Why in gods name would you carry a spare (no, TWO spares) that are not ready to go? You should have at least one usable spare. Trailer tires blow all the time. Not a huge deal.

what about the money? like, how much do you pay?

you forgot the High Pressure Fuel Pump in the 335s. I had 2007 335 manual sport package. Went through two HPFPs, then the turbos blew. Then the regular fuel pump. I was so glad that I leased it.

You should take a walk around the paddock at an amateur motorcycle race or a track day. Everybody is blissed out on adrenaline and dopamine and in the best mood. Such a sweet sweet rush, and at a track day, you get to do it 5 or six times during the day, for 20 minutes at a time. For me, the buzz lasts a few days at…

those were big tubs filled with burning oil. the oil spread over the wooden floor to the wooden walls, the flames climbed the walls to the wooden ceiling, and blammo!

I would so much rather have a 500 E than this.

this is a good idea. but i doubt it would be cheaper than buying an old bandit 1200 and fixing it up.

so, you’re saying that New Jersey got it right?

I had a Mark III, but with the VR6 motor.

that looks like what happens when a good u-12 team plays a lousy u-12 team, and gets a 7 goal lead, then they put the keeper in at striker, cuz they want to get him a goal, and he dribbles the length of the field and puts it in.

we have a Jetta TDI Sportwagen, my wife wants a cute ute, so she will test drive a CRV, a CX-5 and she wants to try a Tiguan as well. I am not so interested in giving VW more of our money, but they might make us a screaming deal.

I can only imagine the outrage that the Russian state media could gin up with footage of US planes doing the same flybys to Russian ships. The Russkies are f&&&in’ dicks, man.

I would totally take a high school soccer team over a batch of NFL players. The football players wouldn’t pass the ball very well, and if they tried to dribble, a decent HS player would take the ball in a heartbeat. Big guys who can run fast are useless if they can’t handle the ball at all. A good U-17 club team would…

That’s exactly how I sold my two year old 2003 Dodge Ram 1500. Nice man and I agreed on a price and we met in the office of the bank that had loaned me the money to buy the truck. He paid me, I paid them, they handed me the title, which I handed to him, with a bill of sale. Done and done. Then I needed a ride home.

how have the changes in tires and electronics this year changed his race strategy? Or have they?

no, just stupid.

Nice to see Doug in pants for a change.

The racing is not sketchy, but the course certainly is. You get used to close racing - any amatuer road race series is the same way - but they generally don’t have to contend with square curbs and metal barriers with those goddam feet that stick out into the racing surface.

I wish they would put some proper gloves on the kid. Those fingerless bicycling gloves will not protect the fingers very well.

He was backing it in on a few corners. You can tell, when he is braking and he swings the rear out, that is intentional, and is a way of finishing the corner and getting on the gas a little sooner. Racers do that all the time in the dry, but if you have good feel from the front, and you trust your front tire, you can…