New Toys

Friday January 6th, 2017 Leave a comment

This one looks almost like a rear mirror, but it is more like the extension of my Smartphone display. Since a couple of days i am a proud TOMTOM Vio owner.

TOMTOM sells the vio as Navigation system for Scooter. Well, the Hornet has two tires, one engine and a handlebar. But i will not call the Hornet a Scooter likewise i call this round something a Navigation system. HOWEVER: It is waterproof, does what it is supposed to and left a good impression after the first couple of days playing around with it.

The installation of the App was …

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Back from the Track

Sunday October 9th, 2016 Leave a comment

…personal fastest lap was 1:31. Of course not the fastest lap on world, but it is not slow either considering that people like me are only one or two times a year on a reacetrack.
The track itself is extremely easy to learn, because it is flat. I just needed three laps in the first turn to achieve an acceptable speed. Only the journey to and from the track wsa kind of annoying, because of the looong distance and the weather conditions.But regardless – we are back and with a very wide grin in our faces.
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Anneau du Rhin

Sunday September 4th, 2016 Leave a comment

Darkness – that’s all our bikes saw in the last couple of weeks. As so many years: Just not enough miles on the own Motorbike. Alright, China was a good start – but on a Shineray. We have an affair with chinese bikes and our own bikes suffer on love deprivation.

In order to that, Silke had the great Idea to look for another training on a track. This track is not very close to our front-door, but at least we will put some miles on our tires. Begin of October we will go to the Elsass region.Two days of …

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