I don’t fully understand it, maybe something to do with hard mounted vs. soft, or balanced vs. not, but some of the Harleys vibrate at idle, but are just fine at speed, other are the opposite, I can’t explain it.

In his defense, they are both V-Twins

Not production, but still very cool...

Around here the Honda DCTs don’t sell very well. I was at a Honda dealer two weeks ago and the sales manager said he was only taking the ones Honda pushed on him. I think Aprilia had one and they discontinued it. Maybe it will work out better for the smaller bikes.

The Madass looks great. I rode a friend’s Cleveland FXR and it was slow and didn’t pull hills very well, but I couldn’t shake the grin off my face.

I think today it would be even more difficult. The problem isn’t just with aircraft, but with so many other things that the two companies compete on, like electronic systems, C4ISR, government IT, etc... There would anti-trust issues that would have t be worked through, probably with divestitures prior to the merger.

I read that.

But what is already flying? The X-32 and X-35 were flying 15 years ago.

They tried that maybe 15 or 20 years ago but were denied by the govt.

That doesn’t mean illegal everywhere. I can use it 200 feet off the ground and have it at 15,000 feet. Just like a car, sure it can do 180 MPH, but I would only do that on a closed course. If I do either of those things near my house, I’m breaking the law.

I think I could build a decent house in one of those C-5’s

Native advertising is not exactly ad copy. It is generally writtin like a normal column, and may even be inline with normal content, but it is usually a story that wouldn’t get play except that someone pays the author to do it.

I know for sure one of the brands from the eighties used such an idea.

Yeah, I think the part people are missing is that this is likely Native Advertising.

Maybe they should require a criminal and mental health background check before getting a Driver’s Lincense. But would it have actually shown anything in this case? Did she actually have any history that would have shown up? Even so, plenty of serial DUIs are out there driving without a license, buying cars from…

Yeah, because not holding the football game would have brought them back to life.. ?

Makes me wonder if he has provisions to ward off pirates. Maybe just a bunch of former Spetsnaz guys with small arms and a couple of mounted 12.7mm machine gun on each side.

My wife has a Ninja 300 so I get to ride it from time to time. It is certainly capable of freeway speeds. I have no trouble at 60-70 but it doesn’t have much punch at that point. I’m 6’1” and 195lbs and it is really a good bike for commuting, however I would not encourage anyone bigger than me to get one if you intend…

I think you are misinterpreting, or maybe I am. Let me try an analogy. I go to a really seedy bar in a bad neighborhood and proceed to get ripping drunk. I then pay my tab by pulling a big wad of bills out of my pocket and peeling off a C-note for all to see. I then leave out the back door into a dark alley. At this…

Hillary just approved it a couple of days ago. Congress still gets a month to override. Then the paperwork will start in ernest. That’s right, there is no contract yet, so this thing is not a 100% certainty. That alone could take a year, but I would hope they’ve been working on that for a while. Once that’s done then…