If you keep up even a little with my blog you know I review every motorcycle television show I can. I watched the first episode of the new motorcycle show, Naked Speed this past weekend. I am not going to do a full review until I have seen at least three full shows but thought I might pass on my first thought regarding the show.
A new format for “Café Racer TV”,,,,,, Which is not a bad thing. 🙂
About time Honda got back in
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Posted: January 27, 2015 in Uncategorized
Where has all the motorcycle television shows gone? Just a couple of years ago we had lots of motorcycle themed shows to watch. My DVR had plenty of shows recorded and ready to watch. Not so much anymore.
I recently started to notice commericals for a new motorcycle show on the Velocity Channel called Naked Speed. But, if you look on the Velocity Channel’s website you will find no indication that there is any motorcycle programing let alone Naked Speed. Naked Speed will premier January 28th at 10PM EST (based on the following You Tube vid). Bryan Fuller and Mike Seate (of Café Racer Magazine and Café Racer TV) of the show. Mr. Fuller has been on other TV shows to include Café Racer and Overhaulin’.
From what I can gather the show is about making stripped down, modern and retro, motorcycles go fast! So Café Racer, Naked Bikes, Street Fighters all are going to be highlighted on the show. Can’t get much better then that!
Some other links about Naked Speed:
Does he have a splitting headache or what?
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO OR DOWNLOAD THE BROADCAST!
On this episode…… Ken is out with shingles (not the roofing kind)
The most BADASS biker ever….could you ride 60 miles on rough roads with a KNIFE IN YOUR HEAD?
Ken pokes fun at Harley on its 5th year anniversary in India
Riding NAKED will get you deported!
Racing Update
AMA Supercross Phoenix results and discussion.
Dakar Rally update.
Ride naked…get deported!
What the likelihood of completing these goals…. quite high I hope! None of these are to terribly difficult, if I chose to make some time. But, time is always an issue, I either make time to do this or let life get in the way. Hopefully I will choose right this year.
Ride the Appalachian Waters Scenic Byway – This is one of the roads on my motorcycle bucket list. It would be a weekend trip for us if we left early on both Saturday and Sunday and we would have an overnight stay with my Mother.
Take at least 1 long trip with wife – A few years ago we planned a trip that would take us to Niagara Falls, across Canada to the Harley Davidson Museum, south to Kansas to visit our daughter and then home. Life conspired to prevent that trip, but something like that should be on order for this year.
Iron butt 1000 – I-81 to south of Knoxville ,TN and back in 24 hours or less.
Practice more – work on my slow speed skills, tighten up my left and right circles.
Ride more miles then 2014 – between all the bikes last year we had a bit over 7500 miles. That should not be too hard to overcome just if I commute on the bikes a little more often. Oh, and take the long way home in the evenings. The way I keep track of my season mileage is through the “B” trip meter. Early each year I reset the “B” meter to 0 so I know the total for the year while using the “A” meter for anything else.
Attend a HOG Rally for at least 1 day – Depending on where the rallies for VA/WV/MD/DE/PA are I should be able to make that happen.
C and O Canal – knock out a bunch of those stops this year. If you have read this blog for a while you noticed I have attempted to document those stops that are accessible via motorcycle. I did not do that many last year.
I am sure there are other things that I should add to the list but the more I add the more I might regret not completing. 🙂
Very sad turn of events.
Someone is using my blog page as some kind of letter scheme. It started slow and then spiraled out of control with 40 or more posts about not receiving their letters. I am more than pissed…in fact, whoever pirated my page better hope I never find out who they are.
Since changing my password did not stop the illegal activities, I will now have to cancel and abandon my WordPress site for ever. I cannot tell you how hard it was to put this page together and maintain it. I have written over 800 blogs which I am sure have all been plagiarized.
I know this happens to many authors and plagiarism is rampant in our industry. It’s a damn shame really; I have less than any respect for the thieves who do this sort of thing. All I can do is hope that the Karma Angel is getting ready…
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Just the stuff that peaked my interest this week.
