In some states they just boot your car in the driveway until you’re done serving your time, at least for some DUI offenders. They still have to pay some sort of monthly rental fee for the boot if I remember correctly. I had a friend who resorted to getting around Albuquerque by scooter because of her DUI problems, all…

At least you didn’t go for the fake-badged Bently 300, or whatever it was I rode in once. It was absolutely a Dodge product, but they went and stuffed a decent interior in it.

Still ugly as sin on the outside.

Has anybody seen an Avenger lately? And I’m not talking about the movie types.

Wait a second.

This isn’t an article about the 15-minute lube places. Comment is waaaay off-topic. Save this for a shakedown article about Jiffy Lube.

Don’t forget the concern about wet-clutch wear and concern for synthetic oils not doing the same work as Dino.

It’s an ages-long debate, but it seems the experienced folks out there stick with Dino whenever they’ve got a wet clutch system.

Those freaks blasting by you on a Ducati, however...I think they use Angels…

I’ve replaced at least a half-dozen turbos on various VW cars (usually the Passat) where the owner swore they kept to the maintainence windows.

What nobody tells these people is that the turbo shares the engine’s oil, and that thing runs incredibly hot, so your crappy engine oil and all the contaminants it carries ends…

It’s worth noting none of the above article should be applied to motorcycles or even smaller engines, as they often have different lubrication needs.

For instance, my 83' KZ1100 uses a wet clutch system (the entire gearbox/clutch assembly shares the same oil as the engine itself) and the difference between synthetic…

A respectable dealer would just call you up and have you return the vehicle. This happened to me a number of years ago, I purchased a Ford escape from a Honda dealer and got a call about 3 weeks later telling me that the financing had fallen through for some reason.
They didn’t charge me a dime for the mileage, and…

Don’t just ignore these assholes - if they’re calling you up, that means they’ve called other customers up with this scam, and it’s more than likely that it’s worked for them if they keep doing it.
Yelp reviews, local BBB chapters, or your state attorney general are all appropriate methods of alerting others that this…

FAGS (this is an acceptable use of the phrase, as envisioned by the great people behind South Park, as seen below): http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/archive/index.php?t-208175.html

Harleys have always been fat, heavy and slow...not sure how you could manage to redesign them, keep their ‘mystique’ and somehow eliminate all the things that current owners enjoy.

DUDE... every single word after ‘Buell Blast’ is totally lost because you suggested the one giant piece of shit Buell made in it’s short life.

Buell Blasts are what many H-D dealerships used to use for their motorcycle saftey courses because they’re small, light, and extremely underpowered. They are literally kids’…

Yeah because they’re competing against $500 chinese bikes that don’t require expensive maintainence and tires and oil, etc. They’re competing against bikes than can be repaired, quite literally, with bailing wire and electrical tape.

Big fat American bikes in crowded asian cities? Yeah what a draw.

PSSST: Any bike that clocks in anywhere near 1,000 pounds unloaded and without rider is far too heavy for beginners, and Ultra/Classics come in at like 900+. Throw in a couple hundred pounds of shit in the bags and the back rack and you’re asking for a tank slapper, the weight being so high. Even dropping one of these…

I believe the true value of any company lies in their branded sock line. You can’t dress up in all black leather and wear plain white socks - if the design teams are doing their jobs, any respectable H-D rider would feel something missing if they weren’t head-to-toe in H-D branded gear.

Yeah come visit Portland. I’m twice the age of most of the dudes I see tooling around on what can only be called antique motorcycles - most of them well over 25 years old, much older than the riders.

Chrome does not rust. The chrome plating might chip, or the underlaying material might rust, but Chrome itself does not react with oxygen in that fashion.

You haven’t looked at an H-D in, what, 25 years?

btw THE EXISTING CUSTOMER BASE IS GETTING REALLY FUCKING OLD AND DYING OFF AT A REMARKABLE PACE.

I moved to Portland for beer, and honestly, the places where I encounter this attitude are geared towards a younger crowd, almost explicitly. There’s a beer bar here called ‘Apex’ and it is the supreme example - the beertenders are rude and impatient, the first time went in they couldn’t wait for me to examine the…