Category: Hobbies & Interests
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Irish Motorcycle Show Returns
After a break last year the Carole Nash Irish Motorcycle Show is back at the RDS, Dublin on the 27th February -1st March. OK, I am the first to admit that the shows performance has been questionable in the past but with any luck they have improved and this may be an attempt to raise…
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Italy Tells Motorcycle Trailers To Roll On
Have a motorcycle with a trailer?? Like traveling around Europe with it? Well you better be careful as it is now illegal to drive on Italian roads while towing a trailer behind your motorcycle. The process to achieve this great legislative milestone (seriously…there are bigger issues!) has been a funny little journey. You see they…
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MotoGP ’09 – First Blood
After the turbulent events over the break with the pull-out of Kawasaki and rumours surrounding other teams it is great to finally see this years contenders back on the track. Over the course of the tests Rossi had a few ‘offs’, while Stoner with his ‘weak’ wrist seems more then capable of keeping to the…
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Testing Man & Metal; RTA & I
Statistically it was bound to happen. In my eleventh year on two wheels and many thousands of kilometers I was involved in my first road traffic accident (RTA). I am lucky, very lucky. There is a saying among motorcyclists, “we all come off, some get back, some don’t, some can’t“. I can get back on…
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Buell, Showing You How To Own The Corners
Here are some of the latest videos from Buell highlighting their current 2009 range…enjoy! The Buell Ulysses XB12XT The Buell Ulysses XB12X The Buell 1125R and Firebolt XB12R Sportsbikes The Buell 1125CR The Buell Lightning Range Hope you enjoyed that and got you excited. Dublin Harley-Davidson is my local dealer here in Ireland, track down…
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Pimping Your Gnome Deskop
One of the best features about Ubuntu has got to be the ease at which you can grab whatever need when you need it. The debate goes on about free/open/proprietary license issues, but for the end user you are spoilt for choice, which moves me onto the look and feel of the Ubuntu desktop. At…
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Ubuntu and the world of tomorrow
Below are some excerpts from an interview by the NY Times with Mark Shuttleworth and gives a good history of Ubuntu and Canonical up to now. It also looks at the companies future plans and giving an indication of what is to come. No word on specifics or any of the technology advances that Ubuntu…
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Kawasaki Hits The Red
It is official, Kawasaki have announced that they are pulling out of the MotoGP championship leaving riders John Hopkins and Marco Melandri without rides and the MotoGP grid looking increasingly small, standing now with 17 rider, 10 teams and just 4 manufacturers! The official statement from Kawasaki on the MotoGP website states that Amid the…
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Buell & Pazzo; A Good Fit
I have only three major niggles with the Buell Ulysses XB12XT at the moment, first being the exhaust, second being the front mudguard (or lack of) and third being the brake/clutch levers. I have started to address these little issues, starting with the the levers. OK, the levers will not be a problem for everyone…
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The Pilgrimage 2008 Review
You have been warned The big number first, we took some 700+ photos at this years NEC Motorcycle Show and you should find some 424 uploaded on my flickr page. To make things easy they are in alphabetical order, so have a skim through or just look for your favourite motorcycles. So what news from…
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