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Dead man riding
The dead man on a motorcycle was David Morales Colon, who was killed in a shooting last week in San Juan, Puerto Rico. CNN broke the dead man riding story, reporting that Colon’s family brought his body to the Marin Funeral Home in San Juan, where there is an undertaker with experience executing bizarre embalming projects. Before Colon was murdered, his uncle gave him a street bike that he no doubt enjoyed riding. The funeral home embalmed the body, outfitted it in biker gear and mounted it on Colon’s prize possession, a Honda CBR600. The dead man on a motorcycle stayed on his mount throughout the family’s three-day wake.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbI09ouhRxc&feature=related
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Bizarre Bike News - Posted on 2010-05-21 16:23:29
ladyon2wheels 1300cc Superstar
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hmm....might be a fun way to make a living...but then again i'm not looking to be supported by the prison system!
Passers by never suspected Harsha Patel, 24, as she lurked around to prey a prospective victim. After all how many women specialise in stealing motorcycles? Harsha not only steals bikes, she prefers to ride away with them herself.
"She is addicted stealing bikes. She loves riding them and finds stealing the easiest way to get a bike. She also developed contacts with other vehicle thieves in and around Surat who help her earn money from stealing bikes," says R V Rabari, police inspector, PCB. After riding a bike for few months she sells it in parts.
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Bizarre Bike News - Posted on 2010-05-26 16:24:55
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A V10 Motorcycle!!! Thats just insane!
I'm thinkin' you may have certain..um..er..."size" insecurities to have to have that many hp's between your legs!
http://www.snotr.com/video/2982
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Bizarre Bike News - Posted on 2010-05-28 14:44:46
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Updated December 5, 2007. An automobile tire on the back of a bike..
I had a coversation with my neighbor recently. It went something like this:
Him: "You're running a car tire, aren't you?"
Me: "Yep."
Him: "I've read about that somewhere. It's controversial."
Me: "Not for those of us that are doing it. No controversy at all."
Him: "Well, it can't handle."
Me: "It does."
Him: "It's not safe."
Me: "It is for me."
Him: "It's not tested."
Me: "I've tested it all the way to Alaska and back. A bike tire couldn't have taken the abuse."
Him: "Well, I know it's just not safe. It can't work."
I know better than to argue tires, helmets, or oil with another biker. Put two of us in the same room and ask the question and you'll get 12 different and vehement answers. Still, he did ask...
Me: "I've got a lot of riding experience. It's my bike. I don't have a problem with it. Why should you?"
Him: "I've got a lot of experience too. I just know it can't work."
He's been riding for about 5 years now. He's got a pretty bike. I rarely see it move. We call those "Butt jewelry".
Me: "How many miles do you have on your machine?"
Him: "Almost seven thousand."
Hmmm. I might see the problem here. I've run more miles than that since I changed the oil last time. I've ten times that on this bike alone, and over three times that just on my rear tire...the tire he was telling me "can't work."
I changed the subject and we talked about yards for a while. That's usually a safe topic for neighbors.
Anyway, all that got me to thinking it was time to update this page, as I first put it up when I had only ridden 3000 miles or so on my first car-tire. I've now run over 100,000 or so and so I've added more pictures and information to update my experience.
Okay. This is a rather long-winded treatise on the installation of a car-tire on the rear of a Valkyrie motorcycle. With the size/weight of some motorcycles, as well as a host of new tire sizes and technologies in the car-tire world, there are tires that can fit and perform on the rear of some motorcycles.
I get many questions, lots of curiosity, and even some rather irate email over this subject so I thought I would set down my thoughts, reasoning, and experience with this project so others that may be contemplating it, or wondering why anyone would even try such a thing could know my experience with it.
Note that I have no motivation for justifying what I have done, vindicating myself, or convincing others of the validity of my decisions. All this is my experience and opinion. I assume no liability for my documentation or methods. I will try to be objective in my reporting of this experience, but do note that motorcycle tires are a pet peeve of mine. I will discuss this a bit later.
As of this writing I have put about 42,000 miles (edit 12/5/07...over 100,000 miles now) on car-tires on my Valkyrie in a multitude of extreme conditions. High-speed highway, high-speed rain, wind, dirt/gravel, twisties, congested city, construction, and emergency stops. I'll take some heat for this, but there is NO downside for the experienced rider. The car tire has been superior in every condition. I've found the car-tire to be so far superior to the MC tire for the rear of the Valkyrie that there is no point in my pretending I'll ever go back to the MC tire.
