I agree, but I also worry that under certain loading conditions you could lift or at least unload a front or rear wheel in a turn even with the outriggers in the lifted position. With two front and two aft wheels that’s not a complete disaster (and in the case of VW Rabbit GTIs it’s a hoot), you’ve got the other,…

I don’t think I’ve waxed my truck since years started with 19.

At this moment the question becomes a bit more relevant. On Christmas Eve we had a fair amount of snow in East Tennessee - a lot of snow for East Tennessee if we’re being completely frank and admitting that snow before January in these parts is downright rare and Tennesseans lose their damned minds when faced with…

IIRC wasn’t the Lean Machine a GM concept car?

I’ve seen some that the owners adjusted so that the outriggers held the bike perfectly upright rather than allowing it to lean. Me, I’d probably prefer the bike stand upright without the outriggers but I can understand how drivers would get tired of hearing the tires chirp every time they make contact and spin up.

The outriggers stay extended at all speeds. All four wheels are in contact all the time.

I went to read up on this thing and for some reason I cannot comprehend, I got the Scottish Wikipedia entry and it is, in a word, breathtaking.

It isn’t much car, then again it’s nearly no money. A driving, turning and stopping car for under a grand? This isn’t even what-the-hell money.

I’d drive that old Gladiator way more than I’d ever take out that Wrangler-with-a-trunk.

I would imagine they don’t tighten them down to that level; then again there’s only the one nut doing all the holding, and at the kind of forces these cars experience there’s a bit more stress going through that lone nut.

This isn’t making a Miata look like something else.  This is building a car and using a Miata as an organ donor for many of the parts.

Does it need a supercharger?  I imagine this thing weighs MAYBE 1200 pounds, even an unmodified NA-series engine is over 200hp/ton at that rate.  It should be mighty lively no matter what kind of motivation is under the bonnet.

I think I’d much rather go the Ronald Finger route and completely restore a Fiero.  At least I like Fieros.

I know that intellectually but emotionally I’m kind of stuck in the 80s when Ducati was still kind of exotic in the US and pretty much all the bikes everywhere you looked were Japanese and running, or American and not.

I could be enticed to take it at $7500, IF I had experience working on Porsches, IF I needed another project on my list, IF I had room in the garage, IF IF IF.

You. I like you.

For that much money I could get a bike from a bigger manufacturer with far greater market support and still have money left over.

As much as I agree with you, let me amplify that a bit more. You may not know but Ford nearly took Dodge’s Charger Daytona nose to a whole new level.

As great as this is, it doesn’t touch the drama, the intensity of the original Seven Minutes of Terror.

My ‘98 Forester went past 365,000 miles when we unloaded it. That’s the big winner in my household.