Rain suit?

Drive it like you stole it. Burnouts and doughnuts. Some sweet drifting action.

If they sold more cars, that number wouldn’t be as high - they just need the volume to balance things out.

Totally agree with you. A full exhaust swap on a a bike can be a wonderful thing.

A straight-piped Harley makes a tremendous, earth-shattering roar. It’s amazing, despite being too loud. It doesn’t belong on a bike which finds its way on the road, but it’s still awesome.

This is an exercise in future tech, with much larger-scale applications. Think of an entire row of parking spots in a parking garage with these arms which come down from the ceiling or out of the ground, to charge your car as you walk away.

It could, yeah. But a light tap may have just caused a little head shake, unless it was violent enough.

I’m surprised it wasn’t mandatory to have in the first place.

Wii Sports (Nintendo Wii, 2006)

I’ve got three light stories. Nothing terribly exciting, but they were definitely insightful in my first year of riding and wrenching. All while working on my little 08 Ninja 250R. Piece of work, that thing.

I’m in complete agreement with you. All we’re doing here is appealing to the lowest common denominator, lowering the bar. Screw that. Let’s raise the standard for what is expected of people. The reality is that the same incompetent jerks running this show are also people like you and I. They drive on the same roads…

This sounds like a great idea - but what do you do about one-way streets? Once you have to detour from the arrow’s direction, you’re just hoping the street you turn down next can bring you back on course.

It would be a shame to trash so many H2’s like that.

My sentiments exactly. Yamaha took their GP tech and stuck it in the new R1, with the R1M being a monster. Motorcycles have been getting faster not through HP, but through electronics. I’m sure this RVC has just as much GP inspired tech, but it is WAY too expensive to justify its own existence.

Hell yes.

Yeah, it’s a quick shifter. Just kick into next gear and the ECU does all the work cutting fuel for the instant change. Don’t have to change throttle input at all. Makes for much more stable changes when cranked over and/or coming out of a corner - much like in the video.

For anyone interested in watching something right here and now, check out TT3D: Closer to the Edge. It chronicles the 2010 TT in all of its gloom and glory.

I haven’t confirm this, but I am assuming the guy who cut/posted the second video was the rider himself. Note the first person comment he overlays on the video, when he mentions he “rev bombs” to protect himself. Assuming this is true, he would have left in all revelant events to justify his reaction.

Look at that gap! It’s huge!

I think the political references you made were a bit polarizing and heavy-handed. Since many people don’t actually agree with abortion or gay marriage for reasons they’d say supersede personal freedom, they’re maybe not the best way to make your point