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Backroad Bandit: Riding Motorcycles With Marlon Brando's Old Friend

22 Mar 2012

Details: Category: Stories; Written by Forbes; Hits: 560

This story appears in the April 9 issue of Forbes magazine.

Richard Bailey, 57, is chairman and CEO of Pacific Beachcomber, the $140 million hospitality group that owns such properties as the InterContinental Tahiti and InterContinental Bora Bora resorts. A 20-year-plus resident of Papeete, Tahiti, Bailey is currently building The Brando, a luxury eco-resort on Marlon Brando’s Tetiaroa Island. Bailey was a close personal friend of the actor.

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Motorbike ride to Mongolia to aid prostate cancer charity

12 Mar 2012

Details: Category: Stories; Written by The Press; Hits: 432

A MOTORCYCLIST is embarking on a 40,000 kilometre charity bike ride from York to Mongolia in a bid to raise cash for sufferers of the cancer that turned his friend’s life upside down.

Jonathon Parish will endure temperatures ranging from the 30Cs to the -30Cs and will tackle mountains, forests, glaciers, volcanoes, lakes and deserts when he sets off on his Honda 125cc motorcycle this June.

He will set off from York and take in France, Scandinavia and Siberia before dropping down in to Mongolia and returning via Kazakhstan and Eastern and Southern Europe. READ ON

Sonny Angel: A Motorcycle Legend Calls It Quits

08 Mar 2012

Details: Category: Stories; Written by San Diego dot Com; Hits: 530

A haven for bikers and weekend warriors since 1953 is for sale
The Edge: "There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

-- from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"

Sonny Angel, who is 84 or 87 still goes to work every day in National City. He runs a motorcycle shop on 18th Street, a mom-and-pop sized operation that bears his name that he's operated for 58 years. Angel is a legend and a speed-hungry daredevil who made his name in the latter part of the 1960s on the road race circuit. He's a Tennessee salesman and he's a master machinist, having turned chunks of raw metal into gears and sprockets and parts for vintage bikes, even an urn for his wife's ashes. It sits on a scrap of royal blue fabric on a back shelf behind the counter. READ ON

Once you strip the stereotypes, riding a motorbike starts to make perfect sense

06 Mar 2012

Details: Category: Stories; Written by Independent; Hits: 402

You've got to be crazy to be a biker; weaving in and out of traffic at full throttle, blasting past cyclists and dodging pedestrians as you go. They treat the roads like a video game, taking their lives in their hands and putting everyone nearby in danger for the sake of a quick journey. They're unhinged. You can see it in the way they glare at scooters.

But then, in front of every biker who loathes scooters, is a taxi driver waiting to maim them with a surprise U-turn. Bikers and scooters can find common ground there. And what about the tipper trucks? Those left-turning leviathans are danger to anything on two wheels, particularly cyclists. So we can expand our two-wheeler alliance to include the pedal pushers, as long as we ignore them as they blast through red lights. READ ON

Solo cross-country journey was an amazing feat

06 Mar 2012

Details: Category: Stories; Written by Record Online; Hits: 402

On May 19, 1969, New Windsor resident Leonard Baur set out to break the record of going solo cross-country (from New York City to Los Angeles) on a motorcycle. Even though he didn't break the record (38 minutes over), it was an amazing test of endurance, stamina and riding experience.

It all started 43 years ago, when Leonard's friend Sammy Armstrong, one of the first mechanics at Moroney's Harley-Davidson, read about Tibor Sarossy in a magazine. The year before, Sarossy had set the cross-country record of 45 hours and 41 minutes riding a BMW model R69S. READ ON