Sister in Law has been making this for over 20 years. I was wildly skeptical the first time. It’s shockingly great. Thanks for helping spread the word!

Deep breath, get this. I have an older road bike that takes a 1" threaded headset. I really don’t understand why this isn’t twice the price. Haven’t adjusted it in over 5 years. Have had it for 9. I used to be a professional bike mechanic. I’m vouching for it. Sealed bearings too!

HAHA! I have the exact same bike. It’s the shit. I don’t need a 17,000 redline or 160hp with a 212mph top speed. I had been drooling over all the ‘funk’ you mentioned for 10+ years. Finally got mine for only $2,300. (!!!) Worth every penny. It’s so cool & weird.

I f’n love reading these posts where otherwise ridiculous ‘detail-oriented’ people like us dork out about taillights/turn signals. I thought I was the only one for so long.

If you wanna open up a lot of possibilities for stem/handlebar combos, consider one of these threaded to threadless adapter. Then you can pop on a modern stem AND upgrade to bigger 31.8 diameter handlebars (does the pic even show up correctly?)

Mostly agree but a Chris King headset is huge overkill, especially that this price point. Also, slapping on a new chain may snowball into much bigger problems (now you gotta replace freewheel/cassette, chainrings) Can you even find those parts now?? So you go from a $15 chain to $15 (chain) + $40 (obscure freewheel) +…

Roast that transmission - is it worth a damn? Does it just feel like a ‘tuned’ automatic? (versus a DSG or what have you...)

Actually, I’ve been using ‘gage’ as a word for a while now (I get riled up easily). But in this sense. Just imagine me throwing my hat on the ground and saying ‘goddammit!’. Gage.

Right? I ride with earplugs 99% of the time. The other day ran a quick errand, rode for 10 minutes with 4 minutes on the highway (70 mph) on a naked bike (buell) with a full face.    My ears still hurt days later.

I swear, compared to the rest of the Jalop staff, you disproportionately have some of the dumbest commentary directed at you . I don’t get why this kinda shit is attracted to you. It’s like any time there an article by you, vultures start circling and elephants start pooping.

No one for a VW VR6???

Totally. I had a 1991 90 Quattro 20V, frickin sweet! Redlined at like 7,oooRPM. That thing was so advanced for it’s time. That balance was really bad, so much understeer...so much drunk rhino

What little things annoy you? I mean about the bike. Bad turn signal Position? Numb throttle feel? Brakes that work great but feel like squeezing semi-frozen Jello? Gauges intuitive? Wind buffeting at specific speeds?

Preach on! I’m in your choir.

Preach on! I’m in your choir.

Couldn’t agree more.

Couldn’t agree more.

Yeah, def not an average rider kinda thing.

Yeah, def not an average rider kinda thing.

Pic?

Here’s mine, 2x 1998 VW GTI VR6 - one a beat 200K mile east coast rust bucket part time rallycross car and the other an 120K garage find in amazing condition. Same cars. Totally different cars. The 120K (on the left) is my daily.

Oh man, come to Seattle - there’s so many people living/visiting from British Columbia that the novelty has almost worn off. Some of the coolest vans around and they’re all trying to ‘outkit’ each other, kinda hilarious.

Gonna be replacing the timing chain tensioner on my Mk5 GTI. It’s like a hand grenade with no pin.