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News:
Moto-newsblog.com ÔÇô Ducati sales up in the US and down in EU.
Bikes in the Fast Lane[/url] ÔÇô Riding a motorcycle is 21 safer than riding a horse.
Cyrilhuzeblog.com ÔÇô More on H-DÔÇÖs business.
Bloggingstocks.com takes a look at H-DÔÇÖs long term prospects as a stock to hold and finds it comes up short. I find the analysis a bit xenophobic. H-D has become a world manufacturer that seems to be overlooked.
TheStreet.com ÔÇô Harley Hogs Feed at the Subprime Trough.
I posted the press release for the Victory powered Lehman trike earlier this week. theKneeslider.com has a follow up. Or, go to the source itself at LehmanTrikes.com
I have little sympathy for squids. The old Beretta line, ÔÇ£If youÔÇÖre going to do the crime you going to do the time.ÔÇØ Yet the following article concerns me for some reason. Visordown.com ÔÇô 170 mph Scottish biker caught on YouTube.
DirtRider.com ÔÇô Memo Tours Sets up a service team for Le Dakar ÔÇÿ08
Blog Update:
Helmet Hair ÔÇô Tearing up Mallorca on a Yamaha XT660R.
Rocketbunny.blogspot.com
Gear:
Gizmag.com - BlueAntÔÇÖs US$190
Handsfree for Motorcyclists
TopSpeed.com ÔÇô Knox back protector
uncrate.com ÔÇôDo you want to trade your full face in for a more open face look with a football style chin bar? Schuberth J1 Helmet.
Motorcycle Repair and Care:
Thebikerweb.com ÔÇô Staying safe on your motorcycle #18, Check Your Spokes.
Bikernewsonline.com  Tennessee to consider wheelie bannext thing you know they will out law murder to stop killers.
TodayÔÇÖs RoadFood.com
Woot
Todays Woot
The Blog
Over Heard in New York | Voice of the City
All things BMW
World of BMW news
BMW Motorrad Rider Equipment is ÔÇÿstreets aheadÔÇÖ according to Motorrad magazine
BMW Group Press Club:
Tracking the news from BMW at their English language sites and Germany
PressClub Canada
BMW Dynamic Performance Control: Greater Safety, Agility, Traction,and Driving Pleasure All in One.
Developing Dynamic Performance Control, BMW has created a drivetrain and chassis control system offering the driver an even more intense and safer experience of sheer driving pleasure. In particular, the car's dynamic performance and lateral acceleration become a genuine, tangible experience thanks to enhanced steering precision and tracking stability at all speeds.
Optimum distribution of lateral forces on the rear axle.
The term "Dynamic Performance Control" defines a mechatronic system serving to distribute drive forces infinitely to the rear wheels regardless of engine output. To provide this effect the final drive is combined with two superimposed gearsets and two electronically controlled multiple-plate brakes serving to infinitely vary the otherwise symmetrical distribution of drive forces when driving in a straight line.
The difference in forces potentially generated in this way of up to 1,800 Nm provides a significant improvement of steering behaviour, steering precision, tracking stability, and traction in general. At the same time the steering responds even more directly and the driver is required far less often to intervene in the steering, just as the electronic control systems are required far less frequently to stabilise the car.
Suited for all engines and drivetrains.
The special highlight of this unique development by BMW is that for the first time this system is able to actively distribute drive forces not only in the overrun mode and with the clutch disengaged. As a result, Dynamic Performance Control is suited for both standard and all-wheel drive.In all, therefore, Dynamic Performance Control enhances not only active safety, agility and motoring comfort, but also the joy of motoring through an even higher standard of steering precision, tracking stability and traction. Precisely this is why this innovative technology offers the customer genuine benefits in cars with all engines, Dynamic Performance Control giving even the "average" driver tangible benefits in everyday motoring at all speeds and helping him control his car in superior and safe style. Hence, sheer driving pleasure becomes an even more significant issue even in models with a "basic" engine.
