Indian Bike Wash Commercial

Hopefully by now you all know that Indian motorcycles is releasing their first new model under the ownership of Polaris this August.  I wrote about this earlier this year.  In particular, I discussed their marketing campaign.  If you missed it you can find the article here.  Regardless, I think they have been doing a great job of spurring interest and I can only imagine that their reveal party at Sturgis will be quite an event.

Yesterday while on cyrilhuzeblog, I noticed a new commercial from Indian called, "Bike Wash."  The title is indeed descriptive, as the commercial features a man washing his motorcycle.  The motorcycle, by coincidence I am sure, just happens to be a Harley Davidson.  Strange for a Indian commercial right?

You can watch the commercial with "On the Road Again" music here or without after the jump.

Drill Powered Bike, No Seriously a Hand Drill Powered Bike

I am serious.  Someone made a drill powered bike.  Check out the video below.  It actually works pretty good and looks like a blast to ride.

Solar Powered Charger

For the DIY'ers out there.  How cool would it be to charge your electronics while riding your motorcycle?  Yes, I know you could just connect them to your battery, but what fun is that?  You are a "do it yourselfer!"  You need something more unusual than that.  How about charging your electrics with the power of the sun?  Well, that is exactly what this guy did on his Sportster.

J&P Cycles Open House Rally Reminder

I just wanted to inform those of you in the Midwest United States that J&P Cycles is having their 34th annual open house rally this weekend.  The rally is located at their Anamosa facility, June 29-30th.

Ride to Hell: Retribution

For all of you video game loving bikers out here, it is only a few more days until the release of Deep Silver's,  Ride to Hell: Retribution.  The game is set in the 1960's, in the good old USA and follows the west coast biker culture.  Keep reading to find out more, include the game trailer.

Feedback

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It has been one month since my first post.  I wanted to say thank you to all of my readers for your time and comments.

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Vololights

Typical brake lights only light up when you decelerate by applying the bikes brake levelers.  However, commonly motorcyclist use engine braking and manually downshifting though gears to slow.  Unlike braking, downshifting does not alert other drivers of your deceleration.  This can leave the you susceptible to being rear-ended, particularly by distracted  drivers.

To remedy this problem, the teams at Vectolabs came up with Vololights.  Vololights attach to your license plate support and flash whenever it senses you are decelerating to alert others that you are slowing.  Pretty cool.

Vololights recently received funding through Kickstarter, so if this looks like something you are interested in you should be able to get one soon.