Monday, February 16, 2015

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Food Truck? We Don’t Need Your Stinkin’ Food Truck! We’ll Ape It plus 2 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Food Truck? We Don’t Need Your Stinkin’ Food Truck! We’ll Ape It plus 2 more

Link to Bikes in the Fast Lane - Daily Motorcycle News

Food Truck? We Don’t Need Your Stinkin’ Food Truck! We’ll Ape It

Posted: 16 Feb 2015 08:00 AM PST

Ape Romeo
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#Italy #FoodTrcuks #PiaggioApe - There are cities in the world that can not accommodate food trucks as we see in some major cities (and movies). But they can handle Piaggio Apes, who have been designed to navigate the small and narrow streets of cities like Rome. There is even a Michelin-starred chef running one of these street food motorcycles. Hungry? You will be when you see their photos.

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First Electric Motorcycle Finishes World’s Wackiest Race - Le Touquet Enduropale 2015

Posted: 16 Feb 2015 04:00 AM PST

Marc Chochois Zero Enduropale 2015
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#Zero #Electric #LeTouquetEnduropale - A first! The first time an electric motorcycle, in this case a modified Zero FX, finished the crazy and very tough 3 hours beach race; the Le Touquet Enduropale. 552nd out of 1000+ motorcycles that started. Not bad at all.

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When Millions Of Chinese Go On Their Motorcycle For Spring Festival

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 10:00 PM PST

China Spring Festival 2015
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#China #SpringFestival #NewYear - This is what you get when millions of Chinese get on their motorcycles and head for home during their Spring Festival. Talk about rush hour. Ready for the Chinese New Year....

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Friday, February 13, 2015

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Top Internet Motorcycle Stories - 13 February 2015 plus 2 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Top Internet Motorcycle Stories - 13 February 2015 plus 2 more

Link to Bikes in the Fast Lane - Daily Motorcycle News

Top Internet Motorcycle Stories - 13 February 2015

Posted: 13 Feb 2015 08:00 AM PST

Top Weekly Web Article
Friday the 13th... lucky or unlucky for you. Do you go riding on your motorcycle on such a day, walk under a ladder, play the lotto. Or is it just another day? Well, no matter what the kind of day it is, you can't go wrong reading motorcycle related articles that have appeared over the last week. Here you go.

- Motool Slacker Digital Sag Scale (Vital Mx)
- Review: Firstgear Women̢۪s 90-Watt Heated Jacket Liner and Dual Remote Control Heat-Troller Kit (Road Runner)
- The 10 Most Weird and Wonderful Motorcycle Events in the World (The Ride Advice)
- Brand Licensing: The Next Bad Idea (Branding Strategy)
- Top 5 Reasons Take Motorcycle Training (Motorcycle Central)

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Idea: Too Good Not To Shoot Down - LIFESUIT T-1 World’s Safest Motorcycle Suit

Posted: 13 Feb 2015 04:00 AM PST

Lifesuit T 1
#Crowd-Funding #IndieGoGo #Flop - This crowd-funding project is just too good to let it pass. I just can't help myself. Of all the projects and ideas I've seen, this one takes the cake. Not because it can't work, but because he's not going to tell you who it works. But he does want US$199,000.

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Brazil: Motorcycle Delivery Bikers Protests

Posted: 12 Feb 2015 10:00 PM PST

Rio Motorcycle Delivery Protest
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#Brazil #MotoBoys #Delivery - It looks like the motorcycle delivery boys & girls in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil don't like the heavy-handed police approach towards them. Motoboys as they are called, went on a protest ride.

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Thursday, February 12, 2015

Bikes in the Fast Lane: 1957 Chevy Motorcycle, Harley Engine, French Build plus 2 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: 1957 Chevy Motorcycle, Harley Engine, French Build plus 2 more

Link to Bikes in the Fast Lane - Daily Motorcycle News

1957 Chevy Motorcycle, Harley Engine, French Build

Posted: 12 Feb 2015 08:00 AM PST

1957 Chevy
#Chevrolet #Custom - Here is an amazingly beautiful custom motorcycle; based on the 1957 Chevy. Based on the iconic American car, with an Harley-Davidson engine, but designed and built by a Frenchman.

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Someone Actually Patented A LED-Equipped Motorcycle Jacket

Posted: 12 Feb 2015 04:00 AM PST

Jacket with LED Lights Patent
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#Patent #Safety #BeSeen - Funny. You see a lot of crowd-funding projects for putting LED lights on a motorcycle jacket for added visibility, but here is someone who is a bit smarter. He filed a patent for the same idea.