Dynamic Performance Control and xDrive: the perfect pair.
The combination of Dynamic Performance Control and BMW's intelligent xDrive all-wheel drive system varying longitudinal forces infinitely between the front and rear axles forms an ideal team.Together with appropriate distribution of drive forces on the rear axle, this provides an unprecedented standard of driving stability, dynamism and agility re-defining the benchmark in drivetrain and chassis technology. The system also neutralises the inherent inclination of cars with all-wheel drive to understeer, thus ensuring particularly smooth and neutral driving behaviour. And even the less routined motorists will feel the difference, finding it a lot easier also in critical situations to keep his or her car under control.
Intelligent all-wheel drive: BMW xDrive.
The particular ability of variable all-wheel drive introduced for the first time by BMW in 2004 is that this high-tech system significantly improves both traction as well as dynamism and motoring safety all in one. Under normal driving conditions, permanent all-wheel drive distributes engine power at a ratio of 40 : 60 front-to-rear. BMW xDrive then responds quickly, precisely and variably to any change in road or driving conditions by changing the distribution of drive forces in a longitudinal direction.
Incorporating a power divider with an electronically controlled multiple-plate clutch, BMW xDrive directs the power of the engine to where it can be used most effectively. Hence, all-wheel drive acts against any tendency to over- or understeer in a bend at an early point in time, improving driving dynamics in the process. Traction is thus optimised also on difficult terrain, since the system directs drive power instantaneously and variably to precisely the right wheels with a higher frictional coefficient.To distribute drive forces quickly and precisely in the longitudinal direction, xDrive all-wheel drive, DSC Dynamic Stability Control, engine management and, if fitted, Active Steering are all networked with one another by means of Integrated Chassis Management.
Making its world debut high up in the north of Sweden.
This new technology is not being introduced to the public for the first time at one of the major motor shows, but rather at the BMW Group's newly established Test Centre in the north Swedish town of Arjeplog. Here, 56 kilometres or 35 miles south of the Polar Circle, Dynamic Performance Control in the BMW 530xi with xDrive all-wheel-drive technology can demonstrate convincingly on snowbound country roads and test tracks, as well as prepared ice tracks, to what extent it is able to increase safety and at the same time enhance the car's agility and nimble performance.
Cars equipped with Dynamic Performance Control show almost the same behaviour as a go-kart, offering sheer driving pleasure of the highest standard starting at low speeds and with a higher level of safety than ever before.
Motorsports PressClub
Test in Sepang.
27th ÔÇô 29th March 2007
Day two ÔÇô Wednesday
Weather conditions: sunny, hot and humid all day
Temperatures: Air: 28/35??C, Track: 30/43??C
Number of drivers participating: 13
Fastest lap overall: 1:35.258 min, Kimi R?ñikk?Ânen, Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro
Robert Kubica:
Chassis / engine: BMW Sauber F1.07-05 / BMW P86/7 V8
Test kilometres today: 615 km (111 laps)
Fastest lap: 1:35.887 min
Programme:
Like yesterday, Robert covered more laps than anybody else and enabled the BMW Sauber F1 Team to tick off many more points from its to do list. Robert did work on his race set-up for the Malaysian GP and continued the evaluation of the ÔÇ£OptionÔÇØ and ÔÇ£PrimeÔÇØ Bridgestone Potenza tyre specification. He did further checks on the cooling systems and electronical settings and also carried out start simulations.
What comes next: Tomorrow, Nick Heidfeld will take over for the remaining day of the test and work on his race preparation.
Formula BMW USA - 20 Promising racing talents start 2007 - Formula BMW USA season with first test at Road Atlanta[/b
Woodcliff Lake, NJ - March 28, 2007 20 young racers recently met at the newly paved Road Atlanta circuit, in Braselton, Georgia, on March 19 - 20 for the first official test of the 2007 Formula BMW USA championship season.
With young guns from North, Central and South America as well as from Europe the 2007 Formula BMW USA championship enters its fourth season, again showcasing some of the best young talent in the world of motorsport.
