Firemen told me that FWD cars were usually the ones you would find torn wide open with the drivers seat sitting in the middle of the road. Anything build for a high horsepower RWD application had enough structure to keep the passenger compartment intact.

Zero, I used to love you.

Race cars are designed to do a single function. If you want to develop a flying racing league you would need to design tracks that are 50% road and 50% air so the vehicles must do both. And I think this is a great idea. If you build the challenge and put up the prize money people will come. 

Your mechanic will hate you with a permeant glue.

Tiny, lightweight and not enough horsepower to hurt the drivetrain is the true off roader here in the mountains of British Colombia. Big off roaders are laughed at as our tiny goat paths reject all but stuff like this and quads.

How to stop this is FOLLOW THE MONEY. Tackle the problem at the scrapers. Limit cat scrapping to 1 maybe 2 units unless you own or work for a shop. Require photo ID if you want to get paid and register the sale.

Get a throttle lock. Electronic throttles suck. I rode my buddy’s brand new KTM 1290 and the throttle response SUCKS even in the best sport modes. I’ll take real throttle cables doing exactly what my wrist says to do any day.

I actually have a deposit down for one.

Take the unreliability of a KTM and blend in the unreliability and difficult to find parts of Husqvarna to end up with a machine that will help your mechanic build a college fund for his kids.

I disagree. Having some done some electric swaps in the 90's, it can make a fun nice unique machine. Even if the range was shit back then.

It’s about 6 bucks a gallon here in Canuckistan. And 6-8 bucks a gallon is common around the world with the dollar conversion.

I had one of these things. Unless it’s a v8, avoid. The slushbox is awful too, I swapped mine with a 4 speed. To change that one nightmare spark plug you make a tool that is a shallow 12 point socket drilled to slip over the hole with wrench flats ground in it. It works. Mine is still in my toolbox.

I dunno. I’d call the K1200 surprisingly boring to ride. Yes it has a boat ton of HP but it hits so soft I would call it one of the most disappointing test rides I have ever done. Only BMW could make a bike that powerful that ...boring.

I bought the Tenere 700 instead of the Africa Twin because the bike is too heavy, even for my eighth of a ton of strategically shaved gorilla body. That build is just silly. Never buy a bike you can’t pick up from the wrong side of a hill.

No onboard charger is a huge design mistake. It takes range anxiety to a new level when you can’t even plug into a regular 120V outlet. With a 2.3kWh battery you could charge it to 80% in 1.5 hours. That last bit takes much longer of course.

Sweet. Can I get the optional magnetic trailer to pick up all the parts that fall off as I ride it?

Contractor here. I will absolutely replace my van with a electric truck or van. It won’t be a year one model and the F150 has 3 strikes against it. The other two being slow rapid charging and insufficient range. I need my truck on the weekends. Chevy looks like it has the hot ticket coming out next year. 400 miles of…

This is EXACTLY why you get a union and the management can’t retaliate against everyone. Especially after what happened. They would get their asses handed to them by the union or a judge.

That looks like a nice toy that could be my future service truck with a canopy. You early adopters enjoy your ride and work out the bugs. I’ll be test driving one around 2025 when the charging infrastructure is better made and we are past the gen 1 sketchy vehicles.

Whatever that forever car is, it’s probably going to get electric swapped within a decade. At the rate batteries are getting better, I’ll be able to poach something drastically good from a wrecker soon enough.