More Afternoon Moto News - AHRMA, Honda Australia & Scams, Cheats and Hoaxes

And attorney in Steamboat Springs, Rob Stricker, has won the AHRMA's 2009 Vintage Trials Series in the Rigid Heavyweight Intermediate Class. His ride in the event was a 1952 BSA Goldstar. Stricker is a long-time rider with a long history in trials riding. Check out the article...

http://tinyurl.com/yftf7dh

Honda Australia has announced that they are restructuring and will cease operations of the Honda Riders Club of Australia effective immediately. As with the American version, which is still barely active, its activities spanned the entire range of sports associated with Honda motorsports products. All of that work will now be done in-house at the Australian HQ.

http://tinyurl.com/ylxz7zw

MCN (UK) has produced a very cool read about scams, cheats and hoaxes in the motorcycle world. Some are quite amazingly interesting and others are just plain laugh out loud funny. The one about the FP1, though, I would like to research more just to find the truth - not to hurt anyone, but to finally know what actually did happen. OK, so take the link and read them, you will enjoy it!

http://tinyurl.com/ye2qu7h

Sunday Afternoon Diversions - City Trials Video

Parkour may or may not be known to you - it is the freestyle sport of jumping up and over various urban structures (you saw it at the beginning of "Casino Royale", the recent James Bond film) and moving across the city at surprising speeds. Well, now Frenchman Julien Dupont has taken another definition for that word (it is used to describe trials riding in France as well) and done on a motorcycle what most street punks do with their bodies alone. This is an incredible video and is well worth any time you get to spend watching it!

http://tinyurl.com/yd7o6d6

MotoVentures - Training for Trials Riding

That's right, the company MotoVentures is in business to train your ordinary motorcyclist how to ride a trials bike - those machines which seem to defy gravity and run straight up the side of a boulder. The classes are intense and it will tax every physical limit you have, but you will learn how to some amazing tricks. You simply have to read the linked article to grasp just how hard this form of motorcycle sport actually is.

http://tinyurl.com/yjop8ps