@BozzerWolf Nice and especially with the SRAM components. The one of mine shown is a Y-foil model. My other bike is a Trek Domane. I keep the Y-foil for nostalgia at this point.
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I know that the Tesla customer service is really horrible in Europe. like basically, if you need a repair (which seems to happen quite often), it can take months before you get your car back. That’s probably why I see less and less Tesla’s on the road, here in France. I hope the customer service is better in the USA !
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I am… not a fan 
A guy I knew managed to brick his Tesla in the only exit gate from a basement parking lot. That was hilarious (the guy was a tool).
This made him less than popular with the cars behind him.
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I will say I loved their original roadster though (the one on the Lotus Elise chassis).
I still prefer a real Lotus Elise 
(a good friend of mine has one)
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Me too! One of my favorite cars actually, along with the Exige and Europa.
@HowlinDawg …This is one of the most powerful cars ive been in.
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Ah, I’m envious!
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My sister has a Model X. It is insane how fast that car is.
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Its super quick!
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While I admire the desire to find ways of powering vehicles on alternative sources, trading one problem for another really ain’t it.
I have whiplash from shaking my head at everyone and their brother wanting to ‘go electric’ from cars to factories (who are replacing everything with electric power (heat, boiler, etc - the least efficient and most costly way) because it is the trend.
At least in 'merica, we have a terrible electric grid that cannot handle the loads on it let alone the loads people think they want to put on it. Yet lemmings continue to go buy these electric cars without thinking about where the bits to make the battery come from, what the total lifecycle carbon footprint is, how much it will cost them in repair or low resale value with a crap battery, or, my favorite - how the electric they are charging the things is produced today (spoiler - its not windmills).
Like most hard things in life, the answer to these problems is hard, and rarely the ‘easy’ solution.
Example - The USA just moved from plastic bags to paper bags. I remember when the paper bags went away because the forests were depleting. I hadn’t heard they came back like Bruce Willis in a Die Hard movie but maybe they did. And yes, reusable is better - or - is it?
Examaple - Recycling - USA recycles somewhere around 8% - a significant amount of that material doesn’t even get recycled - depends on if the locale can make money on the material or not. Europe is lauded for their 25-30% recycling rate (don’t quote me on numbers, but they are good enough directionally). Where I am from, that is still a grade of F. In my opinon, like most problems in the world - fossil fuel, water, clean air, global warming - the problem is there are too many damn people. And before you say that the population increase rate is slowing - it is still growing.
Want to help the world?
- create as many or less as the people you are
- be the correct weight you’re supposed to be so you don’t burn more resources (Twinkies, fabric for the 3XL shirts, cows to feed you, etc. etc. etc.)
Sorry, but your Tesla ain’t gonna help.
Apologies for rant.
Rant over.
YMMV.
Peace and love.
Bass Rules! (so does sax)
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Ya I know, i shouldn’t have posted it, but I was in a mood.
LOLOL
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personally I just think Musk is a tool
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EVs aren’t such a problem here in my neck of the woods. Being as rural as I am, most parking lots and retail outlets have stations to recharge your EVs. So driving around town and from here to Seattle no issues.
But from here to say Spokane? Issue. Or even worse, from here to upstate NY when I retire to my little spot on the lake. No way will that would happen in an EV.
Want to have a small carbon footprint? Drive the car you have and don’t get a new one.
Also here we get charged a cleanup fee if we get a bag from the store. Paper, plastic, no matter. You get charged per bag, and some stores like Walmart don’t provide bags anymore. Times they are a changing.
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Stop reproducing, play more bass, save the planet! I have a new mantra 
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This is our car. Honda CRV hybrid, black edition. My wife was always a big fan of Honda’s, so we kept in the vain. It’s my first automatic, and while I still prefer driving stick, it’s definitely a smooth ride.
My car before we met was one of my favorites ever, Citroën DS3, such a fun little car.
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