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Andrew Fails
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Fails is a freelance photographer who sometimes pretends to be literate. You can see his portfolio at www.failsphotography.com. He is talking in third person because it makes him feel mysterious.

They’re way safer if you sit on them instead of step on them. Read more

Miss clear signs of impending danger, overreact to situation, but manage to not make contact with anything, continue with immense confidence in own amazing driving abilities. Read more

I had one patched from the inside, and it never leaked at all. Totally worthwhile, especially since the tire was basically brand new. Read more

Would a warranty even cover brakes? My understanding was they specifically excluded wear items like pads/rotors.  Read more

Where I am gets colder than Denver in the winter, and hotter than it in the summer. Still works. Read more

My last Mini had it, and I thought it worked great. Set fan to Auto, set temp to whatever, leave alone. If I’m really melting in the summer, maybe turn the fan up higher for a bit, but for 90% of the time, I could set it and forget it. Read more

Tried to insert an image of it here, but got Kinjad. Doesn’t look lifted at all to me in the video. Read more

 Counterpoint:that's exactly why they SHOULD be white, because the best racecar is a dirty racecar. 
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Jalopnik: “Manufacturers should build more wagons!”
Porsche “Here you go.” Read more

Probably over half of the houses on my street don’t have garages, and there’s multiple that don’t even have driveways (trade-off of a neighborhood built 100+ years ago), so I don’t know what the future solution will be for home charging. I don’t think everyone will want to run extension cords across the sidewalk into Read more

Man, this makes me want to redo my garage. We just got a new roof on it last year, so it at least keeps the racoons out now, but the cinder block walls have enough gaps to see daylight through. Read more

I think a lot of people desire a longer range, not for road trips, but just for daily use. For example, if I bought an EV, I could not charge it at my house or my job. So yes, while my daily mileage is relatively low, I don’t want to have to go drive to a grocery store every day and hang out there for an hour while Read more

I have a super crazy idea. What if we took multiple of those Model 3s and trams and hooked them together into a chain, but removed the steering wheels and whatnot? They could be some sort of new, disruptive SUBterranean WAY of shuttling people around. Read more

I definitely had to do this on my Mini's maiden voyage, until I could wood glue the crank back together. Worked great for multiple days and hundreds of miles.  Read more

Groms are the best! Impossible to be in a bad mood on one.  Read more

Buy a slow bike! I borrowed an R6 for an afternoon, and I know I'll never own that type of bike, because I'll get myself into trouble. But something with a much lower top speed gets you the fun, with slightly less chance of death or jail.  Read more

I maintain that for 99.9% of “offroading” people do, they could use literally any vehicle. I couldn’t count the number of dirt/gravel roads I took a stock Mini Cooper down. Sure, an overlanding rig may be more comfortable, but I've done plenty of dirt driving at speed in econoboxes with zero issues.  Read more

Is this any smaller than the 701/401? This looks like a full sized bike, which kind of misses the point of being a Grom competitor. Read more