It was good to see Nicky Hayden performing so much better with a 4th place finish in Jerez, especially since he was running on pace with Lorenzo and Rossi, though Pedrosa, running way out in front, seems to be a better fit on the Honda. But MotoGP has a great way of showing that a [...]
March 2008
Had a chance to sit down and watch the documentary, Brittown, over the weekend and it was interesting. The movie revolves around “Meatball,” the owner of the Hell on Wheels motorcycle shop in Anaheim, California, a place devoted to rebuilding and repairing all sorts of old British iron and he seems to be pretty good [...]
Honda is testing what it calls its Driving Safety Support Systems (DSSS). 2 vehicles, a Honda Odyssey, Advanced Safety Vehicle (ASV-4) and a Honda Forza scooter, are equipped with inter-vehicle and road-to-vehicle communications capabilities, plus other scooters will be used for camera detection purposes. The purpose of the project is to utilize positional information gleaned [...]
For those of you wondering if the new Buell 1125R was going to perform on the track, the answer seems to be yes. In its first time out at Hockenheim, the only 2 Buell 1125R racers in the 32 bike lineup placed 2nd and 5th. In the field were Ducatis and Aprilias plus four BMW [...]
