After months of stress, several rejections, and a lifetime's worth of job interviews, yesterday I signed a contract with a company that does job placements for English teachers in Japanese public schools. I don't have an actual placement yet, so I'm still apprehensive about saying I'll definitely get a job, but the contract I signed is a notification of employment so that they can start getting me a visa and a certificate of eligibility.

Hopefully this time next year I'll be shitposting from Japan

This is all your fault



First job is new tires, second is getting a smaller tail piece, third is painting it in Kenny Rodgers Speedblock livery.

EDIT- Here's a rough photoshop of my long term plans for it-

Just make your own. These T-junction vacuum line fittings on my GSXR are made of extremely cheap, brittle plastic. I've already had 3 of them break, causing a huge vacuum leak and a poor running bike each time. Nothing that some hardware store plumbing parts, JB weld, and gasket sealant can't solve...

Here you go. Man I fucking hate Ohio

2003 SP2. 5,400 miles and completely mint, but there's a problem with the clutch master or slave cylinder which is keeping me from riding it right now.

I may be the owner of this assisted suicide machine RC51 once I sell my Hawk this spring. It belongs to my best friend's uncle who's in his 70s and doesn't ride it anymore. Under 6,000 miles and as mint as can be. He's put a lot of work into making it that way, and from what I heard he was pretty excited about it going to someone he knows won't mess with it.

Turns out the clutch master cylinder just needed to be bled, 5 minute fix when I was expecting weeks waiting for new parts.

This bike absolutely rips.

Yes I just bought this

About a month ago I posted about this RD400 that I was desperately trying not to buy. Well... the seller dropped the price by $1500 and I'm checking it out tomorrow.

I do not need a third bike. I have no room for a third bike. I should really be saving up for my move. I'll probably end up buying it.

Would anyone be interested in reading a mini comparison/ retro review of them? I've got some ideas kicking around in my head

@mr-ontop

@darkbrador Maybe I spoke too soon... I checked a year ago and there were plenty under $10k. Now, not so much...

@kiltedpadre Our old cat repossessed our dog's bed, so we got her another one-

@rallydarkstrike Which one of us has the least shame to ask what the price is...

@darkbrador GTis are cool but yeah, the Sunbeam Lotus is in a different league. I can imagine back then though the Sunbeam was seen as kind of a dinosaur with carbs instead of fuel injection like the VW and Pug.

A 205 Rallye is a close 2nd in terms of dream hot hatches though, plus they're still affordable

@flatisflat said in Dream car status:

@thejwt My want for effectively the same vehicular demographic:

Toyota Starlet

KP61 with massive flares is also a major want

@cé-hé-sin Obscure cars for sale? That's where I saw it

This ticks literally every single box for me. 80's rear wheel drive two door lotus-engined rally homologation twin weber flared fender two-tone 4-speed manuel stripped out shitbox

https://www.classic-trader.com/uk/cars/listing/talbot/lotus/sunbeam-lotus/1980/259942?fbclid=IwAR0npSjjgPbhcBivKnPtulPk7FGORjFHNikUB3ULO2M8ecq0voeSaFLhEsU

@bman76 There's a town similar to that outside of Cleveland called Linndale. It's .07 square miles and about 100 people live there. Up until a few years ago most of the city's revenue came from tickets issued on the quarter mile stretch of I-71 that passed through it. Eventually the state made them stop doing that, so they installed a speed camera on the (only) main road that passes through it to make up for the lost revenue.

@davesaddiction It was a mixed bag... On one hand it was an insane experience for a broke 19 year old to be able to drive literal supercars around NYC. On the other, I was an unpaid intern there while I was also going to school, and it got pretty stressful after a while and really started impacting my mental health.

When I first moved to NYC I became friends with a few people who worked there who were also on Oppo, and when there was an opening I just asked them if I could work there. I don't think any of them have been here for years, but JBH, Aaron Brown, Brian Silvestro, Mars478, and @AntiSpeed all worked there at various times.

A year or two after I left, I started to write down all of the memorable experiences driving the cars just so I wouldn't forget; maybe I'll publish them here sometime.