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Amber DaSilva
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Staff Writer at Jalopnik. Sucker for big adventurous motorcycles and tiny sporty cars. It doesn't make much sense to her, either.

This actually came from an article! The original written version is here
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I hadn’t thought about it in so long, but you’re never truly free Read more

Damn, it’s a good thing no one’s ever been wrongfully convicted of anything, and that both policing and sentencing are perfectly fair and equitable across all groups at all times. And, of course, that the private prison industry doesn’t set minimum occupancy rules to ensure it has a supply of labor from which to Read more

My fellow Americans, if elected, I swear to you that within my first 100 days in office-- Read more

Oh I’m certain of it. Hopefully there’s a little period in between where they get really cheap and I can buy one Read more

In 2017, you could get the Africa Twin in full red/white/blue Honda colors! You’d pick red over this?

I would honestly love to take one of these around Catalina Read more

Nope! Even if you could, I’m told the two batteries in the U.S.-spec bikes need to be carefully kept at the exact same charge level. In other markets, where you can get a cheaper single-battery version, that might be more feasible (though still not something BMW supports) Read more

A BDR would destroy one of these, but god does that sound fun to try Read more

The issue with separating politics from a commodity is that the sale of the commodity ends up funding the politics. Musk largely paid for the Twitter acquisition with money earned from Tesla stock sales — stock which is valued based on the business Tesla does as a company. Model Y sales funded Musk’s Twitter buyout. Read more

It was for me, until I started driving FWD Hondas. They just get it right
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Even wilder, this was written about a C7 with a trailer hitch that played with me on the highway
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I’m honestly having trouble coming up with a worse one and I literally write for a living Read more

Remember that bikes all settle under your weight! 34.25 inches unloaded doesn’t mean 34.25 inches with a rider on top Read more

Seat height is a claimed 34.25 inches. I definitely wasn’t getting both feet flat on the ground, but it also never felt like it was going to tip over on me at a stop or while navigating a gas station Read more