Evel Knievel has passed on.

I was never a big fan of his stunts or his personality. He was an interesting character, to be sure, and his personal story is unusual to say the least. I remember watching George Hamilton's portrayal with amusement.

Whatever you may think of him, he led an interesting life. The outlaw image combined with the death-defying attitude (and good old-fashioned salesmanship) created a mystique that propelled him to national icon status - and even if he had faded into partial obscurity over the years, there have been few, if any, challengers since.

Rest In Peace.

We've posted photos of the 2007 International Motorcycle Show in San Mateo, California November 16-18 2007.

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Some of you may have noticed: we removed the TextLinkAds blocks from our site over a month ago. We did this after becoming aware of the adverse affect it could have on our site's performance in some search engines. The paid text link ads were clearly labeled as sponsored links, but we failed to mark them with rel="nofollow" because we were told that this would violate the Text Link Ads terms of service. Once we found out we couldn't add the rel="nofollow" marker, we decided to pull these ads.

We also removed the single ReviewMe.com paid review page (which had been clearly marked as a paid review) a month before. We will not run these ad programs in the future.

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Ok, this is about as strange as it gets. How do you lose your leg without knowing it? How do you shift (or brake, as the case may be?)

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese biker failed to notice his leg had been severed below the knee when he hit a safety barrier, and rode on for 2 km (1.2 miles), leaving a friend to pick up the missing limb.

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I spotted this road condition sign on highway 88 leaving Pine Grove, California the other day.

Earlier in the week during various long-distance drives, I had seen similar signs proclaiming "Click It Or Ticket" and "Speed Kills" - so this one seemed like icing on the cake.

Happy Independence Day!

I shot these photos in downtown Jackson, California a few months back. The VFR 800 was parked near a shop I was visiting, the tasty Scorpion exhaust system caught my eye.

So, I whipped out my camera, and shot a few close-ups just to test the camera and practice close-up photography. I hope you like the results.

Later, I heard the VFR start up, as the owner was preparing to leave - the Scorpions sounded very nice indeed.