Archive for December 2011

Famous Bike Riders on TV

Motorcycles are growing increasingly popular in American culture and are now seen on TV. Although the bikes have been around for a while, there was a certain stigma to them. Normally, it was thought they were the people who rode “bad boys”, but now you can catch people they drive every day. One reason for their popularity is the economic value they provide to clients. This article will focus on presenting a few TV shows motorcycle. Whether or years of reality shows, this shows all the highlights not only the bike itself, but also the culture that surrounds them.

A classic show that was a pioneer in which a motorcycle from Happy Days.The show aired for over a decade and finally ends in 1984. This show was not on the 70 or 80 though. He captured American life in the 50s and 60s. The show was in Wisconsin and attended the Cunningham family. Happy Days is described as a typical family in America. They take in an old high school dropout, biker Fonzie Arthur. More recognizable as “The Fonz” Fonzie was a typical womanizer. Although the show was first on Richie Cunningham and his friends in the eye, Fonzie is an audience favorite and a central character as the stories of other changes. Read the rest of this entry »

Setting Speed Records in a Motorcycle

It is the rare soul, at least here in the U.S., which is in any case, the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, with the speed. It is well known that here the fastest cars and motorcycles in the world speed records will be set.

That many people probably do not know, but is simply the number of records are available, with many of them still are waiting yet to be determined. Of course there is the ultimate goal: the highest speed of all vehicles of any kind, namely the ultimate speed record of all. Or, a little more specialized, the fastest car or truck or motorcycle. But there are actually classes for all sizes of machines, whether they are stocks, and many other variables.

Well, once you start creating categories of vehicles there is no end. A friend of mine, Jerry, who personally took three world speed records and currently holds two of them took the easy way. He looks over his stable of vintage motorcycles and, most look at the list of orphan files, what fits. All he has to do then is to make two successful races and was the first record holder in this category. In 2010 he founded a new world record in the 650cc class bikes available before 1956. The average of two runs is what happens to the record, and his testimony was only 52,202 hours miles. Read the rest of this entry »

Motorcycle Riders In The Rain

Do you ride your motorcycle in the rain? Probably the better question is, do you really get out and ride your motorcycle? Because if you do, you inevitably ride in the rain, at least at times, and at least for the amount of time it takes for you to find shelter.

It doesn’t matter that you started off on a clear, sunny morning. You headed out on your Royal Star Tour Deluxe thinking what a beautiful day for a ride it is, but now it’s not looking so good. Those low-hanging clouds are heading your way and the closer they get the darker and uglier they become. It’s a good thing you’ve got your rain suit with you.

You do, don’t you? You don’t ever take off without it, do you? It ought to live in one of your bags and be with you all the time when you’re out on the road.

Having a rain suit – and carrying it with you – is one of the things that separates newbie riders from experienced riders. I should know. I am the latter but at one time I was the former. When my buddies and I first got our bikes and took off riding them we were totally unprepared. Just about the only type of gear we had were helmets and we didn’t even wear them very often. You figure out very quickly, however, that a helmet is essential in the rain because otherwise those little rain drops feel like hundreds of sharp little pins turning your face into a pin cushion. Read the rest of this entry »