Texas is just not bicycle friendly, though my experience is not recent. Credit to you for even considering it.

Avid bicyclist here, and no bicyclist over twelve years of age should be on the sidewalks. Of course, that also means that there has to be a safe option in the roadway. One guy in a pickup truck mowing down a bicyclist will naturally push a few hundred to ride on the sidewalks, and it is understandable.

As a recreational cyclist, there’s no doubt that just being on a bike doesn’t make an asshole less of one. I get pissed when I see cyclists completely flouting traffic laws, riding in big groups and blocking traffic when single-file would let cars pass, splitting traffic, etc. because I know all it’s doing is pissing…

You cannot teach “give a shit” to people. The people who WANT to know how to interact with bicycles on the roads, either already know, or actively seek out the information. The problem is that a much higher number of people simply don’t give a shit, and forcing them to be “educated” about it is not going to result in…

It is appealing to people who enjoy cycling and exercise in general, which sounds like it certainly is not you. That’s fine, no one is gonna make you get up and work out in the morning, but it doesn’t mean other people don’t enjoy that.

Good thing the weather isn’t always like that. And have you heard of e-bikes?

I think the content is fine. The tone on the other hand is not. The last town sentences need to be left out entirely and maybe add a map to help people know where to go.

At the end of the day though, chargers are chargers, just deal with it and find something to do.

Yeah, I mean dropping that “educate yourself” line is just a NICE way of saying “you don’t know much about EVs” and it was subtly implying “Know your place, poors” in the kindest tone...

See, this one is less about the tranny and more about how you drive it. I have a very good buddy of mine running a 2003 M3 SMG daily + track duty. Never had an issue with the SMG, but he services it. He’s anal about maintenance on that car. It wins races, after all!
But according to him, driving it in full manual mode…

100%. Two very well-rounded, fun and pretty reliable cars crushed by that infernal transmission. If you can find one with a stick shift, they’re way cheaper than anything comparable. 

I’d go with the one that was so bad it killed Ford’s smaller car prospects in the US, despite being an otherwise solid car.

The infamous Ford DCT used in the automatic Fiesta and Focus models.

The 6 speed auto programing was bad. It can be solved, but it was bad.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh gotcha gotcha. My bad lol

He was referring to the military responding to an armed rebellion, not using the military to seize trucks.

The way to shut this down would be to find a path to seize the trucks altered and publicize the hell out of that. Demand for this sort of shit would instantly crater, like it did for illegally imported Land Rovers (where they used VINs of old Land Rovers from junk yards to “launder” the illegal imports - that was a…

Well. Like I said in the other piece about this, $1 mil isn’t nearly enough. The “tuning” shop more than likely made more money off of the sales than what the fine is. The “tens of thousands” of devices just means they made less than $100 off of each device... which for a tune/piggyback tune, it’s more than likely…

You’d think he would have remembered the picture from when it was passed off as having taken place in Houston... the place where he lives when it’s not too cold.

Here’s some brain bleach courtesy of Craig Mazin, Cruz’s Harvard roommate and all-around lovely person.

My boomer dad and I don’t disagree on politics so much as we disagree on generally having faith in institutions, and believing that important people (even jackass republican politicians)  got to where they are in life through their own competence. This little sequence is brilliant exercise in why I think I’m wearing…