Archive for April, 2005
Gibernau on pole for China MotoGP
30 April 2005Tomorrow’s race is setting up to be really good. We don’t often get to see everyone thrown into a new environment at the same time. Everyone has to learn and come up to speed at the same pace, those who can’t adapt quickly, lose. Gibernau is on the pole, Rossi is 6th fastest, I really [...]
China and motorcycles
29 April 2005Recent moves by Harley Davidson, Aprilia and Ducati to make and sell motorcycles in China are interesting. I’ve been reading the book “The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century” by Tom Friedman and in it, he is interviewing a Chinese official who says:
Chinese people first were the employees and working for [...]
Sunday sales and declining business
29 April 2005When I noted a short while ago that auto dealers were fighting to keep the law that forbids Sunday sales in Michigan and then also Colorado, it was interesting that about the same time we get all of the reports of GM losing loads of money and other companies, too. I guess some dealers didn’t [...]
V-Max by NLC
29 April 2005As I was poking around on the German custom bike sites I came across No Limit Customs and their V-Max called Asmodis. I saw a photo of this bike somewhere else and it was the engine that caught my attention so I figured I’d follow up. Interesting bike, almost nothing left of an original V-Max [...]
Deep Bull CBR900RR
29 April 2005Spaehn-Racing, a German custom bike shop, has taken a Honda CBR900RR and tweaked it a bit, the result is a bike they call the Deep Bull. Besides the handmade 4 into 1 into 4 stainless exhaust all exiting on the right, it has a big, … um, large, … enormous rear tire, a 10 inch [...]
Ducati setting up in China
28 April 2005This just in, Ducati will be exporting motorcycles, parts and accessories to China, setting up two retail stores and conducting riding schools. They have partnered with Three on the Bund.
The Kneeslider: Ducati Motorcycles for sale
Nozzle Condoms
28 April 2005Very cool. Called Little Red Caps, these have lots of uses out in the shop, sealing open tubes of most anything, sealing the opening of pneumatic tools, covering the ends of gas and hydraulic lines, they have a lot more listed on their site and I bet you can think of about 50 more uses [...]
Rowing for conditioning
28 April 2005Early season riding is often a mix of the urge to get back up to your old smooth and quick riding style combined with the realization that your body hasn’t been on a bike for a while and you’re a little sluggish. Better condition makes for a quicker and easier return to form. Motorcyclist has [...]
