Honda Motorbikes: Bikes in the Fast Lane: Idea: The End Of Tank-Slappers? plus 2 more

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Idea: The End Of Tank-Slappers? plus 2 more

Idea: The End Of Tank-Slappers?
France: All Female Team For 24 Hours Motorcycle Le Mans - With A Serious Twist
Turkey: Even The Motorcycle Dogs Are Protesting

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 09:00 AM PDT

#Quirky #Streering #Motorcycles - Are we seeing the end of the era of tank-slappers? You know, those times when your sports motorcycle wobbles because it encounters something on the road that makes it oscillate the steering sideways, making you at best hit the fuel tank, and at worst, allows you to exit the motorcycle high, ie a highside.

Kirk Spiegel has submitted a project in Quirky that will prevent this. It is an electronic steering damper for motorcycles, that electronically senses objects (which could be a high speed maneuver) on the road that causes the oscillations, and activates the steering damping automatically and electronically...........

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France: All Female Team For 24 Hours Motorcycle Le Mans - With A Serious Twist

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 05:00 AM PDT

#Endurance #LeMans #Transexual - That there have been all-female motorcycle endurance teams is no news. There are quite a lot of them, and there are more and more. Why not? Women riders are as good a male riders, so why not race 24 hour races?

But this French all-female team has a twist, a serious twist. With two Suzuki GSXR race motorcycles entered , the female team manager is Agnes Dupuy (winner of many endurance races). Steffie Naud, Amandine Creusit and Caroline Locussol are 3 of the 4 members of this female racing team. And the 4th racer?????

This is where the serious twist comes into play... the 4th player is Erika Jeannot. Erika used to be Erik Jeannot. That's right, Erika is a transexual!..........

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Turkey: Even The Motorcycle Dogs Are Protesting

Posted: 05 Jun 2013 11:00 PM PDT