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Thursday, August 16, 2012

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Video: StreetMade - Outlaw plus 2 more

Link to Bikes in the Fast Lane - Daily Motorcycle News

Video: StreetMade - Outlaw
We Had To Wait Until Olympics Closing To See Motorcycles
We Are Back And Upgraded For The Next Fight

Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:00 AM PDT

Nice TV commercial for Streetmade, a clothing brand. It involves an "outlaw" motorcycle rider, riding away from an attack helicopter who is firing guns and missiles at him.

Of course the helicopter misses, since the guy is using stunts to escape him (with no ATGATT, except the Streetmade shirt). Nice action sequence...

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We Had To Wait Until Olympics Closing To See Motorcycles

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 10:39 PM PDT

With all the mega money going around the Olympics, with 100's of different sports being held by top professionals, you have to ask yourself why we had to wait until the very end of the Games to see motorcycles. Or scooters in this case.

Wouldn't it be great if for the 2016 Rio Games they organized a Superbike event as part of the show...let's face it, motorcycle racers are top athletes in their own right.

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We Are Back And Upgraded For The Next Fight

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 11:00 PM PDT

Since you can read this, it means only one thing... we're back! The hosting company, DNS and database changes went smoothly, very smoothly. We're upgraded, and ready for the next fight....

Not much as happened since we went of the air... just Valentino Rossi went back to Yamaha, Hell or Leather first dumped their paywall and then announced that they were acquired (Wes Siler is probably enjoying the bathing beauties on Malibu Beach by now). So you didn't miss much..

Many thanks to my new hosts, Promenic for a fantastic job in the migration. It went super smooth and most of the work was done by them. I currently on a shared server, but shortly I'll be moving to my own once it's configured, but the disruption should be minimum.

Now the only thing left to do is find out by the DISQUS commenting system is not playing well with Internet Explorer. All others work fine, but IE screws up the page. That might take some time... so if you want to comment, go for Twitter, Facebook or Google Plus.

Thanks for sticking with me and waiting patiently. Now, go and tell your friends, spouse and grandparents that we're back. I desperately need to ad revenue.

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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Hosting Company Move - 1-2 Weeks Downtime Expected

Hosting Company Move - 1-2 Weeks Downtime Expected

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 03:30 AM PDT

I've been having some disastrous weeks with the hosting company I was using for this site. Due to total lack of "service" by the company, with many hours of downtime, I finally pulled the plug and signed up with a more professional outfit.

Normally, you can migrate to another hosting company with one or two days of downtime, but in this case it's going to take a bit longer. This means that this site will not be operating until the move has been done, and all the DNS have been updated. There are a lot of databases to move, and they take up a lot of space.

It will be of no use to update this site with news and articles, since I just don't know if the old so-called hosting company will be up, so I'm not going to bother until I'm back on-line with the new company.

You can follow the progress and status on:

Twitter: MikeWerner
Facebook: Bikes in the Fast Lane Page
Google +: Mike Werner

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Monday, August 6, 2012

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Site Temporary Suspended While We Try To Figure What To Do

Site Temporary Suspended While We Try To Figure What To Do

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 11:00 PM PDT

After many hours of repeated downtime on this site, I'm working on a solution to get a stable environment. So I'm looking at options, and since I don't want to publish articles but then have the server go down so that no one can read them, I'm stopping all articles until such time I know what and where to go.

Hopefully I'll have more news in a day or two. So, please patience.... things are a bit awkward at this moment..... I'm lost

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Friday, August 3, 2012

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Top Internet Stories - 3 August 2012 plus 2 more

Top Internet Stories - 3 August 2012
Video: GasGas TXT-e Put Through Its Paces
Taiwan: Typhoons Are Dangerous - For Motorcycles

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Bikes in the Fast Lane: iPhone Connected Piaggio Scooters plus 2 more

iPhone Connected Piaggio Scooters
Video: Honda Spacy - Uptown Girl
Odds That Your Royal Enfield Motorcycle Will Start On 1st Kickstart

iPhone Connected Piaggio Scooters

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 09:00 AM PDT

Piaggio released an optional kit for their X10 series of scooters that allows you to hook up your iPhone (and shortly Android) smartphone to your scooter, which will then tell you, without wires, all your telemetric data, like speed, fuel consumption, battery, when to replace your tires, tire pressure and if you have a GPS/Navigation unit app installed, where to go to get fuel, since it knows when you are running out.

With a large number of extra functions, like your owner manual, downloadable telemetric data and others, you'll not need the old fashion onboard dashboard.

We might even find the Piaggio PMP (Piaggio Multimedia Platform) on Aprilia, Moto Guzzi and Vespa models in the near future. How cool is that?

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Video: Honda Spacy - Uptown Girl

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 05:00 AM PDT

In a rather upbeat Honda TV commercial for the Spacy scooter, the ad uses the popular, but very old, song "Uptown Girl" to show a pretty girl loading and unloading a lot of stuff from her 110cc scooter's cargo bay.

The advertisement was made and shown in Indonesia. The cargo area is called "Helm In", meaning you can store your helmet under the seat.

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Odds That Your Royal Enfield Motorcycle Will Start On 1st Kickstart

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 11:00 PM PDT

The Boys & Girls at the Royal Enfield Club have calculated the odds that the Royal Enfield motorcycle will start with the first kickstart....

here's the statistics graphed out:

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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Ideas: Transformer Motorcycle Jacket - Great Idea plus 2 more

Ideas: Transformer Motorcycle Jacket - Great Idea
Video: Attack On French Road Security PSA
Do You Think She Owns A BMW?

Ideas: Transformer Motorcycle Jacket - Great Idea

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 09:00 AM PDT

Here's an idea that should be picked up by the big motorcycle clothing manufacturers. Some enterprising and smart guys dreamed up the Alomar. The Alomar is a motorcycle jacket that when not in use, transforms into a backpack!

The situations you need this are multi-fold. Many of us go out riding in the summer, wearing our helmets, gloves, bringing cameras, phones, etc. Once you've reached your destination, you'll either need to leave your helmet on your motorcycles (not a good idea), and unless you've got the storage space of a Honda Gold Wing, you'll need to chain it to your bike. Gloves do fit in smaller storage spaces, but you're still faced with walking around with bits & bobs.

The Alomar motorcycle jacket is a full-fledged jacket; lightweight (4 lbs), water resistant and padded with armor. So you can use it for what it is intended to be... riding your motorcycle. But once you stop riding because you've reached your destination, take off the jacket and turn it into a backpack.......

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Video: Attack On French Road Security PSA

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:00 AM PDT

The French Minister of Transportation does a reasonable good job with its safety commercials for motorcycle riders here in France. Every few months they bring out a thought-provoking PSA. But not thought-provoking enough for Mehdiator.

Mehdiator is a fellow who has a bee up his bonnet about safety, and that the government is not doing enough. He makes his own PSAs, one which got a very wide audience about the crash barriers (link).

Now he is on the war path about the latest government ad -.........

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