If you think helmets are uncomfortable, try bouncing your skull off pavement at 50mph. 

It may be a basic economic principle, but it’s also limiting growth. 

1st gear: So is this the end of the bow wave of EV sales? At least in the US, our infrastructure isn’t ready yet for mass adoption.

And that’s precisely why I have twins. Four perfect matches if my wife or I ever need a kidney. 

I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already. 

That occurred to me too; if the insurer knew the rider wasn’t wearing a helmet you’d think they’d jack up their rate if not cancel the policy? In the event of an accident, if the rider wasn’t wearing a helmet they could decline coverage. 

A harsh take but I agree. 

My last bike was a HD Lowrider, and I wore a ff helmet when I rode. My state only requires helmet for riders under 18; everybody else I saw on a Hog either wore a brain bucket or no helmet. I’ll never understand the disregard for one’s own safety. You only get one head. 

It was the same with Massachusetts and Rhode Island when I was growing up in the 80s. RI didn’t have a helmet law so you’d see RI-tagged bikes with a helmet bungeed to the back seat for riding thru Mass. I moved to RI from MA and at the first opportunity I jumped on the bike w/o my helmet and hit the road. I got about…

Schadenfreude. For some.. 

Yet no mention of why the state repealed the law? Who would benefit from that happening? And would health insurers still insure riders (or raise their rates) if they knew they were riding without a helmet? It’s been years since I last owned a bike, and I get the individual freedom thing, but I just can’t imagine being…

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Can we not post photos anymore? This story definitely requires visuals. 

4th gear: Tavares shouldn’t push the salary issue too hard; the last automotive CEO named Carlos had to be smuggled out of the country in a box.

Malibu? Hell, I thought it was a Subaru Legacy at first glance..

Finally, a Maserati that doesn’t leak oil.

Yep, just missing all the body cladding. 

ASS-ter

In unrelated news, a grown man called the police to report somebody taking his seat at a local Burger King.

Yeah, but the Vega had that smokin’ 110hp Cosworth engine.