Among these are five BMW Juniors who will receive a $40,000 scholarship and automatic enrollment in Formula BMW's Education and Coaching Program. The drivers who earned the 2007 scholarships include two Americans, two Canadians and one Brazilian.
The 14-round season begins at Miller Motorsports Park on May 17-18 and then tours North America visiting some of the most famous and challenging circuits on the continent, including the Formula One races at Montreal and Indianapolis. The series finishes at Mosport International Raceway in Canada on August 24-26.
BMW MOA Chartered Club:
club:
East Texas BMW Plus Motorcycle Club, #177
founded:
12/1/1987
contact:
Bob Smith (bob@bobsmith3.com)
602 King St.
Charthage, TX 75633 US
meetings:
Papacita's Mexican Restaurant, 6704 S. Broadway Ave., Tyler, TX, 1st Thursday of each month, 7 p.m.
Gem??tlichkeit is the warm, comfortable feeling
one receives from pleasant surroundings and atmosphere.
I think you will find that when you come here.
In the early 1800s, Lafayette County along Wisconsin's southern border was at the epicenter of a lead mining rush that brought miners by the thousands into the area. They built communities like New Diggings, Lead Mine, Shullsburg and Mineral Point. Today, those mining communities survive in what is one of Wisconsin's prettiest corners; an undulating landscape of ridgelines and valleys nicknamed "Coulee Country." It is one of the first parts of the state to be populated by Europeans. That history is preserved in ways including the First Capitol Historic Site near Belmont, the location of Wisconsin's first state capitol.
Ozaukee ÔÇô Washington Daily News
Fond Du Lac Reporter
The Sheboygan Press
Daily Citizen, Beaver Dam
Weather
West Bend WI
Current
10 Day Forcast
United States
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
Canada
Meteorological Service of Canada
Travel Information ÔÇô Driving Conditions and other related information sites.
Bike Candy:
From: Motorcycles of the 20th Century
THE END
News:
Moto-newsblog.com ÔÇô Ducati sales up in the US and down in EU.
Bikes in the Fast Lane[/url] ÔÇô Riding a motorcycle is 21 safer than riding a horse.
Cyrilhuzeblog.com ÔÇô More on H-DÔÇÖs business.
Bloggingstocks.com takes a look at H-DÔÇÖs long term prospects as a stock to hold and finds it comes up short. I find the analysis a bit xenophobic. H-D has become a world manufacturer that seems to be overlooked.
TheStreet.com ÔÇô Harley Hogs Feed at the Subprime Trough.
I posted the press release for the Victory powered Lehman trike earlier this week. theKneeslider.com has a follow up. Or, go to the source itself at LehmanTrikes.com
I have little sympathy for squids. The old Beretta line, ÔÇ£If youÔÇÖre going to do the crime you going to do the time.ÔÇØ Yet the following article concerns me for some reason. Visordown.com ÔÇô 170 mph Scottish biker caught on YouTube.
DirtRider.com ÔÇô Memo Tours Sets up a service team for Le Dakar ÔÇÿ08
Blog Update:
Helmet Hair ÔÇô Tearing up Mallorca on a Yamaha XT660R.
Rocketbunny.blogspot.com
Gear:
Gizmag.com - BlueAntÔÇÖs US$190
Handsfree for Motorcyclists
TopSpeed.com ÔÇô Knox back protector
uncrate.com ÔÇôDo you want to trade your full face in for a more open face look with a football style chin bar? Schuberth J1 Helmet.
Motorcycle Repair and Care:
Thebikerweb.com ÔÇô Staying safe on your motorcycle #18, Check Your Spokes.
Bikernewsonline.com  Tennessee to consider wheelie bannext thing you know they will out law murder to stop killers.
