I like those Enfields even more after the Fort9 review. If they’d put that engine in the Himalaya I’d be might tempted. 

He’s an actual motorcyclist. I doubt he’d touch this with a 10 foot pole. Or stilts.

I mostly agree...but that little bit makes the value proposition even worse to me. I expect/hope quality control is decent, but where is the cost coming from on these bikes if they’re using Chinese engines?

Big Meh. At least flat track is on TV. 

I told my wife yesterday that we should get a Fiero and put Guy Fieri murals all over it. She was weirdly into the idea. I liked naming it Fieri Fiero, but she was for Guy Fiero.

If it were not on the other side of the country I think I would have this one. Bradley’s not looking to do a cross-country test of some kind…

I may circle back. The whole getting it from port thing seems like a hassle.

Yeah. An hour and ten or so away from me. They’re charging ~$8k for something that sells in Japan for a few hundred bucks*. I am trying to figure this out without the fee they’re getting for convenience.

*No shade implied. They’re a business and seem to be genuinely good to deal with. I am willing to save money to…

I think a bit of the pricing came from getting it to my door. I am in SW Virginia, and to ship to the Import Guys and then on to me from the PNW added significant cost. I haven’t found an ‘Import Guys’ analog in or near the Newport News port. That’d probably save a bit...but the whole getting it out of port and then…

I am stoked for the how to do it article. I was trying to get a 4x4 dump kei truck and I can find no way that is not cheaper than just going up the road to Duncan Imports.

I rode across Montana in college and lived in California for a while after college. When I read this announcement I was pretty puzzled as I can’t understand where filtering/splitting would be necessary there (though I haven’t been back in ....nearly 20 years).

Then I remembered that Yosemite, and to a lesser degree…

You seem cool.

As a rider I am very interested in this. I stayed AFTER clocking out at work to finish the article.

If I am out for a weekend in a likely-borrowed SXS, I am generally treating the pedals as on/off switches.

I’d get to the amateur races outside Denver as often as I could. Much of the appeal was how accessible it was. $20 for the lady and I to enter and BYO beers. But then watching, I was like this is affordable. Dangerous, but affordable. I thought about buying a bike until we watched a guy break his femur and then…

Fair. I just don’t see the need for ALL THE IMMEDIATE TORQUES in traction-limited (off-road) situations. 

How easy does it do a burnout?

Instant electric torque makes me think wheelspin/tearing up the trail. 

1. They mentioned in 5-6 years.
2. Altas were not that easy to get if you wanted one. I was on the list and living in L.A. at the time and never got the call/email. 

Maintenance on my wife’s ‘05 has been oil, filters, tires, brakes. And a serpentine belt once for good measure. 

Something doesn’t compute.

Corollas don’t die.