Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Parigot - a beautiful animated motorcycle movie
Graduation film animation School Georges Méliès
Directed by Mehdi Alavi, Loic Bramoulle, Axel Digoix, Geoffrey Lerus, Alexandre Wolfromm
Original music by Arash Safaian
parigot-themovie.com
Can Good Pizza Be Made In The Back Of A Truck?
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| Say, that's a sweet bike. |
It was recently brought to my attention that right here in Phoenix there is a weekly gathering of food trucks just a few short blocks from my place of employment. Food trucks that have, you know, good food. I didn't see anyone dishing up nachos with cheese that comes from a can.*
Lady Luck and I made plans to meet up at this food truck rally, along with a few friends. It only seemed proper to ride the Vespa to such an occasion, and I was glad I did. Parking was slightly confusing (but ample), and I wouldn't have been able to pull off some of the maneuvers I did if I'd been on the Triumph instead of the scooter.
There were roughly ten trucks in attendance. Among our group we tried a decent Indian Fry Bread, some killer corn dogs and bratwurst, excellent jambalya and totally excellent ice cream.
But enough about those inferior foods. I hear you asking, "What about the damn pizza?"
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| If I had to drive a truck... |
The Pizza People truck was in attendance. I couldn't see all of the inner workings, but based on their menu options, I suspect they make each pizza to order. It took about 10 minutes between ordering and getting my pie.
I ordered the "Testosteroni," which is a dumb name**, in my always humble opinion, but a good pizza. As you might imagine, it was meaty. If I recall correctly, pepperoni, sausage and hamburger, along with black olives and mushrooms. The real star was the crust, which was chewy and crunchy in exactly the right ways, and far too good to come out of a truck. I would gladly eat it again, so to answer the question in the title, yes, good pizza can be made in a truck.
Adding to the festive food truck atmosphere was one of the local classic rock stations. They were pumping the greatest hits of the 80's as we ate. One of the DJs came by our table and tried to get us to record one of those "Hi, I'm Joe Smith and you're listening to Morning Breath with Micky Mac and The Nibblin, on 99.5 KLMN!" station identifiers they always insist on playing over the intro or outro to your favorite song. Since we wouldn't do that, they asked us if we had a story we could tell about something that happened while listening to a song by one of the bands on a list.
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| What an adorable little pizza |
I was sorely tempted to make up a story about blasting "Don't Stop Believin'," by Journey, on the stereo of my Ford Escort station wagon back in 1989 when I killed a man in Reno just to watch him die, and how I then buried him in the desert to the strains of "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," by U2. And then mention what good timing that was, since the body has yet to be found.
However, that's hardly appropriate lunch-time conversation, so I decided a simple "No thanks," would be the most appropriate response.
In all, a fun lunch-time expedition. The rise of high class food trucks seems like a good thing to me. I hope it continues. Word on the street, though, is that chain restaurants are muscling in on the food truck action, and soon we'll have to contend with an Applebee's food truck instead of one run by a few passionate people. Sad.
* Not that there's anything wrong with cheap nachos, you understand. If I had my day, my four basic food groups would be pizza, burgers, cheap nachos and hot wings.
Monday, February 27, 2012
In Memory Of Dick Allen T-Shirts
Chuck Vogel and Bruce Parrish teamed up to recreate the shirt Bruce designed for Dick Allen back in the early 70's.
The back of the shirt features Bruce's original art of Dick on his Loco-Motion Knucklehead chopper.
The front of shirt has the motor company logo as did the original.
The shirts are Navy Blue and available in the following sizes: Large, XL, and XXL.
To buy, contact: Chuck Vogel at: vogelelectric@verizon.net
Tell him Chris from MC Art sent ya!
The back of the shirt features Bruce's original art of Dick on his Loco-Motion Knucklehead chopper.
The front of shirt has the motor company logo as did the original.
The shirts are Navy Blue and available in the following sizes: Large, XL, and XXL.
To buy, contact: Chuck Vogel at: vogelelectric@verizon.net
Tell him Chris from MC Art sent ya!
