My parents got me one to use on motorcycle camping trips a few years ago, and it’s so handy. I’m thinking about one of the larger ones to keep at home.

I had to clear the app cache and local storage before it would work. Cache alone didn’t work.

/r/snakes was surprisingly active given our fairly niche position in the greater pet community.

Liftoff hasn’t acknowledged me as logged in when voting or commenting for the last day, despite showing it on my user tab. I’m assuming that’s related to the recent hack, but I’ve tried clearing the cash, logging in and out, and restarting the app with no success.

I’m not talking about advertising money, I’m talking about them contributing to the fees paid to the FIA to host the actual Grand Prix. The organizers lost money on that race most years. It ran, and 2019 was no exception.

One of my friends has truck nuts on his 70’s moped, and it gets a laugh out of people wherever he goes.

28 is amazing, and usually less populated than the Dragon. The Cherohala Skyway is also stunning, and makes an excellent loop with 129 and a couple of other great roads. Hard to go wrong out there.

I rode the BRP+Skyline Drive from Cherokee to DC at the beginning of May, and other than getting caught in a freak snowstorm my second day, it was one of my favorite rides I’ve ever done. It’s easy to get into a kind of zen flow when you’re the only one on a road like that.

Mercedes the company put a boatload of money into the German GP and lost a fair amount of it.

Hard to have a bad time out there as long as you stay upright. I live about three hours away and if I want to kill a weekend, I’ll ride out, camp at the motorcycle resort, and spend it getting lost on the back roads.

So far wefwef has been my favorite. It’s a web app and has to be downloaded through Safari or Chrome, but it was made by the developer of Apollo and is very similar the overall experience of using that. Liftoff is a close second.

Probably in the interest of wartime expediency and to the need to dodge U-Boats.

If I’d known that Kawasaki made a black and gold Z900RS with a racing-style quarter fairing straight from the factory, I’d very likely have bought one instead of my Aprilia. The couple hundred $ it costs over the Ducati will be made up for by maintenance costs within the first year of ownership unless you’re willing to do the cam belts and Desmo valve adjustment on the Ducati yourself (hint: it’s a pain in the ass). They’re both going to be fun and look great, albeit with very different characters; it really comes down to whether the Ducati’s inherently Italian cost of ownership is worth it to you.

Is motorcycling inherently more dangerous than driving? Yes. Can much of that danger be mitigated with education, technique, and awareness? Also yes. The single best use of your time in learning to ride would be taking an MSF course; you can learn most of the techniques they teach on your own in a parking lot, but the instruction in mindset and awareness is entirely worth it. I’ve been riding for 12 years and the lessons taught in my initial class still pop into my mind every time I get on a bike. Hyper-awareness of other drivers and road conditions is the best thing you can learn; I’ve been in three accidents in my life, two of which were caused by drivers pulling out in front of me, the third due to sand on the road surface that was invisible until I was sliding through it. In each case, proper gear and a full-face helmet saved me from major injuries.

Everything about this race was right up SVG’s wheelhouse. Street course, heavy, powerful cars with no downforce, and changeable conditions. The only other drivers in the field who even had street course experience were Lally and Button, and it really showed. Wild race, and I admit I’m a convert from how I started the weekend off.

My parents were there yesterday, and sent me the same view! They also got pickpocketed by a group of scammers that were dumping bird shit on people and claiming to try to help them clean off.

I imagine it’s going to be a near-vertical spike.

Liftoff has been a bit slow for me today, but I imagine they’re getting a massive amount of traffic that wasn’t necessarily in the plans. Or maybe that’s just Lemmy in general.

RiF is dead, and so is the vast majority of my Reddit participation.