I love love love my ‘19 Golf Sportwagen 6MT, as I’ve mentioned many times. In May of our year of COVID, I did (deep breath): is38/MST intake/Unitronic tune/Koni SAs/Golf R springs/Golf R rear bar/S3 short shift linkage/312mm front brakes/Audi TTRS clutch/18" Pretoria wheels/Michelin Pilot 4S. I added an Integrated…
I don’t think you’re correct about bikes, at least among the big companies.
I was an undergrad at Johns Hopkins University when the Hubble went up. The Space Telescope Science Institute is adjacent to the campus (on a twisty bit of road that was the subject of much jack-assery on my GSXR750 and where my roommate crashed his kz550). I worked book checkout/in at the library. The employees at…
The day I saw QQ (classic designator in NJ) plates on a 3rd gen Firebird...
I used to read the Tesla forums quite a bit. I read many variations of “as soon as [my-favorite-german-marque] has an EV that compares, I”m done”. I’ve also read “Everything I love about the car is because it’s an EV. Everything I hate is because it’s a Tesla”.
I posted this before but my friend just picked up a Model 3 for his wife. Click-click. Arrange payment. When it came in, they expected him to walk up, click to accept the car on his phone, and drive off. He actually had to prompt them to open the doors so we could at least look at it first (it was fine).
It sounds like he just doesn’t drive that much. My wife has averaged 5k/yr for the last 10. Her MINI could get 10mpg and it would cost an extra $1k/yr.
My friend has that configuration on his Trek Emonda from a few years back. Constant aggravation. The caliper gets filthy and requires regular attention to keep working properly.
Their was a fair bit of criticism in the beechtalk aircraft forum for ditching so close to the shore. To be fair to the pilot (which I am not), he was pretty busy, not casually looking for a parking spot.
For reasons unknown, I watched a ton of MRE videos on YT. My wife got me a full suite of 24 US Army MREs from ‘17/’18. I’ve gone through 1/2 of them in 8 months because, as you say, not great.
Hah. Not quite.I guess it’s a Fiat product from the early 2000s though. ‘01 360.
NJ resident. One of my cars is tricky (I suspect a problem with the EVAP I haven’t tracked down). Attendants are happy to let me deal with pumping gas so they don’t have to babysit it.
My company is absolutely making structural changes to how we utilize our offices. If you don’t commit to going in 4 days/wk, you will not get a private office. Everything else will become part of a shared/reservable pool.
I’ll grant you sales and your auditor friends but I think at my company we found that a lot of our travel was founded on bullshit. The notion that it was so much better to get 25 of us in a room for 3 day planning sessions that we now do seamlessly on Teams. In retrospect, 90% of my travel was completely unnecessary.
Licensing (and insurance) is not a benefit to the purchaser though, just the rest of us.
We’re gradually seeing more on the trails too. They’re not allowed but it’s not enforced. My concern has been that they allow those newbies with no other skills to go a lot faster than they would on an unassisted bike but nothing has come of it yet.
I didn’t mean the same people would be interested in both, just that since e-bikes share most of the same drawbacks as motorcycles, the potential number of people willing to commute full time via bike isn’t going to be much higher than the number currently willing to commute full time via motorcycle.
When you moved, one of the first purchases was a spiral bound detailed map of your county. Printed by Hagstrom. I just pulled mine off the shelf from ‘98.
My interpretation is that they’re claiming it only costs 0.1hp in additional parasitic losses, not that only 0.1hp gets to the front wheel.
What’s crazy is that he’s running a used tire shop. All he does is swap out wheels and tires. How could he be so bad at it?
