Joel Johnson's discussions

I bought this really dorky looking machine off Amazon that inflates under your neck specifically to try to finally start to address the fact that my upper spine looks like a wilting fern instead of a powerful snake. (Or whatever it's supposed to look like.) When you use it you can feel the tissues around your spine… Read more

With the caveat that I know fuckall about automotive infrastructure engineering, my guess is that it's not so much that they have newer, better steel, but continue to figure out how to use the same stuff in more efficient, sturdier trusses. (Insert reference to origami here.) Read more

My personal crazy person trip was to go on an SSRI to sledgehammer enough sanity into place so that I could then start doing healthy things like working out and meditating, which were basically just not happening while I was in a constant anxiety spiral. Read more

Good catch. Read more

Hey bud, this article is like two years old! (But I still mostly agree with with I wrote?) Read more

GOLDWING REPRESENT Read more

IT"S A LIVING Read more

Oh man. I wonder if they'd...let one go. NYC is mostly offroad, right? Read more

Hear hear. I want a 70-series diesel so bad I can taste it. (Tastes like diesel.) Read more

Montreal-Mirabel airport was designed for the Montreal Olympics and it did that job very well. After the Olympics, however, Montreal realized they'd built an airport that was 397 square kilometers in size, bigger than the entire city it served. Now it's mostly empty. Read more

Haha. I'm the one spreading misinformation? Okay, bud. Have fun on your motorcycles with only rear brakes. Sounds super safe. Read more

70% of the stopping power of a bike is in the front brakes. The rear is not enough by any stretch of the imagination. (The rear brake also makes it easier to put the bike into a slide than using the front does.) Read more

I werted once. My doctor fixed me right up. Read more

You ain't crazy. They look really nice. Read more

Well, to each their own! I am fond of it. (But it's not like I think the 2013 looks bad or anything.) Read more

They look weird in the picture, but nice in person. In fact, with all the additional little cladding touches the front of the GC is the first one in a while I'd deign to call "mean." Read more

Brent, get back to work. Read more

Good tagline: "Like Consumer Reports, but less useful!" Read more

*Were* anatomically correct. Read more

The one where I beat him off the line. :) Read more