Below are the news items, in no rank order that had the most interest to me in 2014. They run the gamut from touring, racing, safety to just stuff I liked. Why 9, because everyone does 10 and 11 is too many. Hope you find them interesting as well.
Interactive map of American Byways
America’s Byways Website: A website the federal government got right!!! I wrote about this site back in March in this post. America’s Byways is an interactive, map based, website that will provide you a listing of each of the 150 different roads. Those roads are comprised of the National Scenic Byways and All-American Roads. You can select the road from a national or state map to see basic information on the road (length, average time to travel the road and historical background) as well as route maps, directions and photos.
Electric Iron Butt Ride: 1000 miles in 24 hours on a motorcycle can be hard on a normal bike. Terry Hershner completed the endurance ride on a heavily modified 2012 Zero S electric motorcycle. You can read about his ride and see pictures of the bike at this link.
Project Live Wire: Speaking of electric motorcycles everyone has to take notice when Harley Davidson rolls out their prototypes on a nationwide tour. I got to ride one of the bikes a few months back and I was impressed how well they performed/looked for prototype machines. We even had John Wheeler from Harley Davidson Project Live Wire as a guest on The DawgHouse Motorcycle Radio Show #291.
Safercar.gov: Another website done right by the government… how quaint. Although saffercar.gov has been around for a while, this year they added the ability to look up your bikes VIN to determine if it has a recall applied. Check that feature out here.
Sons of Anarchy: The final season. I liked the entire series but that last episode seemed like it was more of “let’s get this done as fast as possible” instead of well thought out end to a classic show.
MotoAmerica: I am not a huge motorcycle racing fan but after hosting The DawgHouse Motorcycle Radio with Ken and Phil I have learned a lot. One of the things I have learned is that there is a lot of excitement for the new AMA sanctioned racing series. Daytona Motor Group was replaced by MotoAmerica, lead my former champion Wayne Rainy. The series is coming to Virginia this year and I plan on attending. We interviewed Wayne on the Dawghouse a few months ago, you can hear the interview here.
BMW R1200RT Do Not Ride Recall: That a BMW has a recall is no big deal. That “Bike of the Year R1200RT” has had a recall that lasted 4 months is a big deal. Multiple magazines and websites declared a bike, which owners could not ride for a large part of the year, the best bike of the year, what crap. Now don’t get me wrong, I do not think this is a BMW issue, they have went out of their way to support owners of the bike. This is a big deal to me because industry media leaders fell all over themselves for a bike that did not deserve the accolades. Was this advertising dollars at work?
Marc Marquez – Again, I do not follow racing that closely but WOW. A dominant performance from the defending champion to win the MotoGP championship for a second straight year. He set the record for the most races won in a season with 13. Take a look at the link to see all the records he has broken and he is still a very young guy at 21.
Lane Splitting – Apparently it is a lot safer then we all thought. A study by University California, Berkeley for the California Highway Patrol found, for example:
> The practice of riding in between marked lanes to filter through slow-moving or stopped traffic, is just as safe for riders as traveling in normal lanes
> Riders who split lanes are less prone to getting rear-ended; however, the likelihood of a rider rear-ending a car is greater.
> Danger level does increase for riders who are splitting at speeds of 10mph or faster than the surrounding traffic.
> They found that lane splitters were splitting at lower speeds and in slower moving traffic than they had been previously.
You can read the whole study here and my earlier post on the issue here.
On Any Sunday, The Next Chapter: It is not too often that we get feature presentation style movies dedicated to motorcycling. This movie paid homage to the original 1970s movie (as a son would a father which in this case is accurate as the son of the original movie directed the Next Chapter). I saw this movie on the big screen and it was just great. Hopefully this will get some good karma for our industry and lifestyle
I JUST WANT 2 RIDE!! 