Honda Motorbikes: Bikes in the Fast Lane: Video: Throttlepack - Keep Up With Female Bikers plus 2 more

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Video: Throttlepack - Keep Up With Female Bikers plus 2 more

Video: Throttlepack - Keep Up With Female Bikers
USA: New Electric Motorcycle Speed Test Procedure
Brash Biker Robs Car In Daylight & In Front Of Camera

Video: Throttlepack - Keep Up With Female Bikers

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 09:00 AM PDT

It sounds sexual, and maybe it is intended, but this TV commercial is for Throttlepack from Vance and Hines. Installing it, apparently, will help you keep up with female motorcycle riders.

So there you go, if you are overtaken by a woman riding a motorcycle, she probably has a Throttlepack installed..... or she just can ride better and faster than you, and her bike is better and faster than yours.

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USA: New Electric Motorcycle Speed Test Procedure

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 05:00 AM PDT

You might think it's a bit strange, but it's not. The Motorcycle Industry Council of the USA (MIC) have introduced a procedure to test and validate the top speeds of electric motorcycles.

Until now, a manufacturer of e-bikes could announce whatever he wanted for top speeds for their motorcycles. Vaporware? Fantasyware? Anything could go, since they would "test" their motorcycles under lab conditions, removing all aerodynamic drag factors from the bikes (like mirrors, top case, etc), use very skinny riders weighing next to nothing, and then publish a top speed for their bikes that no person would ever reach in real life.

MIC have now published a series of procedures for testing electric motorcycle's top speeds. In summary, the procedures entail:

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