I used to work in a profession where people actively tried to end me every day I was outside of the USA. I hated wearing all the protective gear because it slowed me down. I don’t have that problem on the bike and I enjoy myself a lot more. I wear everything all the time because I can go just as fast, fun, and free as…

I wear Hood jeans. Not integrated into the denim, but aramid curtains. All protective gear is a bit hot, but are cooler than anything else I have for gear.

I was ridden by my CB550 one day in CA when a tractor trailer with a flatbed being driven by a cretin pulled out in front of me. Skidded with the bike on top of me…

I think too many run into ethnic-Chinese Malaysian expatriates that insist that most of the country is out catching bugs. I have no other idea why people lump the KL area especially in with the SE Asia “third world” like it is rural Vietnam, Cambodia, or Burma.

To protect your cars: Mousebait under the hood away from very hot things. d-Con or the like. They will eat it and go somewhere else to pass away. Works for dwellings/garages without small children or pets too. I have also had luck on long-term storage with the corn-based yellow bricks, I forget who makes them.

It’s a big live fire exercise, that is the only goal beyond annoying the U.S. consensus and upsetting their strategic designs. Which is funny because outside of the minds of Moscow there really isn’t one per se.

I actually see a lot of Princess of Mars/John Carter books influence there too.

This is how these bikes were meant to be ridden.

God help me, I know the QC isn’t the best, but I would have one for beating around like this.

This is the biggest issue. I haven’t ridden in a German car with this tech yet, but everyone else has the problem you mentioned.

The first car I encountered this on was a first gen Insight. Since Honda didn’t want to piss off occupants, the start/stop didn’t work if the climate was on. You had to turn it completely off…

IIRC, congressional approval was needed for a sale to Japan, which they wanted BADLY, and it was refused on National Security grounds.

He was poisoned with Dioxin, not burned.

This is true, a liter of petrol here in Africa costs almost as much as a gallon in the cheaper states in the U.S. Really are spoiled, in many more ways than that too.

No, lived in San Diego and then the Bay Area for 4 years total. I did visit LA a few times, less than impressed to say the least.

Won’t move back.

Vietnam is a good example of a transition country, following China’s footsteps of more and more cars. I was shocked to see how many parking lots had sprung up the last time I went.

I haven’t done Latin America beyond northern mexico, I should be clear I am not totally discounting that people still use two-wheeled…

This does happen now, but more for price incentives than safety.

Only places with indigenous industries and government support successfully fight this “grey market” and second-hand importing activity and have domestic companies survive.

I would take 8 months of snow to never be subjected to the Republic of Kalifornia again.

Every time I complained about absolute bullshit that was tolerated in the state all the locals would always be like “Oh yea, turrible place man, the weather here is awful,” As though no one was capable of happy lives outside…

I can tell you that in most places this is no longer a true statement, even in Africa and Asia. I have been bouncing around now for over a decade, and 15 years ago this was a true statement. Today, it is not, and there is no reason to inflict sub-standard vehicles on whole regions of the globe because their markets do…

Take a vacation to Sub-Saharan Africa for a safari or cultural tour. Come back and dazzle your neighbors of stories of zebras and the horror of guaranteed fatal accidents you see with the ancient and grey-market or 3rd world spec vehicles.

No, no safety systems don’t make people safer. Even the people here who have had…

1st Gear: The biggest non-chronic health killer of Americans overseas are vehicle accidents. This is because generally the single largest non-health related killer of the locals is vehicle accidents.

The fact that majors compete in these markets with sub-standard (i.e. less than developed world) safety on the vehicles…

In Africa I see plenty of vehicles that cost that much and more off road regularly. After import duties in a lot of countries even a 2 year old Range Rover exceeds that price.

Engine has a little more go than the GX and I subjectively think the ride is a little better, but the GX has better cargo management and more comfortable 2nd row in my evaluation, and you don’t have to worry about the seat controls dying or the rear gate motor giving up the ghost on a 2 year old truck like the GLs I…