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High Gas Prices – No Big Deal

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News flash: The world will not end because of rising gas prices. Contrary to the beliefs of those who focus on impending doom and politicians who love this sort of thing to score a few points with the voters, gas prices, adjusted for inflation, are about where they have been for a long time. The price of everything has steadily gone up over time and when prices stay the same … [Read more...]

Monterey Classic Bike Auction 2006

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The Monterey Classic Bike Auction will be returning July 20-22, 2006, held during the weekend of the U.S. Grand Prix, which runs July 22nd. If you'll recall, the auction last year had some extraordinary bikes on the block, however, we never were able to determine how the auction went off, how many of the bikes sold, for how much or anything else for that matter. At least one … [Read more...]

Ethanol Boosted Turbocharged Gasoline Engine

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With gasoline prices once again rising, attention is turning to engine variations to increase mileage and efficiency. The ethanol boosted, turbocharged gasoline engine combines a number of well known, current technologies for substantial improvement in mileage at lower cost and complexity than with a hybrid. Two fellows at MIT came up with the idea of using both … [Read more...]

AMA Superbikes – Filling the Grid

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Watching the AMA Superbike races at Barber Motorsports Park over the weekend brings up the question of how best to fill the starting grid. There were 34 bikes at the start of Saturday's race and just a few less on Sunday, so it didn't take a great deal of predictive skill to know there would be a lot of lapped traffic showing up fairly quickly. The difference in performance, … [Read more...]

Honda CB750 Cafe Racers

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Nothing says Rocker like an old cafe racer, the right paint and parts, proper seat, suspension tweaks and engine tuning, all for the purpose of joining the Ton-Up club and looking good while doing it! Some of the old British bikes were classic cafes but here's one guy that thinks the perfect cafe begins with a Honda CB750. Steve Carpenter has been reworking CB750s for quite … [Read more...]

Motorcycle Racing this weekend on TV

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SpeedTV will have lots of racing on Sunday: World Superbike from Valencia, Spain Sunday - Race 1 - 11AM eastern, Sunday - Race 2 - 12 noon eastern AMA Superbike from Barber Motorsports Park Sunday - Day 1 - 4PM eastern Sunday - Day 2 - 5 PM eastern … [Read more...]