Archive for June, 2008

Beating the Speeding Ticket

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Back in December of 2007 I was riding around West Hollywood when I heard the siren and saw a motorcycle cop in my rear views. He ordered me to pull over and cited me with two violations - speeding (55mph in a 35 mph zone) and license plate not visible. As hard as it is […]

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The Rev’it Affairs

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

By now you probably know that both Motodisiac and I really like Rev’it. We both own various Rev’it gear. And despite the very underrepresented nature of this brand we still somewhat stand by our gear preferences. Well, at least till a couple of weeks ago.
About 2-3 weeks ago I had noticed that one of the top […]

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Supermoto Style Riding

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

In light of my recent purchase and the fact that my Aprilia Futura is sitting in Motodisiac’s garage awaiting 10K mile maintenance I have been consistently riding the Dakar on a daily basis. It was some hundred miles shy from 18K when I had purchased it. Now at almost 19K and freshly serviced it was […]

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This information has been circulating the web for the last couple of days - it looks like the Transformer sequel will feature a motorcycle-based fembot. And according to the leaked documentation from this movie set the fembot will be a pink colored Buell.

Some other sources featured pictures of female stunt riders that according to the […]

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First Time Off The Road

Monday, June 9th, 2008

I’ve been hearing all these stories from a couple of my friends of how great their offroading and adventure riding experiences were. I kept seing all these pictures of remote places with beautiful nature and noone around. And finally my mind was made - I wanted to try it out.
One night I came over to […]

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Arai Quantum 2 vs Z1R Blade

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Today I decided to take my old Z1R Blade helmet to ride in instead of the Arai Quantum 2. After a little bit of “dusting off” I was on my way to the office. I was surprised how much different the Blade felt comparing to the Quantum. And not in a good way.

First of all […]

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Lesson in Target Fixation

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

It is true that motorcycle riding becomes dangerous once you are over a 3 month term into it. Tonight I had yet another close call in my short riding career.
To refresh your memory I had a number of them already when

I was attacked by a Prius
I was attacked by a woman driving an SUV
a passenger […]

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