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Damon Lavrinc
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Behold the new chariot of choice for the Grocery Store Gran Prix. Read more

Oh they're leaps and bounds ahead of other older/vintage cars one could track, but they'll definitely bite the uninitiated. Read more

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Banning Tesla sales is helping Tesla sales for three simple reasons: Read more

Rick Ross tells me to tell you that he's pleased. Read more

The questions for Net Neutrality opponents like you is: Who will be determining what data is more important; and are you prepared to pay more for faster data that's considered important? Read more

In spite of all the stuff they do that is invasive to privacy this is pretty damn classy of them. I'm glad. Read more

Damon, you are both right and wrong. Yes, this engine works differently from how VTEC works in the VFR. But that's because in the VFR, it's actual VTEC in the sense that there's variable valve actuation (IIRC in the VFR 2 out of 4 valves per cylinder can be shut off). But this is different because it uses cam phasing, Read more

While not entirely unique, it's nice to see something a little different.

Digital, articulating intake runners that adjust to engine speed and load. Read more

Bike armor. You'd have it all laying flat most of the time, but when accelerometers detect that you've gone off your bike, been hit, gone upside down, whatever, it expands to form your own personal crumples zones. Read more

Basically a real race engine needs to be efficient under racing regulation air restriction, fuel economy for longer stints and fewer pit stops, and run flat out for 24 hours something a street engine can't do. Race engines last about 8K miles before they need a total rebuild so a street/race engine swap makes sense. Read more

The emperor has no clothes. 2.5MM for a body kit and a mediocre one at that. Brand killing lunacy. Read more

I show up at my doctor's office in my riding gear on and helmet in hand. He asks me if I know the risks I'm taking. Knowing what is coming, I ask him a simple question - Read more

"Candy-eating Alfred E. Neuman motherfucker" is the best compliment I've ever received. Thanks, Matt. At the risk of sounding like a smoke-blowing asshole, I'm honored to have been a part of this place. Working here genuinely realigned how I think.

I just wanna go on record as saying anything with Jason or Raph's Read more

I'm not sure how Ray Wert found Sam Smith. Something to do with Jean Jennings, probably. I just remember that I'd prized my ability to write a coherent and, on occasion, amusing sentence.