If the Nismo gets the 215hp and LSD out of the Juke Nismo RS, they could have a contender (if they get the price right).

In the 15 months since I made this comment, I found out that the turtle light on a Prius is the “limited battery function” light, and it came on when the battery was too hot.

Luckily I’ve never crashed anything at 40mph, be it bicycle, motorcycle, or car. I still say landing at 10mph from a bicycle hurts less than a motorcycle falling on top of you and trapping your leg...

It’s a fair question! I’ve done downhill tucks where I hit 35 on my bicycle, and you definitely think about it. If you’re in traffic or road conditions where you’re at risk of falling off, though, you’re not going to be going nearly as fast. I’ve had two wipeouts in my last seven years of street riding, one was going…

Downhill mountain bikers do wear motorcycle leathers, roughly speaking. For Tour de France level road cyclists the leather would impede performance too much...and the rest of us schmucks don’t usually go fast enough to warrant it. Getting thrown off a bicycle at 10mph sucks less than laying down a motorcycle on top of…

When you look broadly at what can still be done with Li-Ion technology, the conclusion to be drawn is not about how we sorely need a battery breakthrough. Cost reductions are the easy part, and they’ll happen.

I’m also 5'9". Every time anyone else drives my car, be it a valet, mechanic, anyone, the seat is pushed all the way to the back.

The N52 is a beautiful mix of not-new technology, not-turbo and not-direct injection. From everything I can tell (and my own anecdotal nine months) they’re fairly decent.

The problem with that example is that, like 99% of video game music composers, Uematsu is just as steeped in Western music theory norms as anyone in pop.

The tire chemistry thing has been the obvious omission to me, so I started looking into it. From what I’ve found, the range of durometer readings for car, bicycle and motorcycle tires all overlap significantly, with performance-biased tires for all 3 starting in the 60 range, going down to the 50s for car track tires…

I think most of the commenters here put way more effort into disagreeing with me than I put into my initial analysis.

This is the big thing...those skinny tires may have more absolute grip than you’d think but one divot and all the physics equations in the world won’t save you from being thrown into the woods.

The 23mm bicycle tire has a contact patch of about 9mm due to radius. Note, for a minute, that the ratios are nearly the same...

...the assumption is that the width of the contact patches is proportional to the width of the tires. The ratio is important, not the absolute number.

Assuming similar tire compounds (big if, I know), grip is a function of static friction, which is just coefficient (tire compound and road) times normal force. Contact patch is weight * tire pressure. The formula is linear, though in reality aggravated by the changes in road surface which have a larger impact on the…

Well, a typical sportbike tire has a rated width of...let’s say 160mm in the back? A typical road bike tire is 23mm. So that’s 7-8x more rubber under the motorcycle (less if the front tire is narrower but you get the idea), while the motorcycle fully laden probably only weighs 4x more (a bicycle is going to be 20 lbs…

I feel compelled to inform you that Jehovah’s Witnesses are also Christian.

Sorry, the way their families treated these people was nonsense. I can reserve wholesale religious criticism, but the interpretations I saw did not merit respect.

Once you meet someone who’s been through the Christian homeschooling meat grinder, it seems a lot more believable. In my case, I’ve known a few people in various Christian sects that literally had to cut off ties with their family to get out of the nonsense.

Wasn’t Cornish attached to the Snow Crash movie at some point? Boyega as Hiro Protagonist?