[rootusrootus]

> Because there is a perception that cyclists are like this. Whether it is true or not doesn't matter.

I reiterate my earlier comment about it being childish. "You look like someone I should hate, so I am going to fuck with you in particular."

Oh the irony in these same people being quite fond of claiming it's everyone else that's the emotional snowflake.

> Other than it not being deliberate it was "rolling coal". To get the black soot you need to just have poor combustion of a diesel.

No. Rolling coal requires injecting vastly more fuel and making the mixture far richer than even the worst possible factory tune.

[StarGrit]

> I reiterate my earlier comment about it being childish. "You look like someone I should hate, so I am going to fuck with you in particular."

I agree. However if the most vocal members of the group come off preachy, self entitled etc. at best people are going to be ambivalent towards you and at worst straight off hostile.

> Oh the irony in these same people being quite fond of claiming it's everyone else that's the emotional snowflake.

It is often pot and kettle. I am not in the US and don't care about stupid culture war bs. I see both as equally ridiculous.

> No. Rolling coal requires injecting vastly more fuel and making the mixture far richer than even the worst possible factory tune.

This is exactly what happened. Someone has messed with the fuel pump (before I owned it) and/or the throttle cable isn't adjusted properly.

So all intents and purposes the effect was the same. That is why the vehicle is in the garage. I don't like having a vehicle that isn't running properly.

[eesmith]

Earlier you wrote it was "because I was in totally the wrong gear going up a steep hill".

Now it's "Someone has messed with the fuel pump (before I owned it) and/or the throttle cable isn't adjusted properly."

Here's NJ's law:

> No person shall retrofit any diesel-powered vehicle with any device, smoke stack (i.e., hood stack or bed stack), or other equipment which enhances the vehicle's capacity to emit soot, smoke, or other particulate emissions, or shall purposely release significant quantities of soot, smoke, or other particulate emissions into the air and onto roadways and other vehicles while operating the vehicle, colloquially referred to as "coal rolling."

Did you purposely release significant quantities of soot? According to your own words, that was not your intent.

Therefore under NJ law you were not rolling coal, even though the visible effect is the same. The law is based on your intent and purpose.