Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Sportsbikes Blogs

I have only been blogging for a little over 1 year now and in that time I have been searching for other blogs similar to mine from other sports bike riders. Searching for motorcycle blogs is hard enough, finding a sportsbike blog is near impossible. I mean what the hell is wrong with google when it can't find other sportsbike blogs What gives blogger is owned by google? Searching blogs seems to be very poor in the search engine arena.

I have found many supposedly sportsbike blogs that the blog just consists of road racing news and new bike releases. Nothing to actually do with riding a sportsbike in the real world on public roads. If I wanted to read that I would just go buy Australian Motorcycle news or something similar.

I am sure that I can't be the only sportbike blog on the internet, I have found a few blogs from a bunch of great guys on sports tourers such as Motorcycle Paradise,  All things Rogey and Tarsnakes of which all are great blogs that I follow regulary. There are numerous blogs from Harley riders and people on cruisers and even scooters, so many in fact that I could not list them here. There are that many but it still remains that I have only been able to find 1 other sportsbike blog, and its by a girl that rides a BMW S1000RR and a former Haybusa rider. Her blog here if you like sportsbikes. Thanks Trobairitz :-) I found this on your side bar of blogs.

It seems funny to me that a sportsbike blog should be easily found but not so. You might ask why I myself have only been blogging for over a year now and haven't taken it up long ago. Well I guess the answer to that is I never knew that there was such a thing as blogs, until my brother showed me his blog about a year before I started mine, you can see his here at A view from above. It was from there I got the idea of making my own sportsbike blog. Who would of thought that the internet had more to offer than free music, movies and porn. Maybe sportsbike riders are in the class of 'Meh I don't care' frame of mind and couldn't give a shit. Sadly that looks to be more true than I'd like to think. I hope I am wrong about that. I'll just have to keep on searching..............

13 comments:

  1. What about my sportsbike blog?! But thin on the sportsbike at the moment but I have some holidays coming soon.

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  2. Oh I forgot your great sportsbike blog cough...cough

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  3. The internet offers free music and porn? :-)

    Miss Busa rails her BMW. Man can she ride. Glad to know my links are helping people find blogs. I keep them all on there as I think it is a good resource for people finding like riders.

    Not sure why more people on sportbikes don't have blogs. Maybe it is an attention span thing or they don't want to sit still long enough to write one..........something you'll have to delve into........ if you can sit still long enough ;-)

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    1. Thanks for the link Brandy. I bet she can ride real good, with a R1 race bike and S1000RR street bike and that hoon mentality. Sadly your probably right, maybe we do have short attention spans. Huh what!

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    2. Here is another one I just found. She races but I think right now she is recovering from a pelvic fracture.

      http://pinkyracer.com/

      Squirrel.............

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  4. The internet has porn!?.....

    Sometimes mate you just have to pave the way forward. I am with Brandy, sports bike riders are to busy paying off fines to worry about blogging...hehehehe....I am here all day offering advice by the way.

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    1. Hey Rog your probably right there. That probably explains why I have all my points on my license cause I'm to busy blogging. Hahahaha

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  5. Steve,

    Street Triple = cruiser....nope. Street Triple = adventure bike.... nope. Street Triple = sports bike. Probably, especially as I wear silver and black leathers and a flash helmet with an iridium visor in the summer :-)

    Keep digging yourself that big hole, haha ;-)

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    1. Yep I have to say the street triple would be in the sports bike class. Sharp steering good handling, fast.

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  6. You will find tons of sportsbike related clips on youtube and the likes, though.

    I hope it is not related to lack of verbal communication skills? No wait, you are a sportsbiker, and you have a blog. So I might be wrong ;-)

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    1. Yeah I've seen plenty of good stuff on youtube, especially crash videos. I am a real big fan of rnickmouse youtube channel. He runs the rockstore photos and is on Mulholland Drive in California every weekend filming riders and cars. He has lots of great videos.

      http://www.youtube.com/user/rnickeymouse

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  7. Thanks for the promotion Chiller! A great source of blogs is

    http://allmotorcycleblogs.blogspot.com.au/

    I hardly buy any motorcycle magazines anymore - BIKE from the UK is the only one now - as there is just so much to read online now. Much of what is online 'speaks' to me, ie. real world riding and has heaps more appeal than track tests ad nauseum on bike I will never own!

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    1. No prob Jules. I have George's blog in my blog roll.
      I'm a bit the same I hardly ever by any motorcycle mags anymore either. Last week I bought my first Australian Motorcycle news in about 2 years.Funny thing is the mag hasn't changed one bit since I was buying it 15 years ago.

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