Archive for November, 2004
Risky business
29 November 2004Motorcycle riders and other recreational rider’s health insurance coverage is sometimes at risk when insurance companies refuse to cover someone because he or she was hurt while doing something those companies consider dangerous. The Senate passed a bill to stop insurance companies from denying health benefits to motorcyclists and other recreational riders hurt while engaging [...]
Eliica
23 November 2004Those boring, slow electric cars, and now for something completely different. The Eliica, an electric car from Japan has eight wheels, a top speed so far of 370kmh (230mph) and accelerates faster than a Porsche 911! OK, it’s expensive, REALLY expensive, but it just shows that things are improving on the electric vehicle front. Sooner [...]
Foreign perspectives
23 November 2004Elena, has another motorcycle tour. Well scooter tour actually. Elena is the Russian who took us for a ride through Chernobyl. Now she has a tour of The Serpent’s Wall, an area around Kiev where a huge Russian/German battle took place in WWII. She rides the trails on her Scooturo, her ZX11 isn’t exactly a [...]
Vintage Motorcycle Days
19 November 2004AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days 2005 celebrate Ducati (Thanks to Roadracing World Magazine for the pointer). Ducati will be featured July 15-17, 2005 at the Mid-Ohio Roadracing Course in Lexington, Ohio. We’ll be there, will you?
Aussie racers
19 November 2004Our Australian readers like to keep us up to date on goings on down under. John Scerri sent us a few photos of the old machines they’ve been riding and racing. His Triumph racer has gone 147mph at Phillip Island. It looks great. John also has a Matchless street bike project under way.
John makes replacement [...]
Old Ducati info
14 November 2004The Search For The Lost Bike is another Ducati effort to fill in the blanks in the company history as far as examples of past motorcycles and other information. If you have a Ducati that is a little out of the ordinary or advertising, manuals or other literature from the years 1946 to 1970, [...]
Monster challenge 1
14 November 2004The Monster Challenge Round 1 has a winner. The first winner was announced in California for the Monster Challenge which is running in conjunction with the Int’l Motorcycle Shows. The winners show a variety of interpretations of their own special vision. The coverage shows all of the winners for this first show, next one [...]
Keep them on the road
8 November 20041947 Royal Enfield. Yes, some guys have the old ones and ride them. The owner of this bike says it goes about 3000 miles per annum. It looks absolutely stunning. The picture is from the group ride in California. Follow the link and scroll down to see more of this bike and the others [...]
