Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Signs That Winter Is Upon Us plus 3 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Signs That Winter Is Upon Us plus 3 more

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Signs That Winter Is Upon Us

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 08:00 AM PST

Iced up motorcycle
When you look out your window and see your motorcycle like this, you know you're in the middle of winter.

Lucky for me, all I see is sun, birds and double digits on the thermometer.

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Ad: Utah Safety - Eye Chart - Watch For Motorcycles

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 04:00 AM PST

Utah Highway Safety Eye Chart
Nice safety advertisement from the Utah Highway Safety Office.

The PSA is targetted at cars and trucks, to remind them to keep a watch-out for motorcycles. The nice idea is to use an eye chart, reminding them that a motorcycle is small, and at a distance iit even looks smaller.

I wonder if it'll work??

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Nepal: Filling Up Your Motorcycle, Not Easy

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 10:00 PM PST

Motorcycles Filling Up Un Nepal.JPG
At times when I need to fill up my motorcycle at a gas station and I see another motorcycle in front of me, I just go to the next station. Why wait? But it looks like these poor bikers do not have a choice. Guess you can wait a day to fill up.

Maybe electric motorcycles are a better choice...

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Dakar2012: Day 9

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 09:30 PM PST

Dakar2012 9 Felipe Zanol
Dakar logo
ay 9 saw the incredible and scary sand dune of Iquique, a monster of a dune that would make any downhill skier green of envy, but now the Dakar racers needed to ride it down on their motorcycle after the longest stage of the whole race. Not an easy accomplishment.

Day 9 saw the motorcycles racing in sand and fesh-fesh for some 500 kms, and Despres regained the lead from Coma, but you can see that both racers are tired.

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