Daveinva

7/1/21

My XSR900 makes 115 and that’s about all I have discipline for on the street. Owning a liter bike is like being handed the keys to a jet fighter. (Do jet fighters have keys?)

6/30/21

It’s charming just as it is functional.

6/30/21

Hahaha Jalopnik business model go brrrrr.

6/28/21

I’d love to read this review, but it’s impossible as it crashes my iPhone 12 more than Vin Diesel crashes movie cars.

6/27/21

What Car Fact Do You Wish You Knew Earlier?

6/24/21

Both engines offer the stick option, with the 2.0 stick being the Sport trim and the 1.5-liter vehicle with the manual transmission being the Sport Touring.

6/24/21

The next bike, based on the 1250 Custom prototype unveiled last December, is finally going to be shown in production spec on July 13th.

6/20/21

Sports better in person:

6/19/21

I hate how the author wrote an entire piece— followed by an entire comments thread— that at my quick read makes no mention of the REAL issue:

6/15/21

I’m more upset that slideshows have lasted longer than I ever expected.

6/15/21

Every model built by Chrysler.

6/11/21

I’ve spent a lot of time in Death Valley— the landscape is similar, but the vegetation is different, you don’t get green going up the mountainsides like that.

6/11/21

ALWAYS spend the money on an upgraded suspension. Price into the cost of every motorcycle, it’s something that ought to be done to truly open up the bike.

6/10/21

I still knew I was straddling every last one of the R 18's seven-hundred pounds when taking off, but as I gained speed, the R 18 began to feel unladen. I didn’t realize how much weight it shed until I took the first turn along my route.

6/10/21

Sigh. It’s got 170,000 miles on it, THE BOMB WOULD HAVE GONE OFF BY NOW.

6/9/21

Personally, I prefer the cleaner look of this concept — I think it’s aged more gracefully than the RX-8 we got.

6/9/21

I am beyond excited that, after years of fruitlessly begging Mr. Brownell post photos of him on a small bike, he has finally repaid reader requests with the mother lode of Big Guy / Small Bike photos.

6/8/21

Off road training is the best rider training (me enjoying a “refresher” course via DC Dirt Camp in Virginia a couple weeks ago). Alas, ‘tis much easier on a sub-300 pound 230cc dirtbike than it is on a 500+ pound ADV bike. But the principles are all the same, they all translate!

6/8/21

This. ALWAYS practice emergency threshhold braking on the street. Just don’t do it on the street— find an empty parking lot (my favorites are movie theater parking lots early in the morning) and practice threshhold braking, applying just enough pressure to come THISCLOSE to locking the brakes, but no more. I do it…

6/8/21

but it’s a very stark reminder of the difference between the haves and have-nots.