superfastmatt
Matt Brown
superfastmatt
Matt Brown is an automotive engineer, writer, and builder of unconventional things. Mostly vehicles.

Used Roadcrafter? I don’t know, that would be a good article. Read more

I bought a used set of Roadcrafter pants/jacket (zip together) and they are awesome, but I just can’t justify spending ~$1400 on a new set. When it comes to safety gear, there’s always a focus on spending all the money on the most expensive things, but a lot of that cost goes to the process of exact fitting, zippers Read more

AGFTTATT (Appropriate Gear For The Trip All The Time) Read more

I ride a 2007 CBR1000RR, modified with Yamaha R1 shocks, Ducati clutch MC, with a 1964 Honda s600 body wrapped around it. It doesn’t do wheelies, and lane splitting is difficult at best, but I haven’t laid it over yet.

KTM 690 Enduro with (usually) Supermoto wheels. I’ve been riding for 15 years and have owned a dozen motorcycles and I don’t know if I’ll ever move away from supermoto. It’s like riding a roller coaster to work and back every day. Also, sometimes she likes to put her dirt shoes on and we go roll around in the mud

Nobody ever gave me $210 million to go away. They just walked over to my desk and told me to get the fuck out. Read more

If they are really concerned about safety, they should have a B pillar, or at least doors. Read more

I so often tell myself that I want to do important, meaningful things with my engineering career, but the older I get, the more I just want to make monster trucks that do backflips. Read more

Meanwhile, in Colorado.

Short term capital gains, such as stocks held for less than 1 year, are taxed as ordinary income. Long-term capital gains are taxed at 0%, 15%, or 20% depending on your total income, and some of them have 3.8% medicare tax added. Dividends are taxed at long-term rates as long as it’s from a corporate stock and you Read more

I recently got to spend some time with Leno, and he is a really cool dude. Laid back, not trying to impress anyone, cracking jokes, and passionate about cars. He goes to car meets all the time around LA and chats with other car people, he’d rather be doing that than hanging with celebrities in Paris. “Cool” means Read more

A lot of people want self-driving cars, but not as much as I want them to have self-driving cars. Read more

Now plug 88MPH in and back calculate how much NOS Doc had installed on his Delorean. Read more

For scale, here’s my S600 parked next to a “Mini”