A member of one of the motorcycle forums that I inhabit made up this interactive graph of cumulative points for the MotoGp class this year. If you click on each rider's name, you can see how their … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2009
“Summer Nights”
Yeah, I know it's not Summer yet (officially) but the weather certainly seems to be feeling like it. And tonight I rediscovered the joys of riding in the evening in Summer. Now normally I wouldn't … [Read more...]
Aprilia RSV-BOOM !!!
AMCN is reporting that the world press launch of the Aprilia RSV4R at Mugello on the 28th October was abandoned after five, yes, you read it, FIVE of the new Italian stallions blew up, lunching their … [Read more...]
Cologne dreaming..
Either someone in the BMW design studio is on whoopee weed or this is a German version of April Fool's … [Read more...]
Doing “The Big One.”
For years now, whenever my wife has asked me, "What would you like to do; what's top on on your "bucket list"?" the answer has always been the same. Ride around Australia. Well, while we were having … [Read more...]
Perhaps something like this would do?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OIl9oLGx1o[/youtube] A scooter with an air-cooled Suzuki GSX750 4 cylinder engine in it!! … [Read more...]
Q-Ships
Q-ships were, as this Wikipedia article indicates, heavily armed merchant ships that were disguised as unarmed ships with the intent of attracting German submarines and surface raiders and luring them … [Read more...]
There’s nothing . . . absolutely nothing . . .
half so much worth doing as simply messing around on bikes. (with apologies to Kenneth Graeme) The above quote, from the classic, "Wind in the Willows", is originally about boats, but I thought … [Read more...]