TodayÔÇÖs RoadFood.com
Woot
Todays Woot
The Blog
Over Heard in New York | Voice of the City
All things BMW
World of BMW news
BMW Motorrad Rider Equipment is ÔÇÿstreets aheadÔÇÖ according to Motorrad magazine
BMW Group Press Club:
Tracking the news from BMW at their English language sites and Germany
PressClub Canada
BMW Dynamic Performance Control: Greater Safety, Agility, Traction,and Driving Pleasure All in One.
Developing Dynamic Performance Control, BMW has created a drivetrain and chassis control system offering the driver an even more intense and safer experience of sheer driving pleasure. In particular, the car's dynamic performance and lateral acceleration become a genuine, tangible experience thanks to enhanced steering precision and tracking stability at all speeds.
Optimum distribution of lateral forces on the rear axle.
The term "Dynamic Performance Control" defines a mechatronic system serving to distribute drive forces infinitely to the rear wheels regardless of engine output. To provide this effect the final drive is combined with two superimposed gearsets and two electronically controlled multiple-plate brakes serving to infinitely vary the otherwise symmetrical distribution of drive forces when driving in a straight line.
The difference in forces potentially generated in this way of up to 1,800 Nm provides a significant improvement of steering behaviour, steering precision, tracking stability, and traction in general. At the same time the steering responds even more directly and the driver is required far less often to intervene in the steering, just as the electronic control systems are required far less frequently to stabilise the car.
Suited for all engines and drivetrains.
The special highlight of this unique development by BMW is that for the first time this system is able to actively distribute drive forces not only in the overrun mode and with the clutch disengaged. As a result, Dynamic Performance Control is suited for both standard and all-wheel drive.In all, therefore, Dynamic Performance Control enhances not only active safety, agility and motoring comfort, but also the joy of motoring through an even higher standard of steering precision, tracking stability and traction. Precisely this is why this innovative technology offers the customer genuine benefits in cars with all engines, Dynamic Performance Control giving even the "average" driver tangible benefits in everyday motoring at all speeds and helping him control his car in superior and safe style. Hence, sheer driving pleasure becomes an even more significant issue even in models with a "basic" engine.
Dynamic Performance Control and xDrive: the perfect pair.
The combination of Dynamic Performance Control and BMW's intelligent xDrive all-wheel drive system varying longitudinal forces infinitely between the front and rear axles forms an ideal team.Together with appropriate distribution of drive forces on the rear axle, this provides an unprecedented standard of driving stability, dynamism and agility re-defining the benchmark in drivetrain and chassis technology. The system also neutralises the inherent inclination of cars with all-wheel drive to understeer, thus ensuring particularly smooth and neutral driving behaviour. And even the less routined motorists will feel the difference, finding it a lot easier also in critical situations to keep his or her car under control.
Intelligent all-wheel drive: BMW xDrive.
The particular ability of variable all-wheel drive introduced for the first time by BMW in 2004 is that this high-tech system significantly improves both traction as well as dynamism and motoring safety all in one. Under normal driving conditions, permanent all-wheel drive distributes engine power at a ratio of 40 : 60 front-to-rear. BMW xDrive then responds quickly, precisely and variably to any change in road or driving conditions by changing the distribution of drive forces in a longitudinal direction.
Incorporating a power divider with an electronically controlled multiple-plate clutch, BMW xDrive directs the power of the engine to where it can be used most effectively. Hence, all-wheel drive acts against any tendency to over- or understeer in a bend at an early point in time, improving driving dynamics in the process. Traction is thus optimised also on difficult terrain, since the system directs drive power instantaneously and variably to precisely the right wheels with a higher frictional coefficient.To distribute drive forces quickly and precisely in the longitudinal direction, xDrive all-wheel drive, DSC Dynamic Stability Control, engine management and, if fitted, Active Steering are all networked with one another by means of Integrated Chassis Management.
Making its world debut high up in the north of Sweden.
