I have a set I ordered, and I’ll probably be using them in the next couple days. I can post up results if anyone is interested. It will be in clay-mud on a steep mountain trail. Long story short, never let your nephews borrow your truck. Normally I’d just throw chains on and zoom zoom, but it is precariously close to…

Atom, for both. I liked it so much that it is in my garage now, but it is the worst day to day car I’ve ever driven that wasn’t broken, and I DDed a spec e30 for a while. I’m ginger and I can feel my life shortening on sunny days, but it is worth it.

Don’t trust him, the BMW V12 is known as the Boat Anchor for a reason. The local independent has a stack of them in the corner of the shop, and my friend’s shop does too. V8 swap is the only way to make them run.

There are a few reason, that’s one. Taking the bypass, stay all the way to the left and you get air.

My friend abandoned a bike with a seized cylinder in my parking space one summer in the valley in college, and when I got back in fall it was leaning more than 45 degrees from sinking in. Tires sunk in too. I used to keep a crushed Coke can under the seat for hot parking lots, after I got the bike running and annexed…

I know a guy who does that, and spins the bike on the stand at the end to get it facing out of the spot. He doesn’t do it unless girls are around, though.

I have an e30 built to Spec e30 rules (cage, suspension, gutted, etc) and I jumped it every single lap for 3.5 session running THill backwards, then I shattered a camber plate. Worth the $150 plate and a long drive limping it home. My nephew thought so too.

Not only are the pads thin, the rotors are thin too. I know this animal who uses a pry bar to spread his cars’ brake pistons, and he did it once on his bike. Bent the rotors.

Loved it so much I bought it.

Late to the party, but please, some science-bro, show me how this is wrong, because it has been rattling around in my brain since I first heard about the EM drive. I don’t know enough math to say that this is wrong, and it seems too simple to be right.

Those all seem pretty good to me, but then again I’m used to turning my head and seeing this:

I’d been street riding for about 6 months, on a beat Katana 600, when I stumbled across her on the Craigslist: 93 CBR900RR, built track bike, have street parts, $500. Turned out built meant built: bigger flat slidess, cams, pistons, gearing, full exhaust, all the things. It even had a low power alternator to cut drag,…

My adventure bike:

How much does it weigh? FZ7 is about 400 lbs. Make a 250 lb 50 hp air cooled enduro and you have one sale right here. But probably only that one, unfortunately. Small adventures will be street bikes 99% of the time, like big adventures. Might as well go big on the tarmac.

Too fat, too weak. I’ll keep my plated XR650R. 

Like RCR, I don’t get this hydraulic press thing at all. Blow it up? Yeah. Burn it? Sure. Squish? Meh.

For many, wrenching is a form of stress relief. But sometimes, it can drive us bonkers.

I had just picked up my Hypermotard, and was taking it for a first ride up in the mountains. New bike, much heavier than the supermotos I had been riding, and on new tires, so I was riding slow and cautious. I came up behind a guy in a few year old SL500 with dealer plates driving 15 mph in the 35 zone and swerving a…

My brother gets 3mpg in his 80's AM V8.

That time I woke up at the track and thought damn, I lucked out and don’t have a hangover...then realized it was because I was still drunk when I went right instead of left on turn 10. Told them I had a bee in the car or something and slept it off by the time the second session started.