Archive for July, 2006
Temporary Removable Paint
12 July 2006DupliColor has come out with a couple of products that look like they could have some uses around the average motorcyclist’s garage, both are temporary paint but with different uses.
DupliColor Shield is intended as a temporary mud, bug or gravel shield and would be applied in the same places you would attach an autobra, [...]
Superbikes on SpeedTV Much Improved
12 July 2006What a difference a couple of weeks make. After the first show two weeks ago which was pretty bad, I missed it last week, (July 4th, was it on?) but last night I watched Superbikes and it was quite an improvement over their premiere show.
There was a segment at Roland Sands’ shop where they showed [...]
Kawasaki Donates Vehicles & Engines for Training
11 July 2006Kawasaki donated a truckload of equipment to WyoTech, Motorcycle Mechanics Institute, PowerSport Institute, Cleveland, Ohio and Central Carolina Community College so upcoming technicians can get their hands on the newest gear. New motorcycle and power sports mechanics don’t grow on trees, they have to be trained because, especially with some of the latest models, [...]
AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days at Mid-Ohio
11 July 2006Vintage Motorcycle Days returns to Mid Ohio July 28th to 30th and if you like anything involving vintage motorcycles, you’ll want to be there. The swap meet is superb and you’ll find almost everything imaginable, the AHRMA vintage races have all old marques out on the track and this year’s Marque of the Year is [...]
Iola Vintage Motorcycle Show & Swap Meet
10 July 2006The Vintage Japanese and European Motorcycle Club of North America, is holding their 3rd annual motorcycle show and swap meet, August 18-20, 2006 in Iola, Wisconsin. This is a pretty big meet, with space for 4200 vendors, held on the Iola Old Car Show Grounds. There’s a motorcycle show, charity rides, a bike corral for [...]
Honda CB750 Dragster
9 July 2006If you don’t think the Honda CB750 was a popular engine back in its day, here’s an application you may not have seen before, I don’t recall seeing anything like this myself. This is a dragster, one of three, built in California by Triple A Accessories, a company that used to make parts and accessories [...]
Supercharged Yamaha TMax R Scooter
9 July 2006Ludovic Lazareth has done it again. This interesting creation is a Yamaha TMax 500 scooter, fitted with a Rotrex supercharger, doubling the horsepower and making for what looks like a fun ride, what Lazareth calls the “TMax R.” It retains the twist and go, no clutch simplicity of a regular scooter but packs a high [...]
Higher Speeds - Safer Roads
8 July 2006After our discussion of motorcycle top speeds the other day it was interesting that this article appeared addressing the issue of higher speed limits. The gist of the article is that as speed limits have increased, highway deaths have gone down, something you never hear from the bureaucrats who want to control your behavior “for [...]
