The 2nd
Sunday in July is a day that most Jawa owners remember. It is Jawa – Yezdi Day.
The event will be held in Mangalore in the state of Karnataka, India.
Beautiful Mangalore is situated along the western coast facing the Arabian Sea.
JAWA motorcycles were manufactured
in the Czech republic,
formerly Czechoslovakia
and the Indian connection was set up on March 5, 1961 when the first motorcycle
left the Ideal JAWA Mysore plant.
This year’s event is the
8th. Years it has been running.
The likelihood that petrol prices will go up and up is like
the sun coming out in the morning. Some may argue that price can be controlled
as it is all a matter of supply and demand. There are 2 things that can be
done, they say. One is to increase supply and another to choke demand. And if
both can be done together, it will be like going down a slide.
While Western demand is subdued because of the recession,
surging Asian economies are gulping down oil like there is no tomorrow.
Supply, meanwhile, is restrained by delays in boosting
Iraqi output and an ever-increasing dependence on remote, expensive or
deep-water sources.
Difficulties in corking up the leak at the Gulf of Mexico are worsening the price escalation.
China’s thirst for oil is not helping either. China alone takes 10% of the
world's oil supply.
Growing Asian economies like Vietnam too are demanding for more
oil.
Though India,
Pakistan, Indonesia and the Philippines have yet to rise like
the proverbial dragon it is just a matter of time.
China estimated car production for 2010 is 17 million units.
This is more than the total for Japan,
the US and Britain combined. Most will be
bought by Chinese customers.
Our only hope for a downward trend in price is Iraq.
If oil can again flow freely out of the fields in Iraq
then prices may come down. This is because Iraq has huge reserves and
production cost is much cheaper than offshore wells. But Iraq is still not stable. Once the
mess is cleared then there is hope but for now we can only pray.
Police
all over the world have campaigns to correct what is against safety or national
interest.
In
Aceh it was reported that police stop women motorcyclists with tight fitting
jeans and ordered them to wear less revealing clothes which the police brought
along. The jeans were confiscated.
In Hanoi Vietnam
police have been ordered to step up anti-horn campaign. This followed the death
of a child who was pillion on his mother’s motorcycle. An overly loud horn had
startled the rider who fell from her motorcycle. The child was killed due to
the fall.
Riders
and drivers in Vietnam
constantly sound their horns to warn others. Lorries decided to fit overly loud
horns so that their horns will not be lost in the symphony of horns.
The Red Planet Returns
10 > 13 June 2010, Misano Italy
That’s the announcement for the WORLD DUCATI WEEK to be held at Misano Italy from the 10th to 13th June
2010.
This biannual event had in the past attracted thousands of
Ducati fans from all over the World for activities related to Ducati. For this year the
organiser is arranging the usual party with factory riders attendance, shows, test rides,
stunts, music and also the opportunity to visit the factory and also Ducati Musuem.
Opportunities to meet and exchange notes with
other Ducati fans from almost every corner of the world.
Many of us may remember the poster
of the 2 riders from the movies ‘Easy Rider’. Many of us may have had the
poster on our room walls. The poster is of Dennis Lee Hopper and Peter Fonda.
Hopper had just passed away
on May 29 at age 74.
Born on May 17, 1936
Hopper first appeared on TV in 1955 and
was in the
James Dean movie Rebel without a cause and
Giant. Hopper starred and
directed Easy Rider in 1969 and winning
an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for
Best Original Screenplay as co-writer. He starred in many movies including
Apocalypse Now in 1979 and Speed in 1994.
Hopper
died at his home in the coastal Los Angeles
suburb of Venice
on the morning of May 29, 2010, due to complications from prostate cancer.
Visitors
going to the Isle of Man for the TT are urged to carry CRASH CARDS on
them.
The card will help medical support save their lives in case of a crash.
The
"crash
cards" will have the riders important
information which can help
paramedics attend to crash victims faster.
