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AGV Backmarker: Learning to Love Las Vegas
July 2, 2009 by Mark Gardiner
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A couple of weeks ago, I was flown to Las Vegas and put up in a luxurious resort so that I could spend a day trying out the latest Dunlop street tire for sport bikes, the Sportmax Q2....
AGV Backmarker: Okay, maybe the results weren’t exactly electrifying. They were still impressive
June 25, 2009 by Mark Gardiner
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A review of how things went at the inaugural TTXP electric motorcycle race at the Isle of Man TT.
AGV Backmarker: Rider’s Journal
June 18, 2009 by Mark Gardiner
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If I’ve learned anything by watching the last thirty years or so of Middle Eastern strife, it’s this: in a time of upheaval or regime change, remain skeptical.
AGV Backmarker: Wheels Through Time
June 12, 2009 by Mark Gardiner
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Motorcyclists come from all over the U.S. to ride the Blue Ridge Mountains, on roads like the ones around Maggie Valley, North Carolina. You’d think it would be heaven for an avid rider like Dale Walksler
AGV Backmarker: Toto, we’re back in Kansas.
June 4, 2009 by Mark Gardiner
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As a landscape, Kansas is nearly flat and featureless—the perfect foil for Oz and the Emerald City. The road I followed to Dale Keesecker’s farm ran dead-straight to the horizon for hours at a time.
AGV Backmarker: Café Racer Ride-In
May 28, 2009 by Mark Gardiner
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Normally, I’d go out of my way to avoid sharing a room with any group of guys that bills itself as “the loudest band in L.A.,” but last month I was invited to provide an unlikely literary interlude—reading from Riding Man—during a café racers’ ride-in at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach.
AGV Backmarker: Run, Forrest, Run.
May 21, 2009 by Mark Gardiner
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Mission’s CEO and co-founder Forrest North opens up about himself and the route he’s taken to get where he is. His story began in an unlikely place.
AGV Backmarker: Road to Ashland
May 14, 2009 by Mark Gardiner
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Brammo’s CEO Craig Bramscher set out to build a V-12 supercar. He ended up creating an electric commuter bike.
AGV Backmarker: I Sing the Bike Electric
May 7, 2009 by Mark Gardiner
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In the last few weeks, I’ve ridden a prototype of Brammo’s Enertia, and an early production version of the new Zero S. If you read this on the day it’s posted, I’ll be at Infineon, watching Tom Montano put the Mission One TTXGP bike through its paces.
AGV Backmarker: 2WD, Part Two
April 30, 2009 by Mark Gardiner
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It occurs to me that I never actually explained how the Christini system, which is pretty cool, actually works.
