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The Brick House is located at Westroads Mall in the old Macaroni Restaurant building.
Touratech F 800 ScrambleR
Touratech F 800 ScrambleR
TOURATECH F 800 SCRAMBLER
Most motorcycle design is a compromise between function and form. To our eyes, vintage scrambler-style motorcycles have a head start: road bikes that can also tackle loose gravel and light off-road work are often pleasing from an aesthetic point of view. Unfortunately, Triumph has never quite got it right with its own Scrambler, unless the machine has been lightly modified. And although Moto Morini offers its own stunningly good Scrambler, you’ll be lucky to find a dealer. But now the BMW accessories specialist Touratech has reworked the BMW F 800 R naked bike, and created what could be the definitive modern scrambler—the Touratech “Streetline F 800 ScrambleR“. The finishing touches are still to be added to this bike, but the wraps came off at last month’s BMW Motorrad Days in Bavaria. There’s a short video teaser here. [Thanks to Max Lecointe.]
Nikon D70 | f/6.7 | Focal length 18 mm
Bill Warner Rides His Hayabusa to 311.945 mph
Bill Warner Rides His Hayabusa to 311.945 mph: 
Bill Warner Rides His Hayabusa to 311.945 mph
Bill Warner on his 311 mph Hayabusa
Although the speed record at Bonneville for recumbent, fully enclosed streamliner motorcycles is higher, last weekend, at the old Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine, Bill Warner, of Winauma, Florida, aimed his turbo Hayabusa down the 1 1/2 mile runway and ran 311.945 mph, beating his old record of 273.356 mph set last year. He’s done a lot of streamlining on this bike, too, but he’s sitting on it in the conventional racer crouch, not locked inside a tube. The event, now in its 3rd year, was put on by the Loring Timing Association.
A wide, 1 1/2 mile long straight piece of smooth concrete just begs for this sort of “How fast can you go?” meeting and everyone brings their cars, truck, motorcycles and what have you to come up with an answer. Running on concrete has the advantage of traction that Bonneville can’t match which helps a lot when you’re slowing down, too, making high speeds in this relatively short distance possible. This looks like a very popular and growing annual event. Pretty cool.
Congratulations, Bill!
Link: Loring Timing Association
Video below:
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Eine schnelle Onboard-Runde mit Bridgestone-Testfahrer Tim Röthig und der Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R auf der legendären Nürburgring Nordschleife.
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