Only one EV charger at home?!

Bikes tend to be a DIY learning experience since nobody is fool enough to ride pillion behind a learner. The people with poor throttle and clutch control tend to drop out early.

When I was selling one bike my boss expressed interest. When he found out it wasn't an automatic he lost interest. I breathed a sigh of relief. He's a good boss and I'd rather he live to a ripe old age.

Just a fancy version of my car. I can shift into the lower gears. On long grades where the car hunts between 3rd and 4th I often kick it down to

On the farm, we used to eat snow. In town, it can taste like chemicals.

That was REI's problem in Portland. With some areas declining to prosecute shoplifters and it being worth a clerk's life to try to stop blatant theft, businesses are going elsewhere.

Pretty much what it’s programmed to do I believe. Something to do with protecting the dual mass flywheel from excessive vibration at low revs. More rev than throttle position dependant I believe.

Probably good reasoning behind it but it takes a little getting used to at first.

Tim

In 2021 (around Valentine's day) we had too much snow.

I remember a $79 fillup. That was in about 2007, when prices were at their highest.

When we split my wife took the 100LS and I took the Lincoln. She eventually traded it for a Rabbit and got a pittance for the Audi. The Rabbit, which I believe was what the Golf was called in the US at the time, was a much better car. Germans learn fast.

The Audi had a quirk. Every 15,000 miles of so it would fail to start. Replace the plug wires and you were good for another 15,000. I carried a spare set. There wasn't any roughness or anything prior to the failure. I believe the rudimentary computer sensed something slightly out of range and decided it was time to go on strike.

"Going by Consumer Reports frequency-of-repair charts, those early Audis were not reliable. The April, 1978 issue has charts for 1972-'77 cars. The Audi 100LS has a "much worse than average" figure for 1972-1976 and an average rating for

Problem areas were engine mechanical, engine cooling, exhaust system, fuel system, ignition system, automatic transmission, air conditioning, brakes and electrical system."

No, I meant drum brakes operated by rods:

The highest I've seen here was £1.60 a litre. That was in the covid bullshit era.

That's why grown-ups should not be posting through google groups. It's useful to find some old thread or old post that isn't in your computer, but if you want to post, you should act like an adult, get a news reader (some are free), subscribe to a news service (some are free) and reply to every group to which the post one is replying to was sent.

We've had Usenet for more than 30 years, and if people can't learn how to use it properly in 30 years, they should either just stop, or ask for help.

And Roy Gilliam's 4 year old did with with a full sized back hoe.

The best don't need anything like that and can always work it out for themselves.

Yes.

Nothing to do with learning speed.

Nothing to do with VW, the beetle and golf never had anything like that.

In the early 70s Audi was in fact a completely separate operation to VW cars wise although it was VW owned.

Forces on the engine parts will likely be less than under normal acceleration, becuase there is no or little fuel being burned.

Certainly using a gear to decend will be no worse than climbing the hill in that gear at the same speed.

Just don't exceed reccomended engine RPM

What about cables?

Diesel pumps here have a "high flow rate" button, but not regular petrol pumps. It's probably handy if you're filling a bus with thousand litre tank capacity.

FFS I first used USENET in 1985...on a DEC VAX, connected by UUCP over a modem