I will admit that I didn’t take that particular use case into account. I would advise against motorcycle operation of any sort in that very specific scenario.

Eh, they’re not going very fast and they’re on a closed course. With any safety gear at all this is safer than a standard daily commute in a car.

I’m thinking that they’d fly someone in for you, and have them travel to your location. For what a Huayra costs this would be my expectation.

I would think that by the time you’ve grown enough as a lifter to put up 400 lbs on any lift you’ll know how to safely test your 1RM. I mostly use the calculator to make sure my estimated numbers are moving up when I’m doing a 5-3-1 or similar program, I’d never use it to set a competition lift.

This could probably get in under SB100 as “other make, 1965 model year” (or some such thing). The fully exempts it from emissions testing in the state.

I found that taking up motorcycling made higher speeds on my road bike much easier to handle. When you’re used to going 65+ on a 400# thing, 35+ on a 20# thing is a cakewalk. The only real issue you run into is that the motorcycle is so much less work that you might find yourself cycling less often.

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If you’re lifting to technical failure and under 10 reps they’ll get you within 5-10% in my experience, particularly if you get 2 reps out and get stalled part way on the 3rd rep (or some similar situation). If you’re cranking out 20-30 reps you’re using different energy systems and the calculators won’t work. Every…

I was under the impression that the September 5th launch was the first re-use launch. Regardless, watching the video makes it seem like the cause of the explosion was related to the fuelling, rather than the rocket itself, so that’s certainly a small plus for SpaceX if it happens to be the case.

By “proprietary parts” you mean Toyota drivetrain parts that are readily available, and race parts that any decent fab shop can whip up for you in a weekend. The body panels are crazy expensive to replace, sure, but any good fiberglass shop can manage. It’s not like the bodywork was particularly high quality in the…

Everyone who has tried to launch a rocket twice. The twice is important here.

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I was shocked anyone made it up our hill. It was 300' (tape measurement) at almost 100% grade, I had to crawl up half of it, but we had 2 cars make it. A light Baja car with good CVT tuning can crawl up quite a lot.

I wish we’d had a hill like that for Baja SAE California. Our hill did pretty well, but this one looks better.

That’s exactly how I read it.

I got a set of factory alloys for my Mazda 2 to upgrade from the steelies the car came with, the full set was the cost of one Enkei RPF1 and came with brand new OEM tires. Then I put my autocross tires on the steelies.

Scrolled down looking for a listing for Materials Engineer. Did not find it. Damn.

I would erect a 20' tall, bright orange fence bordering that neighbors property as a gigantic FU. Letter of the law, right?

I could actually see the justification in a few motorcycles, being a motorcycle gear company and all. The limo and last minute flight, also probably sort of ok if everything else is going well (not prudent though). The strippers and Vipers, harder to justify.

Racing at this level is so mind-bendingly expensive that I don’t think the cost difference will be noticed if there is one at all. The SCCA magazine had an article a while back about what you can expect to spend to participate in a race weekend for various amateur classes and series’, it went from a few thousand for…