The Kneeslider

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GPS Navigation Systems – brain still required

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GPS navigation has become one of the hottest accessories for every kind of motor vehicle. Need to find your destination in unfamiliar territory? No problem, just ask your GPS to point the way. Somewhere along the line, though, you do need to use your head. If the GPS says go straight when the road becomes a rock and crater strewn obstacle course, you might ask for an alternate … [Read more...]

Motorcycle Air Pollution – part 2

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Jennifer, one of our readers, was kind enough to link to a chart (reproduced below) of the motorcycles used in the motorcycle air pollution study comparing motorcycles to cars. What jumps out immediately is the year and mileage of the sample vehicles. Of the eight bikes in the test, the newest is a 1999 BMW with 31,474 kilometers. There are 2 1998 models, 1 each 97, 96 and 95 … [Read more...]

Enjoy the day – Ride if you can

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If the weather is good where you are, get your motorcycle out and celebrate with a ride, which goes without saying for all of our Australian readers and many of the rest of you a bit more south than we are. Hmm ... , summer in December, what a concept. Back later. … [Read more...]

The Art of the Motorcycle

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Do you ever catch yourself staring at a motorcycle? I don't mean just looking at bikes, we all do that, I mean staring at a machine because it looks so damn good, everything is just right, every part relates to everything else, nothing added that doesn't belong, it catches your eye and you smile. It happens to me all the time and it's not just bikes, cars and airplanes do the … [Read more...]

Motorcycle air pollution

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A group over in Switzerland has just concluded a study and they're pointing their finger at motorcycles as being nasty little air polluters. The study by the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research says motorcycles emit "16 times more hydrocarbons, three times more carbon monoxide and a 'disproportionately high' amount of other air pollutants compared to a … [Read more...]

Aermacchi Motorcycles

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Aermacchi isn't a name you see very often these days unless you spend your time at vintage race events but Aermacchi motorcycles are some of the sweetest looking little machines around. Aermacchi made and still makes aircraft over in Italy. Back around 1950, they got into the motorcycle business and started building small displacement motorcycles, somewhere in the 50cc to 350cc … [Read more...]