<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Motorcycle Blog]]></title><description><![CDATA[Read the Motorcyclist Magazine motorcycle blog and find street bike talk, sport bike news and expert opinions, and join the motorcycle enthusiast discussions.]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/index.html]]></link><image><title><![CDATA[Motorcycle Blog]]></title><url><![CDATA[Read the Motorcyclist Magazine motorcycle blog and find street bike talk, sport bike news and expert opinions, and join the motorcycle enthusiast discussions.]]></url><link><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/index.html]]></link></image><item><title><![CDATA[Ducati's `09 Streetfighter]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6606687/miscellaneous/ducatis-09-streetfighter/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[ 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...]]></description><category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:11:21 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6606687/miscellaneous/ducatis-09-streetfighter/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kawasaki KTRC Traction Control]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6601017/motorcycle-evaluations/kawasaki-ktrc-traction-control/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[ Generally speaking, turning 130-something horsepower loose on an expanse of wet, slippery white plastic in a hotel parking lot is very bad idea. But since our friends at Kawasaki said it would be okay, I did it anyway....]]></description><category><![CDATA[Motorcycle Evaluations]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:10:44 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6601017/motorcycle-evaluations/kawasaki-ktrc-traction-control/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protect your ears, before it's too late. ]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6570718/miscellaneous/protect-your-ears-before-its-too-late/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[ 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...]]></description><category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:10:49 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6570718/miscellaneous/protect-your-ears-before-its-too-late/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honda greens up its Kumamoto motorcycle manufacturing facility]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6583697/industry-news/honda-greens-up-its-kumamoto-motorcycle-manufacturing-facility/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[  “The Factory at the foot of Mount Aso, where humans and nature are as one.” That’s how Honda literature describes the Kumamoto factory, the largest motorcycle manufacturing facility in the world. ]]></description><category><![CDATA[Industry News]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:10:29 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6583697/industry-news/honda-greens-up-its-kumamoto-motorcycle-manufacturing-facility/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[2010 Ducati Hypermotard 796]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6596616/motorcycle-evaluations/2010-ducati-hypermotard-796/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[ Architectural Digest subscribers call Bologna La Rossa because of the red tile roofs around the Piazza Maggiore . Political scientists say the color comes from 50-something years of left-leaning government. But most...]]></description><category><![CDATA[Motorcycle Evaluations]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:10:14 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6596616/motorcycle-evaluations/2010-ducati-hypermotard-796/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That’s more like it—166 mph on electricity!]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6578678/miscellaneous/that-s-more-like-it-166-mph-on-electricity/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[  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...]]></description><category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:10:43 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6578678/miscellaneous/that-s-more-like-it-166-mph-on-electricity/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's get naked!]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6567289/miscellaneous/lets-get-naked/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[OK, so the Ducati fairing/whale tail combo isn't working as well as we hoped. Time to try something completely different:  ]]></description><category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:10:12 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6567289/miscellaneous/lets-get-naked/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A salt virgin no more...]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6578006/miscellaneous/a-salt-virgin-no-more/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[  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...]]></description><category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:10:48 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6578006/miscellaneous/a-salt-virgin-no-more/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yamaha’s RD350B genie is out of the bottle.]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6594090/miscellaneous/yamaha-s-rd350b-genie-is-out-of-the-bottle/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[ 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...]]></description><category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:10:55 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6594090/miscellaneous/yamaha-s-rd350b-genie-is-out-of-the-bottle/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleared for Takeoff.]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6577454/miscellaneous/cleared-for-takeoff/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[  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...]]></description><category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:10:03 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6577454/miscellaneous/cleared-for-takeoff/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will Honda fill the CB1000R-sized hole in my garage?]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6593346/miscellaneous/will-honda-fill-the-cb1000r-sized-hole-in-my-garage/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[ 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....]]></description><category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:10:28 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6593346/miscellaneous/will-honda-fill-the-cb1000r-sized-hole-in-my-garage/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motorcyclist attempts to break the outright electric motorcycle speed record!]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6577004/miscellaneous/motorcyclist-attempts-to-break-the-outright-electric-motorcycle-speed-record/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[ 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,...]]></description><category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:10:12 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6577004/miscellaneous/motorcyclist-attempts-to-break-the-outright-electric-motorcycle-speed-record/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baby Back Rack Attack]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6591117/staff-news/baby-back-rack-attack/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[ If you live anywhere near Asheville, North Carolina and have any inclination toward barbeque, 12 Bones Smokehouse is already on speed-dial: 828.253.4499. Even if you’re a few states away, this one is worth burning a few...]]