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Just a quick heads up for anyone with an AStars unit, apparently Riders Choice in Mississauga is now a certified airbag service shop. Mine is well over two years old now, time for a check-up... I'd be very surprised if MotoWorld would help, as he didn't buy through them. I bought my...

If you got a kick out of that, I highly recommend Wristwatch Revival on YouTube: Wristwatch Revival He doesn't work on movements as complex as that IWC, but he does a lot of cool vintage watches, and has a very chill patter to go along with the work that is very relaxing to view.

I think YoY is simultaneously too short and too long a window to capture the fast moving changes in the market. Things are moving again in our corner of Hamilton after a long pause, and prices aren't as low as I'd feared. But there's a huge chunk of buyers still holding out for rate cuts (and...

Ha! Had written a longer post about how I felt this way about every Ducati sportbike post-999, but then realised I just sounded like an old man shouting at clouds. I think, like music, one's taste mostly solidifies as you pass 30, and the only new stuff you like after that is stuff that reminds...

Hear, hear. I'll add my neighbour who has yet to take down his ridiculous Halloween decorations. Having plastic skeletons crawling out of the ground is revolting when held next to poems like In Flanders Fields that talk about graves. Halloween doesn't need two months, nor does Christmas. Bah...

Doesn't the In&Motion system use a swappable IMU box? Couldn't you just get a Canadian box and plug it into the Euro garment?

Dash on the bike showed 24C on the way from Hamilton to Toronto late-morning. Slightly surreal, actually.

I should add that as much as I kvetch about the nanny systems making people stupid, the Hyundai did totally save my *ss recently. On the QEW eastbound, traffic is moving but dense, and I'm in the left lane being impatient and frustrated, following too close because, as usual, I'm tired of people...

I'm assuming the car GPS market has been largely killed by Apple Car Play and Android Auto. If all you care about is getting from A to B as quickly as possible, it's hard to beat Google Maps. There also other GPS apps that you can use (OsmAnd, for example) if you want waypoint routing, which is...

Couldn't agree more, but easier said than done. You can legislate vehicle design, but legislating attentive and competent drivers seems to be as impossible a dream as an insurance industry in Ontario that actually works for customers. For all the crumple zones, airbags, auto-braking, lane keep...

Don't misread me that I'm excusing the driver! The video shows he was going way too fast and simply assumed there would be no pedestrians. Like I said, in that F-150 I learned pretty quick that I had to crane my neck forward to see around the A-pillar when making left turns, as the blind spot...

The PWC/Jet Ski/SeaDoo rentals make Skipperi look super pro. A colleague was telling me about how he rented some with a group of friends, and they basically took a credit card and handed them the keys. Zero training, no PCOC, no info on where to go, just tap the Visa and off you go. They must...

I suspect a combo of rushing, distracted and A-pillar blind spot. I had to be super careful in my F-150 to look around the A-pillar, as it was massive and totally blocked the left-turn view of the road at pedestrian height. Not an excuse, it's something you learn pretty quickly when you drive...

I think if you edit the ad in a browser on a computer, you can reorder the images by dragging them around, and the top left one will be the thumbnail. (Unsolicited advice incoming. It's a minor thing, but if it's me, I delete the photo of the sprocket, as it and the rim look grubby and...

Fingers crossed indeed! How do you find the comfort difference with lower bars? I see so many people put on higher bars or use risers, but then complain about wind buffeting. I don't mind a forward lean at speed, personally, but I think my body is permanently twisted from too many years on...

The RST combos are definitely the best bang for buck on the track, though I could say the same for RST in general. Robust gear tested to the highest standards for way less than the typical AStars and Dainese equivalent (they tend to sponsor TT riders rather than MotoGP, too). Unfortunately...

Slightly unrelated, but I think part of the reason the right lane ends on an undivided highway is that it is considered lower risk to have a merging conflict than a head-on situation if someone stays in the left lane and doesn't merge for whatever reason. I know parts of Europe end the left...

Everything is a compromise. You give some here, you get some there. Yes, its probably slightly better to use proper performance summer tires and top quality winter tires, especially if you live somewhere with super cold winters and drive on a lot of unplowed roads, but when you live in the GTHA...

I'll report back after this winter. Living in Hamilton, it's pretty rare that we drive on unplowed roads in temps below -10C, so I'll be curious if we notice. I had a set of all-weather tires in BC on my Tacoma, and while they performed well in the snow, it was usually in the -5 range, not -20...

This is absolutely one facet of the problem, but it's only one of many. Add a total lack of meaningful training, education and testing (especially on highway driving), nervous drivers who prefer to only have moving traffic on one side, self-appointed speed police ("I'm doing the LIMIT, thank you...