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10 Best Tools for the Home Auto Mechanic 27 Aug 2013 | 01:45 am
You brought your '69 Camaro back from the dead, and now you're finally brave enough to wrangle with your wife's very modern automobile. Of course you've got the basic home mechanic's tool kit: end wre...
Behind the Wheel of the Ferrari FF 26 Aug 2013 | 11:59 pm
It's a well-known fact that the mellifluous sound of a Ferrari V12 is ultimate bellow of the vehicular gods. The now-famous Ferrari V12 first showed up in the 1947 125 S, the Italian automaker's first...
30 Minutes With: Irv Gordon 26 Aug 2013 | 09:19 pm
Irv Gordon looks young for his age. If you were to divide the almost three million miles he's driven in his 1966 Volvo P1800 by the national average of miles driven per year, he would be 220 years old...
Today in Gear: August 26, 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 08:04 pm
Indoek x Wave Wam Teepee Bamboo and aluminum tent poles hold up the 10-ounce canvas skin of this traditional tent, and a canvas carry bag makes it a cinch to get to the beach. If you have concerns ab...
Slow As Molasses: 5 Rums We’re Drinking Now 24 Aug 2013 | 12:20 am
In the final throes of summer each year, before we dust off the leather boots, get out the lambswool sweaters and prepare to toss the first curse at Old Man Winter, we spend a little extra time with O...
Kit: Waterskiing 23 Aug 2013 | 11:07 pm
Sprinkler, fire hydrant, beach or pool: they're all great ways to cool off when the mercury spikes. Then there's waterskiing. Often overshadowed by its alpine brother, waterskiing is a heck of a lot o...
Today in Gear: August 23, 2013 23 Aug 2013 | 08:29 pm
Razor Crazy Cart Nowadays, we find it weird if we don't have at least two dreams each night about riding shotgun in a car while Ken Block hoons around an epic obstacle circuit. We're probably past pr...
Tailor-Made: Building a Bike From the Frame Up 23 Aug 2013 | 02:36 am
For a long time our options for buying a bike were limited to what was at the local shop, which was a roll of the dice in terms of selection and service. But with e-commerce consumers have limitless i...
Clipped In: 5 Best Road Bike Pedals 23 Aug 2013 | 01:46 am
Relatively few upgrades have as lasting an effect as changing your bike's contact points -- saddle, handlebars, and pedals. Pedals in particular are often overlooked in our quest to go faster, but a g...
30 Minutes With: Lennard Zinn 22 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
When it comes to household names in cycling, there's Lance Armstrong and...who else? We'll make the case for Lennard Zinn, whose bike maintenance books -- among them, the best-selling Zinn & The Art o...
