Kelly bikes used to make something called a PTO that was basically this idea but a lot cheaper. Genevale makes a modern version that some people really like... https://www.gevenalle.com/shifters/

Cantilever brakes (and u-brakes and even Mafac racers) are awesome brakes and will outperform any linear pull brake IF you can get them set up properly. And that enormous IF is 100% why they mostly went extinct. Setting up cantis (and centerpulls) is basically black magic and requires grey hair and a long beard.

That skip that you can’t fix is probably a bent derailleur hanger- get a cheap hanger alignment tool off Amazon and you’ll be surprised how much better shifting gets all of a sudden.

OK, so some of those sterotypes are... kinda true. The corvette IS an old man’s car. But it’s an old man’s car for the same reason most porsches, ferarris and other crazy high performance cars are old man’s cars- because you have to be at a certain place in your life to be able to afford to keep something that…

Sure, a 20 year old F-1 car is faster, but I know which one I want to hit a wall in. 

That’s pretty steep for a farm truck. Maybe for fancy horse people with more money than sense?

yeah um, no thanks.

Continuing to accept new tracks/races in countries that can best be described as human rights trainwrecks is REALLY not a good look for F1. Like, holy shit the leader of this country personally ordered the kidnapping and execution of a journalist. That’s... that’s not good. But hey, look at the shiny new racetrack,…

Counter-counterpoint. Well duh.

But but everything was better in the past when the Integra was a bespoke, hand built car built only with love and care by men who were trained in the ancient art of loving the metal they worked with and giving it a sensual massage before installing it on the car.

To be fair, it’s a W124, which was the last of the overbuilt, last forever mercedes. So back then, Mercedes did still have some German secret sauce- overbuild it and make it last. If this was a more modern Mercedes, now that they’re all about... fuck, I have no idea why mercedes exists anymore... anyway if it was a…

On the plus side, a 240 gallon tank should give the owners somewhere around 1600 miles of range, (f750 gets an average of 7mpg) which is not bad. Though if we are talking apocalypse, it’s pretty much a one shot deal- you fill up pre apocalypse, you drive for 1600 miles, you park somewhere nice and you’re done. 

I know it sounds silly but, I’ve lived and driven in Wisconsin for almost 30 years and so far, I’ve never had winter tires, and it’s been fine. I’ve never gotten stuck, never gotten in accidents, they’ve been fine. I’m sure snow tires would be better. But, all seasons have been fine. 

I mean, it depends on your definition of fine. 

It may make no sense to tax someone on a fake number, but then it would also make no sense to allow made up numbers to represent the value of anything. You can’t have it both ways. 

I think this is a problem akin to “what’s the worst movie?” Like, yes Plan 9 or Manos are both utterly incompetent pieces of filmmaking that fail at every level, but they were also independent releases with shoestring budgets and nonprofessional... everything, and while they suck you can admire the sheer force of will…

Because you see, if you call him out, he might get replaced with a republican, which would be worse because that republican would block any kind of climate or energy legislation and... oh wait.

Wow that’s... wow. Fuck that guy. 

Wow, literally every word you wrote was wrong. That’s an impressive achievement.

If you’ve always wanted to kill someone and get away with it, just hit someone while you’re driving.