I had some 125 and 250cc two-stroke road bikes in the mid-to-late 1990s, so I know where you’re coming from. I bought my KTM 300 a couple of years ago, and it’s an ‘05 model. I was shocked the first time I ever rode it, I thought that much bottom-end in a two-stroke is impossible. Turns out, it isn’t!

Jeb Lund, I want to buy you a beer.

As a long time Drew Magary reader, I’ve been vexed by how to read in my head the sentences that are in all capital letters.

Counter-intuitively (to me at least), two-strokes are harder to stall than four-strokes. This is a huge boon in the tough stuff. Two-strokes are lighter for the same power than four-strokes, and modern two-strokes have a lot of torque, even at the bottom. I have a Honda 250 four-stroke and a KTM 300 two-stroke, and…

How we don’t have computerized balls & strikes, I don’t know.

Kevin Tetz FTW!

If I was a MLB manager, I’d absolutely call Mars and offer myself up for sponsorship purposes. Because why eat peanuts or chew when you can sit there and stuff your face with sweet, sweet M&Ms all game?!  

Is there a build thread for this thing somewhere?!

There is a distinct difference between Nissan employees voting “no” because labor has been weakened in this country and voting “no” because they don’t want to be members of the UAW.

I thought yesterday’s Bengals one was the best so far.

Please.

> This is blue, not teal, because teal requires a mix of blue and teal, and this is just blue with no green

I have used that line more than several times in my real, actual life.

What is nepotism? Eh, never mind, I’ll ask my Dad when he gets home.

What is the origin of that gif? I want to KNOW.

Pheasants!

My good friend Erlich Bachman has a Mont Blanc they could have borrowed. Could have saved ‘em $75k...

Is it possible to get a replacement dash harness? I understand that the issues are “fixed”, but it would go a lot way to looking better and, uhh, more piece of mind.

Totally off-topic, but totally on-name: the rather marvelous Bungle-Bungles in my home state of Western Australia.

I love these kinds of posts. Keep ‘em coming!