Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Motion Pro Square Drive Spinner T-Handle

T-Handle sockets can be found in just about every professional bike mechanic’s toolbox thanks to their ability to make many jobs easier and faster. If you’re looking to add T-Handle convenience to your toolbox, but don’t want to worry about fitting an entire set, Motion Pro has the answer in their square drive Spinner T-Handle.

The Motion Pro Spinner T-Handles feature your choice of ⅜” or ¼” sizes so that you can snap your own sockets right on and go right to work. Similar to standard T-Handle sockets, the Spinner has a lot of reach, allowing you to get into hard to reach areas without losing the leverage you need to break loose a stubborn bolt. The feature that sets it apart from others is the addition of floating spinner grip on the shaft of the tool. This lets you firmly hold the socket in place while spinning it freely in either direction. To further aid in the spinning of the tool, Motion Pro gave it a heavy, rubber coated handle that gives you a comfortable grip.

The Motion Pro Spinner gives you the same speed and convenience of a standard set of T-Handle sockets, but with a lot of added versatility and a lifetime warranty. You can order yours from Riders Discount by getting in touch with Brad at 866.931.6644 ext. 810, or by sending a PM through this forum. If email is more convenient, feel free to send one to FORUM at RIDERSDISCOUNT dot COM and we’ll get back to you right away!

Motion Pro Spinner T-Handle - $20 shipped in the lower 48


The Spinner T-Handle features a heavy, rubber coated grip that makes it easy to get leverage and to spin it.


⅜” square drive (also available in ¼”) means that you can grab one of your sockets and go right to work.


The blue anodized spinner section is laser etched and features low friction bearings for easy spinning while you keep pressure on the fastener.

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Hitchhiker.

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2013 Mercedes-Benz GL-class Driven: The Grandiose Lifestyle’s Great Enabler

2013 Mercedes-Benz GL350 BlueTec

The steering in the all-new 2013 Mercedes-Benz GL three-row, seven-seat SUV feels light to the touch and loose on center. This shortcoming is not attributable to any flaw in the electrically assisted rack-and-pinion gear or lapse on the part of the engineers who fret over chassis tuning. Instead, blame 50 clinic participants—Southern Californians owning either a current Mercedes ute or a competitive SUV—who drove GL prototypes and said that light and loose is how steering should be. (more…)

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Guest Story: Trackday at Laguna Seca with Moto2 World Champion and MotoGP rider, Stefan Bradl

2012 is Stefan Bradl's rookie season in MotoGP, and as such, he faces many challenges. There's the difficulties of dealing with the power of a MotoGP bike, the complications of handling the sophisticated electronics used in the class, and there's the Bridgestone tires to master. Another problem that is sometimes overlooked for MotoGP rookies is having to learn a new and demanding circuit, the complex layout of the Laguna Seca track. As the junior classes (now Moto2 and Moto3, previously 125cc and 250cc) do not visit Laguna Seca due to space and noise constraints, rookies face the double challenge of learning the circuit and finding a way to manhandle a MotoGP bike around it. The the track is featured on many MotoGP computer games, the elevation changes and camber of the track make it much harder to learn.

To alleviate some of the problems of learning the circuit, Stefan Bradl decided to use a public trackday to learn his way around. Adam Silver, keen racing fan and trackday enthusiast, learned that Bradl would be riding at Laguna, and went along to join the fun. Below is his account of the day Stefan Bradl followed him around Laguna.

Race results and championship standings
2012

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WSBK: World Superbike Philip Island Highlights 2011

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Monday, July 30, 2012

2012 Laguna Seca MotoGP Press Release Previews

Press releases issued ahead of this weekend's Laguna Seca round of MotoGP. Includes the Yamaha MotoGP press release, which gives no hint of Ben Spies' announcement he will be leaving the factory at the end of the year, as well as details of updates to be used by both Honda and Ducati:

Round Number: 
10
Year: 
2012

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Hartmut Bischoff Gastone Biscia Norman Black Kenny Blake John Blanchard

Hamilton closes on Hakkinen’s win tally | 2012 Hungarian Grand Prix stats and facts

Hamilton closes on Hakkinen’s win tally is an original article from F1 Fanatic. If this article has been published anywhere other than F1 Fanatic it is an infringement of copyright.

Mika Hakkinen, McLaren-Mercedes MP4-13, 1998Lewis Hamilton scored his 19th career win in the Hungarian Grand Prix, giving him one more than Kimi Raikkonen and one fewer than Mika Hakkinen. The latter, like Hamilton, scored all of his wins at the wheel of a McLaren-Mercedes.

Hamilton has now won three times at the Hungaroring, giving him as many as Ayrton Senna. Only Michael Schumacher has scored more wins at this track – four.

Hamilton’s 22nd pole position puts him level with Fernando Alonso again. It was his first win from pole since the 2010 Canadian Grand Prix.

McLaren bolstered their excellent record at the Hungaroring with their sixth win at the circuit in the last eight years.

They were also finally able to celebrate their 150th pole position. The team thought they had achieved this at the Spanish Grand Prix, only for Hamilton to be penalised after stopping on the track during the session.

Martin Whitmarsh said: “For all you trainspotters out there, our first was scored by Peter Revson, at Mosport Park, in Canada, on September 23rd 1972, in a McLaren M19C, with a lap-time of 1’13.6.

“Oh, and, by the way, I haven’t forgotten the 1968 Race of Champions at Brands Hatch, where we also got the pole, but that was a non-championship Formula 1 race!”

