My wife’s friend let me drive his 1965 Mustang. He had just bought it from an estate sale and had done nothing to it yet. The brakes were untouched for who knows how many decades. It scared the daylights out of me when I tried to stop. But as he said to me when I got in: “The Go button works!”

I’d personally call it an intermediate bike. It’s got enough power to take you on the highway and forgiving enough to get beyond the basics of riding without getting dangerous. To me, no one should start out on anything over 500cc. The notion of “I need an R1 as my first bike” is just a result of the arms race among…

What I’d love to see is a few smaller cc variants in the classic range. Some beginner bikes that aren’t 600cc+. That’s just not a beginner size imo. I’ve got an 800cc Bonnie, and to add in a little 350/500cc single with modern amenities would be ace.

As long as it works in motorcycles, I say bring it on.

Sure did. It was about 200...3? Maybe? I was driving my dad’s ‘95 Buick Roadmaster Sedan to go to work. I was not informed that the gas gauge sticks at half full once you reach it. So I kept driving it, not noticing that the needle had yet to move the whole drive. And that thing used gas, LT-1 engine and all.

Yeah I still get the occasional official lawyer document when assets get purchased. It was a great experience. Had my desk in the hanger for a while when we were focusing on the dutch roll testing for the A700.

Adam Aircraft

I interned at a now-defunct business jet manufacturer. Part of my work was analyzing the drag during flight, so we used speed tape around the entire jet to reduce as much drag as possible for tests. If you think panel gaps are an issue on cars, you should see what they do on a twin-engine jet.

Make it so.

Big enough for their own gravitational force, so maybe we try that...

322 pounds? That’s a porky little bugger. My old Honda 350 weighs about the same, and that’s using 1960's technology.

How’d the battery life handle those cold temps? Noticeable degradation at 15 degrees?

100%. Let’s flip those and call it a day.

SAAB. Hear me out. Make them in Sweden but make them electric. They’ll need to solve the cold weather/battery concern, but once that’s done, sell them to Norway, who has the most EVs per capita. If they can solve that cold battery issue, they’ll work just fine anywhere else.

Guzzis are just such beautiful machines. They really exemplify the whole “Italian style”. I’d love to have one in my stable, but I’d have trouble deciding which one.

And if you’ve ever heard one run, it sounds just like a sewing machine.

I never understood the whole “I don’t want a minivan because of my masculinity” thing. But I think this design could change that argument. Kind of a Ford Flex/GMC Acadia minivan...thing. I dig it.

I first learned on an old Honda 350, then moved up to an 800cc Triumph about a year later. But I still enjoy hopping on that 350 for jaunts around town, just because you feel so fast when you’re really just matching the speed limit. I’d love to see more 200-400cc bikes on the market. No one needs to start learning on…

I’m not familiar with their MTBR/MTBF values, but I feel like 90k is a good life for a wheel bearing. I know I’ve replaced them way earlier on older bikes.

How’d you know about my reconstructed left ACL?