because you can plonk motobot down onto ANY bike and it can ride it better than you. if not today, tomorrow. and then it can drive any car or pilot any plane or industrial machine (trash truck, ice cream truck, your computer at your desk, whatever). We.Are.Fucked. We need to find these robot-building assholes and…

liquid. they can pump liquid around inside the shell to transfer weight with perfect precision and timing. this is how they balance a submarine. it is mature technology. all that remains is for someone to DO it.

Accelerometers. The Navy has a thing called “Ring Laser Gyro”. This thing feels acceleration in infinite axes by the displacement of a light/laser relative to absolute space (the aether) by measuring the frequency change in a beam as it accelerates. The degree of accuracy/sensitivity is essentially limitless. It is…

Oh - and this: how soon until we can buy one of these things and ride our bikes with an XBOX controller from our living room sofa? Anyone recall the fat, lazy humans in hover chairs from the movie Wall-e?

There is now no distinction between rider and bike. There is no reason to think of them as separate entities. As of this moment our motorcycles _could_ simply be taking us for a ride and allowing us to work the controls like dad teaching a kid to drive the truck by sitting in his lap and turning the wheel. This is a…

Sadly though, the real WMD’s are these:

We used to play this chicken game with the Russians back in the ‘80’s. We were careful to turn off radars and to aim weapons down to the deck to preclude any excuse for a “misunderstanding” and I thought both sides, at least the men on the ships if not the men back at headquarters, pretty-well understood the game. I…

It comes with WD-55 air conditioning, same as my 1977 Beetle.

My high school ride. Mobetta.

“Freedom of navigation mission” = Provocation. That you know about this “mission” means you are supposed to know which means you are the target of this mission. It is a PR mission and you are serving your part in the ForeverWar. How does it feel to be on active duty?

its “entertainment”. no different from watching The Simpsons. Relax and go do something else.

even better idea - to custom fit a helmet you make the liner out of a binary compound that, when exposed to air, is soft for about an hour. So you open the sealed container and slip the liner into the helmet shell, which you have purchased separately. Then you simply put the helmet on and go for a ride for a few…

Bell needs to get the scanners into local shops like Cycle Gear and then upload the scan to Bell from there. Even if it costs $39.99 to get scanned, you can get a custom helmet for the rest of your life from that one scan and so it might be worth it.

ECE standard helmets allow for more soft crush than SNELL. I had written-off Bell helmets long ago for thinking that they had fallen into the “novelty” category or were simply bought by some ghostly Chinese corporation who was selling plastic helmet-shaped hats. This is exciting, but the price is murderous. No one is…

Kitten plus Nazi - thread over.

why don’t rally car drivers use hands-free navigation systems in races?

it is morally and technically acceptable to smash the drivers side mirror of a car in which the driver is texting. this rule applies mostly to motorcycle riders.

"Fuck this guy, and fuck you if you think the rider deserved any part of this"

"Fuck this guy, and fuck you if you think the rider deserved any part of this"

“Fuck this guy, and fuck you if you think the rider deserved any part of this”