I’m needlessly unsettled by the assertion that a speech made about the inhuman evils of slavery is remotely applicable to the experiences of African-Americans today. Yes, things are not good, but they are better— self-evidently better, even from decades ago, let alone approaching 200 years ago. Douglass’ words are…

I was today year’s old when I learned that it’s nearly *10,000* feet at the South Pole.  No wonder it sucks so much there.

Gee, wait until Honda discovers how the United States government treats speech it doesn’t agree with, it’ll never sell cars in the U.S. again!

Some things, like racial injustice, are worth dying killing for.

VICTORY AUTOWRECKERS!!!

Meanwhile, Ducati continues to miss the opportunity to market its line of Ball Warming Scramblers ;-).

Yupppp... same logic for me ruled out the Alltrack and Sportwagen, they just couldn’t figure out how to combine the best of both worlds and give us an R. wagon.

Uranus.

I like Harleys. This bike is fine for what it is— it may not be for me or you, but there is a happy rider who enjoys this layout of a bike. Given the unending glut of used Harleys in America, however, a *1998* Sportster even in great, albeit modified, condition is worth at most $3500-$4500 judging by Cycletrader…

My brother owned a second-gen SSR. That thing was one of the most fun vehicles I’ve ever enjoyed tooling around southern California. A convertible V8 pickup at the beach? What’s not to love?

Sorry to hear (?) that. I started riding late enough in life to protect my hearing from the start, it makes all the difference in the world (And I now wear earplugs to indoor concerts as well, for the same reason— I was amazed at how earplugs improve any club concert into a hi-fi personal rock session).

But do you wear earplugs?

Because it’s actually not all that useful. You can’t drive around with it open without risking damage, and anything that’s on the floor you’re going to bother opening the entire liftgate anyway.

So, I keep planning on getting a second bike in addition to my XSR900 as what I like to call a “drop bike”— basically, something cheap, lightweight, and low-powered that I can spend copious hours treating like absolute crap practicing low-speed parking lot practice (PLP) and high-speed wheelies. I certainly do all of…

This was the last car my dad owned before he died.

One of the best Bond openings ever— I’m a sucker for in media res— and it’s all downhill from there, feh. 

Grrr. “Peak Oil” doesn’t mean a collapse in oil demand, it means the point where it’s no longer possible to profitably extract ever-decreasing or physically-unavailable supplies of oil. It’s meant the latter for literally the entire time the term’s existed, only recently are people trying to pervert the original…

A car that old and with that many miles?

Getting in early with my standard H-D comment before the usual “hate Harley” crowd arrives wishing for the company to die.

Just wait until your service bill.