Woof. That’s a big question. I think at some point if you have the right fundamentals on a bike then it just becomes a matter of marginal gains with price increase (some wide margins, some narrow), but riding and trail style factors in as well.

For example, if you’re willing to spend around $1k on a new hardtail mountai…

As the owner of a current gen Scott Spark 910, this is one of my biggest fears (fortunately I don’t live anywhere close to Silicon Valley).

I have both an AirTag and a Tile hidden inside my frame, as well as an “If Found please contact...” label rolled up and tucked into my handlebar.

Not sure the latter would help at…

I have questions. First off, why didn’t the IndiGo aircraft execute a go-around?  They had to have seen the Air India aircraft roll on to the runway...

Sure, but in legit transactions the vehicle is titled in *your name* with the bank listed as a lien holder. You legally own the car, but the bank has a lien on it until you finish paying off the loan and can repo if you don’t

If the BHPH place didn’t actually put the title in the lady’s name, then that could explain…

This is fair. My argument based on the anecdotal evidence of 1 is as ludicrous as Bradley’s. It was a visceral knee jerk reaction to a dumb statement.

Cycling is as dangerous as you make it. And as Saigon_Design points out these drivers are likely adrenaline junkies and could be quite possibly sending it over shit they…

Riding bicycles is incredibly fucking dangerous

Creepers aren’t sinister. Annoying AF, perhaps, but not sinister.

You know what would be even cooler than a clutch on an EV?

A clutch on a CT4.

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I mean, Mach-E is a fine name. They should have just stopped there.

Buying *any* used rental car is typically a bad idea.

When I was traveling for work heavily in my early 20s, my teammates and I beat the living snot out of our rental cars. In an Ohio and/or Utah junkyard somewhere there is a Jetta with a cracked gearbox, Two Mazda 6s with destroyed oil pans, and 3 or 4 Ford Tauruses…

I’m in a suburb of Chicago. Homes fitting your description with 2k square feet on 1/4 acre lots start around $600k.

Ha. This article just goes to remind me of how old the family fleet is. Other than the smoking bits and the crank windows, our cars have just about everything on this list. Model years 2023, 2011, 2006, and 2006.

Before we bought one of the ‘06 cars (that’s the kids car) we test drove an ‘18 Kia Rio with a 6 speed…

Fortunately, it looks like that system never made it to the R171 chassis, but I’ll probably pull the negative lead anyway.  Just in case.

I’m about to order parts to do the brakes on my wife’s ‘06 SLK. Pads, rotors, brake hoses with shipping is about $400. Figure my time is worth another...I dunno...200 bucks?

When it’s clean, and in the sun with the top up, and you squint really hard, it looks like an SLR.

Or get a low mileage, late-model year F82, avoid the beaver grille and maybe have a few benjamins left over for upgraded brakes and tires.

I’ll take “Obvious Shit for $500, Alex”

Your comment is still there, it’s just in the grays.  Unsure why.  I don’t know the rules about who gets automatic approval and who gets pending approval.  <shrug/>

I will concede that Elon being an utter douche canoe isn’t doing the brand any favors, but I don’t think they’ll go out of business any time soon.

If he continues to be a raging weirdo and doubles down on the batshit crazy stuff I can very much see brand erosion starting to take hold (maybe already is?), especially…

This seems like a bit of an...extreme...take. Tesla has been hugely successful with the Model 3, Y, and S (possibly the X as well but $$$), this is one model out of 4 - and early builds at that. If GM made it out of the 80s with all the crap they sold to the U.S. public, I think Tesla can survive this.

Next, the…

So it comes back to what I’ve commented on before for other articles.

Infinitis (with perhaps the exception of the latest gen QX60) are the Dollar General of luxury cars. Neither good, nor bad, just meh.