Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Nice bikes

(Ty for the input Tristan o.o)

Unfortunatly the legal law requires that I am only able to ride up to 125Cc on the CBT licence, before I go about doing my big bike test.

AAhhh yes, sorry but I forget the governing by different countries. :sorry:

I assume they feel it's safer to hit something on a small motorcycle and less damaging than on a larger motorcycle but it's the body that suffers from the impact as the motorcycle does not feel a thing. 150km crash on a 125 must hurt as much as on a 1000.

Thank you for the compliment. Enjoy your riding but treat every driver in 4 wheels as if you are invisible to them, because you are! They always tell the police they never see you coming!

I can only assume you weigh less than 57 kilo's and shall be satisfied with no real power. An 250cc will save you money over the course of ownership and be more fun to ride or race.
I've only been riding for 40 years though so I'm too old to play with anything less than 1000cc.

My old ride. 99 VTR1000F


Current Ride. 04 FJR1300


Show us pictures when you get your new ride.

Last edited by nmanley, Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:27.

Quote from Krammeh :

Anybody actually got this to work on Vista 64, or is it pointless even trying.

I'm running out of patience here.

HELLO ???? Any answer for this?

Quote from MARSH2a :

Today I'd like to welcome Cabby to our team and give him a big congratulations on his LOTA GP2 podium finish this week! :headbang:

DITTO!!!! Welcome aboard Cabby.

I've been riding and racing on two wheels since I was 12. A LONG time ago now... (38 yrs)
I don't advise anything smaller than a 500 street bike. Just not enough motor to get out of trouble with traffic on busy highways.
Based on your age and size you'll be very happy with the performance and handling of the new Kawasaki Ninja 650R. This is the twin cylinder model not the racing one.

Also, the Suzuki SV650 is hard to beat with the "V" Twin cylinder arrangement it will have more real life tourque than the Ninja with it's parallel twin. They have been around for about 10 years with many upgrades and improvements. A good used one would save some money and still serve you well. Both machines will give you plenty of thrill and economy.


My current ride is a 2004 FJR1300.

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A very big WELCOME to Falcon140 and Sarge9191 to Stars & Strips Racing.

Looking forward to sharing your experiences with the rest of the team.

GO BAMA Guys!!!

Quote from -NightFly- :

no you can't!

hahaha Yes Happy wishes to all.

This is a wireless mouse correct? Get a wheel or try a Wired mouse next.
I really don't see how anyone can enjoy this SIM without a WHEEL. It's just not the same.

That whole deal sucked for the 01 since they are in the XRR sand trap car and they got a 5 min penalty from the time they entered the pits. The penalty procedure and how it is administered needs to be done in a more structured way.

Example:
The 01 car enters the pit and stops in the pit box. 49 seconds later the pit is completed after damage fixed, tires changed and fuel. Pit notification in drivers view disappear for normal pit release. The 01 sits till given the go signal exactly 4 minutes later.

So the 01 is in the pits a total of 5 min from the Pit Lane Entry. A very long time overall.

I would suggest that what ever penalty given be assessed at the END of the Normal Pit stop and it should be reduced (or none at all) for the XRR if a push car is used. If no push then they get the normal penalty for bringing on a SC period. All other cars that have not had the use of the push car should get a penalty from the time of the pit stop Ending.

This seems confusing but what I'm saying is waiting for the push car is a penalty in itself as the XRR is the only car that will need it.

This post is not meant to criticize but just to add to the think tank.

We are NOT racing real life. Takes a sponsor to do that.
We are just racing on computers and it's more fun to be able to complete league races EVEN if we make a mistake or are on the butt end of others mistakes.

Quote from niall09 :

No, they shouldn't fix this glitch, they should make it so that each GTR gets stuck in the sand - as would happen in real life.

There people go again....thinking REAL life. Get a sponsor and go racing REAL life. I just want to have FUN on my COMPUTER!

Yes and they need to make sure ALL Cars, in CLASS, can exit the sand traps or other off track excursions.