Polar Bear Grand Tour to Bahr's Landing on Feb. 26, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Advertise on Bikers Expressway
Dear Advertiser,
I am writing to inform you of a new motorcycle specificwebsite to advertise on, BikersExpressway. Bikers Expressway just recently launched in January of 2012. Itis geared to motorcyclists, bikers and scooterists of all types. BikersExpressway is a motorcycle product advertising service where we personallysearch the web for the best deals on motorcycle products of all types. We then postthose for the biker community to view and direct them where to purchase. We arecurrently looking for advertisers for anything and everything relatedto motorcycling.
Bikers Expressway is where you can advertise your weekly ormonthly motorcycle deals, discounts, closeouts and specials. Bikers Expresswaydoes not sell anything but ad space, similar to Deal Sucker, 24 Day Deals, Todays DOD, and Deal A Day, we just direct our subscribersto the best motorcycle related deals.
Bikers Expressway customers subscribe to our Weekly DealsNewsletter, Twitteraccount, Google+ account, Facebookaccount, Blog or the RSS Feedand we direct them to your site for purchases.
Partnerwith Bikers Expressway and receive a discount on Sale Item Listings and Sidebar Advertisements.
Affiliates also get a banner add on the Affiliates Page Listingwhich links to your site along with a description of the site.
Sale Item Listings are the best way to be seen, and will generallystay on the first page for around 5-6 days. The ads will receive social mediaadvertising on: Facebook, Twitter, & Google Plus. Sale Item Listings alsoget posted on the Bikers Expressway Blog, RSS feed and placed in the weeklye-mail to subscribers.
Bikers Expressway offers Sidebar Ad space (text, html, flashor image) to be placed in the right sidebar. Pricing is based on a 160x160square. For longer ads just multiply by the length of the ad.
We are open to custom ad placement and sizing. Pleasecontact me at torch@bikersexpressway.com sowe can discuss what you have in mind and we can give you an estimate. If youcannot support these rates and are a small company, email me as well, we canwork with you. All pricing is negotiable.
Thank you for yourinterest,
John Ashford (Torch)
*In our effort to keepthis site a family friendly site, Bikers Expressway will not host sexuallyexplicit advertisements or link to sexually explicit websites.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Motorcycle Picture of the Week - ManiacMac
Hall of Famer Shrimp Burns Goes All Out at 1921 Beverly Hills, Calif., B...
Hows about a little board track action in Beverly Hills. Yes there was a board track in the 90210.
Nelson Anthony Bettencourt Jr
Thanks Chris for the better picture. It's allowed me to see some better details. Bettencourt was a bicycle and Harley dealer from the Napa and Vallejo area. I'm not sure if this particular bike is the "Bettencourt Special" If it is, it is possibly a 45 in a single loop frame. Still would like to know more about this particular bike so any help would be appreciated.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Kawasaki Recalls Ninja ZX-10R and ZX-6R for Charging Problem
Kawasaki is recalling certain model year 2008-2011 Ninja ZX-10R, and 2009-2012 Ninja ZX-6R motorcycles manufactured from December 14, 2007 through July 26, 2011.
Due to a manufacturing error, the regulator/rectifier may insufficiently charge the battery.
20,544 units are affected.
Check out my Motorcycle Recalls feature for more details.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Wildfire Recalls WF650-C 3-Wheel Motorcycles for Brake Reservoir Labeling Problem
Wildfire is recalling certain model year 2009 WF650-C motorcycles, manufactured from April 2008 through January 2009 for failing to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 122, "Motorcycle Brake System."
As built, these motorcycles have a single brake fluid reservoir with a single filler opening and lack the required reservoir labeling. Warning lamps indicating brake failure are also absent.
202 units are affected.
Check out my Motorcycle Recalls feature for more details.
Jalopy or style ?
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While we were all on the roads last summer, I met Fred from Blitz Motorcycles on the southwest coast. He was riding a strange sophisticated jalopy.... a bitza who can make you love BMW motorcycles...
