Practice and Resolve

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The LiveWire's fall from $29,799 to $13,999 makes its launch price look stranger than ever. Norman Hyde clears the screens entirely with an 81-mile navigation-free ride for dementia fundraising. Listener questions weigh fresh tires, a 50-hour coast-to-coast run and the long-term anxiety of electronic suspension.

Robin gives the riding calendar permission to breathe (a string of track days, tours and rallies can turn excellent riding into homework). He trades "two-wheel therapy" for practice and resolve, says a skipped ride is fine if you're still happy and proposes blowing up Berea's tidy route sheet in favor of scouting whatever lies east. Kurviger earns 4.25 stars for quick curves, GPX exports and one gravelly lie while its microscopic stop button sends interface design into solar orbit.

Brian returns from Missouri having witnessed a mint Suzuki 1100GK, refreshed track-day reflexes and one ugly lesson about overriding sight distance. The brake save worked but the "Fe" truck proves that knowing a motorcycle's limits doesn't cancel streetcraft or surprise. He finishes by rehabilitating an old Honda wheel with external and internal thread files, explaining when damaged metal can be massaged back into service and when the correct tool is a replacement part.

Speaker Entry:

Brian Wringer - 00:02:00

Robin Dean - 00:02:18

Episode Page: https://tro.bike/?p=37023

Music by Rabid Neon and Otis McDonald