Comments on: What Is New Is Old (Bike Reports) (News)

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 03:54:26 +0000

I simply wanted to say your website is one of the nicely laid out, most inspirational I have come across in quite a while. Thx!

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By: Marquis Harvath

Marquis Harvath — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:52:37 +0000

You made some good points there. I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree with your blog.

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By: Retractable banners

Retractable banners — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:50:48 +0000

Really enjoyed this blog article.Much thanks again. Cool.

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By: Lawerence Degrass

Lawerence Degrass — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:28:54 +0000

I am so grateful for your blog.

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By: BoxerFanatic

BoxerFanatic — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:01:56 +0000

About the motorcycles…

I love the clean lines of the V7 Cafe Racer/basic bike look. I liked it on the Bonnie, and I loved it on the Ducati Sport Classics. The Moto-Guzzi seems like the most standard looking… the least stylistically embellished to “advertise” it’s classic status.

It looks like M-G just never stopped building that sort of bike.

However, the Griso… There is just something menacing about that bike. The V-twin across the bike just looks like a bold, solid, forearms-folded stance.

However, after riding a nice V11 LeMans a couple years ago, I can’t help but wonder what that bike’s bullet fairing would look like mounted on a new 8-valve Griso.

Seems like it would be relatively easy to modify the side-panel parts of the bullet fairing to replace the plastic trim between the valve covers and the frame spars… and put that bullet fairing on the newer Griso bike, with the fixed headlight. Perhaps even the Breva Sport’s multi-element round headlight with a projector in it, instead.

Ohlins R&T USD forks, and similar rear damper/spring… and maybe a revised tail secion with a cowl over the pillion seat, something like the LeMans had, but updated for the Griso’s subframe and seat style…

That would make for a nice next-gen Griso-based LeMans, and with lower footpegs than the V11 version, would be a fun bike to ride. I really enjoyed the V11, except the very tight knee bend for me, but it wasn’t my bike…

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By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:23:00 +0000

I like the new look of the site. Very easy to navigate. Keep up the good work.

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By: mark

mark — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:11:36 +0000

As mentioned, your previous site design was a clean communication tool, no fluff. It was appreciated, as many a blog suffers from busy, amateur design aesthetics. However, you’ve probably paid for it so there you go. Too bad. If anything, consider ditching the faux-asphalt background tiles, it’s reeeally bad. Hey, I at least I still enjoy the writing!

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By: vonlein

vonlein — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:48:40 +0000

Oh well, another motorcycle site ‘redesigned’ for the worse. I made this site my main read after the Motorcycle.com change, now both are cluttered and hard to read. Yes, I’m a professional web designer, yes the old design needed some work, but this is not an improvement. I wish either management had been able to find a designer who understood how to update without adding stuff for the sake of having stuff, keeping the character of the original site. I could go on about line-height, length of paragraphs, the background! and many other things that are issues, but oh well.

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By: RAD

RAD — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:26:02 +0000

It sure takes getting use to .
I like the old site better , but I am sure this one will grow on me .

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By: Dave Kent

Dave Kent — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:54:30 +0000

I’m an old school guy who appreciates these bikes for the same reason I appreciated the old school website you guys just abandoned. Both are easy to understand and have a classic functionality that doesn’t cater to change for the sake of change.

First time your new site came up, I instantly looked for the X button. I thought it was a popup.

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