It’s a scientific fact (seriously, where’s my Nobel Prize for discovering this?) that you’ll never look cooler than you do when you sit on a motorcycle. This was verified by Marlon Brando, James Dean, Dennis Hopper and Arnold Schwarzenegger. In addition to making you look bad to the bone, riding a motorcycle gives you a visceral connection…

When you think about it, a racetrack only has one purpose: to be driven around as fast as possible. The surrounding structures, like the grandstands, restrooms, pit buildings and concession stands, don’t have a lot of other uses either. Unlike an old big-box store, office building or school, when a racetrack is past its useful life, it…