Jason Marker

1 week ago | jalopnik.com | Jason Marker

Dual-clutch transmissions — DCTs to their friends — are pretty impressive pieces of technology. Sort of a cross between a regular old bolt-action manual and an automatic, a DCT uses two clutches (natch) to shift between gears. One clutch runs the even-numbered gears, the other the odd-numbered gears, and the driver can typically choose between "manual" mode that lets them select gears or they can let the transmission shift itself.

1 week ago | jalopnik.com | Jason Marker

Though necessary for your vehicle, engine fluids can become dangerous, especially when they get into and contaminate another fluid. When one kind of fluid mixes with another, it reduces the effectiveness of one or both of them, depending on how the contamination happened, and can cause all kinds of havoc in an engine. Oil in your coolant (or vice versa) is probably the most common and well-known kind of bad news fluid mixing, but what about others? What about, say, gas in your oil?

2 weeks ago | rideapart.com | Jason Marker

In the long and storied history of British horror cinema, there are countless classics. Films like Hellraiser, Asylum, the Wicker Man, and The Haunting that are among the most riveting and terrifying films ever made. Out of that foggy, cobweb-strewn tradition rose slews of amazing actors, guys like Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Boris Karloff – among many, many, others – who still rank among the finest horror actors ever.

2 weeks ago | rideapart.com | Jason Marker

SIGN UP FOR FREE Chime in with article commenting. There's nothing an Englishman can't do with a shed and a proper set of tools. Take, for example, our BFF Alan Millyard who performs regular feats of mechanical sorcery with little more than his shed, a ruler, and a handful of wrenches. British shed-based ingenuity isn't limited to Millyard, however.

2 weeks ago | rideapart.com | Jason Marker

Hello RideApart,I am an avid Rideapart follower and I am interested in your recommendation for a motorcycle for urban use. I live in Guadalajara, Mexico´s second-largest city where traffic has gotten terrible over the last decade. The number of cars has grown a lot and local authorities have adopted a very European stance of giving priority to bicycles and pedestrians (reducing car lanes in favor of bike lanes and sidewalks).