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So I got just a little bit lucky. A friend of a friend just got a '14 FJR and his '04 has been sitting for months. He'd been too busy to bother listing it on craigslist and made a joke about "free to good home" at work to a mate who said "weird... I know a really good home..." And now, I own an...

i.e. with a bunch of old men standing around them talking about riding. :-D I worked with forumite (if I remember his name right) Dave (blue bike) at turn 2 all weekend for WSB and had a great time. Most of the races I work you'll move to a different corner each day so you don't get stuck with a...

So it came up again, the 2000 season where WSBK allegedly ripped the title out of Haga's hands by banning him for two races (one round) at the end of the season. I remember saying then (and I'm saying now) that Haga wasn't a shoe-in even if he'd won those two races, as he lost the title by 65...

History, pics, wallpapers, racing spam. I haven't counted them up, but just perusing the history I think Yamaha might have as many 500 titles with riders whose names start with "R" as Honda and Suzuki have combined. (If you don't count Doohan, who's a jerk and had no competition. :D )

So a friend has this TW200, right. He says it's fine other than the clutch won't disengage. "Great," I say, "bring it over, I'll fix it and we can go ride!" So after a week or so he drags it over and I'm hoping the clutch thing's going to be really simple, like a cable, adjustment, or at worst...

Because it's a bitch to get on the center stand. :P So a buddy strikes gold (trim) with this '83 XJ750 "Midnight Maxim" for cheap. Good: Very cheap. '80s kitsch style. In very good shape for a semi-neglected '83 Yamaha. Bad: Doesn't run. Tends to deposit all fuel from tank to oil sump*...

So it's not exactly for public consumption. Just read this article and it's got some knockout information. The article's a few years old, but it was new to me when I read it. Wow. Gotta love an engine that feels hollow to a guy that builds engines. Also, they claimed Mike the Bike wasn't a fan...

McLinkleton IMO the latest FZ-6* had exactly the wrong engine for a middleweight sport street bike. I think this bike'll fill the huge hole that the VFR left when Honda screwed it up in '02 with the new model. There's hope, anyway. * Not the new more budgety FZ-6R, I know nothing of that bike.

Spies 9th in qualifying. He was 12th in morning practice when Towsland was 16th. That's gotta hurt. :)

I can't imagine the thrill of watching a Nighthawk 250 on a dyno. It must be like pulling teeth. With tweezers.

I guess if it's not imported then NONE of the rules apply. Yup. Those dipshits at DMG can't even go by their own rulebook between races! It's one thing that they can't pull one out of their pocket quickly enough to make a decision on the fly during a race weekend but damn, guys, take a peek at...

Was this covered in the news at all? Looking at the results it looked like a WERA National with some AMA privateers thrown in? Anyone see it? I'm kind of hoping it'll turn national in a year or two and replace... Erm, do we still have a national series? I seem to remember one similar to BSB but...

https://www.cyclenews.com/articles/editoria...orial-chicanery One of my favorite bits: "On Saturday afternoon, AMA PR made the decision to move the SuperSport race from Sunday, when it was expected to rain, to Saturday. Had they said it was because of rain, that would have been an admission...

Linky to Soup. Best quote of the whole fiasco: "We've said this from day one to Roger (Edmondson) that we're not in the entertainment business like NASCAR is. We race to improve the technology and to make our production bikes better. If we can't do that, then the factory says we can't race."...