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Wasn't just new builds. A typical house in our neighbourhood went from $550k when we were buying in mid-2019 to over $1.2M at the height of the Covid craziness in Q1 of '22. It doesn't take a real estate guru, or a crystal ball, to see how stupid that is. Sales are finally shifting along...

Something similar in RideApart today (minus the trademark bitchy cattyness of Soup): https://www.rideapart.com/news/738332/pierer-mobility-ktm-mv-agusta-gasgas-lay-off-executive-cuts-revenue/ Sounds like KTM is genuinely in real trouble. They've grown sales aggressively and exponentially, but...

Minimum wage in Ontario just clicked over $17/hr. Scumbag CT owner was 'hiring' for a supervisory role at just a few bucks over minimum wage. And crying about how no Canadians are willing to work for that rate. The problem with bringing third world wages to Canada is we get dragged down to third...

Never mind. This one is actually the same size as the original, just shorter so you can sit further forward. Google didn't pull up any other obvious alternatives that fit the design of the bike, but I didn't look very hard...

That one is actually smaller. Only 8 litres! The one that's bigger is a good bit more at roughly $4000 CAD plus tax and shipping, and requires a different seat: Kit Basic Fuoriluogo

This season's racing is dull to me because I don't care to watch a one-make prototype championship. Nothing to do with Marquez. I don't like Marquez, mostly because I think he's a dangerous rider who is perfectly happy to put other riders at risk, even when he stands to gain very little, but...

I don't know the bikes at all, but Google says higher compression, slightly more power and torque, bigger front brake discs, preload adjustable forks, and a tach. Minor differences, but higher spec nonetheless. Most importantly, they charged more for them new. The spec may be mostly identical...

All fair enough. I'm with you on the tank range. Most other issues with a bike can be addressed, but adding range really boils down to strapping a jug of gas to the seat and that's it. Not a viable solution for regular riding. It's one of the main reasons I didn't look at a VFR1200 when I was...

A few questions: - Where is it posted? Just did a quick search of FB Marketplace for 'ducati scrambler 800' and I don't think yours came up. One was $7300 and claimed reason for selling was new baby, one was $8000, both were 2018's with much lower mileage. Here's what I get for that search...

Thruxton is also a slightly harder to find, higher-spec model and two years newer, plus nobody gives a crap about non-stock exhausts unless it's something rare or top-shelf like a full Akra. Can't speak to the tires (are they mentioned in the ad?), but a safety cost me $120 recently. So say...

Small potatoes compared to most here, but got in a quick boot out to Niagara-on-the-Lake and back. Went with a buddy from Toronto, and as he lives downtown, he wanted to start early to dodge the marathon. We took off from Hamilton around 8:30, and the roads were still super greasy with dew and...

We were down in Western New York last week camping (in a trailer, not a tent!), and the colours in Letchworth were extremely muted. Per a park ranger, the trees have been stressed this year with the weird mix of heavy rains and drought we had this summer, so the colours will be limited and...

Heck of a detour, but looks well worth it...

The coffee bar in Rome we go to has a corkboard with coffee receipts pinned to it. As the system is to pay first and turn in your receipt to the bar to get your coffee, anyone can grab a receipt off the board for one paid by a stranger in advance. It's called caffè sospeso, or suspended coffee...

Rode to work today, was plenty warm by around 10, and the ride back at 7ish was easy, too. Weekend is looking fine for taking it easy on some Niagara backroads. Fall colours have been pretty muted this year, but will stop at Queenston Heights to say hi to General Brock anyway...

The fact that you conflate all Islamic extremism from dozens of countries in multiple continents into a single box tells me how little there is to discuss. Just because terrible things have been done in the name of something doesn't mean there aren't other terrible things that have been done...

All of this may be true. And people ask me how Palestine is different from Sudan, or the Uyghurs in China, or any of the endless other violent and unjust situations around the world. And the big difference is Western governments largely aren't sending eye-watering stacks of cash and arms to prop...

I had written a long response detailing rebuttals to many of your links etc., but realised halfway through that we're just contributing to the endless entrenchment of 'yeah, but...' garbage that pollutes the understanding of this situation, especially if you're on the outside and have lots of...

Re. bike lanes, much as it's my instinct to defend urban density and reduction of single-occupant car use, the municipalities across Ontario have largely lost the plot when it comes to road use. There has been this herd mentality about promoting bicycle lanes and discouraging car use that has...

Large swathes of Asia finds our love of drinking and eating the milk of farm animals largely revolting, especially in mouldy, curdled form. I work in an office with majority Chinese colleagues, and they not only find it peculiar, they're also mostly lactose intolerant, so see it as basically...