Bikes in the Fast Lane: Exhausts: New Material - Quieter, Cheaper, Easier plus 2 more

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• Exhausts: New Material - Quieter, Cheaper, Easier
• France: Interesting Statistics On Motorcycle Usage In Paris
• France: No Entry Into Alps For Motorcycles No Longer An Issue

Exhausts: New Material - Quieter, Cheaper, Easier Posted: 06 Mar 2013 08:00 AM PST You got to give it to the Chinese. When push comes to shove, when they need to be creative, they find a way. The need arose for a man, Mr. Jen Fang, who needed to replace the exhaust of his motorcycle. But in a country with many billionaires and many, many more poor people, Mr. Fang fell in the poor people category. He had no money to buy a new exhaust. So he did the thing that made the most sense to him; He placed a bamboo pipe on his motorcycle, replacing the old one. And guess what? It worked like a charm........... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

France: Interesting Statistics On Motorcycle Usage In Paris Posted: 06 Mar 2013 04:00 AM PST #Statistics #France #Paris - With all the troubling issues coming from the Mayor of Paris, and the upcoming 2014 Mayor elections and their moto-phobic candidates, it's interesting to see some statistics about the usage of motorcycles and scooters in Paris. The number crunching was done by the DRIEA (Direction Regionale et Interdepartementale de l'Equipement et de l'Amenagement). First of all, the stats aren't for just Paris, but what is called "Ile-de-France", or more accurately the Greater Parisian Area, which is Paris and its suburbs. If the candidate politicians ever read these statistics, maybe they'll change their minds about motorcycles, but somehow I doubt it. Every day there are 570,000 PTW moving around and through Paris. That's half a million per day! Between 2001 and 2010, there was an increase of 34% in the number of daily PTW movements........... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

France: No Entry Into Alps For Motorcycles No Longer An Issue Posted: 05 Mar 2013 10:00 PM PST In January this year, the local governor of the Haut-Rhin province called for a ban on motorcycles riding the Alps in his area. The ban was supposed to be for the weekends only and would forbid motorcycles from riding the twisting roads to the mountain peaks. This brought a very loud outcry, not only by motorcycle riders all over Europe, but also from the biker rights lobby groups like the FFMC. Since this goes against the freedom of movement, a fundamental human right in Europe, the local government quickly caved in and stated that this is a non-issue........... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

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