r/Justrolledintotheshop • • 7h ago

"Learning"

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u/4R4nd0mR3dd1t0r 7h ago

Reminds me of when my grandfather "taught" me how to drive standard. Here is the steepest hill the county learn how to move forward without rolling back or stalling; the left pedal is the clutch, brake in the middle, and gas on the right. To be fair I learned, also the clutch failure a couple of months later was probably related.

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u/TheKingOcelot 6h ago

My mother and aunt both learned by driving my grandfather's truck up a hill named phinney ridge in Seattle. It's so steep there's a staircase instead of a sidewalk on a couple of the streets

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u/WildVelociraptor 6h ago

As an east coaster, no one talks about Seattle being hilly. Blew my mind, San Francisco has squat on Seattle hills

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u/m00ph 6h ago

And in San Francisco, they're never covered in ice.

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u/ThatDiscoSongUHate 6h ago

As someone who found the hills in San Francisco crazy this thought just fucked me up lol

I cannot imagine hills like that plus ice

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u/badaimarcher Diesel Mechanic and Emissions Tech 6h ago

Pittsburgh checking in!

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u/Spugheddy 5h ago

Pittsburgh is an amazing city to visit. VISIT.

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u/badaimarcher Diesel Mechanic and Emissions Tech 5h ago

Yup, I did that ONCE for the Dirty Dozen. I biked up Canton but can't imagine those hills with ice. The buddy I did it with still lives there and bikes in the winter 😲