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08-26-2025, 12:27 PM
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#1251 | | Performance Moderator
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He's already married to a midget
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08-26-2025, 01:21 PM
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#1252 | | RabidMod
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Originally Posted by djstyles  I decided on the MX-5 using this formula
"40yrs old + no kids = Miata Life"
My requirements for a Miata were that it be new (because lease) and it had to have the sport package (Brembo's, Recaro seats, BBS wheels) and be in GS-P trim (LSD, Bilstein dampers, strut tower brace, BOSE sound system). I scoured Autotrader for months and nothing fit these requirements until I found this RF. I originally wanted a Soul Red Metallic soft top but I was unable to find one with the options I wanted. After seeing the RF in person I really started to like the way it looked both with the top up and the top down. The roof folding process added some extra theater and onlookers seem to think it was cool so I went with it, 99lb weight penalty be damned. In the end I didn't get a Soul Red but Mainlander White Metallic still looks pretty good! | I bet you won't even notice the 99 lbs.
How often do you notice the drive is perceptibly worse, just because you had someone ride along with you? And people weigh 150lb+!
Even at an autocross or at the track, the time delta has always been negligible. For me, anyway!
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08-26-2025, 02:05 PM
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#1253 | | Los Bastardo owned my ass at least once
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I think usually midgets should weigh less than 99 pounds. I saw a modo Miata yesterday but it was a soft top.
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08-26-2025, 03:21 PM
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#1254 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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Originally Posted by RabidRat I bet you won't even notice the 99 lbs.
How often do you notice the drive is perceptibly worse, just because you had someone ride along with you? And people weigh 150lb+!
Even at an autocross or at the track, the time delta has always been negligible. For me, anyway! | In a car as light as the Miata (esp the ND), it is pretty noticeable.
I had the removable hard top (RHT) for my NC Miata (soft top), and I think it weight less than 50 lbs. When the RHT is put on, the additional weight is pretty noticeable. In particular, it is all weight held up high at the top middle rear of the car. When you are a slalom type of manoeuvre, the difference (compared to just having the soft top) is very noticeable. In normal street driving, the additional weight isn't all that noticeable though.
But that's an RHT vs soft top comparison. Unless you are driving the car back to back, it may not be that obvious.
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08-26-2025, 06:16 PM
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#1255 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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08-26-2025, 06:33 PM
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#1256 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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what hitch is that
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08-26-2025, 07:15 PM
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#1257 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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tor-lift eco hitch. Class 2, heavy as balls and triangulated to the rear subframe. I usually take it on/off when doing events but I’m out biking with the little one all the time, so I just leave it.
Plus it’s still fun getting 10/85 at autox with a baby seat in the back and 150lb hitch ��
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08-26-2025, 09:20 PM
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Is that the one I went down to Point Roberts for you to pick up with my MR2 not realizing how big it was and then had to drive it to your house with my t-top off because it wouldn't fit any other way? lol
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08-26-2025, 11:20 PM
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#1259 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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What bike rack are you using? And what is the little guy riding? I'm starting to look at the next bike for my older one. He's very comfortable on his Spawn 16" right now.
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08-27-2025, 01:03 PM
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#1260 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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Originally Posted by EvoFire What bike rack are you using? And what is the little guy riding? I'm starting to look at the next bike for my older one. He's very comfortable on his Spawn 16" right now. | We looked at spawn but hard to find for a decent price used. We have a Norco storm 20”. For a 5yo he’s really taken to mountain biking, we’re at the bike park all the time and the delta watershed. I think over the winter I’ll keep an eye out for a Norco fluid 20” dual suspension if I can get a good deal. 
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08-28-2025, 08:16 PM
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#1261 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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08-29-2025, 11:15 AM
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#1262 | | Where's my RS Christmas Lobster?!
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Originally Posted by 68style It’s for people who can’t afford the prestigious CRV but still want a Honda suv | when my family was shopping for an SUV, we looked at the HRV, CRV and CX5, the HRV is very spacious inside, as big as the CX5. With rear seats folded, HRV is longer than the cx5 by 2 inches iirc.
Pricing made no sense though, the cx5 is only 2-5k more expensive than the HRV at the time depending on if you were getting the gx or the gs trim for the cx5. honda's interest rate was 6.8%, Mazda offered 3% financing rate if the term was 3 years or less. cx5 drives better with the bigger 2.5L engine and 6 speed auto vs CVT, also has better interior design and quality, HRV is really sluggish with the 2.0L engine. Ultimately we chose the cx5.
Similarly optioned CRV was also 3 to 6 grand more expensive than the cx5 not even counting the higher interest rate IIRC, but it is also significantly more spacious than the CX5
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08-30-2025, 06:50 PM
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#1263 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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The CRV and Rav4 interior volume is hard to beat, nothing comes close unless you get into a larger class of vehicle.
CX5 is absolutely tiny, but for some one who doesn't need to put a car seat in, it's adequate and it's a lot nicer than it's contemporaries, the turbo option is also really nice as nothing else has that kind of power unless you step into luxury.
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09-01-2025, 03:18 PM
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I only had the time and budget to fix some of the things I wanted to get done, but it's back out of the garage. 
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09-01-2025, 03:25 PM
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Nice to see it outside!
Any other rallies or races this year? 
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09-01-2025, 03:55 PM
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#1266 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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I'm aiming for Midnight Rally in a few weeks if it keeps running well, and possibly Totem, but we'll see what my codriver is available for.
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09-02-2025, 08:22 AM
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09-02-2025, 08:54 AM
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09-02-2025, 09:12 AM
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#1269 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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Damn dude, that is a lot of splitter in that picture.
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09-02-2025, 09:15 AM
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Those dive planes, damn.
Verus Engineering?
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09-02-2025, 11:45 AM
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#1271 | | Diagonally parked in a parallel universe
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Originally Posted by epoon | Nice. Love these scooters. Throw a 70cc kit in there and it reach 90+ km/h.
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09-02-2025, 12:13 PM
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#1272 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by teggy604 Nice. Love these scooters. Throw a 70cc kit in there and it reach 90+ km/h. | Really wish they made a 125 BWS or even a 250 bws. Big scooters just have no market.... the biggest scooter i could find was my old vespa 250/300cc
its friggin hilarious passing people on the left in a red vespa on highway 91.
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09-02-2025, 12:18 PM
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I remember there was a 125cc BWS. I don't know if they still make them.
Edit: They do still make them! https://www.yamaha-motor.ca/en/road/...5/2025-GQX125S
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09-02-2025, 01:01 PM
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09-02-2025, 01:07 PM
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#1275 | | Diagonally parked in a parallel universe
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Ya. They still make the 125 bws. They discontinued the 50cc bws. The last generation from 2012 to 2017, yami went with a 4 stroke. Probably because of emissions. The pre 2012 were 2 strokes.
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