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10 Best Tools for the Home Auto Mechanic
Whether it’s a project car, fixing the lawn mower or a leaky faucet, you’ll need the right tools for the job. Here’s the shopping list to get you started.
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MotoringBehind the Wheel: Ferrari FF
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 roadgoing car.
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Archive30 Minutes With: Irv Gordon
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.
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DrinksSlow As Molasses: 5 Rums We’re Drinking Now
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 Old Man Rum. Pretty good company, this guy: a spirit distilled from sugarcane juice or molasses, with few other rules to govern its production and aging.
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OutdoorsKit: Waterskiing
Sprinkler, fire hydrant, beach or pool: they’re all great ways to cool off when the mercury spikes. Then there’s waterskiing.
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OutdoorsTailor-Made: Building a Bike From the Frame Up
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 information available at a mouse click.
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Archive30 Minutes With: Lennard Zinn
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 of Road Bike Maintenance — have prime real estate on the shelves of anyone who knows a bottom bracket from a Krispy Kreme.
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OutdoorsRide Repair: 5 Best Bicycle Maintenance Books
Imagine a crisp fall day where the trails are hooking up so nicely it feels like you’re riding on rails. It’s so sweet you decide to skip the parking lot and continue on.
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Today in GearToday in Gear: August 22, 2013
Motorola Skip NFC Tag Motorola says the average Joe spends over a minute each day simply unlocking his smartphone. A MINUTE.
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Archive30 Minutes With: Chase Jarvis
Ask any photographer to pencil a list of dream clients and it might look something like this: Nike, Apple, Microsoft, Columbia Sportswear, REI, Subaru, Polaroid, Lady Gaga and Red Bull. With notches in his grip for all of those and more, Chase Jarvis has one hell of a career trajectory.
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WatchesBuying Guide: Affordable Complications
Watches that simply tell time are a dime a dozen, and sometimes close to a dozen a dime. But start adding more functions and things can get complicated — and expensive.
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WatchesBreitling Navitimer Cosmonaute Blacksteel
While OMEGA may have beaten Breitling to the punch with a “noir” astronaut’s watch (trendspotter alert!) this year with their Dark Side of the Moon Speedmaster, let’s not forget which chronograph was first in space.
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WatchesG-Shock 30th Anniversary
What do rapper Eminem, snowboarder Louie Vito, basketball player Brook Lopez and actor James Marsden have in common? They make way more money than us.
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MotoringOctane Icon: BMW E30 M3
The BMW M3 easily shows up in the top 10 performance cars on just about every critic’s list. With the new M3 just on the horizon, it’s time to pay homage to the original: the BMW E30 M3.
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MotoringTo Clutch or Not to Clutch: A Guide to Dual Clutch Transmissions
Since General Motors introduced the first Hydra-Matic automatic some 70 years ago, the world has been divided between two types of drivers: those who push a clutch pedal and shift, and those who do not. But in a world where fuel economy takes up the majority of the automotive attention span, a third possibility looms: the dual-clutch transmission, or DCT.
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Archive40 Foreign Films to Watch Instantly
In the golden age of the so-called “art cinema”, college-aged cineastes and middle-aged professorial types needed only to congregate at the local repertory theatre for a fix of the latest and greatest in international film. They could catch a Bergman-Fellini double feature and wile away the evening in a coffee shop discussing the Christ-figure symbolism or whatever.
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Today in GearToday in Gear: August 16, 2013
Master Lock 5900D SafeSpace Electronics, cash, small valuables. Just not drugs.
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OutdoorsComplete Guide to Buying Your First Bike
It’s a perfect day. You’re pedaling along between La Rochepot and Baubigny in France’s Côte de Beaune region, a wheel of epoisses and a baguette ancienne tucked in the front basket.
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OutdoorsRising From Ashes
Jonathan “Jock” Boyer was the first American to ride in the Tour de France and later left the the U.S. to create a cycling program in war-torn Rwanda.
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Today in GearToday in Gear: August 15, 2013
Tanner Goods Canine Bowl Hey, buddy. We’ve been meaning to talk to you about your sense of style.