Ducati's `09 Streetfighter
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Posted November 13 2009 04:06 PM by Tim.Carrithers
By the time an actual `09 Ducati Streetfighter showed up in our garage, I’d already decided not to like the thing. Pictures really didn’t do it for me. And the whole idea of a de-fanged, undressed 1098 sounded like sawing...
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Protect your ears, before it's too late.
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Posted October 23 2009 10:18 AM by Ari Henning
Noise-induced hearing loss is a big issue for motorcyclists. The interior of a helmet can be an audibly offensive place: engine noise, road noise, and the sound of rushing wind combine to create a din that routinely...
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That’s more like it—166 mph on electricity!
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Posted October 12 2009 06:26 PM by Aaron Frank
Before we left the salt flats on Friday we pulled the fairing and tail off the Lightning prototype. I was having high-speed stability issues we thought might have been related to aerodynamics. Removing the bodywork and...
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Let's get naked!
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Posted October 9 2009 07:53 PM by Aaron Frank
OK, so the Ducati fairing/whale tail combo isn't working as well as we hoped. Time to try something completely different:
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A salt virgin no more...
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Posted October 8 2009 06:45 PM by Aaron Frank
It's difficult to describe the how bizarre it feels speeding along the Bonneville Salt Flats. The flat, utterly featureless landscape, the imperceptible horizon, and the blinding monochrome sameness deaden all of...
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Yamaha’s RD350B genie is out of the bottle.
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Posted October 8 2009 09:06 AM by Tim.Carrithers
You learn things writing about the motorcycles that once lived in people's garages. Lyle Lovett is meticulous, with a photographic memory for all the details. Joe Gresch jarred a few screws loose with a motorized Schwinn...
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Cleared for Takeoff.
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Posted October 7 2009 08:32 PM by Aaron Frank
Talk about cutting it close: technical inspection closed at 5 pm today, and the lead scrutineer signed off on our last bit of wayward safety wire at 4:58 pm. We have our blessed tech approval sticker in-hand and are now...
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Will Honda fill the CB1000R-sized hole in my garage?
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Posted October 7 2009 02:45 PM by Tim.Carrithers
Honda probably thinks it’s too weird for Americans, and maybe it is. But I, for the record, don’t have a problem with weird. Maybe American Honda will surprise all of us and stick the CBR1000R into its 2010 Redbook....
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Motorcyclist attempts to break the outright electric motorcycle speed record!
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Posted October 6 2009 05:47 PM by Aaron Frank
I’m in Salt Lake City tonight, working my way slowly toward the town of Wendover, on the Nevada/Utah border. Home to Wendover Air Force Base, where the B-29 Superfortress the Enola Gay was housed during World War II,...
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Our first look at Pirelli’s latest/greatest sport touring rubber
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Posted September 19 2009 02:39 PM by Tim.Carrithers
I’ve staked out the Comfy Chair in the Starbucks across from my gate at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Headed home after two days on Pirelli’s brand new Angel ST sport touring tire—successor to the Diablo...
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Don't Ask, Can't Tell
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Posted September 11 2009 10:51 AM by Tim.Carrithers
As soon as I can dig up enough information to write something about a 2010 model we can’t tell you about yet, I’m heading off into the Mojave Desert to a set of GPS coordinates you’ll probably never use. You shouldn’t,...
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High adventure with 18 horsepower
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Posted August 27 2009 11:22 AM by Tim.Carrithers
Strip away the speed, horsepower and expensive support from The Long Way Down and you get Gaurav Jani, riding an 18-horsepower Enfield Bullet from Mumbai to the Changthang Plateau — that’s northern plateau in Tibetan —...
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Filed under: Miscellaneous, Royal Enfield , Royal Enfield
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Transatlantic temptation: MT-01 SP
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Posted August 19 2009 09:09 AM by Tim.Carrithers
They already have the Alps, Guinness Extra Stout—celebrating its 250th birthday on September 24th—McLaren, Misano and Yamaha’s MT-01. Now this: The MT-01 SP.
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Dr. Vale, meet Mr. McGuinness
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Posted July 10 2009 12:02 PM by Tim.Carrithers
You might not have noticed John McGuinness taking his 15th win in the 2009 Isle of Man Superbike TT, or that Mike Hailwood is now the second best Englishman in TT history Snaefell Mountain Course. You might have missed...
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A tall order for Harley-Davidson
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Posted July 1 2009 02:35 PM by Tim.Carrithers
I just finished 128 miles of great roads on the sort of Harleys that people like me can’t tell people like you about. Not those of us who’d like to remain gainfully employed anyway. All will be revealed soon enough....
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Dodge Dakota Research
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