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Okay I know this is an ad – and so I wasn’t expecting much – but it’s really pretty cool. I am at least 50% more likely to buy Icon gear now. Thanks a lot.

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Like clockwork, the International Motorcycle Show arrives in New York’s Javits center on the coldest days of January!  Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it this year because of prior engagements – so you’ll have to go in my place and let me know what you see.  It’s always a good time to get [...]

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It turns out that the president of Dennis Kirk isn’t just the president, he’s a gearhead, and here’s his latest creation.  A cafe racer from a CB750…on a reasonable budget no less!  What’s your jones: Streetfighter, cafe racer, chopper, race bike?

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A couple of years back there was talk about bringing Formula 1 to Monticello (MMC), or maybe building a new track in Liberty State Park in NJ…  For a lot of CityBikers, it would have been like we died and went to heaven to have a world class racetrack 5 minutes outside lower Manhattan – [...]

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[here's a slightly sped up tour of Barcelona - looks like a nice place to ride!]
I wouldn’t say riding is always “THE” high point of the week, but commuting by two wheels sure makes everything a little more fun…  We’ve had pretty good riding weather all week.  The only thing that could make it better [...]

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If you ask me, Triumph had the right idea…  The Japanese bikes have the lock on screaming high revving four-cylinder engines.  The Italians know how to do v-twins (or L-twins) with their mellow traction-anywhere engines… So what’s a free thinking Brit to do?  Why not split the difference and try to get the best of [...]

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Germany seems to have a great motorcycle culture. They don’t have the sky high accident rates of, let’s say, Italy in August… they believe in safety, perhaps even more than the U.S. But unlike the U.S. with boring Interstates, Germans also understand motorsport, performance – and great roads. So if you happen [...]

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It started to feel like Fall right after Labor Day on the East Coast… that means baseball is winding down (don’t really watch), football season is getting started (don’t really watch that either), and road race teams are getting ready for the Macau GP.  The wha??

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And Abba, and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo…we get the VHS street racing video series “Ghost Rider.” Now if you are too sensible to know who that is – it was a series of full length videos showing “crazy” footage of an illegal motorcycle rider who sometimes taunted police cars and zoomed away. [...]

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Speed and safety (and maybe most of life) is really all about having good timing:  Knowing when to pass, knowing when to lay back, knowing when you can open the throttle, knowing when to slow down…  This squirrel has mad timing.

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