Daily Motorcycle Blog roundup April 11, 2007
April 11, 2007
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This is something I’ve been planning on doing for awhile now. Its simply a roundup of all the current posts in the motorcycle blogosphere. There are quite a good deal of motorcycle blogs, but they aren’t always as interconnected as you see on the technology blogs.
- Mike Werner has an interesting post about a “helmet hair” addon for helmets. This product doesn’t really seem like it could ever catch on to me. Mike also has another post on using garbage bins to cover speed radars.
- A boy and his bike has posted a new video of his drive down Washington state highway 11. It seems pretty typical of all the other youtube videos I’ve seen with some obnoxiously loud music playing, but I will admit its not was bad as some others.
- This is from a few days before but its pretty important news. BMW has launched three new models into its G series, naming them all some derivative of X (Xchallange, Xcountry, Xmoto).
- Forty Years on Two Wheels has some great coverage of the 23rd annual Antique and Classic Motorcycle Show. Really a gem here with some really clean pictures by Doug Klassen. He also has another great post at
- Gaijin Bikers has an interesting post relating bikers to open source hackers. I would agree with it seems like a good deal of very technical minded people love bikes, but I still think its a case of vocal minority and silent majority. I think he does make a good point about how customizing your bike to make it your own is in ways similar to making your linux distro your own, both take a great deal of work, but once you have it like you like it you know you’ve accomplished something.
- Helmet Hair has posted a video about Paul Yang’s design process with this really outrageous custom bike he built. I agree with Jesper’s sentiments though this video isn’t that interesting, I’d much rather see a video like this from one of the mainstream manufacturers.
- Kapital moto has a post about the Buildbase Ducati Team’s appearance at Brands Hatch GP circuit.
- Kropotkin Thinks discusses the fall of the Ilmor MotoGP team’s decline. Apparently they were a former F1 team that took on MotoGP as well. It seems that the team’s engineers had problems understanding that riding a motorcycle is not like riding a F1 car as you can’t simply hold steady one rpm, thus why most MotoGP bikes will have a wider powerband than say a F1 engine. This reminds me of how a car dealer always wants to start a motorcycle dealership and rarely does it work with the success they imagined. I’m not really that up on MotoGP news, and I should probably fix that.
- Old Guy has a post about how driver awareness month is fast approaching (May).
- The Kneeslider covers Timeless Motor Company’s reproductions of early Harley Davidson bikes similar to the Model 7. These machines are quite pricey at $10,000 but look to be of almost perfect quality. There is also a new post about the Art of Racer custom which is like all extreme customs interesting to look at but just doesn’t seem practical.
- Tim Kreitz has a post on the Superbike blog where the main thing of interest to me is he claims that BMC air filters are superior to K&N. I think I’ve heard this before, but is there any data to back it up? Also would it matter on the application? I could imagine a world in which K&N was superior in some situations.
- Whybike - discusses a rider he saw wearing a $500 Arai and flip flops on a scooter.
- This is old, but this site is always worth checking out. Worldrider has some newer pictures posted, I highly recommend going through his archives as they are some of the best pictures you’ll see.
