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Amber DaSilva
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Staff Writer at Jalopnik. Sucker for big adventurous motorcycles and tiny sporty cars. It doesn't make much sense to her, either.

I’m honestly having trouble coming up with a worse one and I literally write for a living Read more

Remember that bikes all settle under your weight! 34.25 inches unloaded doesn’t mean 34.25 inches with a rider on top Read more

Seat height is a claimed 34.25 inches. I definitely wasn’t getting both feet flat on the ground, but it also never felt like it was going to tip over on me at a stop or while navigating a gas station Read more

Yep! The 900 replaces the 850, and the 800 replaces the 750. BMW’s middleweight ADVs have always shared an engine, but while the old bikes were differentiated by changes to the cam, the new ones are just throttle mapping -- at least, in the engine. The new 900 doesn’t share a frame with the 800 or the 900 Adventure, Read more

That’s the one I had! 2005 only, blue over a tan leather interior, with a weird amount of horsepower for the mods it had. The guy I sold it to crashed it, and now, like the Legacy itself, it’s dead Read more

Unfortunately PERMET8 is too long, but LFRITH is available! Read more

The current leading contender is just talking about the lesbian golf mafia anime, which everybody should watch

I actually have a custom plate frame that I’ve designed up and made ready to 3D print! Just need to sort out some adhesion issues with my new filament and then I’ll have that set  Read more

Deeply curious as to which part of “please do not kill a person who is not harming you” is cowardly. Or tough, really.  Read more

I haven’t gotten a chance to test out the Hero 12 (if you see a GoPro in one of my videos, it’s my personal Hero 8 that hasn’t quite died yet), but I did notice a difference in my own testing between the Ace Pro and the X4. It might’ve been more to do with the Cardo end of the connection than the camera, but the X4 Read more

I genuinely love the interior on the R35, it feels a little dates but in the best possible way.  Read more

One thing about me is that if there’s a reference to be made, I will be making it Read more