Archive for June, 2005
Thunder Star Diesel update and questions
25 June 2005Lots of folks (Thanks, Make blog, Real Tech News, Treehugger, Metaefficient and a lot more) picked up on our biodiesel motorcycle post the other day where I mentioned the possibility of combining biodiesel with the performance of the Thunder Star 1200 TDI.
It does seem a few misread what I said, I have [...]
American Sport Bike
24 June 2005A recent comment on my sport chopper post was interesting, Curt Winter mentioned he had built a few bikes, some based on the V-twin sportbike idea and he was pretty pleased with their performance. Curt sent in a few photos and I immediately asked for details, I liked what I saw.
Curt builds American sport bikes [...]
Motorcycles most likely …
23 June 2005Here are a couple of motorcycle lists you may not want to be on, motorcycles most likely to be stolen and most likely to be crashed. Of course they have their opposites as well with least likely in both categories.
Most stolen:
Suzuki GSX-R series
Yamaha YZF series
Honda CBR series
Suzuki Hayabusa
Kawasaki Ninja series
Rossi practice times fastest
23 June 2005In practice for the upcoming Assen MotoGP, Valentino Rossi is out front with the quickest times followed by Gibernau, Capriossi and Hayden. Just like the AMA Superbike series, one rider keeps repeating week after week, without let up. He just keeps doing it better than anyone else and that has to be psychologically hard on [...]
China bidding for US companies
22 June 2005Chinese companies are trying to buy Maytag, the appliance manufacturer and Unocal, the US oil producer. They want our companies and our jobs but just say no to free speech.
It’s like I said before, they’ll just keep coming and wear you down and US companies keep running over there with dollar signs in their eyes. [...]
Is Bernie Ecclestone all there?
22 June 2005Bernie Ecclestone, the head of Formula 1, made a comment to reporters the other day about Danica Patrick, the female driver who happened to place 4th in this year’s Indy 500 and led for a number of laps. He said women should be dressed in white like other domestic appliances. Patrick, revealed that Ecclestone also [...]
Speeding tickets and radar
22 June 2005If some of you ignored the “for race use only” disclaimer, plug in the Nikko derestrictor and intend to get yourself in serious trouble with the law, here’s a site you might be interested in, radarbusters. He sells lots of radar detectors and related items but there is a ton of generally useful information such [...]
China blocking lots of blogs
22 June 2005We’ve talked about Chinese motorcycles here and here and cars here and other products, too, on quite a few occasions, seems they want to play in the free world, sell in the free world and get money from the free world but free speech? Oooh, that’s too scary! They are blocking blogs, have been [...]
