The famous Banana Guards, the ultimate ATGATT gear for the discerning motorcycle rider, has got better.

Now available is the Froot Guard, ATGATT gear for your apples, grapes, oranges, peaches, nectarines and lemons.

Without these protectors, your motorcycle gear is not complete.

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Two great visors for motorcycle helmets from Italian Raleri.

One, reasonably chap, is a photochromic visor that changes tint depending on the sun light. The other is an electronic one, that changes tint immediately, but is more expensive.

Both visors do not replace your own motorcycle helmet visor, but sit inside it. All most all helmet can be used.

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Lorenzo dominant yet again but Rossi on podium.

Some groovy and funky print ad featuring a unicycle motorcycle drew me to the advertizer's web site.

Allen Solly is an Indian clothing brand, and their web site is really good. And it's got nothing to do with motorcycles, except this ad...

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Need to keep cool during the summer when not riding your motorcycle?

KTM to the rescue! A KTM-logo ice cube tray.... what more do you want. Sorry, "Harley-Davidson" is too long for ice cubes...

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Excellent quality video and so easy to use!

FEMA are opposed to the ridiculous recommendations made by the European Commission to make our European roads safer, specially for motorcycles.

In essence, the EC wants you to pay much more for buying your motorcycle, not allow you to put after--market stuff on it, and basically make your life as miserable as passible so that you give up motorcycle altogether, and follow the masses.

And to think we paid for that.....

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Choppers are by definition motorcycle that are custom made, so they almost all have custom paint jobs.

So here are 51 pretty (and not so pretty) choppers with custom paint jobs, plus the first and last one, just for fun...

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The guide to the best French motorcycle roads is now available on the iPhone as an app.

Some 100+ roads in France to ride your motorcycle on.

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Here are the motorcycle stories I've been reading this week which you may be interested in.

- Motorcycle Parking Lot Dangers
- Avoiding Animals While Riding Your Motorcycle
- Book Review: Longest Ride

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Is it a cruiser or a tourer? You decide!

Don't even bother push starting the motorcycle! Can't you see it's flooded...

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These have got to be some of the cooler, designer, motorcycle helmets out there.

Could Dainese or Nolan please put this in their catalog?? If don't think BMW or Schuberth will...

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Are there more motorcycles then bicycles at the Tour de France race?

Sure looks like it...

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A 1970 biker movie, where for a change, the motorcycle riders are mostly the good guys.

Not one of your best biker movies, but it's not bad. Obviously highly improbable, that a 1%-er gang goes and helps a hippie community fight against the town, but there you go, that's Hollywood for you.

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Some news about Tiffany "Tiff" Coates world travels on her trusty, but old, BMW GS motorcycle.

She's back in the USA, and has decided, spur of the moment, to head for Labrador.

In the mean time, Tiff has met up with Carla King, female solo world traveller and successful book author.

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Queensland, Australia have a very good web site, run by the local authorities, full of interesting and useful information on motorcycle safety.

Detailed information about the gear you can wear, tips fro riding safely, quizzes, and a good safety video.

Education is a lot better than repression!

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BMW Motorcycles North America have released a free iPhone app for BMW motorcycle owners.

Use it for assistance, and info. Looks good.

What about us poor folks in Europe??

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Is this the ultimate riding suit for true adventure touring?

The European motorcycle manufacturers association, ACEM, have published their advertising policy for the manufacturers.

No more aggressive riding TV ads, like KTM's ads.

Huh? But KTMs CEO is also ACEM's President....

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