Archive for April, 2008

Schumacher Suffers Motorcycle Falls

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Michael Schumacher on Monday was unhurt in a 55 mph (80km/h) fall as he he continued his foray into the world of motorcycle racing.

Bild newspaper claims that the fall, at the Lausitzring circuit in Germany, was one of three falls in total for the former champion since he began regularly sampling the thrills of two-wheeled […]

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Some time ago Motodisiac showed me this commercial. It was a KTM Super Duke 990 commercial that KTM had to take down from their site as it did not promote the right riding attitude and style. When you see it you will probably understand why.

Today I read this blog post that showcased a Subaru commercial. […]

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Group Riding Done Right

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Found this great article describing group riding etiquette, signals and rules.
I’ve ridden in small groups before and it is very important that everyone in a group knows these guidelines. We have been on a ride a couple of weeks ago where Motodisiac was a “lead bike” as he had a GPS system, a couple of […]

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Lane Splitting - Riders Etiquette

Friday, April 11th, 2008

I was riding back home from the office last night. Merging from one freeway to another. End up close to another rider on a pretty new R1 with two small saddle bags. We were on both sides of one of the left most lanes. He apparently intended to take the space between the 2 left […]

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As you all might know last October I was forced into buying this jacket. And even though I am as big a Rev’it fan as Motodisiac is I sort of had no choice at the time. As my original review says I am fairly happy with this jacket. The only 2 stated problems were

velcro strap […]

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Morning Drop - Part 2

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Sometime ago Motodisiac had blogged about him almost dropping his Aprilia. Now my turn has come. I also did not drop my bike, but again like him was really close to dropping it. Here is what happened.
Two weekends ago we went canyon riding. The total of 4 riders including myself and Motodisiac. We went to […]

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As you all know I bought a new bike back in January. Obviously I did not need 2 motorcycles. So I started passively selling my SV650S. My passive selling strategies were pretty much limited to posts on craigslist, conversations with my friends, co-workers (neither of whom owns a bike as of yet). And that was […]

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