Of course, i shot the bike... Today on Internet, you can discover a new short movie explaining everthing about the Blitz style.
While we were all on the roads last summer, I met Fred from Blitz Motorcycles on the southwest coast. He was riding a strange sophisticated jalopy.... a bitza who can make you love BMW motorcycles...
Of course, i shot the bike... Today on Internet, you can discover a new short movie explaining everthing about the Blitz style.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
I Had No Idea Triumph Made These
So there I was digging around in the interesting section (read: crap only I would want) of an antique store in Bisbee, Arizona, when I just about broke my toe tripping over this 50 pound hunk of iron desktop righteousness.
Yep, that's a typewriter made by Triumph.
Being something of a typewriter enthusiast, the only reason I didn't buy it is because I just don't have room in my garage for an enormous, dirty, mostly-ornamental typewriter.
...That's not strictly true. I could find room. The real reason was because I didn't want to lug this sucker around Bisbee.
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| Inspiration Just Waiting For Your Fingers |
Yep, that's a typewriter made by Triumph.
Being something of a typewriter enthusiast, the only reason I didn't buy it is because I just don't have room in my garage for an enormous, dirty, mostly-ornamental typewriter.
...That's not strictly true. I could find room. The real reason was because I didn't want to lug this sucker around Bisbee.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Norton and Honda 4 cylinders motorcycle engines
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Last week we received a photo taken at George 'Norton' Cohens workshop showing his latest restoration, the 100th Manx Norton Special with Daytona engine. Upon closer inspection of the photo I detected an intruder of Japanese origin, what could this mean?
Has george had an alarming and sudden change of heart?
Here's George Answer:
For the past 35 years I have messed around with single cylinder Norton machines in side-valve, over-head valve and single and double over-head cam configuration. I have rebuilt, repaired and wrecked hundreds of them; all in the quest for more power and reliability. I have also read with interest over the same period of time numerous articles pertaining to the experimental 4 cylinder engine of the early fifties. Up until very recently, I had always lamented the fact that this engine was never seen fighting the multi-cylinder machines from MV, Gillera and Honda. That was until a few months ago, but first a pre-amble to my story.
Manx Nortons dominated motorcycle racing before and after the second world war, but by 1950 the Italian 4 cylinder engines were becoming a considerable threat to the trusty single cylinder unit.
“Tony” Vandervell, who was part of the works Norton Isle of Man TT racing team in the early twenties (along side Murray Walker’s father, Graham), was Nortons major shareholder after WW II and he also had a great passion for racing cars. He was one of the major financial backers of BRM and commissioned them to develop a watercooled double over head cam four cylinder, 500cc engine for Norton in 1951. Numerous problems relating to engineering design failures, personality clashes and finally financial cut backs meant that the project failed, for three main reasons.
Firstly, BRM failed to take into consideration the need to mount the engine in a motorcycle frame and the development was brought back to the experimental department at Bracebridge St, Birmingham. Here, Leo Kuzmicki, who was a former Polish fighter pilot, was found to be sweeping the floor far too slowly for the likes of the head of the department, a fiery Irishman and tuning maestro, Joe Craig. After a good telling off, Craig was told that this floor sweeper was a senior lecture on internal combustion engines at Warsaw University before the war. Soon, Kuzmicki was put into the drawing office where his genius on cam profiles, combustion chamber shapes, valve timing and porting soon paid dividends on the Manx engine, especially the 350 cc version. He also started work on the 4 cylinder engine.
Secondly, Vandervell fell out with Raymond Mays at BRM and subsequently continued to develop his Thinwall specials, named after his very successful closed caged ‘Thin-wall’ bearings business.
Thirdly, as a consequence of Nortons financial difficulties they were bought by Associated Motorcycles (AMC) in 1953. The financial backers at AMC were appalled at how such a large slice of the cake was being put into the racing machines to the detriment of developing better machines for the road. They pulled the plug on the racing department. No more works team, no more works machines and finally no more Leo Kuzmicki, who was given a much larger wage packet by Vandervell at his new venture the Vanwall Specials. It is ironic that the 2 litre Vanwall engine was essentially four 500 cc Manx Norton engines on a common crankcase.
