That makes sense. It gets you past TDC so you can get the most distance (so to speak) out of your kick. That would have been much easier than trying to drop all my weight on to the kickstarter. :-) That gets a little precarious when trying to lift the left foot and push down with the right.

I don’t mind carbs.

I’ve ridden a couple of Yamaha XTs but never really used the decomp lever. Probably should have with the 600, though, ‘cause that thing could be a bear to start.

My SR500 started to have a failing stator last year, and I ended up having to re-kick start the bike at every stop. That was not fun.

(Jalopnik is proudly a union shop; we and our sister sites are represented by the Writers Guild of America East.)

Once just described with the verbal hand wave ‘used cars,’ sellers now tout them as ‘pre-owed autos.’ I guess the prior characterization fell out of favor over time as it gained a pejorative context.

Ah, yes... I believe that (and the A15) were called “non-judicial punishment”. I’ve never experienced it but have observed it. (chAir Force did things a little differently.)

Do you honestly think that I think that was his implication?

A vehicle that someone needs to get to work - and can’t use because some assjacket hit it and ran away - would be pretty damned important.

If you’ve been neglecting your squat exercises, you’ll be clenching your butt muscles enough watching this that I bet everyone who sees it will have a 15 percent more pert ass afterwards.

If you’d asked me ten years ago ... I’d be sure that there would be battery-electric cars on sale from every major automaker, and mainstream models, too, not just weird hatchbacks. What is taking so long?

And I don’t see a dent in the bumper. Maybe it’s on the back.

What is the going rate for healthy kidneys again?

You know he has a 1948 Willys CJ-2A, right? He did a series of articles about it. No, it’s not WWII vintage but it may as well be.

Yep. The Ferrari Dino, the Lamborghini Urraco, and the Maserati Merak were all beaten quite easily around the Castle Combe circuit by the Stig... in a Vauxhall Astra diesel.

Agreed - it is very disappointing.

In some variations of the myth, Hercules had a son named Celtus, the father of the Celts, but in other versions Celtus doesn’t exist at all, or exists as the progeny of someone else. In no version that I can find is Celtus spelled with an o.

Wasn’t the Cascada discontinued for 2020?

I can’t hear “Brut... by Faberge” without thinking of that Eddie Murphy standup bit.