I spend a fair amount of time bicycling, which is great for core and quad strength. This 58yo has a 916, a VFR and, for *those* days, a nice warm comfy R12RT. :)

The bike above is an RS, which only a dozen or so were made. This is a very, very exclusive bike, built specifically to go racing.

You might want to go read up on Bimota. That whole bike was built by hand. Are you one of the guys that maintains that an RC30 is just a hot rodded VF750 so it should be worth like $2K?

If the airbox is constructed in a way that pressurizes it. The F4i Honda was one of the first to do this.

I have both a telelever and an Earles fork in my garage. Brother!

At the current time, that’s true. But things change. I have a BMW R60/2, circa 1967. When I started riding, you could be a perfect one for a few hundred dollars. People thought they were weird. Same for BMW airheads. They were, at most, a $4000 bike, even if they were only a few years old.

916 owner here with a long history of owning Hondas. Absolutely yes on this.

The fastest bike or cheapest bike is not always the best bike. This bike has machining details you’ll not see outside a Koenigsegg or other handbuilt vehicles. It’s fueling was actually fixed, so it ran better and made more power than the donating Suzuki.

As a Californian: #wedontcarehowyoudoitbackeast

I thought this was going to be about the basics of internal combustion and where to start diagnosing. Fuel, compression, spark.

My mother, my grandmother, my aunts and uncles were all teachers in Detroit back in the 40s, 50s, 60s, and on into the 70s. At that time, Detroit prided itself on the quality of its schools. My parents and most of my aunts and uncles graduated from Wayne and they were only too happy to dismiss Michigan State as the…

Thank you for spelling “bated” properly.

As a BMW rider, they might like that many of the local BMW clubs and the largest BMW club in the world have been and continue to be run by a pretty equal split of men and women.

For a while in the mid 2000s, I was part of the BMW International Council of Clubs. I went to a meeting of the council in Austria and the V8 had just been introduced. We were at this hotel and the engineers were out in the parking lot whooping it up with a new M3. They were having a hell of a good time with it. It…

WOW! That’s awesome. I had no idea. Thanks for that!

We eat as locally as possible. Fortunately, we live in Northern California, so that’s fairly easy to do. Around here, it’s primarily organic, grass fed livestock on family farms, so I don’t feel bad about eating meat.

That’s a goddamned ugly car.

You sure have a funny way of spelling “ugly”. Not many people use “wow” for that.

I bet when that thing is empty it understeers like it has a magnet on the front that attaches to trees and guardrails. Does the power plant kind of sit under the backside of the cab like those Ivecos? That’s a pretty efficient job of packaging, in any event.

It’s a pretty straightforward design. If you flipped it around the other way, it’d make a dandy front engine vehicle. Ask Subaru. Or, consider that the mid engined Porsche racers are basically this engine configuration, just flipped with the motor in front of the transaxle.