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If you are headed to Daytona this year, there is a last minute addition to the Builders Breakfast lineup that is sure to interest many. Vinnie Dimartino and Cody Connelly of V-Force Customs have signed on to attend the Builders Breakfast on March 4.

To get some of you up to speed, Vinnie and Cody recently left Orange County Choppers to form V-Force Customs.

Personally, I think Vinnie was a hoot on TV and will be sorely missed by the OCC gang.

For more information on the breakfast and other things V-Force Custom, see the link below.

V-Force Customs at Builders Breakfast [via Jeff at BikerDATA.com]

Here is your chance to vote in the 2008 Motorcycle Bloggers International Riders Choice Awards.

You can vote for the winners in over 13 categories such as:

• Best new motorcycle
• Best manufacturers web site
• Wish we’d thought of that
• What were they thinking?
• Women riders booster of the year

To place your vote, simply visit the MBI web site (link provided below) and enter your choices. No need to register, give your email, sign in blood, or the such.

Thanks for participating!

2008 MBI Riders Choice Awards

MBI (Motorcycle Bloggers International) has opened up the nominations for it’s 2008 Readers Choice Awards.

You can read about the criteria and make your nominations via the following link:

http://www.mbiweb.org/2008/
You have until February 1st to get your nominations in.

Enjoy!

Winter Haven, FL (November 30, 2007) - BikerDATA.com is host the only cyber PRIZE CHRISTMAS TREE™ on the internet for the 2007 Christmas Season. Starting on December 1 at www.BikerDATA.com you can enter to WIN sponsored prizes each and everyday until Christmas. Each day a different sponsor furnishes a prize and it is FREE to participate. Then on Christmas Day, one lucky person will WIN all Twenty Four (24) prizes previously given away during this promotion. Everyone who enters from December 1 thru the 24th is automatically in the drawing on Christmas Day.

Prize winners are announce each day and posted on the website. Sponsored prizes are shipped to the winners FREE of charge.

Prize sponsors are Motorcycle related company’s such as: A collectable one of a kind helmet painted by Chris Cruz worth $500.00, Bruce Rossmeyer’s Harley-Davidson, Born to Ride TV and Magazine, Condor, Boss Bags, STURGIS Bike Week, Liquid HorsePower, Bikes UnderCover, The BikerID, IronHorse Trailers, White Diamond Polish, QWI Nerve Protection Gloves, Bolt Lock Corp, Jacket Chaps, Segal Fine Art, 50’s Boy Motorcycle Accessories, Max, BlingMaster Polish, BikeHerChix, Moto-Xpress, Strip Club Choppers and Hog Gaiters!

The PRIZE TREE™ has Twenty Four (24) animated Ball ornaments that you simple click on until you find the hidden prize sponsor. Enter you name and you are eligible to WIN that days prize and the Christmas Day prize. You can play every day until December 24, 2007.

For more information, please visit www.BikerDATA.com

BikerDATA.com

Looking for something special for that special biker in your life? Is so, surf on over to Bikerdata.com and take a look at all the offerings currently available this Christmas.

You can find all things biker there as well as links to special offers and such.

While you are there, be sure to check out the Bikerdata Prize Tree, where a different biker gift will be given away daily until Christmas. There is not cost to enter.

And while you are there, don’t forget to sign up for the bike giveaway!

BikerData.com

My buddy Jeff, over at BikerData.com, has posted some great pics from Sturgis 2007 over at the BikerData.com web site. You can find the photo gallery here.

In all, there are over 5,000 Sturgis pics spread out amongst 10 albums for your viewing pleasure. And there are even more photos coming!

And while you are at the BikerData.com site, don’t forget to click on the Bike Giveaway tab and enter to win an American IronHorse BANDERA.

If you happen to be the lucky winner of this bike, you will be flown into Bruce Rossmeyer’s Destination Daytona 2008 Bike Week to be presented with the bike. What a fun little vacation that would be next year!

BikerData.com

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There is a promising new direction service out there called ‘Dial DIR-ECT-IONS’. You can find their web site here.

The skinny on the service is this. You call in from your text enabled cell phone by dialing 347-328-4667 (DIR-ECT-IONS) and give voice commands for your start and destination. Then shortly, you will receive a text message with detailed, turn-by-turn directions from your starting point to the ending point.

Pretty slick!

Although currently only available for nine metro city locations, more locations are on the way.

This could be a good substitute for those of us who don’t yet have a GPS unit or want to access Google Maps or the like.

Enjoy!

