Bikes in the Fast Lane: Top Internet Stories - 30 November 2012 plus 2 more

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• Top Internet Stories - 30 November 2012
• Helmets: Customize Your NZI Helmet Anyway You Want
• Video: Deodorant For Motorcycle Riders?

Top Internet Stories - 30 November 2012 Posted: 30 Nov 2012 08:00 AM PST One more month before the world ends, so better catch up with the latest motorcycle articles you may have missed. Here's one week worth of articles that I've been reading. - Are electric bikes the solution to Italy’s struggling motorcycle industry? (The Globe and Mail) - MILAN MOTO FEAST: A FEEDING FRENZY (Motorcyclist) - Things Motogp Can Learn From F1 Part 1: The Business Symposium (Motomatters) - A 99 Percenters View Of Eicma 2012 (Hell For Leather Magazine) - Chris Scott's Adventure Motorcycling Handbook Review (London Bikers) ...

Helmets: Customize Your NZI Helmet Anyway You Want Posted: 30 Nov 2012 04:00 AM PST This is a great idea. Many bikers would love to have a fully customized motorcycle helmet, but the cost of bringing your helmet to a specialized design shop who will airbrush your helmet is prohibitive. Spanish helmet maker NZI have come up with a very novel way of putting whatever your want on your helmet. Called NZI 3D, all you need to do is a) select your helmet type (three types are available) and b) upload your photos or graphics. Their web site takes care of the rest........... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

Video: Deodorant For Motorcycle Riders? Posted: 29 Nov 2012 10:00 PM PST OMG! How far will companies go to advertise their products using motorcycle? I mean, using a motorcycle sound for spraying yourself with Instinct deodorant.... Okay, you get to win a Ninja 250R motorcycle, but still....every press of the deodorant will result in a motorcycle revving up... ...

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Bikes in the Fast Lane: Xmas2012: Ducati and Baby Presents plus 2 more

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• Xmas2012: Ducati and Baby Presents
• Product Review: SENA SMH10 Bluetooth Communicator
• Video: Australian Safety Ad - The Party Is Over

Xmas2012: Ducati and Baby Presents Posted: 29 Nov 2012 08:00 AM PST Kids are fun, especially babies, since you can dress them anyway you want without them complaining. You may like motorcycles, but maybe they don't, but then, they don't have a say in the matter. So here's a present for Christmas you can give your baby (or a baby from someone else) that will please you (I don't think the baby will care). It's a baby's pyjama from Ducati........... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

Product Review: SENA SMH10 Bluetooth Communicator Posted: 29 Nov 2012 04:00 AM PST A guest detailed product review by Jonas Granberg, a Swedish national, of the flagship SENA Bluetooth communicator, the SMH10. The SENA SMH10 is billed as a total communication devices, using Bluetooth 3.0, and allowing you to conference in 3 or 4 other bikers in a group. Its voice commands, stereo music and ease of use should make it excellent for motorcycle riders worldwide. But is it? Here is Jonas' detailed review. .......... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

Video: Australian Safety Ad - The Party Is Over Posted: 28 Nov 2012 10:00 PM PST The Australian Traffic Accident Commission (TAC) of Victoria state is very active in the prevention of accidents and in general road safety. And like very year anywhere in the world, during the festive season, people drink and party. Drink a lot. And that leads to accidents. TAC have put out a TV commercial addressing the drinking & diving during the silly season, and I have to say, it's very good. They've done it seriously, but with a good sense of humor by using wordplay........... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

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Bikes in the Fast Lane: Xmas2012: Motorcycle For Chocolate Lovers plus 2 more

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• Xmas2012: Motorcycle For Chocolate Lovers
• Tires To Be Used For A Wedding - Avon Style
• France: Hi-Viz Armband and Breathalyzers Law Suspended

