Hi. Me again. Just a few clarifications for those not from Canada.

Please tell us what the “good intentions” in this protest are.

There are NO good intentions here. It’s 100% racist, anti-government bullshit.

Minor quibble: Terry Fox wasn’t a cancer researcher. He was an advocate for cancer research, which is related but not quite the same. He had a kind of bone cancer - I knew the specific kind once - and had his leg amputated in an attempt to stop the spread. In order to raise money for cancer research, he decided to run…

What a bunch of fucking whiners. And maybe this will be some sort of indicator to us Americans that apparently these same idiots exist in large quantities in Canada as well. 

Porsche’s entire business model is people driving vehicles they don’t need and which in many cases are an inappropriate body style for the primary use. I have an irrational want for a GT3 Touring, even though I’ll probably never go near a track. Porsche is happy to have my business.

Most 911s are driven on the daily summer commute of affluent middle-aged businessmen. More suspension travel and sidewall is probably a good thing in those conditions.

It is like the “free beer tomorrow” signs at bars.  We will always be one year away from self driving cars.

I’m keeping this tab open for ammunition to fire at the Stans when Engadget writes an article about the same statement. 

Gotta keep those shareholders invested. 

I meant that he can afford a Mercedes.

Assuming he has lost the thumb of his dominant hand, it will be months of work to be able to do stuff like write and the like. Someone else mentioned he is a sheriff, so he will have to re-learn how to use a firearm as well, and I don’t know if he could properly arrest someone if he only had 1 thumb. Of course, his…

What I learned from this article is chief deputies make too much money.

Good lord you’re tedious. The point isn’t that bikes are breakable. They all are, eventually, as you point out. It’s that these break more easily, from lighter use, more quickly, than any bikes previously seen <i>out of all bikes sold to consumers</i> by people who repair bikes for a living.

You want kids to fix...

How did you fix a cracked frame as a kid? I don’t know too many kids who can weld. Props to you if you were one, but that’s not common. Every kid should definitely know basic maintenance of the “wearable” parts, but a frame should be built to last.

I did the same thing as a kid, but I’m no longer a kid and the point here is that this junk is not repairable. This isn’t just disposable kid bikes that get outgrown in a summer, anyway, there are a lot of bikes in adult sizes. The newer crop of trash uses plastic where even a cheap POS should be metal. There are…

“More riders obviously means more bike repairs, but the problem is budget bikes are breaking too often too soon and aren’t actually repairable.”

Interesting, when I was riding bikes as a kid, the bikes proved more durable than my bones. (mid 2000s)