First gear issue sounds like hard spots on the flywheel. If someone cheaped out and didn’t turn it when they replaced the clutch.

Any discussion of sex-specific sports (such as a female F1 division) is irrelevant or soon will be now that we have accepted the concept that a person of either sex can declare to identify as the other. Should a female F1 division become reality it will only be a matter of time before a “born male” breaks into it.

Car-b-cue

At WSDOT we spend a significant portion of our budget on maintenance to keep our older infrastructure working. I was told year ago that New York doesn’t spend money on maintenance thinking that it’s cheaper in the long run to replace infrastructure every so often.

The lowers have plenty of room and it only takes a few minutes to unbolt the uppers and place them in a vice.

Yes, I thought grinding the rivet heads off using an angle grinder would be easier than drilling them.

I would have considered removing the upper control arm to drill out the rivets on a drill press.

There is nothing worse for sport bike riders than getting stuck behind a sport car driver that thinks they’re going fast because they’ve never ridden a sport bike.

Pretty sure the front wheel is not 10". Perhaps a 16?

Dude, pretty sure that’s a scooter...