Ferrari have already passed the 200 pole positions mark, with 207.

Lotus: close to victory

Both Lotus drivers took turns leading the race and both finished on the podium – yet that breakthrough victory still eludes them. Kimi Raikkonen scored his third second-place finish of the season.

Romain Grosjean started on the front row for the first time in his F1 career. The last French driver to do so was Jean Alesi when he started second for Sauber in the 1999 French Grand Prix.

Lotus and McLaren have the most podium finishes this season – eight – with Ferrari on six (all courtesy of Alonso, of course) and Red Bull five. For comparison, after 11 races last year Red Bull had racked up 16 podium appearances.

Sebastian Vettel set fastest lap for the third time this year. This was the 12th fastest lap of his career, giving him as many as fellow multiple champions Alberto Ascari and Jack Brabham, plus Rene Arnoux and Juan Pablo Montoya.

Alonso and McLaren rack up the points

Fernando Alonso, Ferrari, Hungaroring, 2012Alonso missed out on the chance to score his 31st Grand Prix victory on his 31st birthday – and deprived me of an easy headline!

However he did score his 23rd consecutive points finish which means he needs just one more to equal Michael Schumacher’s record. As noted here earlier, the change in the points system has helped his cause somewhat.

The same also goes for McLaren, who can reach 50 consecutive races in the points at the next Grand Prix. Since Jenson Button joined Hamilton at the team at least one of them has scored in every race.

The record for most consecutive points finishes for a team is held by Ferrari, with 55 between the 1999 and 2003 Malaysian Grands Prix. Ferrari are also on a run of 39 consecutive points finishes.

Mercedes had their worst combined starting positions since last year’s Japanese Grand Prix with Nico Rosberg 13th and Schumacher 17th.

Pastor Maldonado collected his sixth penalty of 2012, one more than he had last year. These include three gearbox change penalties incurred in Bahrain, Monaco and Canada.

Kovalainen’s 100th start

Finally, Heikki Kovalainen started his 100th Grand Prix. As we did for Lewis Hamilton last week, here are his top ten finishes to date:

Position Races
1 1
2 2
3 1
4 4
5 7
6 3
7 5
8 6
9 3
10 3

Kovalainen has had a single pole position in the 2008 British Grand Prix. His hundred starts have come with Renault (17), McLaren (35), Lotus (37, plus one failure to start) and Caterham (11).

Review the year so far in statistics here:

Spotted any other interesting stats and facts from the Hungarian Grand Prix? Share them in the comments.

2012 Hungarian Grand Prix

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Kawasakis Still Suck

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Lenfranco Baviera Richard Bay Jean Michel Bayle Jean Pierre Bayle Len Bayliss

BIKES: Nolan Woodbury Presents Dunstall - Part II


Nolan Woodbury from Vintage Motorcycles Online continues his exploration of Dunstall in Part 2 of his 4 part series.

Source: http://motorcycling.speedtv.com/article/bikes-production-specials-part-ii-powered-by-dunstall2/

David Hobbs Gary Hocking Ingo Hoffmann Bill Holland Jackie Holmes

Keselowski emerges from smoke as Nationwide winner

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Tony Gaze Geki Olivier Gendebien Marc Gené Elmer George

2012 Laguna Seca MotoGP Saturday Post-Qualifying Press Releases

Press releases from the MotoGP teams and Bridgestone after Saturday's qualifying at Laguna Seca:

Round Number: 
10
Year: 
2012

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Paddock Postcard from Budapest

The quick turnaround between last week's German round and this weekend's Grand Prix in Hungary meant that there was little time to carry out any pre-race activities and most teams' extra-curricular outings were kept to a minimum. Ferrari, however, managed to slot in a brief trip to visit those affected by the two earthquakes which rocked Northern Italy's Emilia-Romagna region in May. Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa both took time out of their busy schedules to accompany other team members. Ferrari hosted an online auction in June to raise money.

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Sunday, July 29, 2012

Valentino Rossi Crashed 10 Minutes from the End of Practice

Valentino Rossi Laguna Seca 2012

Valentino Rossi only 1:22.772 set his best lap at Laguna Seca's practice. The Italian crashed without injury ten minutes from the end of the afternoon session, and therefore wasn’t able to try for a time with a soft tyre.

Valentino Rossi (Ducati Team) 9th (1:22.772)
“I crashed ten minutes from the end of the second session and couldn’t use the new soft tyre that we had just put on. It was my mistake because I felt that I had much more grip and immediately pushed hard from the first lap, but I had a hard tyre on the front and when I entered turn three a bit wide, I think it was still a bit cold and I fell. The important thing is I’m fine, but it’s still a shame because after that I rode with the hard rear and was sliding too much to improve my time. I think that our potential for being in the second group is pretty good, not far from Crutchlow and Dovizioso. We’ll see tomorrow as we continue riding with the setting that I like the most, the one that I crashed with and that I didn’t use with the soft tyre today.”

Ducati Factory Racing Press Release

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Lexus Can’t Contain Excitement, Reveals 2013 LS F Sport

When it comes to new cars, we generally play the role of the petulant six-year-old waiting to open a present, angling for a peek of what’s under the wrapping paper and shaking the box. After announcing the debut date and location (this coming Monday, San Francisco) for its new LS sedan, Lexus has taken some of the fun—and surprise—out of the full reveal by releasing a photo of the 2013 LS F Sport. That’s it above. Read full story »

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