Goddamnit, this is what I get for glancing at Jalopnik on race day. I guess I’ll just have to learn my lesson and modify my behaviour going forward.

Yes, but this is changing rapidly. The European Union has motorcycles emissions standards ramping up at an accelerated rate in order to reach parity with automotive standards before the end of the decade. Bikes have to hit Euro 4 levels beginning in January, with full Euro 5 compliance required by January of 2020.

Unicorns today, pegasi tomorrow?

This helps illustrate why “retro” motorcycles are growing in production prevalence: bikes have progressed like mad over the last few decades, but when Apple thinks of “a motorcycle” they picture an old BSA track rat.

Good news! Some of the best beer west of the Rockies comes out of Salt Lake City. I’m fairly certain my local grocer stocks Uinta Brewing Co. purely for my own consumption.

That red, though. It’s like being in someone’s womb.

Fun facts about Tooele County, Utah:

1. For a short period in the late Nineteenth Century, the county voted out the Mormon-backed People’s Party and pretty much self-governed independent of the Utah state government (which refused to recognise the victorious anti-Mormon Liberal Party administration). This state of…

IMS is a big place, they likely don’t want to bother with anything pulling fewer than six figures of attendance per event day.

Starred despite the language. Using “retarded” as a general perjorative disrespects the handicapped.

Seattle’s Craigslist isn’t any good unless you like old Volvos and strange European cars. I know this isn’t the crowd for that sort of thing.

That was a nice, flat straight before the Formula One cars took a turn.

Actually, if they had more money allocated to their IT needs, they probably could have contracted this out to a better (and more expensive) company, preventing this from happening. Requiring government agencies to spend as little money as possible is a large part of why so much government work gets done by corrupt…

Jeremy Clarkson once said that Audis were cars for German cement salesmen. Now they’re cars for cement salesmen with a coke problem.

You leave Ed China alone.

That’s cool, too! Do what you do, man.

Dear sweet lord, yes. We’re dealing with things transcending practicality here. You could certainly get something like this and putter around on it for a good long while, as many others do, but for a complete and utter beginner a bicycle and a small commuter machine work better for getting your eye in. That’s the…

“I am pretty sure I would [truly live] on a motorcycle”

Do it.

cost (Donor bike + Huge MOTO kit) < price (2015 Honda CB1000R)

See? It makes perfectly logical financial sense. You’d be foolish NOT to do it.

Best part: that second counterbalancer is tucked up in the cylinder head, where it’ll do the most good fighting off the sort of harsh vibes that ruin mirrors, hands, and good times. I’ll miss the analog tachometer though.

Sounds lovely! I love miso soup. There’s a Korean soup, dwenjang jjigae, that’s also pretty similar.

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