My experience was pretty similar. Rode one at a demo day, and was blown away, then talked a dealership into loaning me one for a few hours. Such an easy bike to ride. Read more

I personally HATE riding with a passenger, so I don’t blame him. Read more

I loved that bike, even if if the mirrors kind of sucked. Have fun!  Read more

Any time I drive at night I wind up having to flip up my rear view mirror at least once to try and avoid being blinded by some terrible headlights of the people behind me. Read more

Holy crap, this explains why I get blinded all the time. I figured it was people running crappy aftermarket lights, but didn’t understand what specifically was happening. Read more

I drove my first RHD car over the weekend, and shifting was ok, except I routinely missed 3rd and hit 1st instead. Also hit the wipers instead of the blinkers a lot. It was very weird to not be able to rely on muscle memory though. Read more

I belive you're looking for the Exocet. Uses Miata hardware in a tube chassis.  Read more

Torch, how many times have you electrocuted yourself? Just ballpark figures. Read more

Agreed. You can build in any color cast, grain, etc in Lightroom. Hell, just buy VSCO presets (if that's still a thing).  Read more

Thank you so much! There’s definitely a lot that get thrown out to get the good panning shots. I need to practice more, if memory serves, I don’t think any of these were slower than 1/50 or so, and I’d like to get it slower than that. Read more

Canon 6D, usually with a 24-70, but sometimes I rent something longer if I’m going to a big event.

Fate of the Furious made over a billion dollars. They won’t stop making these until Vin Diesel is dead, and then they’ll just CGI a new one out of old footage. Read more

Yeah! Keep original ideas, like a 9th F&F movie! Not a F&F movie but with just the female characters, that’s a shameless cash grab. Read more

Great job telling a person what they do or do not actually like. Read more

2006 SV650.

I don't have a rear mudguard. Anytime I've ridden in the rain, the only part of me that's marginally more dry than the rest is what's physically touching the seat.  Read more

My bike doesn’t push water past me, and occasionally throws stuff up on my back from the rear tire, so this one seems pretty normal to me. Read more

I mean, I get wet every time I ride in the rain. Because motorcycles don’t have walls or roofs. Read more

I'm on my 4th thermostat assembly in under 150k miles, if that says anything.  Read more

Agreed on the dipstick. I swapped mine out for a Cravenspeed. I do love driving the car, but it’s at 150k, and I’m waiting for some sort of catastrophic failure. It occasionally blows black smoke out the exhaust when leaving stops, it’s gone into full limp mode (possible failing HPFP), and the last time I raced it it… Read more