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Buying a Motorcycle Helmet

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Buying a Motorcycle Helmet - Key Facts to Remember. For some for motorcycle riders, buying a helmet is an easy enough task - they just walk into a store, find a branded helmet that looks good, is inexpensive and that's it. Else they may rely on their friends, family members or even the dealers selling the helmets to make up their minds. After a few cursory looks at all the helmets, they have made a decision and a helmet is bought. However for all those who know what a crucial part of motorcycle safety a helmet is, and who have read up all they can about buying proper helmets, this can be a fairly daunting task. Helmet buying is serious business indeed, in fact, your very life depends on it but with some key facts in hand, you need not find the task daunting any more. What Helmet To Buy If you have ever wondered if a helmet is all that important as it is made out to be, stop this very instant and take a look at some of the statistics of motorcycle accidents the world over. Studies b

2003 Dodge Tomahawk

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Dodge Tomahawk specifications Top Speed: 676 km/h / 420 mph 0-100 kph: 2.6 sec. Power: 507 HP (378 kW) Engine: Viper V10 Dodge Tomahawk V10 superbike features an independent four-wheel suspension and its engine is taken from the famous American sports car Dodge Viper. The result is a motorcycle that outputs over 500 horse power. The production was limited to 9 units of this concept bike, which sells for a whopping $555,000. Chrysler executives said they are having serious thoughts about going mainstream with a price of $250,000 / unit, despite the fact, that these motorcycles cannot be legally driven on public roads. The rumor has it, that they cost Chrysler over $100,000 to build.

Harley-Davidson Night Rod

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My first impression of Harley-Davidson’s 2012 Night Rod Special was this: I’ve never ridden a motorcycle that propelled me f orward with such velocity. The slightly scary part was that it wasn’t even that difficult. No thinking, no shifting, no timing. Just. Go. Forward. No, Harley-Davidson hasn’t outfitted its latest V-Rod with an automatic transmission. It’s just that, even in first gear, I could get the motorcycle to 60 mph without even red-lining. For me it was a new experience.   What we have here is one of the latest entries into the power cruiser arena, and here are the vitals: Folks, for just $15,299, you get a slammed-black liquid-cooled V-Twin fuel-injected two-wheeled 5-speed dual-exhaust motorcycle. In retrospect, I guess that “two-wheeled” part was redundant. Anyway … Harley sells the Night Rod Special with the idea that it is the perfect combination of power and swagger, and, for the most part, I think they hit it on the head. Displacing about 1,250 CCs, the Night

Custom Wolf V-2 tribute to Porsche

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German custom bike builder – Custom Wolf – created this low, black and menacing bike as a tribute to a legendary car brand – Porsche.   This motorcycle boasts 113ci S&S engine, gold plated screws and carburators, LA Chopper exhaust and original Harley Davidson gearbox. Sitting  on Thunderbike 4 by 18 front and 10 by 18 inch rear wheels, this Porsche tribute bike has black and gold-plated screws and brake calipers adapted from a Kawasaki ZX10R