A pair of jeans is the equivalent to toilet paper against asphalt.

Aerostich is my answer

Pants not so much for impact, but to spare your skin road rash.  Yeah, my Sidis were darn expensive, but very good protection and somewhat comfortable.

Welcome to the bike life. Been riding in NYC (Staten Islanr, then BK) since I was 14 (almost 50 now) I think that the first bike should have been a Tomos Sprint moped, they are much faster than they should be, and I ride one (along with a vintage Buell M2) love that little moped. Anyway, congrats on the Moto Guzzi, a…

It’s not legal but everyone just does it anyway, because fuck it why not

So far, it seems to be working. I truly haven’t yet experienced anything ultra sketchy while riding between the boroughs.

The power isn’t so much the problem for a first bike, it’s likely the weight of the bike. You could do far worse.

I ride a moto in DC and you have to be at the highest alert level possible +3 more. More people than not are driving around either lost and looking for a particular street to turn or texting on their phone and those people will KILL you quick if you are not paying attention. My advice - expect that car in front of you…

My JROTC instructor in high school was a verified member of Delta Force. He was mentioned in a published book. He would never talk about his experiences in Nam with us. Which makes sense now. I was just talking to my wife about him the other night. He was an amazing man and an outstanding role model to me and pretty…

I remember in another lifetime back some 20 years ago, was in JROTC in my High School, and the Lt Colonel who ran the program was a nice man, devoted career Army man, and while talking to him once after class talking about our perspective families military history, he let slip that his son was at the time in 98 an…

Hey. COME ON MAN. I actually had something to contribute in a way. lol.

I wanted to see that guy try to walk in a straight line after that.

Oh, man.  I’d so want to take the old truck down to the “headlight buff out” guy and ask him to refurb those Salavador Dali headlamps.

Does that make the instructor for the flight the Wang Commander?

When determining the size of the engine, the number of liters shall be 2. No more, no less. 2 shall be the number of liters, and the number of liters shall be 2.

It’s only a model

Don’t let the salaries fool you, they are still 20 year old’s, and several of them were not rich as fuck until only recently.

Soooo, if I understand correctly...you didn’t see any rust on it when you bought it, so you stored it in a garage till it had properly ripened.