That’s usually a good summary of my major mechanical exploits as well. I just dive in at this point, stupidly confident that I’ll figure it out one way or another.

That’s right. I had that completely backwards in my mind. It punishes mid corner lift even more, which is always a good time for an inexperienced operator.

It takes that temperature for powdered magnesium to ignite. A big brick of it dissipates that heat very effectively and doesn’t allow for enough oxygen to be present to cause ignition. The only reason you had the occasional magnesium wheel fire back in the day was the combination of glowing hot brake rotors, decent…

They actually have a surprising amount of trunk space, and in fact have two of them to boot. The early 2nd gens toed out pretty aggressively under acceleration due to the rear toe link design which made them a handful for inexperienced drivers, and the later models overcorrected to pretty heavy toe in which made them…

You don’t have to drop the engine, just undo the engine mount and lower it a bit. You can get to everything just fine if you’re not particularly fond of your knuckle skin.

Me and my AW11 disagree with you 100000000000%.

I read the question and came to basically the same conclusions of the author(s). Mustang, Corvette, Wrangler, or something beetle-based. Parts will be available forever, none of them will bankrupt you over a repair, and you’ll enjoy yourself the whole time.

Oil is the reason I even know that Odessa exists. 1 star, would not visit again.

Also a pornstar, though there is some “themed” overlap. I doubt a bit of it is COTD-appropriate.

Why would you want to drive to Odessa? I’ve been there once, and that was plenty.

I’m sure there’s somewhere in the US that’s doing something like this. The buy-in for a Mig isn’t too bad as far as jet aircraft ownership is concerned, it’s the upkeep that’ll get you. $19k a ride seems like plenty to keep the thing airborne.

I feel like if you’re driving somewhere where you have 4WD engaged by necessity you should probably carry some extra fuel with you.

I see that the Mazda models on the list all have wildly pessimistic Empty Lights. This mirrors my experience in my Mazda 2, where the car says it’s empty when it does, in fact, have a 1/4 tank or more remaining. I suppose that’s good for fuel system component life, but it can certainly be annoying.

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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