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Quote: "The only people who would buy an old-fashioned gearstick manual are the sort who choose not to have a washing machine because they prefer to clean their clothes in the local river."
Jeremy Clarkson
So there you have it.
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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There was a time people enjoyed Manual transmission(now a days, fewer people enjoy, less than 5%). But the need of easy learning and easy use Automatic transmission got popular.
Here is a future that I predict, the demand of self driven car will rapidly increase. At some point people would feel the requirement of having a car that can drop off kids to school and then drive back to school to pick up the kids. or in simple, people will rather enjoy doing something else than bother with driving at all. Government will have to force people from not driving on the road, because voice of people who would love driving by themselves would be weaker than the voice of the rest(Just like now, 95% people in japan and in USA use Automatic, and get surprised when they hear that I am learning Manual). Government will look at road safety differently.
This is far fetched. But there will be a time when driving by human will be obsolete. Required driving skill will reach the level of Driving a train. Driving would be job of absolute professional who would do rescue task on the road after accident or off the road special assignment.
May be that would be the time, when I will accept this analogy 
I do not fear of failure. I fear of giving up out of frustration.
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How about no transmission. My electric car is all direct drive. What phone is that one?
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I understand people who prefers the manual transmission to feel they control the machine
(this discussion is similar to the robotics/handcrafted issue, or the vynil/CD DJs,...). Personally I prefer to put my attention in other things: the environment, the traffic or the route and not to worry in mechanical issues.
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"Ancient kingdom in a barren landscape produces a fighting ship after dropping a junction." (9)
Good luck, pretty easy I recon.
Andy B
modified 16-Aug-17 5:50am.
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Destroyer
Desert minus a t and troy
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Well done pkfox, it's your turn tomorrow!
Andy B
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@Brisingr_Aerowing
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes happy birthday, have a great day.
How do we know when there's a CP birthday?
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Memory. Or in my case, "Google Calendar" 
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That's odd, I looked in my Google Calender and no mention of a @Brisingr_Aerowing birthday, odd and I have no memory for birthdays either.
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Yeah, I've bought a lot of memory over the years but I keep forgetting things.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Yes, the gryphons rule
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Just back from Holiday.
Last Sunday I was touring with my Motorcycle in Les Vosges (France) (la route des crêtes) enjoying the views and the hairpin turns ... and then my clutch cable snapped.
Luckily for me, my sixth sense warned me something seemed to be going ill and we weren't in any hairpin section. Double "luck" for me I was smart enough to have myself insured for the trip. If it would have snapped in a hairpin I would probably have fallen (best case) or driven in a ravine (worst case). Unlucky for me, it was Sunday and both Monday and Tuesday, garages were closed.
A lot of phone calls later and a taxi-train-taxi trip home (with my motor gear  ) I'm safe and sound, yet my bike is still there. I really, really hope they can tow it back to my place instead of me having to fetch it.
For the curious among you, it is a Honda Transalp (2008)
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A lucky escape for you, and hope the insurance covers the recovery costs. That happened to me years ago, but in a car, and fortunately I had just stopped in a small town. Half an hour later I would have been in the middle of nowhere without a mobile phone.
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It happened to me too, many years ago in my car I drove the 20 miles back home, is it not possible to do that on a motorbike?
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Not so easy as with a car - the gearbox only has one neutral position, and it's between 1st and 2nd.
It's fairly easy to get up the box by crashing it with a quick dip in the throttle to release the pressure on the gears, but going down is a lot worse as it horribly easy to lock the rear wheel. Plus ... emergency stops become a nightmare.
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Thanks OG, having never owned one, I wasn't sure what the issues would be.
I imagine you could stay in 1st or even 2nd on a bike and do a few miles home or to the garage, basically the same as I did in my old Escort MK1 1300GT (XVX 604L), Its worth a bit of money now, sadly I don't own it now.
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The problem is that if you're more than a few miles from home puttering around in 1st gear's both a major timesink and unless you're able to do it on very slow or minimally trafficked roads you become a road hazard because you're going so much slower than the prevailing speed.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Agreed, I would only do this on a less busy road where its safe to do so. If I was causing any delay to other motorists I would stop frequently to let them pass.
Unlike the farm traffic drivers around here. 
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Ouch - could have been nasty.
Never had a clutch cable break on a bike - several throttle cables though, and that's almost worse because you can just swap the ends over, so the return opens it. Only hassle is that also reverses the twist grip, so you have to pay attention ...
Worst cable breakages have been in cars: a handbrake cable that snapped as I pulled up (on a slope, natch) for my MOT (UK annual compulsory "fitness to be on the road" test). And the real fun: the throttle cable in my Lancia Beta HPE 2000, at 08:00 Monday morning while driving over Blackfriars bridge in the rush hour. While that's not technically as dangerous as clutch on a hairpin, it can induce serious road rage in commuters ...
And I once had all the rear sprocket bolts shear on a motorcycle (my first, a CD175 Honda) while doing a hill start. That was confusing ...
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My throttle cable broke last week on my bike as I was going over a bridge. Got down to 10 mph on a 70 mph before I could get off the bridge. Its a bad feeling.
Lucky for me it was close to home, so the tow was cheap!
Hogan
Hogan
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I had a discussion a few days ago on the level of debt people in my country have. Way too many people can't even buy a new fridge without using their credits.
I understand that I'm on the other side of the scale, as I can buy a new Mercedes tomorrow, in cash, if I would want to. (I don't, it's a waste of good money)
But how much reserves do you have?
And how much do you feel is a necessary minimum?
Personally I feel that, if you're not able to buy a new fridge and pay the garage when your car has broken down, you're on the wrong side of the savings limit.
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The politicians have enforced the central banks to lower the rates and "print" money. This money has to be somewhere. So it may be in your pockets. Even being a millionaire doesnt mean you are "rich"!!!
Consider investing money for your retirement, because you may get around 90. Think about some real estate (a city flat or a small home), buying some blue chip shares and gold. Times may change...
Most of all live well and help our family and friends and give some charity. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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