Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Ad: Piaggio MP3 - Tilting Doll plus 2 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Ad: Piaggio MP3 - Tilting Doll plus 2 more

Link to Bikes in the Fast Lane - Daily Motorcycle News

Ad: Piaggio MP3 - Tilting Doll

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 09:00 AM PDT

Ad Piaggio Tilting Doll
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#Piaggio #MP3 #Advertisement - Funny. You know Piaggio's MP3 scooter, the three wheel scooter that can tilt because the front wheels have independent suspensions? You can ride over a sidewalk with only one wheel, and still not fall.

Obviously Piaggio also thought it's a pretty cool system, so they brought out this print advertisement back in 2010. It's kind of funny, since it does look like the MP3 motorcycle riders are a bit like titling dolls.

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Ideas: D Shield - Invisible Protection Cloak For Your Motorcycle

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 05:00 AM PDT

D Shield
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There's a project in Kickstarter for D Shield, a device you place on your motorcycle or scooter that places a "shield" around your bike, and when someone gets into the area, like a car or person, the alarm goes off. An idea to protect your ride from parking cars or idiots who sit on your bike.

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Bored Riding On Your Scooter? Here Is A Solution

Posted: 17 Aug 2015 11:00 PM PDT

Scooter TV
ScooterTV - Some people get bored riding the same roads over and over again. Here's a solution...

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Monday, August 17, 2015

Bikes in the Fast Lane: 25 Customized and Tuned Scooters - Part 1 plus 2 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: 25 Customized and Tuned Scooters - Part 1 plus 2 more

Link to Bikes in the Fast Lane - Daily Motorcycle News

25 Customized and Tuned Scooters - Part 1

Posted: 17 Aug 2015 09:00 AM PDT

Customized Scooter
Customized Scooter
#Scooters #Customization - Many hard core motorcycle riders think scooters are and look boring. Plain, vanilla, not much imagination. But they would be wrong, very wrong. Because, like with motorcycles, scooters can be totally customized. Not just a paint job, but real customization works to turn them into something they are not.

Here are 25 such scooters, customized, tuned and made to look nothing like the original.

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Russia: And You Thought Your Country’s Cops Had Nasty Radars

Posted: 17 Aug 2015 05:00 AM PDT

Russian Speed Camera
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#Russia #SpeedCameras #Radars - In many countries around the world, police have nasty habits of hiding their radars, trying to catch motorcycles who are speeding. It's not fair, but all is fair in love, war and police traps. But here is one in Russia which is just plain nasty!

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India: Nice Touch - Independence Day Stunts by Female Police

Posted: 16 Aug 2015 11:00 PM PDT

India Independence Day Female Stunters 2015
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#India #StuntWomen #FemalePolice - That's a nice touch; putting female police officers on a motorcycle as stuntwomen, each representing a different religion. Nice. Colorful.

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Monday, July 27, 2015

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Holiday 2015: Gone To Have Some Motorcycle Fun - Sayonara plus 2 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Holiday 2015: Gone To Have Some Motorcycle Fun - Sayonara plus 2 more

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Holiday 2015: Gone To Have Some Motorcycle Fun - Sayonara

Posted: 27 Jul 2015 09:00 AM PDT

Bumper motorcycles
#Funny #Bumpercars - Okay folks, I'm out of here. Spent too much time in front of my computers, so I decided on a relaxing holiday, riding my motorcycle and not going near my computer for a week or three. I was starting to get really tired, so a rest was needed. See you in a week or 3. Don't miss me too much. Hopefully I'm coming back refreshed, and my traffic and revenue will pick up then.

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E-Raw: Beautiful Electric Cruiser/Cafe Racer

Posted: 27 Jul 2015 05:00 AM PDT

e Raw
e Raw
#Electric #Cruiser - Here is a (rolling) prototype for an electric cruiser/cafe racer motorcycle that looks totally different and rad; Just look at the saddle, made out of wood. Different from the conventional thinking, this design has many merits. The motorcycle is called e-raw, and it's from expemotion.

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France: First WIP Radar A Jackpot Bonanza

Posted: 26 Jul 2015 11:00 PM PDT

WIP Radar France
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#France #WIPradars - The first Work In Progress radar installed in Brittany on a portion of a road where workers where working was a hit! Not for motorcycles or cars, but for the authorities! 900 photos of speeding vehicles in 24 hours.

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Friday, July 24, 2015

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Top Internet Motorcycle Stories - 24 July 2015 plus 2 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Top Internet Motorcycle Stories - 24 July 2015 plus 2 more

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Top Internet Motorcycle Stories - 24 July 2015

Posted: 24 Jul 2015 09:00 AM PDT

Top Weekly Web Article
Almost holiday for me. I just hope the weather improves, because the way it's going now, I'll be needing a submarine instead of a motorcycle. Strange weather: one moment a heat wave, followed by ice cold polar weather. Just stay inside and read a lot of articles. Here are a few you may have missed during last week.

