Always wear protective gear when riding!

Those aren't replacements. They're upgrades. :)

She sure looks calm for someone on the outskirts of a typhoon.

It’s made of bridge, and the truck is made of truck. Bridge is stronger than truck.

I have no details about this event. So I’m just going to leave this comment here.

Not much else to add really. I think you more than scratched the surface with those key points.

The paint’s chipped.

My all-time favorite NASCAR picture.

What a spectacular way to start my morning.

No no no— you can absolutely get it back! I’ll make the arrangements with the Gawker Temporal Reimbursement Center. We use a directed tachyon stream to disrupt the flow of time in limited quantities. I can sign you up for five minutes’ reimbursement.

If I was this kid’s dad I would give him a brank spanking new 488GTB and set fire to it right in front of him... Then set fire to his 14 other cars... Then give him a Daewoo Lanos... Then set fire to that.

Used the wrong phone.

I love the smell of nitromethane in the morning.

Feel? You feel the sound of the pro stock cars (which I find to be better racing anyway). The sound of top fuel attacks your mother. When they explode, it feels not different from being hit in the chest with a wall.

Hello, I drive both a BMW E30 and a fullsize pickup truck. I'm not sure if you have ever driven a fullsize pickup truck, but their turning radii are somewhere in the range of Montana Class battleship. So, a lot of times parking lots/spaces aren't even engineered to allow you to approach nose in. If you do, you are…

If you don’t back into the spot, you have to back out of the spot. I don’t understand what the problem is here - it should take the same amount of time.

Um, no it doesn’t. Many dense parking lots require 3-point turns to nose-in to a spot. Backing in can be done in one turn and is much more efficient. It also helps you to see cross traffic when you are pulling out.

You’re objectively in the wrong regarding the backing issue.

Either you pull straight into a space and back out, or you back into a space and pull straight out. In both cases the same amount of time / distance is spent backing. So that part is a wash.

Where the advantage lies is that it’s considerably safer to back…

I back in all the time, we call it first move forward-it’s a safety thing. That being said I wouldn’t do it if there was someone behind me waiting for a parking spot, that is kinda dick-ish.

As a frequent back-in parker, I see no reason not to do this - as the situation warrants. In a busy lot? Sure, head in is the only way to go. Nothing wrong with backing in to a space. It makes getting out of the spot so much easier.