I miss the old Cannondale company. I had a 1992 M800, the first bike I ever bought as an adult. It’s still going strong in the care of a friend to this day. Finding a new set of headset bearings was a fun quest though. I also have a Track from the same era that I bought as a frame and fork from a velodrome racer in…

2,884... in the first year, with a lot of hype and in a (so I’ve been told) good economy. Ouch. Maybe when they say “The 255hp four cylinder Toyota Supra is coming to the States” it means they expect to sell just that one in 2020.

We own a 2013 Ridgeline with only 60,000KM and a 2018 car-that-shall-not-be-named with 58,500KM. Both are in great shape, haven’t required anything more than the standard running maintenance and handle all our needs. There’s no real need to replace either of them. I usually replace vehicles at about 250,000KM but even…

Westjet flight so here’s a CanCon comment:

If only there were some way to propel cargo ships by wind power...

Can we go one step more? In memory of bands who had a name, debut album title and debut single all with the same name (e.g. Living In A Box, with their single Living In A Box from their album Living In A Box) we could, instead of having the Ford F-150 Lariat we could have the Ford Ford Ford. Then perhaps we could take…

Thanks for reminding me of that! Another win for the awesome practicality of bellbottoms! I’m not surprised they came on the fashion scene the same time as platform shoes - I mean, who doesn’t want shoes that make you walk like Hermann Munster and dramatically increase your chances of breaking your ankles?

2.6 seconds! Wow! And that’s with factory stock ECU boost limits too!

I disagree - for decades now whenever I’ve been driving a truck I’ve always found myself thinking “This thing would be great if only it didn’t have that stupid big open bed out back!” I mean, come on - a place where you can haul big, bulky, often dirty cargo... who would want that in a truck? These new bedless trucks…

“step out of the way”

Leaving aside the many practical advantages of mechanical-display gauges and physical switches I have a more personal problem with screens - I’m not sure why, but I find them somehow enervating. I get visually fatigued noticeably faster when using them. This has been consistent across a pretty wide price level of…

The Red Green snow plow is by far the nicest looking, best executed modification on that Miata.

See what happens when you don’t hire me Air Canada? Graduated out of the BCIT AME-M program with the highest marks in the class and you wouldn’t even answer me with a “GFY” form letter. I could have prevented this if I had been on the job Air Canada but noooooo...

“speedo tops at 85. Exceeding this is obviously not what the machine was designed for”

TLDR: Norway is not brutal:

The PFM is long dead - though it did have some nice features such as single lever power control, automatically controlled cooling that made shock cooling a thing of the past and injection and ignition both more modern and smoother than other certified light aircraft engines of the time. Go get an F1 Rocket quick build…

“There are several factors that have contributed to the decline in both Oslo and elsewhere in the country. Lower speed limits in the buildings”

That too! Good point. Maybe hydrogen has a place where very high energy density is vital? Long range aircraft perhaps? The most absurd thing I’ve heard of regarding hydrogen is a lobbying group in my area pushing for a hydrogen powered light rail system as an alternative to using a mains electric powered one (like the…

They could have exhumed the corpse of Coleman Francis and propped it up in the director’s chair and the movies would have done about the same at the box office - it’s Star Wars!

95% of hydrogen is produced by steam reforming of natural gas - unless there had also been a massive investment in solar/wind/nuclear electrolysis of water to produce hydrogen for these hypothetical cars they would have just pumped a load more CO2 into the atmosphere.