This card shall be kept inside ones
helmet with a sticker outside to
indicate that info is kept inside.
Efficient
Public Transportation To Tackle Bike Boom.
The saying that too much
of one
thing is not good and that is the case of Jakarta’s ballooning
motorcycle
sales. The
immediate effect are increase in air pollution, noise and
chocked city streets.
Indonesian University transportation
expert Ellen
S. W. Tangkudung warned that if public transportation is
not improved motorcycles
will shoot up.
Motorcycles are easy to
buy due to
affordable easy payment schemes. For as little as Rp500,000 one can
walk
out with a
motorcycle. In
Jakarta alone almost 900 motorcycles are registered a day
and as at
May 2010 there are over 8 million registered motorcycles in Jakarta
alone. The
motorcycle industry however insist that sales in Jakarta
has
not increased but in other regions like Papua and Bali
there are
increases.
Subsidies on petroleum
product is
already burdening the government.
Police data shows that
about 1
million new motorcycles are registered every year.
Indonesia’s
Energy and Mineral
Resources Minister Darwin Zahedy Saleh has
refuted claim that the government will
limit subsidized premium grade
fuel for motorcycles.
“Motorcycist need not worry.
The move
to limit usage do not include motorcycles, it will only affect luxury
cars”
he said.
“Public
transportation and low-income people,
including
motorcycle riders
will continue to receive the subsidy,” he said.
There is concern that
the subsidy of
fuels is increasing year by year as sales of motorcycles and
cars
increased.
The blame is put on the
government’s
failure to provide good rapid mass transportation.
The Indonesia’s Motorcycles
Industry
Association (AISI) estimates that
motorcycle sales may reach 6.3
million
units in 2010, up from 5.8 million units in 2009. The increase will
surely
increase consumption of subsidized fuels.
The Indonesian government
subsidize
three types of fuels i.e. Premium, Diesel and Kerosene. Sales of Premium
petrol
is highest due to vehicle usage.
Fuels sold to industries
in
Indonesia
are not subsidized.
The first-ever
patented
motorcycle was the Hildebrand & Wolfmuller. Recently at a Bonhams
Important Pioneer,
Vintage and Collectors’
Motorcycle auction it was sold at
£86,200 ( about RM402,000).
Heinrich and Wilhelm Hildebrand were among many pioneering engineers who
experimented with initially steam power and later into two-stroke gasoline
engine.
With partners Alois Wolfmüller and mechanic Hans Geisenhof, the four
produced a 1488cc water cooled 4 stroke parallel twin.
The Hildebrands were in the cycle business so their new engine was mounted
in a bicycle frame of the newly developed 'safety' configuration.
Kami
dilaman web dr.moto.com.my mengucapkan takziah kepada keluarga Allahyarham
Mohd. Helmy Jaafar yang telah kembali ke Rahmatullah akibat kemalangan. Mari
kita semua berdoa agar roh beliau di masukkan kedalam gulungan orang orang yang
dikasih Allah.
Amin
Kemalangan Konvoi Meru Bikerz
Sekumpulan penunggang
dari Kelab Meru Bikers telah berkonvoi selepas sarapan di R&R Sungei Buluh
ke destinasi mereka Cameron
Highlands. Rancangan
adalah untuk mengguna jalan melalui Simpang Pulai. Bak kata orang, malang tidak berbau.
Berhampiran dengan jalan msuk ke tempat rekreasi air panas Lubuk Timah di
Keramat Pulai kemalangan berlaku.
Lebih kurang 11.20 am 16 Mei, motosikal Mohd Helmy Jaafar, 39, dari Meru, Klang
yang merupakan Presiden Kelab Meru Bikerz hilang kawalan lalu terbabas kedalam
longkang disisi jalan. Akibat kecederaan beliau telah meninggal dunia di tempat
kejadian.
