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Mid Ohio motorcycle double header

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With all of the talk about Laguna Seca it's easy to forget those of us back east have a great week coming up. Mid Ohio has AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days, July 15-17 and then Honda Super Cycle Weekend July 22-24. The Vintage Days feature Ducati this year and will have a display of about 70 bikes featuring pre war Ducatis and many other significant models. There are vintage … [Read more...]

MotoGP too technical?

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Read an interesting article in Bike magazine about MotoGP on its way to becoming boring because it's too technical, from a machinery point of view. With ever increasing computer control of everything on the bike, we won't see the riders wrestling the machines to do their bidding but instead we'll see slick machines, carving around the track with much of the difference between … [Read more...]

Rossi practice times fastest

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In practice for the upcoming Assen MotoGP, Valentino Rossi is out front with the quickest times followed by Gibernau, Capriossi and Hayden. Just like the AMA Superbike series, one rider keeps repeating week after week, without let up. He just keeps doing it better than anyone else and that has to be psychologically hard on the competition. The races aren't quite the runaway the … [Read more...]

NAPA Drag Bike observations

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After seeing the two shows devoted to building the NAPA drag bike, I guess they did OK. Unfortunately, they only had about 30 seconds of the entire two shows devoted to starting and running the bike down the strip. It did run the 9.9 and Ricky Gadson said it was running rich and needed a lot of fine tuning so it had the potential to do a lot better. The bike was designed to be … [Read more...]

NAPA Drag Bike photos

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The Discovery Channel has photos of the NAPA drag bike built by Orange County Choppers. They are re-airing the two drag bike episodes this Sunday in case you missed them when they ran the first time. (I did.) Times are 10:00am and 11:00am eastern time. Check your local schedule. … [Read more...]