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Site News, Minor Rants & What Have You

Site news, rants on things in the news and items of general interest … not quite articles, but longer than a sentence or two.

It’s Alive… For The Moment!

Cue Borat voice... great success! The '80 Hardley appears to be functional. Possibly, ridable. Probably for not very long. But, still. I gimped the electrics to a state of "well, it works" ......

Hardley Able

Well, the pig runs again. Briefly. Now that the starter issue has been fixed, the regulator is billowing smoke - god knows why. It didn't before. But mechanical issues are secondary only to...

Status Report

I am trying to come to grips with - find words to express my reaction to - the animal parked outside on the pad.Those bastards should never have sent it here....

The Final Solution of the Flea Problem

Of course it sounds better in German. The race hatred I've developed as a mammal for anything chitinous, that has an exoskeleton and compound eyes is probably about the same as felt by...

Ferraris Have More Than Just Explosive Acceleration

Ferrari is recalling about 800 cars in North America after discovering it had improperly installed Takata airbags, the defective equipment at the center of a worldwide recall. According to the US National...

Battling Ghetto Trash

... And white trash, too.  At the gym. Here's the backstory: I work out at a big chain-name gym. Ok, it's a Gold's Gym. I go there every Sunday morning, early - specifically, to...

The New EPautos

Most of the reviews have been positive - and we're working on the tweaks suggested by many of you, including making comments easier to find. Please continue to send me your...

Into The Woods

I probably ought not to mention this openly, but what the hell. Some time ago, I was out riding with friends. I was riding one of my friend's ZX14. This is a...

Today’s Thoughts, December 28, 2013: The Apogee

50 years ago, this is what America was capable of: Every time I watch this, I almost weep. For the aborted future that might have been - that ought to have been. And...

Lambo And The Indians

So, I'm doing this story for a major airline's in-flight magazine. As part of the deal, I always provide the editors with high resolution photography to accompany the piece, usually by...
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