Here’s hoping the cryptofascists and bootlickers write off the Bronco as effeminate or insufficiently capable, some of us just want to go leave-no-trace camping with a bit of panache.

Welcome to America! Rules only matter if your legal team is better than theirs.

The NC750X is an excellent commuter, but they’re so incredibly dull. I’ve known more than one dedicated daily motorcyclist in southern California that went from interesting bikes, to an NC, to a Hyundai. All the NCs are really good for are long service intervals and that integrated trunk, and a car will beat a bike on…

If Caitlyn requests it of the relevant rightsholders or archivists, they should edit their records and whatnot, yes. Her identity is hers to define, and shouldn’t be subject to the convenience, whims, or prejudices of others.

That he changed to Caitlyn some 30 years later doesn’t change who he was to the world on that date in 1986.

My opinion, for what little that’s worth, is that a trans athlete’s record pre-transition should stand as the record of the gender they publicly identified as at the time. Simply as a matter of practicality and ease of record-keeping.

Current editorial best practice for this sort of thing is to refer to the subject as the person they are, while only clarifying their previous name if absolutely necessary for basic reader/viewer comprehension. Identity information as presented in referenced sources (old record books, previous interviews, that kind of…

Which brings me to one last point - when that happens, it’s going to be tough for me to find a replacement - I’m 6'6" and shaped funny. Aerostich makes their suits to fit - which is really nice for the mutants of the world.

Hey, man, that’s cool. Isolation’s getting to all of us at this point.

“If you commuted every day on your bike...”

Oh hey, it’s that thing I do every work day year-round (absent quarantine).

”I promise you wouldn’t be saying a Joe Rocket suit is as good as a stich [sic].”

Y’all know what they say about what assumptions make you. Anyway, I didn’t say “as good”, I said it does very nearly the…

Aerostich suits are like KLRs, desperately outmoded and overpriced but defended to the death by old men with milk crates bungee’d to their tail racks. A Joe Rocket Survivor suit will do 99% of what a ‘Stich will for a third of the cost, whereas a Klim Hardanger blows it away regarding technical specification for the…

Used to ride daily year-round in Seattle while wearing glasses, can confirm. Turns out moving to California works better though.

To paraphrase a certain media personality of some renown, it’s built around solid cruiser principles: add weight, and simplify. Looks like those mid-set foot controls all but mandate the accessory floating tractor seat, though, at which point I’d rather save 117 kilos (!) and get a Triumph Bobber (or, let’s be real, a…

I have the dB killer and snap ring out of my Arrow can sitting on my desk. Customers usually assume it’s an ocarina.

Zero’s older models let you plug multiple 110V external charging units into the bike in order to charge the battery more quickly, but the SR/F and /S instead use an onboard 220V charger that’ll interface with a J1772 plug commonly fitted to most Level 2 EV charging stations. The onboard charger can be upgraded from 3…

Loads of hub-motor electric scooters and commuter machines throughout Asia, but once you’re going fast enough to need suspension the unsprung weight becomes a serious problem.

No human being is “illegal”, choke on a boot.

I’m liking this whole “Motorcycles After Dark” dynamic you’re developing around here.

Ah, I stand corrected. My brain often filters out those Gizmodo-style title-only posts thinking they’re ads.

They’re phoning it in for MLK Day but either forgot or didn’t bother to make a post saying as much.