Archive for April, 2005
Mladin again
24 April 2005Race number two at Barber today was another start to finish lead for Mat Mladin, just like yesterday. He led every lap of both Superbike races, yesterday and today! Hodgson was second. It’s beginning to look like the Suzuki GSXR1000 is more bike than any of the others by just a little bit. Combine that [...]
Mladin is good and fast!
24 April 2005Barber Motorsports Park was the latest scene of the competitive destruction wrought by Mat Mladin. Hodgson came in fourth. Suzukis were one, two, three.
700hp Hayabusa and DynoJet limits
23 April 2005For no particular reason, I was thinking about that 700 horsepower Hayabusa and I thought I would look up the dynos that DynoJet offers and see what they can handle. Looks like they better rethink the capacity of those models, they only go to 750hp. Yeah, … only. Next year, they might come up short.
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Motorcycle Design book
23 April 2005You may have noticed this book that was over on the left, “Motorcycle Design and Technology” by Gaetano Cocco. This is the new paperback version of a really good book mentioned back when we were talking about a sportbike buildoff. They have the table of contents and some of the pages online so you can [...]
Chopper style pizza cutters
22 April 2005Now this is different. Here’s a guy who likes to machine functional objects with high style. He decided to make some pizza cutters in the outlaw biker style. Very cool! His artistic description seems a little over the top but the cutters are great. Link via BoingBoing
Colorado, no Sunday motorcycle sales either
22 April 2005Just mentioned Michigan the other day and here’s another story about the same thing, this time from Colorado. They tried to get a bill passed to OK Sunday motorcycle sales and sure enough, it went down in flames. They can sell tires and batteries and rent and repair motorcycles, they just can’t sell them. I [...]
Motorcycle winner thinks they’re unsafe
21 April 2005Wouldn’t you know it? A guy in Cleveland, Ohio wins a 2005 Harley Davidson Sportster in a scratch off lottery game and then says he’ll sell it because he thinks motorcycles are unsafe. If that’s not enough, this same guy had previously won a Cadillac in the same scratch off game. Does he have X-ray [...]
Build or Bust, revisited
21 April 2005A little while ago I wrote about the show, Build or Bust and I wasn’t very impressed. Last night I was channel surfing and came across it again. The guest builder was all business and the Exile Choppers crew wasn’t saying too much as he worked. Steady, methodical and in the end, he wins the [...]
