Ron Damon

I spend a couple of weeks in Osaka earlier this year, and it served to further strengthen my perspective that that there are only two types of people and countries on this planet. There's Japan and the Japanese, and then there's the rest of us. For the finely manicured and supremely well maintained infrastructure, fantastic urbanism and the very unique conditions and prevailing norms of Japan, sure small wheels that max out at 40-305 might make sense. For the rest of the world, the rough-and-tumble real world, not so much. We could only wish the rest of the world were more like Japan.