a lot of them haven’t gotten the “slower traffic use turnouts” memo either 

you mean those seat pockets aren’t for storing the dirty diaper after i change the baby on the tray table?

yeah, huge round trip makes no sense; we were pretty much right on the border from Portland to somewhere past The Dalles though.

i’ll throw another wrinkle; the little “foreskin” on the pumps in CA. pain in the ass when filling the moto, as you have to hold it back by hand..if you let it slip, pump clicks off. likewise, on the cars, if the nozzle slots into the filler cap too far back, the switch inside the “skin” isn’t tripped, so the pump…

Oregon?  When we were up there, i literally crossed the border to WA a couple times, mainly so i could pump my own gas.  we also found other excuses to be up there though, like lunch.

sounds like my truck (it’s a mid 2000's ranger in disguise)...add a little wheelspin, and everything goes to hell, it just quits braking. voila! no lockup! 

what i want to know is how to get audi to loan me the S4 for a couple weeks...for testing purposes *wink*

especially once the drums/shoes get wet. went 4 wheel disc here, with 205/55 fronts and 225/50 rears, and braided stainless lines front and rear.

on the contrary...hwy 130 in Tx has a speed limit of 85. a few others in the northwest (Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana), plus oklahoma, have stretches of 80 on the interstate.

hell, stick a hitch on the p71, grab a trailer kit and chock from harbor freight, a sheet of plywood and a few bolts from lowes (and maybe 2 or 4 eyebolts for tie points), plus a pack of ratchet straps and just tow the bike behind the “camper”, no truck needed.

heck, if it had some mechanical upgrades to go with the visual refresh, it’d be a lot closer to NP territory...but no such sanity.

100% with you.

actual photo of sneaking Carlos Ghosn out of Japan?

I was hoping someone would have said it so I wouldn’t need to. It isn’t a problem of base prices, it’s the actual stickers. Was checking my area not too long ago killing time, and there wasnt a gladiator available under 60k.

something fatal about the “i’ll do it in the morning”. to be fair, i tried to feed it on the way home at night, but even johnny quik was closed.

tried a set of no-name led headlights on my truck from woot, for $18.99...they were garbage. the pattern sucked, and the high beams didn’t work. went back to halogens for awhile, then (based on others’ good experiences) tried some beamtech from amazon on one of the hondas. those worked pretty great (have them in the…

agreed, not smog exempt. if it were titled as a 75, yes, it’d be exempt in CA. as a 76, nope.

was already thinking counterpoints while reading the article...they’re pretty similar to joe’s. it’s not about “cool” or “uncool”. how much they’ve been made to suck to drive is a big part of the death of minivans. granted it’ll never be a sports car, or even a GT car, but it also doesn’t need to handle like a blob to…

notice the wear pattern on the tire too...

Covered a fair bit of stuff, yeah. Kind of interesting how they did some of it too.