Black Flags port was not “dreadful”. I ran it fine with a GTX 680.

It transformed my perception of the bike and, based on anecdotes from many other owners on the CBR500 forums, I’m not alone in this respect. Don’t underestimate how a good soundtrack can alter an entire experience.

A great deal of that “soulless” feeling you mention disappears when you put an aftermarket exhaust on it. If you get a Yoshimura and stick the low volume insert in it, it sounds worlds better while still not being obnoxiously loud.

Not exactly an original thought here, but this seems overpriced. Like all “starter” bikes, these will take a big hit on secondary market - but that’s good for buyers. Should be able to pick them up on the cheap in a couple years. For <$5k it would be a nice putt-around-town bike.

Even if looks are of primary importance, Yamaha will have you covered with the XSR700 in month or two anyway.

Dude it’s not like top 10 lists are exactly the epitome of journalism to begin with. In the pantheon of important reporting and valuable knowledge, one person’s or a group of people’s subjective ranking of *some piece of fandom* doesn’t exactly rate. Listicles, as they are called in the trade, are an easily…

It saddens me that this hasn’t already been posted yet, but while the NM4 is cool, it’s not wholly original.

I just started playing it last night and the game runs well on a GTX 970. The PhysX smoke effects are a huge performance hit, but much like the unusable fancy hair tech in other games, that’s expected. Turning that off, it runs a consistently smooth 60fps for me and I’m on Win10 with only 8GB of memory.

The Grom is sold under the lame name MSX125 in Europe, so maybe Kawi will give this a cool name for the US too.

Not only can you not pump your own gas in Jersey, but many of the pumps have those dumb safety sleeves where the gas won’t pump unless the sleeve is pushed up. How is that a problem you ask? Motorcycles.

In the countries where bikes aren’t a toy, a motorcycle is often the only vehicle owned. How much of the US populace do you think can get away without owning a car at all? Have kids? Need a car. Live in a state that experiences winter or serious rain (i.e. any state other than California)? Need a car. Work a…

Hi Patrick, can you answer whether the live action trailers they did a few years ago actually connect with the game? The ones where they are talking to the robot that thinks it’s a person clearly do. However, I’ve been super curious about the one below - as nothing I’ve seen in trailers seems like it would connect…

Hi Patrick, can you answer whether the live actions trailers they did two years ago actually connect with the game? The ones where they are talking to the robot that thinks it’s a person clearly do. However, I’ve been super curious about the one below - as nothing I’ve seen in trailers seems like it would connect with…

From your own intro to this site:

What’s the point of motorcycle blogs/sites reviewing this bike at all? All 220 are already sold. Is it just to make those 220 rich guys feel better about the status symbol they bought after everyone made fun of the power being neutered?

Yup and what makes it even worse is the inevitable market fragmentation due to at least 4 competing companies making their own particular headset with it’s own particular standards and set of capabilities. So not only will you have a tiny install base of early adopters, but that market is going to be split 4 ways and…

You can still get the 2-door: http://www.vw.com/models/golf-gt…

That’s a lot of words for: “It’s because they’re including the Golf Sportwagon sales, which used to be called the Jetta Sportwagon in the US, even though it has always been based on a Golf platform and called a Golf in the rest of the world”.

Who exactly do you think bought these bikes? Most likely it’s rich old guys that will stick it in hermetically sealed glass display cases somewhere in their mansion - in which case who cares much power it has.

Where’s the wireless dongle to use these on PC? I really want to retire my 360 controller. Can you guys follow up on that?