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Motoczysz Birth of a Racer on Discovery HD

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Birth of a Racer, the documentary about the development of the Motoczysz C1 motorcycle will first air in the U.S. March 25th on Discovery HD Theater. The show will run several times through the end of March and throughout April. Check your local schedule for times in your area, if you get the Discovery HD Theater channel. This should be an interesting show giving most … [Read more...]

Brittown Movie Premiere

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If you like old British bikes, you might want to check out Brittown from Scott Di Lalla and Zack Coffman, the same fellows that brought you Choppertown: The Sinners. The Brittown DVD is coming out next week and they're going to have a premiere showing in San francisco at the Roxie Cinema, located in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District, at 3117 16th Street between … [Read more...]

Motogiro America 2008

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In the week leading up to the MotoGP at Laguna Seca they're going to be running the Motogiro America, an American version of the classic Italian motorcycle rally. If you have a nice vintage machine and you would like to participate, you might want to head over to their website and sign up, space is limited. There are both competitive and non competitive classes but whichever … [Read more...]

Twist the Throttle on Discovery Turbo

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Dylan Weiss, who has been blogging on Twisting Asphalt for several years, is a video producer for cable television. He's worked on a number of auto and motorcycle related videos but the latest series from Dylan and his team called Twist The Throttle has just launched on Discovery Turbo on the web. The series takes them on a multi nation tour of 8 motorcycle manufacturers, … [Read more...]

Six Brittens at 25th Sound of Thunder Anniversary

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It isn't every day you see 6 Britten motorcycles lined up together, in fact, you simply never see that, period. Well, maybe just this once. Last weekend was the 25th anniversary meeting of the Sound of Thunder - BEARS racing (British European American Racing Society) in New Zealand. Tim, one of our Kiwi readers, mentioned the gathering in a comment on another post and I asked … [Read more...]

Stonebridge Motor Company Ace Cafe Racer

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The Stonebridge Motor Company is a new outfit set up by Nick Gale Custom Cycles and the Ace Cafe for their combined effort to build a bike for the S&S Cycles 50th Anniversary build off in late June. Their new web site will detail all of the build up using one of the S&S SB-Series engines. They'll be building a limited edition of 100 of these bikes to be sold in Europe, America … [Read more...]