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It's more than that. If you post a speed limit dramatically (35% is dramatic to me) lower than the design and purpose of the road, people will ignore the speed limits. You would lose that bet. Study after study has been done to show that people settle in to a speed that makes sense for the...

Hard disagree. There are many roads where the speed limit is set to an arbitrary limit that makes ZERO sense. In fact, they've been recently using a piece of software that simply looks at the road maps it's given and spits out a recommended speed limit for the road. Thus you get straight...

I played the hell out of that as well. You had to be millimeter perfect at times, so frustrations abounded. I still have two Amigas. An A4000/040 and an A2000 with two drives. They were awesome in their day.

I have a computer that meets all the specs (high-end video card, 4.5Ghz 12-core CPU) but doesn't have "secure boot," which is their attempt to force people not to use multiple OS on the computer (again). So I couldn't load Win11 on this box if I wanted to. It has nothing to do with the...

I've been using Linux on my desktop at work since about 1999. Before that I used a mix of Solaris and Windows. There's been ups and downs but overall, the Linux desktop experience has been great for me. The only issue that I've had with it is that graphics/video gaming has been a crapshoot...

It will mine. Though I didn't really plan to attend a 2025 Deal's Gap run for the first time since 2021 (nobody went), I bought a good steak dinner in Watertown a couple of weeks back ... $55 USD was $88 CDN if I recall correctly... that's an expensive steak.

Interesting. BTW, off-season (like, March/April) in Monterey California is cheap as chips. Now, it's quite some time ago (8a) but I paid $99 a night for a room in one of the nicest places in the state. Laguna Seca is just up the hill... ;)

I'm set. I should retire. Racing bikes was pretty expensive but I haven't done a lot of it really, just a few years worth. I'll probably dabble in it still but as it is I have enough money to retire and live the good life. But there's two stepdaughters, one who will never be fully out of...

How it actually worked out: they pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work. Nope. Social services are not socialism. They're a communal good paid for by the commune who made the money via some form of capitalist productivity. In actual socialism, the services would be made available by the...

Cali makes a lot of sense for motorcycles and the roads I drove around La Jolla and Monterey were amazing. The question is, will this slump in expendable income kill the Canadian dealers? I'm concerned. Look what happened in 2008-2010.

Let's not just forget that the GST holiday and a $250 cheque both will have inflationary effects. It never ends with these Liberals. I remember when the party wasn't just cynically robbing us blind.

Beautiful car!

I had to tell a guy that runs a reasonably active Discord group to stop telling people to only use their back brake forefully and with a good deal of anger after he related it to a couple of newbie riders who might think someone like that knows their stuff. I told him they'd get someone killed...

Lithium hand drill that uses the same battery as my chainsaw and weed eater... wicked. It has as much torque as my plug-in drill.

I saw the post about a Scrambler windshield... oddly I spent 1/2 hour on one at the Cherohala this year and really enjoyed it. I ran out of tire and scared the @#$& out of myself but that was a rider error ☠️ Anyway, garage stuff... this was yesterday's project. I got back a considerable...

Yes and no. I love my car, I bought it as plain-looking as you can get one. If you really know me, I do enjoy that other people enjoy it (steady line of people taking pictures of it yesterday downtown Kingston while I had some beers with a buddy of mine) but I sure didn't engineer it and I...

Here's the press release. I didn't see this coming but I've been told that this will likely be a positive change for grassroots racing in Ontario. https://super-series.ca/2024/11/12/race-moto-ca-acquires-super-series/

That's WAYYYY too much power, so it's perfect.

If it blows your hair back, that's all it exists for anyway. Cheers.

Car wars. 690hp/700tq ... and 7.4L/100km at 90kph. :D Not a hint of boost at that speed.