Ducati certainly has a large and passionate following and fans are always talking about their sexy superbikes and how they fared in the latest race, but when it comes to sales, the Monster, the naked, fairly upright and much more basic member of the Italian family is the big winner, and without it, Ducati would [...]
Motorcycle Books
Veloce Publishing has a brand new book, BMW Custom Motorcycles by Uli Cloesen, and if you’re on the lookout for some ideas to change the appearance or function of your Beemer, this is a fascinating selection of what’s being done all over the world. Some of the bikes, you’ve seen before on The Kneeslider, but [...]
Not long ago, I reviewed Where Good Ideas Come From, a book about the many ways new ideas can spring up in all sorts of unexpected places. In it, the author touches on something practiced by many writers and thinkers back the 17th or 18th century, it was called commonplacing, or maintaining a “commonplace book.” [...]
A couple of years ago, I mentioned Tony Foale moved to the U.S. to take a position at Segway as Director of Product Engineering. Tony tells me he wrapped up his work there a couple of months ago and is heading back home to Spain. Despite my inquiry, he wouldn’t tell me what they were [...]
