Two Wheel Tuesday: Moto Monday – Which Happened Yesterday Of Course

Salt Lake City should be a mecca for gearhead culture in the United States: wide, straight streets practically begging for impromptu street drag racing (don’t do this), close proximity to the world famous Bonneville Salt Flats, and more recently, the Miller Motorsports Park. 

But in the home of conservative politics and even more conservative lifestyles, Utah’s car scene is mostly beige.  For whatever reasons, sadly Salt Lake has failed to develop much of a “scene.”  Sure, there’s car shows, random parking lot get-togethers and other small events.  However, there are a number of small and vibrant underground scenes of hard-core enthusiasts such as the ones I had the pleasure of hanging out with last night. 

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Hooniverse Two Wheel Tuesday: The Odd Ball Edition

As I mentioned, this past weekend was a cool ass car show with a few bikes thrown in. Inside the convention center were these two old race bikes that I thought were pretty cool. Out on the grounds were a couple pretty funky looking ones but my fellow Hoons will need to make the jump to see them.

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Hooniverse Two Wheel Tuesday: A Few Bikes From The Show Edition

This past weekend this olelongrooffan attended the Art of The Automobile car show down here in the World Center of Racing. There were a bunch of vintage old motorcycles and I thought my fellow Hoons would enjoy the sight of them.

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Two Wheel Tuesday: The British National Motorcycle Museum

As I shared with the Hooniversiat in my earlier posts from the Commercial Vehicle Show, I spent last week in Birmingham, England. Birmingham is (or was) the “B” in BSA, and the city and surrounding Midlands area were home to a plethora of British motorcycle marques throughout the previous century. Birmingham is to the British motorcycle what Detroit is to the American car. It’s also the site of the National Motorcycle Museum.

As most of you know, I’m a certified bike freak, so after traveling 4,500 miles, I couldn’t be within a mile of the National Motorcycle Museum and not visit it. I not-so-secretly took an extended “lunch break” (wink, wink) from staffing my employer’s corporate booth at the exhibition (which was the primary reason for my trip’s existence) to tour this shrine to Britbike history.

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Video: Ride Apart takes a look at the $3,000 motorcycles of CCW

Friend of Hooniverse Wes Siler and his Hell For Leather compatriot Grant Ray are adding a bit of two-wheeled flair to the Drive network over on YouTube. In the latest installment, the HFL crew meets up with Scott Colosimo, who is the main man behind Cleveland CycleWerks. Wes, Grant, and Scott head out into the desert to see how these $3,000 motorcycles stack up.

Click past the break to watch the clip.

[Source: YouTube]

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Hooniverse Two-Wheel Tuesday – The Bikes of ACS ’12

Last Saturday, I took a quick peek at the local American Car Show here in Kokkola, Finland. More from the four-wheeled display pieces later, but here’s a glance at the two-wheel goodness that occupied an another room at the venue.

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Video: Rossi teaches Lorenzo a lesson or How I learned to stop worrying and love MotoGP

Valentino Rossi is an Italian wizard.

The 33-year-old MotoGP racer has racked up a lengthy list of wins and world titles. He’s got serious skills, and his resume is almost explanation enough as to why the man is beloved in the sport of motorcycle racing. Almost enough. There will occasionally be doubters, but we have a (now dated) video showing why Rossi is one of the best to ever strap on a helmet.

In 2009, Rossi and then-teammate at Yamaha Jorge Lorenzo were battling for first place in the final laps at Spain’s Circuit de Catalunya. This is Lorenzo’s home turf, and he was pushing hard to take the win. His main obstacle to that win sitting right on his ass. The two riders battled back and forth, but Lorenzo wound up in front on the final lap. It looked as if he would take the victory but, well… click past the break for one of the best finishes in motorsports history.

[Source: Vimeo via The Car Lounge]

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A literary journey where the focus is a love for two-wheeled machines

Frederick Seidel is an American poet who’s, to date, lived quite an interesting life. He’s been around the world, romanced beautiful women, and turned churning out words into a lifelong career. Born in 1936, Seidel’s been hanging around this green and blue ball for some years now, but there’s been one seemingly constant love affair that makes its presence throughout the mans body of work. I’m talking about his love of motorcycles.

Back in 2009, Harper’s published a collection of Mr. Seidel’s work that focuses on two-wheeled subject matter. I came across this lengthy (by Internet standards) but lovely read thanks to longtime reader skitter. The timing is perfect (or perverse, depending on your point of view) because I can’t stop thinking about acquiring a motorcycle of my own. I’ve never owned a bike, and I don’t really know how to ride one. Sure, I understand the mechanics of basic bike operation, but I don’t know how to ride one.

I sat down and read through About Motorcycles, and my growing thirst was not quenched. In fact, it’s now worse than ever. If you’ve ever considered getting a motorcycle, read these short stories and poems to make your decision official. If you’re already the proud owner of a two-wheeled slice of freedom, you should read it anyway to fall even further in love with your machine.

Click here to read About Motorcycles.

[Image: Flickr cc 2.0/Atsuhiko Takagi]

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Two-Wheel Tuesday: Japan’s “super-scary-transforming-towing-motorcycle”

My good friend Sam, an international traveler, and owner of a classic dark green Volvo P1800, passed an email on to me with these photos of a few strange looking Honda Goldwings in Japan.  … Continue Reading

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Hooniverse Two Wheel Tuesday: What’s Their Nickname? Who Cares? These Are Sweet.

Ssshhh…don’t tell the Hooniverse Overlords but I’m sneaking this one in.

Now, my fellow Hoons, this olelongrooffan doesn’t want to come off as being conceited or egotistical but sometimes I just stumble onto some cool old shit. And today at the end of my eleven hour day selling 4, count em 4, motorcycle trailers (my coworker sold 8 so there) I spotted some pretty cool motorcycles over on A1A and I just had to share some images of them with you.

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