The ride from Millinocket to Greenville via Baxter State Park is very scenic. Start with a full gas tank and cell phone battery.

I’m surprised that Subaru could toughen up the car beyond WRC spec - I always figured that WRC cars were pretty much built to the hilt. It doesn’t surprise me that they need to though. There’s a lot more energy in a flying car than a flying bike. I can fly my street bike on the back roads on the regular and never even…

How well do you think an F1 car would do at Ballaugh Bridge? I reckon it’d get high centered, and that never helps a lap time.

Two trailer park Buffalo girls go round the outside, round the outside...

Try practicing in a parking lot, because if you think “bikes don’t make quick switchback maneuvers very well” you clearly haven’t been practicing.

I’ve taken the ARC six times, had a expert RR licence for 10 years, and been riding since before motorcycles had radial tires. Saying that it is safer to hit a deer than it is to try to avoid it is NOT something they teach at the MSF. It is always better to try to avoid a crash than to accept one. You might not have a…

MotoGP is the oldest of motorsports World Championships. The first annual competition was held in 1949, so maybe the VLN is the 4th oldest.
Also, that sounds like a real code brown moment. Glad you came out more or less ok, and hope the car isn’t fubar’d.

For your own sake, go take an MSF course. You are talking pure bullshit.

With respect, you are talking bollocks. If the rider had gone to maximum braking straight ahead, eased off and then swerved to the left, he’d have an excelent story, a working motorbike, and a whole skin.

Target fixation has to be trained out, and it’s easy to fall back into.

ATGATT means MSF minimum, not every piece of gear you own. Long pants, long sleeves, gloves, boots over the ankle, helmet. That all, not leathers or a ‘stich. Just cover your fucking skin and put a shell on your bonce. I had an asshole buddy fall off with his nice leather jacket bungied to the seat. You could see…

If he did, we know he wasn’t paying attention. He was wearing shorts FFS.

An experienced or educated rider would not have needed to save it. They would have known to brake, then swerve. By following the course of action taught to the riders smart enough to take an MSF course, he would have been able to execute maximum braking in a straight line, seen which way the roll was trending, and…

Oh yes there are. Lots of them. Especially if you have, you know, lady parts.

I hope your take away lessons here are:

I swear, as I scrolled by the story the 1st time, I thought “oh, that’s a nice blue they’ve painted that Mustang.”

No, actually they don’t have the slightest clue. I’ve worked with Lockheed Martin IT and they were so scattered they made the NYC MTA look like they had it together.

GM will outsource making vans so that they can sell more pickup trucks to people like the idiot in the picture who bought a pick up to pull a trailered load that would have fit inside a van.

That’s the weird part. I learned how to ride a bike on the streets of NYC so a helmet was something I was going to use no matter the law, but I tried riding w/o a helmet a few years later on a NH backroad and hated it. Even with wraparound shades the tears were streaming, and the wind noise was enough to deafen me. I…

It’s nice, it’s just not nice price. For that kind of money I want the Fox body wagon equivalent.