No tracks around here so I wont disagree, but from the few fast bikes I’ve been on, the slower bikes have been more fun because you can run the ever living piss out of them and still be within controllable and legal limits.

I love me a good high power high torque bike, but I believe that you can never have more fun than slow bike fast.

I’d be willing to ride anything, because how fast you go is completely up to how much you twist your wrist. The H2R would probably make me crap my pants, but I wouldn’t pass up the opportunity to ride one if I could. I likely wouldn’t take it anywhere near it’s limits, but I’d ride it none the less.

1st: Best of luck to them, but I don’t think they can do it. IMO the biggest failure of the Japanese when it comes to pickups is failure to update and innovate. The Japanese have proven that they can build a competitive pickup, I’m not arguing that. The Tundra was a very competitive truck when the second generation…

I’m about 3/4 of #2, I try my best to not ding it up, but I don’t shed any tears when it does get scratched or dented. After all, it is a truck.

I would buy pickups, a bunch of them. I would start with a Ford pickup from every year, then a couple of special editions, Little Red Wagon, Lightnings, SRT10, SS, etc, gotta buy some old Internationals, one of at least every generation, a few old Studebakers, a couple Plymouths, a five window Chevy, mini trucks,…

I’m from eastern South Dakota, and even though those types of trucks exist here they are far and few between. I’ve seen both ends of the spectrum when it comes to new trucks, I’ve seen someone nearly get irate because they thought I scratched the bed of their new truck as I loaded a park bench into it, and I’ve seen…

I was getting at your point of “most people that buy trucks have fairly little use for them”. See, where I’m from most people who buy trucks, do use them. I’ve seen King Ranches drive through ditches and corn fields, Platinums loaded to the brim with scrap, and High Countries hauling a 30' goose-neck with an excavator…

Yes, which is why I want one, but the Lightning will never have the cool factor that a garage built ‘66 F100 track truck will.

I think a lot of it comes from a very urban based group of writers, and readers, who like the idea of a pickup, but will never need or understand why someone would ever need or want a full size truck. They say, “oh, I could haul all of that with my car, it just might take me a couple of trips”, or, “just rent a…

Thanks!

True :/

Taking a few boards at a time is certainly an option, but when you can only put 4-5 on top of the car, but I need 35-40, and going to the store is 50-60 miles round trip and takes an hour and a half, I like the convenience of being able to do it all at once.

I would say it’s unique because it is a FWD based uni-body platform with independent suspension all around, not your typical BOF, RWD, SA pickup truck arrangement, which honestly is just fine. It’s a good little utility pickup with decent capability, and if that’s all someone needs then this is a great option.

See the thing is, people enjoy sports cars, it doesn’t matter if they aren’t the most practical things, it’s ok because people enjoy them. Nobody enjoys pickup trucks though so pickup trucks are stupid. /s

But those are sports cars, people enjoy sports cars, no one enjoys pickups. /s

Does this count?

I have this idea constantly, except usually with old Ford pickups. I could totally build a track pickup or a canyon pickup....build a custom tube chassis, put a nice 4 link on the rear, or IRS swap, whole new front suspension, powerful modern motor, six speed, add some downforce on the rear, some good tires and…

Now that you say that, I’ve done that exact thing a time or two. It does take some getting used to, especially since it is different than every other system out there. Personally once I got used to it it’s like second nature, and is my favorite system for signals, but for someone who isn’t familiar with it I can see…

What’s weird about HD’s controls to you? Genuinely curious. I switched from the left hand thumb only type signals to HD’s RH/LH controls and it took a little getting used to, but now I wouldn’t have it any other way. As for the gyroscopic thing they do normally work fairly well although they do seem to get tripped up…