So Norton did try with a multi cylinder machine and the prototype engine and drawings can be seen at Sammy Miller’s museum, but I am now bloody glad that it never materialized.
Why the change of mind, you may ask?
Last summer a conversation with my 23 year old daughter, Camilla, went along the lines of:
“Dad, my bike has not got lights and sometimes it wont start”.
“That ‘s about par for a thirties 350 Norton International, live with it”.
“I’ve seen a 1972 Honda 500 4 on ebay, its got lights and an electric start”
“Oh no!”
Too cut a long story short, a week later we had this motorcycle in the shed. Camilla rode it for 900 miles over the next few months and I even had a ride down to the seaside on it. Not as fast as a 500 International and a lot heavier, but at least it started every time and you could stay late at the pub, because of the reliable lighting system.
So far so good, but the next week the oil pressure light remained on and to my untrained ear the engine sounded like the proverbial bag of nails. So we bought a Haynes manual, a set of metric spanners and a good bottle of wine and proceeded to pull the thing apart. A hundred hours later, struggling with thousands of cross head 6 mm bolts, primary thrunging sprockets, bizarre gear change mechanisms, tiny little gudgeon pin circlips which were flying around the shed as we snapped at them with tweezers and a manual which even the most intelligent of grease monkeys could not follow we had the bloody engine down to its bare bones.
I could not find a fault anywhere! All journals, shafts and ‘wot-nots, miked’ up to the manufacturers specification. Another million hours later we managed to get it all back together and squeezed it back into the frame. According to my research on Google and at the local Bike Club, it is apparently almost impossible to get the four carbs onto the inlet manifold rubbers and air box at the same time without resorting to a combination of wooden wedges, big hammers and plenty of Vaseline. To my surprise, my daughter and I managed to do this within the hour and eventually the heavy machine was taken out of the shed and replenished with fresh oil. It worked perfectly, the oil light went off and the engine sounded sweet.
So far this Honda engine has consumed the time it would take me to build a trillion Manx Norton engines and we never did find out the problem. Perhaps it was just a faulty switch, which would have taken just a few hours to replace, instead of weeks of work.
So the moral of this story ends with the thought: Would I have been able to spanner a four cylinder Norton engine?
Perhaps with practice I might have of got the hang of it, but I am mighty pleased that a Manx Norton engine has only got one piston, two valves and Whitworth nuts and bolts.
Last week we received a photo taken at George 'Norton' Cohens workshop showing his latest restoration, the 100th Manx Norton Special with Daytona engine. Upon closer inspection of the photo I detected an intruder of Japanese origin, what could this mean?
Has george had an alarming and sudden change of heart?
Here's George Answer:
For the past 35 years I have messed around with single cylinder Norton machines in side-valve, over-head valve and single and double over-head cam configuration. I have rebuilt, repaired and wrecked hundreds of them; all in the quest for more power and reliability. I have also read with interest over the same period of time numerous articles pertaining to the experimental 4 cylinder engine of the early fifties. Up until very recently, I had always lamented the fact that this engine was never seen fighting the multi-cylinder machines from MV, Gillera and Honda. That was until a few months ago, but first a pre-amble to my story.
Manx Nortons dominated motorcycle racing before and after the second world war, but by 1950 the Italian 4 cylinder engines were becoming a considerable threat to the trusty single cylinder unit.
“Tony” Vandervell, who was part of the works Norton Isle of Man TT racing team in the early twenties (along side Murray Walker’s father, Graham), was Nortons major shareholder after WW II and he also had a great passion for racing cars. He was one of the major financial backers of BRM and commissioned them to develop a watercooled double over head cam four cylinder, 500cc engine for Norton in 1951. Numerous problems relating to engineering design failures, personality clashes and finally financial cut backs meant that the project failed, for three main reasons.
