The other day there were four bikes in my apartment and one of them was in full working order. My kitchen was full of disassembled brake parts earlier today. Read more
Raphael Orlove
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Raphael Orlove is features editor for Jalopnik.
the smart money is pretty much all the same: just buy a disc frame Read more
I did a searchtempest on this guy and indeed it’s not that hard to find them still for $60-$90 far away from hipster centers. Had I been in central florida a few weeks after I was, one of those bikes probably would have gotten shipped home... Read more
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by contrast, ghosn, wanted by interpol, seems super chill at the moment Read more
Right. I wanted this guy to hit on a grand conspiracy, tear the whole shithouse down with him, call out Abe, call out his government as an operation, but he wasn’t down for it. Read more
what else would he be driving Read more
We didn’t have time to talk about Nissan’s Group C stuff but if you look up our big article on Ray Mallock and the Saleen S7/Aston AMR-1 you’ll get some good stuff on it. Nissan’s racing efforts through the ‘80s were kinda all over the place (Toyota wasn’t so different, really, to equal effect) but the 90 cars really… Read more
it is important Read more
::types brakim racing into google just for old times’ sake:: Read more
wow we were all wrong:
This is funny in that the Volt was meant to leapfrog the Prius (it took too long, ended up too expensive, and kinda weird and impractical with no middle seat in the back because of the really strange battery solution) but it’s that I wasn’t talking about the Volt but the Bolt, which is all-too-easy to confuse because… Read more
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pointless or... completely batshit Read more
indeed! it’s like being mad at “coupe” SUVs as having less space than the non-chopped roof versions. the whole point is impracticality! Read more
Instead of nearly clipping the mailbox, I would simply have crashed directly into it. Read more
how a climate-controlled soundproof cube fifteen feet off the ground feels like “a sports car” I do not know Read more