"Integrated" radios in some cars prohibit upgrades

And ride their bicycles over dirt roads and horse manure?

 

Worse than that - gravel roads. One of the biggest bicycle roads in the
area is a twisty road built back in the early 60's called Leif Erickson
Drive, that was constructed right before a huge section of the west hills
was blocked out into Forest Park (which is one of the largest parks in
the city limits of any city in the US, by the way) It doesen't even show
on modern maps anymore. I have friends that remember as teenagers
driving at high speeds down that road in the middle of the night, racing
each other. Of course, as soon as Forest Park was created they blocked
off both ends of it and prohibited vehicular traffic.

Anyway in the last 40 years it has disintegrated (roads in
a forest without much bedding that aren't maintained tend to be rapidly
destroyed by tree roots) but is still kept regularly graveled by the park
service for use as a fire lane.

I rather uncomfortably discovered the current state of the road surface
and it's infestation of bicycles after taking a Kawasaki 650 street bike
down
it one fine Sunday about 10 years ago.
(I figured if the road was there I was going to ride it, rules or not)
I barely stayed upright and was hissed and booed for mile after mile by
bicyclists out for their Sunday ride, or whatever it is they do on gravel
roads
in the middle of the forest.

I do think that they avoid the cowpies, though, but you never know.

Ted

 

Cassette players are easy to get. My '86 VW Cabriolet, '89 Dodge
Caravan, '00 Mercury Grand Marquis, and '04 VW Jetta Wagon all have
cassette players in their OEM radios. The '04 VW also has an in-dash
single CD player and the '00 Mercury has a trunk mounted CD changer.

To be slightly more serious, it appears that European car companies are
more inclined to still install cassette players in new cars, as my '04
VW has one as do some (or most) BMW's and MB's.

 

No, and those nifty eight tracks are getting hard to find too...With
CD blanks as cheap as they are who wants cassettes?