Agent3012

Okay, I have a weird question to ask here: Anyone know of a motorcycle shop in northeast Ohio that handles tire mounting that would be able to mount the tires on hubs for a 1929 Fore Model A? The regular car shops don't want anything to do with the old car, so since the tall, thin tires with an innertube are closer to a motorcycle anyway, I figured I'd check on this side of the service fence.

Isn't the accident at 0:20 from video of an OR rider?

The helmet hardware is running Android-based software, because as long as you're not using any of the Google services (Google Play Store, Google Maps, etc), you're free to do whatever you want with the OS. It's more a financial decision than anything to do with software platform religious wars. Skully will be releasing an open SDK to programmers to design apps to work with the helmet, and there's no reason those have to be limited to Android devices. You'll likely see an app to do something or other with your iPhone shortly after release. Provided, that is, that you have the $1,399 to afford the helmet.

I do think many drivers and riders aren't aware just how dependent they have become on brake lights to warn them that a vehicle ahead of them is slowing or stopped. Our eyes rely heavily on the looming effect of objects changing size to determine speed of an object that is heading towards or away from us. The problem is that the change in size becomes very small as distance increases, which means that it's hard for a driver to determine the speed of a car just a few hundred feet away. It's only when the car is much closer that our eyes can accurately judge speed based on the looming effect. To see this in action, start at 2:15 in this video.

The cutest little hooligan bike.

Just to compound the weirdness ... Apparently, a hundred or so members of a local "Freedom Of Road Riders" group parked their motorcycles outside the Missouri state legislature to support legislation repealing the sales ban. Charles Jaco, from KTVI Fox 2 in Saint Louis, saw the bikes and posted a joke on his Twitter feed: Queue a month of motorcyclists calling, sending in letters and posting angry complaints on the channel's Facebook page. Two weeks later, he left the channel "to go write a book".

To provide some contrast, here's a bike chase that doesn't quite get very far before the engine stalls out, and some very bemused looking cops make the pinch. (note: no math needed while watching this video)

Motorcyclist Escapes Police After 150MPH Chase A rider on I-71 near Medina Township apparently decided that Tuesday's warm spell was a great time to get involved in a high-speed escape from police that included a State Highway Patrol airplane.

I have to admit, beyond salt and sand, my biggest fear around taking advantage of these brief warm days in the middle of Winter are all the potholes you discover.

It is interesting to see the growing interest in smaller engines lately, how long until we see a "Super Ninéré" adventure version.

This might as well be about Cleveland weather forecasts:

C'mon Spring ... Let the good time roll!

That collection even has from the 1979 movie that only people like me remember.

Nice! Those 70s enduro bikes seem like tanks. High-pitched, fast-moving tanks.

I'm becoming dangerously tempted to enter this on my scoot to see if I can make it back in one piece (probably) and in one day (not so much). I kind of wish I had a Grom for this. Or a Ural w/sidecar. Both seem oddly appropriate.