Based on the parts and frame details it’s a low end Japanese or possibly Taiwanese bike and being a 12 speed of that age points towards Fuji since they were a pioneer in 12 speed bikes. The tip offs for quality are crude lugwork. stamped dropouts instead of forged, a cotter pin crank instead of cotterless, and a claw…

Ha! that is me and this is my Hi-C https://velospace.org/node/14249 which is the same bike of the article. I’ve never seen another in person, and have only seen a handful (<5) on the interwebs. There is nothing noteworthy on this 80's frame. I stripped both frames down to relieve some boat anchor parts, but it’s still…

Fuji Sundance Sparkler

The overall tone of the ad, the wording makes me hesitate. On the face of it, seems like it should be a NP, but the seller comes across as a dickhead and $6200 is too much to put up with the hassle! So No Dice because I wouldn’t want to deal with this guy and his boy-racer modifications.

I had a short run at an ad agency. The classic Lucky Strike campaign was required learning. Basically, an ad agency guy asked a Lucky Strike exec how the cigarettes were made. He listed the ingredients and described the tobacco as being “toasted” during the process. The ad exec latched onto the word “toasted” and…

Tax attorney here: a lot of that stuff you are talking about has actually been shut down, or would never have survived audit.

Honestly, given the sheer number of sideways modern Silverados I see after every major snowfall they still do need some weight back there.

This year, in a fit of procrastination, I didn't fit my snow tires until the first snowfall of the year. Driving my car both before and after lets me say with confidence that you have no idea what you're talking about to an almost dangerous degree.

Pickups are actually very bad in the snow if you don’t do a bit of prep - without plenty of weight in the box you’re going to be sideways at every corner at best.

Not the first time an organization named Luft-something takes to the air to keep what may or may not be rightfully theirs.

I like to get a different daily driver every few years so I have some great ones. This is my favorite: In 2008, I had an NA Miata that I decided to sell. It was worth maybe $3,000 at the time. I posted it on Craiglist and got an email from a local eye doctor who specialized in LASIK surgery offering me LASIK in…

I have seen so many people put sand bags in the trunk of their FWD cars expecting that to give them better traction in the snow 

Yes, all. There should be no place for that kind of inflexibility in a justice system.

Not sure if you are familiar with it, but in Canada there was the case of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. Sixteen dead, 13 injured, most of them young. The truck driver in that instance - who was more neglectful than this guy, since it appeared as though it was due to a lack of attention on his part - got 8 years. The…

Mandatory minimum laws are obscene in all instances.

Automatic No Dice the moment I see this crap at the bottom of an ad:

When I saw the pictures of the back seat I could hear those seat belts buckling. There was something unique about the GM buckles of that era.

No company is going to pay to upgrade employee homes with Level 2 charging? I disagree. The minute that a company calculates that putting in a Level 2 charger at an employee’s home is cheaper than maintaining a large centralized charging facility or that they gain working time by employees going directly to their…

Here is a regular car entry:

The last Ford Taurus SHO

The Tango EV. Apparently it had a 0-60 time of under 4 seconds while looking like someone took a normal car and squished it.