Despite the intense cold, or maybe because of it, here are several interesting motorcycle related articles I’ve been reading over the last week that you may want to read.

- 5 Reasons Not To Ride A Motorcycle Or Scooter In The Winter (Scooter In The Sticks)
- Riding Motorcycle In The Winter Part 3 (Motorcycle Blog From Jafrum)
- Nolan N104 Helmet Review (Revzilla Blog)
- Motorcycle-only Checkpoints Rev Up Controversy In Congress (LA Times)

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My friends at the Dutch motorcycle site Oliepeil decided not to be down because of the winter and the absolute freezing weather The Netherlands is having, so they decided to have some fun.

Using three KTM vehicles, and a frozen lake, they had their fun. A 500 EXC motorcycle, a 525 XC ATV and as bonus, a KTM X-BOW sports car did the trick.

Here’s the video on how to have fun in the winter….

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Three companies got together back in 2007 to develop better motorcycles, and here is their first brainchild. The three companies, Inmotec (Moto2 and Moto3 racing technology), Luma (Europe’s biggest anti-theft devices) and Dhemen (industrial design group).

The joint venture company is called LEM, and their first product is named LEMev Stream, and it is an electric scooter. The scooter is 100% Spanish, designed and built there, and funded by national and local authorities.

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Just because there’s snow and ice, doesn’t mean you can’t go and have fun on your motorcycle. And it doesn’t even have to be an off-road bike with big studded tires, just some spikes in your tires will do the trick (just look at the spikes on the tires…).

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For a fourth consecutive year, sales of motorcycles and scooters in France has declined. While 2007 was a record year, 2011 is turning out to be one of the worst of this millennium.

But interestingly enough, the European motorcycle manufacturers saw incredible sales increases, while the Japanese (except Honda) saw the reverse.

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http://mpb-moto.com/2012/02/double-title-bid-for-smiths-gloucester-racing-team/ http://mpb-moto.com/2012/02/double-title-bid-for-smiths-gloucester-racing-team/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:26:58 +0000 admin http://mpb-moto.com/2012/02/double-title-bid-for-smiths-gloucester-racing-team/ After a solid 2011 season which saw two of their riders inside the top ten of the Fuchs-Silkolene British Supersport Championship, the Smiths (Gloucester) Racing Team has signalled their intentions of challenging for two 2012 titles with a strong four rider team.

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It’s so cold out here in Europe, that even the motorcycles freeze over.

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We’ve already reported on Milan’s congestion charge, something motorcycles do NOT have to pay, since they are allowed to go into the city without paying the tax.

After the first week of the congestion charge, authorities stated that traffic inside the inner city was reduced by 37%! Cars dropped from 122,000 to 77,000 during the operating hours of the congestion charge. Carbon emissions dropped 30%.

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