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Tuesday, 04 April 2006 |
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Fifty countries, five continents and 75,000 km, this adventurer is all set to conquer these and more on his motorcycle in his quest to highlight road safety.
Speaking to newsmen at the local press club, Bharadwaj said he had completed an all-India tour on his motorcycle in 2004 covering about 10,000 kms in 44 days meeting people and was inspired by the cultural diversity of various strata of society.
\He travelled South Asia in 2005 on his motorcycle covering Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand and China. |
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Tuesday, 04 April 2006 |
By Alex Edge
As if it's not bad enough to hear that my brother (and sister) riders in the UK are plagued by speed cameras, the latest news from across the pond is that the British government's transportation department has supported the development of an anti-speeding system that uses GPS technology to determine if a rider is speeding, and will actually force the motorcycle to slow to the legal limit.
The system is currently being trialed on a small test track which has speed limits that have been mapped by satellite and then programmed into the control unit. Apparently a map of every road in the UK (with appropriate speed limits for each) is currently in the works. |
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Saturday, 25 March 2006 |
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(ARA) - Warmer temperatures, spring training and that blossoming tree in your yard mean one thing – it’s time to ride your motorcycle.
Whether you’re purchasing a new motorcycle this spring or simply waking your bike from a long winter’s nap in storage, before you hit the open road this year, here are a few simple precautions from General Casualty Insurance Companies to help protect you and your bike. |
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Tuesday, 21 March 2006 |
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By FRANK FERNANDEZ
Don't fear the Boss Hoss motorcycle, a big beast of chrome and steel equipped with a car engine. And not just any car engine: an 8-cyclinder motor bigger than the four- and six-cylinder ones found in most of today's cars.
Shanan Malone, 38, who lives near Houston, didn't fear it, not quite. "I was very intimidated by looking at it, to be honest," Malone said. She was one of the thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts who have rumbled into Daytona Beach for Bike Week, which started Friday and runs through Sunday. Boss Hoss, which says it is the leading producer of motorcycles powered by V-8 car engines, set up a display in the Fan Zone at Daytona International Speedway in hopes of convincing bikers to spring some cash for the bikes, which start at $35,000. |
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Tuesday, 21 March 2006 |
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When you have money, think of the time when you had none.
Japanese proverb
In the final scene of Juzo Itami"s "Marusa No Onna" (A Taxing Woman), the tax cheat Hideki Gondo has been tracked to his lair by the sexy government tax agent Ryoko Itakura (Nobuko Miyamoto). There, next to a giant safe filled with his ill-gotten gains, she asks him what every poor slob wants to know: How does one become so filthy rich?
Gondo (played brilliantly by Tsutomo Yamazaki) knows the game is up. The cops are on their way and, like any man, he can't resist a chance to brag to a woman about his wealth.
"Money is like this whiskey here," he says, holding up a half-filled tumbler. "When it is half-full, you dare not take a drink. Even when the glass is finally filled to the brim, you indulge in not the tiniest sip. Only when the glass is over-full, do you lick the drops which spill over the rim."
What he meant, of course, is that one becomes wealthy by investing, not by spending. The rich invest their money in order to make more; the poor spend it and remain poor.
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