Bikes in the Fast Lane: Top Internet Stories - 27 April 2012 plus 2 more

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• Top Internet Stories - 27 April 2012
• Videos: 6 x Belgium Safety Ads
• France: New President? No Amnesty!

Top Internet Stories - 27 April 2012 Posted: 27 Apr 2012 09:00 AM PDT Here's the last batch for April of interesting motorcycle related stories that have appeared over the last 7 days or so. - The Problem With GoPro (No Baffles) - Photographer's Blog: The Voices Of MotoGP (Motomatters) - AWD vs. One Wheel Drive: Audi TT RS Plus pitted against Ducati 1199 Panigale S (AutoBlog) - Sena SMH5 Bluetooth Motorcycle Headset Review Part 1: Helmet Install (FootShifted) ...

Videos: 6 x Belgium Safety Ads Posted: 27 Apr 2012 05:00 AM PDT Almost every country has them; motorcycle PSA focussed around safety. Motorcycle safety advertisements come in two flavors; cars need to watch out for bikes, or bikes need to watch out for everything else. Here are 6 TV ads from Belgium of the first kind, cars need to watch out for bikers. Each commercial starts the same, a few seconds of a surreal image of a car and a motorcycle ridden by an eye. That is because the campaign is called "Eye each other", i.o.w., keep an eye out for each other. The campaign site, Go For Zero is both in French and Flemish. After the 4 seconds of watching eyes driving vehicles, we come to the ad itself. To be honest, I'm disappointed, since the ads are pretty bland. But it does tell car drivers that they need to watch out for motorcycles, and that is a good thing. Better a bland ad than no ad. Right? ...

France: New President? No Amnesty! Posted: 26 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT We're close to the second round of the French presidential elections, with two candidates leftover after the slaughter of the 1st round, when there were 10 candidates. The race to the top job is now between the socialist Francois Hollande and the conservative and current president Nicolas Sarkozy. It has been a tradition here in France, when a president gets elected, on his first day of office, to grant a general amnesty. Obviously convicts who are about to be released get an earlier expected "get-out-of-jail" card, but also car and motorcycle owners who have been caught speeding, badly parking and running red lights get their outstanding tickets torn up. In fact, I remember under the previous socialist government of Mitterand, I had over 500 parking fines that I had not paid that were cancelled. So it was worth it to hold on to tickets and not pay them. But no longer! Both candidates have let it be known that they will not grant any amnesty, not for convicts, not for tickets. Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

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