Dad of 2 and motorcyclist here. Definitely take the MSF course. Regarding bike, get a middle weight, standard riding position, bike. Too small of a bike and they’re too light and it will affect stability. Too little of an engine and it gets too busy as you have to rev it, and you’ll find yourself managing a torque…

What a beautiful beast!

That’s really deceptive. It’s using assumptions for price. Otherwise, insurance companies would adverise their premiums cost zero, assuming you have you have your car totaled in x years. 

I’m sure that’s a Lambo, bro. 

Because Volvo conjures a more mature car and the younger (cough, millenial, cough) kids who are in the market for a performance aren’t gonna buy a car from the same brand they rode on because their parents wanted to them safe, even if does have the performance chops. For an oldie like me, it doesn’t matter, it’s just…

CP

... and the dicks from KKK wearing those dickish hats, isn’t either. 

Your landlord sounds like a nice person to have a beer with.

Holy smokes! 30k is an Africa Twin AND a RnineT.

RAPTOR.

“Also; polar vortex.”

Oh, seasons!  So overrated!

That’s how natural selection works. 

My truck doesn’t have AEB but have a “crash alert system”. The system is the same thing as an AEB minus the automatic braking part. If it determines you’re about to crash it scares the bejeesus out of you through HUD flashing red lights plus a loud noise. I came to think of it as preferred over AEB and is giving me…

COTM. Comment of the Month!

Dafuq’s that? If it was just a safaried 318, OK, but this is meth lab level of CP. Perfect for meteor shower watching? It’s more likely it’s seen more golden showers than anything else, amirit?

Two words: Safari it!

I traded in a MB R500 (V8 minivan) for crew cab truck. It’s only a tad heavier, it is as fast, and has better (although just slightly) fuel economy (but it takes 87 gas instead of 93 on the MB). And it can do whatever I want it to do, grocery shopping, tow, 4,500mi camping trips and going to the mall, which is…

‘Nuff said. 

Lots of cognitive dissonance to unpack here.  And CP all the way