big john

Good for snow. I've driven in snow when it builds up on the headlights and you have to get out and scrape them off.

noisebeam

Flagged this a few weeks ago, thought I'd share the chuckle I got out of it.

Bah Humbug

Ah, yeah, that's why I'm not convinced and not signing up. I'm not buying this until we have multiple events completing successfully and as planned.

Also,

Velo Vol 

You can manually enter miles. SMH.

Bah Humbug

Yep. I get that they want to make money like everyone else, but since they're a for-profit race org instead of charity, I'm not biting until I believe it will actually occur in a manner I wish to participate in.

noisebeam

Of course. But at least 'Charles' was honest with his disclaimer. The inherent stupidity just cracks me up every time I read it.

LesterOfPuppets

Shoulda said speed is correct. I was totally dropping KOMs left and right

Velo Vol 

Tempe Town Lake, eh? Maybe "Charles" is LesterOfPuppets .s burner account.

LesterOfPuppets

Did you mean to use a semicolon there¿‽

DougRNS

LesterOfPuppets

The little lady brought some fudge home from the store. I had one and said, "What kinda fudge is this? It's kinda like caramel fudge, is that a thing?" So we had to read the fine print on the tin and discovered it was vanilla fudge.

I said "Oh good, that means we have to listen to Vanilla Fudge while eating it!"

Mojo31

That can be a problem with the modern LED headlights. They don’t heat enough to clear snow or ice. Heated LED headlight units are a thing in the Jeep world.

BillyD

MAN are you lucky! I was just about to discretely sell off my controlling interest in this famous bridge in Brooklyn, but it can be yours in just days. PM me. Don't worry, you'll have plenty left over for bikes and other silly stuff.

MoAlpha

They’re for salt and mud and not really.

MoAlpha

I don’t know it and twice is nothing.

Mojo31

I’m lucky and I’m not. That kid I pwn’d on the bike just pwn’d me on the chess board. Game 1 was mate in 4 moves. Game 2 I won. Game 3 was his in a way that humiliated me. And, I was the one who taught him the game.

My wife found it rather funny.

Velo Vol 

Is this all you have to add?

DougRNS

Were they blurred lines?
Post 1977!

Velo Vol 

You think about music a lot for someone who refuses to play the piano. Sad.

big john

I worked in a gas station and we put a rebuilt engine in a Volvo for a customer. It was sitting on the lot, waiting for the customer to pick it up when a car came onto the lot going fast enough to demolish the Volvo.
I had heard that a friend had a Volvo wagon with a bad engine and he didn't want to fix it so I bought both cars and put the new engine in the wagon and scrapped the wrecked one.
This car suffered multiples failures from leaking brakes, electrical, wheel bearings, etc. I put a for sale sign on it and a local guy came with a sob story about how bad he needed a car and could he please pay part now and the rest later? I let him take it and he came back after a couple weeks and said he wasn't going to pay me the rest because it was such a piece of crap.
It wasn't the worst car I had, but I don't have fond memories of it.

It doesn't sound all that bad here, maybe the years have softened my view of it.

phrantic09

So are Volvo’s still unreliable? I’ve been eyeing the V60 wagon.

big john

I have no experience with them since the 80s but I was never a fan.

"Today, Chinese automotive giant Geely owns Volvo. It has also morphed the company’s Polestar performance sub-brand into a separate electric vehicle brand and is currently building the first Polestar factory in China. Despite this, the majority of Volvo’s employees are still located in Sweden, and the company still has headquarters and some manufacturing there."

genejockey 

My Dad had a Citroen DS21 Pallas. He bought a new one in 1971 and drove it till it wouldn't pass PA's semiannual Inspection (rust), then replaced it with a 1972 that had spent its life in the South. He drove that one till it, too wouldn't pass inspection anymore. Parked it in the garage, where it sat for at least 20 years. When he died last year, my niece inherited it. She not only wanted it, she has the funds to restore it and had found someone who could do the work.

Bah Humbug

The problem for me would be that last I checked, all the engines are now crazy-high-pressure turbo fours.

WhyFi

I occasionally binge some of this guy's Nürburgring videos and his Polestar lap was pretty interesting -