Yeah, I can do a kickstart, but I’ll never get another carb’ed bike again if I can avoid it.  Just don’t want that hassle. 

I’ve always wanted a TW400, something with just enough juice to ride down a highway. That’s always been my problem with smaller dual sports— they’re awesome once they get to the dirt, but *getting* them to the dirt is a chore, or even impossible, for we city-living folk.

Pro: no migrant workers died in building this track.

My old West End Games Star Wars RPG group back in high school had this same debate.  We figured that wookies had to get matted something fierce, requiring frequent trims of their butt hair.  Which likely meant that Chewie was asking Han for help every now and again.  What a friend!

Honestly, after the recent years of Marquez turning the GP into the Marquez Invitational, I don’t know why they *ALL* don’t retire.

Ohai says my Cayman. I just put my winter shoes on this weekend for that very reason: RWD mid-engine cars don’t like to drift, they instead like to spin like a top. I’ll take every edge I get when it gets cold or snowy.

Also important to remember, it’s not just the snow that calls for winter tires— it’s the *temperature*, too. It could be dry as the desert on the ground but when it’s below freezing, those summer tires are just as lousy.

Which if you live in a city is still like 75% of your riding.

On one hand: plaid seats are awesome and more cars should have them.

This is an old concept, always been played with even back in the Iwo Jima / Harrier days (Google “Sea Control Ship”). I’m somewhat surprised they’re using America and Tripoli for it, however, as embarking an all-fixed wing airgroup literally junks the reason these ships exist— to deploy and support the MEU in combat.…

So, it’s basically 2010 to 2001 then? A good movie saddled with exposition, but nowhere near the classic that the Kubrick original is?

At least a post about the Chicago Bears, who are definitely not related to sports. 

Auto-playing videos.  They have plenty of those. 

io9 is literally the only place covering Star Wars that *didn’t* report this once it was announced.  And they just missed it again!

Your semi-regular reminder that every single experiment ever undertaken on Mars, combined, would equal about one afternoon’s worth of work for a single astronaut.

My Cayman sport exhaust easily switches on and off so I can be polite to my neighbors but still open it up for when I’m on the twisty roads.  Best of both worlds. 

Moar torque is always welcome in these kind of bikes. Lackluster name, however— could you be any more generic in your branding, Indian?  “Milwaukee Eight” has character, at least. 

I’m a bigger fan of the cleaner lines of the V2 over the vent-ridden fussiness of the V4 models.

Eh.