The Kneeslider

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Another race, another Mladin pole

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Mat Mladin is once again on the pole for this weekend's race at Infineon Raceway. The Suzuki crew of Mladin, Yates and Spies are qualified 1,2,3. Hodgson is 4 on the Ducati and the times are not that far apart but the fact remains, the big Gixxers and their riders are hard to beat. Some of the other factories have to be wondering what they can do to stop the Mladin freight … [Read more...]

Star Motorcycles

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Yamaha has announced the creation of a new brand, Star Motorcyces, which will basically be all of their cruiser motorcycles split off from the Yamaha brand. Seems the cruisers have been popular and have attained their own identitiy so Yamaha decided they could stand on their own. What I don't get is that they will not have their own dealers, they'll just have some different … [Read more...]

Dead battery winners

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I've mentioned Make magazine several times before, if you don't read it, you're missing out, really. They had a neat challenge, Makeshift, that set out a situation where you were camping and after one of the your cohorts leaves the lights on in your car you're stranded with a dead battery 50 miles from anywhere and bad weather closing in. They listed what you had on hand, so … [Read more...]

Amerityre polyurethane spare tire

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Wrote a while back about the Tweel which is a no-air tire technology from Michelin coming out for cars and now there's another company bringing out the Amerityre which is a polyurethane spare tire. It takes the place of the little donut tires we often see. I'll be interested to see if they can round off the profile a bit so it can be used on motorcycles. Off road bikes would be … [Read more...]