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2017 Sidecar Racing Begins Next Weekend In California
Read more: 2017 Sidecar Racing Begins Next Weekend In CaliforniaHere is a copy of the official press release for the beginning of the sidecar racing season. Team Johnny Killmore will be at the first two rounds for sure, though Matt will not be available to co-pilot. Our season kicks of NEXT WEEKEND at Willow Springs Raceway! We then come home to Sonoma, California for round two immediately following our…
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Monthly Round Up: Moto, Lifestyle, And More
Read more: Monthly Round Up: Moto, Lifestyle, And MoreWhen I decide to avoid the things I should be doing, like work on the projects in my garage or write useful stories, I usually scroll through social media for news. It’s one of my de facto time-wasters. As anyone would guess, I end up down a rabbit hole most of the time. There is plenty of news about the…
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The Story of Joe & Alma: The Sidecar TT Couple
Read more: The Story of Joe & Alma: The Sidecar TT CoupleIt’s pretty rare that I come across sidecar racing stories. I run into Facebook updates from fellow racers of course, and I see results from the British and World Championships as they happen. However, when it comes to normal media, sidecars usually come up only as travel stories of people with Ural road-legal outfits, traveling the world. So imagine my…
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Liking The Things You Hate
Read more: Liking The Things You HateThere are some long standing tropes in motorcycle advertising. In a cluster they’ll get called something like, “hipster douchebag videos” and they are easy to spot. They have sparks from a metal grinder, random close-up shots of a motorcycle (usually showing nothing out of the ordinary), and plenty of slow motion shots of someone riding a road motorcycle down a…
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Motorcyclist Re-Launches Next Week
Read more: Motorcyclist Re-Launches Next WeekLet me just share a quick note with all you motorcycle enthusiasts who also enjoy a little thing called information. No, not that stuff. I’m not talking about the swill that comes flying at you like bugs on your faceshield. I mean information, maaann… can you dig..? That’s the stuff. You remember. Crack open that thick print and take a…
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Of Heroes & Zongshens
Read more: Of Heroes & ZongshensThe Dakar Rally buries a lot of things. Hopes, dreams, wads of cash… entire valleys. It also buries stories. There were so many stories in the 2017 event I couldn’t keep track even with a spreadsheet (yeah, that’s right, I used a spreadsheet). New manufacturers were one of the stories that just went right under the radar. It’s a shame…
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Tax Time Shout Out: Debra McDaniel
Read more: Tax Time Shout Out: Debra McDanielI am in the process of sending off the piles of paperwork to get my 2016 taxes done and it reminds me how there are two distinct groups in this country. One group gets their W-2’s and files immediately, receiving and spending their refund before Valentine’s Day. The other group is like me: laboring to get papers put together and…
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Dakar Update: Malle Moto Rider Lyndon Poskitt
Read more: Dakar Update: Malle Moto Rider Lyndon Poskitt“…at the moment this feels more like survival than a race.” The folks at Adventure Spec received a call from their man Lyndon Poskitt. The Races to Places star may have reached folk hero status the other day when Dakar Rally editors decided to lead their daily “Dakar Heroes” video with Lyndon’s tutorial on how to poo on the race…
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Dakar 2017: Stage 6 CANCELLED
Read more: Dakar 2017: Stage 6 CANCELLEDStage 05 was already cut short due to weather that came in and began to wash out the area. Anyone who has spent enough time in the desert knows why they call an empty stream of gravel a “wash.” Indeed it does. While some made the most of it, others took the brunt of it. The video below will explain…
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Dakar Heroes Day 05
Read more: Dakar Heroes Day 05The Dakar Heroes video is turning into a daily treat. It answers questions you don’t know to ask. Questions like, “what do you do if it suddenly starts hailing,” or, “how do you clean the bike between stages if you have no support crew?” Day five’s film answers the question, “what do you do if you need to take a…
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