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Nicky Hayden’s win at Laguna Seca

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After watching Nicky show the international crowd how we do it over here, you have to wonder, how well would Nicky be doing against Rossi and friends if he had come up through the GP ranks? He rode dirt bikes and then the AMA races, Rossi ran the lower GP classes and became familiar with the tracks he would run on in MotoGP. Track familiarity certainly plays a role as most of … [Read more...]

Motorcycle How-To videos

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As I was checking out the Make blog, I saw an interesting entry on building a Multimachine, an all purpose machine shop from scrap components. I thought that was neat and followed a comment recommending another video which led me to technicalvideorental.com. That site is very cool. Lots of how-to videos, including this series of motorcycle related items. But the range of … [Read more...]

US MotoGP 2006 already set

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According to Roadracing World, the 2006 US MotoGP is already set and is scheduled for July 21-23. I couldn't find anything to confirm those dates on the Laguna Seca site but if true, I'm marking my calendar. Update: It's official. … [Read more...]

Speed Channel MotoGP commercials

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Way too many commercials during the race. They must have thought it was a NASCAR 500 miler with numerous 3 commercial breaks. They could have loaded up before and after and gone light during the race since it was live, but, hey... it was on which was great. But, note to Speed Channel, ease up on breaks in live races. Nuff said... … [Read more...]