Motorcycle Song – The Weight (Easy Rider) Grateful Dead

Motorcycle 4th of July – Motorcycle Song

This is a video tribute to Dennis Hopper with Levon Helm & the Band’s “The Weight” covered by the Grateful Dead, w/ movie scenes from Easy Rider….

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Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers (played by Fonda and Hopper) who travel through the American Southwest and South. The success of Easy Rider helped spark the New Hollywood phase of film making during the early 1970s. The film was added to the Library of Congress National Registry in 1998. (more…)

World’s First Motorcycle

World’s First Motorcycle

Daimler Reitwagen 1885 This is a 1986 replica:

Specifications: wood frame, handlebar steering, 36” wheelbase, 110lbs., single cylinder engine, vertical, air cooler, full stroke 58 X
100 mm, hot tube ignition, 2:1 compression ratio, 16 cu. in., 0.5 horsepower, single belt drive transmission, no reverse. (more…)

LA Motorcycle Crash

LA Motorcycle Crash

Motorcycle crashes head on into fire truck

Looks like the bike rider took the turn way too wide and directly into the fire truck. He is lucky to be alive!

Motorcycle accidents almost always result in injuries, extensive medical bills, and treatments. This in turn can lead to lost wages, pain and suffering, emotional turmoil, and much more. Nationwide, more than 5,000 riders are killed and about 100,000 are injured each year in motorcycle accidents.  Three-quarters of motorcycle accidents involve another vehicle and more than two-thirds of those are the fault of the other driver. (more…)

San Diego Motorcycle Event

San Diego Motorcycle Event

Next week Wednesday 6-24-15 is BIKE NIGHT

San Diego motorcycles - San Diego motorcycle events

  AT THE CAJON CLASSIC CRUISE
                        (Downtown El Cajon)

                    Always FREE  5pm – 8pm

‘Charger Steve’ Lordigyan’s Cajon Classic Cruise is Southern California’s largest weekly car and motorcycle event attended by over 50,000 people each year. (more…)

San Diego Polaris Slingshot

San Diego Polaris Slingshot

Many believe this will be the hottest new motorcycle of 2015. There are two models, this one is the more popular SL which adds a camera and larger wheels. The back wheel is 20″ and the front wheels are 18″.

There’s two small luggage compartments that are revealed by folding the seats forward. Car and Driver has it rated at 0-60 in 4.6 and 130 top speed.

The Polaris is Bad Ass . . . A Mini Batmobile,  Batman and Robin would have loved it! (more…)

Big Dog K9 Motorcycle

Big Dog K9 Motorcycle

The Big Dog K9 Custom Soft-tail Chopper Motorcycle offers the outstanding looks of a Hard-Tail Chopper, but rides like a dream with its Soft-Tail Suspension.

This video shows Jon the new owner of the best looking Big Dog K-9 I’ve ever owned, riding it around Orange County California.

The Big Dog K-9 was the flagship of the Big Dog line. This nine-foot-long chopper has a 39 degree rake, 117ci. S&S v-twin engine and the forks are a sick 12 inches over sized. Also, there are two hidden adjustable shocks.
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