Yeah, but the bike has been around since...2008? I think that Ten Kate has (admirably) wrung out all the potential in the platform, and I don’t think even direct HRC development will help.

Don’t feed the trolls

It’s designed as an anti-armor round (think tanks or armored personnel carriers), so yes, you will have a very bad day if you get hit by one even in a “non-vital” area.

Just two questions:

I’m not sure if I’d classify Ten Kate as a second rate team. The bike, yes, but certainly not the team.

I think you mean the CBR1000rr...

Which tells you more about the other people who scoff at this advice.

You forgot to include the new RX7/8/9.

I guess my main question would be the helmet fit: how friendly is it for round head shapes?

Wow, it’s not like Frank Miller was ever known for fantastic art, but it’s like he completely stopped caring sometime during or after Sin City.

I would normally agree with you about buying used “fun vehicles” (I’m still dreaming about a used s2000 as a weekend/track car), but with WRXs and STIs, there are two main problems:

I agree: guns, bikes, and old school anime? This sounds like a vacation destination!

The correct answer has to be....used. If I’m picking up a Miata/MX-5, it would obviously be as a fun 2nd or 3rd car. If that’s the case, I’d probably strip out the interior, install a roll bar, add aftermarket suspension bits and brakes along with sticky tires. I would never do that to a car that I’m still making…

“You’re all talk, Hamill! You never even finished Jedi school!”

Arrested Development. Stop whatever you’re doing right now and watch it.

It might be worthwhile to mention Britain’s SHARP ratings as an additional data point when researching helmet safety.

As some anonymous stranger on the Internet, I’d tell you that you’ll be fine with a moto helmet for autocross. Once you move up to HPDEs or you have a roll cage installed, a car specific helmet is obviously better.

No bimbos in my nice car...they always put their feet on the upholstery or insist on bringing lattes that will inevitably spill.

I think he’d be too old to be Arthur Dayne. IIRC, Dayne was best friends with Rhaegar, who was in his...thirties(or late twenties?) when he died.

First thing I thought of as well.