There’s always some oddball engineers at motorcycle fairs showing of their latest “this will revolutionize your riding experience” inventions. At the fair I attended last week it was motorcycle helmets with rear view mirrors. How’s that possible you ask your self, well as the company put it “the system effectively “bends” the light around the […] Continue reading

Visited a motorcycle trade show in Denmark this weekend and at the Yamaha booth they had Valentino Rossi’s MotoGP race bike exhibited. I don’t know if it where just for show, but there was a price tag on it 8.000.000kr (that’s around 1.45 million USD). I’m Not sure it’s road legal though, looks like the […] Continue reading

In his latest post Abensinger from “In the Scene” mention Carolyn and Peter who are touring on their sports bikes and say “I’m impressed with anyone riding sport bikes these distances”. Actually my Honda CB 900 F Hornet (919) is way more comfortable on longer distances than my Yamaha XVS 650 Dragstar was. Last summer […] Continue reading

Two weeks till the motorcycle season begins and this is what the roads look like. Not exactly the conditions that makes you want to strip the cover of the bike, smack the battery back on and head towards the twisties for the first time in 2005. Worst thing is that it’s not even unusual for […] Continue reading

It is now official, a few of the lads and I are going to Poland in May to participate in a race track course on the Poznan track. We?re all blue in the head of anticipation and the wait until May makes me feel like a kid waiting for Christmas. So help us out and […] Continue reading

There will be a motorcycle trade show in Copenhagen this weekend. I will visit the show armed with my camera and hope to snap a few shots of the new 2005 bikes and any other extravaganza that might pup up. The bikes I’m especially looking forward to get a glimpse of are the Ducati monster […] Continue reading

Reading the hype about the banned GoDaddy SuperBowl commercial made me think that I haven’t seen any commercials for the new 2005 motorcycles. Actually I’m not sure I saw any for the 2004, 03, 02 models and so forth. Come to think of it I don’t think I’ve ever seen a motorcycle commercial on TV […] Continue reading