Archive for 'General' Category
High gas prices, same total cost
23 March 2005Whether you ride a motorcycle or drive a car, you eventually end up at a gas pump. These days that can be a pretty exciting experience. On your bike it’s not so bad, but lots of motorcyclists have pickup trucks with big tanks, let’s see, 30 gallons of regular @ $2.15, … ouch.
There [...]
New Snell helmet standard for children
22 March 2005If you have some little riders in your house, you may be interested to know the Snell Memorial Foundation has a new proposed standard for helmets for children. Basically it recognizes the difference in strength and stamina of a child and their ability to wear a helmet designed for an adult. They have the proposed [...]
Spring opens with snow
21 March 2005Just a comment about our local weather. There were a few brave souls out riding last Friday and Saturday even though temperatures struggled in the 30’s to almost 40 degrees. I guess I don’t have that sort of commitment. Some riders in southern California get depressed over a long bout of constant rain, (wait a [...]
Kawasaki builds a new website
17 March 2005Must be the season for new websites. I mentioned below about Performance Machine introducing their new site and now Kawasaki has done the same. It has a huge amount of info but I think they made a big mistake. If you want to get in and use it, you need Flash and a fairly fast [...]
Hydrogen motorcycle
15 March 2005Just the other day I was wondering about this, suppose they came up with some new motorcycle engine that was completely silent or just gave off a little whine, would you still want to ride it? Well, here we have a hydrogen motorcycle with just that problem … or issue or whatever.
But therein lies [...]
New Performance Machine website
15 March 2005Performance Machine, Inc. has a new website and somebody must have learned how to use Flash because if you load the 1024 X 768 version it gets pretty fancy. Lots of sound effects and graphics. They have always had a lot of neat products but now their website is over the top.
Gas prices spiking
7 March 2005There’s been a lot of mention in the last few days about gas prices spiking upwards in the next week. I’ve already noticed about 7 or 8 cents in the last week and they are saying we’re looking at about a quarter or so. Good reason to be riding, too bad we can’t do that [...]
Oxtar features roadracers as models
4 March 2005The Kneeslider’s European news bureau, (ok, I saw this on Susanne’s blog) picked up these new ads by Oxtar featuring their roadracing boots. Nice boots. The ads feature three roadracers wearing Oxtar boots and nothing else. This is advertising at its best since we don’t get distracted from the product by useless clothing and other [...]
