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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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So Motodisiac and I went down to one of the motorcycle dealers tonight to check out the Hypermotard and the Super Duke. Of course they did not allow any test rides. We are yet to go to another dealership down in Orange County that had offered test rides for the Hypermotards. So this comparison review […]

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Hypermotard Hysteria

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Ducati Hypermotard is no doubt a beautiful piece of Italian motorcycle engineering. First time I saw it was at the Super Moto race Motodisiac and I went to last November. I really liked it back then. The second time was at the Long Beach motorcycle show a couple of months later. Then after reading some […]

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Girls and Motorcycles

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Don’t ask me how I found this. This is a pretty interesting picture collection I discovered on Flickr. It is a very creative way of comparing girls with motorcycles, or motorcycles with girls. It is entirely up to you to decide which is primary and which is secondary. Personally it would be a really tough […]

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Tata Group Wants a Stake in MV Agusta

Monday, April 28th, 2008

The company began as an offshoot of the Agusta aviation company which was formed by Count Giovanni Agusta in 1923. It had its ups and downs but become prominent in the 1990s after being purchased by Cagiva.
Nowadays MV Agusta is in a somewhat trouble with its finances. It has not been able to develop new […]

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Know Your Speed Limit

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

I have seen this rider before. We usually ride in the morning right around the same time. We get on the freeway at the same entrance and get off around the same area. He rides an old cruiser.
We “met” again today’s morning. He got in a car pool lane slightly ahead of me. I did […]

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Welcome to the Club!

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

If you remember back in December 2007 there was a post about a couple of my co-workers passing the rider’s course. To refresh your memory there was a a female who’s fiancee is a rider, a data base admin and a project manager. Back then the survey showed that the likelier person to get a […]

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