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You Build What? The Monster Motorbike from Hell destroys everything in its path
STUNTMAN Ray Baumann is accustomed to vehicles that soar through the air, vaulting over rows of cars. But the Australian's latest ride makes its bones on the ground. It's the Monster Motorbike from Hell, a 10 foot tall, 15 ton beast that drags vans around racetracks and flattens sedans a ...
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Analyst Actions IBM Bank of New York Mellon Harley Davidson
Bernstein Raises Estimate, Rates Ibm Outperform
Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi says while IBM's (IBM) hardware revenues were notably weak, revenue by category was largely in line with his forecast; $3.28 EPS benefited from lower tax rate, lower than expected share count, higher intellectual property income; adjusting for these, EPS was $3.04, vs. his, consensus $3.03.
Sacconaghi believes 2009 guidance of at lea ...
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Harleys Big UnAmerican Growth Bid
In the 1969 film Easy Rider, a leather clad Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper mount their Harleys and hit the road. Forty years later, few things are more iconically American than speeding down the highway on a Harley Davidson motorcycle but thanks to a struggling U.S. economy and soaring gas prices, the big bikes that made Harley famous aren't selling like they used to. The motorcycle manufacturer's now looking to other ...
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Motorbike Sale To Defy Lead Law
Angry with a nationwide ban on sales of youth motorcycles and ATVs over lead concerns, one of the biggest dealers in Southern California plans to sell the child size vehicles today despite potential criminal penalties.
Malcolm Smith, a Riverside, Calif., dealer and major figure in off road motorcycling for four decades, is challenging federal officials to come and get him.
Smith, 68, says he plans to sell several o ...
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 | New Electric Motorcycle Startup Snags $10M
A new electric motorcycle maker has come to town, and like other startups, Brammo is drumming up media interest as a result of venture capital backing. The Ashland, Oregon, company has raised $10 million in a first round of funding from Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital and Best Buy Capital.
The startup's inaugural model, Enertia, will start shipping in the first quarter of next year. The company is accepting orders ...
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 | Some States Green Light New Red Light Laws For Motorcycles
Motorcyclists in a growing number of states are being allowed to go through red lights when sensors aren't able to detect they are there.
In May, South Carolina became the seventh state to give motorcyclists license to proceed with caution after stopping when the device that causes the light to change from red to green doesn't activate, according to Imre Szauter, government affairs manager for the American Motorcycl ...
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 | The Electric Exoskeleton Motorcycle
STUDENT RADICALS: There's still talk of revolution on campus. But the 21st century student has something very different from anarchy in mind think hydrogen cars and homes on the moon Inventor: Jake Loniak, junior ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN, PASADENA, CALIF
The Transportation Program at the Art Center College of Design has produced legendary car designers, including BMW chief of design Chris Bangle and Henrik Fisk ...
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 | To Crash a Motorcycle at 140 mph
To Crash a Motorcycle at 140 mph
BY NICKY HAYDEN, 27, MOTO GP RACER
The rain started after the second lap. My helmet has a tinted shield, and I was having a hard time seeing where the deeper puddles were. Le Mans is a 2.6 mile course, and it was raining harder on different parts of the track. Puddles were changing from lap to lap. Coming into a turn on lap 26 of 28, I hydroplaned. It wasn't the kind of fall where I ...
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