News flash: The world will not end because of rising gas prices. Contrary to the beliefs of those who focus on impending doom and politicians who love this sort of thing to score a few points with the voters, gas prices, adjusted for inflation, are about where they have been for a long time. The [...]
April 2006
The Monterey Classic Bike Auction will be returning July 20-22, 2006, held during the weekend of the U.S. Grand Prix, which runs July 22nd. If you’ll recall, the auction last year had some extraordinary bikes on the block, however, we never were able to determine how the auction went off, how many of the bikes [...]
With gasoline prices once again rising, attention is turning to engine variations to increase mileage and efficiency. The ethanol boosted, turbocharged gasoline engine combines a number of well known, current technologies for substantial improvement in mileage at lower cost and complexity than with a hybrid. Two fellows at MIT came up with the idea of [...]
Watching the AMA Superbike races at Barber Motorsports Park over the weekend brings up the question of how best to fill the starting grid. There were 34 bikes at the start of Saturday’s race and just a few less on Sunday, so it didn’t take a great deal of predictive skill to know there would [...]
