Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Ad: Honda CS500F And A Sword! CS500F WTF? plus 3 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Ad: Honda CS500F And A Sword! CS500F WTF? plus 3 more

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Ad: Honda CS500F And A Sword! CS500F WTF?

Posted: 04 Jun 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Honda Sword CS500F
Honda logo
#Honda #Advertisement - Okay, I'm confused again (happens a lot at my age). Here's an interesting print advertisement from Honda Israel featuring a sports motorcycle and a samurai sword. Looked good, until I read the text...

... it reads "Honda CS500F A New Japanese Power". CS500F??? Never heard of that. On top of that, the photo is that of a CBR. Is this an Israel-special? Is it just bad ad layout? Is it a joke?

Anyone ever hear of a CS500F? (I know the CB500F and even a CS500, but not a CS500F).

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France: Motorcycle Sensitivity Program Greater Paris Area

Posted: 04 Jun 2013 05:00 AM PDT

France IdF 15 Days Program 2013
France IdF 15 Days Program 2013
#Safety #France #Motorcycles - For 15 days, in the greater Paris area, called Ile-de-France (Island of France), the local authorities will be conducting an extensive sensitivity communication program for motorcycle and other "fragile" road users (like pedestrians and cyclists).

Although 2011 and 2012 saw an improvement of the number of fatal accidents in that part of France, 326 people died in 2012. 113 of them were motorcycle riders (81 pedestrians and 17 cyclists).

To gain awareness in the general population, the local authorities are running several posters, like this one:..........

...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story.......

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Good News For You Readers Using RSS

Posted: 04 Jun 2013 12:00 AM PDT

Feedly Bitfl
#Feedly #RSS - If you access this site via an RSS reader, chances are you are (were) using Google Reader, and as you probably know, Google is binning the service (another Google service bites the dust).

One web application (and smartphone app) has distinguished itself and will be able to load in all the RSS URLs you have saved in Google Reader, and that is Feedly. The Feedly folks are very reactive to their users, and have developed some very nice and free apps for smartphone and tablets, plus their web site is easy to use, and also free. They have a very active user community that feeds ideas and projects to the development team.

However, for the last few weeks, if you were already using Feedly you will not have been able to load my articles to read them. That was because Feedly added some parameters to my URL which my site could not handle, and you ended up in the 404 (Not Found) error.

The good news is that Feedly have rectified the issue, and now you can click on the headline in the Feedly feed and go straight to the article that interests you.

Feedly have also just announced that their site will be accessible by other RSS reader sites and apps when the migrate the Google Reader feeds (project Normandy), like Reeder, Press, Nextgen reader, Newsify and gReader. In fact, Feedly is more or less taking over from Google Reader and is becoming the de facto standard with 100,000's of Google Reader users migrating to them.

So, if you use the Google RSS reader to access the news, I suggest you switch rapidly to Feedly because shortly, Google's reader will not longer work.

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Myanmar: Buddhist Monks On Motorcycles Go On A Rampage

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 11:00 PM PDT

Buddhists Monks Myanmar Rampage
Myanmar flag
#Myanmar #Buddhists #Monks - They may sound like a 1-%er gang and are probably just as dangerous, but the "Buddhist Monks on Motorcycles" are not a gang. They are monks, i.e. religious men, armed with metal rods and bats, who attacked anything that remotely smelled of Muslims.

Ahh, don't you just love religion.... so peaceful...

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