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Staff Writer at Jalopnik, learning pilot and does bus stuff. Smart Fortwo (x4), Honda Beat, Suzuki Every, VW Touareg V10, Passat TDI, Jetta TDI, Audi TT, Buell Lightning, Triumph Tiger, Genuine Stella

Maybe he should stop signaling left and then swerving to the right.
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And in actual use, it worked once. Did you not read the article and/or watched the video? Read more

So long as they keep shipping my VHS cleaner over from the continent I guess they can still sit at our table. Read more

Come on, you don’t appreciate notorious gay icon (checks notes) Maersk? Read more

As a professional gay here, I did not see any Subarus?

Oh, the jeep and hummer: gay, gay, gay sweeties!

I thought we in SF had the most corporate Pride/ Rainbow capitalism bs but LA is up there.

Pride started as a (a few actually) riots!

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Good list.  As an offical Gay(r) I’d like to see less corporate bullshit, but over all not bad. Read more

These cars are dramatically overengineered in the coolest ways possible. The body is aluminum and has fender cutouts like you see in the current porsche RS cars, the engine was magnesium for weight savings, the coefficient of drag would put some modern EVs to shame, and you could get it with a manual. There are more Read more

It’s like everything. Spending more is always a case of diminishing returns once you get to “good enough”. There is far more difference between a shitty Walmart bike for $150 and your bike than your bike and a $3000 bike. It can be worth it if the differences are worth it to you, just like I think the differences and Read more

Statistics prove that you’re more likely to get shot with your own gun than to use it defending from someone else.
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Woof. That’s a big question. I think at some point if you have the right fundamentals on a bike then it just becomes a matter of marginal gains with price increase (some wide margins, some narrow), but riding and trail style factors in as well.

For example, if you’re willing to spend around $1k on a new hardtail mountai Read more

Serious question from a low end bike user ($600 Trek for casual riding), how much extra does a bike that cost 10x get you? Read more

It’s safe to say this guy won’t be riding a bus again anytime soon.

I see shit like this where the guy has a rap sheet of SERIOUS crimes and yet is out there walking free versus the myriads of people now serving hard time... for smoking a joint. Stupid. Read more

The difference between fraud and negligence is intent, which is notoriously difficult to prove without documentation (email/text message, for example). Read more

There was an RE-5 project not far from me on Facebook for $1000.  I was ready willing and able to buy but the seller never answered any of my messages.   Read more

Preserving history means preserving the basic stuff people used every day. It’s cool that someone kept this car in like-new condition for all these years.   This is clearly not something done for money.
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