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Thursday, December 31
WSBK et al.
motorcycle-usa.com: Zemke to Jordan Suzuki ÔÇô AMA Pro Racing 2010
Dakar
The date line on this article is December 21 makes it old news but yet a good way to begin my limited coverage of Dakar 2010.
tbam.com: Dakar almost here
moto-station.com: Dakar 2010: The BMW 450 will she measure up?
onewheeldrive.net: Street heads to South America for 2010 ÔÇ£El DakaroÔÇØ
motorcycle-usa.com: Dakar Rally route details
flagworld.com: Dakar ÔÇô It all starts at La Rural
BMW PressClub/Argentina (translation by bing) Cages
X-raid Team presented alongside total team involved the Dakar Rally Argentina Chile 2010.
30.12.2009
Press release
After a successful sponsorship during the 2009 Dakar, TOTAL is once again the official sponsor of the team X-Raid BMW Team, led by Sven Quandt, Director General of the computer. This computer was presenting yesterday to the press in the Dakar Village.
Team that competes with BMW X 3 CC units are vast international experience pilots:
St?®phane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret
Nani Roma and Michel Perin Guerlain Chicherit and Tina Th?Ârner.
Leonid Novitskiy and Andreas Schulz.
Total will bring all its expertise in logistics, fuels and lubricants is concerned, provide support to the team during the next Rally Dakar Argentina Chile 2010.
In addition, TOTAL official sponsor of the Dakar Rally by 18th consecutive year, has accompanied this legendary event in these years providing fuel during the entire route, being the only oil company capable of supplying the most inhospitable places in the world.
Sven Quandt statements
"After our successful experience in 2009, is again a pleasure for the X-raid team visit this region for the 2010 version of Argentina Chile Dakar Rally, the greatest challenge of the new year." "We are convinced that cooperation with total will lead to very positive results and cannot wait to cross the line of rulebook and transform our joint efforts into a reality."
Statements Diego Tricci
"For TOTAL is a great satisfaction be X-raid Team sponsor for the second consecutive year." "The 2009 Dakar threw as a result an excellent experience and complementarity, being this year, without a doubt one of the teams is planned as a serious candidate to get first place".
Check out the official promotion video of the Dakar 2010 Argentina&Chile (NL version) - "Same places, new adventure!" (video created by the A.S.O. Dakar Organization Committee)
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Formula 1 and 
f1technical.net: Points for pole position and fastest lap in 2010?
On the Street
I was zipping through my feeds when I came to Motorcycle Picture of the Day : BMW R100CS and wondered where have I seen this picture before? Maybe here? The bike may be located in ÔÇ£Marin By God County, CaliforniaÔÇØ but my bet is the picture is going viral across the internet.
bmwblog.com is a cage blog. They have a little piece about the S1000RR titled ÔÇ£BMW flouts politics and unleashes a monster.ÔÇØ The article centers around the MCN dyno test previously posted in this thread showing the S to be the current production hp bike king. BLAH BLAH BLAH What really caught my attention was this paragraph.
ÔÇ£The demographic BMW are targeting with this bike are not ÔÇÿnew learnerÔÇÖ teenagers, in fact, BMW refuse to sell their high output motorcycles to anyone short of experience on medium class bikes. My local Toronto Motorrad dealer takes pride in this policy, and as a Toronto Medic, IÔÇÖm proud of them for it.ÔÇØ
This is the first that I have heard of this. Are any Canadian members aware of this?
Buell.com is up and running even if the company is not. Along with deep discounts and a two year unlimited mileage warranty they have added a bike locator feature to the site to help you find out were the last ones are in the US. 1277 left as I write this. Check it out an see how many are left when you visit the site.
Normally there are several dealer threads running on the forum at any given time. They cover a variety of issues, complaints and rants. Dealernews has a piece for dealers on how they can protect themselves from pollution liability. The article has a link to a bulletin from Zurich the insurance company. Naturally they want to sell insurance to dealers but for this threads readers it will give an insight into the issues dealers face with pollution and some ideas to manage them that we could possibly adapt to our own garages.
Cutting edge technology that is taken into manufacturing often turns into bleeding edge technology that ends up on the floor of a bankruptcy court. That is where Vectrix Electrics found themselves July of this year after being an early leader in developing scooters and their impressive electric superbike. AutoblogGreen is running a story that GP Batteries has purchased the company for a modest $5 million dollars consisting of cash and debt assumption. What they will do with the company, scooters and the electric superbike is unknown.
A link from a reader ÔÇô BMW motorcycle technology for the physically handicapped bikers.flv
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thedesignblog.org: All mountain wheelchair brings sporty spirit to the physically impaired.
ifitshiitshere.blogspot.com: Wood Sculpters that look like anything but. The work of Ricky Swallow
:jaw
RedmondSpokesman
xkcd.com
motobastards.com
Bike Cruller
TodayÔÇÖs cruller is a classic by Tony Foale by way of The New Caf?® Racer Society.