Firstly, BRM failed to take into consideration the need to mount the engine in a motorcycle frame and the development was brought back to the experimental department at Bracebridge St, Birmingham. Here, Leo Kuzmicki, who was a former Polish fighter pilot, was found to be sweeping the floor far too slowly for the likes of the head of the department, a fiery Irishman and tuning maestro, Joe Craig. After a good telling off, Craig was told that this floor sweeper was a senior lecture on internal combustion engines at Warsaw University before the war. Soon, Kuzmicki was put into the drawing office where his genius on cam profiles, combustion chamber shapes, valve timing and porting soon paid dividends on the Manx engine, especially the 350 cc version. He also started work on the 4 cylinder engine.
Secondly, Vandervell fell out with Raymond Mays at BRM and subsequently continued to develop his Thinwall specials, named after his very successful closed caged ‘Thin-wall’ bearings business.
Thirdly, as a consequence of Nortons financial difficulties they were bought by Associated Motorcycles (AMC) in 1953. The financial backers at AMC were appalled at how such a large slice of the cake was being put into the racing machines to the detriment of developing better machines for the road. They pulled the plug on the racing department. No more works team, no more works machines and finally no more Leo Kuzmicki, who was given a much larger wage packet by Vandervell at his new venture the Vanwall Specials. It is ironic that the 2 litre Vanwall engine was essentially four 500 cc Manx Norton engines on a common crankcase.
So Norton did try with a multi cylinder machine and the prototype engine and drawings can be seen at Sammy Miller’s museum, but I am now bloody glad that it never materialized.
Why the change of mind, you may ask?
Last summer a conversation with my 23 year old daughter, Camilla, went along the lines of:
“Dad, my bike has not got lights and sometimes it wont start”.
“That ‘s about par for a thirties 350 Norton International, live with it”.
“I’ve seen a 1972 Honda 500 4 on ebay, its got lights and an electric start”
“Oh no!”
Too cut a long story short, a week later we had this motorcycle in the shed. Camilla rode it for 900 miles over the next few months and I even had a ride down to the seaside on it. Not as fast as a 500 International and a lot heavier, but at least it started every time and you could stay late at the pub, because of the reliable lighting system.
So far so good, but the next week the oil pressure light remained on and to my untrained ear the engine sounded like the proverbial bag of nails. So we bought a Haynes manual, a set of metric spanners and a good bottle of wine and proceeded to pull the thing apart. A hundred hours later, struggling with thousands of cross head 6 mm bolts, primary thrunging sprockets, bizarre gear change mechanisms, tiny little gudgeon pin circlips which were flying around the shed as we snapped at them with tweezers and a manual which even the most intelligent of grease monkeys could not follow we had the bloody engine down to its bare bones.
I could not find a fault anywhere! All journals, shafts and ‘wot-nots, miked’ up to the manufacturers specification. Another million hours later we managed to get it all back together and squeezed it back into the frame. According to my research on Google and at the local Bike Club, it is apparently almost impossible to get the four carbs onto the inlet manifold rubbers and air box at the same time without resorting to a combination of wooden wedges, big hammers and plenty of Vaseline. To my surprise, my daughter and I managed to do this within the hour and eventually the heavy machine was taken out of the shed and replenished with fresh oil. It worked perfectly, the oil light went off and the engine sounded sweet.
So far this Honda engine has consumed the time it would take me to build a trillion Manx Norton engines and we never did find out the problem. Perhaps it was just a faulty switch, which would have taken just a few hours to replace, instead of weeks of work.
So the moral of this story ends with the thought: Would I have been able to spanner a four cylinder Norton engine?
Perhaps with practice I might have of got the hang of it, but I am mighty pleased that a Manx Norton engine has only got one piston, two valves and Whitworth nuts and bolts.
Monday, February 20, 2012
President's Day
I had to do this for today. It kind of works on several levels. It goes with this month's header too.
Have a good one!
