I used to work with a bunch of former Ford workers. They told me they liked to eat their lunch on the line and just throw the trash behind the panels in the footwell.  Read more

I've had the same leather jacket since probably 2005. I had the synthetic lining replaced a year ago, but the jacket itself is still good. A little rough around the edges, but that's just character.  Read more

How frequently are you replacing them? Leather will stretch, sure, because it's skin, but it shouldn't wear through unless you're doing something crazy to it. Stitches/rivets will fail before the actual leather, then you can just re-sew it.  Read more

That's one thing I like about leather: a well made leather item can last basically forever.  Read more

The phrase you're looking for is "ponzi scheme".  Read more

Ferrari is also using a physical button that you can feel without looking at it. Tesla is using capacitive buttons that feel no different from the rest of the wheel, which is way worse.  Read more

Yeah, at least on a motorcycle you're small and quick. The Mini is just small and slow.  Read more

I’ve never driven on Houston highways, but I drive on Missouri/Kansas highways every day in mine. Y0u get used to it after a while. Going much over 75 starts to get a little interesting though. Read more

I like the MSF course, and think that everyone who rides should take it, but I also think the MSF gets more credit than it deserves. At the end of that class you are prepared to ride safely, in a closed parking lot with no traffic, under the eye of instructors, at speeds slower than most neighborhoods. Yes, it’s good,… Read more

Accepting the fact that I’m nowhere near as good of a driver as I'd like to think I am, and neither is anyone else. We're all a bunch of bored, distracted monkeys, probably not paying as much attention as we should be.  Read more

I had a salesman explicitly tell me not to buy their Street line bikes or their Sportsters. Their own dealerships are their own worst enemies.  Read more

It was a joke. Read more

Everyone needs a Grom. And I'm pretty sure traffic laws don't apply to them.  Read more

This has more power than my car and motorcycle combined.
Yikes... Read more

Every time I see non-offroad vehicles do trails it just makes me think that 99% of people who ARE doing offroad mods are just wasting their money.  Read more

My naked bike has 30,000 miles on it. Sure, I don’t ride in snow or anything, but I don’t think that fairings are a necessity for heavy regular use. Read more

The second hand shame I got reading this caused me real physical discomfort, and I had to stop. Read more

Oh man... I do not miss my R56. I think my classic Mini actually consumes less oil than my R56 did. Read more

Really? Hatchbacks are pretty much the most practical vehicles I’ve ever owned. Keep the backs eats folded down and you have a small station wagon. I’ve never had a Fiesta ST, but my old Cooper S could carry 90% of what I ever needed. Read more

Little known fact: the ES trim level stands for Extremely Sick. Shadows have 2 modes of operation: full throttle, and parked. Nothing else is acceptable.  Read more