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OH MY!! My first time driving stick [super happy fun night]

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urameatball

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it was my birthday yesterday and my friends planned some surprise thing for me...

I was actually planning to study the entire night for a really hard test.

anyway, who can refuse a surprise party right? so we went to dinner, had fun, and whatnot...
then I asked if I could try driving my friend's car (stick shift cavalier)... and OH WOW... I LOVED IT!!!

best part is, I didn't stall AT ALL!!! 🙂 [eat your heart out]. and it was a semi-hilly area too.
only problem I did have is letting the clutch out a little too fast so some of my shifts got pretty jerky. But overall, I'm just boasting myself for going up and down hills without stalling on my first time driving stick. Cuz all year long, I was telling my friends that I was born to drive stick, and there's no way in hell I would ever stall. [PROVED IT LAST NIGHT]... YAY FOR ME!!!

oh yah, and the surprise thing was fun too 😀

[okay, now its your turn to say nice things to me... I'm JUST SO HAPPY]
 
Congrats and happy birthday meatball!
Did you try starting on a hill? Driving up and down hills is not a big deal with a stick, bur starting from a dead stop on a steep hill is not fun. That was always my biggest fear, as there's a steep hill by my house, which has a stoplight at the very top, meaning if you're not the first person stopped at the light, you're stopped on a steep incline. Which isn't too bad still, unless you've got someone behind you. That's kind of scary.
 
yup...
actually, my friend was parked on an uphill... so my first time starting from dead stop was on an uphill climb.
I didn't roll back, but that was because I released the clutch a little too quickly and it just jolted itself up the hill. 🙂
 
I did the same thing, I knew I could drive a standard without stalling it for the first time driving it.

I did, and my friend was embarassed cause he was like Pff yeah right you can... IT ISN'T HARD for crap sakes! why would i not be able to!!?? anyways, same type of story on this end... took his 1987 Saab 900S out for a few hours.. LoL, he wasnt happy about that either.
 


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<< Welcome to the real car world 😉 >>

kind wierd hearing this from someone named bus-a-rider. 😀 >>




Bus rider? Wasn't that a Guess Who song? 😛


EDIT-OMG this is the infamous "666" post!
 
I'd take the "bus" Haya's riding any day.

Yes, welcome to the real world of driving.
You'll be ok!
 
you have a very brave friend. When you get a manual drive car, you understand exactly what i mean. It is very painful to have someone who doesn't know what they are doing drive your stick (I just realized that could be taken "to the bad place" in which case its still true, and a good analogy😉).

m00se
 


<< you have a very brave friend. When you get a manual drive car, you understand exactly what i mean. It is very painful to have someone who doesn't know what they are doing drive your stick (I just realized that could be taken "to the bad place" in which case its still true, and a good analogy😉).

m00se >>

yah, he was very nice...
best part is, its his new car... got it under a month ago I believe!
but even though I released the clutch a little too quickly the first few times, it wasn't that bad... just felt it, not like the car was on hydrolics or anything 🙂

reminds me of another story...
my friend's brother just bought a used nissan [stick shift]... and on the way home from the dealership, the little brother let my friend try to drive stick for the first time. OH MAN!!! it was so bad, I was watching at the parking lot and he was just dumping the clutch and it looked like the car was going to tear itself apart. The car was practically doing wheelies and handstands. and I looked like he was going over 2ft high speedbumps on a perfectly flat parking lot.

it was fun watching though
 
Isn't this a...private matter? *cough*

EDIT: Happy Birthday, btw. 😀



<< OH MY!! My first time driving stick [super happy fun night] >>

 
funny little story: In high school a friend of mine bought an older 5.0 Mustang. I had to go with him and his parents to pick it up and drive it home for him because no one in his family, including him, who just bought the damn thing, knew how to drive a manual!! I then spent 3 days teaching him how to drive it! Teaching someone to drive a stick in a 5.0 v8 is not an easy thing to do!

At least I had fun driving the 5.0 for a few days!
 


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<< Hey I heard that thing goes past 200MPH... >>

yah... if only the limiter didn't kick in at 108mph. >>




Lol- post 2000 bikes are limited to 300 KPH which is about 180 MPH. This is due to the EUROPEANS (lol) They came up with the limit and since Japan didn't want to make 2 bikes, one restricted and one not, everyone got hosed. Wonder why cars are non-restricted? Anyway, that can be defeated if you know how and I have a '99 black/gray. '99s were the fastest. Been ungodly fast a few times. Scary thing is when you are on it, 140 comes up so quickly you don't really percieve it. Above 150 or so you get what I call the "tunnel effect" Things go by so quickly that you lose the ability to process you peripheral vision, and the edges of the world seem literally blurred. The faster you go, the smaller the field of vision becomes. Weird. Wonder if it is the same in a car? You are in a cage that doesn't move with respect to the driver, so I wonder if it feels the same at all.
 


<< now try to master double clutching. a new level of fun begins then. 🙂 >>


Learn to heel and toe too. Doing a perfect heel and toe double clutch while slowing down to take a curve is a great feeling.
 


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<< now try to master double clutching. a new level of fun begins then. 🙂 >>


Learn to heel and toe too. Doing a perfect heel and toe double clutch while slowing down to take a curve is a great feeling. >>

all these terms are foreign to me...
would someone care to explain?
 
smoother transition... of momentum... due to the weight not being jerked all over the place. if you're road racing... the can totally eff up your handling. 😀 Here for a simple explanation. You just gotta love stick. 🙂 Oh and Hayabusa are craaazzzyyyy... ive seen speed traps of that thing say 201... im like...HOLY ISHT!... that guy wants to die! ...ill stick with my little cutey Gixxer 750. 🙂
 
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