Jake from State Farm is gonna flip the fuck out when he hears about this...

Truck Driver: “MEH lights, horns, Fuck it. I’m goin..” , **Train Engineer Shits pants** Wonder if the trucker was listening to the Kinks too.

Vertical orientation totally excused by the fact the person filming didn’t go ape shit once it blew and kept filming on point for all of us to enjoy..

Meh, on the whole these better than silk any day...

Not the proudest moment of my juvenile life: Up here in the great state of NY, they love to “Tar and Chip” the back-roads every spring. It’s a faking dusty disaster every year. Anyway - I’m about two months into being a licensed driver and decide to try and drift around a corner, rally style, at abour 4o mph on these…

Meanwhile in India...

How’d you like to be the dude to un-fuck that truck from that bridge?

Sean - great review. Not sure if you covered it already - what’s your height and weight? I have an 07’ Strom 1000 that has much of the same physical dimension specs as the new Africa. I like it because I’m a big dude (6’4”, 260lbs) and it hauls me around without feeling like a Russian bear riding a tricycle.

The ATC250R right out of the box was a crap-yer-pants machine. I couldn’t even imagine a 500CC Two-Smoker.

Yeah, that’s what I said haha

Respectfully, I think you and I are on the same page with my point #1 - they are in same location, the mount is just rotated 90°. I wasn’t implying any overall performance advantage. I also think we’re almost on the same page with point #2 also - why add structure and an engine beam in the back of the fuselage when…

My guess as to the reason for engine location/configuration, based on my limited knowledge of aircraft engineering and aerodynamics, is as follows:

“BRO, I’m gonna show her my rock face”

So, that one chick.....

Great piece here. This reminds me of a weird thing I noticed while on a motorcycle trip passing through rural PA which took me through a few decaying coal towns. Every car on the road out there was of the Cutlass Ciera, 90’s Buick Regal ilk. And they were all whooped. Four different hubcaps, purple tint, worn stud…

And old bread trucks.

General Tso’s Chicken finally turned the tables on him....

One of the best dumps I took was on my way down to Monterey from SFO: If you take Route 1 all the way down, there are tirlets at the public beaches. I found a park that nobody was at, left the door open on the semi-permanent porta john to view the waves. Was a magical experience.

waetherman: You trolling or serious? If trolling - excellent job. If not: You are taught from day 1 to always look for an alternative landing spot in the event of an emergency. Many times, an airfield is just too far out of the glide range for an engine-out scenario. (which is what i’m guessing happened here as the…

Co-Pilot says to Pilot: “Hey, what do you call Tom if he falls off?”