From my purely anecdotal experience in west Michigan, the problem isn’t so much people speeding. It’s the combination of people going anywhere from 55-90 on the same highway.

I don’t get the styling of this at all. All the close up shots look nice, there’s some pleasant swooping lines, the little heritage details. Then someone dropped that giant rectangular fairing that looks more like the front end of a suv than a motorcycle on top of it.

For a relativity modern daily driver 100,000 miles is nothing, but it does seem to mark a drop off in resale value. Learn how to do standard maintenance like brakes in the driveway (if possible) and keep it for another 50,000+ miles.

It wouldn’t take much movie magic to make that sound way more satisfying .

Need it entirely irrelevant in most car purchases, it’s all about want. The vast majority of explanations for why a person needs a truck, suv, or crossover are bullshit. It would bother me far less if their drivers were a little more self aware and said that they just wanted them.

Different engines, same category. If someone is looking at one of them they’re likely to be cross shopping the others.

It’s a Toyota ecvt which is possibly the best of it’s type on the market. They drive perfectly smooth so you won’t spill any scotch on the back seat. Anyway, the people buying these don’t care about what kind of transmission it has, they have other cars for that.

Someone doesn’t get it. Sure you could buy a much higher performance car for the same amount. But if you’re just being chauffeured around the big city what’s the point?

As a BMW owner, go for the Goldwing. You don’t want to be 500 miles from nowhere and trying to find parts.

Holy crap that’s a big bike with a not that big engine. For comparison A K1600 is doing 160hp and 120lb.ft and a Goldwing is 125hp and 130lb.ft, and they both weigh 100lbs less. I’m sure it gets down the highway with no problem whatsoever, but still.

Opinions about Harleys are so odd, people will defend their recent crop to the death, yet at the same time there’s folks like my father in law who were riding them in the 60s that think their current line up is pure garbage.

I’m probably wrong, but I imagine that if they charged $5000 less and called this a Buell it could sell reasonably well.

It’s a damn shame that in the US at least most people insist that their cars, (and phones, appliances, etc). be some brutally boring color. Maybe these will show people that even if your car is some lame grey green color a pop of white looks really nice.

I totally down with the idea of lane splitting. But it relies a lot on car drives not being jackasses (bikers to, but cars enjoy relative safety). Considering my experience on both my motorcycle and bicycle, if lane splitting were legalized in Michigan I wouldn’t do it for at least a year because I’m sure someone…

I don’t understand the blinker modules at all. Just hold the stalk at the detent for an extra 2 seconds when you change lanes, no extra hardware required. The triple blink is somehow worse in every way.

With how naming stuff in that city works it’s a surprise that the airport doesn’t have DeVos slapped on it

I was in Kyoto this spring during peak cherry blossom season, so probably about as bad it gets for tourism, In all the more touristy areas the city was bursting at the seams, like so many people the sidewalks couldn’t contain them. The city needs to start working on solutions RIGHT NOW or they’re going to have some…

Neutral: require a special (expensive) license for vehicles over a certain dimension & weight, but with an exception for people who can prove that they need it for their work. At the least it might reduce the number of suburbanites doing 6 point turns in the parking lot because their Canyonero is too big for their…

I’d be interested in knowing what their parts network in India is like, that’d make the difference between it being a toy and usable transportation.

it probably doesn’t help that the most vocal and easy to see parts of car culture are populated almost exclusively by jackasses.