NOPE. ‘Bike paths’ as you describe them are often choked with pedestrians who are, relatively, even less prepared to contend with a bicycle traveling ~20mph than a cyclist v. car moment where relative velocities are closer together.

It sounds stupid but when you’re hauling ass on a competetive road bike you don’t have…

Yeah I work in the service industry, and sometimes I get tips, and I think you’re fucking bonkers if you want me to pay more than 20% for a single fucking beer that the bartender doesn’t even have to pour - and that, oftentimes, they didn’t even have to stock in the cooler.

Speaking as a beer tourist currently exploring Portland’s mix of breweries and beer bars, I can say that most of the drinking establishments in PDX have a water cooler for self-serve H2O, but the debit-return things is more spotty - it really just depends on the way the biz is laid out and the kind of crowd it’ll…

Wing pieces and bits of carbon fiber can be dangerous, but the inertia/momentum and energy contained in a rolling wheelset that weighs 20-30lbs is immense. Images of loose wheels bouncing - uncontrolled - down tracks used to be somewhat common, and then insurance and liability issues caught up to that problem.

Yeah I’d think it was rather dull right now if I was relying on ESPN’s coverage too.

LOL at all the schmucks who want the the ancient, crusty zombie announcers from every American F1 broadcast for the last 2 decades to come back. One of my biggest problems with U.S. F1 coverage is the use of old geezers who’ve not been to an actual track or walked through a live paddock in years.
I waited patiently…

I tried using hot glue to fix a radiator once.

Having recently had the chance to view my criminal record *AHEM* I was particularly galled to remember how I was found guilty (by jury, apparently) of ‘unauthorized use of metal projection on wheels’.

I think this needs more attention, as well as the bullshit people have to go through after they’ve been hit (no matter who was at fault). I’m currently trying to navigate a legal system after having been hit by a car while cycling. I can only really say (currently) that our system is completely deisgned to protect the…

Lol I knew a guy in Albuquerque that had the same problem, he lived out in the middle of nowhere and people would still crash into his fence once or twice a year. I’m talking, like, dirt roads between ABQ and Rio Rancho before it was developed, there shouldn’t have been a whole lot of traffic.

CUT TO VIDEO FROM 1993!

As much as I love Lamborghini there’s just no way I could ever own one; while my ego is large and takes the form of a rampaging asshole from timme to time, I could never talk about myself in the 3rd person for an entire sentence, let alone a whole conversation. Not with a straight face, anyway. Fuck I think I just…

UHhh no but hey love to guess on something you know nothing about.

It would have cost considerably less if politicians would have gotten off their asses decades ago, when this was first becoming an obvious ‘future’ problem, and voted to get shit done then. Like most large trasportation projects, waiting to get started has simply inflated every single cost of every single item that…

dear asshat - Portland is still full-service. They wouldn’t have poured the gas themselves inside Multnomah county.

Gas is still full-service in multnomah country (IE Portland).

ARE YOU FUCKING FOR REAL?

My father apparently left a great deal of his ass skin on the pavement in front of his HS on an H2 due to, errr, well, being a dumbass. Someone got a picture of him hanging on as the front end was well on it’s way to swapping places with the rear by way of verticle exchange.

NP alllll day. I paid, eh, less than $1,500 for my oft-mentioned ‘83 Kawi kz1100 (A3 shaft drive) bike and prompty put 15,000 miles on it a year for two years before needing to spend any serious $$ (which was wasted because I took it to a Kawi dealership to have work done. DON’T EVER TAKE YOUR CLASSIC MOTO TO A FUCKIN…

STILL BETTER THAN THE SINGLE-PLY SHIT TICKETS MY ROOMATES BUY