Ducati Press Release: Bologna (Italy), May 31, 2005 – As the Desmo Owners Club Presidents meet “physically” (for the D.O.C. World President’s Meeting in Mugello today), a new “virtual club-house” will be revealed. As of Tuesday, May 31, 2005, the new website dedicated to the Desmo Owners Clubs (D.O.C.) is online.
The brand new site at [...]
From the monthly archives:
May 2005
As we move bravely forward into the era of alternative fuels, there are dangers that await. Picture yourself riding through a national park on your new diesel motorcycle and because you’re very “green” in your thinking, you use biodiesel to power your bike. Since biodiesel is often made from discarded cooking oil, the aroma trail [...]
Mike, from electricmotorcycles.net, wanted to point out what an electric burnout looks like with this video. Doesn’t look like the old, slow electric scooters you might have in mind. Mike has a pretty neat site that covers electric motorcycles, so if you would like to know more, be sure to check it out.
Also, be sure [...]
You found your soul mate, the wedding is all that’s left but you need the right limo for the wedding party. Since everyone rides, what do you do? The Anaconda trike might be just the ticket.
Looks like the Speed Channel is getting into chopper reality shows, I guess they saw one too many American Choppers and said, “Hey, we can do that, too.” The new show, Texas Hardtails, is based at Rick Fairless’ Strokers Dallas. Rick has quite an operation building choppers, selling bikes, parts and apparel and he runs [...]
Cars have airbags, why not motorcycles? Well, there’s the issue of where would you put it and of course, riders often separate from their bike when an accident occurs. Mugen Denko of Japan created the Hit Air jacket to solve those problems. It’s a jacket system that has armor for places like shoulders and elbows [...]
Had a chance to walk around bike night in Erie, PA yesterday. Turnout was moderate but it’s early in the season in this area. A few interesting bikes out like the Honda Scrambler shown here but for the most part, far too many Harleys. One fellow riding by had yellow Tomahawk tires on his Yamaha [...]
Here is another jaw dropping motorcycle from Ludovic Lazareth in France. I just posted about motorcycle engine powered cars the other day, here’s a car engine powered motorcycle. I can’t take my eyes off of this. Over here someone stuffs a big V8 into a bike like the Boss Hoss and you get something enormous [...]
