Agreed. These days anything that runs and drives for under $3000 is a pretty good deal. And it’s even got new tires.

I’m mostly just hoping the housing market tanks again so I have some chance of buying a house.

27 mph is actually a pretty good target for the US urban market, since people without a motorcycle license can ride scooters in that class in most states.
The problem Honda will have is competing with all the Chinese scooters already on the market here.

Anybody remember Microscribe, and their attempt to meet sales targets by shipping hard drive boxes with bricks in them?

Whenever a boss sends me an email like that I picture them hitting “send” immediately before their flight to the Bahamas takes off.

I honestly can’t remember the last time I saw a truly free charger except at a hotel (where you’re usually already paying like $20/night for parking.) Most of the public Level 2 chargers around here are on the Chargepoint network and charge market rate plus a slight surcharge for electricity.

I once went to a bar that had a PBR tap handle on their water tap.

It’s pretty typical of how our financial regulatory system works. We have a big crash, and then pass laws to fix the bad behavior that caused it...then over the next decade or so financial companies work hard finding loopholes in the laws that they can use to create the next crash.

At this point I would be highly suspicious of any company formed under the auspices of a SPAC. They seem inherently scammy and I suspect they’re going to become illegal some day after a bunch of powerful people manage to lose a ton of cash on one, instead of taking it from other fools.

It could be registered in another state as long as that state doesn’t require a smog test. These old carb-equipped engines can be a real pain to make pass. Transferring the title to another CA resident isn’t going to happen unless it can pass smog.

They also ride pretty rough, in spite if their luxury pretensions, and have really vague steering. They’re cool to look at but kinda awful to actually drive.

I wondered that too, but I think it’s a naval-style flagpole, with yardarms.

I get the desire for an adrenaline rush, but I’d rather they kept it to closed courses. I knew one Michigan State Trooper who got into rally driving; that seems like a good way to get your “driving fast on real roads” jollies without endangering the public. ;)

I guess, in the stolen truck example, I just don’t see how the police being allowed to chase the guy would have helped. Especially since he wrapped it around a pole even without them encouraging him to floor it by chasing him.

Not many people in the US are riding a motorcycle because it’s practical. They’re all fashion accessories to some extent.

Some tech companies and luxury gated communities are offering this as a perk now.

Miyazaki absolutely loves machines, I think. Whenever there’s a car or an airplane in one of his movies, it’s almost always a specific car or plane. I was looking at his storyboard notes for “Porco Rosso” and noting that even when the plane is one invented for the film, he calls out a specific *engine* for it to have.

Automatically? No. But the kinds of people who aspire to management tend to be people who see themselves as superior to the average worker, and badly run companies tend to have policies that encourage an adversarial relationship.

In the short-term maybe. In the long term yo-yoing between working massive overtime and being laid off is not a recipe for a sustainable career.

They should, but that’s not usually the way it works in a company like that. Usually individual trades unionize, not the whole place (although not always.)