That is nuts! 

When facing such tasks, I have had visions of purgatory for such engineers much like in Dante’s Inferno. They should be condemned to repeat the obnoxiously difficult service procedures they have forced upon others until their souls are cleansed for having imposed such meaningless tasks.

Agreed. My commute keps me in shape for the trails.

Sorry, I couldn’t click on the link on account of giving this jerk more “views”. I now know for whom fully automatic travel pods should be created for. As a bicycle commuter, I really do think guy should in no way be trusted with a steering wheel.

This is pretty common in Florida. There are many drainage ponds around highways and cloverleafs. This is not the first time disappeared people have been found like this. Given roads worn in by trucks, like state road 60 right near there, and thundershowers that can overwhelm the wipers, you had better know where you…

Nice! Though those shifters are indeed form the 1980s schwinn are a joke. Get indexed shifters and you will be happy to click away. Afterall, your drivetrain was made for them!

Poor Preventive Maintenance = Owner - truck

That is the curse of modern life, be it vaccines or infrastructure. Once it is in place, it is easy to forget about it. We don’t know how good we have it. Century old water pipes burst and people forget about the reason for those required vaccines (chicken pox, for example). Sure, on occasion abridge falls, and…

Check with local bike shops. Call around. I even seen REI selling used bikes, although it was a titanium road bike. They will make sure it fits right and servisable. The shop will likely swap out any parts needed to make it fit you. Don’t undervalue the service aspect. A correct fit is vital and will make your ride…

Sad, but true. Most people have their last bicycle purchased for them. Cost being primary consideration, no wonder they don’t care to ride the ill functioning boat anchor. By then, they are looking foward to driving anyway.

Pretty incredible that the US version was made for over 10 years without changes. That is saying something. So is the fact that only 24K were sold last year.

Besides car prices, what is new here? The article seems to be all over on the topic. For instance, it mentions the “art department” which fabricates the support for fraudulent loans, much like the ZZ Best fraud (a classic example). Then it mentions “that loans containing fraud have 40 to 100 percent rate of…

Now that Sawsall comment is really saying something. Those bolts must be super hard. This past weekend I cut out a steel bathtub with one new carbide blade in less than an hour of sawsall running time. Then turned around and cut the 2 inch cast iron drain pipe elbow in about 5 minutes. The unit was a Makita battery…

I noticed these absurd prices as well. Having sold our initial TDI back to VW, we purchased a newer used TDI Sportwagon when no one wanted them, (20K miles for $13K), I am shocked at the prices that local VW dealers are asking. I see prices $15K over initial MSRP with cars having only a couple of hundred miles. I love…

I like the moral of the story - don’t rely on the size of your vehicle to carry you through winter.  Having seen a 64ton tank slide on snow and ice, I have taken that point to heart. The same physics applies to Bro-Dozzers!

The supreme court held that corporations are people too... so they have the right to contribute funds to politicians to let their concerns carry.  I will believe that as soon as a corporation is burried at Arlington, or any veteran cemetery. 

Bravo. “Don’t pull Superman’s Cape....” Jim Groce

Finally a bike that I would bother with. My ride is a Dean Duke, but with a different rear spring, so it is very similar. I love Ti frames and the flexible chainstays make the best use of this material in a cross country design. That little rear travel does make a big difference, I know because my bike can lock the…

What am I missing here? “It’s exceedingly clear that no level crossing is better than the safest level crossing.”

Blessed you are for not having had the occasion to observe. No. The winch would have been used to take up the slack and then to lower the now unstrapped vehicle.