No denying the Staintune is a well-made system, but even so it's overpriced. More than that though, I'm personally not a fan of that Flowmaster-style sound - the echoing metal chamber type of thing. I prefer a little tighter sound with just a little edge of rasp, which you usually get from a medium-short fiberglass…

The neighbor/boss/politician he hated died first. So he committed suicide due to his mountainous debt. The tank was purchased at auction by the steelyard, thinking it would be good scrap, but after weighing the labor and amount of acetylene required to chop it up, they decided to weld up a few dodgy spots, cut their…

Jalopquest 2011?!!?!

Half the cylinders, all of the sound. Still accessible today for very reasonable prices - the V4 powered Honda VFR. Mine gets compliments ALL the time, even from people who don't give a crap about bikes.

I know you're a Ducati guy. Their dry clutches... so awesome.

NOT BUELL'S WORK, FOR THE LOVE. That bike was built as a commission for Craig Vetter. Buell had nothing to do with the fairing. Vetter, if you haven't heard, is one of the oldest and greatest designers of motorcycle fairings and is essentially the forefather of modern-era streamlining.

If you're accelerating to 300mph on a runway, I don't think you're so much sitting *on* the bike as having your spine compressed by the rear fairing. Thus, there should be plenty of room for large attachments (so says Mr. Hobbs). The truly amazing thing is that he completed the feat without turning into a midget.

No, they didn't. Good grief, does Erik Buell pay people to spout bullshit on the internet and credit him with inventing it?

I hope the cameraman taped the phone's sim card to the windshield with a note that says "I only want 10% of the proceeds. You're welcome."

Awesome. Completely awesome. As one who's seen the Grand-Am race at Barber every year since it started, I know how cool these cars are.

If you're spending $225k for a track day playboy supercar, go ahead and drop the $35k to make it sound proper, too.

$15k (and let's be honest, you could probably get that down a few k) is a definite NP because racecar.

Unstarred underlings and all... we're sneaky.

Oh well, I guess the free sites are two days behind.

Certainly Ti springs. Ti rear shock springs now come standard on several production motocross race bikes such as the Yamaha YZ250F/YZ450F, and have since 2006. And those bikes only cost a few thousand dollars total. I'm entirely sure that any metal spring on an F1 car would be Ti (or some other lighter alloy if the…

Certainly the odds are low. So are your odds of getting into a serious car wreck on your way home. Does that prevent you from wearing your seatbelt?

Y U NO Hat tip? Awesome video is awesome.

That spring, Ti I assume, weighs maybe a pound or two. Tire+wheel weighs about 30lbs (perhaps a bit less; this is F1 afterall). The spring nearly killed Massa; a tire would be absolutely deadly a much lower speeds.

Not enough speed. This is how you're supposed to take the whoops.