10/3/2006

Rock-Superstar-Tours in Taiwan

What has happened to Chris and myself (Bernd, Chris’ Jack of all Trades), at the Red Bull organized Streetbike-Freestyle Show tour through Taiwan last week can be best described as mind-blowing like hardly experienced ever before. The only instrument being played has been Chris’ Bikes, but the outcome has been a true Rock-Superstar tour.

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9/29/2006

Moto GP Motegi, Japan Part 2

By a lucky coincident, my trip to Japan was at the same time as the Moto GP Event in Motegi has been scheduled, and of course, this opportunity had to be taken! Right after the prize-giving of the Moto GP class I could ride right in front of the grandstands at the start-finish line straight.

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9/25/2006

Big in Japan

One of the few remaining white spots on my personal “travel-globe” is just about being taken under the wheels of my BMW F 800: Japan

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9/6/2006

The Power of Driving vs Driving Power

BMW M5, BMW K 1200 R motorbike and a golf ball in a rather unusual speed contest Munich. Speed, precision, tactics and concentration are the success factores. In fact, the tremendous acceleration forces that occur when a golf ball is hit make the sport one of the "fastest" in the world. But how fast is it really? Especially compared to, say, cars and motorbikes? An answer was found to this question as part of an unusual contest held on the 28th of August 2006, in the run-up to the BMW International Open 2006.

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9/6/2006

Mega-Bowl Zauchensee

In Zauchensee, Salzburg, Austria, a new artificial water storage-lake for the Man-Made Snowproduction of this wintersport-resort is about to be completed. Up on an elevation of over 2.000 meters (6.000 feet), the guys concrete-covered a huge mountain-bowl with a diameter of 200 meters (600 feet) into the landscape in order to fill it up with water, before the winter-season will be coming up.

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