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Collectors’ Motorcycles and Motorcars at the Barber Museum

EX-RAY PETTY, 1962 NORTON MANX 40 Frame no. 10M 102738 Engine no. 11M2 102738 US$ 40,000 - 50,000 Ā£ 31,000 - 39,000 10 Oct 2020, starting at 12:00 CDT with lot 1. Birmingham, Barber Motorsports Museum Buyers' Premium and Charges Please Note the Buyer's Premium for this auction is as follows: The final bid (hammer) price of each lot will be subject to a buyer's premium. For MOTORCYCLE property the premium is 15% on the first $100,000 of the bid price and 10% on any amount of the bid price exceeding $100,000. For MOTORCAR property the premium is 12% on the first $250,000 of the bid price and 10% on any amount of the bid price exceeding $250,000.
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Legislative Bikernet Weekly News for October, 8, 2020

Hey, This is tough. Iā€™m lying in a VA hospital bed in Santa Monica. A doctor called me and told me of urgent concerns about my heart monitor results. ā€œYour heart could blow up at any time.ā€ But first, I needed to ride over the new Darrel Desmond bridge out of long Beach, into the center of the Terminal Island, where it meets up with the unfinished Henry Ford Bridge from Wilmington and the Terminal Island suspension bridge into San Pedro. Zack and I rode choppers, his Root Beer Float built by Kent Weeks of Lucky Devil Metal works in Houston and I rode the Mudflap girl FXR. False alarm at the hospital! Iā€™m escaping the hospital and their miss-diagnosis ...
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Hereā€™s How They Make the Indian Challenger Bagger to Beat 12 Harley-Davidsons

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com At the end of this month, the inaugural Drag Specialties King of the Baggers invitational at Laguna Seca Raceway takes place. The event is part of the MotoAmerica Superbike Speedfest, and will see a pack of 12 Harley-Davidson motorcycles competing against each other, and a single Indian Challenger. Weā€™ve already talked once or twice about the bike Indian is cooking up together with S&S and Roland Sands, but what we got so far, officially, were only a few details and a slightly larger number of photos. But with just a couple of weeks left until the event, we finally get a video series detailing ā€œwork that both teams are doing behind the scenes as they ...
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Atlanta Short Track Build Train Race Results

FLAT TRACK AMATEUR JILLIAN DESCHENES WINS BTR ROUND ONE IN ATLANTA The four BUILD TRAIN RACE participants raced for the first time at Dixie Speedway Milwaukee, Wis October 8, 2020: After months of building and training, the four participants of BUILD TRAIN RACE put their skills on display on Friday and Saturday of the Progressive American Flat Track event at Dixie Speedway. Minnesota amateur flat track racer Jillian Deschenes took the checkered flag for both races followed by Melissa Paris, Lana MacNaughton and alternate rider Kerry Sano. During the weekend the participants were able to spectate the AFT classes and then test their abilities on the same track at Dixie Speedway. The women raced on custom INT 650 motorcycles that ...
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St. Louis woman becomes first Black female Harley-Davidson technician

People graduating in 2020 may have a much different graduation experience than those who came before. Still, theyā€™re putting on their graduation masks, caps, and gowns, and moving down their new paths in life. Take Paris McGowan, a brand-new graduate of the Motorcycle Mechanics Institute of Orlando, with a specialization in Harley-Davidson. Sheā€™s a Black woman motorcyclist who grew up in a family of riders in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mom rides, her dad rides, and other members of the family do, too. Watch this video and youā€™ll see an adorable photo of tiny, eight-year-old Paris sitting on a GSX-R, grinning so big it almost hurts your heart. Sheā€™s clearly having the greatest time any eight-year-old ever had, so is ...
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Hereā€™s A Custom Honda CB900F Bol dā€™Or That’ll Have You Awestruck