Quote from rcpilot :

This is pretty ridiculous. 2nd time this season I've been knocked off track into the kitty litter by someone I wasn't racing against. This time it took ~2 minutes for the push car to even start responding + the associated penalties. Our race completely destroyed because I happened to be in position to get knocked off track by a car snap spinning across the road. The other two cars can just drive out of the gravel but instead we get to lose mondo time (or in this case a lap) waiting for the push car and then get a penalty on top of that? It doesn't seem fair at all to have an uberharsh penalty that can only be applied to one car, besides not having considerations in the rule for why you ended up in that gravel trap in the first place.

I feel your pain. I wonder why in the heck Scawen and crew doesn't find glitches like the XRR sand trap problem and FIX them! I wonder if they even really know about it as on each upgrade everyone seems to bitch about interiors and sounds rather than physics.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

It really sounds like you either haven't been paying attention to the form of racing this series has used for the past year and a half, or feel that it should be changed to benefit you whenever something doesn't go your way.

Neither is really acceptable for a serious competitor in this series.

I've been paying close attention and that's what got you upset so I will just lose interest now again since you can't be take seriously from past actions.

Quote from rcpilot :

Mainly, this talk of bias has got to go. DWB isn't the only one who makes decisions, and these admins volunteer 5 hours of their weekend to help run this thing giving up their ability to have fun driving for their respective teams. At some point, a decision has to be made and feel free to argue with the decision, but don't outright harass admins that are just here to help. Hell, if you want to just spy on us during the race, come on the vent server and watch as dwb comes out of the admin channel and says hello for a few seconds 2-3 times a race (and we transmit secret messages to eachother via mic switching morse code).

Agreed and thanks for your feelings.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

edit: I don't know if that was a typo or what, but there is no relationship between LOTA and IGTC, Nolan.

Sorry about that.

Starting to have a problem here.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

The 3id car got more flexibility because the error was on the admins' end.

Being out of a race is not a flexible rule. It's been a rule of all racing since the dawn of the automobile.

If you're seriously incapable of getting it at this point, I'm losing interest in helping you.

You seriously don't think this is a sim and needs to be fun? edit: OK guess there needs to be another series then.

I want to make my previous posting clear and to apologize to DWB and Benji as their positions as administers of the series has them at the receiving end of my words. I meant to be harsh but not insulting to you too and it seems to me I have crossed that line more than I wanted to. For that apology offered.

This quote is from a post to my teammates at our forums private section. I share it to clear the air.

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I want to make a MUCH stronger point to them than they have ever had before and if I have to HURT their feelings to do so then so be it. I really think they have the best interest for the LFS community in mind but it's just like Paul was inferring. Maybe they get a little tired, lackadaisical or what ever in decision making.

I just can't believe that they would let some bitching (by certain people) about tire temps cause them to change a rule mid stream when they wouldn't change one to help a team that got wrongfully put out of an event.

I think my last statement sums up the whole deal for me.

As was posted in Round 4: Confirmation Thread I was listed in the 02 car entry. That came about as there was only one driver available to drive the car as of last Tuesday. So as to not hang out a teammate I offered to put my feelings aside to drive with him even though I knew I hated to drive the FZR and I would suffer in lap times for it. Thankfully Paul "BEERcobra" was able to make the event and relieve me from the driving duties.

I love what LOTA is trying to do with IGTC, I have a house full of wife, GROWN kids, a grand child with unwed mother living with us now and when I take the time to practise and race this series and get the bad end of a deal, I have to make a decision as to weather I can keep doing it. The actions I experienced made the decision for me and I said so in the round three thread. I still stand by it.

I really do wish much success to this series and organization.

The NO weaving rule is a good one! The tires cooling down is the SAME for everyone unless some teams use better pit strategy. SO BE IT! Get over it people.
It was great to watch the front running cars making the best of their cold tires on restarts. Very cool to watch the car control....which is what racing is about anyway.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

I'd still say they're only questionable if you're looking for it.

You'll notice it's the same two or three people who always mention it.

Yeah if you took it up the ass as much as LOTF and S3R has you'ed be right with us.

Quote from srdsprinter :

This is what i was saying. We're not accusing wrong-doing, but the circumstances were questionable to the rest of the field. Extra care is neccesary, even in such a stressfull environment.

Stu got it part right. Extra care is necessary. However, I DO ACCUSE you guys of non-impartiality and will do so based on last years and this years ACTIONS by you guys. You may not outwardly mean it but it has happened.


