February 2012
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Local: Heartland Park Topeka Track Day Schedule
, We skipped winter this year so let’s get to it: it’s time to hit the track! Heartland Park Topeka published their Bike Days schedule on their site and is as follows: 22 April 2012 Sunday, 22 April 2012 07:00am - 05:00pm HPT Bike Day 28 May 2012 Monday, 28 May 2012 07:00am - 05:00pm HPT Bike Day 07 July 2012 Saturday, 07 July 2012 08:00am HPT Bike Day with...
Feb 29th
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Feb 29th
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Feb 28th
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Bike-Powered Cars
YouTube Loop. It’s the process of looking at something on YouTube and by following the related videos, you end up someplace totally different with numerous hours suddenly lost. That is how we discovered the bevvy of videos that exist of bike-powered automobiles. Enjoy. Nuts.
Feb 28th
Feb 25th
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Feb 24th
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Feb 24th
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Feb 23rd
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WatchWatch
Last year… Six months ago IIRC, we had the pleasure of hosting the founder/designer/rider team of Kevin and Karilea Rhea of Olympia Moto Sport at our Smithville store. Check out the vid that, until now, we weren’t able to show in public.  And then check out the 2012 gear that is on the way.
Feb 23rd
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Moto Music Monday: Shane's list
Starting today, we at Motorcycle Closeouts decided to start sharing our favorite tunes to ride to.   Moto Music Mondays! It seems that some of us are just as opinionated about our tastes in music as we are our tastes in motorcycles so we decided that it’d be fun to not only share our playlists with our friends but to also allow you to listen to them!  More on that later. First up on the...
Feb 20th
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Preview: Nolan N104 Modular Helmet
Nolan will be releasing the follow-up to their award-winning N103 modular helmet, the N104 next week.  We had the opportunity to get handsy with it today thanks to our local Tucker Rocky sales rep. The first thing we noticed was how lightweight the lid was.  Although the helmet was a size large, it felt like it weighed less than the N103 sized small that we had pulled off the shelf to compare...
Feb 10th
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Alpinestars and Nitro Circus collaboration?  Uh oh!  Awesomeness ensues…
Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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2012 Douglas County AMCA Vintage Motorcycle Show
The first show/ swap meet of the year took place this past weekend and we went out to take in some of the festivities.  As it always is with these close-knit community events, you can’t walk three feet without running into someone you know, but that was a good thing. There were plenty of motorcycles on hand, many of which were Harley-Davidsons from the early teens.   Of the...
Feb 7th
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Icon 1000
So, it seems that the raucous crew from Portland, Icon Motosport, is going back to the (post Apocalyptic) future with a new brand called Icon One Thousand. This stuff is semi-steampunk meets garage culture meets 80s Japanese Rockabilly revival with leather, studs, heavy stitching and a lot of character oozing from the perforations. Motolady blogger Alicia (who has my vote to be Lisbeth...
Feb 7th
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2012 Shoei Neotec
Since the dawn of time, Shoei helmets has been producing the MultiTec, a not-so-heavy, not-quite-lightweight modular helmet that Shoei claimed was built to their exacting and stringent standards.   Since then, modular helmets have becom lighter, quieter, more comfortable and began adding features such as removable liners, pockets for speaker/intercommunication systems, internal sun shields and...
Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 2nd
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the Rematch: Emig vs Carmichael →
Feb 1st
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Cardo Q2 Multi-set PRO on sale for HALF OFF!
Cardo’s Scala Rider family of communication equipment is well known for ease of use and reliability.  For a limited-time of unknown length to everyone except the Big Boss, we’re selling the Scala Rider Q2 Multi-Set Pro for half off or $194.99.   The set features two of everything: noise cancelling Boom mic and cradle headset unit helmet clamps with speakers  dual-voltage...
Feb 1st