The Lacey WA Harley shop moved but the statue's still here
...and why is that a-ha "Take On Me" song suddenly going through my head?
...and why is that a-ha "Take On Me" song suddenly going through my head?
Big Flakes in Gig Harbor from ronbo on Vimeo.
After a whole Winter sitting parked in the barn (hooked up to the Battery Tender) the XR was looking a little crusty around the edges. Didn't have it covered like the VFR.
Friken' hypocrites. The town of Speedway, home of the Indianapolis Speedway is hosting the first ever MotoGP event at the famous brickyard later this year.
They're more than happy with the money MotoGP/Motorcycle enthusiasts will be shelling out for tickets, tolls, hotels, food, drink, souvenirs, etc. but don't you dare have the audacity to show up on a motorcycle and 'rev' your engine.
...The proposal is the first step toward making it illegal for motorcycle riders to rev their engines during race weeks.WTF? With no mention of automobiles making too much noise, this poorly written piece of 'legislation' makes it obvious the town fathers of Speedway are pretty much money-grubbing scum, willing to 'tolerate' motorcyclists, as long as your willing to spend some dough and not make any noise. I'm no fan of open pipe bikes making a spectacle of themselves, but there are already dB regulations governing the noise ANY motor vehicle can make. How about enforcing them and not discriminating against motorcyclists with some arbitrarily worded, shoddy piece of legal discrimination.Let them know how you feel before the August 11th vote:
This is really cool. The Washington Trust for Historic Preservation has taken a guidebook of Washington State from 1941 and revisited all the tours and tips in it and updated it for the 21st century.
Finally! They've been working on this thing since I moved up here. Of course, being a SF Bay Area refugee, I made sure and had my Good-To-Go transponder already installed. They had quite a run on them as the opening day neared.
At the Buell dealer get-together a couple of weeks ago, the manufacturer announced that they'll be introducing a water-cooled 450cc dirt bike for 2009.
It could be introduced even earlier and they may be planning to compete in the 2008 motocross season, taking advantage of the 1 year production waiver.
Man, I love Youtube.com!
I always seem to stumble across something interesting and totally unrelated to what I was originally looking for.MorpheusGT has cut together some of the most exciting footage from the 2006 MotoGP season and put together a 4 min video. Needless to say, it features lots of dicin' between the Doctor and the Kentucky Kid.
Reduced to shillin' for a MotoGP board game (and doing his best Crazy Frog impression in the commercial for it).
I kid. I'm actually a big Mamola fan, being from the SF Bay Area, and no one can deny that he's one of the best GP riders ever. I think the last time I saw him ride, he was giving those sick 2-up rides on the MotoGP bike at Laguna Seca (wheelies and stoppies included, if I remember right)
Reuters is reporting that an editorial in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano is calling the Dakar Rally 'The Bloody Race of Irresponsibility' in response to the death of a motorcyclist during the fourth stage of the race.
The trail of blood which grows longer from year to year on the route of the race instead underscores the undeniable component of violence that lies behind every attempt to export Western models to human environments and ecosystems that have little to do with the West.The Vatican?
