Actually here in Montreal they don't blare the sirens until they need to clear someone out of the way. They regularly run reds and pass traffic with only lights. Ditto ambulances.

Didn't everyone in the audience get forced to pay taxes on the cars, because they were not being "gifted", but rather given as charitable donations so that Oprah could write off the expenses?

A quick summary - it's a unique crankcase and flat-plane crankshaft mated to off-the-shelf Japanese components. For the 750 the heads are from a Yamaha FZR400, for the 1000 off a YZF600. Ian Drysdale is fairly well known in motorcycle circles for his chassis work - he works on two-wheel drive and two-wheel steering…

The next time person who tries to convince me that 3000 (or 5000) mile oil changes are stupid will be forced to watch this video.

Hey now, I'm from New Brunswick. They are legendary pieces of our history. The Maritime Delorean, in more ways than one. And unlike the stainless steel coke machine they came with an AMC or Ford V8 which would be easy to hop up as you see fit.

750-1000cc

You're right, my mistake. I recalled the acrylic part of the process but didn't realize there was a fibreglass underlay.

Not quite. They used acrylic bodies. Which rotted and are difficult to repair, there is apparently only one specialist still around who can rebuild them.

The week they instituted the stricter speeding laws here in Quebec (similar to Ontario's 50kmh over and you are done type laws) the police setup a speed trap on the Decarie here in Montreal. If you know the Decarie, it's a divided freeway that passes through the city.

If Musk can colonize Mars, he can certainly build this comparatively simple transport system. Oh, wait.

This practice is prevalent in the watch industry. Grey market sites list each and every model with pricing and "buy it now" options. They will have thousands of options, including rare limited editions that have been unobtanium for years, or models that have lengthy waiting lists to obtain.

Funny, I consider leather-clad born-again RUB asshats with zero skills piloting massive chrome two-wheeled penis extensions as their first ride to be a far worse blight on motorcycling than the odd dumb squid.

Yes. The car shielded the passenger cell so effectively from the strike and the possible EMP effects that it didn't even disturb the function of the camera. That's what I meant by "pretty impressive".

Carbon fibre is actually really conductive. Most people assume it's like plastic, but it ain't.

And yet the video camera/phone didn't shut down or explode. That's pretty impressive in itself.

Meanwhile, every regulating body everywhere just tightened noise restrictions on a whole heap of motorcycles while another Ferrari, Maserati, Jaguar, and/or Aston Martin was allowed to slip through the process with obscenely loud, soulful stock exhaust pipes.

Burnouts aren't hard on motorcycles (having separate brakes helps) but donuts are, even if you are stopped with your feet down. I know a few people who have learned the definition of "highside" the hard way while showing off in the parking lot.

Splitting engineers into competing teams was what made the Honda motorcycles great and incredibly innovative during the 1960s-80s. There are some apocryphal stories of espionage, sabotage and strong rivalries between the groups. That's how we ended up with batshit stuff like the oval-piston four-stroke NS program,…

"Well Rick, this here looks to be an SE30, probably late 20th century, I'd guess circa 1994. It's a rare bird, introduced as a limited edition to celebrate 30 years of Lamborghini not going entirely bankrupt. They were mostly bought by arrogant American stock brokers who forgot that the 80s were over and who went…

Adjusting desmoquattro valves. Not hard, just tedious and time consuming. Testastretta and desmodue/desmotre are much simpler. Takes about 8-10 hours to adjust 8 valves including the teardown and reassembly of the bike, if all goes smoothly. For first-timers I often recommend taking the heads off and doing them on the…