I picked up a modular Shoei Neotec II on sale (since the IIIs just came out) and it’s been a major improvement for commuting (gotta show my face at the gate to get in to work), stopping for a drink of water, and fuelling/parking (raise the entire front and you get better visibility). It’s also great for really hot,…

Yep, and the limited’s MSRP in 2015 was $30k (base could be had for $25k). The STi, a significantly superior car, started a $35k. I know that prices have gone up, but with inflation that STi was about $45k (what the CVT-only GT is going for). They’re giving you less car for much, much more money and are hoping you’ll…

If it works for Hellboy it can work for us!

Which is why Winston Churchill was censured by Parliament and the press.

Pointing at the ground means it’s not an otherwise-used signal for turning or stopping (which I’ll often do in busy traffic to get drivers’ attention).

I’d bet that since they’ve had to deal with university administrators that they know what a fax machine is

I also wanted to look at a new Z and was similarly met with resistance. They’re digging their own graves.

First rule of oceanography is: no steel is stainless.

Surface roads in my mid-atlantic city vary wildly from 20 to 35 mph, not to mention speed limit changes depending on whether or not you’re passing through a school zone at school hours. We also have construction happening on a number of roads at any given time, reducing the speeds because of course they should be…

It required “an integrated vehicle system that uses, at minimum, the GPS location of the vehicle compared with a database of posted speed limits”. Who maintains that database? Who ensures that cars continue to receive those data? How quickly do they require those data be updated for road work, etc? It was a…

Every bit of enthusiasm I ever had for it has been permanently extinguished.

That makes a lot of sense. One of the reasons I went for a pre-80s airhead beemer was that was the point that emissions regs hit the bikes, so the earlier bikes are more powerful and more reliable: the early emissions-era bikes are really prone to hard-to-track air leaks and oil leaks whilst also having lower power.

Wild! I’m surprised going with an older engine over newer, but sometimes you have what you have. Sounds like a true delight of a roadster (and there’s nothing quite as satisfying as one’s classic turning over immediately).

Love it! All my classics get 93, too. With the bore and cams do you find your jetting to be significantly different? I assume that you eschewed the Strombergs and moved to a pair of HS4s.

and it hits you when you’re down.

“Where have all the good men gone?” is the first line of ‘Holding Out for a Hero’.

Totally fair! It’s definitely more complicated than the single purchase and I don’t want my statements to detract from that. 

Ceteris paribus, I would absolutely buy an EV as my next new vehicle. Initial additional carbon production is overcome by the differential between EV and ICE over the tens of thousands of miles a car will go. Unfortunately, all things are not equal, and there are no EVs that currently appeal to what I want. That’s not…

In Los Angeles?