Dark Blue 67 Beetle

That’s why I have a 50 year old motorcycle which I work on with hand tools I got 40 years ago. There’s a certain kind of honesty to older items. They weren’t just assembled for a single use, they were designed to be disassembled, repaired and reassembled, pretty much infinitely. My bike is old, but it runs exactly…

It makes me feel like my right thigh is a well baked ham.

Same here in SF. Old CBs and other UJMs are ridiculously expensive, but old airheads are even more expensive. It’s nuts. I’ve got a couple old BMWs that I’ll probably just keep forever. I couldn’t buy them back if I sold them, especially my R60/2. Your BSA is probably the same story. They seem to be going up in…

If you’re halfway capable. You’ll need a torch to heat the bearings so you can get them off the steering stem, some drifts to punch the old races out out of the steering head, a freezer to get the bearing races shrunk to fit in the head and the usual assortment of tools to get the forks off. You can remove the…

Yeah. When Honda went with the water-cooled motors, they came up with a new RR design that is generally regarded as pretty crappy. One of the fixes that used to be popular was grafting an R6 RR onto a VFR. Someone above mentioned the VFRness, which is probably the way to go.

Between this and the flaky electronics and marginal build quality, the shine is going to come off of Tesla with the introduction of the 3 unless they step up.

Buy it now. I bought a 916 when I was 53 because it was apparent I wasn’t getting any younger.

Indeed. I’m 58 and own a 98 VFR as part of my collection, which also includes a 916. I’ve found that core work in the form of planks and other strengthening exercises has made a huge difference in my ability to stay on the 916 longer. I have some level of arthritis in my mid back and when it’s really bad I take the…

I bought a 1998 VFR when I turned 40. I still have it and will probably have it until I’m too old to ride or dead, whichever comes first.

Indeed. I remember my grandmother telling me to “Stop messing with it. Just squeeze it into a ball!” For years, I used two butter knives, like she taught me, but a few years ago I bought one of those hand held things with the multiple tines to cut the fat in. It works way better and gives me way more consistent…

Snow sucks.

I’ve won a handful of first place ribbons and a best in show for pie at the county fair and have a thought about this. The actual enemy to a flaky crust isn’t the moisture content, in my experience, but whether the fat in the crust has formed into streaks in the dough. If you knead the dough, you’ll get a tough…

I’d rather have better roads, bridges that won’t fall down any time soon, rail systems that work and educational funding in place to get us all educated so we can keep up with the rest of the world.

Good call. The lower priced cars will be the rarest. When I was in college, the highways crawled with 70s Celicas. Try and find one now.

If you’re thinking ahead, now is the time to start acquiring early 90s cars. The millennials will get around to them in the next 10 to 15 years and good clean examples will sell well. Consider Supras, Preludes, even old Accords and Civics that have low mileage, a service history and no modifications. They’ll be…

You might be able to remedy it with a can of contact cleaner. Some are specifically made for cleaning rheostats in stereo equipment.

That’s why I buy Makita power tools that don’t use batteries. So far, 20+ years on both my chop saw and table saw. Got about 15 on my variable speed corded drill. They weren’t the cheapest options, but I expect them to last the rest of my life.

They often do “make stuff like they used to”, but when we go to Target and see a mixer for $9.99 and another for $49.99, guess which one is going home with us? The one that’s made with plastic gears and costs $9.99.

At least he didn’t get RSted.