Batman, thanks for that link. I just wrote them to say what we all want to — don’t fire or punish this driver for doing the right thing, despite the mental midgetry of the kids in the Buick. Moment of truth proved the driver’s worth keeping on the road.

Don’t worry Justin... I hadn’t seen it before. Life and all... :D

Ah, Hohenfels... great memories when 3ID was still overseas, loved Germany. Well, the Germany a bit before 9/11, anyway...

Just goes to show, we have our Trump supporter doofuses, they have their Defender Defense contingent, esp online. With cooler accents, better education, and more ascots, but still doofuses.

Been riding a long time, longer than that rider’s been alive...

Lived and commuted by sportbike in Phoenix. You pull this ‘messing with cars’ crap there, you’re getting shot — and probably by more than one triggered rager cager...

Lived and commuted by sportbike in Seattle. If you can believe it, the ragers there are…

Wow... as a former soldier a lot of the stories were been-there-done-that, but some were straight-up nightmare fuel...

Was in said military in D.C... we were doing wind sprints for PT that afternoon. Out on the parade field, going back and forth prolly ten times. Felt fine but felt the rumble so excused myself to hit…

Seriously, all these prototype cars are looking more and more like evolved ‘89 Batmobiles...

23-yr big-city-motorcyclist commuter here...

Well gotta say, ESATBAL, you’re industrious in trying to convince Jalops you’re right...

Apologies if this has been covered before... but aren’t properly-aimed headlights high on the right side to begin with? This is to illuminate road signage and highlight the edge of the road. The left headlight is dipped slightly in properly-aimed lights, to reduce dazzle.

The R6S of a few years back was just the previous-gen R6, slightly refined (just paint, really) as a budget holdover; could also provide a way to get crossplanes under easy-ups at the track for thousands less, if inferior to the capabilities of the new R1/R1M...

Agree re: high-beams... if anything it only works on people who know or care about left-lane-passing. Every other meatsac will slow down next to another car and ride 10 under to teach you a lesson... because left-lane-passing isn’t on the books and therefore isn’t punishable if you decide to be a prick about it.

That sounds awful... hope it’s just the cheap, cliptastic recording equipment (smartphone?) used to capture the runs... but even the real Zonda’s have a bass boom from the exhaust that lasts far further up the dial than this exhaust... and it’s a 6.0L motor, not a 600cc bike engine... so not down to the displacement…

As a tech I have to disagree with the GS500 as the #1 choice. Air-cooled so it runs *very* hot in any climate above 75 degF... which means it’ll bake anything rubber above it, like airbox boots, manifold runner o-ring seals... and the carbs, which’ll heat-soak and do all kinds of strange things in thick stop/go…

The SV is the Miata of motorcycles. Owned both the 2000 carbureted for the street, and 2005 FI model for the track.

Unless the tech/owner of that bike forgot something potentially fatal (and with as many riders there are nowadays compared to when started on a sportbike, anything can happen; have some stories as a tech in Phx), it’s highly unlikely a sprocket came off a moving bike.

The typical Japanese motor cop tests are brutal, even more so than the standards for our 2-whl'd LEOs... and IIRC, some of them over there use older '98-'01 VFR800FIs — not a 'Busa but certainly not a dresser, either. I'd like to see some of these knuckleheads around here try to run from one. But a motor cop,…

I find it fascinating that sportbike inline-Fours like Yamaha's R1 powerplant, have been traditionally flat but found advantages in competition with crossplanes, while Ford's obviously found some advantage going the other way, in an automotive application.

Ex-moto tech and club racer/wrench...

I think a few of us 'Murricans have forgotten Marion Barry, two-time mayor of D.C. and unabashed crack enthusiast. ;)