Bikes in the Fast Lane: Excuse The Long Downtime plus 4 more

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• Excuse The Long Downtime
• Ad: Meccano - If You Can’t Have It, Build It.
• The Netherlands: Road Signs To Be Readable By Color-Blind
• 10 Photos Of Blown Up Motorcycles, Part 3
• Belgium: Not As Rosy As It Seems In The Motorcycle World

Excuse The Long Downtime Posted: 24 Jul 2012 06:45 AM PDT Sorry for the two days downtime. The company that hosts my sites went down for almost 2 days. I'm currently talking to other hosting companies to plan a move somewhere more professional and communicative. Tomorrow I'm not in either, so no stories or articles either. When it rains, it pours.... It's a major headache, since the platform I use is great and productive, but there are not that many service providers, and those that are there, are expensive. Hang in there, and come back soon... ...

Ad: Meccano - If You Can’t Have It, Build It. Posted: 24 Jul 2012 05:00 AM PDT An excellent advertisement for the building kit for children (and some adults I know), Meccano (known in the USA as Erector). The visual part of the ad is nice, but the slogan is better: "If you can’t have it, build it." How many of you have faced that in your past, and probably in your future? ...

The Netherlands: Road Signs To Be Readable By Color-Blind Posted: 23 Jul 2012 11:00 PM PDT Being color-blind can be unforgiving on the road. You can "guess" the color of traffic lights by the position of the light that is on, but road signs can be a problem. Riding up on your motorcycle, you have only seconds to see the road sign, and if you are color-blind, you'll have a problem. In The Netherlands, there are some 700,000 color blind drivers, and now the government has decided to change all the important road signs so that these people can recognize them quickly. The problem with current road signs is that there is not enough contrast, especially for red and blue, the two main colors many color-blind people have problems with....... .......Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

10 Photos Of Blown Up Motorcycles, Part 3 Posted: 23 Jul 2012 09:00 AM PDT Part 3 of blown up motorcycles. 10 photos of motorcycles that have suffered the worst ... a bomb or fire blast. Warning! These photos are not for the squeamish, if you can not stand the sight of a blown up motorcycle, for heaven's sake, do NOT look! You have been warned! Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

Belgium: Not As Rosy As It Seems In The Motorcycle World Posted: 22 Jul 2012 09:32 PM PDT A few months ago we wrote about how things were looking up in Belgium for the motorcycle world. With some progressive and well thought-out laws in favor for bikers, it was a good step in the right direction. But that is not how the political world works, is it now? On the 11th of June, the State Council cancelled a Royal Decree allowing motorcycles to park on the sidewalks, as long as they left 1.5 meters of space for pedestrians. The Royal decree was very reasonable, a win-win for everyone. It looks like the mistake the Belgium government made (remember that in those days there was none, it was the civil servants who were running things), was not talk to the big cities about their plans for these new laws, in particular Brussels......... ........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

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