That was a stunning display of incompetence.

Practice, practice practice. Seriously, 15 minutes in a parking lot every once in a while will get you threshold braking on demand - like a boss.

Yep, that’s how it’s done. We had one in the basement engineering lab at school to do just that. It had to be an antique when I used it in the 80's. It looked a lot like this, and worked by raising and lowering the entire cylinder barrel and head over the bottom end assembly.

Not too likely - they’ll be gone next year.

You haven’t really lived until you know the sickly sweet and vaguely toxic flavor of blue loctite.

Most of the sliding is done to scrub off speed on corner entry. The riders get it all back in line as soon as they can for the best drive down the straight. Sliding is even slower on asphalt. Also, bikes are required to have rear brakes. From the AMA 2016 rules:

After all, what’s the appeal of a race series with no drivers to route for, and cars that are programed to all perform at the same optimum level?

One trick is to make sure that traffic is too heavy for the cops, too. Four years of commuting a SE to NW diagonal across NYC including such tourist wonders as the Lincoln Tunnel, West Side Drive, Cross Bronx and even the Bronx River Pkwy, twice a day, I saved 1/2 the time a car would and got one warning on a surface…

Just steady on, no darting lane changes, and no problems. We won’t hit you.

Nobody’s going to be effective with a Republican’t congress. We may as well ask for lots instead of a little, if we’ll get none either way. As to whether my belief that Bernie could have won the general is delusion or not, we’ll never know.

Please, use qualifiers with your statements. The die hard Bernie or Bust assholes are fucking delusional. I’m not fucking delusional. I’m a Bernie supporter. I’ll be doing GOTV work for Hillary in PA. Hillary Clinton will be a fine POTUS.

It’s very wet here in NEPA today, and will be all night. I wouldn’t count on them getting a race in.

2425 pounds is a light car now? No. There is an upper limit on light. Over one ton is not light. A Lotus Europa is a light car. This is not.

Running rich + leaky exhaust = flames.

There’s a local dish around here called “Dump Cake” that’s actually pretty good.

He didn’t have adequate control of his MC and he was being a dick.

Hacking maybe, carving no.

What a non-riding asshole.

The problem with dish soap is many contain salt.

So with you on this. I once met a coworker on at a client’s site. He showed up in his spiffy BMW 3something, looked at my roadsplattered sportbike and asked “do you ever wash that thing?” He seemed a bit put off when I told him that I cleaned it whenever I had to work on it.