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Friday, February 3rd, 2012 |
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Posted 18:00:00
Filed under Web
Author: Mike Werner | Location: Travelling |
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Here are some interesting motorcycle related articles found on the internet during the last week that you may have missed.
Enjoy
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Technorati :Motorbikes Motorcycles Review Summary Web |
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Posted 14:00:00
Filed under France Racing Video Feeds
Author: Mike Werner | Location: Normandy, France |
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For those of you who are interested in seeing this wacky and very tough beach motorcycle enduro race, the Le Touquet Enduropale  , here's your chance without moving out of your home (or office).
One of the sponsors, the national TV station France 3 will be transmitting a large part of the three hours of the race on TV. But they will be streaming the whole race on their web site. It'll be in French, but the language of motorcycles is international.
You'll be able to watch this incredible race, where 1000+ motorcycles compete in deep sand, where professionals have as biggest obstacles, not the man made dunes and jumps, but the slow, often still standing, Sunday amateurs.
But what is going to make this race even more memorable, is that they are predicting snow for the weekend. So you can image what kind of race that will be... not only will they be racing in deep sand, but maybe even deep snow.
I have not able to determine if the web site has a geo-localization lock on it, preventing people from abroad from seeing the race, but in 2010, there was none.
This year, one of the most notable off-road motorcycle racers will be present, the 2012 Dakar winner Cyril Despres . Unfortuneately, not as a racer, but as support for the international rugby player, Christian Califano , a friend and motorcycle race pupil of Despres (Califano also raced in the 2011 Dakar, and finished last, but at least he finished).
The race starts around 13:00 CETCentral European Time zone. Time zone for most of Europe - Amsyerdam, Paris, Madrid, Rome (1 PM).
Click here to go to France3 Enduropale page
| Read related articles | Friday, February 5th, 2010 - See The Le Touquet Beach Race Live On The Web
If you can't make it to France to see this weekend's crazy Le Touquet Enduropale, and don't live in France so you can see one of the 2 TV channels transmitting the race live, then there's still hope....
France 3, one of the main TV channels here, are transmitting 5 feeds from the race on the web. You can see the race as it happens. That's 3 hours of fun.... | Monday, January 30th, 2012 - France: Motorcycle Rest Stops for Enduropale 2012
If you're planning to attend world's craziest, and biggest, beach motorcycle race, the Le Touquet Enduropale, on next weekend (February 4 & 5), and you're going on a motorcycle, here are the special rest places for bikers.
There are 3 of them, places motorcycle riders can go to, to get their bike checked out, drink hot drinks, and mingle with other bikers.
Also, several motorways should be free for motorcycles going to the race. |
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 |
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Posted 18:00:00
Filed under Statistics Scooters
Author: Mike Werner | Location: Normandy, France |
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These are pretty amazing statistics coming from the Swiss Federal Office of Statistics (OFS). Overall in 2010, there were 5.36 million vehicles (cars, trucks, etc) circulating in Switzerland, of which 12% were motorcycles. That on its own is already pretty impressive.
In the last 20 years, the number of motorcycle doubled, from 299,264 to 651,252 in 2010, but it's the number of scooters that blows your mind (well, at least it did mine). In the last 20 years, the number of scooters was multiplied by a factor of 20, currently representing 37% of the motorcycle park (excluding moped).
So it looks like you need a scooter to go to the bank and pickup all your millions... 
Via: Asso-Scooter
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Posted 14:00:00
Filed under Movie Review Product Review
Author: Mike Werner | Location: Normandy, France |
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Score:
Plot: 4
Acting: 3
Visual: 3
Sound: 4
Nudity: None
Gore: None |
One thing is for sure, Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann is original. It's a biker Sci-Fi movie, where a motorcycle meets the past, in this case the good old Western days. So what you get is a motorcycle against horses. It has all the traditional western characters, bad cowboys, prospectors, sexy damsel, reverend with a gun, etc.
This 1982 movie lasts 94 minutes. As movie scripts go, it's not half bad. It's not a blockbuster, and the acting will never have been nominated for an Oscar, but decent enough.
Quotes: "You shot it. What a bunch of dumb sons of bitches, you *shot* it! A *machine* - you butt-heads!" "Whoever he is, he sure can ride a bike" "God almighty, does anyone read me" "You were very lucky, they are real bad men... no shit"
Plot: Lyle, a motorcycle champion is traveling the Mexican desert, when he find himself in the action radius of a time machine. So he find himself one century back in the past between rapists, thieves and murderers....
Verdict: Not a bad Sci-Fi motorcycle movie, not a big Hollywood production, but a decent script. Loads of motocross riding, and most of that in the past. Haven't we all dreamt of that...
Watch the video preview below.
Click here for many more photos of Timerider
Click here to see the Timerider entry in the IMDB .
| Amazon US (hover over link below for price) | Amazon UK | DVD | DVD |
Timerider (2 minutes 25 seconds)
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