Dial DIR-ECT-IONS

Get Directions with a Phone Call to Dial Dir-ect-ions [via Lifehacker]

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A company named d30 (dee-three-oh) has been working on a flexible material that has some armor-like characteristics upon impact. You can find the d30 website here.

Here is what the d30 website has to say about the material:

(dee-three-oh) is a specially engineered material made with intelligent molecules. They flow with you as you move but on shock lock together to absorb the impact energy.

This new technology has already been incorporated into motorcycle gloves (see Racer Gloves at www.racergloves.com) and a downhill slalom suit (see Spyder at www.spyder.com) to name a few.

One product, due out in this winter, that may be of particular interest to bikers is from a company called Sessions. They will be incorporating the d30 technology into their layering apparel. Details from the d30 website include the following:

Sessions have become the first to incorporate d3o into their range of first layers. This groundbreaking move has resulted in Sessions’ Thermatics d3o Crew and Pant being awarded the SnowPress Innovation Award 2007.

The men’s range of Thermatics first layer garments have d3o placed in the direct contact areas such as the elbows and knees to provide lightweight, flexible protection.

Thermatics d3o Crew: Wicking thermal knit; d3o protective elbow inserts; Thumbholes; Articulated body; Drop tail hem

Thermatics d3o Pant: Wicking thermal knit; d3o protective knee inserts; No side seams for reduced chaffing; Articulated body; Gusset fly with peek hole; Logo elastic waistband

Keep your eyes open for new developments with regards to the d30 technology and watch for more specific motorcycling applications to come.

And take a look at Charlie6’s post on this over at Redleg’s Rides, which you can find here.

Enjoy!

d30

Racer Gloves

Spyder

I want this when it comes out this Winter! [via Redleg's Rides]

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The following is a press release for motorcyclemeditation.com which was setup by John Blake as a new approach to motorcycle safety.

Motorcyclist Argues for Different Safety Approach

Following another motorcycling fatality, a motorcyclist argues that calls for more regulations are unfounded. He says that the key to safety is thinking. And he has set up a website to help other motorcyclists to think better.

London, UK (PRWEB) September 12, 2007 — A motorcyclist today weighed into the debate about motorcycling safety.

This follows a motorcycling fatality in Milton Keynes, England. In the background is a row between a motorcyclist group, British Motorcyclist Federation, and a road safety charity, Road Peace, about motorcycle safety.

John Blake, the author of motorcyclemeditation.com who commutes a hundred miles every day on a motorcycle, says, “Regulations will not make any difference. Nor will improvements in motorcycle engineering. Nor will reductions in power. What matters is motorcyclist behaviour. And behind that is how motorcyclists think about their riding.”

John Blake set up motorcyclemeditation.com as a record of daily riding experience. He says, “Safe motorcycling cannot be reduced to tips and techniques. It is more a question of mindset.”

He adds, “But you need to apply the thinking in actual motorcycling situations, not just in the abstract. That is why the website is really a collection of stories. It conveys the live situation on a motorcycle, and communicates real life dangers. This lets motorcyclists be forewarned and forearmed.”

Asked why he set up motorcyclemeditation.com, John Blake says, “A trick question on motorcycle courses is, where is the most important piece of safety equipment on a motorcycle? Answer, between the ears. Yet when I tried to find out how to think, all the motorcycle websites were about machinery or racing. I decided to share the thinking that goes into my daily motorcycle commute. And in fact, the thinking turns out to be quite wide ranging, with motorcycle issues woven into other thinking, just the way it happens on a motorcycle.”

Motorcyclemeditation.com has no commercial links and no vested interests to promote. Its sole purpose is to communicate the thrill and challenge of safe motorcycling.

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Probably something that all riders should read.

Enjoy!

Motorcyclist Argues for Different Safety Approach [via PRWeb]

Motorcyclemeditation.com

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Here’s a great way to take home a little vino after your have visited your favorite new winery on your motorcycle.

Although not specifically designed for motorcycles, you should still be able to strap one of these on your bike and get your precious cargo home.

The carriers, by WineCruzer, were actually designed with the ‘jet-set’ crowd in mind, as is evidenced by this blurb from the WineCruzer website, which you can find here.

The ingenious WineCruzer wine carrier will allow you to transport your bottles securely in an indestructible hard shell case with closed cell foam, safely maintaining placement temperature for six to eight hours, and at 30,000 feet!

Ranging in models that will hold two bottles up to a massive 24 bottle carrier with rollers, these cases will set you back $135 for the 2 carrier and $495 for the 24 carrier.

Think of it as a little insurance policy for your purchase.

Enjoy!

WineCruzer

Dilemma: Carrying Good Wine On Your Motorcycle [via Bikes in the Fast Lane]

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