Fine, but this situation could have been handled differently by the staff and police

I agree with you re leaving when asked but it doesn’t mean the restaurant staff weren’t racist assholes as well

I know you’re joking but in the off chance you’re not, your statement means that all F1 drivers and MotoGP riders are cunts

The 4 series interior is garbaaaage. Now the new C-Class, THAT has a nice interior

Subarus are similar to Hondas and Toyotas in their interiors, at least the mid level ones

he/she is presumably aware of that and for the past 20 years the only RS cars IIRC, have been Foci

I drive an STI actually, but weirdly, the only other car I cross shopped it with was the last gen Wrangler in 6 spd manual (this was 3 yrs ago - didn’t want a Golf, RS hadn’t come out, Evos were dead). I thought it would be awesome to drive one in the summer doors off and roof down. Then I test drove one. JK’s are not…

This might be apples and oranges, but my dad has a 2006 Suzuki M50 Boulevard. I’ve owned many bikes including some sportbikes, done trackdays around the world, and toured. Perhaps the funnest experiences on 2 powered wheels I ever had were the summer I had my first “bike” (a Vespa GT200), and an enthusiastic ride I…

Was the rear always used in racing though? I remember an interview from about 5-10 years ago with Rossi saying he uses the rear even though he isn’t sure if it helps or not. The implication was that he was rare among MotoGP riders of the time in using the R brake

One can still hear a loud Harley approaching from the rear however, even with the back-pointing exhaust

Muscle cars sound good though! At least with a proper exhaust. On the other hand, Open-piped Hardleys and I4 sportbikes sound terrible

One can still hear a loud Harley that is approaching from the rear, whilst in one’s car though. I f’king hate loud Harleys and loud I4 sportbikes but the effectof making oneself noticed cannot be denied. Whether this leads to fewer deaths is a different issue however (I suspect there’s no real observable effect)

Doppler effect aside, I have heard Harleys coming from behind me...but if one has to rely on loud pipes to safe one’s life, one clearly isn’t a good rider

mate - why do you feel you HAVE to associate with the Jeep crowd if you bought one? I live in Calgary, Alberta, where lifted Wranglers that only occasionally go off-road are very very popular, and if I owned one I certainly wouldn’t join the “bro” crowd.

They have that horrid cafe racer based on the Sportster that every magazine utterly lambasted

young people definitely want bikes that are BASED on Harleys. Witness the rise of the website Bike Exif and how popular bobbers, dirt-track style bikes and cafes based on HDs are. The problem is that unlike Triumph, HD doesn’t really offer any good and cost-effective starting points out of the store

They didn’t have the same allure because they never truly competed with the Japanese. Perhaps they couldn’t, I don’t know. But there’s a reason that BMW stopped making the R1200S and started making the S1000RR, which was a resounding sales success. Buell could/should have done the same

So you think they should offer, what? A 150cc model meant to compete with Bajaj in India or Thailand?? Harley, Ducati, et al., were ALWAYS going to be competing for those countries richest 1%

I’m a motorcycling elitist, and started with a scooter in my early 20s and built my way up, trackdays, touring on multiple continents, etc. I used to be a “YOU HAVE TO START WITH A 500 OR SMALLER” type of guy.

um no. There IS a happy medium. its possible to turn away from a REGULAR car for a sec while driving to change the radio, etc., and to do so safely. In a Tesla one can do a bit more, but not much more arguably. This woman was flat out in a coma essentially and autopilot isn’t meant for that!