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India: Good Idea - First Time Offenders Fined Less

Posted: 11 Feb 2015 10:00 PM PST

Traffic offense India
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#India #Novices #Fines - I think this is good idea coming from India. Novice riders/drivers and first time offenders will have to pay 5 times less for the fine amounts if they get caught for the first time. After that, they pay the full load. Much more forgiving.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Idea: Help Fund A Perpetual Riding Electric Motorcycle - Moto ZE plus 2 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Idea: Help Fund A Perpetual Riding Electric Motorcycle - Moto ZE plus 2 more

Link to Bikes in the Fast Lane - Daily Motorcycle News

Idea: Help Fund A Perpetual Riding Electric Motorcycle - Moto ZE

Posted: 11 Feb 2015 08:00 AM PST

Moto ZE
#Electric #PerpetualRiding - Here is the great crowd-funding project that will really launch electric motorcycles into the 21st century. A recharge your electric motorcycle at will without having to go to a charging station. Ride round the world on your electric motorcycle. All you need is this revolutionary magnet engine.

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Japan: When One Light On Your Motorcycle Is Not Enough

Posted: 11 Feb 2015 04:00 AM PST

Lit Up Japaense Motorcycle
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#Japan #Bosozoku #ManyLights - Putting a light or two on our motorcycle is a done thing in many places around the world. But in Japan, one or two lights is for pussies. Here is a video of several motorcycles in Japan where you need sunglasses to actually see the bikes at night.

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Finland: New Speed Radars Can Not Detect Motorcycles

Posted: 10 Feb 2015 10:00 PM PST

Dougie Lampkin In Finland
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#Finland #Radars - 300 new radars are being installed in Finland, and none of them can read a motorcycle's license plate, or even detect a bike due to its small profile.

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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Ads: Vespa - Can They Get Any Stranger? plus 2 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Ads: Vespa - Can They Get Any Stranger? plus 2 more

Link to Bikes in the Fast Lane - Daily Motorcycle News

Ads: Vespa - Can They Get Any Stranger?

Posted: 10 Feb 2015 08:00 AM PST

Vespa Ecuador Solution
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#Vespa #Advertisements - Here are three advertisements from Vespa which are just strange. Either the agency was lazy, or confused what a scooter does.

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Europe: Looking For A Military Motorcycle?

Posted: 10 Feb 2015 04:00 AM PST

Zundapp KS750 1944
Harley Davidson MT350
#Military - Would you like to have a military motorcycle in your garage. An old one or a reasonably recent one? Have I got a web site for you. ...

Guatemala: Black Christ Motorcycle Pilgrimage

Posted: 09 Feb 2015 10:00 PM PST

Black Christ Motorcycle Pilgrimage
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#Guatemala #BlackChrist - The things you learn on the internet. I never knew this existed, nor that it was a big deal. The annual motorcycle pilgrimage to a small town of Esquipulas, Guatemala to go and pray before a black Christ. Apparently, it's a big thing in Central America.

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Monday, February 9, 2015

Bikes in the Fast Lane: France: The Folding Trailer plus 2 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: France: The Folding Trailer plus 2 more

Link to Bikes in the Fast Lane - Daily Motorcycle News

France: The Folding Trailer

Posted: 09 Feb 2015 08:00 AM PST

Remorque Pliante
Remorque Pliante
#Trailers - Having a trailer is nice, but you loose a lot of real estate space in your garage. Here is a French company that has a totally folding trailer that takes up the space of a folded and stored Ping-Pong table, and can even 'bend' the rear allowing you to ride up your motorcycle.

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Switzerland: 1000 Charging Stations For EV Passed

Posted: 09 Feb 2015 04:00 AM PST

Switzerland Charging map 201502
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#Switzerland #EVChargingStations #Statistics - The land of mountains, cows, chocolate and bankers has passed the 1,000 mark for electric cars and motorcycles charging stations. Not bad for a 41K km2 country with high mountains.

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France: The Anti-Motorcycle-Ban Protest Ride In Paris

Posted: 08 Feb 2015 10:00 PM PST

FFMC Paris Protest
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#FFMC #ProtestRide - On Sunday, the FFMC organized protest ride against the motorcycle ban for bikes older than the year 2000 from entering in Paris was followed by some 4000 bikers. Here is what happened.

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Saturday, February 7, 2015

Bikes in the Fast Lane: France: The Year 2000 Motorcycle Ban Gets Worse, Much Worse

Bikes in the Fast Lane: France: The Year 2000 Motorcycle Ban Gets Worse, Much Worse

Link to Bikes in the Fast Lane - Daily Motorcycle News

France: The Year 2000 Motorcycle Ban Gets Worse, Much Worse

Posted: 06 Feb 2015 11:45 PM PST

Marie Antoinette
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#France #Ban - The ban on motorcycles built before the yer 2000 is bad, but it's worse, much worse. Already the Parisian police have vetoed the Monday 9th protest while the law is being voted, and this Mayor of Paris has already said she wants to ban in the year 2020 all motorcycles built before 2015. Yes, you read that right, 2015.

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