I’m a bigger guy... bought my first bike (‘03 1200 sportster custom - 100th anniversary edition) for $4k in 2011, absolutely loved riding it around Southern Maryland for a little over 2 years... Then I moved to Dallas, Tx & I went from nice 55mph cruises along the beach to traffic on i30 & going 80+mph on the highway…

Another time... was moving across country (Texas to Maryland), I was driving a ‘95 eclipse GST. In preparation for the drive, I changed out the timing belt, waterpump, balance belt & etc... I drove it around for a couple weeks to make sure everything was good to go, checked everything again & started on my journey...…

Oh man do I ever... I was in the Air Force, stationed in San Angelo, Tx driving to College Station, Tx on Memorial Day weekend... I get a flat in Killeen, Tx between 2 gates of Ft Hood Army base. My el cheapo jack snaps in half & I’m stuck waiting for some passer by to stop & help (roads are LOADED with people). Now…

This reminds me of ‘How to keep your Volkswagen alive - a manual of step by step procedures for the complete idiot’ by John Muir. It has EXTREMELY detailed cartoon drawings & step by step guides to just about anything in an old air cooled VW, written by a structural engineer that left his day job to become a…

The cop did chose the spot carefully, if you rewatch the video, it is right as he passed a parked car to prevent the person behind him from swerving to avoid hitting him. For the driver behind him it was the worst possible time. The driver was still able to come to a complete stop.