I’ve never owned chains for any 4-wheeled vehicle. Current ride doesn’t allow them, but it’s more than capable without.

I’ve used the European style cable chains (Thule), and to be honest, they aren’t worth the effort of putting them on.

I don’t.

“It is nothing of the sort”... no, it is. It is incorrect, shortsighted, myopic, and in fact, childish. You are trying to categorize people by skill by an observation of one criteria. “Bad” driving is a function of statistics, and statistics can prove that your statement of qualification is wrong.

A motorcyclist can…

I’m a better driver than most. A year doesn’t go by that I don’t take another driving course, and my “peers” stopped training as children; easy field to be rated above average.

There will still be humans driving on the road in 20 years, and while the push to automated driving may be in insurance premium rises and not…

Any governing body could invest time and effort into actually educating drivers as adults (the US uses a program designed for children), they could institute a policy that actually requires drivers provide acknowledgement of new laws and signage, and they could actually institute mandatory testing. That would actually…

Just DIY, like a proper hill-climber.

Driver education in the US is designed to be for children. There are people that think that the current system of testing a child, not requiring ANY updates ever again, and making it almost impossible to remove licensing to be a system that works; those people are wrong. We need an entire overhaul of the system. We…

As a lifelong mechanic, I have never been able to wear gloves. The tactile feel is more important than sight to me at certain points. I’m not willing to make that compromise.

For those of you with Japanese bikes that just rounded off the M4 float bowl screws.... Congrats, you just learned the difference between JIS and Philips.

Rule#1. Be aware of the vulnerabilities of the car you are purchasing. Your purchase is an acknowledgement of those weaknesses.

The fuel in the tank serves as the only anti-corrosive needed. This is why you want ethanol-free gasoline. I etch and use “kreem” on a tank on bikes no newer than 20 years old. Proper care should leave no spots of rust.

Bonus, no prep-work. If a nice day pops up, I can ride the bike. There’s no reason to resurface the…

Fair weathered riders let perishable skills atrophy; ride during the winter to stay sharp!

You are not intelligent enough to think properly to be trusted with decisions.

If by following the posted speed limit you are going slower than the bulk of traffic, you have made a decision that can effect someone else’s safety. You, in that case, are treating the roadway as your own playground. The proper decision is to drive the speed of the flow or remove yourself from the roadway. Period.

Again, you drive the flow. PERIOD. This means you might be driving faster than the speed limit or any other arbitrary number, if you feel unsafe at this speed you remove yourself from the roadway.

For storing a vehicle for more than a month, I would recommend trying to find a station that offers gasoline without ethanol. It is much more stable over time, does not absorb moisture (a bonus on a motorcycle, as you can “see” the water bubbles to purge them) and won’t cause phase separated fuel conditions. Add…

Statistics show it is safer for you as well as other traffic for you to go the speed of the flow regardless of speed limit, as it is a pretty visible bell curve, it shows pretty clearly that the higher the speed differential, the more cars you encounter, and thus the more chances of an accident. This principle is…

You have the ability to control the speed of exactly one vehicle. You drive the flow or GTFO.

Solomon Curve, idiots. There are reasons to break the law, safety outweighs all.

I would think that would fall under failure to show.