“Everyone dies but few really live” is the mindset. I recall quotes of spouses of those who died in the IOM TT saying that they wouldn’t have it any other way. They know that for them, riding is truly living and would hate to see them not. It is true that the people who love them and let them race are selfless but it…

Couldn’t agree more. There are others in these comments who seem to have less of a grasp on this reality. They lament phrases like “died doing what they loved” as it’s apparently too blunt for their liking.

Preventable deaths make me sad.

Any rider who wants to come home alive knows to stay away from the Edge. I rode my Buell S2 to work today and there are some technical corners on my ride to work. Those corners are lead into by easier turns that encourage a rider to push the bike. I have to constantly tell myself “Do not chase the rabbit.” If you…

A sobering reminder of the reality of mortality. A passage in Hells Angells by Hunter S. Thompson comes to mind:

Perfectly said.  

A lot of it is about trade-offs and needs vary from track to track. To cover some of the various aspects of set-up:

This was my thought. Based on the sound it *could* be a flat-plane, small-displacement V8 similar to a Ferrari, but it certainly doesn’t sound like a big, cross-plane GM V8. Honestly it sounds very V6-ish to me.  I’m not sure what to make of it, but whatever’s in the race car will show up in some form on the road car,…

The IMSA car does not sound like a V8 to me...

I used to think along the same lines. I don’t anymore. I work in the Naval Repair industry and while all naval ships are expensive to maintain, some programs (LCS in particular) are such a total and complete black hole of expenditure it is mind boggling. Billions and billions of dollars wasted on building and…

NO. This is simply clear, blatant and obvious military-industrial graft. Very few of these issues occurred on a jet fighter already in service for 15 years - the F-22 Raptor. Yes it had its own issues but these were consistently addressed and fixed in a timely fashion.

And yet somehow, a less-capable, less-stealthy,…

USA can’t buy cheap things, so they should have buyed the Rafale M (which can land on US carriers)

uses “literally” several times in every sentence, because that way you know it’s authentic.

First thought: Citroën 2CV, but that thing is effectively available new already.

We should have quit after the invention of the La Cucaracha horn. It’s really the filet mignon of annoying horn noises. 

This was never meant as mass transit, it is a plan for billions of dollars of public money expropriated for the transit of millionaires.

I had a 97 XR600R (and not an XL) and when I finally ditched the sketchy dual purpose tires and put street tires on it, it could really hold its own on the twisties! Really good riders could still usually smoke me, especially on the straights, but some average doof out on his crotch rocket was in for some problems. I…

I had a similar experience when I was doing sprints from a dig against a friend with an R1100GS vs my FJR1300. The FJR is significantly more powerful and is way faster at the top end, but from a dig, that R1100GS went toe to toe with me through the top of 2nd gear (which for his bike was about 60mph). We both had our…

My ‘86 Iroc was a twin to yours. It had a lot of problems, but it was fun to drive, and looked great. WTF happened to GM’s styling?

“Of the modern Camaros”