I didn’t say they were competent, I simply said that the challenges they face are far more difficult than a corner diner faces.

I mean, fucking hell, but do you know what tires he was running? The OEMs on the AT are Dunlop TrailMax tires, which is not a tire I would call a knobby.

I’m no Tesla fan, but I acknowledge that Tesla’s problems are in an entirely different orbit than your average mom & pop restaurant.

It’s not a matter of shortening braking distances, it’s a matter of reducing brake fade. Braking upgrades are the first thing any autocrosser does. Go to a Solo event and ask around about brakes. You’ll get plenty of talk about what upgrades they’ve done. The people who don’t upgrade their brakes have a strategy about…

The regen braking force in a Tesla is significantly greater than any engine braking this side of a LS7 wedged into a Miata.

WTF is “long distance”? I pay $0.0098/min to any number on the continental NANPA.

It’s not caller ID spoofing if the caller bought the number though. For example, if I have an office in Miami, and I need to make a lot of calls in the NYC market, I can purchase a NYC DID from my VoIP provider. If I map this number to outbound calls from a VoIP trunk on a PBX in Miami, I’ve not broken any laws. The…

The key question is this: when you call the number back, does it ring to the caller? If the number rings back to the caller’s company when dialed, it’s not caller ID spoofing, it’s simply a matter of purchasing telephone numbers in the desired markets.

While your classmate might have been on the fringes, this concept is not at all new. It’s called a moral hazard. When the consequence of aberrant behavior is eliminated, individuals are incentivized to engage in said behavior. The thing to keep in mind is that it is not a dichotomy; few things are.

Yeah, but I’m Ayrton Senna reincarnate. Didn’t you hear?

Who would do this?

Yes. Yes they will.

I’d love to know where she found this one. A Google Image search finds very few sites that include this image.

Is Watkins Glen any more hilly than Zandvoort?

It’s hard to get a good feel for the market on bikes like this. The BMW airhead market is up in general, but it’s not like there are that many Paris-Dakar bikes out there to go by. And yess, the PD replica aspect of this bike does add to the value. Though the real money bike is the R80G/S Paris-Dakar.

Some dude: I’m a pretty damn good fabricator.

Holy shit, how the hell do they use the throttle like that?

On full-size school busses, it varies by state, and sometimes by school district, and then finally by age/grade.

“Road legal!”

Dany has been tracking toward mass murderer for a long time. It is important to think of her as an actual person, not an archetype.