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GIRISH

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Great job Colin the bike is looking good.

hux that looks like it will be a good, ride have fun. If you are up my way let me know.
 
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desperanzaa//

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For those that want real power in a bike and have the money to burn.



The Tomahawk!


The Tomahawk is a Viper V-10 based motorcycle, a 500 horsepower engine with four wheels beneath it. The engine breathes through twin throttle bodies mounted right up front. (That's what the two round things above the front tires are).
Chrysler sold nine replicas through Neiman Marcus, for up to $555,000 each.
The Dodge Tomahawk can reach 60 miles an hour in about 2.5 seconds, and has a theoretical top speed of nearly 400 mph. Each pair of wheels is separated by a few inches and each wheel has an independent suspension. Bernhard said four wheels were necessary to handle the power from the engine.
 
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RandomGuy1

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I have just read a column in Australian Motorcycle News, it is written by Glynn Kerr , a motorcycle designer. He has just moved his base of operations to California; he still has his European office and is commuting between the two at present.

His article centred on the changing market of motorcycles in America, and how it could affect markets globally. Apparently sports bikes are becoming much more popular, especially with the younger demographic. This market has always been large in Australia, although over the last decade HD have developed strong sales with middle aged first time or returnee riders. So much so that when I think HD, I also think grey hair and overweight. Anyway the designer sees this change in the market as a chance to do some exiting work that could well impact on motorcycling everywhere. So, for you Americans, have you noticed this increase in sales of sports bikes yet? Is there noticeably less cruisers running around?
 
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CRAZiiExC00L

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Yea you see a lot of sport bikes here now. They are most popular with the younger crowd. They tend to thin themselves out on a regular bases here in the US. You get a lot of first time riders who go out and by a rocket after they get through the basic motorcycle course. This course only teaches you the very basics and is all slow riding skills. Well they jump on this rocket and in a couple of weeks they believe they are skilled riders. They mop them up off the road here when the truth comes calling.
Not all of us HD riders are pot belly-ed.
 
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MysticalG

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But they all have grey hair?

We have power to weight limits for new people. They need to hold a licence a period of time depending on which state they are from. In Queensland were I live the course covers much of the slower skills and the operation of controls, they also do quite a lot of supervised riding with feedback sessions afterwards. I was fairly happy with my son’s course (I followed along at the invitation of his instructor). The other aspect that has been happening for some time now is Track Days, where you get let loose on a race track. This has encouraged many ridders to do advanced road or race courses. It has also given people the option of riding in a non-competitive environment as quickly as they like, within a relatively safe environment and not break the law.

I took my son to one not long after he got his licence. I think the day was good for his ridding development. He got to explore his and his bikes limits gradually over the day and came away with a better understanding of his and his bikes limits. I don’t think it was so great for my old Ducati though, it came away with a number of new oil leaks.
 
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DP

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Just got my new bike

She starts, but she's been in storage for a couple of years and needs a little TLC. Probably be riding her in about a week.
 
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Mushie

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dude - that looks like some old school hotness right there two stroke?

re: sport bikes

I dunno bout the whole country, but around here I see two distinct and different groups of newbie out there.

One is the young kid on a crotch rocket that's obviously waaaaay too hot for their level of judgement. They're the ones we see wheely-ing down the interstate at 80 mph, doing burnouts, etc, etc...I am a fan of mandatory MSF classes and graduated licensing for bikes for these people.

The other is the 40-50 year old yuppie who had a dirt bike when he was 12 and now thinks he can handle a Fat Boy with close to 90 horsepower. These are the guys you see wearing the harley(tm) helmet, the harley(tm) jacket, the harley(tm) chaps, the harley(tm) gloves, and the harley(tm) boots with eagle spurs. They bobble at every stop sign, don't clear intersections before entering, and don't seem to understand the bike will in fact lean through a turn. I am a fan of mandatory MSF classes and graduated licensing for bikes for these people.

As far as fatalities go - the ones I have seen in the paper have been the older guys locally, but I have a hard time not thinking some of these kids on zipsplats aren't biting it too.
 
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FaizA

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It's not the actual bike, it's just a photo of the same model. It's a jawa 350 sports. It is a two stroke, and I love two strokes too

She seems pretty good, and is now actually running, but I think a new rubber hose between the air filter and carb, and a new pair of plugs will make all the difference. It looks a bit like a trail bike because the design was influenced by the very succesful two-stroke dirt and track bikes that jawa made.

You're absolutely right- apart from anything else, those little dirt bikes you see around town just aren't suitable for the road. Unless you actually are a trail rider, I'd avoid them. The problem is that nobody is making the 'cooking bikes' any more. Personally, I think they should all be forced to ride bantams until they are considered to have 'grown up'.
 
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jonathan927111

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think I'm gonna give this a shot:

http://www.ibmwr.org/otech/heatedclothing.html

http://valkyrieriders.com/socal/0203BlytheAuDeux/electriclothing.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/19991129021909/http://homepages.luc.edu/~sdiaz/electrics.html

yall done anything similar?
 
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JuVi

Member
A mate of mine has an electric vest and handle bars he thinks they are great. I don’t need them where I live, as it doesn’t get cold enough. When I used to live further south and the temperature got down to around –5 c I would have liked some heated gloves though.
 
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AmericanIdolLover

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She goes! she goes! I'm so happy I could spend 2 hours getting the right colour for the bodywork in Halfords! Oh, wait a second, I did, didn't I?
Well, here's the actual photo.
 
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