Bikes in the Fast Lane: Idea: Staying Safe At Night On Your Motorcycle plus 2 more

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• Idea: Staying Safe At Night On Your Motorcycle
• Block Your Motorcycle License Plate Legally From Speed Cameras
• Japan: Tsunami Damaged Motorcycles Galore

Idea: Staying Safe At Night On Your Motorcycle Posted: 15 Oct 2012 09:00 AM PDT Here's an idea, or rather a product, that was made for bicycles but could be of us to us motorcycle riders. Bicycles are more at risk than motorcycles in the dark by being sideswiped by a car, since they have less lights (sometimes none), and are often invisible on the road. Motorcycles are bigger, and more visible, but often enough cars edge up real close to us since they haven't really estimated the distance between us and their cage. At night, this becomes a bigger problem, and there's not much you can do about it apart from kicking the car (which is a bad idea since you'll loose your balance). Xfire makes an interesting solution for bicycles that could be used for motorcycles.......... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

Block Your Motorcycle License Plate Legally From Speed Cameras Posted: 15 Oct 2012 05:00 AM PDT Speed and red light cameras can be a pain in the ass, even if you don't speed or run red lights. So many have been known to be wrong, and fighting the fines is often an uphill battle. There are plenty of products out there that will block your license plate, with varying effectiveness, some legal, many not. In most countries, you're not allowed to do anything to your license plate, so for example putting Vaseline on them is illegal. But Jonathan Dandrow came up with a novel idea to thwart authorities from making expensive photos of your ride. Although he's aiming it at the car market, this is a product that can be adapted to motorcycle. His idea came when he noticed that many cameras pick up the infrared light from a TV remote. Using that principle, he's made a prototype license plate holder, that has a light sensor that will detect of camera flash (like many camera flashes that can be slaves to each other by using the flash light from the master). Once it detects a flash, it fires its own 2 xenon flashes mounted to the side of the license plate. The two flashes over-illuminate the license plate, making it overexposed to the radar camera. The end result?.......... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

Japan: Tsunami Damaged Motorcycles Galore Posted: 14 Oct 2012 11:00 PM PDT Just look at what a tsunami can do to lives and properties ... and it's not only those that get damaged, but also motorcycles. Frightening what nature can do to us. ...

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