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  • Last Call: Five-Wheel Friday Edition

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    There’s a point beyond which the rational parameters of logical vehicle design take a back seat to style, whimsy, and utterly nonsensical coolness. Those limits are exceeded well before you get around to creating a five wheel, four seat chopper trike. Hooray for human irrationality. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant…

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  • Last Call: Plated Edition

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    If your daily driver isn’t a sprint car, it’s not as cool as it could be. Conversely, if your sprint car isn’t road legal, it’s not as cool as it could be. Last Call indicates the end of the Hooniverse broadcast day. It’s meant to be an open forum for anyone and anything. Thread jacking…

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  • Last Call: So Conflicted Edition

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    I’m old enough to remember when the AMC Matador Coupe was sold new. I was 13 when the landau Barcelona II version was introduced. I can recall ruminating for hours on whether the original profile or the opera-windowed version was more desirable, but I was never quite able to decide. Frankly, I was utterly conflicted…

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  • Last Call: Hans Shot First Edition

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    There are few motorcycle shapes more recognizable than Hans Muth’s remarkable Suzuki Katana bodywork. Beyond the original 1000S of 1982, the same basic shape was applied to a number of different four-cylinder models. The smallest and perhaps most perfect was this JDM GSX250S, beautifully captured in anthracite gray. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s…

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  • Project Bike SOTU 2018: Bultakenstein

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    Bultakenstein will be seven years old next month, and if you’ve been following these SOTU updates, you will not be surprised to learn that it is still nowhere near complete. For the last five months, my build-a-motorcycle-from-random-salvage-parts project (along with its little brother, my ’73 Honda CL125S project) has been crammed into one corner of…

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  • Project Bike SOTU: Honda CL125S

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    I got stranded. Less than a week after this Honda CL125S’s SOTU post last year, the bike developed a high-RPM miss on my commute in to work. It was worse when I took the bike to lunch. It wouldn’t start at all after work. I kicked it and bump-started it with hardly a pop. I…

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  • Last Call: Tokyo To Kansas Edition

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    Yesterday afternoon, I spotted this JDM Nissan President in the local Costco parking lot. It would be a fairly notable sight anywhere in North America, but it is much more remarkable to find in Overland Park, Kansas than it would be in Los Angeles or Seattle. In fact, in over three decades, this is only…

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  • Two Wheel Tuesday: False Neutral Podcast #80 – Looking Back, Looking Forward

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    This month we talk about things from the past: Eric’s resurection of his old Rumblestrip Radio podcast episodes, and motorcycles in the estate left behind by Garrett’s recently departed riding buddy. We also talk about the future, namely Harley-Davidison’s future, in light of their recent announcement of upcoming models. I have a cold and sound…

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  • Two Wheel Tuesday: False Neutral Podcast #79 – Not Quite Doing It

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    Garrett didn’t quite go to a track day. Garrett also didn’t quite go on his summer motorcycle trip. Eric didn’t quite get his electronic ignition installed. Pete didn’t quite do Smackdab. We discuss all of these things on this month’s episode, along with our views on Travis Pastrana’s successful recreation of the Caesar’s Palace fountain…

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  • Two Wheel Tuesday: False Neutral Podcast #78 – Time & Money

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    On the June episode, we discuss matters time and money: Garrett finished his modular helmet shopping and ended up getting what he thinks is the best bang for the buck. Eric got another offer to trade his Mustang for a bike plus cash (this time a Harley FXR), but wasn’t close the deal in time.…

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