never heard of it in 32 years of owning my own bikes other than on here and even then mostly refering to some other website.

There was a mad lad used to post it all the time in the car forums, always seems an odd one.

zubair

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Is ‘cage’ commonly used by motorbike owners or is it just the idiot ones?

Here's another one.

D3V!L

Clickbait title is clickbait

I don't use the word "cage" in real life or even on forums.

Max Headroom

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Is ‘cage’ commonly used by motorbike owners or is it just the idiot ones?

Just knobheads...it makes them feel like "real bikers"........:rolleyes:

Ohio9

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Is ‘cage’ commonly used by motorbike owners or is it just the idiot ones?

How dare they say cage! Crimes against humanity. Kill him!
Seriously, cry me a river.
It's commonly used on biker.ie as you get banned for "cage talk" and rightfully so. You don't talk about cars on a biker forum. Same as you don't go to cycling forum and ask what is the most economical car.

Hotblack Desiato

I do like the term "cage rage". Encapsulates the frustration inherent in the activity.

As the old Irish ad from 40 years ago said:

#If you, had the only, car in the world# (sung)
You could drive as you please.
But you haven't.
And you can't.

Keep left. Pass right.
That's the basic rule of lane discipline.

Most still have no clue with that one

And we've all met the creeper.
Now he's banjaxed TWO lanes of traffic.

(Filmed on the Long Mile Road with a black Merc very reminiscent of Charlie Haughey, in the right-most straight ahead lane pulling across the lead car in the right turn lane)