I’ve spoke to nearly aa dozen state troopers that have transitioned to the taurus or explorer interceptors from the panthers.

My dad totalled two cars (including my mother’s beloved canary yellow Nova) due to a medical condition involving his heart’s inability to keep blood pumping and oxygenated. He eventually lost his license, but by that time, was confined to a wheel chair anyway. Ultimately, it killed him.

Can’t resist making the obvious joke.

So incredibly true. Last summer I hopped into a Datsun for a ride along at autox, when I shut the door, the sound was uncannily like that of the doors on my dad’s VW Thing for some reason. It was a sound burried extremely deep in my lizard brain, having had no previous memory of it, but when I realized what it was I…

No problem. Yeah, SS is a good resource, but it is full of some interesting coots and is borderline bigoted. Tin foils hats on, as they say.

There is nothing irrational about the Ural other than reliability expectations, esp with the power bump on the EFI ones. The problem is that you never know which weak spot that you are going to get. Any one of several could crop up, and it is a very mixed bag.

As was said, sidecars are still made in low volumes. They are hella fun to ride, esp when you try to hustle it.

BMW R12…

If this happens, I want them to design these cars with no limits instead of making it a spec race series. Just encourage the companies to go as balls out as possible, just to prove that their autonomous algorithms can handle it all.

I’ll bite. I own a BMW F800GS, and I ride the balls off it like it’s a three-trick pony. I’ve done 700-mile day road trips to Canada, ridden single track in the woods with my buddies on 2 strokes and kept up, and dragged pegs on Sundays to the amazement of the street guys - all on the same bike with the same set of…

I’d call it more of a urine squall.

He rides a “Gixxer”, there is no American bike that is similar.

I consume media from everywhere. Often contradictory. Like this;

When my buddy Tyler and I wanted to take the trip of a lifetime, we spent $700 and bought a 1979 Dodge Van. Not a minivan. A goddamn van. After putting about $200 into getting it running right, we drove this thing up the entire Pacific Coast Highway. (Mind you, this was when gas cost quite a bit more, and this van…

You seem sharp with the retorts, but dull with the facts.

So if my own personal path in life lends me to have lived in Alaska for half of my life, attended the start and re-start of the Iditarod a half dozen times, been present at a handful of other dog sled races, have friends who own sled dog kennels...
...if all that…

I hope they all underwent the background check!

I thought I was the only one that didn’t like this guy.. nice to see that I’m not.

Looking at it again, it looks like they put some between the windows, which would mean they probably put up a few pieces around the edges so the inspector would sign off on it but as clearly indicated by the fallen bricks, it no where else except between the windows. This is clearly more than a case of not knowing it…