There aren’t nearly enough State of Franklin references these days.

“Car companies just aren’t in business to help the environment.”

In Tennessee, I haven’t had a need for snow tires in several years. However, the winter potholes around here the last two years have been horrendous, so I’m seriously considering getting the smallest steel wheels I can fit over my brake rotors and some winter tires with tall sidewalls to make up the difference.

*looks out the window at a 45-year-old car, 39-year-old motorcycle, and 52-year-old lawn mower*

Back in the ‘80's, my uncle had a 1970 GTO with a 455. I was just a little kid in the passenger seat as we cruised down the interstate toward some long-forgotten destination when, quite unexpectedly, the throttle dropped to the floor and the big 455 roared like a Saturn V rocket trying to escape the planet. My uncle…

Maybe instead of worrying about titanium cassette options and derailleur capacity, you should spend two bucks and get some new shifter cables. That’s a damned embarrassment, Raph.

Big wheels look awful.   I’m not interested in changing anybody’s mind about it, though--it makes it very easy for me to identify morons from a distance.

When I was 4 or 5, you could never have convinced me that the greatest automobile ever devised by man:

Disagree. Regular cab + bench seat is the only way to truck.

Maybe do that shit in your head instead of out loud?    Just like, if you want to make friends and stuff.

It isn’t. It is purely a response to the idea that the purpose of business is growth. Virtually all businesses have a fatal growth addiction.

“Isn’t the point of a business to grow though?”

Yes. Step two in this logic train: The vast majority of their customers are aging out of the market—leaving only people that hate them.

I know a couple of diabetic riders who can manage a Goldwing easily, but can’t ride a regular bike at all. Reverse gear, gear indicators, big running boards, near impossible to tip over, lots of storage for insulin and snacks, etc...

Not if you want to lock both your keys and your phone in the car.  Presumably to go skinny dipping.

Appeal to this:

Not sure why this need the “Hummer” brand name. Seems like this would be better respected by 99% of people if they had called it the GMC Jimmy.

Convertible...that’s smart.  I like that.

I look at other comments and wonder if maybe I’m in the wrong place?