I agree. Indian Motorcycle has released (3) new models in the past (4) weeks and not one article. Also, they (Indian Motorcycle) won the flat track opener with a 1-2 finish, swept the podium the following week, and then did a 1-2 finish last weekend and not one article.

Thank you for this depressing news. I have been staying away from Jalopnik for a while after all the political crap it was posting rather than auto journalism. I finally come back and find out that my favorite motorcycle writer is gone.

Nothing but the easy clicks these days. Hard to find good, outside the mainstream, moto journalism anymore.

RideApart used to be pretty good, but Siler was/is either beloved or hated by readers. RevZilla’s CommonTread isn’t bad. Plus they have decent reviews, though some of the reviews aren’t much more than quick tests without much substance; but it’s something.

Arrogant but not entirely unfounded. A lot of moto magazines rely heavily on manufacturer advertisements and as a result, reviewers were always hesitant to tear into a bike. A lot of reviews just repeated specs, going over minute technical differences between models instead of talking about how it is to ride the bike.…

You might not have liked his style, but he gave us something badly needed. The kind of freedom Jalopnik offers is just not very common in motorcycle media, and he was building something pretty special here because of that. Most motorcycle journalism until pretty recently did suck. It’s gotten better lately but…

I was never much of a fan of Mr. MacDonald’s particular style of writing or how he wanted to ‘make motorcycle journalism not suck any more’ but we’re plumbing new depths of awfulness with this incarnation of Lanesplitter. I honestly think they would be better off pulling bike-related stuff from Oppo and using…

I was not aware of this. Thanks for sharing. I suppose not too surprising considering the level of integrity at Gawker...

If you think Lanesplitter sucks you should see what Hell For Leather looks like now. I mean the multi-national conglomerate owned RideApart.

And then they went and banned anyone who complained about how Sean was treated from commenting: a position below being grey’d.

How many building inspectors do we need, how many food inspectors, safety inspectors do we need? Yes some laws and regulations are overkill but overall they keep people honest

EPA misses ONE instance of cheating by a determined corportate entity and suddenly all the other work and issues they have found and prevented other, less devious, corporate entitites from doing, has no value.

My truck is from 96 and doesn’t have a cataliyic converter or any emissions equipment

Modern cars are a tiny bit cleaner than cars from the late 90's, I think we have all the regulation and government oversight we need in that area.

Yes, by doing a different type of testing to what the EPA does, and which VW had not engineered its vehicles to cheat on. And your suggestion is a good idea: the solution would be for the EPA to adopt more on-road testing, which better approximates actual driving conditions and would thus be harder to cheat...but…

Does Trump not understand that people work for these agencies and would lose their jobs? For what? To save 7 cents per car? Fuck Trump and fuck the people who honestly believe his bullshit.

VW’s cheat was specifically designed to avoid EPA testing, and while the EPA didn’t intially uncover it, they did a lot of important work to investigate and prosecute it, and are continuing to do a lot of the work to approve any repairs and make sure VW is keeping its side of the bargain.

The EPA didn’t detect the scheme because the whole point was that it was engineered for the specific purpose of defeating EPA testing. But the EPA played a major role in investigating, prosecuting, and remedying it once it learned of it, and they’re charged (along with CARB) with monitoring VW’s compliance with the…

Haha wow, you went in the wrong direction that “logic.” The current EPA funding for certification testing doesn’t allow them to test many cars. I can’t remember the exact percentage, but I believe they can only audit around 25% of the cars sold, so VW’s ability to get away with their cheating for years tells us…