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I didn't see this posted anywhere else. I'm curious if a driverless car would be a bigger risk to motorcycle riders than the typical driver in a car is. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/07/tech/nevada-driveless-car/index.html It's a Prius, too. And what does a police officer do when it breaks...

I just got my May issue of Motorcyclist Magazine (May issue arriving in late March!) and have never seen such a glowing review as the one written by Aaron Frank on the Ducati 1199 Panigale S. I would hardly expect such a glowing review if it were written directly by Ducati. One big quote from...

People are always asking if they'll need a new chain if they add X number of teeth on their sprockets and I'm often trying to explain how they can tell. One more tooth equals 5/32" closer to the front with the same chain. Four more teeth equals the distance of one link - 5/8". So over the...

I noticed that advrider.com, thumpertalk.com, and a few other motorcycle-specific sites have joined wikipedia in blacking out their sites today to protest SOPA and PIPA. At least ThumperTalk explains what they're protesting, unlike some others. Thank you BARF, for still being here today. :thumbup

A month or two back my KTM didn't want to start after sitting out for half a day in the cold. I figured that it was my own fault, since I had been doing lots of short rides of about two miles without topping it off with my Battery Tender. I had to use jumper cables from my car to get the bike...

I've been looking for boots that would work well for dual sport riding. By that, I mean that I would ride for a while on the street to get to the dirt, then ride in the dirt for a while, than ride back home again. I would like to walk around a bit in them too. I haven't been able to find...

Last week I was driving along a city street with two lanes each way and a raised center divider when I heard sirens. I couldn't tell where they were or how far away, and this wasn't a straight road. Since I didn't know if they were even on the same road I was on I didn't start to pull to the...

I recently moved and switched from AT&T DSL to U-Verse for my internet. Everything is nice and fast except that I can't get uTorrent to work. The problem I have is that I don't even know where else to look to try to figure it out. I had an old version of uTorrent (1.something) so I upgraded...

Most of the time when I ride my motorcycle from Pleasanton to Santa Clara, I get in the new I-680 carpool/toll lane at Sunol and stay there until it ends at the south end of Milpitas. The 13 miles or so of carpool lane have wide double white lines with warning signs stating not to cross them...

The stands have been sold! I can no longer use my Pitbull stands with either of the two bikes that I currently own (front ends too high), so my loss is your gain. The front is a Newfront stand that lifts the bike by the steering head so that you can remove the forks as well as the front wheel...

It's been about ten years since I did anything in C++ and I was never an expert at it like I claim to be with ANSI C. I now have to do some serious work in C++ using SystemC and keep running into what should be simple questions that I can't seem to resolve easily. I was wondering if any of you...

I've inherited a Windows XP laptop (from my daughter) that I want to do a few simple things with. It's working well enough, but can't access the DVD-RW drive. In checking for solutions on the HP website - it's an HP Pavilion ze2000 or maybe a ze2113us according to the tag on the bottom of it -...

Most of the motorcycles that I've owned over the last decade have had fairly accurate speedometers. The Ducati 888, however seemed to be off by about 20% such that if it said you were doing 100 mph you were really only doing about 80. Surprisingly, the odometer on that bike was much more...

For years I've been spreading the word that the Battery Tender brand of chargers are the best ones for motorcycles. However, a guy I know from another motorcycle forum who has an electronics background has been buying battery chargers for years now and testing them to see if he can find one...

If you've ever ridden Calaveras Road starting from the Milpitas side, you'll know that at the junction of Calaveras and Felter, you have to make a left turn and head up the hill. I used to just love it as I was accelerating up that hill in second gear on both the Monster and ST2, both of which...

Well, sort of... About 8:00 this evening I was riding through a section of Pleasanton where an "intelligent person" would expect to occasionally see a few deer, but I was sort of hoping not to see any. As I came around a bend, there was one heading toward me. Fortunately I was only going...

Now that I have one big dual sport (XR650L) and one huge dual sport (KTM), I've noticed that gravel on the road doesn't seem to bother me much at all. On the various Ducatis that I've owned over the years I practically felt a feeling of panic whenever I saw gravel in a turn ahead and didn't...

This item has been sold. Dainese/Ducati two-piece riding leathers - $600.00 Look sharp on your Ducati while protecting your body with these two-piece motorcycle leathers. Both the jacket and pants are size 54. The jacket is roughly the same as a suit coat size 44 long. The pants should work...

I find it curious that all of my motorcycles get 35 mpg in normal riding - where "normal" is around town and on the local twisty roads. The 944cc Ducati ST2, the Honda XR650, and the KTM 990, which I just filled up after finally getting a low fuel light, all get pretty much the same. I'm not...

If I sell all of my Ducatis (one already sold, one hopefully soon), am I supposed to turn into one of those Ducati haters? You know, the ones that put down the MotoGP Ducati riders, complain about the 200cc "advantage" in WSBK and AMA Superbike, and jump into all other Ducati discussions...