Slowly losing my mind from having been cooped up for so long. Everything in my area (including all parks and nature walks) are incredibly far apart because I'm in FUCKING America, and I unfortunately don't yet have the funds to afford a car, which combined with public transport here being pretty piss, means I'm a bit SOL if I want to go anywhere.So, I've been thinking about what alternatives I might have; what do you guys use to get around? Bicycles, scooters, rollerskates/blades, skateboards maybe? Or even heelies/flip-out skates so you can finally live your dream of being the coolest kid in middle school? What do you do when you need to carry a bunch of crap along with you as well?
>>2756676>america>can’t afford a carDrugs or mental illness?
>>2756771Well, being in America should be considered mental illness
>>2756676Ride a pig.
Motorcycle!
>>2756771not OP but nothing wrong with saving up for something you want/likeand since this is /out/, a sedan form factor is likely not optimal and will thus bump up the price
>>2756676>what do you guys use to get around?Before I bought a car, I would hitchhike and walk everywhere I couldn't get to by public transport.These days you have things like carsharing
>>2756771Gross.
>>2756778what mirrors are those if not stock
>>2757850Doubletake adventure mirrors. Mounts up with standard ram-mount hardware, replace the factory mirrors with a ram ball and install the mirrors on that.Busted an oem mirror off in a stupid tip-over offroad, a single replacement mirror cost more than the entire doubletake kit did. And this shit's taken a lot more abuse.Another 230 mile day on that bike today. Had to run out to a customer's site and do some diagnosis/repairs on their hardware.
>>2757862>Doubletake adventure mirrorok based, i got some cheap crap for my bike and all they do is move in the wind. surely these do alright? Seeing as how you can tighten down on the ball
>>2758237The rubber-coated balls will smoosh and fall apart if you crank down on them too hard. The poly ones do better, but they'll slip more than the rubber ones do. Some guys have had luck smearing some RTV or roughing the balls up with sandpaper to get them to hold better. I don't crank down on them super-tight, just enough to hold, and i've got about 20k miles on the ones on my adventure, and another 5-6k on the ones on my dirt bike.A small bit of loctite (i'm partial to orange, stuff's designed for powersports use) on the ball threads helps a lot too.
