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Gibernau on pole for China MotoGP

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Tomorrow's race is setting up to be really good. We don't often get to see everyone thrown into a new environment at the same time. Everyone has to learn and come up to speed at the same pace, those who can't adapt quickly, lose. Gibernau is on the pole, Rossi is 6th fastest, I really like this. It's anyone's race. … [Read more...]

China and motorcycles

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Recent moves by Harley Davidson, Aprilia and Ducati to make and sell motorcycles in China are interesting. I've been reading the book "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century" by Tom Friedman and in it, he is interviewing a Chinese official who says: Chinese people first were the employees and working for the big foreign manufacturers, and after … [Read more...]

Sunday sales and declining business

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When I noted a short while ago that auto dealers were fighting to keep the law that forbids Sunday sales in Michigan and then also Colorado, it was interesting that about the same time we get all of the reports of GM losing loads of money and other companies, too. I guess some dealers didn't get that memo, the one that said if car companies didn't sell more cars a lot of people … [Read more...]

V-Max by NLC

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As I was poking around on the German custom bike sites I came across No Limit Customs and their V-Max called Asmodis. I saw a photo of this bike somewhere else and it was the engine that caught my attention so I figured I'd follow up. Interesting bike, almost nothing left of an original V-Max except for the engine. I notice it has the requisite huge rear tire and what looks … [Read more...]

Deep Bull CBR900RR

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Spaehn-Racing, a German custom bike shop, has taken a Honda CBR900RR and tweaked it a bit, the result is a bike they call the Deep Bull. Besides the handmade 4 into 1 into 4 stainless exhaust all exiting on the right, it has a big, ... um, large, ... enormous rear tire, a 10 inch wide rear wheel with a 280/35R-18 Metzler. They do this sort of thing to all sorts of current … [Read more...]