Welcome to Friday Fudge. If it’s weird, funny, or strange motorcycle news, or it just plain won’t fit anywhere else on the site – you’ll find it here.
Some cool Dakar pics
Since we can’t afford to pay for Getty and AP pics from this year’s Dakar, check out these courtesy of the Guardian newspaper.
Going postal
What can you do with a postie bike, asks the title of this YouTube video. They answer that question pretty well in the following footage.
Wipeout
Apparently, a bike with eight horsepower is more dangerous than you’d think.
The Sausage Creature
Hunter S. Thompson is well-known for his excessive writing and lifestyle. Here’s what he had to say about riding his old BSA Lightning around in the 1960s, when it was one of the fastest production bikes available.
the EDGE from Piotr Kabat on Vimeo.
So the graphics have part of a Thunderbolt, some kind of Harley or clone, other generic stuff, basically everything wrong. If someone is going to go to the effort of making something like that, is it so hard to find a picture of a Lightning to work from?
… the edge is still out there indeed … ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Possibly it’s my browser, but I can’t see the video links. 🙁
Dammit. Not sure what happened there but it seems to be fixed now.