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Musings on the new GSXR

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Motorcycle Daily has an article up with some ideas on what the new GSXR1000 will be like and they are predicting continued dominance as Suzuki integrates new technology. Still guesswork at this point, but with the new model announcements coming in the next few weeks, it is fun to prognosticate.
With 2007 nearly upon us, we’re [...]

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Bike of the Day- 1905 Indian

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

 
The Motorcycle Hall of Fame has a great look at one of the first motorcycles to make it big in the USA- Indian.
It was the heyday of early motorcycle transportation, and George Hendee and Oscar Hedstrom were building a name for their Indian machines. With basic chassis designs derived from Hendee’s bicycle-building experience, and motors [...]

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Motorcycle Land Speed Records

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Speed TV will cover the Land Speed Record attempts at Bonneville next week. The are bringing in helicopters and the big gun announcers like Dave Despain for the event. If you like things that go fast, this will be a must see program. From Cycle News-
Chris Carr and the Ford Quality Checked Certified Pre-owned program [...]

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Big Weekend coming up

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

 Photo: Brian J. Nelson
AMA Superbike will be in Atlanta and celebrating their 35th year there. Road Atlanta is a great track both to race on and to watch at. Speed has the rundown on the high stakes at RA and some good rider info. Spies, who leads the series will still be hampered by a [...]

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Blast from the past

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Literally- The AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame has a fantastic section on the classic bikes of the past, and this one has a great story.
This may be one of the most awe-inspiring motorcycles ever built. In fact, even now, 26 years later, it is legendary as the bike that caused King Kenny Roberts to say: “They [...]

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Video of the Day

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Well, this is not bike related, but it sure is entertaining. Autoblog and Winding Road posted it up. A Rocket powered Lincoln attempting to jump the St Lawrence river in New York back in 1976. I bet Travis Pastrana could jump the St Lawrence river…
 

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Burn-out Record

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Photo-ROBERT WILSON 
Well, we had a problem with the video camera eating the tapes, so until we can get that taken care of, we will have to make do with this link to the Knoxville, TN television station’s coverage.
With 213 bikes doing a simultaneous burn-out, there was lots of smoke- and noise. Everyone loves a good [...]

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Ducati GT1000 first ride

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

WebBikeWorld has a first ride and impressions of their new GT1000, and it sounds like it is a keeper. If you like the retro look but want a 1000cc twin with all the modern technology, this may be the bike for you. I love big twins in a standard configuration, and the Ducatis have so [...]

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Ward cleans up in Supermoto at Denver

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

The AMA has all the details on 45 yr old Jeff Ward’s victories in Denver. The wins put him in front for the championship with 3 rounds left to go. The man is a legend in Motocross and it looks like he will be adding to his trophy case. Whether is is motorcycles, cars or [...]

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New Burn-Out Record set

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Well, the old record was smashed today when 213 bikes did a simultaneous burn-out at Smoky Mountain Harley Davidson. That is a lot of smoke! We will have video shortly, but the record was witnessed by Guinness and is official. They even had a “burn-out school” to show people how to do one without dropping [...]

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World Burn-out Record

Friday, August 25th, 2006

As in motorcycle tire burn-out, not the drug related kind:)
Currently, the world record for the number of bikes doing a burn-out at the same time is 109 in France. Tomorrow at Smoky Mountain Harley Davidson in Tennessee, they will look to smash the old record by having at least 150 bikes doing a simultaneous burn-out. [...]

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Video of the Day

Friday, August 25th, 2006

If you haven’t seen this video from Letterman’s show, it is definately worth a look. Pretty amazing. I can’t even keep from knocking stuff over in my garage and nothing is moving in there. If you can’t play the video here, the direct link is http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7395855399420407625&q=motorcycle

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EPA may relax custom bike certification

Friday, August 25th, 2006

With all the custom choppers and Harley clones being built, the US EPA cracked down and basically said people could only build one non-complying bike each. This actually shut down some of the small custom shops that didn’t have the resources to do a full EPA certification test. Now it looks like there is some [...]

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Ducati tests their new 800cc MotoGP bike

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Ducati is readying their new GP7 MotoGP bike for next season, and everyone got a look at it after the Czech race. Speed has the whole deal, but it should be an interesting season with all the new 800cc bikes.
A quick look at the new Ducati Desmosedici GP7 and a talk with the Ducati engineers [...]

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Video of the Day- Bike Safety

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

This is a great video that shows just how hard it is for cars to see bikes. While the emphasis is on the driver of the car looking for bikes, it is equally important for riders to realize that they are for all intents invisible to most drivers. My experience is that drivers have no [...]

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