Best $30 I have spent in a very long time...if you are a MotoGP fan or just into bikes it is a MUST HAVE.

--Chris


What say you, MOFOs?

By Colin MacKellar

I live in a large apartment complex, and my bike is parked in a ground-floor garage under the building. My bike was on the center stand, and thieves dropped the forks out of the triple tree and made off with them.

"Then I hit the ground six or seven times -- bump, bump, bump," he said. Babin's full-face helmet absorbed most of the blows"


Kpaul's original title said, in full: "Helmets are law again in Louisiana (numbers prove benefit)", but we took out the latter part, and shame on AI programmer KPaul for posting it: of the 95,000 registered bikers in the state, a 0.046% difference is not statistically significant over a four year period, especially without comparing accident per mile, deaths per accident resulting from head injuries and deaths per mile ridden. Or, at the base level, even the number of registered bikers then Vs. now.

Dealer Inquiries are invited.

Heh, this guy needs to stay home and play on the Autobahn! Or visit Gardner at Phillip Island (see below)...

Taken with a grain of salt -- a completely undocumented account from an Anonymous Squid -- anyone out there have experience with these? Are this person's expectations too high for a stolen-tooling neolithic recreation of a motorcycle? Maybe he's the wrong demographic -- only accomplished gearheads should apply. Conversely, if you sell it as new in 2004, it sould'a'oughtta run right out of the box...

December, in Paris, in rally cars. Remember, you "NASCAR sucks!" types, that Mssrs. Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and Colin Edwards won this in 2002. They probably got lucky, multiple times. Yeah. Anyway, it should be fun!

Physicist Glen Guttman says the shirt -- to be worn underneath a heavy motorcycle jacket -- is technologically simple and doesn't use a costly & cumbersome air compressor: "like any simple idea, you have to think it up and then you have to implement it," says the inventor.

New breed of bikers rides into danger zone
More motorcyclists are dying in wrecks as the sales of sport bikes surge across the country



By Jon Yates and Russell Working
Tribune staff reporters
Published September 21, 2004

Patrick Thompson says he doesn't drink, smoke marijuana or snort cocaine. Instead he gets his highs racing his Honda motorcycle at speeds of more than 150 miles an hour, or zipping in and out of expressway traffic at 125 m.p.h.

"It's just like a crackhead," said Thompson, who is recovering from a high-speed accident that left both arms in casts. "You can't really understand why this guy gets high, even though it's destroying his life. But he does it because of the reality he has to live through. You escape reality by the speed of the bike."

He is lucky to have survived his June wreck.. At least seven people have died in motorcycle accidents in Cook County since Aug. 31, including a high-speed crash that killed South Side resident Jesse Cooper on South Lake Shore Drive early Monday, according to police.

Very nice. We'll see if we can get one for Yossef to test... --MO

Hmmm... kinda hard to get one to test in the CA, but we'll see what we can do. And the next Honda? Dunno about that! --MO

By Colin MacKellar

Sweet! We're going to have to kick the gasoline habit one of these days... and hey, using an oil-fired generating plant to charge up electric vehicles is a step in the right direction, eh? Someone hurry up and make a renewable-fuel dirt bike so we can have MORONs-off-the-grid!

Ah, any MOron with a camcorder can now be (in)famous. Gotta love the 'Net -- and the squids that populate it! --MO

Additionally, KPaul submits A review of the Dolmette 24-chainsaw-powered motorcycle. You gotta love it! --MO