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Where are all of the nice, smaller displacement motorcycles that look good and are fun to ride? They’re everywhere, you just need to do a little work. If you’re looking for inexpensive options to a vintage British cafe racer, especially if you like the idea [...]
The Virtual Volvo Ocean Race has attracted 70,000 participants, making the fleet one of the biggest and most competitive in the world. The good news is that there’s still time to join for the chance to win a Volvo C30. Direct Link
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If you think the Hayabusa V8 is the epitome of motorcycle engines adapted to automotive use, think again, there’s another player in town, the Callaway Cyclone V16. This 80 valve V16 is made from a specially built common crankcase which mounts 4 Yamaha 1000cc inline [...]
Vendee Globe front runners to tackle the African island group tonight Direct Link
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Two more bloggers have responded to my challenge to write about which sailors, living or dead, real or fictional they would like to invite to a dinner party.It was not a surprise to me that Captain JP chose that colorful character “pirate, buccaneer, slave trader, Naval Captain, navigator, writer, explorer, scientist and hydrographer” William Dampier [...]
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On Wednesday, Nov.12, 2008, at 8 a.m. central time, Buell rolled out their 125,000th motorcycle, a 2009 white 1125R bound for Australia. That’s quite a ways from a company turning out a handful of motorcycles in a Quonset hut and old farm buildings. If you [...]
Message received from Foncia during the night: "Hi to everyone ashore, It’s not taking off that quickly. I woke upwith a nasty nightmare, which isn’t easy to explain, but that’s the mystery of sleep: how do we come up with all these ideas, which could be the basis of a good police story? The nightmare [...]
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If you’ve been paying attention to changes in the motorcycle world, you’ve certainly noticed the resurgence of the cafe racer. Cafe Racer: The Motorcycle by Mike Seate takes a look at the whole concept of cafe racers, the social scene where they originated, how they [...]
In a previous post I went on about how spending $2 more on downhaul line makes a ridiculous difference in how easy any sail will rig and tune. No less than the ghost of Chuck Berry (posting as JB Goode… Direct Link
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The British have long mixed and matched motorcycle engines and frames, the Triton, Tribsa and similar mongrels have been running the roads for decades, leave it to a Frenchman to bring Italy into the mix. Daniel Delfour liked Nortons quite a lot and thought about [...]