Posted in time waster on Mar 10th, 2010
Motorcycling (as a competitive sport) is interesting because, as Laia Sainz says in her interview: “it’s more about skill than strength…” and women aren’t necessarily at a disadvantage. We will probably never have a female quarterback – men and women are just built differently. And as pepe le pew would say “Viva la difference!” [...]
Posted in TGIF, time waster on Mar 5th, 2010
If someone said that to you, and the girl they were talking about was Elena Myers, then that would be a compliment…because this girl can fly!
After you get over the novelty of how old she is (actually most of the racers starting out in AMA are a similar age), this is a pretty good track [...]
Posted in TGIF, time waster on Feb 26th, 2010
It’s amazing how pretty and warm a cold day through a not-particularly pretty part of Flushing can appear… It’s a snow day here, so I thought I’d try out some video editing freeware from Pinnacle, and splice together some video from my Monday afternoon commute… along with a soundtrack from Yann Tiersen.
Posted in time waster on Feb 24th, 2010
This is the Ion electric sportbike… And I believe it’s the senior project of a college design major Tom Miceli.. Nice job! The fact that it’s electric is interesting and gets him points with the treehugger crowd, but what’s really interesting to me is that the bike’s custom fiber glass fairings actually look good. With [...]
Posted in time waster on Feb 19th, 2010
If the job of advertisers is to make commercials good enough that people actually *want* to watch them, then for me, these Triumph ads come pretty close. I don’t think I could live with a Bonnie myself, and yet I really love the bike. It looks the way I always imagined a motorcycle [...]
Posted in time waster on Feb 13th, 2010
I don’t know what the deal is with the guy standing in front of the camera in the beginning, but after that the video has some nice lines and impressive lean angles…
Posted in time waster on Feb 9th, 2010
I never noticed supermotos until a couple of years ago when I first saw Ducati’s Hypermotard…then I started to notice more DIY supermoto’s dirt bikes with road bike 17″ rims and sport bike tires. Although I was skeptical at first, today I think they’re brilliant. But do they make the best city [...]
Posted in time waster on Feb 9th, 2010
We’re hunkering down for another snow storm here in NY, and one of the practical things about 250’s is…not only are they cheaper to buy and maintain, not only are they great on gas mileage, but they’re also great in the snow. You can learn things riding a smaller motorcycle that you will never [...]
Posted in moto-shopping, time waster on Jan 28th, 2010
Most people don’t realize Puma makes motorcycle gear. And although the Puma store in Union Square had a Monster 696 in the window at one point, I don’t think they actually sold anything other than Ducati branded clothing… right next to their Ferrari branded clothing… which was really cool when I was like 11.
From [...]
Posted in time waster on Jan 19th, 2010
You might have seen this already, but I thought it was cool… From the director of the classic MotoGP documentary “Faster”… a documentary of the TTXGP from the Isle of Man last year…
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