Archive for May, 2008

Former seven-times F1 world champion Michael Schumacher will race this weekend in Germany’s leading bike racing series, the IDM Superbike championship. I just wish my retirement was that great at the age of 37.

Good luck, Schumi! We’ll be rooting for you.
Source: Motorcycle News

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Why Helmet Color Matters

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

I was riding back home from work. I was merging from one freeway to another. Going down the on-ramp, cautiously splitting narrowing lanes. I noted a rider on the freeway I was merging on. Something looked familiar, his helmet looked familiar, his jacket, his bike. Wait, it is Motodisiac. By the time I ended up […]

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Demo Ride - 2002 BMW R1100S

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Motodisiac and I went canyon riding earlier today. One of our friends joined us. For future reference his code name on this blog would be SpeedRacer as I am sure he’d get a mention or two in the future. As the name suggests he drives and rides very fast which sometimes ends up in speeding […]

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Ever since the Hypermotard hysteria began both Motodisiac and I were sort of on a quest to find the next bike each one of us likes. We had already drooled over the Hypermotard and the Super Duke a little bit. And frankly both of us got pretty much over both of those motorcycles. The next […]

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Bogus Ticket

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

I was driving home (I took my car today instead of a bike) getting on a freeway going approximately 15 mph merging into a lane. The traffic was slowly moving, lets say at a pace of 5 mph. A police cruiser was among the cars in the lane I was merging into. I passed it […]

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Generation of Highlights

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

I was watching the Costas Now show on HBO the other day. One of the topics was blogs and sports coverage. And one of Bob Costas’s lines stuck in my memory. “Are we becoming a generation of highlights?”. It was very eloquently put.
This got me thinking. With a huge mass media expansion into our homes […]

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