I mean it was pretty obvious to me - the not working and all the how sad could I be about being paid parts seem especially obvious - but I’m also Polish so maybe I’m just more used to that kind of humour. I found this interview hilarious but YMMV.

Oh, I _definitely_ would want to be this guy‘s friend. He‘s blunt, he‘s honest and he doesn’t give a flying rodent’s derrière about sugar coating his truth. I imagine that, with him, you _always_ know where you stand and that he lets you know when and how you messed up.

He’s not being an asshole, he’s just being frank. He clearly does not care about interviews like this or the show (past the money it makes him). And that’s totally fine because he’s not doing anything to hurt people. I wouldn’t want to be this guy’s friend and I certainly wouldn’t want him running a country but to…

This guy is hilarious. “I do not like working.” “How did you react when you learned they were printing half a million of your books?” “How do you think I reacted?” A kindred soul.

People ruin everything. Something new pops up, is really awesome, gains traction with the casuals, still really fun, then eventually gets overwhelmed by the general population and jackasses start showing up and acting out. Goes for bars, music festivals, car shows, racing series, pickup sports, you name it.

To me this doesn’t feel like the “Cars and Coffee” I used to go to 10 or even 5 years ago. This is no longer a casual and quiet get-together of car lovers to check out each others’ rides while having coffee early in the morning on a Saturday. Over the past years, like you wrote, it has morphed into a massive social…

He said he’s “never seen a context in which tissue is rapidly vaporized” and that he’s “done experiments that involve temperatures hotter than a volcano, and the soft tissue is destroyed, but not rapidly vaporized in the way described.”

Dunno how well this would work for aggressive riding (street or MTB) since the contact patch is almost flat here. No way to get the tire on edge —> no way to ride anything without big ole berms.

Tubeless has essentially solved most of these problems. Also, you don’t want a tire to act as suspension. You want it for traction. You can adjust air pressures to get the best traction for the riding conditions and allow your real suspension with compression and rebound adjustments to handle the actual suspension…

Don’t air-filled tires already give your bike free additional suspension?

IDK about the Bridgestones, but I’ve been reading about Tweels for a while now. During the testing on cars, the lateral rigidity was very good. These things can corner very well.

An air conditioner *is* a heat pump.

I don’t think that tweels would have any more compression/travel capability than pneumatic tires. However, they might have more lateral stiffness because a ruler-like support would bend easily vertically, but be very stiff horizontally. However, this might allow for higher profile tires, which could add suspension…

Bicycle wheels rely on spokes for much of the give in the ride. My road bike has sub-25mm tires at 100psi. They don’t give much at all. The wheel as a whole does the job, not just the tires.

Kind of a heartbreaker, really. Looks pretty good, and I don’t object to the V8 swap in principle, but any “in-progress” project that “needs some work” is getting into automatic CP territory.

No more so than VW air-cooled engines, which cockroaches will be fixing 20 million years from now. A Corvair-fan friend once told me that if he needed someone to work on it, he’d take it to a VW mechanic and tell them “Just treat it like a VW with two extra cylinders”...and invariably, the mechanic would be completely …

In conclusion, you’re a dick.

Pretty sure this was about the snow.  

Morgan chassis-es have been steel since 1936. The body panels are laid over a wood framework, and that whole structure is then bolted onto a steel chassis that holds the engine, suspension, gearbox, etc. It’s confusing because usually we use the word “frame” to mean the underlying structure of the chassis, but the…

FancyKristen doesn’t have things gold-painted.