Tonyfoale.com / Articles
Breaking the Mold
Italian Job
Biography
Additional pictures
WSBK et al.
motorcycle-usa.com: Zemke to Jordan Suzuki ÔÇô AMA Pro Racing 2010
Dakar
The date line on this article is December 21 makes it old news but yet a good way to begin my limited coverage of Dakar 2010.
tbam.com: Dakar almost here
moto-station.com: Dakar 2010: The BMW 450 will she measure up?
onewheeldrive.net: Street heads to South America for 2010 ÔÇ£El DakaroÔÇØ
motorcycle-usa.com: Dakar Rally route details
flagworld.com: Dakar ÔÇô It all starts at La Rural
BMW PressClub/Argentina (translation by bing) Cages
X-raid Team presented alongside total team involved the Dakar Rally Argentina Chile 2010.
30.12.2009
Press release
After a successful sponsorship during the 2009 Dakar, TOTAL is once again the official sponsor of the team X-Raid BMW Team, led by Sven Quandt, Director General of the computer. This computer was presenting yesterday to the press in the Dakar Village.
Team that competes with BMW X 3 CC units are vast international experience pilots:
St?®phane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret
Nani Roma and Michel Perin Guerlain Chicherit and Tina Th?Ârner.
Leonid Novitskiy and Andreas Schulz.
Total will bring all its expertise in logistics, fuels and lubricants is concerned, provide support to the team during the next Rally Dakar Argentina Chile 2010.
In addition, TOTAL official sponsor of the Dakar Rally by 18th consecutive year, has accompanied this legendary event in these years providing fuel during the entire route, being the only oil company capable of supplying the most inhospitable places in the world.
Sven Quandt statements
"After our successful experience in 2009, is again a pleasure for the X-raid team visit this region for the 2010 version of Argentina Chile Dakar Rally, the greatest challenge of the new year." "We are convinced that cooperation with total will lead to very positive results and cannot wait to cross the line of rulebook and transform our joint efforts into a reality."
Statements Diego Tricci
"For TOTAL is a great satisfaction be X-raid Team sponsor for the second consecutive year." "The 2009 Dakar threw as a result an excellent experience and complementarity, being this year, without a doubt one of the teams is planned as a serious candidate to get first place".
Check out the official promotion video of the Dakar 2010 Argentina&Chile (NL version) - "Same places, new adventure!" (video created by the A.S.O. Dakar Organization Committee)
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Formula 1 and 
f1technical.net: Points for pole position and fastest lap in 2010?
On the Street
I was zipping through my feeds when I came to Motorcycle Picture of the Day : BMW R100CS and wondered where have I seen this picture before? Maybe here? The bike may be located in ÔÇ£Marin By God County, CaliforniaÔÇØ but my bet is the picture is going viral across the internet.
bmwblog.com is a cage blog. They have a little piece about the S1000RR titled ÔÇ£BMW flouts politics and unleashes a monster.ÔÇØ The article centers around the MCN dyno test previously posted in this thread showing the S to be the current production hp bike king. BLAH BLAH BLAH What really caught my attention was this paragraph.
ÔÇ£The demographic BMW are targeting with this bike are not ÔÇÿnew learnerÔÇÖ teenagers, in fact, BMW refuse to sell their high output motorcycles to anyone short of experience on medium class bikes. My local Toronto Motorrad dealer takes pride in this policy, and as a Toronto Medic, IÔÇÖm proud of them for it.ÔÇØ
This is the first that I have heard of this. Are any Canadian members aware of this?
Buell.com is up and running even if the company is not. Along with deep discounts and a two year unlimited mileage warranty they have added a bike locator feature to the site to help you find out were the last ones are in the US. 1277 left as I write this. Check it out an see how many are left when you visit the site.
Normally there are several dealer threads running on the forum at any given time. They cover a variety of issues, complaints and rants. Dealernews has a piece for dealers on how they can protect themselves from pollution liability. The article has a link to a bulletin from Zurich the insurance company. Naturally they want to sell insurance to dealers but for this threads readers it will give an insight into the issues dealers face with pollution and some ideas to manage them that we could possibly adapt to our own garages.
Cutting edge technology that is taken into manufacturing often turns into bleeding edge technology that ends up on the floor of a bankruptcy court. That is where Vectrix Electrics found themselves July of this year after being an early leader in developing scooters and their impressive electric superbike. AutoblogGreen is running a story that GP Batteries has purchased the company for a modest $5 million dollars consisting of cash and debt assumption. What they will do with the company, scooters and the electric superbike is unknown.
A link from a reader ÔÇô BMW motorcycle technology for the physically handicapped bikers.flv
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thedesignblog.org: All mountain wheelchair brings sporty spirit to the physically impaired.
ifitshiitshere.blogspot.com: Wood Sculpters that look like anything but. The work of Ricky Swallow
:jaw
RedmondSpokesman
xkcd.com
motobastards.com
Bike Cruller
TodayÔÇÖs cruller is a classic by Tony Foale by way of The New Caf?® Racer Society.
Tonyfoale.com / Articles
Breaking the Mold
Italian Job
Biography
Additional pictures