The website for the new Shanghai race track has a lot of photos of the facilities and a track layout. Wow! The place looks amazing, not to mention two straights where the bikes should top 200mph, the kind of straights where you look for another upshift or an extra 1000 rpms. How do you set [...]
April 2005
Think I’m kidding? Check this out. And I bet it costs a lot less. Suppose they start building Harley knock offs. Also, read this. I’m old enough to remember when the Honda 600 came over to the U.S. There were a lot of jokes about it, too small, low power, lousy quality, etc. A few [...]
Peter Huber does a nice job of explaining why higher gas prices are such a small part of the cost of each mile we drive. $3.00 gasoline? No big deal.
There is an excellent article in the May issue of Wired magazine, not yet online, “Why the World is Flat.” It’s an interview with Tom Friedman. It’s full of background information that is directly related to yesterday’s posts about China. If you’re the least bit interested in the coming changes, you should check it out. [...]
