“American is Back!” by Stephen Colbert, and USA Today’s MotoGP report

Okay, so it’s somewhat difficult to call Comedy Central’s Colbert Report mainstream media, but it’s hard to beat for quality infotainment. This video Colbert shot on his iPhone of a guy wheelying in the Lincoln Tunnel is priceless, though. He says “America is back,” but we’d argue America never left. Colbert just finally got to see how badass motorcycles are, firsthand. Glad we could cheer him up.

The Motomethod Story from Zenga Bros on Vimeo.

I love the idea behind this, but it will require teachers with superhuman calm and love-of-fellow-man to make it work.

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This question came in for KC via Facebook:

Can you take a look at this and tell me what you think? Not sure how the port cutout above the ring pack would work out, but it’s interesting none the less.

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We’re all motorcyclists, right?

I’ve been riding the Cycle World long-term-test 2010 Can-Am Spyder RT-S for almost 18 months, and a couple of things about it have become clear. First, it’s still thought to be very cool by many people. And second, a lot of motorcyclists apparently think it’s some kind of affront to motorcycling—a slap in the face of “real” motorcyclists. One of those guys had his young daughter yell out the window of his Honda on a local Northern California road, “My daddy wants to know if those are your training wheels!” Ha-ha, yuk-yuk.

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