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If you ever get a chance to sit in the driver's seat of a 1961 Impala bubble top, compare the visibility of it to a modern SUV. The Impala has very slender A pillars and rear pillars. The two-door hard top has no B pillars. There are no head rests or heavy tints. The exterior rear-view mirrors...

Cruising on bikes and boats. Sometimes the means of travel can get you into places not accessible otherwise. A boat can get you to an island with no airport. A bike can get you up a forest trail to a pristine lake. But sometimes you just like the means of travel, even if it's inefficient. The...

We get a new PM in a couple of weeks. MAYBE if he stops by a sex change clinic and picks up an extra set of balls, the needed changes may happen.

Not a bike thing but motor vehicle related. My 2018 Hyundai doesn't have any way of checking or adding transmission fluid. It's a sealed system and is about $400 for a drain, flush and refill kit. While I appreciate that the combined drips of oil and other fluids eventually end up in the lake...

A gram of gold is worth about $150 or ten Big Mac combos. What kind of scale and file does one carry to mete out the correct amount from a one ounce bar? Don't sneeze.

What is the intrinsic value of anything, the price point where you can't lose? Vintage cars, yachts, raw land, gold, crypto, motorcycles, body parts? BOC interest rate of a fraction of a percent? Someone took advantage of legal marijuana. Bitcoin is bouncing around like a ping pong ball in a...

In case you haven't been following the news. Anyone have sympathy for the guy buying ten units, pre-build, hoping to get rich? I don't know about the guy putting an $85,500 deposit on a $855,000 prebuild now worth half and a pariah to the lenders. Sadly some victims just wanted a home

I knew a guy that was in a position to handle used machines that were being sold off. If safety items were missing the machines went cheap because they were unusable due to regulations. He could bid on them and later "Find" the guards in a closet. He could have run for PM.

I think it's called spotlight effect when the person making the error thinks that for the rest of their life the spotlight is on them for an error in judgement. In reality, people forget but it's tough at the beginning. All a decent dad would have done is burn the book (after reading only the...

What value chart would Aviva / Intact use and have the interest rate / tariff war factors helped or hurt? I haven't followed the boat market, but it surged during Covid because travel was so restricted. If a boater got Covid prices the payout could help if their renewing mortgage was pinching...

How about the support columns having a footing that was a flat rock down about a foot? It lasted 90 years and the new code made it look like a tank barrier.

They weren't trusses or tied.

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/jsp-sjp/wd98_4-dt98_4/p3.html#a32 3.2 Firearm Deaths in Canada Over the past 25 years, there have been an average of 1,300 firearms deaths per year. Of the 1,125 firearm deaths in 1995, about 80.1 percent or 911 were classified as suicides; there were...

Where do motorcycles fit in?

I was touring through Virginia and traffic slowed for construction. I like space around me so kept back a bit from the car ahead of me. A deer saw that space as a crosswalk to the other side of the highway. I slammed on the brakes and the deer did a U turn. If my right hand wasn't clenched on...

After seeing some stuff in century home I spoke to my 90+ year old uncle and he confirmed that it was common to see a 16' long 2X4 as a rafter, full span. Sometimes the walls bowed out and the roofs looked like ski jumps. Try that with the lumber of today.

One can argue about what is an addiction and what is a bad habit. A late friend smoked, drank booze and coffee to excess. He died of emphysema. Stress triggered his booze intake. The Camel cigarettes and 50 cups of coffee a day were part of his life. How many people go on healthy diets but...

Just going by gut feelings, I envision two, maybe three levels of drug consumption. Low level is the occasional recreational user with their own place to imbibe and otherwise somewhat responsible. The threat of arrest and or detainment would affect them. With full-blown junkies, I don't know...

One renovator I spoke with didn’t take down the original first floor ceiling when possible. Instead he put the new floor joists in between the smaller ceiling ones. The practicality depends on what is run through the original joists.

I sketched out plans for a ~450 square foot master bedroom suite over our living and dining room. The biggest issue was another level in a side split house. Split levels are for mountain goats. MP drop by when you're in the hood and I'll give you a tour of how I relocated and resized rooms...