Polar Bear Grand Tour to Hooters in Wayne, NJ on Feb. 19, 2012
Saturday, February 18, 2012
2012 Beta 450RS
2012 Beta 450RS Review
2012 Beta 450RS - Specifications/Technical Details
MSRP Price: $9299.00 USD
Engine
Type: Beta-Built single cylinder, 4-valve, 4-stroke liquid cooled, electric start with back up kick starter.
Bore: 95mm
Stroke: 63.4mm
Displacement: 449cc
Compression Ratio: 11.95:1
Ignition: DC-CDI with variable ignition timing, Kokusan.
Spark Plug: NGK LKAR 8A-9
Lubrication: Twin oil pumps with cartridge oil filter. Separate oil for engine and clutch .8 liter each
Carburetor: Keihin FCR 39mm
Clutch: Wet multi-disc
Primary Ratio: 31:73
Transmission: 6-speed
Final Drive: O-ring chain
Chassis
Frame: All New molybdenum steel with double cradle split above exhaust port. Air filter access from the side.
Wheelbase: 58.1”
Seat Height: 36.6”
Ground Clearance: 12.6”
Footrest Height: 16.25”
Dry Weight: 249 lbs. dry
Fuel Tank Capacity: 2.1 US gallons
Front Suspension: 45mm Marzocchi USD fork, adjustable compression and rebound
Rear Suspension: Sachs shock w/adjustable rebound and hi/low speed compression
Front Wheel Travel: 11.4”
Rear Wheel Travel: 11.4”
Final Gearing: 14t front, 45t rear
Front Brake: 260mm floating rotor
Rear Brake: 240mm rotor
Front/Rear Rim: 21” (Front) 18” (Rear)
Front/Rear Tire: Michelin Enduro, DOT approved
Warranty: 12 month Limited Warranty
MSRP: $9299.00
*Specifications subject to change without notice.
2012 Beta 450RS is one motorcycle issued by the manufacturer Beta with trail bikeedition which supported the body design is comfortable to use. 2012 Beta 450RS has a engine capacity 449 cm3 with Bore x Stroke 95 mm x 63.4 mm and than engine type Beta-Built single cylinder, 4-valve, 4-stroke liquid cooled, electric start with back up kick starter.
2012 Beta 450RS
2012 Beta 450RS - Specifications/Technical Details
MSRP Price: $9299.00 USD
Engine
Type: Beta-Built single cylinder, 4-valve, 4-stroke liquid cooled, electric start with back up kick starter.
Bore: 95mm
Stroke: 63.4mm
Displacement: 449cc
Compression Ratio: 11.95:1
Ignition: DC-CDI with variable ignition timing, Kokusan.
Spark Plug: NGK LKAR 8A-9
Lubrication: Twin oil pumps with cartridge oil filter. Separate oil for engine and clutch .8 liter each
Carburetor: Keihin FCR 39mm
Clutch: Wet multi-disc
Primary Ratio: 31:73
Transmission: 6-speed
Final Drive: O-ring chain
Chassis
Frame: All New molybdenum steel with double cradle split above exhaust port. Air filter access from the side.
Wheelbase: 58.1”
Seat Height: 36.6”
Ground Clearance: 12.6”
Footrest Height: 16.25”
Dry Weight: 249 lbs. dry
Fuel Tank Capacity: 2.1 US gallons
Front Suspension: 45mm Marzocchi USD fork, adjustable compression and rebound
Rear Suspension: Sachs shock w/adjustable rebound and hi/low speed compression
Front Wheel Travel: 11.4”
Rear Wheel Travel: 11.4”
Final Gearing: 14t front, 45t rear
Front Brake: 260mm floating rotor
Rear Brake: 240mm rotor
Front/Rear Rim: 21” (Front) 18” (Rear)
Front/Rear Tire: Michelin Enduro, DOT approved
Warranty: 12 month Limited Warranty
MSRP: $9299.00
*Specifications subject to change without notice.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Motorcycle Picture of the Week - Ray Latta
Thursday, February 16, 2012
2012 Benelli Tre-K 1130 Amazonas
2012 Benelli Tre-K 1130 Amazonas Review
Quality, innovation, range. Benelli reboots after their 100th year anniversary in 2011 to take on the market with even greater determination. The goals have been stated clearly: maximum product quality, an updated, more polished range, production in Italy but with marketing operations throughout the world. With all this, 2012 is sure to be a banner year with consolidation of the existing production organization in view of the gradual introduction of brand new models that will top off Benelli’s offer and complete the manufacturer’s relaunch started five years ago following the acquisition by QJ.
