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2000 Honda Civic Si- Slightly faster than your grandmomma's grocery getter......slightly.
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Saw the second generation Scion tC. The roofline of the car looks a lot like the FT-86's.
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2000 Honda Civic Si- Slightly faster than your grandmomma's grocery getter......slightly.
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FFFFUUUU-

Great. Well, there goes a promised dream down the drain…

C'mon..I was hopin' and prayin' for a revival of Toyota's pure wild child and instead we get stuck with a front drive look alike from the brand's hipster sibling. And Europe gets the Subaru version. Bah! :x
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That concept looks damn good. I hope the production car will be close to that. Much better looking that the new tC, which I think is ugly.

And who cares if it's a Scion. It would go along with Toyota's general product strategy for the brand.

And "hipster cousin"? Hipsters don't even like cars. They prefer to use fixed speed bicycles for transportation.
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Jastreb wrote:They prefer to use fixed speed bicycles for transportation.
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That's almost certainly not a fixie. It's probably a single speed with a coaster brake.

Here's a couple fixies.

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She might just have shifted into a low gear...or might be afraid to shift.

My road bike has 53x11 as its tallest ratio. It's also got some really short ratios too. I like wide ratio gearing on bicycles even more than in cars.
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Are you measuring that in mm or something? I'm confused now…


My bike is a pseudo 26" cruiser from Walmart, but it has a ratio that allows for smooth simple cruising- and with that picking up speed is a simple task that will lead to your legs feeling like they're kicking air while trying to maintain speed. Makes for a good workout.
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53x11 is tooth count. Largest front chainring is 53t, smallest rear cog is 11t.
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theholycow wrote:53x11 is tooth count. Largest front chainring is 53t, smallest rear cog is 11t.
That's quite a difference. :o

Did you personally count this?
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My BMX bike, a Toys-R-Us special that actually got stolen once (long story), has pretty terrible gearing. And it is heavy as shit. I would have to pedal hard to get it moving, then once I got up to speed I would be pedaling like a madman. Still pwned my friend every time we had 'drag races' on our bikes. He almost ran into a Saturn once :lol:
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Chris H. wrote:
theholycow wrote:53x11 is tooth count. Largest front chainring is 53t, smallest rear cog is 11t.
That's quite a difference. :o

Did you personally count this?
:lol: Possibly, before I installed them.

The Buick may have the first automotive transmission I've swapped, but I've done a few bicycle transmission swaps including custom gears.
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theholycow wrote:
Chris H. wrote:
theholycow wrote:53x11 is tooth count. Largest front chainring is 53t, smallest rear cog is 11t.
That's quite a difference. :o

Did you personally count this?
:lol: Possibly, before I installed them.

The Buick may have the first automotive transmission I've swapped, but I've done a few bicycle transmission swaps including custom gears.

Neato. I want a gear swap!!
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94Corolla5Speed wrote:My BMX bike, a Toys-R-Us special that actually got stolen once (long story), has pretty terrible gearing. And it is heavy as shit. I would have to pedal hard to get it moving, then once I got up to speed I would be pedaling like a madman. Still pwned my friend every time we had 'drag races' on our bikes. He almost ran into a Saturn once :lol:

I've owned several various 20" bikes over the last ten years:

1994 Huffy Power- bike was orange, turned pink from the hot New Mexico sun before I bought the bike. Had an interesting gear set ratio that allowed me to pedal slow and obtain a decent amount of speed.

20" NEXT bike. Green and silver chrome with front fork shocks. Had front and rear handlebar brakes, as well as a coaster brake. I abused this bike before selling it at a garage sale a few years ago.

20" Jeff Gordon-NASCAR themed bike. The rear bearings came apart when I tried to stop the bike. Dad fixed it, but you could no longer coast- the pedals kept moving with the rear tire.

20" NEXT mountain bike. Full suspension frame, chrome, 6 rear speeds, single pedal speed. I abused the snot out of this bike big time. Ramping it, taking it through rushing water down my street after a thunderstorm, through mud…it could handle practically anything. Well, except 8" vertical curbs. On my way to school one morning when a guy just pulled out of his driveway without looking and I ended up braking and then swerving into a curb. At that point I flew over the handlebars and landed in a bush. The bike though- its frame twisted, and the front rim got crushed. One of the most comfortable bikes I've ever rode.

My 26" La Jolla (aka NEXT, aka Walmart) cruiser can take a beating (I've already wrecked it from locking the rear tire up on wet pavement). The ramps around campus on the sidewalk have steep sides, so I ramp up the front tire and come down hard on it. I know I shouldn't do that, but I can't help it. I just wish single-speed cruisers had a full suspension or something...
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