Monday, August 3, 2009

Motorcycling....Riding the Internet

With my bike in North Carolina (will be riding that in a few days) have been in Richmond doing some internet surfing. I am always looking for interesting events both in North Carolina, South Carolina (Charlotte is on the border of that state) and also in my part time home of Virginia. Have found a few good events here (such as the Saturday morning Childsavers Ride a few months ago....a massive gathering of bikers riding for a good cause), and always on the lookout for more.
Been looking at a lot of the new bikes coming out; as usual leading the pack is Harley-Davidson, and now Victory both of which have some new models (or in some cases new versions of older ones). One thing I got a kick out of is the Buell site.....the sport bike line of Harley-Davidson which is the brainchild of Erik Buell. Punch up Buell Motorcycles; and check out the video at his site on "The New 2010 Buell Blast". It is one of the funniest ads I have seen in a long, long time.
Also of interest is a trailer for the new movie "Tron". I remember the old one (a groundbreaking movie back in the day using computer animation). It was also a pretty good video game back in the early days of (good) video games. Trailer features the "light cycles" and is pretty cool.
Though there is not a lot of information on it (of yet) Honda has a site for the new 1200cc V-4 (apparently) sport bike coming out later this year. Its more of a teaser site, though a concept bike did show up at one of the bike shows last year. Always thought a lot of the V-4 Honda motorcycle engine. Some great bikes used that such as the Interceptor (which still uses an 800cc version), and it was even used in a very fine cruiser called the Magna (which was discontinued some years ago). Looking forward to seeing that bike; whatever it turns out to be.

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