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    mercredi 23 avril 2014

    It's Better In The Wind - Short Film

    It's Better in the Wind (17:39) - For the last two years I have been taking still photographs for a personal project entitled 'It's Better In The Wind,' all the while collecting video footage from each ride as we traveled around the Western United States together.


    Sealine Cross Country Rally (Day 3)


    Qatar's Al-Attiyah and Abu Issa pull clear as Barreda regains motorcycle lead at Sealine Rally


    • Qatar’s Hussein forced out; crash sidelines Polish rider Berdysz
    • Tyre woes and broken axle for stranded Saudi Yazeed Al-Rajhi 
    • Fourth gruelling 404.18km selective section set to run on Thursday

    SEALINE (Qatar): Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah, Spaniard Joan Barreda and the host nation’s Mohammed Abu Issa stole the limelight by setting the fastest times in the third 411.76km selective section of the Sealine Cross-Country Rally through the Qatar desert on Wednesday.


    Al-Attiyah duly extended his advantage to 39min 38sec in the car category, Honda rider Barreda managed to slip 1min 19sec ahead of KTM’s Marc Coma in the motorcycle section and Qatar’s Mohammed Abu Issa increased his lead in the quads after Poland’s Rafal Sonik hit trouble.

    Al-Attiyah had no fear of opening the stage for the cars and he and French navigator Matthieu Baumel controlled their pace masterfully to record a third successive stage win, despite erring on the side of caution at a tricky navigational point.

    Brazilians Reinaldo Varela and Gustavo Gugelmin were second in an Overdrive Toyota Hilux and the third quickest time for Mini driver Vladimir Vasilyev enabled the Russian to snatch second overall after Yazeed Al-Rajhi hit trouble.


    Stories of Bike | Forge

    When Dan Fitch set out to build a custom 1973 Harley Davidson Ironhead, he had a certain image in his mind of what that would be. Little did he realise that, during the build of his bike, his vision would be challenged. Challenged by a builder who would change Dan's vision into something magnificent.



    Read more about this episode here: http://hdshed.com.au/stories-of-bike/...

    JAMES WHITHAM’S W650 TRACKER


    Kawasaki W650 tracker by James Whitham

    Animation LAND ROVER



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    ICON LAND ROVER DEFENDER D90 LS3 V8


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    You’re looking at the new ICON D90 Land Rover fitted with an LS3 V8, as you can probably imagine (and in true ICON style), not a lot of the original Rover was left after the 22 month long build process was completed.
    The modern Land Rover D90 Defender is the direct descendant of the original Land Rover Series 1, a 4×4 built by British engineers as a cross-over between a Willys Jeep and a tractor in post-WW2 England. The vehicle enjoyed immediate success far beyond the expectations of the creators and as a result they had to build the body out of aluminium – steel was in short supply but the lighter, more corrosion resistant aluminium was far more readily available.
    Like the original Series 1, the modern D90 Defender has a steel ladder chassis and steel bulkhead with a body of aluminium. This Meccano-like construction has meant that generations of 4×4 tinkerers have enjoyed tweaking, customising and improving the humble off-roader into globe-crossing, Paris-Dakar racing and green-laning brutes.
    Land Rover is currently in the process of updating the Defender line of vehicles for the 2015 model year and many expect a unibody vehicle with a more 21st century series of creature comforts, this means that the current crop of Defenders might be the last of the original line – making them a popular target for acquisition and contributing to their very strong performance in the re-sale market. It also means that the D90 is likely to remain the most popular platform for customisation, it’s generally far easier to modify a body-on-chassis vehicle than the unibody equivalent.
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    What the team at ICON did with the Defender follows in the footsteps of men like Carroll Shelby, the project began with a good-looking (if slightly underpowered) British motor car which was then stripped back to basics before having a giant American V8 shoehorned under the hood, a new drivetrain bolted into place and some uprated suspension to handle all the new Newtonian-physics happening as a result of that extra weight and power.
    The most famous vehicle from the mad-but-in-a-good-way engineers at ICON is their FJ40, a vehicle that offers insight into what the people at Toyota would have built if they’d had no limitations placed on them in their original design brief. After having seen the ICON FJ40 for the first time I remember wishing that they’d take a swing at a Defender, so when I received an email telling me they’d done just that I was both delighted and dismayed. Delighted because I had a new favourite 4×4 to lust after and dismayed because I knew it’d have a price tag to rival my personal lifesavings coupled with that of three generations of my offspring.
    The spec-list of the ICON D90 is just about as expansive as you might imagine, the project started with the task of dropping a 400+hp 6.2 litre LS3 V8 under the hood and then connecting it to a 4-speed automatic transmission with an Atlas II transfer case. The D90 now rides on 17″ Hutchinson wheels attached to Dynatrac axles, Twisted UK suspension and Bilstein shocks with 285/70 R17 BF Goodrich ATKO tires. Everything can can be powder-coated has been powder-coated and there are more laser-cut parts on this car than their are on the SR71 Blackbird, interestingly they chose to cut back and simplify the interior, making it look far more like the Series 1 and Series 2 Land Rovers.
    The finished vehicle is now happily parked in its new owners garage, he waited 22 months for the vehicle to be completed but I dare say it was worth it, he now has a custom Land Rover that could give a Bowler EXR S a run for its money.
    Click here to read more via ICON.
    Land Rover D90 Custom 22 740x493 ICON Land Rover Defender D90 LS3 V8
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    Land Rover D90 Custom 11 740x493 ICON Land Rover Defender D90 LS3 V8
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    Honda CX500 – Nozem Amsterdam


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    Written by Martin Hodgson
    from Pipeburn.com
    When you’re starting your build with a bike colloquially known as the “Flying Maggot” and other nicknames even less flattering the test of a builders skill is going to be put to the maximum test. Lorenzo and Delano both graphic designers with Nozem Amsterdam were more than up to the challenge of turning a maggot into the classy café that sits before you. But with the likes of Wrenchmonkees, Hageman Motorcycles and Moto Mucci already having built incredible examples, making a CX500 stand out from the crowd is increasingly more difficult. And the Nozem boys knew it “The idea was to make a cool, authentic looking CX500, there are a lot of  CX500 builds nowadays, so it was a challenge to make the bike stand out.”
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    Thruxton Cup 2014



    Check out the Thruxon Cup racing series Brought to you by BES / AHRMA. British Customs is the OFFICIAL PARTS SPONSOR for the races.

    Check out more information on how your you take take your Triumph Thruxton and race it on a track! www.Thruxton-Cup.com

    Snapshot, 2006: A mirror moment with Kate Moss


    You can just imagine Mario Testino popping into the cloakroom to wash his hands and discovering Kate Moss sitting on the sink, applying lipstick. Well, you can if you try really hard. If your imagination fails you, no need to worry, because the photographer just happened to have his camera ready...
    But why is Kate wearing a mask? And whose bathroom is it? No matter – if you’re the successful bidder when a copy of the photo 'Kate Moss, London, 2006' by Mario Testino is auctioned on 28 April 2014 by Phillips in New York, you can spend a lifetime making up stories around it. The estimate for the signed and numbered chromogenic print is 3,000 to 5,000 U.S. dollars.

    dos au mur !