http://www.motodisiac.com/blog Where motorcycles are more than just a passion ... Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:47:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So here's a little story. I have a friend who's a surfer. He's never ridden a motorcycle in his entire life (although he claims he did it successfully once when he was 10, and it was a piece of cake for him). I am obviously a motorcycle rider. Never surfed. ... http://www.motodisiac.com/blog/motorcycle-riding-vs-surfing/ On Sunday we did much longer ride and we switched bikes again. Now my impression on big GS somewhat changed. I think what really affected my initial opinion is that the first time I rode GS I haven't been riding all day. I just hopped on BMW straight away, and ... http://www.motodisiac.com/blog/bmw-r1200gs-test-ride-2/ OK, I'm deeply touched by BMW GS test ride (see another thread) Here is my idea of what Multi should be like: Ducati soul with BMW wind protection. My Photoshop skills are poor, but here is the idea: BMW GS Windshield (located in exactly the same position as on GS) Hypermotard front ... http://www.motodisiac.com/blog/multistrada-1100-gs/ A friend of mine just picked up 05 R1200GS and we switched bikes yesterday for about 15 - 20 minutes. I came away VERY impressed by the bike, it's everything I expected it NOT to be. It was really hard to get back to riding Multi again, such a strange ... http://www.motodisiac.com/blog/bmw-r1200gs-test-ride/ So while Sideout was looking for ugly and boring but functional V Strom, I was occupied with the idea that I need new bike. It has been almost a tradition for be to update my stable once a year, and my last bike purchase was done approximately 12 months ago. ... http://www.motodisiac.com/blog/crazy-yes-sexy-yes-trek-across-the-america/ This is going to be a really long and very detail oriented post about an ordeal I just went to with the KTM dealer in Santa Monica, California. So please brace yourself if you want to share my pain. Otherwise please move along. No hard feelings. My KTM 950 Supermoto ... http://www.motodisiac.com/blog/ktm-of-santa-monica-terrible-and-absolutely-unacceptable-service/ It has been precisely 4 weeks since I had purchased the Wee. This would be my first in the series of review-like posts on various things my Wee has or does not have to offer. This particular post would be about the dreaded wind buffeting. While I was doing my pre-purchase ... http://www.motodisiac.com/blog/suzuki-v-strom-dl650-and-wind-buffeting/ To wee or not to wee, that was the question. And here is the answer. For the last few weeks I have been semi-frantically looking for a good deal on a used Wee-Strom. I have found a couple of really good offers neither of which was within a 600 mile ... http://www.motodisiac.com/blog/strom-trooper/ Despite my enormous interest in all military and history related I am not going to discuss the actual battle known as the bloodiest in the history of the US per Wikipedia. Nor will I reflect on the whole Ardennes offensive alltogether. Instead I will bring up a somewhat mundane subject - ... http://www.motodisiac.com/blog/battle-of-the-bulge/ As you all know California happens to be the place where lane splitting, I mean lane sharing is legal. While the jury is still out on whether it is more dangerous to split lanes than not the reality is that most of us California riders are taking advantage of this ... http://www.motodisiac.com/blog/lane-splitters-worst-enemy/