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  • Let's Never Forget That Motorcycles Are Ruthlessly, Unforgivably Cruel

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    Regular readers know that I love motorcycles. But motorcycles don’t love me back — they don’t love anybody; they are capricious, dangerous things that will snuff out your life in an instant or leave you in physical torment for the rest of your life with little cause — and often for absolutely no rational reason at…

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  • Redcar Mountain

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    Yesterday we posted an advisory to those living in Los Angeles that this week is Bike Week, and that you should keep an extra eye out for our two-wheeled friends lest you gain a spandex hood ornament. Bikes and LA traffic are a potent mix for mayhem, but the city wasn’t always a bastion of…

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  • Hooniverse PSA- LA Bike Week: Spanning the City in Spandex

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    Los Angeles has always been very auto-centric, its surface crisscrossed with freeways and the general topography being spread across miles and miles of hills, valleys, and ethnic neighborhoods. Despite being engineered with the car in mind as the primary mode of getting from point A to point B, it still takes seemingly forever to get…

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  • Happy Birthday, Kierstein!

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    Not content to simply let Jim enjoy his day in the sun, our own Alex Kierstein thought that Jim’s birthday looked like so much fun, he had to go and have one of his own. Honestly, Kierstein, sometimes you should just let others have their moment. Just because Jim has one doesn’t mean you have…

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  • Holocaust Remembrance Day Traffic Stop

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    From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: The internationally recognized date comes from the Hebrew calendar and corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on that calendar. It marks the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. In Hebrew, Holocaust Remembrance Day is called Yom Hashoah. When the actual date of Yom Hashoah falls on a Friday, the…

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  • This Junkyard Cressida Wagon has Petrified Woodgrain

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    So last weekend I partook in one of my favorite endeavors and prowled the local U-Pull lots. As usual, there was a butt-load of interesting iron on display, most in various stages of cannibalization, but the one that gave me the biggest frowny face for having discovered it there was this first generation Toyota Cressida…

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  • Rollin' Back the Years

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    Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer were the detectives who would crack wise in the Warner Brothers crime drama, 77 Sunset Strip – a TV show that ran from 1958 ’til 1964. If you wondered what the Strip looked like as that show was winding down, but before the rockers had taken it over, check out the…

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  • Last Call- Two Pot, Six Shooter Edition

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    Harley Davidsmith & Wesson Image source: [Imgur.com]

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  • Q: How to Hunt Illinois Carp with a Sword While on Waterskis?

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    A: With an extreme deficiency in responsibility and a frightening disregard for the intactness of your body. youtube via Tastefully Offensive

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  • Bad Ideas Made Worse With Trailers!

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    What happens when you put a small, turbocharged Renault motor into a trailer? The real question is, which psychotropic spawned the question? youtube

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