As an interested observer, I think quality of life is as large or larger of a factor in the difficulty of attracting people to the career as money. As I understand it, unless you know someone who’ll hire you as a newbie, you pretty much have to spend at least a year over the road with little or no home time before you…

Perhaps rather than focusing on the word “commodity”, it would be more useful to describe time as not necessarily fungible.  One hour of one driver’s time is not necessarily interchangeable with an hour of another driver’s time, like one bushel of corn is interchangeable with another.

“Mom call 911 before they shoot us too!”

I’m not going to lie, hearing that at the close of the first video shook me.

People were rushing to rescue her and she paid no attention to them for their efforts. She wasn’t rescued by first responders, she was rescued by citizens. She even laughed “That was fun” as people helped her to shore. Its not like she was just driving around slowly, most of the residents (as that river is mostly…

“I can’t imagine any carmaker trying to get away with something like this today”

None of that power on screen came for free, none of it. 

Came here to say this, and I totally agree that Oatsngoats has the best take. Capped turbo is really the best compromise of inclusivity/safety while not also making “buy a turbo controller” a mandatory condition of being able to speedrun competitively. Capping at 12 or 15 hz remains in the realm of human feasibility,…

Thank god they didn’t know my friend Brandon was in the car.

The Lexus was just soooo boring. This Valiant cheers me up every time I get behind the wheel, and that has a lot of value to me.

1500 ft. in 45 minutes equates to something like 33 feet per minute.

Tell me you’ve never hiked in deep snow with saying so explicitly

I made the same type of mistake as a kid (17). Don’t mess with mother nature. You are not as bad ass as you think. 

Thanks for sharing this story, Broseph.

In a perfect FSD world there will be no stop lights, signs, nothing, just an incredible series of TERRIFYING yet orchestrated near misses...basically like driving in India :)

These old bike threads are a nostalgia hit for me. I remember the YBB, unicoi and the like. In fact, I bought my dad a Trek STP 200 new back in the day. Never really got on board with the soft tail concept as they weren’t appreciably better riding than my S-works hardtail. I wonder if we still have that bike…

remind me to drive to New Jersey to change the oil on this thing

Blame trails for not posting etiquette. Also, you can only move as fast as traffic. With some of the bike advocates I like to joke that they become the “automobile drivers” on the paths.

I’m definitely not a rim brake hater, but I would go with a fork that allows a disc on the front, even if it’s mechanical, like an Avid BB7. I built a cruiser out of a ‘64 Spaceliner step-through frame that has a mechanical front disc and rear coaster (SA 3 speed IGH) and it impressively stops that overweight brute…

Bummed I didn’t see the QOTD (this is why you guys need to wait to publish these lists.....) so here’s some of my favs.

You couldn't tell if the meat they gave you was brisket or pulled pork? Must be a pretty lousy BBQ place