It'll completely jump the gears. Which does carry the risk of knocking the chain off if it's not tight enough. Modern derailleurs work off the same technique but limit he throw length causing you to hit each gear in turn.

If you throw the switch up then it'll go up gears and if you throw it down then it'll go down…

My jet is operated by a hand crank.

I'm going to hate. But only because it's funny.

While I lament the disappearance of the column stalk and centre mount button I do think consistently telling everyone that you're right is wrong. It makes you look like the biggest jerk in the room. Primarily because button placement is as much an opinion thing as it is an ergonomics thing.

Unless it contacts the next gear it's not sequential. This isn't a newer derailleur where you have to pull the switch for each gear. You have to know where in the throw arc each gear is. Especially as they're not marked. To be fair though, the bike is 30 years old next year.

I've got a bike with a non-sequential gear box. Well, it's really a sequential gearbox where the full throw of the switch will move you from gear one to gear five or gear six to gear ten. I plan on updating it to a twenty gear set.

Gears? Where we're going we don't need no gears.

Dammit. This is what I get for not reading Wikipedia first.

This is clearly police racism against zombies. Why zombies? I'm glad you asked. First, anyone who lives with a dead body for this long must not have a good sense of smell. You know who has a bad sense of smell? Zombies. Second, the house must have been full of flies and other bugs. You know who enjoys the…

Why are my eyes red? Certainly not alcohol!

Of all the fighter, bomber, and interceptor jets I have ever seen (I live in the city that until 2001 had North America's biggest military airshow, amazingly enough since we don't have an Air Force base in town) the Blackbird series is by far the most beautiful. It is truly a gorgeous and astounding plane. The…

You're thinking the SR-71 Blackbird. Or as the Taiwanese call it, the Habu. They do look amazingly similar though. Just replace the surveillance suite with a missile bay.

I'd like to point out that the A-12 is NOT a fighter jet. It's an interceptor. It's maneuverability is amazingly poor. It can go really, really, really fast though.

I think Ford understands the truck market better than Toyota. They sell far better than Toyota in Canada despite the product costs being comparable. And that folks is why Toyota has never dominated in the truck market.

I'm going to go out on a dead limb and say the diesel love was from Europeans.

Frankly a turbo-charged, direct injection gasoline engine is rather close in performance to a turbo-charged, direct injection diesel; and when isn't a diesel turbo-charged and direct injection these days? The major differences are…

You have to use a compatibility mode. Windows 7 isn't compatible with XP or older generation software. It might be possible with Shift 2 however which will allow for 99 laps in the day or night. I always get caught by that turn in the night.

Turn 1 of the Circuit of the Americas. A long slingshot up a tall, steep hill forcing you to be on the gas until you're over the hump which is really just the track flattening out before a ninety degree lefthander. I kept expecting cars to fly off into the sunset last year when I watched the F1 race.

You have to show a clear danger to your life, a skill/profession that is currently lacking in the country, and not have any crimes you've been found guilty of or be on any watch lists. Also, the US isn't the only country with illegal immigration.

I look forward to the day when external airbags save us all from the fender bender. If only for the first one.

I wanted to show the Chrysler push-button shifter that was mounted to the left of the wheel on the dash but this was the closest picture I could find. Push-button transmission on the Ford Edsel. I do believe it's a manual like the Chrysler I saw on Desert Auto show.