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Monday, October 24, 2011

A writer's notebook, Simoncelli, and a meditation on risk

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The last week or so, there's been several moments when I've found myself thinking, 'That would make a great topic for a blog pos...
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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Now is the winter of our discontent

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Last Sunday, I had to be at work at 6 a.m., which meant leaving for work at oh-dark 5:30, in the middle of October. In Kansas City, that mea...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Is there a lesson for motorcycle rules committees in the Dan Wheldon crash?

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I heard about Dan Wheldon's fatal IndyCar crash on Sunday, when I dropped by a friend's place for dinner. He told me that crash foot...
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Superbike dispels rules rumors? Not really. And a note from the Dept. of Unintended Consequences

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A few days ago, I noticed an item on the RoadracingWorld.com web site, in which SBK director Paolo Ciabatti dispelled rumors that the Superb...

Is "Occupy Wall Street" the left's Tea Party? Lessons from (recent) history...

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The Tea Party started out as a grassroots movement. But a playing field doesn't just have to be level for big-money pro sports like poli...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Bright’s Star: A rare BSA factory ‘tracker

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Every year, my local motorcycle club, the Heart of America Motorcycle Enthusiasts - aka ‘the HoAMEboys’ holds a bike show here in Kansas Cit...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

'H' could stand for 'has-been'. Or hero...

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As I rode in to work on Sunday, I mulled over John Hopkins' bad luck in finishing second, by .006 seconds, in the British Superbike Cham...
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