A Horse With No Name

Cut to the 22 minute mark to watch them thrash it...

I really like this bike... EV lawn mowers...EV cars....Performance comes into play at some point....this is awesome.

My nieces got out of the pool a few weeks ago because one showed up at the golf course the pool was at....they are everywhere. The intagibles of it being quieter would make me pay $100-200 more for an electric. Plus if my wife mows, she isn't coming in to get me if she has trouble getting it started. Electric is dead nuts reliable. We use battery powered leaf blowers and such with student workers here on campus. So much nicer and queiter. Blowling leafs and such....clearing sidewalks...much quieter outside of a classroom with class in session. Car, truck, two chainsaws to deal with. Thinking of a small motorcycle at some point....that's enough ICE for me to deal with. I love both....cats and dogs. I would own a dog but I am too busy to spend the required time with it.

Neat truck!

Hybrid does worse than Diesel....but the Jeep is 66 Grand fully loaded.... 29.8 out of the hybrid on the Highway with no trailer...impressive for a full size truck. Tesla...

Given that BMW can't build a gas powered car to save itself, an elctric mini seems awesome. Interesting test...

Random car pic... and.... Ecodiesel oil change I was talking about... Oil change with the filter location on the Ranger is a bit awkward...

Studebaker...

Explains a lot....

Funny...

I can appreciate that... The new cutting board I just made... (Sarcam and humor....) Humming bird and bumble bees sharing a water fountain...

As for ? ski stuff...lot of guys I used to autocross with also enjoyed skiing. Similar set of mental thoughts. One Well known Miata autocross dude was an Olympic skiier...forget his name. Life is to short to do everything. Right now I am fighting the urge to buy a motorcycle. Or just road trip it and pick it up if it is road worthy. Highway miles can be enjoyable if one doesn't get a burger from a certain fast food restaurant off of I 96 in Michigan...!

Love you guys like brothers... sometimes dysfunction brothers...but brothers. Drove to Michigan to see a cousin my age in hospice with Ovarian Cancer and had a mostly good trip. Detroit has a fantastic NPR station and Alma is a neat small town. But got mild food poisoning from the drive thru I got a burger at on the way back home. Doing much better with a bit of rest. First road trip with the Ranger and I am happy I bought it. Hey.... Balthazar...just buy the damned truck... nothing like a new truck... Getting in my modified Delorean with a cash payment...sure hope that Cadillac can hit 88 miles an hour in front of the courthouse because Marty McFly and I are bringing it back to December 2020.

I just find being outside cathartic and relaxing. Hence all of the recent posts about awd vehicles and such.

I can relate... although I find it cathartic to mow the yard with the electric mower.

Interesting that dual clutch transmission is making its way into motorcycles. Honda Africa Twin has it for one.... You have a point in terms of people not wanting to work on them....

Sadly...

Plus small motors get temperamental...and nice to mow the yard in silence. My ICE lawnmower went in the metal dumpster at work when I got my electric mower. Just today helped a friend clean out his garage...I took a whole Ranger load of ICE gardening tools to the same metal dumpster...he upgraded to electric...he is never going back. Ford's of that Era are. Very slowly growing on me. But really it's pre 77 or so or within the last couple of years for me with blue oval products.

Actually liked watching those Thunderbirds race Nascar back in the day.

Autozone accepts used motor oil also...and other places around here accept it. Ford Ranger has filter in awkward location. It's fifty dollars for a dealership oil change which includes a vacuum cleaning wash and tire rotation.

The Filter itself is like $85 and it takes a large quantity of special oil.

I think a couple of other things... Cost of oil changes on diesels is higher... Gladiator Diesel is like over $200 it is insane. You will have people really wanting a diesel truck if you ever trade it back in. Was thinking GTI or Jetta GLI really hard when I bought the Ranger but future trade in was a factor. Trucks... especially diesel trucks...always seem to be in demand if they are not rusted to death or beaten to death. Also...Blu has ruined me in terms of Trucks. I really disagree with David here...I am really kind of finding the full-size Current GM crop hot. Had a whole car carrier of GMC and Chevy full size go by me the other day....all white... everything from work truck to Denali level. Loved every minute of it.

Reminds me of the song Mr Roboto by Styx...