Xmas2012: Motorcycle For Chocolate Lovers Posted: 28 Nov 2012 08:00 AM PST Most people love chocolate. It's universal, anywhere in the world, offer chocolate, and you will be thanked (and not in the least by the dentists). Even scientists have agreed that chocolate, in moderation, is actually good for you (though they'll not prescribe it so that your insurance will reimburse you...). They keep you happy, at least, that's the theory. So what better gift to give to a motorcycle owner than a massive chocolate in the shape of a motorcycle? It's milk chocolate, but dark and white chocolate can be made on request........... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

Tires To Be Used For A Wedding - Avon Style Posted: 28 Nov 2012 04:00 AM PST It's not unique, but still it's pretty. Making rings out of a tire profile just does it for me... I'm an incurable romantic. It looks like Dan Whitehouse from the UK has the same thought. His love for motorcycles is only surpassed by his love for his girlfriend Sarah. For his upcoming wedding, Dan has commissioned a jeweller to make their wedding bands, shaped by the Avon tires threads of his Suzuki Bandit 1200. For the wedding, Sarah told him that he was allowed to choose the transportation and the rings. So he's combined both; a motorcycle as transportation and rings shaped like his beloved tires........... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

France: Hi-Viz Armband and Breathalyzers Law Suspended Posted: 27 Nov 2012 10:00 PM PST Things always happen when governments change. One law made during the last government gets changed with the new one. And that is what happened here. Two laws had been created by the previous conservative government, the mandatory wearing of 150 cm2 of high-visibility armband for motorcycle riders and the mandatory breathalyzer kit in your car or motorcycle. Both laws had been heavily criticized by associations and people alike. Even the European Commission intervened saying that the laws were illegal (see related below). And both laws have been suspended. Here's what this is all about........... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

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Bikes in the Fast Lane: Xmas2012: KTM Thinks Of Everything For Christmas plus 3 more

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• Xmas2012: KTM Thinks Of Everything For Christmas
• Ads: AKT Motos and Social Media - Fail
• France: Government Suspends Mandatory Armband
• Colombia: No More Male Motorcycle Pillions Allowed

Xmas2012: KTM Thinks Of Everything For Christmas Posted: 27 Nov 2012 08:00 AM PST Christmas often means loads of gifts, and if you're lucky, they'll be motorcycle related. But apart from putting gifts under the Christmas tree, usually smaller gifts fit nicely in holiday stockings. So, here's an idea... get bigger stockings... meaning you'll be luckier to get bigger presents.. right? KTM have a special holiday stocking ready to receive nice gifts. In the shape of an Alpinestar motocross boot, the stocking measures 44 x 30 cms........... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

Ads: AKT Motos and Social Media - Fail Posted: 27 Nov 2012 04:00 AM PST AKT Motos is a Colombian motorcycle manufacturer of what looks like Indian TVS motorcycles. They produce, probably more assemble, low displacement motorcycles for the Colombian market. They've released two print advertisements which in IMHO fail to bring a message across. Both ads below show the two main social media symbols, Facebook and Twitter, and a blueprint inside the symbols. The tag line says "Get Out There", so I'm presuming they mean to say that to let Facebook and Twitter go, and just get on your motorcycle or scooter, and ride. But it's not obvious, or maybe I just don't understand Colombian ads.... ...

France: Government Suspends Mandatory Armband Posted: 27 Nov 2012 01:45 AM PST According to Moto Magazine (the printed magazine of the French Federation of Angry Bikers - FFMC), after many months of protests and lobbying, the Minister of Interior has suspended today the mandatory wearing of high visibility armbands, a law that was going to be in place starting January 1st 2013........... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

Colombia: No More Male Motorcycle Pillions Allowed Posted: 26 Nov 2012 10:00 PM PST Wow, talk about drastic measures. In Colombia apparently there's a lot of thieves working on motorcycles. Pillions rip handbags out of the hands of old ladies walking to church, and ride off in the sunset with the loot. To stop the expanding crime, the 10 mayors of the Aburra Valley area have decided that starting November 30th, for a period of 2 months, no motorcycle is allowed to carry male pillions. According to statistics, 20% of thefts are done by motorcycle riders and 17% of homicides were also performed by armed pillions........... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

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