></description><category><![CDATA[Staff News]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:10:57 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6591117/staff-news/baby-back-rack-attack/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our first look at Pirelli’s latest/greatest sport touring rubber]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6584697/miscellaneous/our-first-look-at-pirelli-s-latest-greatest-sport-touring-rubber/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[ 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...]]></description><category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:09:09 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6584697/miscellaneous/our-first-look-at-pirelli-s-latest-greatest-sport-touring-rubber/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chasing a speed record on a 60-year-old Vincent single]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6557266/events/chasing-a-speed-record-on-a-60-year-old-vincent-single/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[  Maxton is a sleepy nowheresville in a dry county along the North and South Carolina border, on a broad coastal plain that stretches to the Atlantic ocean 60 miles away. ]]></description><category><![CDATA[Events]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:09:37 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6557266/events/chasing-a-speed-record-on-a-60-year-old-vincent-single/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't Ask, Can't Tell]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6553081/miscellaneous/dont-ask-cant-tell/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[ 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,...]]></description><category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:09:16 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6553081/miscellaneous/dont-ask-cant-tell/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-dualistic physics and the long high-desert weekend]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6551335/staff-news/non-dualistic-physics-and-the-long-high-desert-weekend/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[ It’s 102 degrees in the high desert. The Station Fire has burned it’s way through 148,258 acres and it’s only 42% contained. Various logistical wrinkles are threatening to derail my cover story, I have a Category One sinus...]]></description><category><![CDATA[Staff News]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:09:25 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6551335/staff-news/non-dualistic-physics-and-the-long-high-desert-weekend/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falling flat on my back at the Indy flat-track]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6574586/events/falling-flat-on-my-back-at-the-indy-flat-track/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[ The look on the mechanic’s face in the first picture says it all: “If anything goes wrong out there, you better pray to God you don’t survive the crash.” ]]></description><category><![CDATA[Events]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:09:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6574586/events/falling-flat-on-my-back-at-the-indy-flat-track/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pocket Rocket Lives]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6576777/staff-news/the-pocket-rocket-lives/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[  Awaken a 34-year-old Yamaha RD350 after nearly a decade of suspended animation; I’ve learned a few things. First, some parts are in better shape than I thought they’d be. Others weren’t so good. All things considered,...]]></description><category><![CDATA[Staff News]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:09:26 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6576777/staff-news/the-pocket-rocket-lives/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High adventure with 18 horsepower]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6548458/miscellaneous/high-adventure-with-18-horsepower/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[ 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 —...]]></description><category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:08:51 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6548458/miscellaneous/high-adventure-with-18-horsepower/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ride Putnam Park with us after the Indy GP!]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6548092/events/ride-putnam-park-with-us-after-the-indy-gp/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[  You’ve heard of the “dog days” of summer—those hot, sultry August afternoons when Sirius, the Dog Star, hovers close to the sun. We’re looking forward to our own variation, called the “Duc days.” ]]></description><category><![CDATA[Events]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:08:02 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6548092/events/ride-putnam-park-with-us-after-the-indy-gp/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We’re riding Roberts’ diabolical TZ750 flat tracker at the Indy Mile!]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6574098/events/we-re-riding-roberts-diabolical-tz750-flat-tracker-at-the-indy-mile/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[  It’s the bike that inspired Kenny Roberts, one of the most fearless motorcycle racers that ever lived, to utter these immortal words: “They don’t pay me enough to ride that thing!”   ]]></description><category><![CDATA[Events]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:08:49 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6574098/events/we-re-riding-roberts-diabolical-tz750-flat-tracker-at-the-indy-mile/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transatlantic temptation: MT-01 SP]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6571749/miscellaneous/transatlantic-temptation-mt-01-sp/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[ 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.  ]]></description><category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:08:49 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6571749/miscellaneous/transatlantic-temptation-mt-01-sp/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buell’s Blast discontinued in dramatic fashion]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6571131/industry-news/buell-s-blast-discontinued-in-dramatic-fashion/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[  Our September 2009 issue included a short piece lamenting Buell’s entry-level Blast, and its general failure to convert the non-riding public into Buell-blooded bikers.  ]]></description><category><![CDATA[Industry News]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:08:23 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6571131/industry-news/buell-s-blast-discontinued-in-dramatic-fashion/index.html]]></guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zero Gravity windscreen]]></title><link>http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6542905/staff-news/zero-gravity-windscreen/index.html</link><description><![CDATA[ Motorcyclist goes behind the scenes at Zero Gravity's Camarillo, CA facility. ]]></description><category><![CDATA[Staff News]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:08:40 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blogs.motorcyclistonline.com/6542905/staff-news/zero-gravity-windscreen/index.html]]></guid></item></channel></rss>