BenjiMC, Lets just say you have your opinions and I have mine but I'm basing mine on more than this one series. And a long as I have free speech I'll say what I want how I want to say it. But I will be glad to receive notice the next time you or your favorite team get screwed in the same deal as other here have suffered.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Well, it's certainly not surprising that you'd bring it up since you do so at every opportunity.

The only way for me to entirely erase the possibility for partiality is to resign from the IGTC or to leave CoRe. Aside from those two options I've done (and I hope my record here will back me up) everything possible to strengthen the image of my impartiality (its actuality has always been strong).

Our decision benefited 25 teams and disadvantaged 1. Furthermore, you probably won't believe me when I say so, but I for one was unaware as to who the straggler was when we reached the decision to go green after one SC lap.

If you want to drag up the specter of impartiality again, there's nothing I can do to stop you. But to me, I don't think it enters into the equation in the slightest.

OH HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!

It's been obvious either YOU or the ADMINS has shown consistent decision making that it's OK if it only screws one or two teams but never certain top running teams. Just the way the history of race decisions has shown to be.
Granted that early on it was a learning process and that may never stop as situations arise.

The problem NOW is admins had not made any "On the fly Change" to the rules till now and it hung a team out to dry. COLD tires are the same for EVERYBODY. I know the top teams and anyone with any sense will base pit stop on Safety Car periods and if that is changed on the fly it throws that out the window. The decision made, made it NOT the SAME for ALL. Either get that through your heads or get out.

If you want to have a real racing series where the mistake of others , as in one car crashing another car out of the race, cannot be corrected by ADMINISTRATORS then get the heck off your computers and go work for IMSA or Petite Le Mans or something! THIS IS SUPPOSE TO BE FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wouldn't that cars skin be more propper on the XRR GTR?

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Tell me, then... who do you think should be penalized for this, and why?

Well it for damn sure should NOT be the 30 car. What the hell is wrong with you guys telling the (MY) driver to spectate rather than rejoin. I mean GODDAMN that's some Shit there buddy.

We're screwed out of two weeks work cause of that crap. The hell with this stuff. I'm DONE with it. The 30 car will have a new team manager cause I'm freaking done.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

There's not really an easy way to assign blame here. There's no single scapegoat. Once again it was our old friend the accordion effect, and you were the unfortunate victim.

The #15 left a slightly large gap to the car ahead coming to the green, then sped up to catch up. He then slowed down when he caught that car. The #26, behind him, also slowed down. The #16 behind him did not slow quickly enough and hit the #26. Both cars spun, and the #30 was collected by the #13 who also braked but not fast enough. This sent the #30 flying over the #14 who was well ahead, on his side, and through the barrier.

If there is one person most at fault, I would have to say it's the #16 driver, but really most everyone involved had a hand in it, either through action or (mostly inaction).

I have to judge this as a racing incident (though a very large one), similar to the restart mess at BL1.

I can only hope that drivers learn their lessons over time, give proper room, and maintain SC speed. It's the slowing down and speeding up that ultimately causes these accidents.

I don't see what your saying other than you admins can't make a freaking fair decision. THIS WAS A DAMN SC PERIOD! We should have been ALLOWED to rejoin. Goddamn this has gotten old and I feel I'm done fukin around with this mess. 4Hr race take a bit more prep and practise and I don't like feeling like it is a waist due to poor decisions by others in charge.

Thank you for the effort but it's just not enough.

Quote from rcpilot :

Other: 04 tdrt r. kolz
Us: 01 core c. green

Whatever lap I called for the sc, around lap 44/45

Kolz came back out on track on the bridge sweeper causing me to slow way down and still do some tricky dodging maneuvers. Quite distracted by this and I brake a little late off the bridge, but keep it on the track. (Slowing me way down.) Make the corner side by side with R.Kolz and he slams into me causing me to get stuck in the sand.

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Well your OUT then as similar thing happened to the 30 car, under Yellow, and NOW we are out. Never mind, different situation but we are robbed by yet another poor admin decision.

Last edited by nmanley, Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:09.

30 car was punted onto it's roof during SC period by guys weaving to heat their tires and losing control!!!

Protest and replay to follow! NOW why can't the 30 car rejoin under that circumstances. Being stuck in the SAND (01 during GREEN Flag racing) is not the same???

Last edited by nmanley, Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:02.