| Re: Whoever is not fit to drive stick, should ride a bike
Bill Baka wrote:
> George Grapman wrote:
>> Bill Baka wrote:> Rod Speed wrote:
>>>> Bill Baka <bbaka@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>> Impractical is a stick in San Francisco. They put stop signs at the
>>>>> top of a hill and unless you have a hand operated emergency brake you
>>>>> can roll back and get the car behind you. That's the one place where
>>>>> I don't want to have a stick.
>>>>
>>>> Your gross incompetance is your problem, as always.
>>>>
>>> Should I even bother with *******s?
>>> Or should I be nice and just call you an idiot who has never tried a
>>> stick in S.F.???
>>> Try it,then bitch about it.
>>> It can be done with a foot emergency brake but you have to pull the
>>> release at the same time as letting out the clutch and giving it gas,
>>> while wearing out the release mechanism.
>>>
>>> Or maybe you have 3 feet, no doubt all of them left.
>>>
>>> Only those who have driven S.F. know what I mean.
>>>
>>> Reply to jerk mode off.
>>>
>>> Bill Baka
>>>
>>
>> It is doable but requires thinking and common sense.
>> The upside was the mileage in 5th gear on freeways.
>>
> I have done it and my favorite cars for doing it were VWs and Renaults,
> both of which had hand operated emergency brakes. One time with an
> American car and a foot brake and I swore off sticks. There was an old
> skit by Cheech and Chong (I think) about losing it on one of those
> famous hills and rolling backwards into the bay. That thought was in my
> head when I came to those absurd stop signs where you had to start up
> again on a 15% or greater hill. What really got me was that the street
> you were stopping for was dead level, then uphill to the next stop sign.
> I wonder if it is feasible for a sane person to ride a bicycle there
> without getting fried by all the ups and downs.
>
> I am on the bicycles group, after all.
> Bill Baka
A few times my clutch was on its last legs and I needed to wait a few
weeks before replacing it. I learned that the shortest distance between
to points i not always a straight line.
I had one route that worked fine except for a one block hill. Had to
time it so as soon as the light turned green I could go up the hill and
make a right turn. A few times a car pulling out of a driveway foiled
my plan.
Once I had to go to San Rafael and had to do Bay Bridge/Richmond Bridge.
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