Mohd Helmy bertugas di Radio
Television Malaysia
(RTM).
Motosikal tunggangan Mohd Helmy Jenis Yamaha
Fazer
Dr. Moto is in
moto GP and shall be racing around the world’s circuits. Well Dr.Moto will not
literally be handling a racing bike. Dr.Moto’s logo has found place on the
fairing of Randy de Puniet bike ( LCR Team Honda).
See the top picture and see
where Randy is pointing.
One up for you Randy and Team Boss Lucio Cechinello.
LCR Team Honda Boleh!
For information, LCR Team Honda has been very
supportive of Dr.Moto’s project on motorcycling safety on the road. In the
programme Lucio has some gave some advice on riding safely on the road. Most
important as Lucio said,’don’t races on the street’ Leave racing to the pros.
Lambretta the scooter
that gave Vespa some competition is now burning the tracks in the 125 World
Championship.
I cannot remember when Lambretta last raced or even raced in a
world event. Racing in scooter races yes but a world championship event? Well
apparently Lambrettas competed in 250 events of the world championship between
1950 and 1953 with a v twin racer.
Looking at the results
of the 1 st race in Qatar
and then at Jerez
I noticed the name Lambretta listed in the races results although they were not
classified. Then looking at the Jerez
results the Lambretta finished the race in 15th and 22nd
positions.
Searching for details I
found that Lambrettas are launching new scooters, their first since 1970 and it
seems that the racers are a sort of getting the stage set. We’ll just wait and
see when Lambretta will hit the Malaysian roads.
Motor
racing has for a long time being regarded as
practicing an
extravagant lifestyle. Extravagance is not only in terms of day
to
day living but also in the way tasks are being carried out. People in
racing
were seen as not caring for the world. In their search for
more power more
fuels are burnt by racing engines then their road
counterparts.
All these may be true a long long time
ago but not today and
more so not with Team LCR Honda.
In carrying out their Corporate Social Responsibility, Team LCR Honda
has
adopted for this
season what is called a ‘LCR Ecostyle’
. With this
LCR will play its role in minimizing impact on the
environment as being a
responsible team they felt the impact motor
sports leave on the environment can
no longer be ignored. Ecostyle
means to act in an eco-compatible way,
respecting the world and to
take into consideration what impact on actions has
on the
environment. With ecostyle Team LCR Honda aims to improve the
quality
and the results of their activities without forgetting environmental
issues.
Dr.Moto
wish to congratulate Team LCR Honda for taking such
a responsible
move and hope more teams will follow this examplary
initiative.
We received news of a strange
accident. Motorcycles
crashing with cars and other land vehicle are
common, even crash with rail
trains are often heard. But what about a
motorcycle crashing with a plane?
Yes
it
happened in Cerug Indonesia
when a motorcyclist with pillion was
crossing the Tangerang airfield as a
shortcut when a plane that was
landing could not avoid hitting the
motorcyclist. Both rider and
pillion were killed on the spot. The pilot and
another in the plane
received slight injury.
A boy in West Delhi was beaten up until
police arrived and took the beaten up boy to hospital. The boy was suspected to
be an accomplice of a motorcycle thief. Motorcycle owner and bystanders saw the
boy helping the thief pushing the motorcycle to get it started. According to
the boy , he was passing the area when a man asked his help in pushing the
motorcycle as it was difficult to start. When the bike started the man rode off
leaving the boy behind.
Next time you want to assist make you are not helping
someone commit a crime
Motorcycling
The likelihood that petrol prices will go up and up is like
the sun coming out in the morning. Some may argue that price can be controlled
as it is all a matter of supply and demand. There are 2 things that can be
done, they say. One is to increase supply and another to choke demand. And if
both can be done together, it will be like going down a slide.
Dennis Hopper
LCR Team Honda spots Dr.Moto
Lambretta the scooter
that gave Vespa some competition is now burning the tracks in the 125 World
Championship. 
