You have that backwards, LCS are bloody useless, in fact its the single Navy ship I have ever stepped foot on I would be nervous going to sea on. Super Carriers on the otherhand are FULLY employed years out by big daddy Navy, that is a 1/4 mile of sovereign US territory we can park anywhere all 7 seas 24/7.

With the right gear riding in winter is actually pretty easy, yes, you get weird looks, but being able to hit places that are annoying in the summer due to beach traffic and whatnot is nice. I try to avoid sub-freezing, but I don’t really sweat about it if I encounter it. Stacked leaves are just as dangerous as ice,…

I use Held Air and Dry gloves basically year around, they aren’t a true four season glove, but I have handgaurds and heated grips on both of my bikes, so its workable. I also don’t put away my bikes in Tokyo, Japan.....think Washington D.C. weather, those cover rain sleet and snow in the nearby hills.

This varies wildly tire to tire, if you normally run summer hypersport tires yeah 50 degrees is going to be a reduction in traction so be smooth, last weekend I rode over a mountain pass at 1.5C in the snow, and no little bikes I was riding a 1290 Super Duke R with Rosso IIIs and my buddy was on R9T with Z8 (and…

My Multistrada often looks the same.

The Enterprise, Nimitz and Ford Class carriers are ALL to large for the Panama canal amphibs fit...barely.

What would you call an LHD (Wasp Class) or LHA (Tarawa class) they are steam powered, non-catapult equipped flat tops. USS Wasp is actually the test bed for the F-35B VSTOL varient. Currently the deploy with a wing that includes Harriers and a pile of Helos.

Two or three active and on deployment is about what we get now. There is a LOT of maintenance that goes into keeping a Carrier fully operational, trust me when the bird-farms aren’t out on the water they are in port doing maintnance that has to happen pier side. You don’t just take a Carrier out for a week, its a…

Ironically the “most American” car on the market the year I bought my F-150 was ......surprise! the Toyota Camry, not my F-150 that only the body was made in Dearborn, the rest, yup. Mexico.

Yes, I know. Fortunately I was spared most of the Japanese licensing process. That doesn’t make it any less aggravating.

That’s true....they can be pretty scarry

There are a few, I have run into Japanese dudes with Camaros and Vettes.....even one guy rolling a 63 Impala. They have to really want it and be willing to pay a premium. Issue is that you CAN import anything you want, but you have to meet all Japanese standards, for new cars they still have to get noise and…

A guy near me has an H2, you actually fear running into him in a tunnel, his Moms lives across the street from me.

Its fine the Japanese basically stop for pretty much any turn anyway, its like they are trying to make their tires last the life of the vehicle.

Totally beat me to it. I could have shipped my F150 when I moved to Japan, I didn’t. Why? Because what the hell do you do with a 19 foot long half ton on these skinny road, my GT-R feels wide as hell on a lot of them....not being able to park...well anywhere...is just the icing on the cake.

Why? All you need is a divert in on the way to the intercooler, either that or as sequential pairing.

Lifters, springs, and valves are all known to fail...

That one likely can be imported. They were never imported by Nissan, so there is that they were also never produced in LHD...and frankly looking at the engine bay in one you would have to re-engineer from the dashboard forward to get a steering colum into it. Both turbos, and all associated pipework are in the way…

I enjoy my V-spec. Cleans up well for a 21 year old ride.

One as far as I know, a guy in the states converted one. Which must have been a monster or a project, since you would have to run the streering through the spools and all of the pipework and there isn't a lot of room in the engine compartment on a RB26DETT Skyline.