I'm actually not so sure twist-and-gos will be all too common in bikes. Sure, more manufacturers will offer more models with them to ease in new riders and also capture that older portion of the market for whom shifting is becoming an issue, but bikes in the US are already largely seen as recreational items and don't…

I don't. You should read the other part of my argument. Transmissions are irrelevant. It's a motorcycle. A maxi-scooter still has a very distinctive step-through the NM4 lacks. For comparison:

He's committing logical fallacies. This one being a combination ad hominem/genetic fallacy, suggesting in one fell swoop that Can-Am riders are not to be trusted with this judgment and meant to slander you as well for presumably riding one.

Ad hominem and Genetic logical fallacies. You're on a roll, might collect the whole set.

Nothing like avoiding the argument in order to win. Enjoy the pool! :)

And they're all wrong.

Do please enlighten me how an Aprilia Mana is a scooter.

Sorry, but that's ridiculous. All of these, then, are scooters:

They're actually adding in even more bike lanes. (Sadly due to an incident where an enraged motorist attacked a bicyclist.) And finally getting around to making other improvements to infrastructure, like the Route 28 widening or replacing the Greenfield bridge. For the next decade or so, it's probably going to follow…

Pittsburgh is the only rust belt city to not be decrepit. Why are you laughing?

I wholeheartedly agree, but the problem we're running into is that the Port Authority that runs the buses and light rail is a county-level organization the city doesn't really control. Plus there's plenty of semi-rich assholes with luxury cars that resist any and all changes to the transit network because of fears the…

Born elsewhere, moved to Pittsburgh when I was 7, haven't thought about leaving since. I've visited other cities (San Fran, Boston, NYC, Philadelphia) and none quite did it like Pittsburgh.

It is small. The city/metro area ratio here is much worse than anywhere else I computed. But it's real easy to get around as long as you unstick the concept that interstates are always the fastest way around. Plus there's enough to do in the city and surrounding areas for most people.

Without further info, I'm skeptical of their methods. No shit smaller cities like Fort Collins see less crashes, there's less people to crash with. Not to mention the other possible holes (only tracking crashes involving an Allstate-insured vehicle, collecting data by totals instead of rates to account for population,…

Cupholder lids: why? Aren't the door pockets/glovebox/other center console storage for small items you'd like hidden?

That was pretty looooooong read.

The thing is, these loans aren't like four or five years. We're talking six or seven years with financing near five percent. This means that cars are more accessible to more people, which is a good thing, but it also means that these cars will be on the road for a long time. By the time the loans are paid off, they'll…

Licensing also varies by state. In Pennsylvania, motorcycles under 50cc can be ridden with a valid Class C.

There's something in the rural parts besides boring farm parts? :P

I don't think it's even that heavy. I got food taxed at 9% in Illinois and I wasn't even in Chicago. 6-8% doesn't seem that bad here.