Good god. Steering wheels should not be square. (Nor should any other kind of wheel.) If you only plan on going mostly straight, perhaps this is fine.

Yes, there was a rider a few seasons ago that pushed another rider’s kill switch on track (albeit while stopped for practice starts on the cool down lap). The rider in that case was also Romano Fenati. See a pattern?

That price puts them squarely in the middle of the EU brands that currently own the dirtbike-with-a-plate market. I would say they priced it competitively. One might expect Honda to come in at a price advantage relative to the EU bikes, but this bike looks pretty nicely done. Good luck fitting a larger tank though.

Seems to me that Mr. Danger could ‘do the right thing’ by getting a proper riding jacket for starters...

I’m sorry, but what does anyone care at all about this, including Mr. Musk? An elevator that can fit a car is, by a wide margin, the least ridiculous part of his silly tunnel idea...

Any place of business that has enough time to engage in the kind of extraneous behavior described here clearly has not enough actual work to do, or too many people. Even if you take the massive leap of ignoring the moral question of hazing in this case, it’s pretty obvious this dealership is a crap business run by…

This same experience of a wasp in the leathers happened to me years ago, although in the canyons rather than on track. My reaction, and panicked method of extraction, looked pretty much the same as Cal’s.

A little over 3000 miles. After months of looking, I found a really good looking 1996 (993) Carrera on Rennlist, but it was in Framingham, MA, on the other side of the country from where I was living at the time in Long Beach, CA. Timing worked out, and I was able to see the car in person while I was in New England on…

Ridiculous slot car fantasy.

This is absolutely correct. Well done.

Fun to watch indeed. I have this exact bike, a parakeet yellow 1976 Z50A, the only year it was available in that color. I’ve actually had two: one was my first bike when I was 6 years old, the one I have now I picked up when I was in my 30s.

And Fix then approaches Herbert after the fact and angrily points out that the yellow flag was waving. As if that somehow suggests that he should have been expecting a car to enter the track, on the inside of a corner with limited visibility. Going the wrong direction. Whaa? I hope he saw the douche-iness of his ways…

The dynamics are straightforward. This is a classic highside. Landing on the curbing is the really unfortunate part.

Yup.

Seriously? We make policy on facts? The financial concerns (and emotions) of the special interests with the most money, time, and political connections to lobby are what makes policy. Cold, objective facts are low on the list of priorities.

I disagree, and I think you might have a different perspective on this if you had been taken out by an unskilled, inattentive, or incapacitated driver at some point. The consequences are real, and they are suddenly more acutely important to you if you are the one that has been handed a life altering experience because…

“Ive never been hit by a drunk, sleeping or in attentive driver...”

Yup, toe-toe is what works for me on most cars. It’s a rare case (things like old 911s with bottom hinged pedals) that need traditional heel-toe.

Beautiful bikes for sure, but I have not at all regretted selling mine a few years back and have not been tempted to buy another since. News like this just reinforces that feeling. I think I’d be more comfortable buying a leftover EBR 1190RX than a new MV at this point.

Just to clarify, McPint has won 23 races at the TT in his career, but not in 23 years. His first race at the Isle was in 1996, so he has been at it for 19 years.