Bikes in the Fast Lane: Marc Coma To Race In The 2012 Baja 500 plus 2 more

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• Marc Coma To Race In The 2012 Baja 500
• France: Another Excellent Motorcycle Safety Campaign - 2012
• France: Motorcycle Parking Becoming A Luxury

Marc Coma To Race In The 2012 Baja 500 Posted: 24 May 2012 09:00 AM PDT Marc Coma, one of the two "alien" Dakar racers (the other being Cyril Despres), will compete in the upcoming Baja 500 desert race. The Spanish motorcycle rider is well used to riding in the desert and enduro; you just need to have watched the Dakar to know that. On June the 2nd, he will be entering the race on an official KTM North America 450cc enduro motorcycle. His almost instinct-driven navigation skills that has seen him win 3 Dakar races in the past, will be of no use to him, since in Baja 500 the race track is signposted. It's all up to riding skills. According to Coma, he is in great physical shape, and is training to take part in this legendary race. ...

France: Another Excellent Motorcycle Safety Campaign - 2012 Posted: 24 May 2012 05:00 AM PDT The French government, notably the Minister of Transportation, knows how to make hard hitting safety campaigns. They have released their latest creation to the French TV and print magazines. I'll not bother you with the print ad, since it's a bit difficult to translate, but their TV commercial/PSA is very good. Just watching it made my skin get goose bumps. The main motto of the campaign is pretty good: "On a motorcycle, the biggest danger is to think there is none". Good start... ...

France: Motorcycle Parking Becoming A Luxury Posted: 23 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT Living in a world dominated by socialists and left-wing green parties, plus an explosive growth of motorcycles and scooters in the big cities, can bring a lot of problems, and some of them are not that evident. One of the biggest headaches for both bikers and city planners is that when the motorcycle market expands very rapidly, the problem is "where do you park your motorcycle?". Some 15 years ago, it wasn't a problem. You could ride up to the sidewalk and park your bike there as long as you didn't hinder pedestrians. But then 1) the treehuggers came, 2) the socialsts started running Paris and 3) the number of motorcycles and scooters coming into the big cities exploded. In Paris, parking a motorcycle on the sidewalk, became illegal, though it had always been the case, but until now it was tolerated. No longer. Parking tickets, and even removals of "badly" parked bikes have become the norm. Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

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