Author: Keith
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Gear Update – Halvarssons
Well I have travelled a few hundred KM’s in my new Halvarssons Korax Jacket & Cobra Pants and thought I would give a brief update. For the purposes of of this I will be comparing against my previous few months and 3000+ KM’s in my Olympia Motosports gear. First, the Korax Jacket. I got it…
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Dead Dragons & Broken Monkies
Much to my disappointment my experience of Kubuntu was sort lived and rather painful. Everything had gone very well up until the updates had finished downloading. After restarting I could no longer connect to the net with my USB modem no matter what I tried. After deciding to go back to Ubuntu I made a…
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Chasing The Dragon
In this case the dragon being the mascot of KDE (the K Desktop Enviroment). Or the gears behind Kubuntu. One of the official Ubuntu distributions. Or as Kubuntu better explains “Kubuntu is one the variants available from the Ubuntu project. Our Kubuntu CDs are made up of Ubuntu’s base plus KDE. You can get exactly…
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KD Returns
After 3 appearances in 2007 between the pages of MCN (January 23rd) I return once again in 2008 with hopefully my first of many. You should find me in the letters (or Inbox) pages with a comment along the lines of my previous posting on ‘uncrashable’ motorcycles. Though I have been edited slightly the meaning…
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Suzuki Announces…My Next Motorcycle?
At the NEC in late November 2007 I plead guilty for not giving this latest announcement from Suzuki my full attention…no I was too swept up looking at their new Hayabusa, but now I am giving it the attention it deserves. On the 15th January 2008 Suzuki announced that the new Bandit 1250SA Grand Touring…
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Where Did All The Events Go?
Well, arguably Ireland’s two most popular motorcycle events are off the calendar this year. First, British Superbikes will not be coming to Mondello this year (2008). I have not heard the full reason but I believe it has something to do with not getting a grant off the Irish tourist board. No matter the reason…
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Uncrashable But Not Unbreakable
To those of you that read MCN you will have seen last week (Weds 9th January) the article on BMW’s motorcycle that should be virtually uncrashable. Thought up by Josef Seidl the design is brilliant. Essentially creating the ultimate in rider aids. The motorcycle that should forgive you of most of your sins. Though a…
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Gone With The Wind
Below I speak about the Dakar Rally but now, returning to the fun that is the Irish winter, I am currently looking for a higher screen for Karma. The current front runner is the MRA VarioTouring Screen which will hopefully do a very good job of keeping the wind off my front on my daily…
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Dakar 2008…Not Now
I imagine most of you are now well aware of the news concerning this year’s Dakar Rally, that being, it has been cancelled due to safety concerns. Of course when I say safety I am not referring to the risk the participants put themselves in, no, the risk this year has come from instability in…
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Sony Ericsson W810i & Ubuntu
Straight off, no the Sony Ericsson W810i will not play .ogg music files. If it was a symbian phone then it would be possible with a quick download of an application. So woe was I when I began the process of converting my music library to mp3 format. I know, feel dirty for doing it,…
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