To be fair, nobody wants to answer to a higher power...

It doesn’t, because it can’t.

It can be hard to convince the haters of the virtues of electric cars, unless those people are Californians, or those people were already on board with the concept to begin with.

Perhaps nobody ever died riding a BMW RS 1200 C, but hundreds died just looking at one.

Ummm, manuals are almost never paired with the higher level trims... that’s the problem. (See again Mazda). 

I had a 2002 Mazda Protege for ten years that never once saw the inside of a service shop aside from oil and tire changes, and a 2008 CX-7 that for six years had the same reliability except for once needing warped rotors replaced. My experience somehow foolishly convinced me that modern cars always just work without…

When you absolutely, positively, have to launder your slave-labor-produced Chinese products through a Western-facing company, there’s always an eager capitalist available to fool the consumer.

The Belgian bikemaker

But without windows, how am I supposed to fire a grenade launcher at those chasing me?

Those are purrrrty.

I guess I don’t understand the big deal here. Cornering lights been around on other high-end motorcycles for years now, BMW, Ducati, KTM, even Harley-Davidson all have them.

Correction, the price is $660.

Correction, the price is $660.

This was me in Death Valley, Thanksgiving, 2019. Riding over Towne Pass, 30 degrees and snowing (we were past the blinding snow by this point).

Ninety percent of the people won’t ride in the winter.

I ride throughout winter down into the 30s. Keeping warm on a bike is all about heated gear (NOT a luxury in winter) and blocking wind. Lower than the 30s, I really just don’t want to deal with the hassle, I have a warm car, thanks.

Something like that happened right around 110 years ago with the fall of the Electric Vehicle Company here in New York, and it took a century for the EV market to recover.

Year 2000, 24 years old, moving from DC to LA for a job. Needed a car to replace a near-death Chevy Cavalier. Brother in Phoenix had spare 1998 VW Golf but with stick. Me, flight routing through Chicago, stops to see Dad, who offers to teach me on his runabout Mazda B series 5-speed pickup.

Can’t unsee.

I have that in my Cayman. Don’t smoke, don’t even need the 12v, but I bought used, so it came with it.