Side note on the product side: The bikes have been continuously less appealing since Willie G left. Lots of excess, lots of bad tradeoffs. Would love to see them get back to what made the bikes in the Nineties so appealing. Read more

Aside from the reflexive bashing, a question split into three parts: Read more

Provided I someday again live at a place with a front yard, those would be some jumbo-sized donuts. Read more

Would I buy it? Absolutely not. Read more

1. Can it do anything off-road? Read more

Given that this is in the middle of Texas I’m honestly surprised that a) this doesn’t happen more often, and so b) they’re not better trained/prepared for this. Read more

Yeah, but on comparatively light charges. Emphasis on the “major” part in the original. Malicious destruction of gear with ulterior motives to aid and abet some preferred Enemy or something like that. Read more

Is it bad that part of me suspects this is the Army finding a scapegoat for something that went wrong at some higher level - procurement or training or something? Read more

Race engineer: “Needs moar downforce.” Read more

Oh, I’m a full member in good standing of the moderate-power/well-rounded car cult. Not thinking huge grunty mountains of thrust but more of a classicist if a rebuild is happening: optimized breathing, a bit more compression, that sort of thing. Read more

General overall wear = good justification for a mild to moderate street build. Read more

Safe assumption that it’ll break six. Read more

Well, that’s what you get for being an American driving a German car in France. Read more

Biweekly: every two weeks. Read more

Oh, they have a logic. Read more

I’ll go back and read the whole thing, but I just wanted to scoot down here and say: Read more

Production schedule be damned. Long live the king. Read more

You have my eternal respect as someone who is not only capable of somehow mentally processing this entire cesspool-times-tornado but also having the strength to write about it. I can’t even read more than a few paragraphs before my teeth ache and I start thinking about a stiff drink. Read more

Oh, good. So I wasn’t hallucinating/suffering some cognitive issue earlier today?