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kleinbl00  ·  2886 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hey hubski, post your whip

The stealth is a thousand miles away and will be for the rest of the summer. I'll be in a position to visit it in a couple weeks but nobody will care by then. Above is my summer transport, a 2015 Specialized Cirrus Elite XL, with very, very few miles on it. By the end of the summer it'll have racked up something like 2000.

Okay, just for you I dug one up. Here's the beast at mile zero, about to drive up from North Hollywood to Seattle for my wedding via the PCH in 2009. I listened to the Left Behind series the entire way and the whole world was freaking out about swine flu.

It looks much the same now, only the SRS light won't turn off, the wiper fluid occasionally rebels, and there's a car seat in the back. It had been paid for like 4 years prior to this picture being taken.





user-inactivated  ·  2886 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I listened to the Left Behind series the entire way

You are made of sterner stuff than I.

user-inactivated  ·  2886 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Are those wheels stock? They don't look stock and they fit your car really nicely actually.

kleinbl00  ·  2886 days ago  ·  link  ·  

TSW lagunas. I think it came with 60 series and that's dumb. So when the tires went flat I upgraded to the Lagunas 'cuz Discount Tire had four returns for like $80 each. Then I went 40 series. Then two days later I lost my job. It was awesome.

I actually put some cheap-ass TSWs on my wife's Fit, not because I think it's dope but because the only viable differences between a Fit Sport and a Fit Vanilla is the Vanilla comes with shitty tires and a smaller anti-roll bar (and without 250lbs of ground effects). So we wore the tires off the Vanilla and then put some 40s on it. The anti-roll didn't make the pain-in-the-ass factor.

user-inactivated  ·  2886 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well at least you got a heck of a deal on them. They look great.

As for the Fit, not that you'd want to, but I think there is actually a decent amount of after market support for that car in the realm of strut bars and such. So if you ever did feel like changing it, the option's there.

kleinbl00  ·  2886 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah... just can't see rippin' round Seattle with a car seat and an oxygen tank in the back.

user-inactivated  ·  2884 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey. I've seen some absolutely sick Toyota Previas in my time. ;)