Comments on: Speedlinking - 30 Jul 2007 http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/ money, motorcycles and cars (with a little bit of everything else) Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:01:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: derek http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4271 derek Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:53:01 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4271 I'm not sure he likes being called Michelle but I agree that it was a great article! :grin: Thanks for stopping by Bryan! I’m not sure he likes being called Michelle but I agree that it was a great article! :grin:

Thanks for stopping by Bryan!

]]> By: Bryan@OneMan'sGoal.Com http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4269 Bryan@OneMan'sGoal.Com Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:20:03 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4269 Love the Michelle Kwan article! Great links... Love the Michelle Kwan article!

Great links…

]]> By: derek http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4261 derek Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:42:45 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4261 @Ed :: I cannot wait to see pics of your car with the new wheels. Having to wait 6 weeks will probably be pretty hard though, I know that would be a slow 6 weeks for me! @Patrick :: Thanks! I hope you enjoy the posts and keep coming back for more! @Dave :: You're welcome, no problem on the feedback. I just hope I was able to provide some constructive criticism. Re: the wheels, I am well aware that you can spend much more than $1700 and that is why I haven't taken the plunge myself as I know I would end up finding something much too expensive. @Ed :: I cannot wait to see pics of your car with the new wheels. Having to wait 6 weeks will probably be pretty hard though, I know that would be a slow 6 weeks for me!

@Patrick :: Thanks! I hope you enjoy the posts and keep coming back for more!

@Dave :: You’re welcome, no problem on the feedback. I just hope I was able to provide some constructive criticism. Re: the wheels, I am well aware that you can spend much more than $1700 and that is why I haven’t taken the plunge myself as I know I would end up finding something much too expensive.

]]> By: Dave http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4257 Dave Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:42:14 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4257 Thanks for the link love, I just responded back to your feedback, sorry for the response. I swear I had a tab open with that page waiting to respond for days! Regarding $1,700 wheels, that's nothing with tires! My wheels on my 350Z were about $3,400 with tires. On the Viper you can't spend less than $4,500 for anything that looks good. Wheels are the number one thing that make the car look that much better and differentiate themselves from all of the others. Just make sure your wheel gap isn't too huge ;) Also, you should be on the lookout through the forums for <b>used</b> wheels/tires, you may even find the ones you're looking for if you keep an eye out. Many times you can get a good deal where you can sell the wheels back whenever you sell the car for the same price (or even more). Consider it a loan to borrow wheels on your car, but in the end they are free! I almost never buy new tires, I just get new wheels (or a new car lol). Thanks for the link love, I just responded back to your feedback, sorry for the response. I swear I had a tab open with that page waiting to respond for days!

Regarding $1,700 wheels, that’s nothing with tires! My wheels on my 350Z were about $3,400 with tires. On the Viper you can’t spend less than $4,500 for anything that looks good.

Wheels are the number one thing that make the car look that much better and differentiate themselves from all of the others. Just make sure your wheel gap isn’t too huge ;)

Also, you should be on the lookout through the forums for used wheels/tires, you may even find the ones you’re looking for if you keep an eye out. Many times you can get a good deal where you can sell the wheels back whenever you sell the car for the same price (or even more). Consider it a loan to borrow wheels on your car, but in the end they are free! I almost never buy new tires, I just get new wheels (or a new car lol).

]]> By: Patrick http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4248 Patrick Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:56:22 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4248 Very nice post. I'll be sure to checkout the websites you mentioned. Always in the market to learn something new. Very nice post. I’ll be sure to checkout the websites you mentioned. Always in the market to learn something new.

]]> By: Ed Lau http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4241 Ed Lau Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:16:38 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4241 Thanks for the link. I wouldn't say completely out the window...although there are few ways to spend more than $1700 on wheels that aren't some absurd spinning chrome contraptions. Too bad they won't be here for another 6 weeks, though. However, my front lip kit arrived today so I'm quite excited about that. Thanks for the link.

I wouldn’t say completely out the window…although there are few ways to spend more than $1700 on wheels that aren’t some absurd spinning chrome contraptions.

Too bad they won’t be here for another 6 weeks, though. However, my front lip kit arrived today so I’m quite excited about that.

]]> By: derek http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4229 derek Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:36:51 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4229 @Michael :: You're welcome, glad to hear that you were able to block traffic from that referral. Did you do that via .htaccess or some other method? @Damien :: That is a nice distinction between personal success and public success. Thanks for the additional insight and you do make sense, most of the time! ;) @Shawn :: You're welcome! @Michael :: You’re welcome, glad to hear that you were able to block traffic from that referral. Did you do that via .htaccess or some other method?

@Damien :: That is a nice distinction between personal success and public success. Thanks for the additional insight and you do make sense, most of the time! ;)

@Shawn :: You’re welcome!

]]> By: Shawn Knight http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4225 Shawn Knight Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:17:40 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4225 Thanks for the linkage, sir! Thanks for the linkage, sir!

]]> By: Damien Riley http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4223 Damien Riley Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:53:15 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4223 Derek . . . yes! Thank you. My wife and I "post post" were driving and talking about this and we whittled it down to the fact that there is a definition for success in public and then a definition you create for yourself. So 2 platforms of success: the personal and the public. Here's the colorful way my wife put it: If you could write "Damien Riley is a success in -----" in the Wall Street Journal, then that is a public success. On the other hand, we are to set the parameters of our own success requirement and then be real with ourselves about meeting them. The personal is is very different from the public and one does not cancel the other out. Example: I am not a success at rock music (Public truth) I am a success at rock music (my own success) recording in the garage, playing local bars, keeping up a MySpace. Ok I'll stop now before this becomes a post of its own ;) I hope I make sense at least sometimes! Derek . . . yes! Thank you. My wife and I “post post” were driving and talking about this and we whittled it down to the fact that there is a definition for success in public and then a definition you create for yourself. So 2 platforms of success: the personal and the public.

Here’s the colorful way my wife put it:

If you could write “Damien Riley is a success in —–” in the Wall Street Journal, then that is a public success.

On the other hand, we are to set the parameters of our own success requirement and then be real with ourselves about meeting them. The personal is is very different from the public and one does not cancel the other out.

Example:

I am not a success at rock music (Public truth)

I am a success at rock music (my own success) recording in the garage, playing local bars, keeping up a MySpace.

Ok I’ll stop now before this becomes a post of its own ;) I hope I make sense at least sometimes!

]]> By: Michael Kwan http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4221 Michael Kwan Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:43:03 +0000 http://dereksemmler.com/2007/07/30/speedlinking-30-jul-2007/#comment-4221 Thanks for the linkage. It seems like my Adsense woes have worked themselves out, after I banned referral traffic from dragon-mail.net. Thanks for the linkage. It seems like my Adsense woes have worked themselves out, after I banned referral traffic from dragon-mail.net.

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