Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Video: KTM Dealer TV Commercial plus 2 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Video: KTM Dealer TV Commercial plus 2 more

Link to Bikes in the Fast Lane - Daily Motorcycle News

Video: KTM Dealer TV Commercial

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 08:00 AM PST

KTM OMA Dealer Video
KTM logo
You don't see many KTM motorcycle TV commercials in the world, and even less KTM dealer ads. Here's one exception, the first one I've seen. It's a TV commercial for the KTM dealer in the state of Oregon called OMA-KTM (funny for me, since in Dutch, Oma means grandmother).

It's not bad for a dealer commercial, and as I said, it's the first KTM dealer advertisement I've seen.

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Use Your Ducati Motorcycle As Workstation

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 04:00 AM PST

Ducati Workstation
Ducati Workstation
Computer workstations are boring. Imagine having to sit at one typing your correspondence.... boring. But Italian Lorenzo Buratti has a very elegant solution to a mundane problem.

He took an old and unused Ducati Pantah motorcycle and with a bit of wood and paint, he transformed the old motorcycle into a workstation...........

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France: Despite Rescinded Law, Mayor Of Paris Wants Motorcycle Technical Tests

Posted: 12 Feb 2013 10:00 PM PST

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France flag
Last year the French (and many other European countries) were under the menace of having to undergo annual technical inspections (MOT) on their motorcycles, something the European motorcycle associations and lobby groups had been fighting against. After numerous protest rides and heavy lobbying, the proposed law got canned. So no annual technical inspections of motorcycles.....

But now the motorcycle-phobic mayor of Paris, Bernard Delanoe, wants to get the French government to bring in the annual inspection law anyway. The mayor is becoming very unpopular in Paris, since his actions are always against private transportation in general, and motorcycles in particular. He has last month closed down one of the busiest express ways (Rive Gauche) for all traffic and made it a pedestrian area, he's bringing down the speed of the Parisian ringroad (Peripherique) from 80 to 70 kph and he's outlawing all motorcycles that are 10 years old or older from the inner city...........

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