Tires are religion, and in the motorcycle arena and our litigious society are viewed very much as a "dark art" and are seldom discussed rationally. I am not looking to justify my actions or convert anybody. I am seeking to explain what I have tried and why, so those that have an open mind and some experience to go with it can understand. Frankly, like oil choices, I do not feel the emotion and anger often shown over the issue are merited. It's just not that big a deal.
Among VRCC'rs ... putting a car tire on the Valkyrie is known as, "Going to the Dark Side."
If you can't get it going with bungee cords and electrician's tape it's serious.
Bizarre Bike News - Posted on 2010-06-10 22:17:53
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Yesterday in Sydney: U.S. musicians Laurie Anderson's and Lou Reed's "Music for Dogs"–with notes so high that the humans in the audience have to take them on faith (but dogs in attendance, on leashes, of course, evidently wagged, barked, and lit lighters).
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Bizarre Bike News - Posted on 2010-06-11 21:28:36
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The drugs are taking their toll aint they!
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If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs, you probably haven't grasped the seriousness of the situation!
Bizarre Bike News - Posted on 2010-06-11 22:01:17
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who? on me or them??
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Bizarre Bike News - Posted on 2010-06-14 00:35:05
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Bizarre Bike News - Posted on 2010-06-15 14:52:38
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Craigslist Post:
Woman to sit in my bath tub full of noodles, wearing a bathing suit
"I will pay you $1 to sit in my bathtub full of noodles while you wear a one piece bathing suit. I will not be home, nor will anyone else while you do this. I will leave the key for you, and you will sit at your leisure. DO NOT bring any sauce. I will season the pasta after I return home prior to dinner."
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Bizarre Bike News - Posted on 2010-06-21 14:24:37
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Hey gfisher! Are you the one who posted the last post to craigslist??
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Bizarre Bike News - Posted on 2010-06-21 14:26:00
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oh.....I guess you wouldn't have used American currency......unless that's a trick to throw everyone off..
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Bizarre Bike News - Posted on 2010-06-21 21:51:24
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nope not me
I would have had pasta and black pudding..............
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Bizarre Bike News - Posted on 2010-06-21 22:22:30
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Darn!!
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Bizarre Bike News - Posted on 2010-08-12 13:45:56
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HELL'S ANGELS -- A STRANGE AND TERRIBLE SAGA OF THE OUTLAW MOTORCYCLE GANGS
Nobody was raped at Willow Cove. The lack of strange broads drove most of the outlaws to drunken despair, and by the time I decided to sleep that night there wasn't a sober human being in the camp. More than half of the fifty or so outlaws still standing around the bonfire had lost all contact with reality.
Before I went under, I made sure to lock the car doors and roll the windows up far enough so that nobody could reach in. The Angels are hell on people who pass out at parties, and one of their proudest traditions is the sleepless first night of any run.
When this happens -- if the unfortunate has not found a safe hiding place -- the others will immediately begin tormenting him. The most common penalty for crashing is the urine shower; those still on their feet gather quietly around the sleeper and soak him from head to foot.
Some of the Angels would sit on their bikes for a while, letting them idle, then kill the engine and move out again to socialize. It seemed to give them new energy, like a battery charge. The last sound I heard that night was the peaceful idling of a hog right next to the car.
The next morning I woke up to the same noise, but this time it was deafening. Apparently some enemy had crept in during the night and screwed every one of the carburetor adjustments, causing them all to need retuning. There was a big crowd by the still-smoking bonfire, and in the middle of it I could see Barger talking to a bald little man who seemed to have the St. Vitus dance. He was a reporter from the Los Angeles Times and he was very much on edge, even though there were several deputies in camp. He was writhing and sweating like a man who'd burst into a cannibal fort to ask for the chief's daughter. He introduced himself as Jerry Cohen. Just as he started to explain what he wanted, Tiny rushed up to Barger, threw his arms around him and planted a sloppy wet kiss on his mouth. This is a guaranteed square-jolter, and the Angels are gleefully aware of the reaction it gets. "They can't stand it," says Terry. "It blows their minds every time -- especially the tongue bit." The sight of a photographer invariably whips the Angels into a kissing frenzy, but I have never seen them do it among themselves, when there was nobody around to shock. There is an element of something besides showbiz to it and in serious moments now and then one of the Angels will explain it as "just one of the ways we let the world know we're brothers."
Bizarre Bike News - Posted on 2010-05-19 12:56:23
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