This new technology is not being introduced to the public for the first time at one of the major motor shows, but rather at the BMW Group's newly established Test Centre in the north Swedish town of Arjeplog. Here, 56 kilometres or 35 miles south of the Polar Circle, Dynamic Performance Control in the BMW 530xi with xDrive all-wheel-drive technology can demonstrate convincingly on snowbound country roads and test tracks, as well as prepared ice tracks, to what extent it is able to increase safety and at the same time enhance the car's agility and nimble performance.
Cars equipped with Dynamic Performance Control show almost the same behaviour as a go-kart, offering sheer driving pleasure of the highest standard starting at low speeds and with a higher level of safety than ever before.
Motorsports PressClub
Test in Sepang.
27th ÔÇô 29th March 2007
Day two ÔÇô Wednesday
Weather conditions: sunny, hot and humid all day
Temperatures: Air: 28/35??C, Track: 30/43??C
Number of drivers participating: 13
Fastest lap overall: 1:35.258 min, Kimi R?ñikk?Ânen, Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro
Robert Kubica:
Chassis / engine: BMW Sauber F1.07-05 / BMW P86/7 V8
Test kilometres today: 615 km (111 laps)
Fastest lap: 1:35.887 min
Programme:
Like yesterday, Robert covered more laps than anybody else and enabled the BMW Sauber F1 Team to tick off many more points from its to do list. Robert did work on his race set-up for the Malaysian GP and continued the evaluation of the ÔÇ£OptionÔÇØ and ÔÇ£PrimeÔÇØ Bridgestone Potenza tyre specification. He did further checks on the cooling systems and electronical settings and also carried out start simulations.
What comes next: Tomorrow, Nick Heidfeld will take over for the remaining day of the test and work on his race preparation.
Formula BMW USA - 20 Promising racing talents start 2007 - Formula BMW USA season with first test at Road Atlanta[/b
Woodcliff Lake, NJ - March 28, 2007 20 young racers recently met at the newly paved Road Atlanta circuit, in Braselton, Georgia, on March 19 - 20 for the first official test of the 2007 Formula BMW USA championship season.
With young guns from North, Central and South America as well as from Europe the 2007 Formula BMW USA championship enters its fourth season, again showcasing some of the best young talent in the world of motorsport.
Among these are five BMW Juniors who will receive a $40,000 scholarship and automatic enrollment in Formula BMW's Education and Coaching Program. The drivers who earned the 2007 scholarships include two Americans, two Canadians and one Brazilian.
The 14-round season begins at Miller Motorsports Park on May 17-18 and then tours North America visiting some of the most famous and challenging circuits on the continent, including the Formula One races at Montreal and Indianapolis. The series finishes at Mosport International Raceway in Canada on August 24-26.
BMW MOA Chartered Club:
club:
East Texas BMW Plus Motorcycle Club, #177
founded:
12/1/1987
contact:
Bob Smith (bob@bobsmith3.com)
602 King St.
Charthage, TX 75633 US
meetings:
Papacita's Mexican Restaurant, 6704 S. Broadway Ave., Tyler, TX, 1st Thursday of each month, 7 p.m.
Gem??tlichkeit is the warm, comfortable feeling
one receives from pleasant surroundings and atmosphere.
I think you will find that when you come here.
In the early 1800s, Lafayette County along Wisconsin's southern border was at the epicenter of a lead mining rush that brought miners by the thousands into the area. They built communities like New Diggings, Lead Mine, Shullsburg and Mineral Point. Today, those mining communities survive in what is one of Wisconsin's prettiest corners; an undulating landscape of ridgelines and valleys nicknamed "Coulee Country." It is one of the first parts of the state to be populated by Europeans. That history is preserved in ways including the First Capitol Historic Site near Belmont, the location of Wisconsin's first state capitol.
Ozaukee ÔÇô Washington Daily News
Fond Du Lac Reporter
The Sheboygan Press
Daily Citizen, Beaver Dam
Weather
West Bend WI
Current
10 Day Forcast
United States
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
Canada
Meteorological Service of Canada
Travel Information ÔÇô Driving Conditions and other related information sites.
Bike Candy:
From: Motorcycles of the 20th Century
THE END
