Archive for June, 2009
Amor Flies to Victory at Athea
Posted on 30. Jun, 2009 by admin.
Keith Amor recorded yet another win on the Irish roads at the weekend when he won the Open race at the Athea road races on Sunday.
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VIDEO: Triumph Daytona motorcycle assembled from Lego bricks
Posted on 30. Jun, 2009 by admin.
Filed under: Toys , Motorcycles , UK Lego Triumph Daytona motorcycle - Click above to watch the video after the break Further proof that you can literally fashion anything if given access to enough interconnecting Lego bricks is this Triumph Daytona 1200 motorcycle. The machine has apparently been on display for quite some time at Legoland Windsor in Berkshire, England and is obviously assembled from thousands of individual pieces. We especially like the detailed engine, which is complete with linkages for the carbs and throttle cables
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Video: Vespa 125 Four-Stroke
Posted on 30. Jun, 2009 by admin.
Posted on 06.30.2009 15:22 by Maxx Biker Filed under: Vespa | scooters | video | funny Vespa, the famous scooter manufacturer from Italy, has found a very funny way of promoting their 125cc four-stroke model using the King Kong theme. Of course, this is a distorted version in which the beast fells in love with the machine rather than with the beautiful girl, leaving us wondering how will the gorilla commute on that thing through the urban jungle. Or is the beast only going to polish the Vespa and then stare at it for hours and hours
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BMW R 1250 GS by Oberdan Bezzi
Posted on 30. Jun, 2009 by admin.
Posted on 06.30.2009 15:55 by Maxx Biker Filed under: BMW | BMW F series | industry news | tourers | spy_shots_renderings Design guru Oberdan Bezzi has come up with a very interesting Bavarian adventure touring rendering, one that is imagined to replace the current BMW R 1200 GS.
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Ducati Desmosedici RR
Posted on 30. Jun, 2009 by admin.
Posted on 06.30.2009 14:36 by Maxx Biker Filed under: Ducati | supersports | Moto GP | Ducati Desmosedici MotoGP has long inspired competing manufacturers to implement racing technologies on their road-going motorcycles, but nobody believed (although everybody thought at the idea at least once) that a MotoGP bike will ever be turned into a road-legal one and be sold to those willing to pay the big bucks. Ducati was the first, and currently only, to break the ice in 2007 with the Desmosedici RR, which was derived from the Desmosedici GP6 Grand Prix motorcycle, and in 2009 the world is still (…) Permalink
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Would You Pass On Your Motorcycle?
Posted on 30. Jun, 2009 by admin.
Would you dare pass on the right on your motorcycle? …
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Video: Harbortown Bobber Movie Teaser
Posted on 30. Jun, 2009 by admin.
Our friends at OneWorldStudios are getting ready to release another one of their motorcycle documentaries, Harbortown Bobber. Here’s the DVD teaser, with a great soundtrack… …
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Packing Lists For Your Motorcycle Trip
Posted on 30. Jun, 2009 by admin.
Here’s an interesting website for those of you who travel long (or even short) distance on your motorcycle, and have a tendency, like myself, to forget things. The site, The Universal Packing List, generates a packing list depending on criteria you enter. Very handy…
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Beware the Bike with a Hidden History this Summer
Posted on 29. Jun, 2009 by admin.
With summertime here, for many, the freedom, speed and excitement of the open road on a motorcycle becomes hard to resist. However, HPI is issuing a stark warning to those who prefer two wheels to four - motorbikes are just as vulnerable to criminal scams as other vehicles.
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Hat-Trick for Farquhar at Athea
Posted on 29. Jun, 2009 by admin.
Ryan Farquhar became only the second rider to record 100 Irish road race wins on Sunday when he took a hat-trick of victories at the Athea road races.