Category Archives: Motopsyco’s Featured Websites

About Motopsycos Featured Websites

As I explore the world wide web and run across useful or interesting websites I’ll share them here. The vast majority of them will be motorcycle related but not necessarily all of them. In addition to personal websites and blogs, useful commercial vendors will be listed here as well. Most of the time this category will be thing I hope we all find entertaining but I do reserve the right to occasionally feature sites for compensation if they are a good match for my readers in the do it yourself motorcycle and all terrain vehicle communities. This was originally my website of the month feature but that format was too restrictive.

The Innocence Project Motopsyco’s July Website of The Month

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This month I want to try and help out one of my favorite organizations The Innocence Project.

  No matter what your background, political views, religious beliefs, one thing we can all agree on is that no one deserves to be imprisoned for crimes that they did not commit. Normally I don’t ask anything of my readers but to look at my pages and maybe hopefully click on the occasional ad so that I can make a few cents, but today I will ask you to visit the Innocence Project website and see if you can help them out a little. After all, two of the greatest injustices I can think of are an innocent person rotting in prison, and a guilty person walking around free because of it.

Goodnight and God bless you,

‘Psyco

Brew Racing Frames of Boone N.C.

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I know that I’m not the only one that love both bicycles and motorcycles check out this website; BREW Bikes LLC

Normally I prefer my motorcycles to be rockets and my bikes to be laid back cruisers. This shop prefers things the other way around. Although my taste in bikes is different I can dig an old school chopper especially since these guys really seem to be able to dig the performance out of old flathead Hogs.
Plus they build some of the best looking custom mountain and bmx bicycles I’ve seen on the web. Go check’em out you’ll be glad you did.

Ninja 250 Riders Club June Website of the Month

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Ninja 250 Riders Club

This is the best forum that I never joined. I wanted to & I still may if there is ever time to add another distraction to my life. Even so the Ninja 250 wiki was all the information that I needed to make the upgrades to my favorite little motorcycle, so that it hauls my big old butt around at reasonable speeds with superior handling. If you are even thinking of getting a Ninja 250 you should visit this page. Sure I would have had no problems restoring mine from the cheap hunk of junk it was to the beauty you see in the picture above, but it was nice to find that someone else had done all of the homework and sorted out the sensible modifications that can be done to these little gems.

Sorry Hyosung and CBR250 fans but the little Ninja is THE 250!

History of the Mighty VFR at Cycle World WOTM

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The Interceptor

1984 VFR 1000


Repeat after me INTERCEPTOR The original VFR was one of the greatest motorcycles ever produced. I have thoroughly enjoyed the ride every time I threw my leg across on. But you have to be a serious masochist to enjoy working on them. The complexity of these engines is both intimidating and awe inspiring at the same time. Sure the GSXRs, Ninjas, and Honda’s own CBR soon left the VFR behind, (but not far behind). All too soon the maximum rocket-ship of the eighties became the competent sport tourer/sport commuter of the nineties and beyond. Even so it stayed at the head of the sportbike class technology wise and always seemed to have the power and handling needed to get the respect of all the local “Ricky Racer” boys, while being cerebral and practical enough for the older guys to try to pretend that they were not trying to pretend to be young again.
Apparently John Burns over at Cycle World must be a fan too because he compiled a nice multi-part history of this bike that you can read here.
History of the VFR Part 1

History of the VFR Part 2

Should you happen to have one the old 80s 700-1100cc VFRs lying around taking up space in your garage and you really need to get rid of it let me know. I’m exactly the kind of masochist who would enjoy restoring one.

May Website of the Month

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I am going to cheat a little bit on this one and list my favorite BICYCLE website as the wotm. It’s hard for me to believe that this month is already half over.
Go check them out, join if you like it, check out this years build off (yes I have an entry in it).
http://www.ratrodbikes.com/

April Website of the Month

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When I read about this guys accomplishments in WERA roadracing on an electric motorcyle I was amazed. I watched the electric racers at the Isle of Man and have been somewhat following the development of street going electrics.
But Mr. Yates has done a fantastic job of promoting the performance potential of the electric motorcyle.
go see for yourself at chipyates.com

March Website of the Month Twistgrip.com

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Years ago this great little motorcycle magazine came & went for a brief season. It was more than just a motorcycle magazine it was a magazine that celebrated the actual lifestyle of people who rode real motorcycles on a frequent or daily basis. Articles such as “A real ride real cheap” warmed the hearts of those of us who are going to ride a motorcycle whether we can buy one new or if we have to cobble it together out of scrounged parts. Plus there was an edge to the editorial stance of the staff, no they weren’t gratuitously offensive but what was said or felt is what got printed.

Now let me warn you up front, this website has not been updated in years. You can try the free stickers links if you wish but I doubt it works anymore. Go read the articles! Hell the archives of Art Bennett’s old column Stressed Member are worth going to the website for even if there were nothing else.

Febuary 2 Wheeled Website of the Month

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  The new Ducati Diavel is one of the most exciting new motorcycles to come out in a long time. A true power cuiser that still has decent handling. This is what Yamaha should have shot for in the new V Max instead of the overweight V Rod clone that they built.

This bike has a unique look and should have the performance to match

Another beautiful Italian to lust over

http://www.diavel.ducati.com/jsp/en/index/index.jsp

If you have a slow web connection the website will not be as exciting as the bike, but if you have the speed it’s filled with great images for wallpaper or just to drool over.  Oh yea there’s specs and other information too.

Disclaimer: I have absolutely no connection with the Ducati Motor Company or Ducati North America, nor have they sent me any swag to do this. But if they would like to send me one to test drive for a month or three I’ll take it.

The plan here is to review a different website each month, just for the fun of it.