Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Ads: Brazilian Safety PSA - When You Are Driving, Be Driving plus 2 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Ads: Brazilian Safety PSA - When You Are Driving, Be Driving plus 2 more

Link to Bikes in the Fast Lane - Daily Motorcycle News

Ads: Brazilian Safety PSA - When You Are Driving, Be Driving

Posted: 16 Jul 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Brazil Safety PSA Facebook Driving
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#PSA #Safety #Advertising - The local Brazilian authorities launched a series of safety PSAs to get Brazilians to stop using the internet while driving their cars. Apparently drivers there, like in other countries, use email, Facebook and Twitter while weaving through traffic, and that can only be a good thing for us motorcycle riders, right?

It is why I do not like seeing gadgets to be used for vehicles, like GPS, that allows drivers to connect to the internet. Way to dangerous for us.

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Extend The Range Of Your Electric Motorcycle By Far

Posted: 16 Jul 2013 05:00 AM PDT

EP Tender
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#Electric #EV #Tender - If you think about it, this is stupid, even FUBAR. People who buy electric motorcycles (or cars) do it to save money on fuel or/and because of ecological convictions (lack of CO2, noise, etc). Some, possibly myself included, because of interesting performances.

But this product goes against any of the above ideas. EP Tender got launched a few days ago in France, and it is a trailer equipped with a small 600cc engine (coming from the Tata Nano car) and a 35 liter fuel tank. The EP Tender "talks" to your electric car (and maybe with some adaptations to your electric motorcycle) and when the batteries start running on empty, kicks-in the 600cc engine to recharge your batteries while you keep driving...........

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Taiwan: And Here You Thought You Parked Your Motorcycle Safely

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 11:00 PM PDT

Taiwan Motorcycle Damaged Typhoon
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#Taiwan #Storm #Typhoon - This morning you took extra care to park your motorcycle safely, hoping to arrive at the end of a busy workday to go home on your bike.....

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