- Never Trust A Bike Review (Geezer With A Grudge)
- Motorcycle review: F is for fun in Honda's CB500F (USA Today)
- Product Review: Motojug Hydration System (Tilted Horizons)
- The rise of the silver bikers: 'I feel like a teenager again' (The Telegraph)

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I Hope He Is Not Hungry - Motorcycle Made Out Of Spoons

Posted: 24 Jul 2015 05:00 AM PDT

Spoon Motorcycle
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#Art #Sculpture #Spoons - Imagine that! A motorcycle made 100% out of spoons. Let us hope he left some spoons in the house to eat with. This is a piece of art in its purest form, 100% spoon. In other words, a spoonful.

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Watching The Tour Yesterday, Made My Heart Cry

Posted: 23 Jul 2015 11:00 PM PDT

TdF 2015 Alps
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#Tour #TourdeFrance #MotorcycleHeaven - Watching the first Alps stage of the famous Tour de France bicycle race on TV, just made me weep. Just look at those roads, and then imagine you are there, riding on your motorcycle. Heaven on earth. Motorcycle Bliss.

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Thursday, July 23, 2015

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Patents: Two Wheel Drive Motorcycle plus 2 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Patents: Two Wheel Drive Motorcycle plus 2 more

Link to Bikes in the Fast Lane - Daily Motorcycle News

Patents: Two Wheel Drive Motorcycle

Posted: 23 Jul 2015 09:00 AM PDT

Patent Two Wheel Drive
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#Patents #2WD #Rokon - Here is a patent that was submitted (and granted) in 2005 calling for a two wheel drive motorcycle. This patent uses chains to drive both wheels, and it looks very similar to the Rokon two wheel drive motorcycle, so much so, that I expect that the Rokon uses this patent. What do you think?

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Adventure Riding As Glamour - Road To Beauty

Posted: 23 Jul 2015 05:00 AM PDT

Lequipee Road to Beauty
#Adventure #Glamour #Lequipee - The five pretty adventure girls featured in 3 videos of their motorcycle trip over the Himalayas, have recently come back from a three week motorcycle trip from Rio, Brazil into the Amazon jungle. The trip got captured by a professional photographers, and he has published some of his work on his web site. Great photos.

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Portugal: Nice DUI Safety Campaign - Great Visual

Posted: 22 Jul 2015 11:00 PM PDT

Portugal DUI Campaign
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#SafetyPSA #DUI - This is a nice visual from an anti-DUI campaign coming from Portugal (dating back to 2011)

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Idea: Yes, Another Free Everlasting Energy Source - We Are Saved plus 2 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Idea: Yes, Another Free Everlasting Energy Source - We Are Saved plus 2 more

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Idea: Yes, Another Free Everlasting Energy Source - We Are Saved

Posted: 22 Jul 2015 09:00 AM PDT

Rocket Hydra Power
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#USA #CrowdFunding #EndlessEnergy - Yes, another crowd-funding project promising free and endless energy for our motorcycles (and cars and other vehicles); It's so simple, I wonder why no one has done this before. take water, split it into H and O2, burn it, which creates water (H20), which is then recycled, burned etc etc etc. Yeah, we're saved. Clean, free and endless energy. Now, if someone could please fork out US$500,00 to the inventor. This way he can prove his concept.

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Garmin Varia: Would This Be Something For Motorcycles?

Posted: 22 Jul 2015 05:00 AM PDT

Garmin Varia
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#Garmin #Safety - Garmin's new Varia unit is meant for bicycles. It's a rear facing radar that warns the cyclists and car/trucks/motorcycles that there's a bicycle in front of them. But would this be something of interest to motorcycle riders?

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Ohh, So That Is What Motorcycle Panniers Are For

Posted: 21 Jul 2015 11:00 PM PDT

Other use of panniers
#Funny #ChildrenTransport - I never knew that panniers on a motorcycle were meant for that...

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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Video: Craftsman - A Motorcycle Story plus 2 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Video: Craftsman - A Motorcycle Story plus 2 more

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Video: Craftsman - A Motorcycle Story

Posted: 21 Jul 2015 09:00 AM PDT

Craftsman Motorcycle Story Ad
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#Craftsman #TVCommercial - Nicely done TV commercial that ran a few weeks ago during USA's Father Day for Craftsman . The ad is nicely done, a 'funny' story with figurines and of course a motorcycle.

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Two Years Old, Kymmee Johnson Already Racing A Motorcycle

Posted: 21 Jul 2015 05:00 AM PDT

Young Kymmee Johnson
#VeryYoungRacers - 2 years old, and this very young lady is already riding motorcycle like a pro. Knees down, hard into the curve ... no fear on this little one. Is she going to be the first women to win MotoGP in some 16 years time? Have a look...

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A Vespa Scooter For Four?

Posted: 20 Jul 2015 11:00 PM PDT

Four Seater Vespa
#StrangeScooters - This is plain weird. Is this a scooter built for 4 (like parents and two children), or is this a Royal Vespa, with the royalty sitting behind the driver, and two valets sitting next to the Monarch? You tell me...

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