Quality, innovation, range. Benelli reboots after their 100th year anniversary in 2011 to take on the market with even greater determination. The goals have been stated clearly: maximum product quality, an updated, more polished range, production in Italy but with marketing operations throughout the world. With all this, 2012 is sure to be a banner year with consolidation of the existing production organization in view of the gradual introduction of brand new models that will top off Benelli’s offer and complete the manufacturer’s relaunch started five years ago following the acquisition by QJ.
2012 Benelli Tre-K 1130 Amazonas 1
Quality takes first priority: the enormous task of testing, developing and fine-tuning the entire 2012 range has allowed us to achieve the highest standards on the market and guarantee the Benelli buyer reliability, optimized fuel consumption and meticulous bike construction. And that naturally includes the joy of riding a Benelli, which is the distinctive, essential trait of every motorbike that comes off the assembly line of the Pesaro plant.
Pesaro, Italy: this is where Benelli’s hub lies, in an efficient, modern structure vaunting the highest standards of quality that was maintained as the chief production headquarters. The “Made in Italy” stamp remains an indispensable element for Benelli, which is looking ahead to seize the opportunities offered by the global market, conscious of the fact of its role as a brand leader with a legendary history and confident of its offer of top-end products standing out for their quality, design and sporty allure.
2012 Benelli Tre-K 1130 Amazonas 2
The Benelli motorcycle range for 2012 has been renewed, refined and enriched with new models.
Ducati Recalls Hypermotard and Monster for Fuel Line Problem
Ducati is recalling certain model year 2011-2012 Hypermotard and Monster motorcycles manufactured from June 25, 2011, through November 30, 2011.
The fuel lines contain micro-cracking due to insufficient drying of raw materials prior to extrusion.
913 units are affected.
Check out my Motorcycle Recalls feature for more details.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Southsiders Babe February 2012
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Renee Perle was a Romanian model and first Muse of French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue circa 1930
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Renee Perle was a Romanian model and first Muse of French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue circa 1930
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Polar Bear Grand Tour to the PIC-A-LILLI INN in Shamong, NJ on Feb. 12, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
My Leathers - A Bikers Poem
My Leathers
My leathers have been with me since I started motorcycling,
I tend to wear them whenever I’m riding.
They are faded from the elements, stretched and saggy fromuse,
but they still keep me from taking abuse.
My leathers bare the scars, scrapes and abrasions from a fewslips and some spills,
and my leathers still keep me warm from those morning chills.
Despite them being my body guard we have become old friends,
going on long rides together taking on hills, valleys andbends.
My leathers have sheltered me from the rain and from the fog,
they even have blocked the bite of an angry dog.
They have protected me from flying rocks and from bugs,
and have been on the receiving end of many hugs.
My leathers have shaded me from the blistering sun,
on a long, dry and hot Texas run.
Over time they have become supple and comfortable like awell broken in boot,
as a bonus, there’s a place for my gun in case I need toshoot.
My leathers are getting old, wrinkly and are slightlytattered,
but they continue to protect me from getting battered.
They have screened me from the wind,
and they will stay with me to the end.
But at the end of this long ride,
it’s not just a cows hide,
It’s my skin.
© 2012 - Torch
Ride on,
Torch
What Sort of Man Reads MC ART?
A hip guy who's big on blazing his own trail. The kind of guy who finds that trail leads him to MotorCycle entertainment that's Right On track.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
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