I sold a motorcycle to a guy who crammed it into the back of a GTI. I have friends who are hyperfocused on their kids being comfortable in the back of their vehicles (my friend bought a megacab 2500 truck for this specific purpose...) and I’m like, who cares? they’re kids. Instead of blasting their brains with more…

A multistrada can’t touch a real sport bike. You’re not going to get sport bike handling if you’re sitting bolt upright and have long travel suspension.

Corporate charity is largely ineffective. It’s just a way for board members to funnel money to their family/kids tax free by making them executives who get paid huge salaries from the “nonprofit”.

Impact drivers (impact screwdrivers) have oversized bits. They aren’t for using on fasteners you intend to reuse, just ones you need to really get out.

I have a butt ton of cheap Chinese tools that work just fine.

It rings as hollow as a giant underground cavern when some big multinational company is preaching it though

They are “donating” just the portion that would go to the Budweiser brand, all the other InBev brands are running ads.

All the sad dudes on this site that drive leased CUV’s “for their growing family” think fun beater cars are still priced like in 2006 when they were in high school.

They’re massively fast sport touring bikes, not sport bikes. You’re not going to get razer edged handling out of a bike you can comfortably ride across the country.

I would wager they have some customer data that shows that the bulk of their customers are grey haired dudes that want supersonic touring bikes but aren’t ready for Goldwings yet. I imagine all the ultra-fast adventure bikes have decimated the segment. Still a substantial redesign of just about everything, even if the…

Similarly, see cars listed on Craigslist for $3000 and the real price is $13,000. Computer won’t let your 1998 Dodge Ram be valued above their algorithm rules.

Nobody cares about your boring ass life story dude

It’s probably more to do with consolidating commercial real estate and the fact that SoCal isn’t really hotrod central anymore. Edelbrock has made tons of stuff beyond their musclecar stuff, I had an Edelbrock carb on my Yamaha dirt bike at one time. They have made some stuff you wouldn’t expect through the years.

Why wouldn’t they take preorders? People are basically giving them a interest-free loan.

Weren’t these done with some sort of silly “open source” design process (don’t you love it when they rip off tech terms) by random people?

Well yeah but this is Jalopnik. Portions of the site like the comment section have literally been broken for years, I wouldn’t expect them to fix anything.

There’s a plugin for Firefox that turns any site into dark mode. It’s not perfect but works OK for sites like this.

Insurance is expensive. You are opening yourself up to huge liability

It’s more than that. A couple of hedge funds shorted the stock. Short sellers suck and try to actively hurt companies (which hurts employees) by publishing “research” while shorting the stock at the same time. The problem with shorting is that it exposes you to big losses if you’re wrong, not just what you would…

I guess it comes down to that I bought my KLR hearing all the stories about how horrendous the suspension is and it turned out to be perfectly fine. It has problems if I push it too hard over chattery bumps but it’s a big bike and not for hitting whoops anyway. I don’t think it’s radically worse than my friends…