by Silvian Secara from https://www.autoevolution.com Senhor Motorcyclesā€™ spells made this fatigued CB900F regain its former youth. Back in the day, Hondaā€™s fearsome CB900F, or the Bol dā€™Or, was a force to be reckoned with. Quite frankly, to say that it was ahead of its time would be an understatement! This glorious piece of Japanese machinery is powered by a vicious four-stroke DOHC inline-four colossus, with four Keihin carbs and a compression ratio of 8.8:1. The air-cooled beast prides itself with a humungous displacement of 901cc. At approximately 9,000 rpm, CB900Fā€™s fiendish powerplant will generate up to 95 hp. On the other hand, ruthless torque output of 57 pound-feet (77 Nm) will be accomplished at around 8,000 revs. A five-speed gearbox ...
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Indian Motorcycle x King of the Baggers: Part 1

As you may have heard, Indian Motorcycle will have a strong presence at the inaugural Drag Specialties King of the Baggers invitational at Laguna Seca Raceway. Competing against a field of 12 modified Harley-Davidsons, the S&S Cycle and Roland Sands Design teams have each decided to go against the grain by entering their very own modified versions of the Indian Challenger. Ahead of the weekend-long event taking place on October 23-25, we wanted to provide you with part one of a mini-series highlighting the work that both teams are doing behind the scenes as they prepare to take on the field. We thought you may be interested in sharing this video with your audience and have provided a direct link ...
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Ducati is producing a motorcycle with built-in radar

by Kris Holt from https://www.engadget.com The Multistrada V4 has several rider assistance features. Ducati has started production on what it claims is the ā€œworld's first motorcycle equipped with front and rear radar technology.ā€ The company worked with Bosch on the radar system, which allows the Multistrada V4 to offer some rider support features. Each radar weighs 190 grams and is about the size of an action camera, so the system wonā€™t add too much weight or bulk to the motorcycle. The front radar enables adaptive cruise control, which helps the Multistrada V4 automatically adjust its distance from other vehicles while riding at between 30 and 160 km/h. The rear radar can detect vehicles that are in the riderā€™s blind spot. ...
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Harley-Davidson Ice-Cool Brother Is a Mean Green FXDR

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Few motorcycle builders out there have enough products in their portfolio as to feel comfortable to reference older builds as soon as new ones pop up. Thunderbike is one of them, with the Germans having released into the wild over the past 25 years literally hundreds of custom bikes, all of them based on or heavily related to Harley-Davidson two-wheelers. Back in 2019, Thunderbike built a special machine for Harleyā€™s Battle of the Kings competition. It was called Roar, and came as a heavily modified FXDR sporting tons of custom parts, a Stage 3 tuning kit to increase the Screaminā€™ Eagle engine's displacement to 117ci and give it more power, and a devilish, dragster-like appearance ...
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Indian Motorcycle Racing Wins Fourth Consecutive Manufacturerā€™s Championship At Atlanta Short Track

INDIAN MOTORCYCLE RACING WINS FOURTH CONSECUTIVE MANUFACTURERā€™S CHAMPIONSHIP WITH WRECKING CREW SWEEP AT ATLANTA SHORT TRACK I Wrecking Crew Rider Jared Mees Narrows the Season Standings with Back-to-Back Wins ATLANTA (October 6, 2020) ā€“ Indian Motorcycle Racing, presented by Progressive Motorcycle Insurance, and its championship-winning FTR750 clinched its fourth consecutive Manufacturerā€™s Championship. Fittingly, Indian Motorcycle secured the championship with a Wrecking Crew podium sweep at Atlanta Short Track I. Wrecking Crew Rider Jared Mees narrowed the season standings with back-to-back wins at the Atlanta doubleheader. Joining Mees on the Atlanta Short Track I podium was reigning AFT Grand National Champion and Wrecking Crew Rider Briar Bauman and Wrecking Crew Rider Bronson Bauman. The bar-to-bar battle between Briar and Mees saw ...
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