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Energy Density Fail

gooder — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:57:19 +0000

I’ve made much of late of the fact that electric motorcycles don’t work very well for serious motorcyclists. Oh, electric scooters are most assuredly a good idea, especially if they’re built...

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Clutch Evolution

gooder — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:33:55 +0000

We motorcyclists seem to be on a quest for the perfect clutch. At least that’s the lesson I’m gleaning from the spate of (semi) automatic gearboxes that have been unleashed these last few years....

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What’s Become of MotoGP?

gooder — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:35:56 +0000

MotoGP has become as boring as snot. An even worse insult: it’s become as boring as Formula 1. The recent Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi — a hard-braking track normally noted for exciting passing...

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Increase Your Riding Time

gooder — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 14:31:34 +0000

I think I’ve hit the trifecta. No, not the horses. Nor have I surreptitiously won the MotoGP championship, the WSBK title and Daytona 200. I’m a never-was when it comes to racing and I’d sooner...

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BMW in MotoGP

gooder — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 18:52:57 +0000

As MotoGP “silly seasons” go, the last few days before we went to press have been the silliest we’ve seen in some time. Jorge Martin, fed up with Ducati’s dithering about who will join Pecco...

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There Is No Autopilot

gooder — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 17:27:32 +0000

On April 19th, another “self-driving” Tesla killed someone. A Tesla Model S, whose owner, Carl Hunter, from Snohomish, Washington, had engaged Autopilot, failed to see a motorcyclist in front of...

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Embrace Safety Technology

Mojo — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:49:17 +0000

We motorcyclists are a hoary old lot. Oh, we revel in the latest outrageous designs and, my God, some of the graphics on helmets these days are worthy of George Clinton, funk impresario...

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The Future of MotoGP?

gooder — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:11:55 +0000

Last year, I created something of a hullabaloo when I postulated that Honda or Yamaha — or, in a worst-case scenario, both — might quit MotoGP. Both had seemingly given up on racing, barely...

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Electric Vehicle Ban

Mojo — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:04:21 +0000

A racetrack in rural Wales, the Anglesey Trac Môn Circuit, just became the first in the United Kingdom to ban electric vehicles. More important, at least to this column, is that Anglesey’s ban...

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Superbike History

Mojo — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 14:35:45 +0000

It is almost axiomatic that the heyday of any technology dependent sport, particularly any form of motorsport that involves internal combustion, is its very beginning. No one, not even the most...

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