The proper position on a bike is head and body tilted forward. I don’t mean there is some science behind the declaration, it’s about art. About how one attacks the road in front. Comforts great and after 65 I went with it, reluctantly. You will likely be no faster on the G8 and don’t even want to be. It’s the feeling…

The principal has been actualized for a long time. Implementing in vehicles simply a matter of will, and money. The gain is small. Incremental improvements are good. It costs and has weight. I’ll grade C- on the gee-wiz scale.

I’m going with the middle ground and calling it the Gulf of Shit. Mexico is a shit country and have you been to the Redneck Rivera?

In Michigan to my eyes it’s drivers in Chevy cars. Remember those? Let me put it this way, annoyingly to dangerously aggressive. Dangerous I don’t know. Here we don’t have nearly as many German cars as most people so they fall down the list.

They are going to kill the big 2 1/2. To kill the UAW. Musk and friends can come in an pick the over carcasses. Be warned especially if you live in Michigan.

Until gas is expensive EV’s are going to lag. In fact low gas prices have blunted a surge in EV demand. I’d like an EV. My last car purchase was $6500 5 years ago. Obviously I am not in the market.

This will really begin when the Province of Alberta and then probably Saskatchewan begin dangling the possibility of joining the US. Alberta has the tar sands and rare earths I think, that’s where Saskatchewan comes in.

I’ll try again. Go to cycle trader. Punch in ZZR1200

So if your in one and it runs over someone and kills them do you have liability? The occasional rental car liability nightmares for renters could show up here.

Automatic. No way. Give me an old Ford or Chevy with a 3 foot long shifter to rest my hand on.

Before Musk even it was certain that manufacturers would avoid virtually all liability for accidents. This is how it started with cars. Without liability wavers car companies wouldn’t exist. Well actually without liability wavers for owners of corporations, corporations wouldn’t exist.

Assuming CFMOTO is actually is more sound financially is a mistake. Nobody really knows about the finances of Chinese companies. As long as the credit flows they are alive and the story of China is the story of stupendous credit expansion. KTM in a way came up just like a Chinese corporations over the same period…

I think they want to kill GM and Ford, and whatever Stellantis is. Few people grasp how much contempt “they” have for unionized factory workers. If taking the lumbering behemoths down is required they are ready.

A pathetic and futile attempt to steal the aura of the greatest automobile ever made. The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.

There isn’t one kind of snowy road there are dozens. Mostly having to do with how much water or slush is involved. Is it loose snow or hard packed. Each of which might cause different results at the various pressures.

Tip overs were not the big problem. A rear wheel catching a fence post or such and stops it dead, while the driver flies forward head first.

I know someone who had what was a common accident on one. His rear wheel caught a fence post and he went for a fly. He was very badly hurt. Flying head first close to the ground, not good. I think this was the biggest danger.

The newly departed CEO had been talking about how horrible the car business is and how especially bad it is for his company for years. As a certified Debbie Downer I get it. As an observer of corporations and institutions of all sorts and people it’s unique to have a CEO take a relentlessly negative and defeatist…

They are dead but they ain’t orphans. Those are cars whose maker exits the market, like Pontiac or Suzuki.

If only every rotary engine was driven 2500 miles a year by elderly housewives they would have a much better reputation.