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Ride Friday: Why motorcyclists don’t honk

By jjron (Own work) GFDL 1.2 (www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html), via Wikimedia Commons If you drive a normal 4 wheeled vehicle (what we motorcyclists like to refer to as a “ cager“) then you might not have noticed, but the motorcyclists on the road rarely honk at you — especially when you’re trying to kill us. I only…

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Motorcycles

Beware of Buses Bearing Gifts

The phrase used to be “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts“, but I think the same can be applied to buses… more specifically MUNI buses. Maybe a better (more modern) version should be “Beware of buses bearing gifts” or simply “Screw MUNI”. If you wonder why I say this, obviously you’ve never visited San Francisco and…

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Stupid Companies

Limited Edition: Call of Duty: Black Ops Jeep

Saw something very intriguing today. It seems Chrysler is going to be producing a Jeep Wrangler Call of Duty: Black Ops Edition for 2011.

Games

So I bought a pickup

It’s a truck For the last 2 years, I’ve had a Prius. It was a good car, with some nice electronic toys to be sure. It most definitely gets fantastic gas mileage. That being said, it is a bit… meh. Now I didn’t get rid of it because it was “meh” (IE unexciting), I got…

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Vehicles

Driving Tax vs Gas Tax

This post was inspired by: an article from the Washington Post. Currently we pay a tax on each gallon of gasoline we buy. Part of it is Federal, part State, and possibly even a local part (don’t know anywhere like this, but it is a possibility I suppose). As we move toward more fuel efficient…

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Tech

The Ultimate “End of the World” Vehicle

Recently John and I got onto the topic of “End of the World” vehicles (Editor’s note: For certain values of “recently”). Would a big RV work? It has lots of space, though it has poor gas mileage and isn’t very maneuverable. What about a big pickup truck? Lots of cargo space, better gas millage, can…

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