Lorri Bernson delivers the first pitch as her guide dog, Carter looks on prior to the Dodgers-Padres game at Dodgers Stadium on Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. Many local guide dogs in training were on hand to watch the event.

There’s big news when it comes to the new 2012 Honda Gold Wing. Because we’ve taken what is the world’s best touring motorcycle and made it even better. The new bodywork is the first thing you’ll notice, complementing what is the best engine and chassis package the touring world has ever seen. Look a little further and you’ll discover great new improvements to the audio system, the available navigation system, and the Gold Wing’s comfort, too. And there’s new functionality, as well, like integrated iPod® connectivity and the ability to upload trips to the navi system from your home computer. If you thought the Gold Wing was the world’s ultimate touring motorcycle, you were right. And if you think the new Gold Wing is even better, you’re right again.

Rodder and racer George Poteet is intimately familiar with insane velocity, having topped 400 mph at Bonneville more often than anyone. He peeled off a doozy last week when he hit 426 mph. The Poteet & Main Speed Demon set a new C/BFS record of 390.709 mph during the 63rd annual Bonneville Speed Week, beating the previous benchmark by 24.666 mph. The alphabet soup is Bonneville-speak for a streamliner running a fuel-burning forced-induction engine displacing between 306 and 372 cubic inches. Speed Demon is a missile on wheels propelled by a twin-turbocharged 347 cubic-inch Duttweiler Hellfire engine good for 2,200 horsepower at full boost. In addition to setting the record, Poteet earned another Hot Rod magazine Top Time Trophy for the fastest measured mile, clocking in at 416.539 mph. He couldn’t back it up the next day as required by the rules, so it didn’t count for the record. As for his terminal speed of 426.910, that’s just for bragging rights. Poteet, 63, told the Salt Lake Tribune he’s been north of 400 mph more than a dozen times. He is among 12 members of the Southern California Timing Association’s new 400 MPH Club.

This fall, Toyota’s Scion division will be rolling out its latest ride, the iQ, into dealer showrooms on the West coast. With the small, extremely fuel efficient and feature-laden iQ, Scion is aiming for the same sweet spot as other undersized city cars — the Smart ForTwo, Mini Cooper and Fiat 500 — but it’s doing so with a much more affordable, and, it hopes, hipper package. With a starting list price at a little under $16,000, the iQ continues Scion’s reputation for making inexpensive, funky-looking cars for young urbanites.

Daimler, the automotive pioneer usually associated with building the world’s first successful internal combustion engine (and, subsequently, the first automobile), staked his claim of priority in the two-wheeler world a year before developing his famous auto. However, the idea of a motor-driven, two-wheeled vehicle did not originate with Daimler, nor was his the first such contraption to see the road. Sylvester Roper, who spent the U.S. Civil War working in a Union armory, built a primitive “motorcycle” as early as 1867. Roper’s supporters — and he has more than a few — argue that he should be credited with building the world’s first motorcycle. What gives credibility to Daimler’s claim of developing the first “true” motorcycle is the fact that it was gasoline-driven. Roper’s post–Civil War hog, with a tiny two-cylinder engine, was powered by steam. Daimler’s motorcycle was essentially a wooden bicycle frame (with foot pedals removed) powered by a one-cylinder Otto-cycle engine. It may have also included a spray-type carburetor, then under development for use in the Daimler automobile that appeared in 1886.

Indianapolis, IN, August 28, 2011 ......Yamaha Motor Corporation U.S.A., is pleased to congratulate Bill Dixon on his winning performance at the XDL Championship Series finale in Indianapolis, Indiana. Trailing his closest competitor by 1 point entering the final round of the series, Bill and his Yamaha YZF-R6 turned in solid performances all weekend to claim his third XDL Street Freestyle Championship. By winning his third title, Bill makes history by becoming the first athlete to three-peat in the XDL Series. "I have to thank Yamaha and Graves Motorsports for their support in allowing me to make history and earn this title" said Bill, "as this was the goal when we began the season In Daytona earlier this year. I would like to thank Chuck Graves personally for his extra assistance with my R6 this season and for assisting with parts for my Championship-winning weekend!" "The XDL is a unique series, and we are happy to support Bill as he continues to show the versatility of the Yamaha R6." added Media Relations Manager Kevin Foley.

A San Diego man has created an all new way to increase your waistline at the county fair this summer: Fried Kool-Aid.

Elena Myers is caught on film for the first time riding Suzuki's 2011 GSV-R MotoGP bike in this unique Team Suzuki Racing video kindly supplied by MotoGP organisers Dorna and its official MotoGP website: www.motoGP.com. The 17-year-old American - who finished fifth in this season's AMA West Division SuperSport Championship - was invited by Suzuki to put in five laps of the Indianapolis circuit on Thursday in the lead-up to this weekend's MotoGP 12th round. Myers became the first female racer to win an AMA Pro road-race when she took victory at the AMA Pro SuperSport event at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma in 2010. This season, she recorded a podium finish at Barber Motorsports Park plus five more top-five finishes - despite missing two rounds due to injury.

This is one of the more unusual motorcycles that appeared in the recent AMD Championship. Unusual because it’s perfectly rideable, and also because it was the first time a sidecar outfit has competed in Sturgis. ‘Union’ was built by Abnormal Cycles of Italy, a workshop that has come a long way since we featured its BMW café racer over a year ago. The Bernareggio-based company created an Art Deco-inspired sidecar—complete with wood trim—and hooked it up to a 1942 Harley-Davidson Model U. The leaf spring fork is inspired by an Indian design—beefed up to cope with the extra weight—while fellow Italians Kustom Tech built the three chrome-and-brass drum brakes. The wheels are Jonich 18-inchers and the tires are from Ceat, two brands that are new names to me, but look pretty good. There’s something reminiscent of Flash Gordon about this machine: like the movie, it somehow hangs together, when logic says it shouldn’t. Read more: http://www.bikeexif.com/harley-davidson-sidecar#ixzz1WSiusFFN

Look out Jason Britton and Kawasaki Kane cause Wink1100 is coming to put the beats on your wheelies with SUPERBIKES IN THE HOOD.

This is how the dudes in baltimore city ride bikes...

Dirt bike wheelies, endo, donut, stunts, tricks in the streets

Motorcycle Stunt Video with Drifting

Vertical Limits Motorcycle Stunt Show, Chuck Malott, Sara Wiberley,